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{{Infobox television
| show_name = Alphablocks
| image =
| caption =
| show_name_2 =
| genre = Learning<br />Pre-School
| format = Animation
| creator =
| developer =
| writer = [[Max Allen]]<br />Joe Elliot<br />[[Neil Richards]]<br />[[Maurice Suckling]]
| director =
| creative_director =
| presenter =
| starring =
| judges =
| voices = [[Teresa Gallagher]]<br />[[David Holt (voice actor)|David Holt]]<br />[[Lizzie Waterworth]]
| narrated =
| theme_music_composer =
| opentheme =
| endtheme =
| composer = [[Ben Lee-Delisle]]
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| num_seasons = 4
| num_episodes = 111
| list_episodes = #Aired episodes
| executive_producer = [[Rebecca Shallcross]]<br />Joe Elliot
| producer = Sioned Wyn Roberts
| editor =
| runtime = 3 min (Series 1)<br />5 min (Series 2 & 3)
| company = Alphablocks Ltd
| distributor = Alphablocks Ltd
| channel = [[CBeebies]]
| picture_format = Widescreen
| audio_format =
| first_run =
| first_aired = 25 January 2010
| last_aired = Present
| status =
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
| related =
| website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/
| production_website = http://www.blue-zoo.co.uk
}}
'''Alphablocks''' is a British children's educational television programme that attempts to teach children how to spell with the use of animated blocks representing each letter. It is animated by [[Blue-Zoo]] and produced by Alphablocks Ltd.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blue-zoo.co.uk/gallery/alphablocks_tv_series/|title=Alphablocks|publisher=Blue Zoo Animation Studio}}</ref>

==Characters==
{|cellspacing="0" border="1" bgcolor="white"
!Name!!Colour!!Gender!!Information
|-
|A||[[green]]||female||She likes to sing and help the other vowels. She has a bandage on her cheek and apples keep falling on her little head.
|-
|B||light [[blue]]||female||She plays the bass guitar. She is D's older sister.
|-
|C||pinkish-red||female||The only female who performs stunts. She wears goggles and makes cracks and is K's younger sister.
|-
|D||[[purple]]||male||He is a proper cube shape and he plays the drums. He is the younger brother to B.
|-
|E||[[red]]||male||He is the busiest letter in the alphabet. His 'eh's echo from the loudhailer he uses. He also becomes Magic E who is black with a top hat and red eye mask to make the other vowels say their names.
|-
|F||[[purple]]||female||She is into floating and blowing. She is designed like an astronaut with a small life-support backpack. She can fly about in air or in space. Her 'ffff' sound is used to represent the sound of a space rocket.
|-
|G||green||female||She Looks like a plant with flowers on her sides and grassy hair and sometimes she drinks water, and when that happens her hair grows..
|-
|H||yellow||female||She can get tired when running: Her 'h-h-h-h' sound is panting.
|-
|I||fuchsia||female||Her singing can be too loud sometimes but the Alphablocks really like her singing. She is also self-absorbed and thinks she is the most important letter.
|-
|J||blue and [[white]]||female||She looks like a penguin, but thinks she is a jay bird. She thinks she can sing and fly like a real jay.
|-
|K||[[yellow]]||male||He likes to kick his football (soccer ball). He is the older brother to C.
|-
|L||[[lilac (colour)|lilac]]||female||She loves to sing songs with her L sound. She sings a special lullaby to help the others get to sleep.
|-
|M||white w/ blue feet||male||He is designed as a chef and likes to eat things,(even stuff that is not food) which makes him quite greedy, which can irritate the other Alphablocks.
|-
|N||[[red]]-orange||male||He is quite stubborn and negative. He says 'No' even when the answer is yes. In "Ants", A, P, T, and S were blaming him for doing nothing, which made him very upset.
|-
|O||[[orange (color)|orange]]||male||He can only make his "o-o-o-o" but is smiling and happy. He likes to investigate things with his magnifying glass.
|-
|P||bright green, blue and purple||female||She can appear and disappear by making a popping noise and it can scare the others when they are busy. She appears to be a pixie. She is very sweet and always helps her friends.
|-
|Q||green w/ violet hair||female||She is an old green woman who wants to be quite quarreling and is also in love with U which is who she also needs to make her "qu" sound, but he runs away.
|-
|R||red||female||She is tomboyish and looks like a pirate.
|-
|S||red, white, blue, orange, green, and yellow||female||She looks like a beach ball. She can inflate and deflate and fly about.
|-
|T||dark blue||male||He wears a monocle and white moustache and likes to drink tea. He says "t, t" when he is out of tea. He is one of the consonants who appears the most.
|-
|U||light blue||male||He wears square glasses and is quite moody. He always runs away from Q. He usually say words like "unfair" or "unbelievable."
|-
|V||red||male||He is designed as a race driver who is very, very fast with his steering wheel and has feathers on his arms.
|-
|W ||dark blue||male||He cries when he gets hurt or when he is upset causing floods everywhere.
|-
|X||blue and yellow||male||He is the superhero and has X-ray vision. He also becomes Plusman when his letter shape goes all wonky turning it into a plus sign by accident and he turns red with a different personality. He has the power to make compound words - putting 2 little words together into 1 whole big word.
|-
|Y||yellow||male||He is the youngest male Alphablock who'd like to be a vowel. He perseveres even if he has trouble doing things.
|-
|Z||Lime green||male||He is the oldest Alphablock with a walking stick and can sleep almost anywhere.
|}

==Aired episodes==
===Series 1 ===
Series 1 originally ran in the UK from January to February 2010.<ref name=tvdb>{{cite web|url=http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=138481|title=Alphablocks|publisher=tvdb}}</ref>

# Alphablocks (Pilot)
# Bee (E's song)
# Top
# Why
# Key
# Glow
# Sing
# Band
# Party
# Cha Cha Cha
# Race
# Moon
# Alphalympics
# Sail
# UFO
# Fox
# Surprise
# Bus
# Space
# Hide
# Quiet ''Error:'' While Q Stuck Together With U His Glass Was tall but when unstuck it is short.
# Map
# Jaybird
# Note
# Zzzzz
# Magic (Magic E's song)

The episode UFO has some short amusing reflections on ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.


===Series 2 ===
Series 2 originally ran in the UK from February to March 2012.<ref name=tvdb/>

<ol start=27>
<li>Taps</li>
<li>In</li>
<li>Man</li>
<li>Din</li>
<li>Dog</li>
<li>Cat</li>
<li>Pen</li>
<li>Up</li>
<li>Red</li>
<li>Hen</li>
<li>Bop</li>
<li>Fred</li>
<li>Hill</li>
<li>Van</li>
<li>Zap</li>
<li>Dot</li>
<li>Lips</li>
<li>Web</li>
<li>Box</li>
<li>Quick</li>
<li>Kick</li>
<li>Wig</li>
<li>Rainbow</li>
<li>On</li>
<li>ABC</li>
<li>The Cat Sat on The Mat</li></ol>
<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cz0vd/episodes/2012 |title=Episodes from Alphablocks: Series 2 broadcast in 2012 |year=2012 |publisher=[[BBC]] |accessdate=10 April 2012}}</ref>

===Series 3===
Series 3 originally aired from October 2012 - March 2013
*53. Wish
* 54. Snowman
*55. Win
* 56. Hat

*57. Little Red N
*58. Dots
*59. Frog on a Dog
*60. Best
*61. Fit
*62. Odd
*63. Champ
*64. Song
*65. Thing
*66. Train
*67. Beep
*68. Tightrope
*69. Toad
*70. Book
*71. Hey!
*72. Card
*73. The End
*74. How Now, Brown Cow?
*75. Fair
*76. Ants
*77. Ink
*78. Crash!

===Series 4 ===
Series 4 began in the UK in June 2013 to July 2013.<ref name=tvdb/>

<ol start="80">
<li>Four</li>
<li>Clap</li>
<li>Prank (originally shown on 16 November 2012 as part of Children in Need 2012)</li>
<li>Plusman</li>
<li>Alphabet</li>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Sleep
<li>Mine
<li>Home
<li>Blue
<li>Outlaw
<li>Birthday Girl
<li>Cowboy
<li>Zebra
<li>Horse
<li>Lion
<li>Kangaroo
<li>Turtle
<li>Viper
<li>Walrus
<li>Queen
<li>Witch
<li>Jackal
<li>Giraffe
<li>Tiger
<li>Monkey
<li>Ostrich
<li>Polar Bear
<li>Bear
<li>Moose
<li>Unicorn
<li>A to Z Sing and Dance the Letter Sounds

== See also ==
* [[CBeebies]]
121. Penguin

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/}}

[[Category:BBC children's television programmes]]
[[Category:Computer-animated television series]]

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