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Series 1

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The first series premiered in the UK between 12 April – 2 August 1999 on the BBC in the UK. This series later premiered between 1–17 September 1999 on Nick Jr. in the UK and Ireland. It would later be re-shown on CBeebies in 2002. In the US, the first series premiered between 13 January - 5 June 2001 on Nick Jr. and was later re-shown on Noggin, PBS and Sprout. In Australia, the first series premiered between 20 September – 6 October 1999 during the ABC for Kids block on ABC1.

Pilot

Screenshot Episode
Number 		UK title (top)
US title (bottom) 		Written by Original release date
#00 Bob the Builder Chris Allen 15 May 1997
"The pilot starts with Bob early one morning exercising in the builders' yard with his vehicle friend named "Digger" (who later became Scoop). They notice the gutter is blocked by an old birds nest, so Bob climbs up the ladder to fix it - and falls off. Luckily for him, Digger manages to catch him- perish the thought if he hadn't."

Episodes

Screenshot Episode
Number 		UK title (top)
US title (bottom) 		Written by Original AUS broadcast date
#01 Pilchard in a Pickle Chris Trengove 20 September 1999
While Bob and the machines are laying pipes in a field, Wendy becomes worried when Pilchard the cat cannot be found.
#02 Muck Gets Stuck Chris Trengove 21 September 1999
The lights go out during the little town tunnel repair project, leaving Muck stuck inside when he/she gets scared of the dark. Will anything get him/her out?
#03 Scoop Saves the Day Diane Redmond 22 September 1999
A dangerous thunderstorm causes havoc - roads are blocked, trees and telegraph lines are down, pipes are broken, fences are destroyed... can Bob and his team of machines repair the damage that the storm left behind?
#04 Buffalo Bob Chris Trengove 23 September 1999
Bob's gang have built a dance floor for a line-dancing contest, but Mavis sprains her ankle leading Bob to have to find another one before time runs out.
#05 Wendy's Busy Day Diane Redmond 24 September 1999
Bob and the machines have a major job of resurfacing the main road that must be done today. But poor Bob has a very bad cold, so Wendy offers to take over the job.
#06 Bob Saves the Hedgehogs
Bob Saves the Porcupines		 Chris Trengove 27 September 1999
Bob and the gang need to find a way of allowing a family of hedgehogs/porcupines to cross the road safely.
#07 Bob's Bugle Jimmy Hibbert 28 September 1999
Bob makes himself a bugle out of some left-over bits of piping. None of the machines has the heart to tell him how awful it sounds, so they try hiding it.
#08 Bob's Birthday Diane Redmond 29 September 1999
It's Bob's birthday but everyone pretends they've forgotten as they're throwing him a surprise party. Bob goes off to mend the stable wall, while Wendy makes a cake. Dizzy and Muck make one too - a concrete one! Even greedy Spud helps. When Bob returns, he's delighted with his birthday surprise - and two cakes!
#09 Travis Paints the Town Chris Trengove 30 September 1999
Bob is called away from a job, leaving Roley alone with a paint machine and giving Spud the opportunity to get up to mischief.
#10 Travis and Scoop's Race Day Ross Hastings 1 October 1999
Spud persuades Scoop and Travis to have a race to see who's the fastest. Travis fears he won't beat Scoop but Spud has a plan. As they race Spud obstructs Scoop's path, but Scoop manages to win.
#11 Naughty Spud Jimmy Hibbert 4 October 1999
Bob is building a shed for Travis but is stranded when naughty Spud takes the ladder to go apple picking. Bob tries unsuccessfully to get help until Wendy brings Scoop to rescue him. Spud appears with tummy ache - too many apples!
#12 Scary Spud Sarah Ball 5 October 1999
Launching into karate routines, Spud doesn't notice when his nose drops off and rolls down a mole hole. Dizzy notices and organises a search party. The machines find nose-like objects - a traffic cone or bicycle horn. Luckily, the moles push the nose back out and Spud is delighted!
#13 Bob's Barnraising Diane Redmond 6 October 1999
The team needs to finish constructing Farmer Pickles' barn and get the bales into it before the rain hits.

Screenshot Episode
Number 		Title Written by Original UK broadcast date
#01 Scoop Saves the Day Diane Redmond 12 April 1999
A dangerous thunderstorm causes havoc - roads are blocked, trees and telegraph lines are down, pipes are broken, fences are destroyed... can Bob and his team of machines repair the damage that the storm left behind?
#02 Travis Paints the Town Chris Trengove 19 April 1999
Bob is called away from a job, leaving Roley alone with a paint machine and giving Spud the opportunity to get up to mischief.
#03 Bob Saves the Hedgehogs Chris Trengove 26 April 1999
Bob and the gang need to find a way of allowing a family of hedgehogs to cross the road safely.
#04 Pilchard in a Pickle Chris Trengove 10 May 1999
While Bob and the machines are laying pipes in a field, Wendy becomes worried when Pilchard the cat cannot be found.
#05 Muck Gets Stuck Chris Trengove 17 May 1999
The lights go out during the little town tunnel repair project, leaving Muck stuck inside when he/she gets scared of the dark. Will anything get him out?
#06 Wendy's Busy Day Diane Redmond 24 May 1999
Bob and the machines have a major job of resurfacing the main road that must be done today. But poor Bob has a very bad cold, so Wendy offers to take over the job.
#07 Bob's Bugle Jimmy Hibbert 7 June 1999
Bob makes himself a bugle out of some left-over bits of piping. None of the machines has the heart to tell him how awful it sounds, so they try hiding it.
#08 Buffalo Bob Chris Trengove 14 June 1999
Bob's gang have built a dance floor for a line-dancing contest, but Mavis sprains her ankle leading Bob to have to find another one before time runs out.
#09 Travis and Scoop's Race Day Ross Hastings 5 July 1999
Spud persuades Scoop and Travis to have a race to see who's the fastest. Travis fears he won't beat Scoop but Spud has a plan. As they race Spud obstructs Scoop's path, but Scoop manages to win.
#10 Bob's Birthday Diane Redmond 12 July 1999
It's Bob's birthday but everyone pretends they've forgotten as they're throwing him a surprise party. Bob goes off to mend the stable wall, while Wendy makes a cake. Dizzy and Muck make one too - a concrete one! Even greedy Spud helps. When Bob returns, he's delighted with his birthday surprise - and two cakes!
#11 Naughty Spud Jimmy Hibbert 19 July 1999
Bob is building a shed for Travis but is stranded when naughty Spud takes the ladder to go apple picking. Bob tries unsuccessfully to get help until Wendy brings Scoop to rescue him. Spud appears with tummy ache - too many apples!
#12 Scary Spud Sarah Ball 26 July 1999
Launching into karate routines, Spud doesn't notice when his nose drops off and rolls down a mole hole. Dizzy notices and organises a search party. The machines find nose-like objects - a traffic cone or bicycle horn. Luckily, the moles push the nose back out and Spud is delighted!
#13 Bob's Barnraising Diane Redmond 2 August 1999
The team needs to finish constructing Farmer Pickles' barn and get the bales into it before the rain hits.

Characters

Characters Introduced

Cast

United Kingdom
Neil Morrissey
Rob Rackstraw
Kate Harbour
United States
William Dufris
Alan Marriott
Lorelei King
Sonya Leite
Lachele Carl
Maria Darling

Trivia

Production

  • This was the first of three series to use the original intro (sans North American countries, which used an extended variant of the remastered intro for all OGS series), which features a scene of Roley flattening the asphalt Muck had layed in a previous scene.
  • Filming for series started around July 1998 and finished by 26 February 1999.
  • This series uses different animation props for the human puppets and background props than Series 2–16.
  • Despite likely being filmed in widescreen, this is the only series to have never been mastered into a widescreen format. Series 2–onwards would have widescreen masters produced for all of the episodes, including shorts (with some having special "pan-and-scan" fullscreen masters for later episodes).
  • The end credits are noticeably longer in this series than in the following series, being 40 seconds long instead of 30 seconds.

Continuity

Trivia

  • The only episode of this series to not be released onto home media in North America is Naughty Spud.
  • The production order for this series is considered the official order according to Mattel (as used in YouTube uploads and copyright claims), its Complete Series releases, and the UK When Bob Became a Builder DVD.
  • Some television guide sites incorrectly list this series airing between 28 November 1998 – 21 February 1999 for the UK (going off of production dates indicating the series wrapped production by the end of February, these dates would be unfeasible); said order also places Travis Paints the Town after the 1998 episodes.
  • In the Swedish dub of this series, the characters utter some English words.
  • This is the only series where Spud and Farmer Pickles are voiced by Carlo Schmidt in the Swedish dub.
  • In the Icelandic and Russian dubs, Kate Harbour's voice lines for Pilchard and Bird were dubbed over.
Original Series

Series 1 • Series 2 • Series 3 • Series 4 • Series 5 • Series 6 • Series 7 • Series 8 • Series 9

Project: Build It

Series 10 • Series 11 • Series 12 • Series 13 • Series 14 • Series 15 • Series 16

Ready, Steady, Build!

Series 17 • Series 18

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