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
| Screenshot | Episode Number |
UK title (top) US title (bottom) |
Written by | Original air date |
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14 (3) | Spud the Spanner Spud the Super Wrench |
Ben Randall | 10/11/1999 |
| Spud is bored of being a scarecrow and he takes Bob's toolbox to try to change himself, unaware that he will come apart. | ||||
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15 (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. | ||||
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16 (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 the lamps, signs, walls, etc. Bob, Wendy and the machines have to guide Roley back to the yard without waking him up. | ||||
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17 (2) | Bob's Big Surprise | Chris Trengove | 11/01/1999 |
| While Wendy is away, Bob and the gang give her garden a make-over. | ||||
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18 (8) | Dizzy's Statues | Diane Redmond | 11/08/1999 |
| Bob has to put up bollards around the town hall and put up Mrs. Potts’ garden statues at the same time. Dizzy tries to help, but gets very mixed up. | ||||
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19 (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. | ||||
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20 (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. | ||||
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21 (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. | ||||
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22 (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. | ||||
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23 (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. | ||||
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24 (12) | Wendy's Tennis Court Wendy's Tennis Match |
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. | ||||
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25 (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. | ||||
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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
- Mrs. Broadbent
- Finn
- Mrs. Percival
- Mr. Beasley (mentioned)
- Santa Claus (mentioned)
- Jenny (indirectly mentioned)
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
- This is the first series to have 16:9 widescreen than 4:3 full-screen, though the US version and the UK VHS releases remained in 4:3 full-screen ratio.
- This is the first series where part of the melody of the music in the closing credits was cut out.
- 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 Super-Wrench and Tea Set Travis have yet to be released on home media, however Tea Set Travis was found on a Nick Jr. recording tape from the user, Kristopher Walker, which was uploaded in 2017. He also uploaded recordings of Naughty Spud and Spud the Super-Wrench from Nick Jr. which were uploaded on 29 November 2020.
- 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 between March to October 1999.
- This series through the sixteenth series had different animation props when compared to the first series.
Source
Original UK Production Order:
Australia Premiere Date:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20001120112300/http://abc.net.au/cgi-bin/tvpub/dailyscheds.pl - 5-23 October 2000
| Original Series |
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Series 1 • Series 2 • Series 3 • Series 4 • Series 5 • Series 6 • Series 7 • Series 8 • Series 9 |
| Project: Build It |
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Series 10 • Series 11 • Series 12 • Series 13 • Series 14 • Series 15 • Series 16 |
| Ready, Steady, Build! |