Be Safe with the Tweenies "Knives" (found short of British children's TV series; 2000s)

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Title card used for the shorts.

Status: Partially Lost

Be Safe with the Tweenies was a series of 27 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. As of now, all but two of the shorts have made their way online, leaving the others unavailable for public consumption, including one that was reportedly banned from broadcast due to the use of knives.

Although the episodes are available on BBC Redux, this service is only accessible to those with a functioning @bbc.co.uk e-mail address.

Intro

When its first episode was uncovered (it being "Railway Lines" in particular), the opening sequence for the short was different to The Tweenies intro, having a slightly amended theme song, and providing many clips from the series. These brief clips offered an overview of what the potential episodes would've looked like. The list below offers an insight into the clips featured as well as the potential episodes these were featured in:

  • Max with a video camera - "Throwing"
  • Bella dropping and smashing a teapot - "Kettle and Teapot"
  • Jake throwing sand at the camera - "Throwing"
  • Milo attempting to light a scented candle with a lit birthday candle on a cake - "Candles"
  • Jake holding a breadknife - "Knives"
  • Bella holding a pair of dangerous garden cutters - "Sheds"
  • Milo is stuck through a window, and Bella is trying to pull him out - "Doors and Windows"
  • Max in gardening gear - "Sheds"
  • Fizz discovering dangerous-looking bottles in the kitchen cupboard - "Cleaning Materials"
  • Fizz tangled in wires - "Electric Sockets and Cables"
  • Judy with a guitar - "Railway Lines"
  • Jake picking up some scissors - "Scissors"
  • Doodles the dog tripping over a stuffed snake - "Leaving Toys Left Around"
  • Izzles the dog and Milo improvising a scene based on a home fire - "Fire Safety"
  • The Tweenies playing on a climbing frame - "Slides"

Shorts

Title Status
Cleaning Materials Found
Leaving Toys Left Around Found
Throwing Found
Sheds Found
Swings Found
Slide Found
Matches Found
Don't Go There Found
Lost Found
Road Safety Found
Dogs Found
Candles Found
Fire Safety Found
Travelling by Train Found
Electric Sockets and Cables Found
Knives Lost
Ponds Found
Scissors Found
Rivers Found
Dialling 999 Found
Railway Lines Found
Hot Cooker Found
Kettle and Teapot Found
Canal Found
Doors and Windows Found
Beach Found
Horses Lost

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