Episode
Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Surprise
Overview
Wendy is going away to visit her sister. Bob and the machines decide to surprise her by giving her garden a makeover. Mrs Potts was going to look after the office but she phones in sick. Then Bob has to keep going into the office to check the messages.
Details
- Series
- Bob the Builder
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1999-11-01
- Runtime
- 10 min
Episode context
Bob's Big Surprise is Episode 4 in Season 2 of Bob the Builder. It aired on 1999-11-01. The runtime is 10 min.
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Episode 3: Runaway Roley
Bob and the machines have worked hard digging a trench. The next morning Roley sleeprolls out of the yard and causes a trail of destruction all over town! Bob, Wendy and the machines have to guide Roley back to the yard without waking him up.
Episode 5: Dizzy's Statues
Bob is taking care of two jobs at once - putting up bollards around the town hall and putting up Mrs Potts' garden statues. Dizzy decides to help him out but gets very mixed up!
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Wallpaper Wendy
Bob volunteers to decorate Mrs Broadbent's new apartment when the decorators let her down. He has never done a decorating job before and ends up making a complete mess!
Episode 6: Lofty to the Rescue
Scoop, Muck and Lofty are working near a bridge. Lofty always has to go the long way round because he can't cross the bridge because of his fear of heights. When Spud sees him pass, he follows him and decides to get up to mischief! Lofty is then scared of Spud and goes back to the yard in shame. Eventually Spud's mischief puts him in danger when he falls off the bridge and onto a branch! Only Lofty could save Spud, if he can overcome his fear of heights.
Episode 1: Spud the Spanner
Spud decides he is bored of being a scarecrow. He finds Bob's toolbox and decides to do some of his own fixing. When Muck sees him with Bob's toolbox, Bob and the machines have to stop him before he hurts himself.
Episode 7: Wendy's Big Match
Bob is getting ready for a Brightest Building Yard competition whilst Wendy and the machines are turning a field into a football pitch. But when Spud kicks a ball at Wendy, the line-marking machine makes a mess and he is ordered to clean it up.
Episode 8: Tea Set Travis
Bob, Wendy and the machines are picking up everyone's rubbish for recycling. Farmer Pickles is having a clear-out and he asks Travis to look after a very old tea set. Spud asks Travis to play hide and seek with him and when Bob, Wendy and the machines arrive, they take everything - including the tea set! Will Farmer Pickles catch them before they recycle the tea set?
Episode 9: Dizzy's Birdwatch
Bob and Lofty come across a bird's nest with an egg in it. Wendy explains that they can't move the nest. Dizzy volunteers to watch it. When the egg hatches, Dizzy doesn't want to leave. Bob needs some cement mixing so Dizzy quickly goes to do so. She goes back to the yard just in time to see the bird learn to fly.
Episode 10: Clocktower Bob
Bob is repairing a clocktower. Lofty tries to lift his toolbox onto the scaffolding, but carelessly knocks the ladder over! Then a bat flies out of the belfry and frightens Lofty and he goes off, leaving poor Bob stranded on the scaffolding with his phone on the ground below. Meanwhile, Muck gets into an argument with Scoop and goes off in a sulk.
Episode 11: Pilchard Goes Fishing
Wendy decides to clean out the fish tank and moves Finn into a bucket of water. Muck comes back to the yard for some cement and accidentally crashes into the lean-to garage! Wendy then has another job to do and then Pilchard thinks Finn will make a delicious snack!
Episode 12: Wendy's Tennis Court
Bob, Wendy and the machines are building a tennis court. Bob takes care of the umpire seat and the scoreboard, whilst the others lay the green tar surface. Travis and Spud arrive to put up the net, but the net proves too heavy for Spud and he falls over into the wet tar! When they try to sort it out, they just make it worse.
Episode 13: Bob's White Christmas
Bob agrees to dress up as Father Christmas for the local school carol concert. But first he has to help out when Farmer Pickles gets completely snowed up.