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Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions
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Genre Children's
Factual
Starring Ed Petrie
Warrick Brownlow-Pike
Composer(s) Richie Webb
Matt Katz
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 26
Production
Producer(s) Sue Morgan and Simon Parsons BBC Scotland
Louise Corbett
Production location(s) BBC Scotland
Camera setup Multiple
Running time 30min
Release
Original network CBBC (UK)
Cúla 4 on TG4 (Ireland)
BBC Kids (Canada)
Picture format 16:9
Original release 5 January 2009 (2009-01-05) – 27 March 2010 (2010-03-27)

Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions is a children's TV show, presented by Ed Petrie and his puppet cactus companion, Oucho (performed by Warrick Brownlow-Pike). Before this program Ed and Oucho were CBBC office presenters and favoured by many children.

The premise of the show was children sending in designs of inventions, with one each episode being created.

The inventions in the show were created by Artem Ltd, a company that creates props and special effects for TV and film productions.

Filming for the second series began in August 2009, It aired from 2 January 2010 on BBC 2.

Episodes

Series Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 13 5 January 2009 (2009-01-05) 30 March 2009 (2009-03-30)
2 13 2 January 2010 (2010-01-02) 27 March 2010 (2010-03-27)

Series 1 (2009)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title Directed by Written by Original air date
1 1 "The Falconator" Unknown Unknown 5 January 2009 (2009-01-05)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Falconator, an all-terrain vehicle with a juicer and custard cannon. It starts off well, until Oucho crashes it.
2 2 "The Icecoolator" Unknown Unknown 12 January 2009 (2009-01-12)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Icecoolator, an ice-cream-making bicycle. It starts off well, but the ice cream won't freeze.
3 3 "Aqua Drifters" Unknown Unknown 19 January 2009 (2009-01-19)
Ed and Oucho try to build Aqua Drifters, shoes that walk on water. It starts off well, until Oucho's ping pong shoes sink without trace.
4 4 "Fizzerrari" Unknown Unknown 26 January 2009 (2009-01-26)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Fizzerrari, a car powered only by lemonade. It starts off well, until Oucho crashes the prototype.
5 5 "Sir Save-a-Lot" Unknown Unknown 2 February 2009 (2009-02-02)
Ed and Oucho try to build Sir Save-a-Lot, a karaoke robot goalie. It starts off well, until Oucho realises he knows nothing about robots.
6 6 "Mermaid Tail" Unknown Unknown 9 February 2009 (2009-02-09)
Intrepid inventors Ed and Oucho try to build the Mermaider, a mermaid tail for humans. It starts off well - until Ed realises that the tail doesn't work at all.
7 7 "Dirt Rumbler" Unknown Unknown 16 February 2009 (2009-02-16)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Dirt Rumbler, a tank that waterbombs people. It starts off well, until Oucho realises the catapult does not work.
8 8 "Gardening Dragon" Unknown Unknown 23 February 2009 (2009-02-23)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Dolly the Gardening Dragon, a dragon that can dig, water, plant seeds and has a hot chocolate tummy.
9 9 "Solar Jak-et" Unknown Unknown 2 March 2009 (2009-03-02)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Solar Jak-et, a jacket that lights up, plays music, sprays water and has a walkie talkie.
10 10 "Treat Run" Unknown Unknown 9 March 2009 (2009-03-09)
Ed and Oucho try to build the Treat Run, a treadmill that powers music, a water spray, a chocolate drawer and a confetti bomb.
11 11 "Amazopack" Unknown Unknown 16 March 2009 (2009-03-16)
Ed and Oucho try to build the 'Amazopak', a backpack that hides stuff, controls a car and has a TV on it. Will they be able to build it in time?
12 12 "Flying Pizzaling" Unknown Unknown 23 March 2009 (2009-03-23)
Ed and Oucho try to make the Flying Pizzaling, a flying pizza deliverer. Their cheese lifting experiment soon descends into a food fight.
13 13 "The Waker Upper" Unknown Unknown 30 March 2009 (2009-03-30)
Ed and Oucho try to make the 'Waker Upper', a contraption that wakes you up by opening curtains, turning on music and providing biscuits.

Series 2 (2010)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title Directed by Written by Original air date
14 1 "Bubble Bobbin Robin" Claire Gillies Unknown 2 January 2010 (2010-01-02)
Ed and Oucho try to make a robin-shaped hovercraft, but will investigative journalist Seymour Scandal expose them as science fakes?
15 2 "High Hydra" Claire Gillies Unknown 9 January 2010 (2010-01-09)
Ed and Oucho's campervan has become infested with cake-eating mice. The only solution is to make Joe's High Hydra.
16 3 "Choccy Oke" Natalie Moss Unknown 16 January 2010 (2010-01-16)
Ed and Oucho must invent a stall to make chocolate-covered marshmallows for Chloe, but zombies threaten to eat Oucho if it's not built on time.
17 4 "Popper Chopper" Jennifer King Unknown 23 January 2010 (2010-01-23)
Ed and Oucho are in Bishop's Stortford trying to build Harvey's Popper Chopper, a car that makes butterscotch popcorn.
18 5 "Rainbow a Go Go" Jennifer King Unknown 30 January 2010 (2010-01-30)
When Ed and Oucho's van breaks down, they decide to build a rainbow-making disco machine so that they can find a pot of gold.
19 6 "Spar-Master" Jennifer King Unknown 6 February 2010 (2010-02-06)
Ed and Oucho are in West Yorkshire trying to build Billy's Spar-Master, a karate practice machine.
20 7 "Spy Buggy" Jennifer King Unknown 13 February 2010 (2010-02-13)
Ed and Oucho are in Willesden trying to build Josh's 'spy buggy', a buggy that can fire secret party messages right under teachers' noses.
21 8 "Do It Dancefloor" Jennifer King Unknown 20 February 2010 (2010-02-20)
Ed and Oucho are trying to build Sarah's Do It Dancefloor, a sound-activated dancefloor with lights, glitter and a smoke machine.
22 9 "Apple Scrumper" Natalie Moss Unknown 27 February 2010 (2010-02-27)
Ed and Oucho want some apple pies, so they travel to Wiltshire to attempt to make Wilf's Apple Scrumper invention.
23 10 "Horologelator" Natalie Moss Unknown 6 March 2010 (2010-03-06)
Ed and Oucho attempt to build the most difficult invention ever, a time machine, so Oscar can fulfil his dream and meet Henry VIII.
24 11 "Flosserama" Natalie Moss Unknown 13 March 2010 (2010-03-13)
Ed and Oucho travel to Oxfordshire to build a Flosserama - a spinning machine that makes candyfloss for Briony and Amelia.
25 12 "Hydro-Bike" Jennifer King Unknown 20 March 2010 (2010-03-20)
Ed and Oucho are in Newcastle, trying to build Aidan's 'Hydro-Bike', a bike that goes on land and water.
26 13 "Davenportanator" Natalie Moss Unknown 27 March 2010 (2010-03-27)
Ed and Oucho need to find out about radio waves if they want to win Carl Trouser's quiz. So they build Hemang's Davenportanator.
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