Series 5 premiered on August 25, 2003, on Nine Network. Created by Helena Harris and Posie Graeme-Evans, the original format was produced by Kids Like Us Productions and Nine Films & Television for the Nine Network.
It was also shown on Nick Jr. Australia in September 2004, and on Kids Central in Singapore.
Cast[]
Hi-5[]
Puppeteers[]
Songs Of The Week[]
Come On And Party (Festivals)
Give Five (Family)
Build It Up (Building)
Our World (World)
L.O.V.E. (Happy)
Dream On (Magic)
Ready Or Not (Work And Play)
Holiday (Holidays)
Underwater Discovery (Discovery)
Episodes[]
The following is a list of the television episodes featuring the Australian children's television group of Hi-5.
| Number | Episode Title | Song of the Week | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family celebrations | Come On and Party (festivals) | August 25, 2003 |
| Chats tells KELLIE about her family's spring festival. CHARLI jumps in a sack. KATHLEEN matches the Hi-5 band faces with the things they like. CHARLI sings the Hi-5 family song. Nathan asks TIM to make a surprise party song, but he doesn't tell him who it is for. CHARLI shows different faces. NATHAN makes a family of Japanese carp fish kites. CHARLI pretends to be a fish. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a family (Kellie, Tim, and Kathleen) who can never decide on anything, and when their new baby (Nathan) is born, they must choose a name for him. | |||
| 2 | Around the world | Come On and Party (festivals) | August 26, 2003 |
| NATHAN and Tim dress up and dance to celebrate the first day of spring in England. CHARLI, Kathleen, and Kellie do a maypole dance to welcome spring. KATHLEEN makes a flower garland for an Indian cow. CHARLI says Hawaiian words. TIM plays a drum for the lucky dragon festival, and he helps Kathleen and Kellie to overcome their fear of drums and cymbals. CHARLI celebrates a Brazilian carnival. KELLIE and Chats build a Thai rocket. CHARLI pretends to be a raindrop. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a girl (Charli) and her friends (Kellie and Nathan) who prepare for a Brazilian carnival and practise dancing the samba. | |||
| 3 | Community events | Come On and Party (festivals) | August 27, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN makes Chinese dumplings and prepares a gong to announce when they're ready. CHARLI tries to eat with chopsticks. NATHAN, Kellie, and Kathleen celebrate the sun. CHARLI sings about the sun. TIM finds some crabs at the crab festival, where the winner gets a new shell. CHARLI, Tim, and Nathan pretend to be seagulls waiting for a potato chip. KELLIE helps Chats to overcome her fear of singing in front of lots of people. CHARLI performs a tap dancing routine. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a girl (Kellie) who loves to make people laugh, and she goes together with her friend (Charli) to a clown show, but one of the clowns (Kathleen) gets a cold, and the other clown (Nathan) needs another one to keep the show on. | |||
| 4 | Christmas | Come On and Party (festivals) | August 28, 2003 |
| NATHAN wraps the Christmas presents with a variety of paper and boxes of different sizes. CHARLI decorates the Christmas tree. KATHLEEN builds a summer snowman using sand instead of snow. CHARLI unpacks her summer items for a holiday at the beach. KELLIE makes Christmas truffles for Chats. CHARLI sets the table for Christmas dinner. TIM writes a Christmas song with the help from the rest of Hi-5. CHARLI writes a letter to Santa Claus. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a Christmas tree (Nathan) who lives by the beach, but at Christmas time he feels alone, until a family (Charli, Kathleen, and Tim) has a picnic by his side and a breeze takes him to the sea. | |||
| 5 | Funny festivals | Come On and Party (festivals) | August 29, 2003 |
| KELLIE and Chats get ready for the bug festival. CHARLI has got crazy hair for the crazy dance competition. KATHLEEN sells animal costumes for animals. CHARLI's fingers dress up for a show. TIM and Nathan get a cow costume for a dancing cow festival. CHARLI pretends to be a cow that wants to dance and groove. NATHAN, Tim and Kellie have a go at the festival of the feet. CHARLI gets her feet for a workout. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a boy (Tim) who gets tired, but he can't sleep because the girls next door (Kathleen, Charli, and Kellie) have a clanging and banging festival. | |||
| 6 | Memories | Give Five (family) | September 1, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN shows us all the things she had when she was a baby. CHARLI pretends to be a baby that grows up. NATHAN looks at pictures of his family, and he tries out their different appearances. CHARLI wears a dress that women used to wear a long time ago. TIM tells us about his grandpa's musical group (Hi-3) and his father's musical group (Hi-4) too. CHARLI and Nathan dance a rock 'n' roll jive dance. KELLIE tries to remember what her grandfather looks like with the help of Chats' dress-ups. CHARLI sings about her grandpa's garden. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about two children (Kathleen and Nathan) who build a billy cart with a little help from their dog (Tim), and their mother (Charli) gives them a toy plane that makes the car fly up high. | |||
| 7 | Love | Give Five (family) | September 2, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN has got a twin on a doll, and they become triplets with a tall picture. CHARLI, Kathleen, and Kellie pretend to be twins and triplets with matching movements. NATHAN builds a Hi-5 family tower. CHARLI shows her family's hats and what they are going to do while wearing those hats. TIM and Nathan find instruments' brothers and sisters. CHARLI counts her fingers. KELLIE and Chats pretend to be secret sisters, and they keep secrets. CHARLI makes a secret code to talk to us. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a boy (Tim) who dresses up as Captain Wonder, and when his friend (Nathan), also dressed up Captain Wonder, calls him to help save the world from a monster, it turns out to be his mother (Kellie) having a beauty treatment. | |||
| 8 | Pets | Give Five (family) | September 3, 2003 |
| KELLIE and Chats talk about the caterpillar metamorphosis. CHARLI pretends to be a frog egg, turning into a tadpole and then into a frog. KATHLEEN organises shapes of different families while making a picture of a little pig. CHARLI makes a place for Kathleen's pig. TIM plays his guitar, but his cat (Kellie) doesn't let him play at all. CHARLI pretends to be a cat making meowsic. NATHAN tries to decide on his ideal pet. CHARLI pretends to be a clever puppy doing some tricks. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a girl (Charli) who gets disappointed when her dog (Kellie) doesn't seem to understand her, so she dreams about a land where she is the pet and her owners are her dog's family (Tim and Kathleen). | |||
| 9 | Washing day | Give Five (family) | September 4, 2003 |
| KELLIE and Chats look for what they're going to keep and what they're going to throw out. CHARLI remembers what she used to do with her old hula hoop. KATHLEEN makes a gingerbread family, but Jup Jup wants her to make an elephant gingerbread family. CHARLI pretends to be a gingerbread man and says what she can do and what she can't. TIM, Kathleen, and Kellie are going to tidy up their own spaces, but they swap their jobs. CHARLI throws balls of scrap paper into the bin. NATHAN and Tim fold the clothes. CHARLI sorts and matches the socks. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a kitchen where a dishwashing brush (Kellie), a sponge (Nathan), and a washing-up liquid (Kathleen) try to be the best, until a dirty frying pan (Charli) asks them to be washed. | |||
| 10 | Working together | Give Five (family) | September 5, 2003 |
| NATHAN, Kellie, Tim, and Kathleen make a domino chain reaction. CHARLI and the Hi-5 band pretend to be dominoes and perform a chain reaction of different movements. KELLIE and Chats make a birthday rhyming song for Kellie's cousin. CHARLI shows a card for anyone sick. TIM makes a new instrument out of junk. CHARLI does new moves with her body. KATHLEEN runs her animal daycare, and Jup Jup swaps the numbers of babies' cots. CHARLI feeds baby Tim and baby Nathan. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a mouse (Kathleen) who makes a cheese treat for her grandma (Kellie) while she's sleeping but her brothers (Tim and Nathan) eat most of the cheese she was going to use. | |||
| 11 | Machines | Build it Up (building) | September 8, 2003 |
| Gadget Guy (NATHAN) shows us his gadgets and rescues a kitten from the top of a tree. CHARLI pretends to be in Bounceland. KELLIE and Chats type some words on a Picture Magic Machine, which transforms words into a picture. CHARLI paints a picture using her handprints and footprints. Scientist TIM invents a robot (Kellie) that can play music at different speeds; andante, moderato, and allegro. CHARLI dances to music played at different tempos. KATHLEEN builds a racing car, but Jup Jup takes away some of the parts, so she turns it into a motorbike. CHARLI moves her arms and hands to pretend windscreen wipers, headlights and indicators. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about three robots (Tim, Kathleen, and Nathan) from a toy factory, who decide to visit the beach and set up an ice cream stand, where they use their factory experience to make ice cream for a customer (Kellie). | |||
| 12 | Dwellings | Build it Up (building) | September 9, 2003 |
| KELLIE builds a disco room for Chats. CHARLI draws a house. NATHAN builds a dog kennel for Kellie's new dog. CHARLI measures her space, but using her feet instead of a measuring tape, then she measures her arm using her hand, and finally she measures her nose using her pinky. TIM, Kathleen, Nathan, and Kellie build a music house together. CHARLI sings Give It A Go. KATHLEEN builds a sandcastle for a dragon family. CHARLI builds a bucket castle. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about the buzzer family (Charli, Kellie, and Nathan) who love to bounce, while one member (Kathleen), who prefers to read, shows the others how much fun reading can be. | |||
| 13 | Tools | Build it Up (building) | September 10, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN sorts her building tools, but Jup Jup swaps them for cooking equipment. CHARLI packs her tools on her outfit. NATHAN works on the road fixing a broken pipe. CHARLI rides her scooter around her space. TIM gets a new drum kit but without drumsticks, so he finds out he doesn't need any tool to make music. CHARLI finds music in her bones. KELLIE tests a spade to fill a bucket with sand. CHARLI digs a hole in the ground to build a tall building. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a man (Nathan) who loves his tools, and he tidies them up every day, but the next morning everything is always messy around until he finds some gnomes (Kellie, Charli, and Tim) building a house. | |||
| 14 | Long ago | Build it Up (building) | September 11, 2003 |
| NATHAN pretends to be a Viking who builds a pen for his pet cow. CHARLI pretends to climb a spiral staircase. KELLIE and Chats pretend to be from Ancient Rome, and they make a sun clock. CHARLI makes a paper fan. TIM rings different kinds of bells. CHARLI moves to different bell beats. KATHLEEN does an ancient Egyptian dance using pictures written on stone tablets. CHARLI does ancient Egyptian moves. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a boy (Tim) and his friends (Kellie and Kathleen) who all dress up as knights for a sleepover and have an adventure preparing for bed along with the boy's mother (Charli). | |||
| 15 | Gardens | Build it Up (building) | September 12, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN makes a rocks and plants pattern. CHARLI pretends to be a flower. NATHAN does some gardening; he cuts off the trees, making shapes. CHARLI pretends to be different kinds of trees. TIM makes a bird scarer to keep the seed-eating birds (Kathleen and Kellie) away. CHARLI and the Hi-5 band pretend to be birds. KELLIE makes a hothouse for Chats. CHARLI moves in a different way according to the weather. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about three monkeys (Charli, Tim, and Nathan) who have fun before the water of the river rises up and then they will get home, but they don't pay attention to time, and their mother (Kathleen) arrives because time is over. | |||
| 16 | Different kinds of water | Our World (world) | September 15, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN watches how the water fits in different containers. CHARLI hears the sound of water as she pours it from a jug to a glass. NATHAN learns about ice, and he dresses up as an iceberg. CHARLI pretends to be a snowman, and then she melts down. TIM makes a surprise song of water flutes for his friends. CHARLI does exercise standing high, middle, and low. KELLIE and Chats make signs for Chats' pool rules. CHARLI pretends to be a duck ducking down. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about three penguins (Kellie, Nathan, and Tim) who cover themselves in snow, to trick a scientist (Kathleen) searching for extra special all-white penguins. | |||
| 17 | Different kinds of land | Our World (world) | September 16, 2003 |
| NATHAN pretends to be in a Mexican desert. CHARLI does the Mexican hat dance. KATHLEEN makes sand patterns. CHARLI makes patterns in the air. TIM finds a way to make music by stomping on different kinds of ground. CHARLI's feet can't stop moving. KELLIE has explored the Sahara Desert and teaches Chats some Arabic words. CHARLI pretends to be a camel. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a farmer (Tim) who loves his life on the farm, where the rooster (Kellie) wakes him up every day and he always milks the cow (Charli), but one day he plucks a mushroom where an elf (Kathleen) lives, so she gets angry and turns the day into night whenever she wants. | |||
| 18 | Food | Our World (world) | September 17, 2003 |
| Kellie the monkey takes away NATHAN's banana, and he tries to open a coconut. CHARLI tries to open a container. KELLIE and Chats go shopping, but they forget the list of food. CHARLI performs a song and dance about fairy bread. Kathleen is going to make a special dinner from a place in the world, and TIM is going to play music from that place. CHARLI and the Hi-5 band pretend to be spaghetti. KATHLEEN makes an Italian pizza. CHARLI pretends to be pizza dough. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a boy (Tim) who loves spaghetti, and he doesn't eat anything else, so his parents (Charli and Nathan) and his dog (Kathleen) try to make him eat something different. | |||
| 19 | Earth treasures | Our World (world) | September 18, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN goes on an underground expedition in search of dinosaur bones. CHARLI crosses a tunnel that gets lower. NATHAN arranges a collection of rocks from around the world. CHARLI rocks her teddy bear, and then she rocks and rolls. Chats looks for underground treasures, and KELLIE makes a necklace out of them. CHARLI prunes a rose bush. TIM goes prospecting in search of gold. CHARLI pretends to be a pirate. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a girl (Charli) who visits the museum with her sister (Kathleen) but isn't interested in viewing the dinosaurs (Kellie and Nathan) until she witnesses them come to life. | |||
| 20 | People and animals | Our World (world) | September 19, 2003 |
| NATHAN shears the sheep. CHARLI pretends to round up the sheep. Chats shows KELLIE half of the animal postcards, and they mix them to make funny animals. CHARLI pretends to be a rhinoce-frog and a snake-dile. TIM camps in a South American rainforest and listens to bird sounds. CHARLI pretends to be a magpie. KATHLEEN looks for the perfect place for her toys to live. CHARLI is cold, and she finds out how to get warm. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a muddled man (Tim) and his pets (Charli, Kathleen, and Nathan), who try to act as regular and organised as possible for his sister's visit. | |||
| 21 | I love to be | L.O.V.E. (happy) | September 22, 2003 |
| NATHAN pretends to be Neptune, the underwater king. CHARLI packs her beach stuff. KATHLEEN sorts her clothes. CHARLI pretends to be a plane writing a message in the sky. TIM imagines being the conductor of an orchestra, with Nathan, Kellie, and Kathleen imagining being singing stars of other music styles. CHARLI pretends to be a choreographer, and Tim follows her. KELLIE acts in a play, and Chats helps her. CHARLI pretends to be a spinning spaceship. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a boy (Tim) who wants to be the boss of his house like his mother (Kathleen), so he dreams he is her mother and he has to look after his brother and sister (Nathan and Charli). | |||
| 22 | Favourite things | L.O.V.E. (happy) | September 23, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN gives her feet a bath, but Jup Jup takes her soap, and he adds bubbles into the water bath. CHARLI washes her hands in a hand bath. KELLIE helps Chats to fill her collection with things beginning with the letter K. CHARLI uses sign language to say words that start with K. TIM shows us his favourite guitars and gives Kathleen some guitar lessons. CHARLI pretends to play the piano and Tim helps her. NATHAN combines two of his favourite things when he makes up a dance featuring shapes. CHARLI makes different shapes with her body while dancing. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a family (Kathleen, Kellie, and Nathan) who all have colourful and wild long hair and the youngest of the family (Tim), who has short hair and tries to find a way to make it grow. | |||
| 23 | Favourite animals | L.O.V.E. (happy) | September 24, 2003 |
| TIM gives singing lessons to a lion (Nathan). CHARLI pretends to be different animals, and we have to guess them. KELLIE and Chats pretend to be ants, and they make up an ant language. CHARLI makes animal music. NATHAN makes a house for a mouse. CHARLI pretends to be a mouse on a mouse playground. KATHLEEN dresses up like black and white animals. CHARLI pretends to be a groovy zebra. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a rabbit (Kathleen) who visits the dentist (Charli) for the very first time, and another rabbit (Kellie) helps her to feel brave as a tiger, then they meet a nervous tiger (Tim) visiting the dentist for the first time too. | |||
| 24 | I love to make | L.O.V.E. (happy) | September 25, 2003 |
| NATHAN hangs socks on a clothes rack, but he finds out it looks like a robot. CHARLI flaps the socks to dry them off. KATHLEEN tries to make a butterfly cake for Charli. CHARLI makes different animals using her hands. Chats sings a song while KELLIE acts like a tape recorder and tries to remember the whole song. CHARLI makes a dance, and then she tries to remember everything she did. TIM makes a musical kite. CHARLI turns her hand into a kite. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a girl (Charli) who invents a remote control that speeds up time to quickly do chores for her father (Nathan), but accidentally uses it to fast forward through her birthday party with her friends (Kellie and Tim). | |||
| 25 | I love to go | L.O.V.E. (happy) | September 26, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN goes on a surfing safari, but Jup Jup takes away the waves. CHARLI goes surfing. KELLIE and Chats imagine a Snowy Beach Island where they go on holiday. CHARLI fantasises about going to the bush on her next holiday. TIM remembers an old dusty room full of old stuff. CHARLI and Tim practise the waltz. NATHAN goes camping at the Grand Canyon and tries to make a donkey come along. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a hungry tortoise (Kellie) who gets excited when a possum (Nathan) tells her about a new veggie patch, but she walks very slowly, so a kangaroo (Charli) and a rabbit (Kathleen) help her to find how to get faster. | |||
| 26 | Magical animals | Dream On (magic) | September 29, 2003 |
| NATHAN, Tim, and Kellie dress up like a magical flying dragon. CHARLI does morning dragon stretches. KELLIE and Chats try to trap the magical pickle pincher who ate Chats' pickles. CHARLI tries to pick a pickle from Kellie. TIM sings a magical song while he plays the panpipes, and a phoenix and a dragon appear. CHARLI weaves a spiderweb. KATHLEEN goes looking for a stripy, spotty fish. CHARLI searches for a mermaid. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a pig (Kellie) who wishes to fly, which leads her to seek flying lessons from her encouraging piggy friends (Kathleen and Nathan), but they don't work, then a mysterious cat (Charli) with magical powers advises her to make a wish on the moon. | |||
| 27 | Magic in nature | Dream On (magic) | September 30, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN makes a magic hat to pull a rabbit out from inside. CHARLI finds a rabbit inside a magician's top hat. NATHAN tries some magic colour-mixing with different coloured paint. CHARLI imagines living in a colourful rainbow. KELLIE and Chats prepare for a solar eclipse and decide to make wishes on it. CHARLI pretends to be a shooting star. TIM uses powerful instruments to make a thunderstorm symphony. CHARLI sings about a storm. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a rainbow (Charli) with faded colours, who goes in search of pixies (Tim, Kellie, and Kathleen), who paint the sunset, the sea, and the trees, to help her return to her colourful self. | |||
| 28 | Magic in me | Dream On (magic) | October 1, 2003 |
| NATHAN does a disappearing trick. CHARLI makes animal shadows using her hands. Chats collects things to make a wish, and KELLIE helps her to decide what kind of wish she should make. CHARLI wishes to be the best swimmer. TIM imagines being a racing car driver and a painter. CHARLI puts on two different hats, and we have to guess which job she is pretending to have. KATHLEEN sings about a storm using some pictures, but Jup Jup changes the pictures to make a silly storm. CHARLI tells us about a silly storm where it was raining elephants. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a girl (Kellie) who takes her pet dragon (Tim) for the first time to school, and he is scared of it, but there is another girl (Charli) who takes her pet dragon (Nathan) there too. | |||
| 29 | Magical dress up party | Dream On (magic) | October 2, 2003 |
| Everyone gets ready for the magical dress-up party. TIM dresses up as a leprechaun, and another one (Nathan) challenges him to find the pot of gold. CHARLI does Irish dancing. KELLIE and Chats dress up as camouflaging animals: an octopus and a chameleon. CHARLI hides in different spots. NATHAN dresses up as a genie and goes into a genie bottle. CHARLI dresses up as a genie too. Jup Jup helps KATHLEEN to dress up as a magical creature. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a magical dress-up party where six friends (Tim, Nathan, Kathleen, Kellie, Chats, and herself) have fun until they decide to find magic around, and Nathan finds a magic spot where they become invisible. | |||
| 30 | Silly | Dream On (magic) | October 3, 2003 |
| KELLIE eats Chats' magical meringue and she pretends to turn into a monkey. CHARLI turns the egg white into a soft fluffy cloud. KATHLEEN makes fairy bread for her fairy friend. CHARLI tries to make big shapes with additional versions of herself. TIM finds an old music box that makes him speak rhymes. CHARLI pretends to be a wind-up doll. NATHAN makes a magic snack for Kathleen. CHARLI, Tim, and Nathan pretend to be popcorn. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a girl (Kathleen) and her father (Nathan), who receive a bicycle bell from her grandparents (Tim and Charli) in the mail, which magically transports her to their home in Scotland. | |||
| 31 | Jobs | Ready or Not (work and play) | October 6, 2003 |
| Deep sea diver KELLIE searches for treasure, and Chats asks a jellyfish where they can find it. CHARLI wobbles like a jellyfish. Chef NATHAN makes a mountain dessert for Kathleen. CHARLI washes the pots. Postie KATHLEEN sorts some stamps and posts things to Nathan. CHARLI turns a broom into a microphone. DJ TIM makes music for the Hi-5 band. CHARLI grooves to disco music. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a girl (Charli) who starts a new job at a wishing shop and tries to help three customers (Kellie, Tim, and Kathleen) make their wishes come true. | |||
| 32 | Animals | Ready or Not (work and play) | October 7, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN runs a pet salon and attends to the mane and claws of her lion customer (Nathan). CHARLI dog-sits three puppies. NATHAN rounds up the sheep. CHARLI pretends to be a brumby. One of TIM's singing canaries lost her voice, so he gets a goose as her replacement. KELLIE pretends to be a dolphin trainer, and Chats pretends to be a dolphin. CHARLI pretends to be a dolphin. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a new zookeeper (Tim) who struggles to please his two elephants (Kathleen and Nathan) at the zoo, before a patron (Charli) comes to visit. | |||
| 33 | Street parade | Ready or Not (work and play) | October 8, 2003 |
| NATHAN turns boxes into cat heads. CHARLI leads a street parade. KATHLEEN practises juggling for the street parade. CHARLI moves like a wheel. KELLIE and Chats play a guessing game and tell a story using mimes and actions. CHARLI pretends to be a statue that moves when someone claps. TIM makes musical instruments out of old stuff, and the street parade begins. CHARLI stomps with her stomping boots. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about three dazzling ducks (Kathleen, Charli, and Kellie) who put on an audition to find a new dancer when a cat (Nathan) shows up and shows them his disco moves. | |||
| 34 | Outer space | Ready or Not (work and play) | October 9, 2003 |
| KELLIE and Chats work on fixing a rocket while they float. CHARLI sings about shining stars. NATHAN looks for footprints on the moon. CHARLI pretends to play tennis and football on the moon and on the Earth. KATHLEEN packs food for her space journey. CHARLI blasts off to outer space to visit the planets. Two aliens (Kellie and Nathan) land on Earth, and TIM communicates with them by outer space music. CHARLI grooves like an alien. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about the cosmic cleaner (Tim), who needs to clean the moon (Kellie) before the night begins, but she can't stay still, and two stars (Kathleen and Nathan) entertain the moon while she's getting clean. | |||
| 35 | Getting ready | Ready or Not (work and play) | October 10, 2003 |
| NATHAN, Tim, Kathleen, and Kellie travel by different vehicles to arrive at their jobs. CHARLI moves along in different ways without walking. KATHLEEN practises to get ready before the timer gets to ten. CHARLI pretends to be a firefighter getting ready to action. TIM sets up his music-making shop. CHARLI pretends to be at the gym. Chats starts her sandwich shop, and KELLIE tells her the orders on the tin can telephone. CHARLI has break time and she stretches. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a girl (Charli) who goes working with her dad (Tim) for the first time, and she meets a sleepy wombat (Nathan) and a noisy cockatoo (Kellie), so the wombat runs away to find any quiet place and gets lost. | |||
| 36 | Sports | Holiday (holidays) | October 13, 2003 |
| NATHAN tries to be an iron man; he swims, runs, and paddles. CHARLI pretends to paddle and row. KELLIE and Chats make a cheer for the Teddy Bear team. CHARLI cheers for Teddy Bears. TIM, Kellie, Kathleen, and Nathan get ready for the gumboot throwing competition. CHARLI has her own sock-throwing competition. KATHLEEN goes down a mountain by a toboggan, snowboard, and skis. CHARLI does figure skating. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a funky hippo (Nathan) who helps Charli the monkey and Kellie the lizard to overcome the fear of sports day by dancing the hippo warm-up song, but then he gets scared when Tim the lion calls him for the hippo hop and he isn't ready. | |||
| 37 | A time for me | Holiday (holidays) | October 14, 2003 |
| NATHAN has been invited on a surprise holiday, and he packs everything he needs. CHARLI gets ready for bedtime. TIM built a cubby house to practise playing bagpipes. CHARLI plays a Scottish drum while she dances. KELLIE tries to have some quiet time by imagining flying through the clouds. CHARLI had some friends over, and she needs a little rest. KATHLEEN does yoga exercises. CHARLI pretends to be a dancing lion that tries to make a louder roar. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a cat (Tim) who has the whole day for himself because his owner (Charli) goes out, so he decides to spend the time sleeping, but his cat friend (Kellie) arrives to be with him. | |||
| 38 | Family fun | Holiday (holidays) | October 15, 2003 |
| NATHAN checks his holiday photo album. CHARLI jumps over the skipping rope. KELLIE makes a peg family, and then she pretends to be a peg person along with Chats. CHARLI hangs clothes on a clothes horse. TIM and his Hi-5 family find musical instruments on the beach. CHARLI rubs some sunscreen on her body. KATHLEEN packs camping stuff for her family holidays. CHARLI rolls up her swag. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a rock family (Kellie the grandma, and Nathan, Charli, and Kathleen, her grandchildren) that has the first holiday together. | |||
| 39 | Get fit | Holiday (holidays) | October 16, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN is on holiday in London and goes for a walking tour around the city. CHARLI pretends to ride a bike in Paris. Chats blows a whistle to indicate to KELLIE which exercise to do. CHARLI jogs and runs. TIM celebrates fitness day along with a chicken (Kellie), a horse (Kathleen), and an elephant (Nathan). CHARLI dances because dancing is exercise. NATHAN does the exercises that the cards tell him. CHARLI lifts cans to build up her muscles. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a doctor (Tim) who attends a leaping patient (Nathan), a wobbling patient (Kathleen), and a hopping and croaking patient (Kellie). | |||
| 40 | Travelling | Holiday (holidays) | October 17, 2003 |
| NATHAN travels around the Australian rainforest and desert. CHARLI pretends to drive a car. TIM brought a gamelan from Bali, and he tells us everything about that place. CHARLI dances like a Balinese person. KATHLEEN sails a boat, but she forgot her lunch. CHARLI has a sailor life. KELLIE and Chats meet animals from the North Pole. CHARLI dresses up with warm clothes. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a girl (Kathleen) who gets bored on a rainy day, so she is taken by her friend (Nathan) on a magical bus ride to topsy-turvy land (Tim's place) and bouncy land (Charli's place). | |||
| 41 | Curiosity | Underwater Discovery (discovery) | October 20, 2003 |
| NATHAN and Kathleen find the best way of balancing. CHARLI practises her balancing. KELLIE and Chats turn on a yellow torch to explore a cave. CHARLI pretends to mine for gold. TIM and the Hi-5 band look for different ringtones. CHARLI pretends to call Kathleen over the telephone. KATHLEEN measures her plants. CHARLI flies like a ladybird and an eagle. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about two alien creatures (Kathleen and Kellie) who use their camouflaging bodies to trick and hide from two astronauts (Charli and Tim) on their home planet. | |||
| 42 | Mysteries | Underwater Discovery (discovery) | October 21, 2003 |
| NATHAN plays with different sorts of sponges. CHARLI pretends to be a sponge. KATHLEEN's jelly beans are disappearing, so she finds a thumbprint on the jelly bean jar and investigates the mystery. CHARLI searches for something important. TIM teaches some ants (Charli, Nathan, and Kellie) the lyrics of the It's A Party song. CHARLI pretends to be a giant. KELLIE gets a package that sounds cheep cheep, and she tries to guess what's inside it. Kellie gave CHARLI two boxes, and she guesses what's inside them. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a young princess (Charli) living in a castle, who doesn't like to sing in the same loud way that her royal family (Kathleen and Kellie) does, which leads her to befriend a quiet dragon (Nathan). | |||
| 43 | Other worlds | Underwater Discovery (discovery) | October 22, 2003 |
| KATHLEEN makes different pictures using star shapes. CHARLI does starry stretches. KELLIE and Chats pretend to visit Planet Opposite. CHARLI finds different words to say that something is big or small. TIM goes skydiving and listens to different sounds in the sky. CHARLI and Kellie play with a bed sheet. NATHAN makes his own universe. CHARLI makes a little spaceship. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a school at the bottom of the sea, where an eel teacher (Kellie) sends her students (Tim the octopus, Nathan the anglerfish, and Kathleen the seahorse) to find something special to bring back to class. | |||
| 44 | Fantasy | Underwater Discovery (discovery) | October 23, 2003 |
| KELLIE explores a magic forest. CHARLI understands body language. NATHAN and Tim try to keep the balloons up in the air. CHARLI tries to keep a balloon off the ground without using her hands. TIM discovers the canned music. CHARLI sings about a jillaroo. KATHLEEN makes magnetic kites. CHARLI makes a kite while she hums. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about two polar bears (Tim and Kellie) who travel out to sea on an iceberg until they arrive at a tropical island, where they meet some friends (Nathan and Charli) who live there. | |||
| 45 | Experiments | Underwater Discovery (discovery) | October 24, 2003 |
| KELLIE pretends to be the test pilot of a giant paper aeroplane while communicating with Chats in the control tower. CHARLI makes paper aeroplanes. NATHAN compares the Hi-5 band's height and weight. CHARLI tries to be the tallest person. Scientist TIM makes a mixture that turns your voice into your favourite instrument. CHARLI claps her hands in different ways. KATHLEEN makes juices for everyone, but Jup Jup drinks them. CHARLI shows her groove. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a boy (Nathan) who makes a mixture and he becomes blue, and so do his brother (Tim) and sister (Charli), but their mother (Kathleen) calls them for dinner time, and they don't know how to return to being themselves. | |||
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Hi-5 Holiday (2003)
Trivia[]
- This series marked:
- The first series not to include a filler song.
- The first series to feature remake songs. This would later be followed from Series 13 onwards.
- Three of the Songs of the Week are remakes from Series 1: "L.O.V.E.", "Dream On" and "Ready Or Not".
- Although Surfing Safari and Hi-Energy used the updated segment intros from this season, this marks the first series to use the updated segment intros until 2005.
- The costumes for the Series 5 song "Ready Or Not" were similar to Hi-5 USA Series 1 for "Five Senses" respectively.
- This is the first series to feature the Nine Network 2003-2006 logo.
- This series was filmed from November 2002 to February 2003.
- There are Songs Of The Week titles that are referenced in the opening theme:
- Holiday is the only song to have its namesakes.
- Build It Up (As "Building), Our World (As "World") and Underwater Discovery (As "Discovery") have some words in their titles referenced.
- This series won a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Children's Preschool Program in 2004. [1]
Awards and nominations[]
| Award(s) | Year | Recipient(s) and Nominee(s) | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logie Awards | 2004 | Hi-5 | Most Outstanding Children's Preschool Program | Won |