The Skinner Boys - Episode Guide

A mysterious thief has disturbed the ancient and mystical Matenga Urn. This in turn has awakened the Skelevore monsters that protect it - and the fireflies that are within it - which magnify the fear of anyone who holds the Urn.

A Viking spirit is unleashed by Obsidian Stone who is determined to rule the world by controlling all of the ice in the world.

Edward takes one of 7 of the Drums of Doom to improve his drumming, but disaster awaits the Skinners when they return the drum to the volcano island from where it came.

When the Skinner family goes on holiday to a new adventure resort in the Caribbean, they find all the guests and staff arguing. The Skinners end up recovering an ancient ruby that had been broken into four parts during the construction of the resort, thereby restoring peace on the islands.

The Skinners are shrunk to centimetres tall by the power of the 'Eye of the Golden Snake'. To catch the thief of this ancient Chinese artefact and restore themselves to their original size, they ride Edward's pet mongoose, Neville, through a speeding train in China, and must fight a sea of slithering snakes.

A runaway train manned by cowboy ghost Calvin Calhoun and his hoard of stolen gold races across the desert plains - the result of an ancient curse placed on the gold by the Native Americans it was stolen from. While Charles, Tara and Edward become mesmerised by the shining gold, Henry is immune because of his sunnies. While Calhoun turns Tara, Charles and Edward into bank robbers, Henry uses some free-style action to defeat Calhoun, stop the speeding ghost train and save the day.

The kids get lost in a maze-like castle as an evil magician turns back the hands of time.

When Henry breaks an old mirror in the attic the gateway to the 5th dimension is opened up.

While on a beach holiday the Skinners discover various weird goings on in the sea. They soon discover a small boy has removed an artefact from a sunken pirate ship and as a result sea creatures are mutating and attacking people. Tara must overcome her fear of the sea to return it.

The Skinners go to Coober Pedy to find a powerful Fire Opal and Charles succumbs to its powers - both good and evil.

When an artefact goes missing and a new friend of the Skinners is kidnapped the kids find themselves on a race to the Fountain of Youth, where their uber-enemy, Obsidian Stone becomes a baby.

The Skinners unlock a mystery as to the appearance of various fairy tale characters.

When a butterfly in the Amazon flaps its wings will it really cause a cyclone? Not if the Skinner boys can stop it.

Our heroes discover that an ape which can do a Rubik's Cube in 5 seconds is actually Magnon, a missing link from a parallel universe.

On Halloween, Tara dresses in an old cape she finds in the attic. What everyone at the Skinner Mansion soon learns is it's actually an artefact, which gradually turns Tara into a real, fire-breathing dragon.

Stone kidnaps Julia and holds her ransom for the artefact. The Skinner kids find out that Julia is more than just a stay-at-home Mum!

When Edward and Henry use one of Grandpa's artefacts, the Crystal of Creation, to create tiny insect monsters to duel each other, one of the creatures grows humongo-normous and turns nasty.

Evil megalomaniac, Obsidian Stone, brings the mummified Egyptian Prince, Nakthi, back to life so he can damn the Nile with upside down pyramids and thereby prove he is the most powerful man on Earth. But he is as short-sighted as he is greedy. He doesn't count on the pesky Skinners tricking him, by dressing Henry as the mummy, and foiling his megalomaniacal scheme. Will they pull this off… or will they get trapped inside the pyramid in the process? Theme: It's not your clothes but your actions that count.

The Skinners battle the Block Topper and an underworld of mutants to save the Queen!

The Skinners are called out to a Louisianna Museum where the curator has accidentally turned some school children and their teacher into mindless 'Swampies'!

Some backpackers discover the Lantern of Truth and one of their shadows comes to life, terrorising them. It's mission on for the Skinners… and Edward's shadow also comes to life, a very pushy shadow. Will they get the shadows back into the lamp before the real folk fade away?

Wellington appears to go bad, stealing an artifact to give to Stone. The kids give chase but not all is as it appears to be.

When the Jeweled Skull of Acalan is removed from its resting place in an ancient temple, it starts to bring the dead back to life. These skeletons start to assume the bodies of the living, so our heroes have to return the skull before the skeletons assume their bodies, too.

While camping, Charles and Tara stumble on the fearsome Venorok. The only way to stop is to put it to sleep with the scent of the Blood Blossom. Luckily Augustus Skinner stored a seed in the attic, but when Edward and Henry plant it, the Blood Blossom grows at an alarming rate, takes over the mansion and traps Julia & Wellington.

In a small monastery in the mystic mountains of Tibet, evil Obsidian Stone tricks the Skinner kids and steals Tara's amulet. However, when he tries to use it to see the future for his own evil purposes, he soon discovers that it doesn't work. That's because Tara is the precious artefact, not her amulet. Who knew? No one is more surprised than her cousins, the Skinner boys. Theme: Your destiny is up to you.

The Skinner's arch-rival, Obsidian Stone, sneaks into the Skinner mansion with Pygmalion's Chisel, an artefact that can make pictures become real objects. All seems lost when he sets about materializing all the artefacts in Grandpa's journal for his own use.

Edward uses the Body Clock to age himself from 9 to 19, so he can attend a concert given by teen idol Cleo Dove - but this changes all the kids' ages and unleashes the Guardian of the Clock, a yeti statue come to life, who chases Wellington and Mum Skinner all over.

While protecting the Crown of Ra from tomb raiders in Egypt, Tara is given the power to hear thoughts. She later uses this power to find Obsidian Stone after he steals the crown from a local museum but Stone has already damaged the crown and unleashed plagues of frogs and locusts in the process.

When Obsidian Stone steals a tunnelling machine to get to the secret, underground temple of Logi's Shield, the Skinners must travel into the earth's crust. They must find the Shield before Stone uses it to unleash a torrent of lava on the earth's surface! After battling noxious gas and getting trapped in a cave, the Skinners manage to find the shield and capture Stone but are they too late?

After stealing the Chimes of Change, Obsidian Stone uses the artefact to switch bodies with Henry. Now he can raid the mansion for artefacts! Stone creates a fake mission to get rid of the Skinners but Tara secretly stays behind to keep an eye on her cousin.

When a boy named Albert is transformed into a raven, in a German forest, the Skinners soon discover the Ravenstone – an artefact that gives the holder almighty power over ravens – has been disturbed by a witch.

When Henry's attempt to help Wellington create a fun and exciting magic show fails, he quickly races off to the library to read through Grandpa Skinner's journal in search of something truly magical

Once every 2000 years when the planets align, the Frog of Fertility emerges from swampy waters in China. On a mission to safeguard the powerful artefact, Edward makes a point of being the first one to grab the artefact; little does he know that Hic, in his invisibility suit has the same idea. The Skinners take the frog back to mansion to keep safe for 24 hours when suddenly multiple Edwards and Hics have infiltrated the mansion. It's mission on for the Skinners as they attempt to reverse the frog's powers!

When a natural avalanche uncovers the secret hiding place of a powerful silver goblet, three greedy Snow Trolls steal the artefact and kidnap Tara, unleashing wild weather in the process. Charles, Henry and Edward must team up with the artefact's Mountain Dwarf guardian to save Tara and the goblet before it is melted down for treasure!

Evil Obsidian Stone uses a set of magical scissors to cut through the thinly veiled curtain to the unseen, magical world where he steals a unicorn with the power to make dreams come true. It's up to the Skinners to save the unicorn and find the scissors before Stone's dreams of eradicating the Skinners and of world domination become a reality!