Numberblocks Series 5

Numberblocks Series 5
No. of episodes	30
Premiere	Your Turn
Finale	100 Ways to Leave the Planet
Transmission dates	8th March, 2021 - 25th June, 2021
Season chronology
Previous	Numberblocks Series 4
Next	Specials/Numberblocks Series 6

Series 5 is the 5th series of Numberblocks. It is also the ninth Learningblocks series overall.

Episodes

no. overall	no. in season	Part	Episode	Release Date	Level
91	1	5a	Your Turn	8th March, 2021	2
92	2		Now You See Us	9th March, 2021
93	3		Ten's Top Ten	10th March, 2021
94	4		What's My Number?	11th March, 2021
95	5		Fun Times One Times Table	12th March, 2021	3
96	6		The Many Friends of Twenty	15th March, 2021
97	7		Ten Vaulting	16th March, 2021
98	8		Twoland	17th March, 2021
99	9		Two Times Shoe Shop	18th March, 2021
100	10		Odd Side Story	19th March, 2021
101	11		How Rectangly!	22nd March, 2021	4
102	12		Rectangle Racers	23rd March, 2021
103	13		The Team Factor	24th March, 2021
104	14		Hidden Talents	25th March, 2021
105	15		Making Patterns	26th March, 2021
106	16	5b	Now in 3D	7th June, 2021
107	17		Club Picnic	8th June, 2021
108	18		Too Many Threes	9th June, 2021
109	19		Circus of Threes	10th June, 2021
110	20		Figure It Out	11th June, 2021
111	21		Snow Day Doubles	14th June, 2021
112	22		Steps Versus Squares	15th June, 2021
113	23		Puzzle Square	16th June, 2021
114	24		Four on the Floor	17th June, 2021
115	25		Sky High Fives	18th June, 2021
116	26		One Giant Step Squad	21st June, 2021	5
117	27		Square on the Moon	22nd June, 2021
118	28		Heroes With Zeroes	23rd June, 2021
119	29		What If?	24th June, 2021
120	30		100 Ways to Leave the Planet	25th June, 2021

New Characters

Numberblocks

• Twenty-Three in How Rectangly!
• Twenty-Four in How Rectangly!
• Twenty-Six in Hidden Talents
• Twenty-Seven in Making Patterns
• Twenty-Eight in Making Patterns
• Twenty-Nine in Club Picnic
• Thirty-One in Figure It Out
• Thirty-Two in Figure It Out
• Thirty-Five in Sky High Fives
• Thirty-Six in Steps Versus Squares
• Forty-Five in Sky High Fives
• Forty-Nine in Square on the Moon
• Fifty-Five in One Giant Step Squad
• Sixty-Four in Square on the Moon
• Eighty-One in Square on the Moon

Times Tables

• One Times Table in Fun Times One Times Table
• Two Times Table in Two Times Shoe Shop
• Three Times Table in Circus of Threes
• Four Times Table in Four on the Floor
• Five Times Table in Sky High Fives
• Ten Times Table in Heroes with Zeroes

Non-Physcal

• Ten Million in What If?
• One Hundred Million in What If?
• One Billion in What If?

Trivia

In general

• Series 5 was originally not going to be greenlit at all, however it eventually did anyway due to popular demand.
• As well as being the first series of 2021, it is also the first series of the 2020s decade.
• This is currently the last Numberblocks series with 30 episodes.
• This is the first series to have episodes of four different levels, more levels than the series before it.
  • The first four episodes are in Orange Level 2, the next six are in Yellow Level 3, the next fifteen are in Green Level 4, and the last five are in Blue Level 5.
• This tweet officially announced the new season coming to CBeebies and BBC iPlayer on the 7th of June, 2021 at 8:15 AM.
  • They were also available outside the UK two weeks later on the 21st of June, 2021 via YouTube Kids.
  • The CBeebies schedule also confirmed that Series 5 will have thirty episodes like the previous two series.
• This is the second Numberblocks series to have a three-month delay within the middle of the series, the first is Series 3.
  • Alphablocks Series 3 also had this happen.

Specific to Series 5a

• On Facebook and Twitter, on the 8th of February, 2021, a picture of One to Five in a nine-colour gradient was put up teasing the episode Now You See Us. The title on the picture says: "Breaking News! New series coming soon!", representing the fact that Series 5a was coming soon to CBeebies in 2021.
  • More than two weeks later, on the 24th of February, 2021, a picture from the same episode featuring One to Nine, with all of their blocks coloured red, was put up on the same two websites.

Specific to Series 5b

• This article reveals some things about Series 5b. It teased the following:
  • The concept of Infinity. ("What If?")
  • A fifteen-minute episode about telling time. ("About Time"; seems that the specials were greenlit the same time as Series 5)
  • Times tables up to five and the ten times table.
    • However, only the latter turned out to be true, as no episodes about infinity or time would be shown. However, the fifteen-minute time episode would eventually be revealed as a Special episode that's unrelated to Series 5 at all, titled About Time, though it is only ten minutes long.
• British singer and comedian Sooz Kempner announced on Twitter that she will voice the Three and Ten times tables.
• This tweet (dated the 19th of May, 2021) announced that new Numberblocks episodes may be coming soon, although no exact date was given.
• The Learningblocks email newsletter has this description for Series 5b:
  • You can always add one more... or in this case, 15 brand new Numberblocks episodes which are coming to CBeebies at 8.15am on Monday the 7^th June!
    Roll up, roll up, to meet some new times tables, get to know the heroes with zeroes and find out if it's possible to land a square on the moon...
    You can watch these new shows on CBeebies and on the BBC iPlayer. If you haven’t already caught up with the latest Series 5 you can see it here.
    For our number fans outside the UK, these brand new episodes will also be coming to YouTube Kids from the 21st June.
  • Notably, this talks about "heroes with zeroes" and an episode about squares landing on the moon. The latter is a bit ironic considering that Four and Nine already went to the moon.

Gallery

The placeholder used for upcoming episodes for the schedule of BBC.

Numberblocks episodes

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Series 1	High Five!	One, Another One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three!, Four, Five, Three Little Pigs, Off We Go, How to Count, Stampolines, The Whole of Me, The Terrible Twos, Holes, Hide and Seek
Series 2	Ten out of Ten	Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Just Add One, Blast Off, Counting Sheep, Double Trouble, The Three Threes, Odds and Evens, Fluffies, The Two Tree, Numberblock Castle, Ten Green Bottles
Series 3	Number Fun	Once Upon A Time, Blockzilla, The Numberblocks Express, Fruit Salad, Zero, Now We Are Six to Ten, Numberblobs, Building Blocks, Peekaboo!, Hiccups, What's the Difference?, Numberblock Rally, Five and Friends, Octoblock to the Rescue!, Ten Again
	Fifteen and Friends	Flatland, Pattern Palace, The Legend of Big Tum, Mirror, Mirror, The Wrong Number, Eleven, Twelve, The Way of the Rectangle, Ride the Rays, Block Star, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Tween Scenes, Step Squads
Series 4	Series 4a	Fifteen's Minute of Fame, On Your Head, Ten's Place, Balancing Bridge, Sixteen, Square Club, Seventeen, Eighteen, Loop the Loop, Nineteen, Twenty, Tall Stories, Flights of Fancy, I Can Count to Twenty, Heist
	Series 4b	Sign of the Times, Fun Times Fair, The Lair of Shares, Terrible Twosday, Divide and Drive, Twenty-One and On, We're Going on a Square Hunt, Thirty's Big Top, Land of the Giants, Fifty, Sixty's High Score, The Big One, One Hundred, One Thousand and One, More To Explore
Series 5	Series 5a	Your Turn, Now You See Us, Ten's Top Ten, What's My Number?, Fun Times One Times Table, The Many Friends of Twenty, Ten Vaulting, Twoland, Two Times Shoe Shop, Odd Side Story, How Rectangly!, Rectangle Racers, The Team Factor, Hidden Talents, Making Patterns
	Series 5b	Now in 3D, Club Picnic, Too Many Threes, Circus of Threes, Figure It Out, Snow Day Doubles, Steps Versus Squares, Puzzle Square, Four on the Floor, Sky High Fives, One Giant Step Squad, Square on the Moon, Heroes With Zeroes, What If?, 100 Ways to Leave the Planet
Series 6	Series 6	Painting by Numbers, Leap Blob, Ice and Dice, Go Go Domino, Ten in the Bed, Shape Party, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Cuboid Castle, On My Way to Numberblock Fair, Octoblock and the Path of Justice, Five's Handy Shop, As Tall as the Sun, Feeding Time, Rockets and Rekenreks, The Pattern of Patterns
Series 7	Series 7	Grid Unlocked, Friendly Fours' Beach Day, All-Star Line-Up, Rescue Racers, The Rolling Sixes, Remix the Sixes, Grid Games Galore, The Rainbow Makers, Sail the Seven Seas, We Need Another Hero, Super Eights Assemble, Seventy-Two's Super Surprise, The Magical Nines, Nine's Time to Shine, Space Division
Specials		The Treasure of Hexagon Island, Double Back, About Time, The Twelve Days of Christmas
Alphablocks and Numberblocks		Making Friends, Crossover, The Case of the Missing Blocks, The Blocks v Blocks Games
Other		Numberblocks Theme Song, Easter Egg Hunt, Numberblobs Count to 100, Numberblocks Live Lesson, Numberblocks Dance Routine, Numberblocks Day, Fourth Wall Breaks