Mister Maker Comes to Town

Mister Maker Comes to Town is a spin-off of children's television series Mister Maker commissioned by Michael Carrington at the BBC for CBeebies.[1] The TV series launched in 2010 and ended in 2011.[2] Three spin-offs followed: Mister Maker Around the World, Mister Maker's Arty Party, and Mister Maker at Home, which began airing in 2013, 2015 and 2020, respectively.

Mister Maker Comes to Town
GenreChildren's
Arts & Crafts
Created byPhil Gallagher
Written byNic Ayling
Driana Jones
Phil Gallagher
Directed byPeter Eyre
StarringPhil Gallagher
Voices ofJessie Brown
Josh Elwell
Phil Gallagher
Opening themeMake It Mister Maker
Ending themeMake It Mister Maker (Instrumental)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes51
Production
Executive producersPhil Gallagher
Vanessa Hill
Driana Jones
Nic Ayling
Production locationsNW England (Location)
Maidstone (Studio)
CinematographyChris Burton
EditorsAnt Boys
Billy Sneddon
Running time19 Minutes
Production companyThe Foundation
Original release
NetworkCBeebies
ReleaseOctober 25, 2010 (2010-10-25) –
December 5, 2011 (2011-12-05)
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Episode format edit

Every episode has the following sequence:

  • Helps a child with something they can make – Helping As Children Your Arts & Crafts
  • Shape dance and guessing game – Awesome Shape Dance & Games
  • Minute make it time – 1 Minute Your Arts & Crafts
  • Coloured Kids – All Art Big Color
  • Big surprise – For Your Art & Crafts Bigger
  • Time to go – Meet Tocky

At the start of every show, Mister Maker uses various objects to make a Makermobile. He shrinks himself, then the episode starts. Tocky, the cuckoo clock, gives Mister Maker a "mini maker message", a child who needs help from Mister Maker. The child tells Mister Maker what they would like to do or make something out of old things. This inspires him to do something related to them. He collects the essential items from the Doodle drawers and makes them.

When Mister Maker can't find what he needs, he honks the horn, summoning Scraps (a blue puppet with a scarf, a hat with straws and pipe cleaners on it, and googly eyes), who gives him what he wants. After they make it, Mister Maker tells us, "it's brilliant being out and about in the Makermobile; there's always so much to see and do." Then he hears a noise, then he asks us "What's that noise?", then a quartet of shapes fly out and sing a silly song and dance, followed by a random shape (circle, triangle, square, or rectangle) to form a picture or find how many shapes there are.

Tocky then appears on the Makervideophone for Minute Make Time, and Mister Maker goes to a place where he can make something in a minute—usually completing it just before the timer stops. Then the coloured kids ask Mister Maker from the videophone to guess what they would make with their colourful costumes.

It is followed by A Big Surprise, where Mister Maker sees some kids who were not expecting him. The kids tell Mister Maker what they would like to do. Mister Maker tells the kids what they will do, which will give him an idea of what to do next. In the middle of making it, he wonders why not make a (insert thing related to what the Mini Makers are making here). The show ends with Tocky telling Mister Maker to go and then shows Mister Maker how to put the Makermobile back into the art box.

Episodes edit

Series 1 (2010) edit

  1. Episode 1
  2. Episode 2
  3. Episode 3
  4. Episode 4
  5. Episode 5
  6. Episode 6
  7. Episode 7
  8. Episode 8
  9. Episode 9
  10. Episode 10
  11. Episode 11
  12. Episode 12
  13. Episode 13
  14. Episode 14
  15. Episode 15
  16. Episode 16
  17. Episode 17
  18. Episode 18
  19. Episode 19
  20. Episode 20
  21. Episode 21
  22. Episode 22
  23. Episode 23
  24. Episode 24
  25. Episode 25

Series 2 (2011) edit

  1. Episode 1
  2. Episode 2
  3. Episode 3
  4. Episode 4
  5. Episode 5
  6. Episode 6
  7. Episode 7
  8. Episode 8
  9. Episode 9
  10. Episode 10
  11. Episode 11
  12. Episode 12
  13. Episode 13
  14. Episode 14
  15. Episode 15
  16. Episode 16
  17. Episode 17
  18. Episode 18
  19. Episode 19
  20. Episode 20
  21. Episode 21
  22. Episode 22
  23. Episode 23
  24. Episode 24
  25. Episode 25
  26. Episode 26

References edit

  1. ^ "BBC - CBeebies - Mister Maker". Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Mister Maker gets more". Broadcast. Emap. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2010.

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