Numberjacks

Premise

Characters

Maintenance

• Three - The youngest of the main Numberjacks, Three is pink, has blue eyes, and is still learning every day how to be a "big" Numberjack. Being young, she is quite cheeky, noisy, lively, mischievous; and is wanting to prove that she can do things even if she is not ready for them yet. In the Sofa's cosy room, she holds a collection of objects she deems her "beautiful things", and normally does not let the other Numberjacks touch them. In earlier episodes, she is not allowed to go on missions alone due to her being too young. Later on in the series, she is proven responsible enough to go out to the real world by herself. When she is not on a mission, Three is the principal operator of the Brain Gain machine in the sofa's Control Room. She looks up to nine as a motherly figure.
• Four - Four is dark blue, has brown eyes, and deems himself to be a regular sort of number. Although friendly and regular, he lacks in self-confidence and is not sure at times what to do and when not to panic. He enjoys fixing things, being that he is the Numberjacks' mechanic. When he is not doing work, Four likes to either be in the cosy room to read books, or train with the Bloop Ball in the gym. When he is not on a mission and prior to missions, Four is the main screen operator in the Control Room. He looks up to Eight as a big brother and has a special bond with him. He and Five strongly despise Spooky Spoon. He is also the Numberjack who has been on the most missions.
• Five - Five is turquoise, has brown eyes, and enjoys being who she is as a Numberjack. She is the best jumper in the main cast and has a good fashion sense. When she is not doing missions, she can normally be found helping the younger Numberjacks progress to be bigger numbers, especially Two. In almost every episode, 5 speculates what else might go wrong, which the viewers see in 2D animation. She and Four strongly dislike Spooky Spoon.
• Six - Six is yellow, has blue eyes, and enjoys being a bigger number. He is quite a physical number who does some cool and flashy jumps. While deemed as the leader of the Numberjacks, he isn't as bright as his second-in-command Five. Six normally decides who goes on the Mission.

  Recurring

• Zero - Zero is lime green, has blue eyes, and is the youngest out of the numbers. He doesn't do or say much at all and enjoys it that way. Although he can be quite troublesome and has occasionally escaped the sofa and making things disappear by saying "Zero!", Zero has proven to be quite useful in making numbers such as 10, 100 and 1000. He easily gets tired due to his young age.
• One - One is purple and the only numberjack with green eyes, and feels like she is in the centre of her own universe. She occasionally causes her own problems, but is well-being and with Zero, they can make ten. Because she is noticeably older than Zero, she can speak longer sentences and phrases, like "Just one, I’m only a little number." compared to him. She often resorts to speaking a bit shorter, though.
• Two - Two is orange, has hazel eyes, and hopes to be one of the "Big Numbers" someday despite still being a bit babyish. He can quickly flip from one state to the opposite, is busily into things and has a touch of “terrible twos”.
• Seven - Seven is red, has brown eyes, and is always busy doing things. She has a wide variety of hobbies including singing and art, and is quite energetic and creative. She is also a motherly figure to the younger Numberjacks, and in the episode "Interesting Times", Seven acts as a Narrator.
• Eight - - Eight is sky blue, has brown eyes, and jumps the best of all the Numberjacks. Eight is cheerful, rounded, earthy, sporty, and game, he can go a little too far. Four looks up to him as a big brother.
• Nine - - Nine is light green, has blue eyes, and is the “biggest” Numberjack. She enjoys organizing things and showing how to be calm in a crisis. Like Seven, Nine is a motherly figure to the younger Numberjacks, especially Three.

  The Meanies

• Puzzler - A floating spherical face with moveable features, as the leader of the Meanies. He enjoys setting up puzzles, and always speaks in rhyme. He tends to trap the Numberjacks in orange "Puzzle Balls" which only pop when a respective puzzle is completed. Although the hardest meanie for the Numberjacks to defeat, the Puzzler is easy to compromise as he stops his troubles once his puzzles are beaten, and enjoys a good challenge, to the point that he is pleased when his puzzles are solved. He was once a music DJ.
• Spooky Spoon - An anthropomorphic purple spoon who is normally source of problems with matching and connecting by mixing everything up. She is entirely self-centred, thinks of herself as being superior than anyone around her, and heavily dislikes Four and Five, who she deems as her two arch-nemeses.
• Shape Japer - A shape-shifting being who can float in the air. She often causes things to change shape or involve shapes. She is normally of a cube or a sphere, but she can also turn into a square, a circle, a cylinder, a cone or a triangle. She mainly laughs a lot, and doesn't speak many words. She lives in a cave near a beach, as seen in the Seaside Adventure special. She is the most frequent Meanie on the show. She is the youngest meanie, around the same age as Three, and is Three's arch-nemesis.
• Problem Blob - A green anthropomorphic blob that spits out green blobs which cause all sorts of random problems. He also has an eye on a stalk that can come out of his mouth at times. He was the first meanie to appear on the show, but has made the fewest appearances. He has blobbed two Numberjacks - Four and Six. He also once surrounded Five with blobs, causing her to go into a repetitive pattern.
• Numbertaker - A tall human who wears a white coat and hat, is normally taking numbers or "numbers of things", and has a rather sinister street performer side about him. He holds a number of attachments to take away numbers, including a vacuum-cleaner, a magnet, a net, a hook, and his “number sucker-upper”. On some occasions, he may transition himself to the "Numbermaker" and make numbers and add "numbers of things" instead.

Episodes

Series overview

Series 1 (2006–2007)

Series 2 (2009)

Awards

• Royal Television Society Educational Television Awards 2006
• Royal Television Society Educational Television Awards 2007

  Other merchandise

• Books based on the episodes Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow, In, Out, Shake It All About, 4 He's A Jolly Good Fellow, and Out of Order were released in 2008, along with a sticker book based on the episode Stop and Go in 2009; three sticker scene books were also released in 2008, along with two board books entitled 3 and Me! and 4 and More!, a "pocket library" of six board books, a "magic doodle" book, a "magnet book" including ten Numberjack magnets, a "chalkboard" activity book and a "bumpy line" colouring book in 2009, a "bumper activity book" in 2010 and two hardcover annuals for 2009 & 2010 in August 2008 & 2009. A "10-Minute Tales" book based on the episode Fair Shares was also released in 2010 - which had an accompanying CD.
• Four craft kits for a Numberjack Three tambourine, a clock, a reward chart, and a mobile were released in 2008.
• Socks featuring the Numberjacks, along with pyjamas featuring them were released in 2008.
• Birthday cards featuring the Numberjacks, along with birthday and Christmas wrapping paper featuring them on five differently-coloured backgrounds were released in 2008.
• Plush toys of Numberjacks Zero, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six were released in three sizes in 2008, but Numberjacks One, Seven, Eight, and Nine were never produced; jigsaw puzzles, a board game, a skittle set, footballs in two colours, a tricycle, and pairs of roller skates were also released at around that time, along with edible cake decorations featuring the Numberjacks in two shapes.

  UK DVD releases

• 1. "The Trouble With Nothing"
• 2. "Going Wrong Going Long"
• 4. "In, Out, Shake It All About"
• 10. "4 He's A Jolly Good Fellow"
• 11. "Boxing Day"
• 17. "Off Colour"

• 3. "Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow"
• 5. "One More Time"
• 8. "Getting Heavy"
• 13. "Nine Lives"
• 24. "One Won"
• 27. "Best Estimate"

• 6. "Forward Thinking"
• 7. "Seven Wonders"
• 9. "Belongings"
• 18. "A Game Of Two Halves"
• 29. "Zero The Hero"
• 33. "Being 3"

• 14. "Takeaway"
• 15. "The Cuck-Cuck-Cuck-Oo-Oo-Oo Bird"
• 19. "Out For The Count"
• 22. "3 Things Good"
• 32. "Fair Shares"
• 44. "Data Day"

• 20. "The Container Drainer"
• 23. "Say What You Mean"
• 26. "May The Fours Be With You"
• 37. "Time Trouble"
• 41. "Two, Four, Six, Eight"
• 46. "Counting Down to Christmas"

• 30. "Bad Circles"
• 31. "Famous Fives"
• 34. "Into The Teens"
• 47. "Seaside Adventure"