Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.
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Air Date: 2004-09-21
On her 11th birthday, still grieving over her recently deceased mother and uncomfortable with being moved from Colora...
Air Date: 2004-09-28
It's Marnie's first day of school at her new home in Scotland. She has an encounter with a bully but makes a new frie...
Air Date: 2004-10-05
When a mysterious problem causes school to be cancelled for the day, Marnie and Laura visit the nearby St. Giles’ Cat...
Air Date: 2004-10-12
Marnie manages to get the red book she was looking for from the library, after which a familiar old man appears befor...
Air Date: 2004-10-19
Since Marnie's suggestion to go to Tantallon Castle was agreed on by majority vote, her class goes there for a field ...
Air Date: 2004-10-26
Marnie is reluctant to go to John Roberts' birthday party until she has a dream revealing that he was really the evil...
Air Date: 2004-11-02
Marnie leaves school in the middle of the day to try to get in touch with Michael Scot, while Toledo tries to convinc...
Air Date: 2004-11-09
Marnie is on a class trip to visit a "stately home," and uses her new powers to defeat a bully, but the shoebox anima...
Air Date: 2004-11-16
Marnie hopes to find the archway shown on the clue she just received, and plans to do so while on a camping trip to t...
Air Date: 2004-11-23
The shoebox animals plead with Marnie to continue the quest, but she insists on trying to catch up on her schoolwork ...
Air Date: 2004-11-30
Marnie and Wolfgang confront Michael regarding the events that lead to the creation of the Shoebox Zoo. Meanwhile, th...
Air Date: 2004-12-07
Toledo hypnotizes Edwin and orders him to open the Book of Forbidden Knowledge. The dark energy released from inside ...
Air Date: 2004-12-14
Marnie makes one last attempt to stop Toledo from taking the book, and comes out victorious after realizing that the ...