

Bottersnikes & Gumbles
2016–2017 · CBBC · 15 min · 1 season
S01E52 · Better Out Than In
Tue, 14 Mar, 6:10 pm
In spite of her larger size, Bounce is determined to win a game of Better Out Than In, but ends up getting herself stuck in a tin and causing Tink and Willi to be captured, so decides to use her size to her advantage and rescue them.
About
Bottersnikes & Gumbles is the award-winning CGI animated series based on the much-loved 1970s classic children's books by Australian author S.A. Wakefield and illustrated by Desmond Digby.
In a far away forgotten valley of abandoned junk, a timeless battle rages between good and evil… between squashy and scaly, happy and grumpy, clever and wily… handsome and plain old ugly. This is the land of Bottersnikes & Gumbles. Using stealth, trickery, daring rescues and narrow escapes, the heroic Gumbles try to outwit the evil Bottersnikes in every episode.
Full of comraderie and anarchy, Bottersnikes & Gumbles will delight and entertain kids with rough-and-tumble action and adventure, and includes Harry Potter stars Miriam Margolyes and Jeff Rawle in its cast.
Episodes
- E01
The Gumbledex
Tue, 26 July· 12 minMonday's episode sees Tink desperate to get his name into the Gumbledex, a record of outstanding Gumble achievements, so he tries to break the record for the most Bottersnike nose hairs stolen in one go.
- E02
King Sized Calamity
Wed, 27 July· 12 minTuesday's episode stars Happi, who has built a horn and is planning a musical performance for the rest of the Gumbles. When Bounce accidentally breaks the spring that powers the horn, she enlists Tink and Willi to help her steal a new one from the Bottersnikes.
- E03
Song of the Bottersnikes
Thu, 28 July· 12 minWednesday's episode sees Merri and Jolli walk out on The Gumbletree after overhearing Tink insulting their terrible singing, but when Weathersnike hears their unique brand of music he is dazzled, and captures the twins to entertain the King.
- E04
The Spangler
Thu, 28 July· 12 min - E05
Undercover Gumble
Fri, 29 July· 12 minOn Thursday, the Gumbles' ball ends up in the hands of the evil Bottersnikes, so Tink, Bounce and Willi try to retrieve it, but Bounce ends up spanging herself when she overstretches, leaving her miserable and unable to gumble.
- E06
Up, Up and Away
Tue, 2 Aug· 12 min - E07
Grubloom Day
Wed, 3 Aug· 10 min - E08
Gumble Rally
Thu, 4 Aug· 12 min - E09
Toot on Duty
Fri, 5 Aug· 10 min - E10
Gumble Magnetism
Sat, 6 Aug· 10 min - E11
The King's Seat
Tue, 9 Aug· 12 min - E12
Burples
Wed, 10 Aug· 12 min - E13
Abominable Gumble
Thu, 11 Aug· 12 min - E14
This Means Peace
Fri, 12 Aug· 12 min - E15
King Prisoner
Sat, 13 Aug· 12 min - E16
The Monster in the Moat
Mon, 5 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. After twice mistakenly claiming to have seen a monster, Willi is reluctant to be made a fool of again and doesn't alert anyone when he spots something suspicious under the Gumbletree. But when the Snikes kidnap his friends, it's up to Willi to save them.
- E17
The Blame Game
Tue, 6 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. When Tink, Bounce and Willi find themselves trapped on Snike Hill with no memory of their capture, they try to recall what happened, but Tink and Bounce have very different versions of events, each placing the other at fault.
- E18
Gumble Grabba
Wed, 7 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. When the Bottersnikes discover they need smaller hands to reach some sofa rot in their mattress mine, they use Gubbo's new Gumble-grabber to snatch the Gumbles from the Gumbletree to do it for them, leaving Float to mount a solo rescue.
- E19
Sammi Whammi Gumble
Thu, 8 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. After learning of Happi's failed experiment to send a Gumble into space, Tink becomes determined to try it, but when he is detached from his safety rope, Happi must launch himself into space to save him.
- E20
Those Magnificent Gumbles
Fri, 9 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. Float is growing increasingly annoyed by Merri and Jolli distracting her search for the mythical three-headed dump dragon, but when she tells them to go and play in the storm and they end up captured in Snike Hill, Float feels responsible and mounts an ingenious rescue mission.
- E21
Captain Grate Face
Mon, 12 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. After getting a grater stuck on his head, Willi is mistaken by the other gumbles for the legendary, snike-slaying Captain Grate Face, and finally starts getting the respect he deserves, but when the snikes show up, Willi must either come clean or live up to his newly acquired heroic reputation.
- E22
Tink's Big Stink
Tue, 13 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. After Tink recklessly stinks out the Gumbletree, he tries to behave more responsibly as he leads the gumbles on a snike lookout, but when he takes his responsible attitude too far, he gets Merri and Jolli captured by snikes and must revert to his old, impulsive habits to save the day.
- E23
The Sneaky Snike
Wed, 14 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. Happi is teaching gumblecraft to try to instill its virtues into the other gumbles, but when the snikes destroy the dodge gumble pitch during the class, the gumbles blame Happi, who sets out to prove the worth of gumblecraft by using it to trap the snikes.
- E24
Blue Grub Moon
Thu, 15 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. When a blue moon causes blue grubs to spring from the ground, Happi warns the other gumbles about the dangers of eating them, but Merri accidentally eats one, and turns into a fierce weregumble, charging into Snike Hill looking for prey.
- E25
Gumble Pie
Fri, 16 Dec· 15 minAnimated series. When Tink is assigned lookout duty while the other gumbles pick berries, he builds a dummy to cover for him, but when his failure to keep a lookout allows the snikes to approach, they mistake the dummy for a real gumble and take it to the King, leading the other gumbles to launch a rescue mission for what they think is Tink!
- E26
The Age of Gumbletron
Mon, 16 Jan· 15 minAnimated series. When the Gumbles grow tired of Tink's bossy behaviour and refuse to help him, he invents a robot to replace them, but when his stubbornness gets his friends captured and his robot stolen, he concedes that he needs his friends' help after all.
- E27
Happy Gumbleday to Bounce
Tue, 17 Jan· 15 minAnimated series. When Tink completely forgets Bounce's gumbleday, he lies and pretends he has a great present waiting for her in the junkyard, but when he leads her straight into a snike attack, he is forced to admit the truth.
- E28
The Pied Tooter
Wed, 18 Jan· 15 minAnimated series. When Toot accidentally swallows a kazoo, the sound of his voice summons giant grubs that enjoy sucking on gumbles, and it's up to Toot to find a way to free his friends and rid the junkyard of the grubs.
- E29
A Grubby Truce
Thu, 19 Jan· 15 minAnimated series. When Weathersnike captures Tink, Bounce and some grubs to make a tonic to cure the king's hiccups, the gumbles and grubs must call a truce and work together to escape Snike Hill.
- E30
Cloudy with a Chance of Gumbles
Fri, 20 Jan· 15 minAnimated series. When an over-inflated and spanged Float gets stuck above Snike Hill, she accidentally gets Tink, Bounce and Willi captured, and must pretend to be a giant raincloud that Weathersnike predicted, and scare the snikes into hiding so she can save her friends.
- E31
A Gumble Too Far
Mon, 23 Jan· 15 min - E32
Hair Today
Tue, 24 Jan· 15 min - E33
Wise Guy
Wed, 25 Jan· 15 min - E34
Mangled!
Thu, 26 Jan· 15 min - E35
Eau De Gumble
Fri, 27 Jan· 15 min - E36
Happi Go Lucky
Mon, 30 Jan· 15 minTink is delighted when Happi drinks too much youngenberry juice, causing him to stop being his usual worrisome self and instead embark on risky gumbling shenanigans. But when Happi begins to get out of control, the other Gumbles must return him back to normal before he puts them all in danger.
- E37
You Got Grubb'd
Tue, 31 Jan· 15 minMerri and Jolli are having a great time playing pranks on (or grubbing) the other Gumbles, but when they push it too far and try to prank the Snikes, they are captured. It's up to Happi, who wrote the book on grubbing, to rescue them with the ultimate prank.
- E38
The Neverstorm
Wed, 1 Feb· 15 minWhilst being held captive by the Bottersnikes, Tink overhears how much the king fears rain. He decides to pretend he has weather prediction powers and predicts a storm in order to trick the Snikes into hiding, leaving the Gumbles to play in peace.
- E39
Where's Willi?
Thu, 2 Feb· 15 minWhen Willi, tired of not being taken seriously, discovers that a heroic Gumble captured years earlier may still be being held under Snike Hill, he launches an ill-fated solo rescue mission.
- E40
The Ugly Pageant
Fri, 3 Feb· 15 minAfter being captured by the Snikes and put in the mattress mine, Tink, Bounce and Willi bicker about whose escape plan is the best. Above them, the Bottersnikes hold a pageant to crown the ugliest Snike on Snike Hill.
- E41
Vive La Grub
Mon, 27 Feb· 15 minBounce is taken captive by a colony of grubs, and soon finds that she enjoys their company, but after Tink trades the gumbles grub supply for Bounce's safe return, she has warmed to the grubs so much that she begins behaving like one, landing herself and her friends in trouble on Snike Hill.
- E42
Gubbo's Great Grub Grabber
Tue, 28 Feb· 15 minWhen Tink accidentally gets the twins tangle-spanged, he sets off to find grubs to cure them, unaware that Gubbo has invented a machine to round up all the grubs in order to starve the gumbles out of existence.
- E43
In Your Dreams
Wed, 1 Mar· 15 minWhen the gumbles are attacked by one of Smiggles' dream creatures, Merri and Jolli wake Smiggles up, getting captured in the process, so Tink decides to impersonate a Smiggles dream creature in order to save his friends.
- E44
The Return of Sammi Whammi Gumble
Thu, 2 Mar· 15 minWhen Sammi Whammi Gumble returns from space, he tries to hide the fact that he is out of shape to try and impress the other gumbles, but when his charade gets Happi captured, he is forced to come clean to Tink in order to save him.
- E45
Gum Fu Gumble
Fri, 3 Mar· 15 minWhen Happi teaches Merri and Jolli the ancient art of gum fu, he fails to mention that it is useless when it comes to fighting actual snikes, and when the twins set off to Snike Hill to pick a fight, it is up to the other gumbles to save them.
- E46
Rustbeard
Mon, 6 Mar· 15 minWhen the twins turn out to be poor captains on the junkboat they've built, the other gumbles mutiny and put Toot in charge, but when the twins are captured by the Snike's enemy ship, the gumbles must mount a swashbuckling rescue mission.
- E47
Berry Grubfest
Tue, 7 Mar· 15 minWhen Willi causes the furnace fire to go out, leaving the gumbles freezing cold, he lures Smiggles to the gumbletree to try to enrage him enough to use his burning ears to relight the furnace.
- E48
An Earful of Willi
Wed, 8 Mar· 15 minWhen his Bottersnike costume fails to beat Tink's at the fancy dress party, Willi ventures to Snike Hill to prove how convincing his outfit is, but ends up stuck in the King's ear, where he poses as his conscience and begins instructing him on what to do.
- E49
Boggle Boggle
Thu, 9 Mar· 15 minWhen the gumbles are struck with boggle twitches, Float is charged with gathering nettles to cure them, but soon finds herself lured in by Weather Snike to cook up a batch for the ailing snikes.
- E50
Beyond Reasonable Drought
Fri, 10 Mar· 15 minWhen the scorching junkyard heat dries up the moat around the gumbletree, the gumbles rely on Tink to come up with a plan to keep them safe from a snike attack, despite the fact that the heat has given Tink tinkblock.
- E51
Better Together
Mon, 13 Mar· 15 minJolli is sick of all her achievements being shared with Merri, so sets out to prove herself as a solo gumbler, but when she ditches her brother and he is captured by the snikes, she launches a rescue mission and realises she is much better when she works with her other half.
- E52
Better Out Than In
Tue, 14 Mar· 15 minIn spite of her larger size, Bounce is determined to win a game of Better Out Than In, but ends up getting herself stuck in a tin and causing Tink and Willi to be captured, so decides to use her size to her advantage and rescue them.