Scoop And Doozie (partially found CBC puppet show; 1999-2002)
Scoop and Doozie was a children's puppet show that aired on CBC from 1999 to 2003, the show was about the everyday lives of Doozie, an orange toy bulldozer, Scoop, a yellow toy excavator, and Axel, a blue and red dump truck. The show also featured live-action segments that would teach kids about the world of construction and machinery.[1]
Show Format
The show started with the three machines, Axel, Scoop, and Doozie, doing something together when they encountered a problem. Upon this problem, they sometimes would go to the basement window of the house of the yard where the machines lived and watch the owner of the house doing something to solve a similar problem. Other times the machines would go over to the fence posts to watch Fence TV (a video of real machines screened through a knothole). When the basement/Fence TV segment was done, the machines used what they had seen and heard to apply to the problem they had encountered.
Availability
According to the official archived website for the show, 65 episodes exist.[2]
2 VHS tapes and 1 DVD exist featuring episodes of the show,[3][4][5] there are also a handful of episodes on YouTube. Refer to the charts below to see what episodes are out there.
Season 1 | Episode Name | Status | Additional Notes |
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1 | My Way or The Highway | Found | On YouTube and DVD. |
2 | Pirate Treasure | Found | On VHS, Internet Archive and YouTube. |
3 | The Boat That Wouldn't Float | Lost | |
4 | Pretty Strong | Found | On YouTube and DVD. |
5 | A Nice Change | Lost | A boy in Andy's class lost all his toys. Will Andy's act of charity mean the toys will never see the backyard again? |
6 | Nothing Springs to Mind | Lost | Scoop loses her favourite spring - and her memory. After a long hunt, they both turn up in the strangest places! |
7 | Some Bunny Like Me | Lost | Doozie's appetite for mud pies gets the better of him once again. Mistaking Andy's pet rabbit for the Easter Bunny, he sends it off in search of treats. If Doozie'd only known what lengths he'd have to go to get it back!
Bronze, Columbus International Film and Video Festival. |
8 | Huff and Puff | Lost | |
9 | Mad as a Dozer | Lost | Doozie's in a really bad mood. Scoop and Axel do everything they can to jolly him out of it. By the time they find the one thing that works, though, they're ready to blow their stacks too.
Gemini Nominee for Best Performance in a Preschool Series. |
10 | Waiting for Go Dozer | Lost | |
11 | Spitting Image | Lost | |
12 | Budding Friendship | Lost | |
13 | Stop Thief! | Lost | Can three little toys stop a robber from breaking into the Cobbs’ house? |
14 | Au Revoir, Underpants | Found | Jacques' surprise birthday becomes a going-away party when Mrs. Cobb threatens to throw him into the ragbag. The toys are devastated - but determined to give the underwear some wonderful memories to take with him. It's a sad day - until Mr. Cobb sneaks in and sews his favorite underwear up, good as new. |
15 | Search and Rescue | Lost | |
16 | Remotely Interested | Lost | |
17 | Axel's Big Tow | Lost | |
18 | Oil's Well but Ends Well | Lost | |
19 | Sign of Affection | Lost | A few off-hand remarks leads Axel to believe that Scoop and Doozie think they're better than him just because they have crawlers and he has wheels. He tries to run away - but before he can find his way out of the backyard his friends have erected a sign to show him how much they care. |
20 | Fence Potato | Lost | Doozie has become addicted to Fence TV. Scoop and Axel try to cure him but nothing can keep him away from the TV until they build a stone wall around him. He breaks that down too - but has so much fun doing it he doesn't want to watch television any more. |
21 | For the Birds | Lost | The toys find an egg and a broken nest on the ground. Scoop and Axel go off to fix the nest, leaving a furious Doozie "babysitting" the egg. Doozie, though, soon becomes so protective of his new little friend that he kidnaps it rather than return it to the nest. Scoop and Axel have to convince him that's where the egg belongs. |
Season 2 | Episode Name | Status | Additional Notes |
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1 | The Toys That Bind | Found | On YouTube. |
2 | Brief Flight | Lost | |
3 | Magnetic Personality | Lost | |
4 | Star Vehicle | Lost | |
5 | Fit to Be Tied | Lost | Getting Doozie back in shape after a steady diet of mudpies and TV proves to be a strenuous work-out for Scoop and Axel. |
6 | Bored Silly | Lost | |
7 | Double Scoop | Lost | |
8 | Music to My Gears | Lost |
Additional Episodes | Episode Name | Status | Additional Notes |
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1 | Hide and Seek | Found | On YouTube, DVD, And VHS. |
2 | The Clean Machine | Found | On YouTube and DVD. |
3 | What Rubbish! | Lost | Scoop is devastated when it looks as if her latest masterpiece got picked up with the trash. Doozie and Axel have to find it for her so they do the only thing they can: They get themselves thrown in the garbage too! Ewwwh. Even Doozie doesn't like getting that dirty!
Gemini Award Winner: Best Writing in a Children's Series Gemini Nominee: Best Performance in a Preschool Series; Writers Guild of Canada Nominee: Top Ten Awards |
4 | A Penny's Worth of Problems | Found | On VHS, Internet Archive and YouTube. |
5 | Garden Pests | Lost | Scoop is really upset about losing her nails until a Fence TV episode on gardening gives her a great idea. She'll just grow some! The toys try and trick Spritz into watering their garden for them. Spritz laughs at their dumb idea but still - much to her annoyance - finds the nails for them anyway. |
6 | Operation Doozie | Lost | Doozie is rough-housing and accidentally tears off his blade. He's not hurt - but he's horrified to be "bare-naked". When Mr. Cobb takes the broken toy away, Scoop and Axel are worried he's going to throw Doozie out. That's when they realize they have to storm the house and rescue their friend. |
7 | Small Wonder | Lost | Doozie's delusions of grandeur are crushed when he can't budge a "puny" boulder. He sulkily accepts the fact that he's too small to be good for anything - until his unique combination of compact size and strength make him hero of the day. |
8 | Demolition Derby | Lost | Scoop and Axel can't talk Doozie into helping them build a giant slide. After watching an episode of Fence TV on demolition, though, Doozie's all too happy to destroy it. Unfortunately, his friends aren't quite so pleased and teach the little bulldozer a lesson about the joys of building. |
9 | Nature Calls | Lost | Scoop's budding friendship with a discarded toilet goes off the rails when Jacques and Long John tell her what toilets are for. A Fence TV episode on sewage pipes backs up their story - and, much to Doozie's horror, gives Scoop a great idea for a backyard project. |
10 | Doozie Of A Surprise | Lost | It's National Bulldozer Appreciation Day and Doozie's friends want to surprise him. They do - but not as much as he surprises them! |
11 | Funny Thing About Cal | Lost | Cal can make anything work except one: a joke. Doesn't matter. He still eventually finds a way to make the toys laugh. |
12 | A Priceless Collection | Lost | Axel is too busy helping his friends collect things to start a collection of his own, but somehow he ends up with the most valuable one of all. |
13 | What A Drip | Lost | A nasty case of post-nozzle drip threatens to land Spritz in the garbage can until she is helped by an unlikely group of allies. |
Gallery
References
- ↑ https://avclub.com/tv/reviews/scoop-doozie-2002
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020413215031/http://www.scoopanddoozie.ca/selected_shows.htm
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Junior-Collection-Doozie-Digging-Treasure/dp/B000CDHXB4
- ↑ https://amazon.com/Scoop-Doozie-Hide-Junior-Collection/dp/B00022HNFG
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Scoop-Doozie-First-Adventures/dp/B0007NP5PU