A Circle at Both Ends Numberjacks

# In an ordinary sofa in an ordinary room

# There are extraordinary heroes who are standing by to zoom

# To wherever they are needed They are speeding out today

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# They will help you with your problems

# They are waiting for your call

# No problem is too big for them

# No problem is too small

# Things may all be going wrong but you can bet it's not for long

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# The Numberjacks are on their way! #

THREE HUMS

# La-la-la-la... # Six!

-Hey, Six!

-I'm just going in the gym.

-Great.

-Oh, great, you've got one of your buddy blocks.

-Yes.

Cos you know you're buddy blocks can turn into buddy sticks.

They certainly can. One buddy stick.

Well, I've taught my buddy blocks to do the same thing. Go on.

-Great. Not quite the same as mine.

-What?

The ends are round.

Oh. Oh, yes. That's exactly what I wanted.

Round. A circle at both ends.

This is...a circle stick.

Um... Can your other buddy blocks turn into circle sticks?

Of course.

Go for it!

They're not quite the same.

No, they're fine. Circle sticks.

Sticks with a circle at both ends.

That one's very tall.

Lovely.

BOTH: Oh!

RATTLING

And that one's very fat!

BOTH: Whoa!

Oh, maybe...maybe my circle sticks aren't quite ready yet.

ELECTRONIC BEEPING

-Never mind. We'll see them later.

-Let's go.

Come on, we've got a call coming in.

-Four, come on!

-I need to check the Brain Gain machine is OK.

-We don't need it now.

-Come on, Four.

-Well, OK.

Agent 44 here.

-What's happening?

-Things are going wrong.

-But not for long!

Look at this boy and his chalk.

Putting it on screen.

He can't draw at all with that chalk!

-He needs help.

-And we're the ones to help him.

Thank you.

-I'd like to help that boy.

-OK.

-In that case, Five is going out!

# We've got a problem What shall we do?

# Who's going out there? Who do we choose?

# Need to get out there Who will it be? #

-Who's going out there?

-Number five!

-Good luck, Five.

-Thank you.

Ready for launch. And I'm scanning the room...

-And it's all clear.

-Let's do it.

ALL: Five, four, three

two, one, zero!

Finding a five...

Finding a five...

I've done it!

Oh...oh.

OK. Time to do some helping out.

More problems!

-Agent 63 here.

-Where's the problem?

-It's in the garden centre.

-Can someone put it on screen while I check this?

-On screen.

She's struggling to move the wood.

She's supposed to be helping the customers.

She's making a mess instead!

That's a very strange bit of wood.

CLATTERING

-More problems!

-There's a man delivering a rolled-up carpet.

I've a feeling this is going to go wrong.

MAN: Whoa!

That carpet is out of control!

Why are all these things going wrong?

Is there anything the same about the chalk, the big bits of wood,

-and the carpet?

-I don't know.

It's the shape. They're all the same shape.

Putting them on screen.

Can you see what's the same about them?

Oh! Oh! They've all got a circle at each end.

Like my circle sticks.

-Put them on screen, Three.

-Oh, yes.

They do look different, but they've all got a circle at each end.

I think shapes with circles at both ends are called cylinders.

OK, so we know what all these things going wrong are called -

cylinders. But why are things this shape going wrong?

I think I know. Listen!

CACKLING

It's the Shape Japer!

-What do we know about the Japer?

-This.

# Looks like the Shape Japer's back

# Shape Japer She's really strange

# Shape Japer

# She loves to make things change

# Changes faces, changing size

# Changing shapes every single time

# Changing shapes is the Japer's game

# The Shape Japer's back again. #

Look.

-Cylinder.

-SHE LAUGHS

-Wow!

-She's got a circle at both ends.

-Cylinder!

-And I bet she's going to make trouble.

-You're right.

-I'm after her.

-More trouble.

Someone's got something to eat.

I think there's going to be...

..a problem.

Cylinder!

There's more trouble here.

Oh, dear.

-Is it another cylinder going wrong?

-It's got a circle at both ends.

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Cylinder!

She's back!

-Cylinder. Ha-ha-ha-ha!

-The Shape Japer says these are cylinders.

-She might be tricking us.

-They're open at the end

-and don't have a middle.

-But they have got a circle at both ends.

-Let's get some Brain Gain to sort these cylinders out.

-One thing.

-The Brain Gain isn't working very well today.

-Oh, no!

We'll only be able to use it once,

so we can only fix one type of problem.

We've got to be sure everything we send Brain Gain to

really is a cylinder.

-More problems!

-Will they be cylinders too?

The delivery man is in trouble again.

It's very different from the carpet.

-But it has got a circle at both ends.

-More trouble in the kitchen!

Is that cake a cylinder?

Well, the top of the cake is a circle.

And so is the bottom of it.

If cylinders come in all these different types,

there could be trouble anywhere!

Tins of food in the supermarket have got circles at both ends,

so they are cylinders that could go wrong.

SLURPING

A drinking straw is a long hollow cylinder,

so that could be a cylinder that goes wrong!

Ew! Oh!

Or even a really short and fat cylinder like a cheesecake.

If that goes wrong... it could be very messy!

All those different cylinders! So may things to go wrong!

We've got to put the cylinders right. I'll start the Brain Gain machine!

# Brain Gain, Brain Gain To solve a problem, use a brain

# The way to get your brains all linking up together

# Joined-up thinking... #

'Getting brain power now. Brain Gain!'

Hope the different things were cylinders -

-we've only got once chance with the Brain Gain!

-Cylinder Brain Gain.

-Cylinder Brain Gain!

-Sending Brain Gain now!

Cylinder Brain Gain now!

Cylinders back to normal!

Long cylinders back to normal.

Cylinders with open end back to normal.

Short fat cylinder back to normal.

Thin, flat cylinder back to normal.

Yes!

The Brain Gain works for all of the things!

Because they were all cylinders! Hooray!

-Ha-ha...aaaargh!

-She's not happy we've put everything back to normal.

STRANGLED SHRIEKING

-She's gone!

-Hooray!

-Come back now, Five.

ALL: One, two, three,

four, five!

-Well done, Five.

-Amazing, all those different cylinders.

And you can see them all on the screen.

The boy had trouble with cylinders.

And the gardener and the delivery man

were struggling with their cylinders.

And the cylinders with open ends gave lots of trouble too!

So did this cylinder.

And the cake was a very messy cylinder.

One lot of cylinder Brain Gain sorted out

all those different-looking shapes.

Well, my three buddy blocks weren't quite like yours, Six.

Not exactly.

-But they did help us solve the problem with cylinders.

-True.

Lucky my cylinders aren't doing strange things.

Oh. Oh. Oh! Oh!

You are very silly cylinders.

I wonder, how many different sorts of cylinders can you find?

Oh. Oh. Oh!

Remember to look for a circle at each end.

Find big cylinders, small ones, thin ones, fat ones,

long ones, short ones and call the Numberjacks!

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd

E-mail [email protected]

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# The Numberjacks are on their way! #