Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom - Episode Guide

Holly invites Ben on the annual Royal Fairy Picnic. King Thistle hopes there won't be a repeat of last year's magical jelly flood...

Holly and Ben think Gaston the Ladybird is sad so they try and cheer him up by tidying his cave. But Gaston liked his cave just as it was - all messy and untidy!

Holly needs her wand to do magic. But one day Holly loses her wand and is very sad. Ben uses his elf skills to find it again.

Holly goes with Ben and Mr Elf to the elf farm to collect an egg for the King's breakfast. While there, a huge chicken escapes from the farm and Holly and the elves have to chase it!

Holly and her friends must stay in the courtyard and play with Holly's little twin sisters Daisy and Poppy. All is fine until the twins borrow a magic wand and escape from the castle!

Queen Thistle has a beautiful new teapot so delicate that no one is allowed to touch it. Holly accidentally breaks the teapot and tries to fix it with Ben's help.

Holly accidentally turns Ben into a frog. With the help of her friends, Holly tries to turn Ben back into an elf but instead turns him into a bird and then a rabbit!

Holly spends the day with King Thistle on his royal duties. King Thistle must launch an elf boat, judge a fairy fruit competition and make a speech at the festival!

Ben and Holly are having fun playing in the meadow. Holly gets frustrated when Ben uses his elf skills to win all the games. Ben gets frustrated when Holly uses her magic skills!

King Thistle has a cold and needs medicine. Nanny Plum, Holly and Ben have fun collecting the ingredients for a magic potion to make him better.

Ben, Holly and Gaston the Ladybird find a large egg in the meadow. A tiny chick hatches from the egg and the children must find the mummy bird.

Ben is in training for the elf games, Holly wants to join in but the rules state there is absolutely no flying or magic allowed. Ben gives Holly a chance to join in without using magic.

Nanny Plum is teaching the fairy girls some important fairy rules when she is blown away, trapped in a tree, dropped in a stream and covered in mud!

The Elf Factory is deep down in the roots of The Great Elf Tree. It is almost Christmas time and the elves are busy making toys. Some magic saves the day when there is a problem.

Queen Thistle reads Ben and Holly a book about a nasty witch, so Nanny takes the children to meet a real one who lives in the forest. Nanny is rude to the witch, who freezes her with magic.

Holly and Ben help the Wise Old Elf play a trick on Nanny Plum for Elf Joke Day, but she does not see the funny side, and gets her revenge by turning the Wise Old Elf into a giant snail.

Snooty King and Queen Marigold are coming to visit, but when the King's new clothes get dirty Nanny cleans them, along with the King's old clothes - and shrinks them all!

Holly and Nanny Plum join Ben at Elf School, where the Wise Old Elf tells them that strictly no magic should be used. Holly finds it difficult until Nanny uses a little magic to help.

A mole disturbs King Thistle's Golf Course, so a gnome is enlisted to help drive it away. Soon though the gnome is turning the King's golf course into a crazy golf course!

The Wise Old Elf teaches the elf children how to tell the time using a watch, while Nanny Plum would much rather use a dandelion clock to teach the fairy children.

Gaston catches a cold when his cave has a leaky roof, so Holly invites him to stay at the Little Castle until it is fixed. But soon Gaston is taking over!

Holly joins Ben and his family on a trip to the seaside, and Mr Elf tells her that no magic is to be used. But when no one has remembered to pack lunch, they ask Holly to help.

Holly forgets Ben's birthday, and rushes home to make him a birthday card. But Nanny has stopped all magic, so Holly has to make the card herself.

Queen Thistle reads the children a story, which inspires a question. They can't find the answer in the magic books in the castle, so go instead to the Wise Old Elf in the Great Elf Library.

Ben and Holly meet a new friend, Betty Caterpillar, but she is sad that she can't join in their games because she can't fly.

Holly is left in charge when King and Queen Thistle go away on important business, but ruling the Little Kingdom isn't as easy as it looks.

Ben and Holly are excited when they learn that Nanny Plum is a Tooth Fairy at night, and go along with her to pick up a little girl's tooth. But the little girl is not so little - she's a human and much bigger than them!

King Thistle wants bread for his Royal breakfast, but there isn't any flour in the castle. Mr Elf takes Holly, Ben and Nanny Plum to the Elf Windmill to find out why it takes so long to make flour.

Snobby King and Queen Marigold are coming to visit the Little Kingdom, and Holly and her Mummy and Daddy enlist the Elf Band to impress them.

Things are going missing all over the Little Kingdom - Holly has lost her wand and Ben has lost his horn! Soon they realise that ants are stealing their things, and try to persuade the Queen Ant to give them back.

Barnaby Elf's uncle, Redbeard the Elf Pirate, comes to visit the Little Kingdom, but he has lost his treasure. Holly, Ben, the Fairies and the Elves must help Redbeard follow the clues to track down the treasure.

Holly takes some frogspawn home from class to look after, but is surprised when the frogspawn has turned into tadpoles by morning. Soon there are lots of little frogs for Holly to look after!

The children are at the Elf Farm, but to learn where milk comes from they must visit a Big Farm, to find cows. They travel to Lucy Big's Farm, where she shows them all the animals.

Nanny Plum takes the Fairy children for a Nature Class in the woods, and bumps into the Wise Old Elf who is teaching a Nature Class to the Elf children.

Nanny Plum takes the Fairy children for a Nature Class in the woods, and bumps into the Wise Old Elf who is teaching a Nature Class to the Elf children.

Out playing in the meadow, Holly, Ben and their friends find a broken toy robot. Holly fixes it with magic, but the robot does not behave as they thought it would.

King Thistle wants fish for dinner, so he goes out fishing with Mr Elf, Ben and Holly on Mr Elf's boat. Mr Elf tells them a story about the biggest, baddest fish ever - Big Bad Barry. The King wants to catch Barry for supper.

King Thistle does not want to get any older so decides that no one must celebrate his birthday, but all of the Little Kingdom has been waiting to celebrate.

Holly breaks her wand and must go to the Wand Factory, at the bottom of the Great Elf Tree, to get it fixed.

Holly is going on a camping trip with Ben and his mum and dad, but they are soon joined by annoying Mr Gnome, who is always hungry and sings silly songs.

Snooty King and Queen Marigold invite themselves round for dinner to King and Queen Thistle's Castle to sample Nanny Plum's cooking. Nanny, 'the best cook in the world', tries hard to cook 'special modern food'.

The Twins really want a pet, so Nanny Plum sets out to get them one. She magics them up Pippin the hamster. The Wise Old Elf brings Pippin a hamster wheel, but Pippin runs too fast in it and breaks out of the castle.

After seeing a toy Elf rocket, the King orders a real rocket to fly to the moon. Elf honour is at stake and the Elves make a rocket in record time. For the trip, Nanny packs a picnic.

The visitors venture out of the rockets onto the moon, but they soon realise that they do not have enough fuel to get back to the Little Kingdom.

The elf and fairy children learn all about how the rubbish from a picnic can be recycled into beautiful new toys.

The Elves and Nanny Plum are busy clearing up all the leaves. Suddenly the squirrels arrive with a mission to store acorns in the Great Elf Tree, but the Wise Old Elf has a cunning idea to rid the tree of the acorns.

Ben and Holly set out in the Elf Submarine to try and rescue Redbeard the Elf Pirate's sunken treasure. Mr Elf steers the Elf Submarine to the bottom of the lake but before they realise, they are gobbled up by Big Bad Barry.

Everyone is visiting snooty King and Queen Marigold's Castle. King and Queen Marigold give them a tour which features a room made of ice sculptures and an upside down room.

King Thistle takes up bird watching. Using his magic bird book, he spots a Woodpecker taking up residence in the Great Elf Tree. The King is keen for more birds, so is pleased when another makes a nest in the Royal Castle.

It's the Twin's birthday party and chaos ensues when their little friends arrive. The Wise Old Elf tries to entertain them, but they prove too much of a handful, turning the Wise Old Elf into a mouse.

Holly and Ben help to save the day when Mr Elf forgets to deliver the last box of toys to Father Christmas in the North Pole on Christmas Eve.

The elf plane is forced to make an emergency landing en route to delivering the last batch of Christmas presents, but no one minds as it is an opportunity for them all to meet Father Christmas.

Lucy's dad is digging up the meadow and the Little Kingdom is in danger. How can they stop him without being discovered?

Holly goes to school for the first time, to learn something other than how to make magic jelly. Ben comes along, despite protests from the Wise Old Elf. Everybody learns a lesson.

After the disappearance of Mrs Fotheringill, the twins have had no playgroup to attend. With no willing substitute available, Queen Thistle becomes their new teacher.

When the fairies wake up to find that their wands are not working, the kingdom has to cope without any help from magic for the entire day.

When King and Queen Thistle ask Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf to build a boat capable of beating the Marigolds, the old rivals cannot help trying their best to outdo each other.

The fairy kingdom is left without food because there is nothing left in the treasure chest to pay the elves. As money doesn't grow on trees, King Thistle has to find a job.

Strawberry introduces her new pet to her classmates and everyone is impressed with how well trained she is. Gaston is sent to pet school, where Miss Jolly soon gets him into shape.

Miss Cookie organizes a nature trail for Lucy [the little girl that Ben and Holly know] and her class, but unfortunately, it goes right through the Little Kingdom! So it's up to Ben and Holly to stop Lucy's class and her teacher finding out about the elves and fairies!

Holly and Ben spend a day at Lucy's school, but they must avoid being spotted by the teacher, Miss Cookie. Will they make it to the end of the lesson?

The children adopt a new pet - a dragon named Dave. They didn't know that he was going to grow and grow though... Wherever can they keep him?

Daisy and Poppy turn Nanny Plum into a doll. Soon, the Wise Old Elf copies the fairy toy and it becomes so popular that everybody wants one.

When Redbeard the Pirate goes in search of the Lost City, he soon gets in some bother and has to be rescued from the most unlikely spot.

The Wise Old Elf fears an alien invasion after a spaceship crash-lands in the Little Kingdom and can't make its way back home.

Nanny Plum's magic licence is out of date and she is forced to return to Mrs Fig's magic school and must pass a test set by the Wise Old Elf before she can get a new one.

After banning Gaston from the castle, the elves and fairies are out looking for him when they discover a speaking door which leads to the dwarf mine. Once in, they find they can't get out. Who will save them?

Miss Cookie organizes a nature trail for Lucy [the little girl that Ben and Holly know] and her class, but unfortunately, it goes right through the Little Kingdom! So it's up to Ben and Holly to stop Lucy's class and her teacher finding out about the elves and fairies!

Holly's wand catches a cold, and she gets a new replacement wand from the Wise Old Elf, called the WiseWand 3000 and she's thrilled - until she discovers it's special feature: it doesn't do ANY magic at all!

In a homage to the 60's Batman series, Ben, Holly and their friends play a game where they become superheroes and supervillains. But Strawberry takes her supervillain role [The Strawberry Ice Queen] a little too far.

Ben, Holly and Nanny Plum help Mrs Witch with a big spring clean by getting rid of some magical objects, but in the wrong hands they cause chaos in the Little Kingdom.

Rosie, Ben and Holly help out on the day of the fruit harvest, but Mr Gnome has eaten all the fruit. The elves and fairies should find various ways to stop Mr Gnome from eating the blackberries.

Gaston's brother Tony and his family comes to visit, and Ben, Holly and Strawberry help him look after Tony's kids, Amber, Emerald and Keith.

King Thistle decides on home improvement to impress King and Queen Marigold, but things don't quite go according to plan... The bath tap at the Little Castle is dripping, so the elf plumber is called. But with King and Queen Marigold coming round, there is not much time to fix it.

When a spell goes wrong, Ben and Holly grow to human size! Now they are able to play with Lucy and her friends and want to stay big forever! But they soon discover that being big isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Madness, mayhem, and devastation is caused in the Little Kingdom when Daisy and Poppy use King Thistle's mother's wand to learn how to do magic, escape the castle, and... go bananas!

Mr Elf is overworked so King Thistle sentences Mr Elf to take a holiday. Mr Elf isn't too pleased, but Mrs Elf and Ben are overjoyed at the news!. They go on holiday, but the plane breaks down and they crash-land on a deserted island. Meanwhile, Nanny Plum takes over the deliveries.

Ben and Holly visit the beehive to learn how honey is made. The Wise Old Elf is the bee keeper and proceeds to show the children his own special way of collecting honey.

After Holly makes her small enough to play in the Little Kingdom, Lucy flies on Gaston the Ladybird and is invited to a sleepover at the Little Castle. But the next morning the spell wears off and she and Rex become big again.

The children go on a snail trek with Miss Jolly. All goes well until the snails head straight toward the elf farm and Mr Elf's cabbages...

Spring is in the air in the Little Kingdom, which has daffodils, tulips, and 2 very hungry gnomes.

Ben, Holly, Captain Redbeard and Nanny Plum go on a treasure hunt with Captain Squid's treasure map, and the treasure is in the most oddest place: Lucy's school.

Ben goes on holiday with his parents, but the holiday is thrown off track when Gaston accidentally swallows the car keys!

Everyone in the Little Kingdom and the Wise Old Elf is invited to a party at Granpapa and Granny Thistle's castle in the clouds.

Ben and Holly discover holes popping up all over the Little Kingdom. They find out that the dwarves have woken up working in the mine, digging for treasure. So all the dwarves must be stopped.

Ben and Holly and their friends are invited to Lucy's elf and fairy-themed birthday party. What do you think will happen next?

Zyros contacts Ben and Holly, and asks for the Wise Old Elf's help to save their plants.

Ben and Holly and their friends go to Zyros' home planet where they meet all manner of alien creatures and The Great Leader.

A cake sale is held to raise money to fix Mrs Fig's magic school after an apple crushes it. Unfortunately, Queen Thistle is baking, and nobody can eat her cakes.

Mrs Witch must come out of retirement when a young witch called Wendy Witch wants to live in her house.

Naughty Daisy and Poppy cast a spell that sends their teacher Mrs Fotheringill to the centre of the Earth, and Ben and Holly encounter dinosaurs and volcanos as Granpapa Thistle leads them on a mission to rescue her.

Children's animation series. Captain Squid thinks that rainbows are a pirate's best friend - until he tries to hide his treasure.

There is a new fox cub leader in The Little Kingdom - Nanny Plum. But whilst trying to earn their adventure badges the fox cubs find themselves stuck at the top of a mountain!

Nanny and the Wise Old Elf cannot agree about who works the hardest, so they swap jobs for the day.

A Very Important Person is coming to the Little Kingdom, and everyone is trying to get ready on time. But who is this Very Important Person? And will everything go to plan? I wouldn't bet on it!

Mr Elf sails his new boat 'Bunty II', but Big Bad Barry has other ideas.

Ben and Holly must find Gaston, who is lost.

King Thistle wants eggs for breakfast, so the Elves, Ben, Holly and Nanny Plum decide to bring the chickens to the Little Castle

Ben and Holly meet a mermaid, and with the help of Lucy and her dad, they return her lost magic mirror to her.

Daisy and Poppy cause untold havoc in a museum!

After Ben and Holly realises that Gaston has one new spot, it means that it is his birthday. But he is sad because he's never had a birthday party, so Ben and Holly prepare one for him.

Father Christmas pays a surprise visit to The Little Kingdom to check on the Christmas preparations. The Elves are busy making all of the toys and Nanny Plum is in control of the crackers. Everything is going according to plan until King Thistle gets trapped in a cracker, Queen Thistle gets trapped in a toy fairy castle and the Wise Old Elf gets trapped in a Christmas tree.

Father Christmas pays a surprise visit to The Little Kingdom to check on the Christmas preparations. The Elves are busy making all of the toys and Nanny Plum is in control of the crackers. Everything is going according to plan until King Thistle gets trapped in a cracker, Queen Thistle gets trapped in a toy fairy castle and the Wise Old Elf gets trapped in a Christmas tree.

A Father's Day-themed episode of Ben and Holly.