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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 & Family Entertainment]] <br />[[Blue Zoo Animation Studio|Blue-Zoo Productions]]<br />[[CBeebies]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Milligan |first1=Mercedes |title=CBeebies Commissions 'Tree Fu Tom' Season 3 |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cbeebies-commissions-tree-fu-tom-season-3/ |website=[[Animation Magazine]] |date=4 December 2014 |access-date=December 7, 2020}}</ref>

| 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]]

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'''''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 andwith played[[David Tennant]] being replaced by [[Mark Bonnar]].

==Premise==

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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, GrowSuper Grow GrowSwords, Power Lasso, Build-A-Bridge, Power Smash, Super Slime Go, Super Squeeze, Giant Shield, Grow Grow Grow

*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, GrowSuper Grow GrowSwords

*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, Power Lasso

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===Series 5 (8 February – 3 October 2016)===

*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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[[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 animated television series]]