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This article is about the second series of the original Bob the Builder. You may be looking for the second series of the 2015 reboot.
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The second series premiered in the UK between 11 October to 28 December 1999 on the main BBC channel. This series also first aired on Nick Jr. (UK and Ireland) in late 2000 with later being re-shown on CBeebies in 2002. In the US, the second series premiered between 18 January to 10 December 2001 on Nick Jr. (US block) and was later re-shown on Noggin, PBS, Sprout and Qubo. In Australia, the second series first premiered between October 05 to 23, 2000 on the ABC Kids block.


Episodes

(Note: * means the episode was skipped for home media in the UK [prior to "The Complete 2nd Series"] and US)

Screenshot Episode
Number 		UK title (top)
US title (bottom) 		Written by Original UK release date
14 (1) Runaway Roley Jimmy Hibbert 10/25/1999
Roley loses the brakes in the morning and sleep-rolls out of the yard and causes destruction everywhere. He crashes into lampposts, crushes traffic cones, and nearly rams into Travis. Bob, Wendy and the machines have to guide Roley back to the yard without waking him up.
15 (2) Bob's Big Surprise Chris Trengove 11/01/1999
While Wendy is away, Bob and the gang give her garden a make-over.
16 (3) Spud the Spanner
Spud the Superwrench*		 Ben Randall 10/11/1999
Spud is bored of being a scarecrow and he takes Bob's toolbox to become a repairman like Bob, with Lofty cautiously tagging along.
17 (4) Bob's White Christmas Jimmy Hibbert 12/27/1999
Bob will dress up as Father Christmas (Santa Claus) for the local school carol concert, but he loses time when Farmer Pickles gets snowed in.
18 (5) Lofty to the Rescue Chris Trengove 11/15/1999
Lofty is afraid of going over the bridge because of his fear of heights, but when Spud (who Lofty is also afraid of) falls off the bridge and into a tree while he plays with Scoop and Muck, Lofty has to overcome his fears and rescue him.
19 (6) Dizzy's Birdwatch Simon Jowett 12/06/1999
Dizzy looks after a birds' nest set on some tires but keeps getting distracted and later sees the hatchlings emerge and learn to fly.
20 (7) Wallpaper Wendy Jimmy Hibbert 10/18/1999
Bob decorates Mr. Broadbent's new flat, but as he has never decorated before, he ends up making a complete mess.
21 (8) Dizzy's Statues Diane Redmond 11/08/1999
Bob has to put up bollards around the town hall and put up statues for Mrs. Potts’ Garden at the same time. Dizzy tries to help, but gets very mixed up.
22 (9) Tea Set Travis Ben Randall 11/29/1999
Bob and the gang are preparing for recycling. Farmer Pickles tells Travis to look after his old tea set, but when Spud and Travis are not around, they forget about the tea set and the gang almost recycles it.
23 (10) Wendy's Big Match
Wendy's Big Game		 Simon Jowett 11/22/1999
Bob is preparing for a "Brightest Building Yard" competition. But when Spud kicks a ball at Wendy, the line-making machine makes a mess, forcing him to clean it up.
24 (11) Clocktower Bob Chris Trengove 12/13/1999
Bob ends up stranded on a broken clock tower when Lofty gets scared by a bat and knocks the ladder down. All the while, Muck tells a joke about an elephant in the fridge and starts grumbling when Scoop tells him/her to let Dizzy get on with her mixing, claiming that "it's not fair". That night, she bumps into Lofty just as Scoop and Wendy find both machines so they can rescue Bob.
25 (12) Wendy's Tennis Court Diane Redmond 12/20/1999
While building a new tennis court, Travis and Spud try to put the net up, but Spud finds it too heavy and falls into the wet tar.
26 (13) Pilchard Goes Fishing Jimmy Hibbert 12/28/1999
Wendy is cleaning Bob's fish tank, but when Muck comes for more cement, she crashes into the lean-to garage. When Wendy gets distracted by another job, Pilchard intends to eat Finn up.

Screenshot Episode
Number 		Title Written by Original UK broadcast date
14 (1) Spud the Spanner* Ben Randall 10/11/1999
Spud is bored of being a scarecrow and he takes Bob's toolbox to become a repairman like Bob, with Lofty cautiously tagging along.
15 (2) Wallpaper Wendy Jimmy Hibbert 10/18/1999
Bob decorates Mr. Broadbent's new flat, but as he has never decorated before, he ends up making a complete mess.
16 (3) Runaway Roley Jimmy Hibbert 10/25/1999
Roley loses the brakes in the morning and sleep-rolls out of the yard and causes destruction everywhere. He crashes into lampposts, crushes traffic cones, and nearly rams into Travis. Bob, Wendy and the machines have to guide Roley back to the yard without waking him up.
17 (4) Bob's Big Surprise Chris Trengove 11/01/1999
While Wendy is away, Bob and the gang give her garden a make-over.
18 (5) Dizzy's Statues Diane Redmond 11/08/1999
Bob has to put up bollards around the town hall and put up statues for Mrs. Potts’ Garden at the same time. Dizzy tries to help, but gets very mixed up.
19 (6) Lofty to the Rescue Chris Trengove 11/15/1999
Lofty is afraid of going over the bridge because of his fear of heights, but when Spud (who Lofty is also afraid of) falls off the bridge and into a tree while he plays with Scoop and Muck, Lofty has to overcome his fears and rescue him.
20 (7) Wendy's Big Match Simon Jowett 11/22/1999
Bob is preparing for a "Brightest Building Yard" competition. But when Spud kicks a ball at Wendy, the line-making machine makes a mess, forcing him to clean it up.
21 (8) Tea Set Travis Ben Randall 11/29/1999
Bob and the gang are preparing for recycling. Farmer Pickles tells Travis to look after his old tea set, but when Spud and Travis are not around, they forget about the tea set and the gang almost recycles it.
22 (9) Dizzy's Birdwatch Simon Jowett 12/06/1999
Dizzy looks after a birds' nest set on some tires but keeps getting distracted and later sees the hatchlings emerge and learn to fly.
23 (10) Clocktower Bob Chris Trengove 12/13/1999
Bob ends up stranded on a broken clock tower when Lofty gets scared by a bat and knocks the ladder down. All the while, Muck tells a joke about an elephant in the fridge and starts grumbling when Scoop tells him/her to let Dizzy get on with her mixing, claiming that "it's not fair". That night, she bumps into Lofty just as Scoop and Wendy find both machines so they can rescue Bob.
24 (11) Wendy's Tennis Court Diane Redmond 12/20/1999
While building a new tennis court, Travis and Spud try to put the net up, but Spud finds it too heavy and falls into the wet tar.
25 (12) Bob's White Christmas Jimmy Hibbert 12/27/1999
Bob will dress up as Father Christmas/Santa Claus for the local school carol concert, but he loses time when Farmer Pickles gets snowed in.
26 (13) Pilchard Goes Fishing Jimmy Hibbert 12/28/1999
Wendy is cleaning Bob's fish tank, but when Muck comes for more cement, she crashes into the lean-to garage. When Wendy gets distracted by another job, Pilchard intends to eat Finn up.

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
Sweden
Mangus Ehrner
Eva Gröndahl
Claire Wikholm
Björn Gedda
Tuvalisa Rangström
Claes Månsson
Anneli Martini
Pierre Lindstedt
Steve Kratz

Trivia

  • Some television guide sites incorrectly list this series airing between 4 June to 27 August 1999 for the UK.
  • This series will be the last time Wendy wears her red skirt and green, yellow and white suit jacket.
  • This was the first series where Wendy worked as a full time builder.
  • This series marks the first appearances of Mrs. Broadbent, Fin and Mrs. Percival.
    • Mr. Beasley and Mr. Bentley are also mentioned in this season prior to their debuts.
  • This is the first series to be released in 16:9 widescreen, as the first series was also filmed in 16:9 widescreen, but had been mastered in a 4:3 full-screen aspect ratio. VHS releases, certain UK/AUS DVDs and US masters of the second series remained in 4:3 full-screen ratio.
  • This is the first series in which the closing credits was cut to 30 seconds instead of 40 seconds.
  • This series was re-shown on Qubo in the US on 7 October 2020, though the episodes used the UK dub. This was likely done due to the US dub still being owned by NBC Universal and Qubo acquired the series from WildBrain which owns the UK dub.
  • Spud the Superwrench and Tea Set Travis have yet to be released on home media in the US, however both episodes have been archived, first by Kristopher Walker.
  • The episodes in this series were aired in production order on ABC Kids (Australia), PBS KIDS Sprout and Qubo Channel.
  • This series was most likely filmed from Spring to October 1999.

Source

Original UK Production Order:

Australia Premiere Date:

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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