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{{Short description|British animated television series}}
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{{EngvarB|date=March 2020}}
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| runtime = 22–25 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| company = [[FremantleMedia|FremantleMedia Kids
| network = [[CBeebies]]
| first_aired = {{start date|df=y|2012|3|5}}
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| writer = Daniel Bays<br />[[Douglas Wood (writer)|Douglas Wood]]<br />[[Ian Carney]]<br />Moya O'Shea<br />Darren Jones<br />Allan Plenderleith<br >Corey Powell<br >[[Richard Preddy]]<br />John Loy<br >Sindy McKay<br />[[Richard Dinnick]]
}}
'''''Tree Fu Tom''''' is a British [[live action|live-action]]/[[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] television series shown on [[BBC]] channels in the UK and [[Universal Kids]] and [[NBC]] in the USA. It is set in a miniature magical countryside and village area (Treetopolis) on the top a big tree in a British-type woodland. Many of its characters are [[anthropomorphised]] [[arthropod]]s, and it features species of insect that are raised and controlled like cattle on a ranch: [[aphid]]s, [[ladybird]]s, and a [[rhinoceros beetle]]. The programme is aimed at two- to six-year-olds.
72 episodes were produced across five series, premiering in 2012 and ending in 2016.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |title=Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=9781476672939 |page=295}}</ref>
The character of Twigs was recast from series 3
==Premise==
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Spells that appeared: Mega Mover, Super Freeze, Super Squeeze, Giant Shield, Protecto Tunnel, Super Lifto, Helping Hand, Super Shrinko, Mega Power Boost, Super Pull, Mega Push, Magic Stop, Blow Blow Blow, Super Roll, Build-A-Bridge, Power Smash, Grow Grow Grow, Super Powers Go, Super Arrow, Super Net Go
*Episode 14: "One for All!": Tom leads his under-performing {{Not a typo|squizzle}} team on a quest to find the enchanted {{Not a typo|squizzle}}
Spells:
*Episode 15: "Treefle Tom": Tom and his friends' greed for tasty {{Not a typo|treefle}} treats leads to trouble.
Spells: Super Squeeze, Giant Shield
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===Series 3 (28 October 2013 – 7 April 2014)===
Spells that appeared: Super Lifto, Super Shrinko, Chompa Chompa Chew, Chop Chop Chop, Magic Ant, Helping Hand, Super Freeze, Magic Go Back,
*Episode 27: "Twigs' Big Boost": Twigs eats Ariela's special booster berries, which causes random growth spurts; he desperately tries to hide his dramatically growing hands, ears and feet from his friends.
Spells: Super Lifto, Super Shrinko
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Spells: Helping Hand, Super Freeze
*Episode 31: "Tom's Teddy": when it is Clean-Up Treetopolis Day Tom loses his Teddy and starts wrongfully accusing Twigs, Ariela, Squirmtum and Zigzoo of stealing it. It was really the Mushas who stole it for their Slime Teddy; when Tom learns what he has done, he makes up for it.
Spells: Magic Go Back,
*Episode 32: "Conkerball Run": Tom and Twigs find Rickety's old racing car, the Turborantula, and learn that he lost the Conkerball Cup in a race with the Mushas. Tom, Twigs and Zigzoo challenge the Mushas to a race to win it back, but Tom and Twigs are competitive and do not work as a team. It appears they might lose the race again, but when the car derails with a panicked Zigzoo, Tom and Twigs must learn what they did wrong.
Spells: Super Lifto,
*Episode 33: "Bad Tom": when the Mushas discover an Invisibility Ring, they use it to frame Tom and Twigs on Spooky Day by doing mean tricks to Zigzoo, Squirmtum and Ariela. They eventually learn not to jump to conclusions.
Spells: Power Lasso, Super
*Episode 34: "The Cavern Coaster": when Squirmtum has a lot to do in the Caverns, Zigzoo invents a Cavern Coaster to speed things along. Since the Caverns are dangerous, he is literally carried away with it. He and the Sprites then have to be rescued.
Spells: Build-A-Bridge,
*Episode 35: "Woodgrubs": Tom, Twigs, Zigzoo and Squirmtum investigate the Caverns when there are mysterious Treequakes and see that it is caused by Woodgrubs eating the dead bark.
Spells: Power Smash, Super Slime Go
*Episode 36: "Chuckleberry Tom": Tom uses Chuckleberry Juice to make himself funny; it is fun at first but gets out of hand when Zigzoo almost falls off a bridge and distracts Treetog and the Sprites from cheating Mushas with Boohoo Berries.
Spells: Super Lifto,
*Episode 37: "Ranger Tom: Fungus Finder": Tom and Twigs empty out a cart full of stuff, but it turns out flowers are useful to wake up Rickety. They soon learn to be prepared when the Mushas, Rickety, Chezz, Hazel and Twigs almost meet their end with a Whirlpool Fungus and a Spritetrap Fungus.
Spells: Super Squeeze, Grow Grow Grow
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===Series 4 (30 June – 15 December 2014)===
Spells that appeared: Helping Hand, Enormo Dome, Power Lasso, Build-A-Bridge, Mega Mover, Magic Go Back, Super Squeeze, Super Pull,
*Episode 40: "Tom's Big Spell"
Spells: Helping Hand, Enormo Dome
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Spells: Super Squeeze, Super Pull
*Episode 45: "Ranger Tom: Fun Guy!"
Spells: Super Pull,
*Episode 46: "Twigs' Tall Tale"
Spells: Helping Hand,
*Episode 47: "Ranger Tom and the Carrots of Doom"
Spells: Super Pull, Magic Go Back
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Spells: Super Powers Go, Water To Jelly
*Episode 49: "Dragon Fruit Fiasco"
Spells:
*Episode 50: "Ranger Tom: A Badge Too Far"
Spells: Super Pull, Mega Mover
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Spells: Super Lifto, Super Launcher
*Episode 52: "Tree Fu Tom: The Sprite Before Christmas"
Spells: Super Freeze,
===Series 5
*Episode 53: "Stuck"
Spells: Super Lifto Super Freeze
*Episode 54: "Ranger Tom and the Musha Rangers"
Spells: Super Freeze Super Funnel
*Episode 55: "Flicker Goes Out"
Spells: Super Lifto
*Episode 56: "It's a Kind of Magic"
*Episode 57: "Dark Sprites"
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*Episode 71: "Dead Branch Challenge"
*Episode 72: "Raiders of the Lost Bark"
==References==
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[[Category:Animated television series about insects]]
[[Category:Animated television series about frogs]]
[[Category:Television series about size change]]
[[Category:Television shows about miniature people]]
[[Category:BBC children's television shows]]
[[Category:British children's animated action television series]]
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[[Category:British preschool education television series]]
[[Category:British television series with live action and animation]]
[[Category:CBeebies original programming]]
[[Category:British English-language television shows]]
[[Category:NBC
[[Category:Television series by FremantleMedia Kids & Family]]
[[Category:BBC animated television series]]
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