'''''Be Safe with the Tweenies''''' was a series of 27 shorts about being safe around certain situations (like railways and/or sheds).<ref>[http://digiguide.tv/programme/Childrens/Tweenies-Safety-Shorts/232012/season-1/ A Didiguide that has a section on the show.] Retrieved 08 May '15</ref> These shorts aired on the British children's channel CBeebies between 2003 and 2008. As of now, two of the shorts remain unavailable for public consumption, including one that was reportedly banned from broadcast due to the use of knives. The shorts are also known as the ''Tweenies Safety Shorts''.<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d80899e1daed4388891be9a02d4a39bb A website associated with the BBC that mentions the other name of the shorts.] Retrieved 08 May '15</ref>
'''''Be Safe with the Tweenies''''' is a series of shorts based on the popular CBeebies series ''The Tweenies'' made to educate its target audience on being safe around certain situations as the title suggests.<ref>[http://digiguide.tv/programme/Childrens/Tweenies-Safety-Shorts/232012/season-1/ A Didiguide that has a section on the show.] Retrieved 08 May '15</ref> Also known as the ''Tweenies Safety Shorts''.<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d80899e1daed4388891be9a02d4a39bb A website associated with the BBC that mentions the other name of the shorts.] Retrieved 08 May '15</ref>, these shorts aired on the British children's channel CBeebies between 2003 and 2008 and had little to no media coverage on its content despite the programme's popularity.
==About==
Initially, this show was considered to be lost media. However, following years of uncovering particular episodes through BBC Redux, all but one of the episodes had been uncovered, with the then only unavailable short being to do with knives.
''Be Safe with the Tweenies'', as the title suggests, was a show about being safe. The theme for the intro was remade and was much shorter than the ''Tweenies'' intro.
Episodes are available on [https://www.bbcredux.com/ BBC Redux]. However, this service is only available to those with a functioning @bbc.co.uk e-mail address.
==History==
[[File:TweeniesKnives.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The clip as featured in the opening sequence for the series.]]
===Intro===
At the time, episode 16, "Knives", was the only short missing from the series, the premise of which is only explained through a brief clip within the show's intro. This clip featured Jake seemingly attempting to make a jam sandwich while holding a breadknife, bearing very little information on what the short would be about apart from safety around knife usage. However, the episode proper had Jake using the knife, believing it made a good sword since Milo already had the toy sword following a King Arthur play he performed.
There are different scenes in the intro. A description of the scene will be on the left while the known episode would be on the right:
*Max with a video camera - "Throwing" (as the description shows that Max was planning to make a movie of the children).
*Bella smashing a teapot - "Kettle and Teapot."
*Jake throwing sand at the camera - "Throwing."
*Milo with his birthday cake - "Candles."
*Jake holding a breadknife - "Knives."
*Bella holding a pair of dangerous garden cutters - "Sheds."
*Milo, for some reason, is stuck upside down, and Bella is trying to save him - "Doors and Windows."
*Fizz tangled in wires - "Electric Sockets and Cables."
*Judy with a guitar - "Railway Lines."
*Jake with incredibly blunt scissors - "Scissors."
*Doodles the dog tripping over a stuffed snake - "Leaving Toys Left Around."
*Izzles the dog near soft shapes with Milo - "Fire Safety."
*The Tweenies playing on a climbing frame - Might be "Slides."
==Shorts==
According to Milo Jennings, who rediscovered the episodes and archived them, "Knives" was banned by the BBC because of its usage of which. Further information also proves that the episode did, in fact, not air again for the recent episode guide on the BBC website<ref>[https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008zcqg/episodes/guide The episode guide on the BBC website.]</ref>. For the schedule where the programme would be airing at the time, "Knives" appeared to only have aired on 26th September 2005 at 08:50 on the BBC Two channel<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6feb388a7dd141e290afc07312328db9 Information of the episode and its airdate.]</ref>.
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==Availability==
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In January 2023, YouTube user [https://youtube.com/@galaxyvault2 Galaxyvault2] uploaded a song from the short to YouTube, saying that they couldn't share the full short for an unknown reason. It wasn't until May 2023, when Galaxyvault felt guilty after months of keeping it and decided that it deserved to be preserved and uploaded the full short to YouTube.
*[https://mega.co.nz/#!hVkhxALT!_gAx1DE5BJTFU7YohJvITbyY1j8lQM42MCoAuoSjQr0 MEGA mirror of the short "Railway Lines."] Retrieved 02 Jun '15
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Latest revision as of 17:23, 29 February 2024
Title card used for the shorts.
Status: Found
Date found: 26 May 2023
Found by: Galaxyvault2, Anonymous
Be Safe with the Tweenies is a series of shorts based on the popular CBeebies series The Tweenies made to educate its target audience on being safe around certain situations as the title suggests.[1] Also known as the Tweenies Safety Shorts.[2], these shorts aired on the British children's channel CBeebies between 2003 and 2008 and had little to no media coverage on its content despite the programme's popularity.
Initially, this show was considered to be lost media. However, following years of uncovering particular episodes through BBC Redux, all but one of the episodes had been uncovered, with the then only unavailable short being to do with knives.
The clip as featured in the opening sequence for the series.
At the time, episode 16, "Knives", was the only short missing from the series, the premise of which is only explained through a brief clip within the show's intro. This clip featured Jake seemingly attempting to make a jam sandwich while holding a breadknife, bearing very little information on what the short would be about apart from safety around knife usage. However, the episode proper had Jake using the knife, believing it made a good sword since Milo already had the toy sword following a King Arthur play he performed.
According to Milo Jennings, who rediscovered the episodes and archived them, "Knives" was banned by the BBC because of its usage of which. Further information also proves that the episode did, in fact, not air again for the recent episode guide on the BBC website[3]. For the schedule where the programme would be airing at the time, "Knives" appeared to only have aired on 26th September 2005 at 08:50 on the BBC Two channel[4].
Availability
In January 2023, YouTube user Galaxyvault2 uploaded a song from the short to YouTube, saying that they couldn't share the full short for an unknown reason. It wasn't until May 2023, when Galaxyvault felt guilty after months of keeping it and decided that it deserved to be preserved and uploaded the full short to YouTube.