Series 8 premiered on June 12, 2006 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 July 2007, and on Kids Central in Singapore.
This marks the last season to feature Kathleen de Leon Jones as a member of Hi-5, but she would make three guest appearances in the following year.
Cast[]
Hi-5[]
Puppeteers[]
Songs Of The Week[]
Hey, What's Cooking! (Doing)
Special (Variety)
Peek-A-Boo (Finding)
Have Some Fun (Enjoying)
Growing Up (Growing)
Pretending Day (Pretending)
Share Everything With You (Sharing)
Are We There Yet? (Travelling)
Wish Upon A Star (Wondering)
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 | Health | Hey, What's Cooking! (doing) | June 12, 2006 |
| TIM completes a fitness course moving at different speeds; adagio, presto, and moderato. CHARLI does a stretching routine to welcome the sun. KELLIE and Chats go camping and they find a track of three-toed footprints. CHARLI puts on different kinds of shoes. KATHLEEN becomes a fitness trainer and exercises at the beach while Jup Jup tries to sleep. CHARLI plays beach games. NATHAN tries on different vegetable costumes to wear for a dress-up party. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a quiet boy (Nathan) who starts to sing everything instead of speaking, leading his mother (Kathleen), neighbourhood doctor (Tim) and dog (Kellie) to join in. | |||
| 2 | Working | Hey, What's Cooking! (doing) | June 13, 2006 |
| NATHAN becomes a recycling truck and takes the rubbish away. CHARLI pretends to be a recycling bin. KELLIE helps Chats to make apricot marshmallow. TIM pretends to be a musical traffic policeman. CHARLI makes a tooting song. KATHLEEN does the vacuuming and Jup Jup makes a mess. CHARLI cleans a window. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a fairy (Kathleen) who forgets what she needs to light the fairy lights, and she asks her friends (Tim the pixie, Charli the butterfly and Kellie the troll) to help her remember. | |||
| 3 | Arts and crafts | Hey, What's Cooking! (doing) | June 14, 2006 |
| KELLIE shows Chats some origami animals and makes a Japanese lantern when the lights go out. CHARLI pretends to be a crane bird. NATHAN plays a ring toss game with two cylinder-shaped friends. CHARLI plays giant hoop throwing. TIM and Nathan make rainy day sounds. CHARLI, Kathleen, and Kellie make rainy days sounds too. KATHLEEN makes a Hawaiian lei using frangipani flowers. CHARLI does a Hawaiian dance. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a scientist (Tim) who loves making paper aeroplanes, until he decides to make a big one to travel around the world and his scientist friends (Charli, Kellie and Nathan) help him to make it even better. | |||
| 4 | Can do | Hey, What's Cooking! (doing) | June 15, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN learns a hip hop dance routine from a chart but Jup Jup takes it away. CHARLI pretends to be a hip hop hippo. NATHAN uses a piece of cardboard to slide down a slippery slope. CHARLI and Kathleen go on a roller coaster ride. Baby bird TIM joins the sunrise chorus with the other birds. CHARLI turns her fingers into birds. KELLIE plays a concertina but she finds it too hard, so Chats helps her. CHARLI pretends to be a concertina. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a dragon (Kellie) who can't blow fire, so her sister (Charli) advises her to visit a wise old dragon (Nathan), and along the way she meets a hen (Kathleen) who can't lay an egg. | |||
| 5 | Playing | Hey, What's Cooking! (doing) | June 16, 2006 |
| NATHAN, Tim, Kellie and Kathleen play a freeze tag game, called "Stuck in the mud". CHARLI pretends to be an armadillo. KELLIE and Chats play "Spin a rhyme time", where they find words to rhyme with the pictures on the spinning wheel. CHARLI plays with spinning tops and then she pretends to be one of them. TIM joins the Mixed up band, where everyone plays an instrument in a mixed up way. CHARLI whistles around and leads a whistling band. KATHLEEN plays cricket but Jup Jup gives her other kinds of balls to play different games. CHARLI does a ball dance. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about four teddy bears (Nathan, Kathleen, Charli and Tim) who go on a picnic and try to think of a game to play using ropes when they forgot to pack the toys. | |||
| 6 | Multicultural | Special (variety) | June 19, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN says "hello" in French and Japanese, then imagines visiting Jupland, where she believes that "Jup Jup" means hello. CHARLI and Nathan dance a Greek dance. Postie KELLIE sorts some letters and Chats sends three of them to her friends from China, the Arctic Circle and Africa. TIM goes on a magical-mystery holiday using a penny whistle and a pungi to imagine travelling to Ireland and India. CHARLI the snake charmer sings to a sock puppet snake. NATHAN builds a Mexican hacienda. CHARLI dances to keep the Mexican ants away from her picnic food. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a mother duck (Kellie), her new ducklings are about to be born, but she gets amazed when two of them (Kathleen and Charli) look normal but the last one (Tim) is brown and furry, and they soon realise he isn't a duck. | |||
| 7 | Family groups | Special (variety) | June 20, 2006 |
| NATHAN visited his friend Jack, so he shows how Jack's family moves in different ways. CHARLI sells groovy glasses. Vet KATHLEEN feeds the cows, the pigs and the rooster from the farm. CHARLI pretends to be a cow. Clown TIM and the other clowns (Charli, Kathleen and Kellie) try to sing the roly-poly upside-down song together. Clown CHARLI moves around in silly ways. KELLIE and Chats learn the names to call different groups of animals. CHARLI practises her ribbon twirling and pancake flipping at the same time. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a real estate agent (Nathan) who tries to find the perfect home for a couple (Tim and Kathleen) and their pet emu (Kellie). | |||
| 8 | Food | Special (variety) | June 21, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN makes pasta bolognese for lunch, Jup Jup eats some but leaves a taco shell and a hamburger bun instead. CHARLI pretends to be a waitress. NATHAN makes a smiley face out of food from the foodie fest. CHARLI makes a creature out of playdough. TIM coconut gets ready for a concert at the fruit bowl along with Nathan apple, Kathleen pineapple and Kellie strawberry. CHARLI turns her fingers into different fruits and they do a performance together. KELLIE and Chats get the food ready for a picnic and the Hi-5 band asks for food in their own picnic roll. CHARLI makes a giant hot dog. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about an action hero (Tim) who tries to help a girl (Kellie) to open a honey jar for a breakfast with her friends (Nathan and Charli) but he doesn't have energy, so the three friends find out that he hasn't eaten any food. | |||
| 9 | Weird is good | Special (variety) | June 22, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN travels to a jungle island looking for unusual trees. TIM lands on a musical planet in search of new musical sounds. CHARLI pretends to be a starry singing star. KELLIE imagines being a mixed up animal that plays outside even if it's raining. CHARLI imagines being a bug-eyed-elephant-seal-cat. NATHAN tries on different kinds of wigs. CHARLI pretends to be a hairdresser. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a great-grandmother (Kellie) who gives her great-granddaughters (Kathleen and Charli) a robot (Nathan) for Christmas that can do anything they want. | |||
| 10 | Mixing | Special (variety) | June 23, 2006 |
| Fashion designer NATHAN makes a new outfit for Tim. CHARLI dresses up with mixed clothes. KELLIE invited Chats to a book group but she is afraid because she has never met them before. CHARLI uses sign language to communicate. TIM bakes three different cakes and he matches the ingredients with styles of music. CHARLI makes a carrot cake tower. KATHLEEN has been invited to a mixed up costume party and looks for something to wear. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a brother (Nathan) and a sister (Charli), their parents (Kathleen and Tim) allow them to decorate the playroom but they can't agree because they all want a different colour for the wall and a different wallpaper pattern. | |||
| 11 | Animals and the natural world | Peek-a-Boo (finding) | June 26, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN looks after Kellie's chicken and makes one using a rugby ball. CHARLI pretends to be a chicken. NATHAN travels to the Arctic Circle and looks for a polar bear. CHARLI pretends to be a seal and a minke whale. Kangaroo TIM plays in the bush band as other animals join him. CHARLI plays all the bush instruments. KELLIE and Chats talk about horned animals. CHARLI shows us how the sun and the moon move across the sky and then she pretends to be both of them. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about an elf (Tim), a fairy (Kathleen) and a butterfly (Charli) who try to help their echidna friend (Nathan) when his spikes seem to get in the way of their party preparation. | |||
| 12 | How does it work? | Peek-a-Boo (finding) | June 27, 2006 |
| NATHAN reports for the Hi-5 news. CHARLI goes out on a rainy day. KELLIE makes a sand clock to know when she and Chats have to go home. CHARLI pretends to be a clock. TIM makes a big pipe instrument and plays it with flip flops. CHARLI makes music with her flip flops. KATHLEEN plays with a toy helicopter and Jup Jup makes its propellers spin with light power. CHARLI pretends to be a solar powered engine. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a caveman (Tim) who invents a bike to visit his friends and cave people (Kathleen, Nathan and Kellie) help him to find something to make it move along. | |||
| 13 | Exploring and adventures | Peek-a-Boo (finding) | June 28, 2006 |
| KELLIE finds a rhyming map and she follows it to complete the last rhyme. CHARLI plays a rhyming action game. KATHLEEN explores a bay looking for a socktopus. CHARLI pretends to be a socktopus with the help from Kathleen who's behind her. Pirate TIM searches for a treasure and his crew (Kellie and Kathleen) helps him rowing and they find a monkey (Nathan). CHARLI plays with a pirate toy. NATHAN turns a chair into a chair-oplane. CHARLI makes a camel of chairs. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about an explorer (Kellie) who goes into the jungle looking for the giggly gorillas (Kathleen, Charli and Nathan) but they are very tricky and they hide easily. | |||
| 14 | Other countries | Peek-a-Boo (finding) | June 29, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN goes for a hike in the Swiss Alps and climbs to the peak of the mountains. CHARLI, Kathleen and Nathan do a thigh slapping yodel dance. NATHAN is in Scotland and introduces us to his coo (Kellie). CHARLI practises a Scottish dance while Tim plays the bagpipes. TIM sends musical instruments from around the world to the place they belong. CHARLI plays with an Indonesian puppet and then she dances like it. KELLIE and Chats imagine visiting a pretend island where everything starts with "ch". CHARLI picks ping pongs from the ping pong tree and picks balloons from the balloon tree. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a girl (Kathleen) who imagines travelling to ancient Egypt, where she helps a pharaoh (Tim) and a camel (Kellie) build a special building for the queen (Charli). | |||
| 15 | Arts and crafts | Peek-a-Boo (finding) | June 30, 2006 |
| NATHAN makes a picture of a tree using recycled coloured paper shapes. CHARLI creates a picture of a butterfly by folding a painted piece of paper in half. KELLIE makes a moggie and a helmet of paper mâché and she pretends to go looking for the moggie across the desert along with Chats. CHARLI makes mysterious moggie moves. TIM makes music you can wear for the Hi-5 band. CHARLI has got dancer ankles. KATHLEEN mixes egg whites to make a meringue mountain. CHARLI sings about a little mouse inside a house. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a Christmas beetle (Charli) who is going to dance at the bush concert for Christmas, but she forgets the music she will dance to and the costume she will wear, so two frogs (Nathan and Tim) and a silkworm (Kellie) help her. | |||
| 16 | Places | Have Some Fun (enjoying) | July 3, 2006 |
| Three dogs (TIM, Kellie and Nathan) try to call another dog (Kathleen) to play with them in their backyard. CHARLI runs a puppy parlour. NATHAN plays in the park and finds different hiding places. CHARLI hides in different spots. KATHLEEN goes for a walk around Rome and visits the special buildings in the city. CHARLI pretends to build a house. KELLIE and Chats have fun at the bus stop as they're waiting for the bus. CHARLI's fingers wait for the bus at the bus stop. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a girl (Charli) who plays with her toys, then she goes to sleep and dreams she is a princess that lives in a castle, a dragon (Tim) arrives and roars so loud, so an action girl (Kellie) and a robot (Nathan) try to make him stop roaring. | |||
| 17 | Things | Have Some Fun (enjoying) | July 4, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN makes a smiley face in the sand. NATHAN uses different pool toys to help him float while swimming. CHARLI dances in flippers. TIM tells us about the people who had his guitar before he had it. CHARLI paddles a gondola in Venice. KELLIE turns her new rocking chair into a ship. CHARLI pretends to be on a boat and riding a horse using a rocking chair. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about four crabs (Kathleen, Kellie, Nathan and Tim) who love doing things together on the beach, and dare to do something new when they try surfing on driftwood. | |||
| 18 | "Being me" skills | Have Some Fun (enjoying) | July 5, 2006 |
| KELLIE visits Chats' place. CHARLI chases a light. NATHAN builds a straight house and a curvy one, then he imagines the kind of person living there. TIM makes a song about himself and then Nathan and Charli join him to add their verses. CHARLI and Nathan do a tap dance. KATHLEEN paints her toenails. CHARLI does sparkly star-hand moves. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about two children (Charli and Nathan) that can't play outside because it's raining and her mother (Kathleen) is very busy, so she calls a moose (Kellie) to have fun with the children. | |||
| 19 | Times | Have Some Fun (enjoying) | July 6, 2006 |
| The rooster (Nathan) has got a sore throat and TIM finds a way to make noise and wake up the animals on the farm. CHARLI pretends to be a sheep that can't wake up. KATHLEEN bought a cuckoo clock and waits for the time she can see the cuckoo bird. CHARLI pretends to be a cuckoo bird. NATHAN sets up the table for lunch. CHARLI plays with a bean bag. KELLIE and Chats invite everyone to eat pink pastry puffs and tell them they have to go dressed up as anything that starts with P. CHARLI and Nathan come up with some party dance moves that start with P. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a father (Tim) that can't make his three kids (Charli, Nathan and Kathleen) eat and they just mess around. | |||
| 20 | Differences | Have Some Fun (enjoying) | July 7, 2006 |
| NATHAN makes a secret cave in his space. CHARLI does whatever she pleases inside a box. KELLIE and Chats swap their breakfast to taste something new. CHARLI pretends to be a peppermint tea bag. TIM fixes a beach ball machine. CHARLI pretends to be a box stacking robot. Ranger KATHLEEN sorts birds into pairs. CHARLI pretends to be different birds. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a zebra (Kathleen) that gets the shade from a cloud (Tim) until the wind (Kellie) blows him, so the zebra gets thirsty and the waterhole gets dry, the cloud makes rain and a rainbow (Charli) appears. | |||
| 21 | Body | Growing Up (growing) | July 10, 2006 |
| NATHAN tries on his old favourite jacket. CHARLI tries on different-sized hats. KELLIE gives Chats a new hairstyle. CHARLI pretends to be a busy bee, a bird and a termite. TIM, Kathleen, Nathan and Kellie play their own drum tummy. CHARLI makes kitchen music. KATHLEEN lifts weights. CHARLI does ball balancing exercises. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a lady (Charli) who's got very long hair and it always gets in the way, so a musician (Tim), her dance teacher (Nathan) and her hairdresser (Kellie) are always stumbling. | |||
| 22 | Big and small | Growing Up (growing) | July 11, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN dresses up as an elephant for a big party. CHARLI does maxi-moves and mini-moves. KELLIE and Chats get presents ready for a baby. CHARLI tries to wrap up a teddy bear. Kellie, Kathleen and Nathan contest on TIM's game show: Make That Sound. CHARLI pretends to be a duck. NATHAN looks after a guinea pig and then he makes a big hutch for himself. CHARLI makes an obstacle course. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a king (Nathan) who decides everything in the palace had to be bigger, so his cook (Tim) makes a big breakfast, the jeweller (Kellie) makes a big crown and the carpenter (Kathleen) makes a big throne. | |||
| 23 | Animals and plants | Growing Up (growing) | July 12, 2006 |
| KELLIE and Chats put small animal toys under a small sunflower and big animal toys under a big sunflower. CHARLI pretends to be a tiger. NATHAN and Tim work on the farm building a pen for new animals. CHARLI pretends to be a caterpillar. Pop plants TIM and Nathan try to be the tallest one. CHARLI climbs up and down some steps as her voice changes. KATHLEEN names the new zoo babies. CHARLI dances with party stuff. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about three friends (Kathleen, Kellie and Charli) who plant a magical fruit seed which grows into a giant tree, leading to a magical world with ginormous fruits, where they meet a friendly rabbit (Nathan). | |||
| 24 | Building | Growing Up (growing) | July 13, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN checks a crane and a post hole digger, making sure that they work properly. CHARLI pretends to be a multipurpose building machine. KELLIE furnishes a new room for Chats' doll house. CHARLI gets a bed ready for a lion toy. TIM joins the jungle jive. CHARLI does juggling sticks. NATHAN builds a brick shed. CHARLI makes a triangle-shaped table for Nathan. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a boy (Tim) who tells his animal friends (Charli the duck, Kathleen the cat and Nathan the pig) that there is going to be someone new living there, so they all get everything ready to welcome that special someone. | |||
| 25 | Age | Growing Up (growing) | July 14, 2006 |
| NATHAN looks for things with wheels. CHARLI goes for a ride on her roller skates. KELLIE and Chats find different names for the gum trees according to their age. CHARLI pretends to be different kinds of trees. Grandpa frog TIM sings to three little frogs (Nathan, Kellie and Kathleen) to make them sleep. CHARLI pretends to be a frog. KATHLEEN works at the baby healthcare clinic, where she weighs and measures the newborns. CHARLI looks after a cushion baby. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about grandma (Kellie) who surprises her family (Tim, Kathleen and Charli) on her birthday by taking them to a circus school. | |||
| 26 | Who will I be? | Pretending Day (pretending) | July 17, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN pretends to be a pirate. CHARLI tries to hide a giant gold rock. Chats guesses KELLIE's acting guided by different hats. CHARLI pretends to be a baseball player. TIM, Kathleen and Nathan pretend to be firefighters. CHARLI pretends to be a candle. NATHAN pretends to be a sailor. CHARLI pretends to be a sailor too. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a man (Nathan) who tries out a new job with a librarian (Kellie) and another at a restaurant with a chef (Tim), before meeting a friend (Kathleen) who helps him think of an idea for a job of his own. | |||
| 27 | Performing events | Pretending Day (pretending) | July 18, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN practises a dance routine on some squares with foot shapes on them. CHARLI practises a dance routine with a hat and a cane. NATHAN uses streamers as fireworks. CHARLI pretends to be a party sparkle. TIM makes music for Kellie's swan dance and for Nathan's cowboy dance too. CHARLI and Nathan dance ballet music. KELLIE makes a song for a marvellous mouse, but Chats gets confused and dresses up as a moose. CHARLI puts on a moose puppet show. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a genie (Nathan) who grants his dog's (Kellie) wish about having a new friend, so he makes a cat (Kathleen) appear but she has another wish about a new friend to play with, so the genie makes an elephant (Tim) appear too. | |||
| 28 | Where will I be? | Pretending Day (pretending) | July 19, 2006 |
| KELLIE and Chats are about to ride a bike but the rain starts, so they imagine a bike ride above the clouds to plug the rainy cloud. CHARLI pretends to be a raindrop. NATHAN builds a small New York City. CHARLI pretends to be different statues. TIM imagines being under the sea, where a mermaid (Kellie) and an anemone (Kathleen) play music. CHARLI pretends to be a crocodile. KATHLEEN pretends to visit the moon. CHARLI pretends to be a rocket. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about four grubs (Nathan, Kathleen, Kellie and Charli), where one of them (Charli) dreams of flying but it seems impossible. | |||
| 29 | Puppets | Pretending Day (pretending) | July 20, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN makes shadow puppets using her hands. CHARLI dances with her shadow (Kellie). NATHAN adds shapes to his marionette puppet's face. CHARLI pretends to be a puppet on a string with changing moods. TIM turns some socks into puppets. CHARLI wears her shoes on her hands to create "shoe puppets". KELLIE and Chats imagine being a pair of giant sock puppets. Sock CHARLI looks for her lost partner. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a puppeteer (Nathan) whose puppets (Tim the magician, Charli the girl and Kellie the horse) grow tired of performing the same show every day, so they go on a journey to the beach to try something new. | |||
| 30 | Playing together | Pretending Day (pretending) | July 21, 2006 |
| KELLIE wants to pretend flying in a hang glider but Chats wants to pretend going into a river in a canoe. CHARLI delivers a bunch of balloons but they seem to lift her up. NATHAN sells some shapes in his shop. CHARLI draws different things using a triangle and a semicircle. TIM and Nathan play musical statues, when the music stops, they must freeze and pretend to play any musical instrument. CHARLI pretends to play the piano. KATHLEEN makes a frog friend using blocks and Jup Jup makes a new friend too. CHARLI pretends to be a wind-up robot bird. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a triceratops (Kellie) with a love of dance, who reluctantly goes on an adventure to the Cycad Forest with her friends (Kathleen the stegosaurus and Tim the brontosaurus), where she challenges a fearsome tyrannosaurus rex (Charli) to a dance-off. | |||
| 31 | Friends and family | Share Everything with You (sharing) | July 24, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN shares things she's not using with the Hi-5 band. CHARLI pretends to be a party popper. KELLIE and Chats dress up as princesses and they make up a story together. CHARLI pretends to be a royal princess. TIM, Nathan and Kathleen become penguins and they slide and sing together. CHARLI pretends to be a penguin. NATHAN, Tim and Kellie build a wigwam. CHARLI dances like Native Americans. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a family of ladybirds (Charli, Tim, Nathan and Kellie) who decide to look for a new home because the leaf where they live doesn't have too much room. | |||
| 32 | Animals | Share Everything with You (sharing) | July 25, 2006 |
| NATHAN rolls out his swag in the shade of a tree and by a billabong. CHARLI pretends to be a sugar glider. Ranger KATHLEEN works at the old elephant reserve. CHARLI plays elephant soccer. TIM and the Hi-5 band do centipede moves together. CHARLI plays with a toy snake. KELLIE and Chats look at the stars at night and watch the constellations they make. CHARLI pretends to be a rabbit. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a dog (Kellie) who finds a cardboard box in her yard and she and her doggy friends (Nathan, Charli and Kathleen) pretend it's a rocketship. | |||
| 33 | I've got an idea | Share Everything with You (sharing) | July 26, 2006 |
| KELLIE and Chats pretend to be steam train drivers. CHARLI shows us her crazy hair. KATHLEEN uses different materials to make clouds. CHARLI finds a place to snuggle up. TIM makes a musical masterpiece called musanimal. CHARLI hears the music of music boxes and they make her want to dance. NATHAN makes different-shaped icy fruit treats. CHARLI sells fruity ice treats. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a knight (Tim) who is always muddled up, once the inhabitants of his town (Charli and Nathan) call him because they hear a giant chicken (Kathleen) and he goes to face her. | |||
| 34 | Games | Share Everything with You (sharing) | July 27, 2006 |
| NATHAN invents a shapes game. Chats helps KELLIE to find the Snakes and ladders game. CHARLI plays a snake game. TIM and Nathan play a musical guessing game. CHARLI feels like playing some music and she pretends to play different ones. KATHLEEN uses recycled milk bottles to play a skittle kind of game. CHARLI turns her hand into a three-eyed alien and then she pretends to be one too. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a place called Noodle Land where everybody (Charli, Kellie, Kathleen and Tim) loves long lovely noodles, and one day they play a noodle toss game but the throwing noodle gets stuck in the tree. | |||
| 35 | Talking & communication | Share Everything with You (sharing) | July 28, 2006 |
| Chats gives the weather report to KELLIE because she is going to fly a kite. CHARLI pretends to be an autumn leaf. NATHAN plays with newspapers. CHARLI dresses up as a newspaper magician. TIM makes a new musical alarm clock for Kellie. CHARLI pretends to be an alarm clock. KATHLEEN sends a card and some presents to her friend. CHARLI makes a card for her grandpa. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about three royal cooks (Kellie, Nathan and Kathleen) that make a cake for the prince's (Tim) birthday. | |||
| 36 | Travel | Are We There Yet? (travelling) | July 31, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN wants to swim but Jup Jup hides her flippers, so he traces a track for her to follow. CHARLI pretends to be a tightrope walker. NATHAN plays basketball on a wheelchair. CHARLI carries some pumpkins in a wheelbarrow. TIM becomes a train conductor and he listens to the sounds of three different trains. CHARLI pretends to be a steam train and an electric one. KELLIE and Chats imagine visiting stilt land. CHARLI walks on stilts and then she walks crouching down. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about two Chinese friends (Kathleen and Tim) that go to a dragon boat race and along the way they find a crane bird (Charli) and a panda (Kellie), both of them in trouble. | |||
| 37 | Near and far | Are We There Yet? (travelling) | August 1, 2006 |
| NATHAN climbs the Great Wall of China. CHARLI makes her pet dragon dance. KATHLEEN makes a mask for the Italian carnival parade. CHARLI pretends to be a rainbow flying unicorn. TIM and the Hi-5 band make music while they wait for the bus at the bus stop. CHARLI pretends to drive a car. KELLIE shows Chats a scooter and a pogo stick to travel around. CHARLI does an Egyptian dance along with Tim and Nathan. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a rocket (Nathan) who goes on his first mission to outer space to rescue a lost astronaut (Charli), and meets two strange creatures (Kellie and Tim) from strange planets along the way. | |||
| 38 | Imaginative | Are We There Yet? (travelling) | August 2, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN rides a bubble to Bubble Land. CHARLI blows bubbles. NATHAN pretends to be an aeroplane writing a message in the sky. CHARLI pretends to be a firefighting helicopter. TIM feels full and heavy after having a picnic but he sees a dragonfly (Kathleen) and two ants (Nathan and Kellie) passing by. CHARLI tries to keep a fly away. KELLIE and Chats are fishing when suddenly a big fish takes them underwater. CHARLI pretends to be different fish. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a little girl (Kathleen) who wishes to be taller because her sister (Kellie) is much bigger and their parents (Charli and Nathan) allow her to do several things, so she dreams she is as tall as a tree. | |||
| 39 | New and old modes of transport | Are We There Yet? (travelling) | August 3, 2006 |
| TIM travels to the past and the future to know the music through the time. CHARLI and Nathan do a bug dance. KELLIE shows Chats a penny-farthing and they build a new one. NATHAN makes a raft out of straws for a cork toy and then he imagines sailing down the river on a raft. CHARLI pretends to be a cork swimming in the water. KATHLEEN becomes a grocer and makes a delivery. CHARLI cleans up a mess. SHARING STORIES: Charli tells us a story about a train (Tim) that delivers the mail everyday in the Indian mountains, once he, a bus (Kellie) and a car (Nathan) want to do something new, suddenly the station manager (Kathleen) calls them to send a package to the bottom of the mountain but it starts to snow. | |||
| 40 | Holidays | Are We There Yet? (travelling) | August 4, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN goes camping and Jup Jup makes annoying animal noises. CHARLI camps outside inside a sleeping bag but she is cold. Chats imagines being a hermit crab and KELLIE helps her to find a shell. CHARLI puts on an undersea fish parade. Musical vet TIM helps sick animals that have trouble making their sounds. CHARLI has a funny cold and she makes animal sounds. NATHAN drives with his caravan with the Hi-5 band inside. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about four bugs (Kathleen the beetle, Charli the ant, Tim the snail and Nathan the spider) who decide to set off and see the world, so they travel together facing obstacles along the way. | |||
| 41 | What if? | Wish Upon a Star (wondering) | August 7, 2006 |
| KELLIE dresses up in a silly way for a rainy day. NATHAN looks for round things and he imagines a round world. CHARLI rolls and jumps like a bug. Wonder TIM helps people in musical trouble. CHARLI does a superhero warm up. KATHLEEN dresses up like different winged creatures. CHARLI pretends to be a grasshopper. SHARING STORIES: Tim tells us a story about a mermaid (Charli) and a dolphin (Kellie) that watch at two children (Kathleen and Nathan) playing soccer, so they wish for a pair of legs and the mermaid makes a wish on her magic pearls and their tails become legs and feet. | |||
| 42 | Wonderful nature | Wish Upon a Star (wondering) | August 8, 2006 |
| *NATHAN plays a game with Tim and Kellie, where he must guess which shape from nature they are acting out. CHARLI pretends to be a lotus flower. KATHLEEN makes a swirling pattern in the garden. CHARLI and Tim become garden gnomes. TIM talks to a talking tree (Kathleen). CHARLI pretends to be a tickling tree and plays a trick on Kathleen. KELLIE makes a little volcano out of rocks for Chats' volcanic rock. CHARLI pretends to be a volcano. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about a place called Banania, where its inhabitants (Charli, Kathleen and Tim) are crazy about bananas, one day a rocket arrives and an inhabitant from Applelonia (Nathan) shows them an apple and he learns about bananas. | |||
| 43 | Wonderful creatures | Wish Upon a Star (wondering) | August 9, 2006 |
| Beavers TIM, Nathan and Kellie build a beaver lodge together. CHARLI pretends to be a gorilla. KELLIE and Chats imagine the starfish living up in the sky. CHARLI pretends to be a sea creature. KATHLEEN runs an animal shoe shop. CHARLI ties clown shoelaces. NATHAN turns his space into an underwater sea world. CHARLI pretends to be a bison. SHARING STORIES: Kellie tells us a story about three students (Charli, Tim and Nathan) at a magic school, whose tricks go awry during a magic show when their absent-minded teacher (Kathleen) mixes up their wands. | |||
| 44 | Mysteries | Wish Upon a Star (wondering) | August 10, 2006 |
| KELLIE becomes a detective and solves the mystery of the missing things, while speaking in rhyme. CHARLI makes two imaginary cups of tea. NATHAN tries to find out who has taken his shiny clothes, and discovers a magpie (Tim) has been collecting them. Detective CHARLI follows a trail of hand prints around her space. TIM and the Hi-5 band make up a song about the sounds that they heard from their bushwalk. CHARLI cuddles a baby wombat. KATHLEEN makes jelly and discovers how colourful liquid can change into a wobbling solid. CHARLI, Kellie and Nathan do the jelly wobble. SHARING STORIES: Nathan tells us a story about a family (Kathleen, Charli, Kellie and Tim) who love surprising each other, and plan big surprises for each other on a rainy day. | |||
| 45 | Dreaming and wishing | Wish Upon a Star (wondering) | August 11, 2006 |
| KATHLEEN puts a wishing well in the garden and wishes to meet her hideaway friend (Jup Jup). Chats pretends to be Katie Cool Pants and KELLIE gives her healthy food. CHARLI practises karate. TIM finds a musical magical lamp and he wishes for some things but it gives him musical instruments. CHARLI tries the musical magical lamp and she wishes to be a ballerina. NATHAN makes a giant dreamcatcher. CHARLI pretends to be a dreamcatcher. SHARING STORIES: Kathleen tells us a story about a crocodile (Nathan) who lost a tooth and doesn't want to show his smile, so his parents (Charli and Tim) tell him about the tooth fairy (Kellie), who visits him that night. | |||
DVDs[]
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CDs[]
TV Series DVDs[]
- Series 8 Volume 1: Hey! What's Cooking?
- Series 8 Volume 2: Special
- Series 8 Volume 3: Peek-A-Boo
- Series 8 Volume 4: Have Some Fun
- Series 8 Volume 5: Growing Up
- Series 8 Volume 6: Pretending Day
- Series 8 Volume 7: Share Everything With You
- Series 8 Volume 8: Are We There Yet?
- Series 8 Volume 9: Wish Upon A Star
Trivia[]
- This marks the first series to credit Kathleen as 'Kathleen deLeon Jones'.
- The credits theme for every episode gets cut off at the end.
- In all the end credits, under the Song of the Week Lyricist, Leone Carey's name was misspelled as "Leonie Carey". This was in all the Songs Of The Week that were written by Leone Carey.
- This is the last series to feature Kathleen as a member of Hi-5.
- However, she makes guest appearances in three episodes of Series 9, episodes 1, 2 and 45.
- Nathan and Kellie had gotten engaged while filming this series.
- This series was filmed in 2005.
- There are Songs Of The Week titles that are referenced in the opening theme:
- Growing Up (As "Growing"), Pretending Day (As "Pretending"), and Share Everything With You (As "Sharing") are almost referenced, the rest of the songs are only referenced in synonyms parts.
- This series debuted a brand new design for the Sharing Stories Segment set which was used until Series 11.