Construction Site is a British live action children’s television series created by The Jim Henson Company in 1999, featuring a group of seven anthropomorphic construction vehicles. It was originally produced for and shown on CITV starting on September 10, 1999. In 2003, it was nominated for a Children’s BAFTA for the Best Pre-School Live Action. Two, 13-episode seasons were produced. Episodes are packaged as 52 x 10’ or 13 x 26’. The show is similar in concept to Bob the Builder and Jack and the Sodor Construction Company (a spin-off of Thomas & Friends), albeit without any human characters and in a more realistic, less toylike visual style. The show had a range of video releases by Universal Australia.
This article is about the children’s television series. For a location where construction is carried out, see Construction.
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The main characters consist of a range of different construction equipment. They are as follows:
- Diggs is a male blue Backhoe loader
- Bozer is a male red Bulldozer
- Scooch is a male orange Dumper
- Carrie is a female purple Forklift
- Carl is a male green Crane
- Lug is a male yellow Dump truck
- Maxine is a female brown Cement Mixer
There were also mentioned/visiting characters:
- Flatty the Flatbed
- Skatch the Dumper
- Big Rig the Large Dump truck
- Dumper the Jumper Truck
- Big Rig the “Supertruck”
- Kevin the Crane
- Truckzilla the Monster Truck
There are also other vehicles and machines:
- The Low Loader
- The Tall Crane
- The Conveyor Belt
- The Wrecking Ball Crane
- “Who’s the Boss” – Carrie thinks she’d make just as good a boss as Bozer and when he gives her the chance she’s determined to prove it.
- “Cool Fuel” – The machines must clear an old dumpsite to make way for a new car park in just one day.
- “What I Do Best” – When Diggs starts treating everyday jobs on the construction site as a competition, Bozer decides to introduce a real contest—the Machine Challenge
- “Carnival Capers” – On Maxine’s mileage day, Bozer enlists the help of the others to organize a party to celebrate.
- “Big Bozer Is Watching” – Scooch is terrified to work on top of a tall building after spilling salt earlier in the day, as he believes it’s bad luck.
- “Big Rig” – Lug scoffs when he sees the new machines pretending to be a superhero named Big Rig, but he might need some of those powers.
- “Listening Troubles” – When Bozer tells Diggs that he’s full of good ideas he thinks he’ll share them with Scooch and Carrie—but Carrie has her own ideas, and they bicker.
- “The Way of the Bodger” – Diggs learns the merits of doing a job properly after he does mediocre work to save time.
- “Look What I’ve Got” – Diggs is proud of his shiny new attachment. But when Bozer tells him it’s needed on an important job, Diggs realizes that he doesn’t know what it does.
- “Tread Carefully” – Diggs wears some new, fashionable treads, but his quest for fashion leaves Scooch in a tight spot.
- “A Good Mixer” – The new machines have a lot of bricks to move, so many in fact that Diggs thinks they could use a little help from Maxine.
- “Almost Famous” – When Diggs, Carrie and Scooch dig a trench in the wrong place they think they’ve struck oil and dream of riches.
- “Sunk” – When the younger machines accidentally knock a load of oil drums into the dock they are too scared to own up to their mistake.
- “What’s the Plan” – Diggs and Scooch thing they’re saving Bozer some time by digging a pond, but they put it in the wrong place.
- “Idle Time” – When there’s cement mix to be moved and Carrie’s feeling fired up, nothing can stop her—nothing except a dead battery that is.
- “A Riveting Story” – Carrie chooses to horse around when the machines are clearing out an old dock, and has to be rescued by Carl.
- “There’s No Place Like Home” – Preoccupied because he misses his birth site, Carl almost drops a pipe on Diggs, leading the others to try and cheer him up.
- “Truckmate” – Diggs is jealous when Scooch chooses to work with Carrie instead of him, so Diggs impersonates Carrie to win back his friend.
- “Grown Up for a Day” – When Diggs saves Carl from a nasty accident, the older machines decide it’s time he started hanging out with them.
- “Mid-Mileage Crisis” – After reflecting on his carefree youth, Lug decides that he’s not ready for old age and joins Diggs and Scooch for some ‘top gear’ fun.
- “Loud and Clear” – Scooch’s voice is too quiet to stop Lug from crashing, and Scooch worries that the older truck will never forgive him.
- “Junkyard” – Diggs frightens Carrie and Schooch on a junkyard run with tales of a scary monster named “Truckzilla.”
- “From Start to Finish” – Diggs, Carrie and Scooch are tired of the old machines always telling them what to do, and want to prove to Bozer they can work on their own
- “Out with the Old” – Bozer tells the machines that it’s “out with the old and in with the new,” to Carl and Lug’s chagrin.
- “Feeling Flat” – Scooch wants to find something he can do that Diggs can’t. But when he tries to max out his load all he ends up with is a flat tire.
- “One Roll at the Time” – Diggs discovers Bozer is scared of water, but in an effort to help Bozer conquer his fear, Diggs ends up in trouble.
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