The first series of Alphablocks began airing on the 25th of January, 2010. It is the first series of Blocks Universe overall.
Episodes
| no. overall/in series |
Episode | Release Date | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alphablocks A-Z | 25th January, 2010 | 1 |
| 2 | Bee | 5 | |
| 3 | Top | 26th January, 2010 | 1 |
| 4 | Why | 5 | |
| 5 | Key | 27th January, 2010 | |
| 6 | Glow | ||
| 7 | Sing | 28th January, 2010 | 4 |
| 8 | Band | ||
| 9 | Party | 29th January, 2010 | 2 |
| 10 | Cha Cha Cha | 1st February, 2010 | 3 |
| 11 | Race | ||
| 12 | Moon | 2nd February, 2010 | |
| 13 | Alphalympics | 3rd February, 2010 | 5 |
| 14 | Sail | 4th February, 2010 | 3 |
| 15 | UFO | 5th February, 2010 | 5 |
| 16 | Fox | ||
| 17 | Surprise | 8th February, 2010 | |
| 18 | Bus | 9th February, 2010 | |
| 19 | Space | 10th February, 2010 | |
| 20 | Hide | 11th February, 2010 | |
| 21 | Quiet | 12th February, 2010 | |
| 22 | Map | 15th February, 2010 | 4 |
| 23 | Jaybird | 16th February, 2010 | 5 |
| 24 | Note | 17th February, 2010 | |
| 25 | Zzzzz | 19th February, 2010 | |
| 26 | Magic |
Digraphs
- qu
- ee
- th
- er
- ll
- ow
- sh
- ey
- ck
- ch
- oo
- ea
- oor
- ai
- ar
- ear
- oar
- ur
- air
- aw
- ay
- zz
Characters
New
- It
- Ape
Trivia
- Later series retaught most of the topics Series 1 taught.
- This series is considered an oddity compared to the rest of the Alphablocks series due to various reasons.
- Series 1's episodes are only 3 minutes long instead of 5 in later series, meaning that before Series 2 first aired, Series 1 episodes had to air in pairs to make them total to 6 minutes. Nowadays, Series 1 episode reruns air individually, but with longer breaks between them and whatever show is airing next to make up for the episodes being shorter.
- The episodes themselves appear to centre around entirely random topics with no correlation to each other. As a result, the episodes' levelling system is incredibly uneven; there are two episodes under Red Level One, one under Orange Level Two, four under Yellow Level Three, three under Green Level Four, and sixteen episodes under Blue Level Five, more than the rest combined.
- Digraph EY and trigraphs OOR and OAR appear to remain exclusive to this series, as they haven’t appeared since.
- As of now, only 18 of the 26 episodes of this series are available to watch in BBC iPlayer.
- The other 8 episodes that are missing are Bee, Key, Cha Cha Cha, Alphalympics, UFO, Quiet, Map and Zzzzz. The episodes also aren't streaming in Alphablocks World or seen in official episode lists, and are thus now mostly exclusive to the Alphablocks YouTube channel. It is unknown why these episodes aren't present, though a likely reason could be that the show wants to align with the Phonics Phase and not teach skills not in the curriculum.
- It is the first Learningblocks series overall to release its own episodes in pairs without being concurrent with another series, with the next one being the eighth series of Numberblocks.