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Mister Maker
GenreChildren's
Arts & Crafts
Created by[john Gallagher]]
Written by(Script by)
Nic Ayling
Driana Jones
Phil Gallagher
Directed byJames Morgan
Helen Scott
Peter Eyre, Jessie Brown
StarringPhil Gallagher
Voices ofJessie Brown
Narrated byPhil Gallagher
Opening themeMake it Mister Maker
Ending themeMake it Mister Maker (Instrumental)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes60
Production
Executive producerEl Macho
ProducersSeries Producer:
Driana Jones
Programme Associate:
Nic Ayling
Production locationMaidstone
Running time19 mins
Production companiesRDF Television (series 1)
The Foundation (series 2-3)
Original release
NetworkCBeebies
ReleaseSeptember 17, 2007 (2007-09-17) –
December 25, 2009 (2009-12-25)
Related
Justin's House

Mister Maker is a British children's television series commissioned by Michael Carrington at the BBC for CBeebies.[1] The series launched in 2007[2] and also aired on BBC One and BBC Two. In the United States and Latin America the series was broadcast on the Discovery Familia network, dubbed in Spanish and in Portuguese in Brazil.[3] In Canada, the series aired on Treehouse TV from 2008 to 2012 and TVOKids from 2013 to 2021. To date three series had been commissioned from The Foundation (part of RDF Media).[2][4] It also aired in Australia on ABC2. The series comprises a mixture of animation, CGI and live action. The titular "Mister Maker" character was portrayed by Phil Gallagher, who also created and narrated the series. There are 20 episodes in the series. The episodes don’t have regular titles. Instead the titles are episode 1 to episode 20. Four spin-offs followed: Mister Maker Comes to Town, Mister Maker Around the World, Mister Maker's Arty Party, and Mister Maker at Home, which began airing in 2010, 2013, 2015 and 2020, respectively.

Episode format

Every episode has the following sequence:

  • Creative Idea - Art or craft.
  • The Shapes Dance (or "I Am a Shape") - The Shapes dance leading to one of them presenting a puzzle.
  • Make It in a Minute - Timed 1-minute art or craft.
  • The Colour Kids - They make a picture using their clothes.
  • Frame-It! - Calm time to make usually a nice relaxing picture to put in a frame.
  • Random Picture - Either a messy picture or pictures made by objects.
  • Another Creative Idea - Another art or craft.
  • Time To Go - Tocky the bird tells Mister Maker it’s the end of the show.
  • Mister Maker exits the studio - appears in white room seen in intro.
  • Black Bar within 6 minutes 20 seconds - Put away studio back in its box.

The show ends with Tocky telling Mister Maker to go and then shows him "putting away all this stuff back in its box" (meaning the studio's objects are to be put away).

DVD

Number By DVD Name Date
1 Mister Maker: Let’s Make It November 25, 2008
2 Mister Maker: I Have An Idea! November 25, 2008
3 Mister Maker: Get Making November 25, 2008
4 Mister Maker: Let's Make More November 25, 2008
5 Mister Maker: Watch And Make Mister Maker: Hands Wing Work November 25, 2008
6 Mister Maker: Yes We Art, Art We September 27, 2009
7 Mister Maker: Make Art September 12, 2010
8 Mister Maker: Day of Art July 30, 2011

Awards and nominations

  • BAFTA: Nominated for Best Presenter (Phil Gallagher/Mister Maker)[5]

Live shows

  • Mister Maker Live (2014-2015)
  • Mister Maker And The Shapes Live (2014-2017)
  • Mister Maker Hide and Seek Party (2018)
  • Mister Maker Returns (2018-2019)
  • Mister Maker And Rebecca Keatley (2020-2021)
  • Make it Mister Maker (2020-2021)
  • Mister Maker At The Marlowe (2021)
  • Mister Maker Club (2021)

References

  1. ^ "CBeebies - MISTER MAKER – Have fun with art and crafts". BBC. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Mister Maker gets more". Broadcast. Emap. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  3. ^ "Programación de Discovery Kids". Tudiscoverykids.com. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Licensing.biz". Licensing.biz. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Past Winners and Nominees - Children's - Awards - 2009". BAFTA. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
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