Construction Site

All Episodes 1999 - 2001
TV-Y

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  • 1999-09-09T23:00:00Z
  • 18m
  • 15h 36m (52 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • The Jim Henson Company
Enter the world of "Construction Site," a special place beyond the fence where, through the antics and adventures of trucks and construction machines, children are exposed to important messages about the nature of learning, thinking, and behaving. Children learn along with Digs and his friends as they explore strategies and behaviors for learning and doing their best.

52 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

1x01 Who's the Boss

Series Premiere

1x01 Who's the Boss

  • 1999-11-12T00:00:00Z18m

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.

1999-11-12T00:00:00Z

1x02 Cool Fuel

1x02 Cool Fuel

  • 1999-11-12T00:00:00Z18m

The machines must clear an old dumpsite to make way for a new car park in just one day. Bozer gives the machines a new batch of fuel as a treat but because Carrie is an electric machine she worries because she is different.

1999-09-09T23:00:00Z

1x03 What I Do Best

1x03 What I Do Best

  • 1999-09-09T23:00:00Z18m

When Diggs starts treating everyday jobs on the construction site as a competition, Bozer decides to introduce a real contest - the Machine Challenge!

1999-09-09T23:00:00Z

1x04 Carnival Capers

1x04 Carnival Capers

  • 1999-09-09T23:00:00Z18m

It's Maxine's 'mileage day'. Bozer enlists the help of the other machines to organize a Carnival Party to celebrate but it has to be a surprise because Maxine doesn't usually celebrate her Mileage Day and she doesn't like being made a fuss of.

1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x05 Big Dozer is Watching

1x05 Big Dozer is Watching

  • 1999-11-05T00:00:00Z18m

When Scooch spills some salt grit, Diggs fills his head with the notion that it is 'unlucky', so when Bozer tells them they are working on top of a very high building, Scooch is terrified. There is a camera feed from the top of the building to a TV below so Bozer asks Carl and Lug to keep an eye on the little machines. And they certainly make for some great viewing as Scooch's worst fears are realized when the lift malfunctions setting him up for a very bumpy ride!

1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

1x06 Big Rig

1x06 Big Rig

  • 1999-11-05T00:00:00Z18m

Lug finds it easy to scoff when he sees the newer machines playing at being Big Rig - the superhero truck - everybody knows there is no such thing as "extra vroom". But when Bozer sends him to an unexplored dumpsite and he begins to sink into the unstable ground he soon finds out that there may be just a little bit of Big Rig in all of us.

1999-10-14T23:00:00Z

1x07 Listening Trouble

1x07 Listening Trouble

  • 1999-10-14T23:00:00Z18m

When Bozer tells Diggs he's full of good ideas he shares them with Scooch and Carrie. But it seems that Carrie's got a few good ideas of her own and they're soon in disagreement.

1999-10-14T23:00:00Z

1x08 The Way of the Bodger

1x08 The Way of the Bodger

  • 1999-10-14T23:00:00Z18m

Diggs and Scooch are working on foundations and are tired and fed up. When Maxine and Lug reminisce about their younger days when they would 'bodge' a job to get it done more quickly, Diggs believes he's on to a winner

1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

1x09 Look What I've Got

1x09 Look What I've Got

  • 1999-12-17T00:00:00Z18m

Diggs has a shiny new attachment and is very proud of it. That is until Bozer tells him it's needed on an important new job and Diggs realizes that he doesn't know what it does!

1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

1x10 Tread Carefully

1x10 Tread Carefully

  • 1999-12-17T00:00:00Z18m

Diggs pleads with Bozer to let him wear some new, really fashionable treads. After tearing down an old warehouse, Bozer asks Diggs to check inside the old water cooler before Carl demolishes it.

1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

1x11 A Good Mixer

1x11 A Good Mixer

  • 1999-12-10T00:00:00Z18m

The new machines have a lot of bricks to move, that Diggs thinks they could use a little help from Maxine. Trouble is, when Maxine gets excited she starts to mix. And what do you get if you mix bricks? Broken stones!

1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

1x12 Almost Famous

1x12 Almost Famous

  • 1999-12-10T00:00:00Z18m

When Diggs, Carrie and Scooch dig a trench in the wrong place they've struck oil. Diggs and Carrie instantly abandon their duties and plan their new life as famous oil barons.

1999-11-10T00:00:00Z

1x13 Sunk

1x13 Sunk

  • 1999-11-10T00:00:00Z18m

When the younger machines accidentally knock a load of oil drums in the dock they are too scared to own up to their mistake. They take Carl's hook to try retrieving them but things just get worse as the hook falls into the water.

1999-11-10T00:00:00Z

1x14 What's the Plan

1x14 What's the Plan

  • 1999-11-10T00:00:00Z18m

The machines are laying out the site for a new park. When Diggs and Scooch see the plans they figure they can save Bozer some time and just get on with it themselves.

2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

1x15 Idle Time

1x15 Idle Time

  • 2001-11-16T00:00:00Z18m

When there's cement mix to be moved and Carrie's feeling fired up, nothing can stop her - nothing except a flat battery that is!

2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

1x16 A Riveting Story

1x16 A Riveting Story

  • 2001-11-16T00:00:00Z18m

Carrie and Diggs are scouting for rivets for their collections when Bozer tells everyone that today's job is to clear out an old dock. While in the dock, Carrie spots a trunk full of rivets and greedily tries to pick the whole lot up with her forks.

1999-10-14T23:00:00Z

1x17 No Place Like Home

1x17 No Place Like Home

  • 1999-10-14T23:00:00Z18m

Carl is preoccupied because he is missing the site where he was made. When he almost drops a sewer pipe on Diggs, the other machines decide to try and cheer him up.

1999-10-14T23:00:00Z

1x18 Truckmate

1x18 Truckmate

  • 1999-10-14T23:00:00Z18m

Diggs is jealous when Scooch chooses to work with Carrie instead of him. In an attempt to win back his friend's allegiance, Diggs performs his best Carrie voice while silhouetted behind some tarpaulin.

1999-12-03T00:00:00Z

1x19 Grown Up For a Day

1x19 Grown Up For a Day

  • 1999-12-03T00:00:00Z18m

When Diggs saves Carl from a nasty accident, the older machines decide it's time he started hanging out with them. Even the chance to play with Carrie and Scooch can't distract Diggs from his proud new position!

1999-12-03T00:00:00Z

1x20 Mid-Mileage Crisis

1x20 Mid-Mileage Crisis

  • 1999-12-03T00:00:00Z18m

One day as the younger machines play by the docks, Carl and Lug reflect on their own carefree youth. Lug decides that he's not ready for old age just yet.

1999-10-28T23:00:00Z

1x21 Loud and Clear

1x21 Loud and Clear

  • 1999-10-28T23:00:00Z18m

Everybody's reversing warning is clear and impressive - everyone's except Scooch that is. When his voice is too quiet to stop Lug reversing into a hold he thinks that the older truck will never forgive him.

1999-10-28T23:00:00Z

1x22 Junkyard

1x22 Junkyard

  • 1999-10-28T23:00:00Z18m

It's getting dark. Bozer asks Scooch to take some rubble to the junkyard and Carrie and Diggs decide to go along too. Diggs frightens the other two with made up tales of 'Truckzilla'.

1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

1x23 From Start to Finish

1x23 From Start to Finish

  • 1999-11-19T00:00:00Z18m

Diggs, Carrie and Scooch are tired of the old machines always telling them what to do. So when Bozer gives them a whole job to complete all on their own, at first they're sure they can see it through.

1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

1x24 Out With the Old

1x24 Out With the Old

  • 1999-11-19T00:00:00Z18m

Bozer tells the machines that its 'out with the old and in with the new' as they are about to construct their first Prefabricated building.

1999-11-26T00:00:00Z

1x25 Feeling Flat

1x25 Feeling Flat

  • 1999-11-26T00:00:00Z18m

Scooch would like to find something he can do that Diggs can't. But when he tries to max out his maximum load all he ends up with is a flat tire.

1999-11-26T00:00:00Z

1x26 One Roll at a Time

1x26 One Roll at a Time

  • 1999-11-26T00:00:00Z18m

The machines are demolishing a beacon on the end of the jetty. Diggs discovers Bozer is scared of water, much to Bozer's embarrassment. In an effort to help him conquer his fear, Diggs reverses along the jetty, encouraging Bozer to follow him.

Season Premiere

2000-05-14T23:00:00Z

2x01 Carrie's Pallets

Season Premiere

2x01 Carrie's Pallets

  • 2000-05-14T23:00:00Z18m

Carrie is a little jealous when the bigger machines get to landscape a new park so she decides to invent her own fork-lifting style. But when she stacks pavement stones for the park like a deck of cards disaster is not far away!

2000-05-14T23:00:00Z

2x02 Carl Wash

2x02 Carl Wash

  • 2000-05-14T23:00:00Z18m

Carl's inventions are legendary...for being a disaster. And when he unveils his new Carl Wash, it's Diggs, Scooch and Carrie who end up being his little wash test dummies.

2000-04-27T23:00:00Z

2x03 One Little Word

2x03 One Little Word

  • 2000-04-27T23:00:00Z18m

Bozer gives Scooch the morning off so he'll be rested for a big job in the afternoon. But when the other machines ask for his help, his rest turns into helping everyone else!

2000-04-27T23:00:00Z

2x04 Testing Behavior

2x04 Testing Behavior

  • 2000-04-27T23:00:00Z18m

It's time for the CCT (Construction Certificate Test) and all the machines are very excited. Well, everyone except Carrie whose convinced that the rattle she seems to have developed will scupper her chances of passing.

2000-04-02T23:00:00Z

2x05 Bozer's Boo Boo

2x05 Bozer's Boo Boo

  • 2000-04-02T23:00:00Z18m

When Diggs discovers that Bozer has accidentally dozed a load of gravel over some important bridge roads he faces a dilemma.

2000-04-02T23:00:00Z

2x06 Don't Panic

2x06 Don't Panic

  • 2000-04-02T23:00:00Z18m

Bozer has gone off site and left Carl in charge. Something that always ends in total chaos...Carl even pleads with Bozer not to be left with the responsibility...but to no avail.

2000-04-19T23:00:00Z

2x07 Every Dumper's Dream

2x07 Every Dumper's Dream

  • 2000-04-19T23:00:00Z18m

When Lug tells Scooch that grading a road on your own is what every dumper dreams of, the little dump truck decides to do a bit of solo grading himself.

2000-04-19T23:00:00Z

2x08 If Trucks Could Fly

2x08 If Trucks Could Fly

  • 2000-04-19T23:00:00Z18m

The new trucks are thrilled to learn that Dumper the Jumper is coming to town! But Scooch is even more thrilled to find out that Lug used to be a daredevil jumper too and his name was Long Leaping Lug.

2000-05-21T23:00:00Z

2x09 I'm Having Fun Now

2x09 I'm Having Fun Now

  • 2000-05-21T23:00:00Z18m

Diggs' job doesn't seem as much fun as Carrie's and Scooch's. Moving piles of stones from one place to another is just boring.

2000-05-21T23:00:00Z

2x10 Days of Blunder

2x10 Days of Blunder

  • 2000-05-21T23:00:00Z18m

A site scattered with piles of materials inspires Diggs to suggest an obstacle race. Almost immediately he and Carrie are competing as to who will be the fastest, leaving Scooch wondering if he's up to the challenge.

2000-04-09T23:00:00Z

2x11 Mine All Mine

2x11 Mine All Mine

  • 2000-04-09T23:00:00Z18m

Bozer makes Diggs the team leader when the new machines get the job of clearing out an old mine. Unfortunately Diggs takes clearing a bit too far and strips out all the mine supports.

2000-04-09T23:00:00Z

2x12 Safe & Sound

2x12 Safe & Sound

  • 2000-04-09T23:00:00Z18m

The trucks are working in the snowy mountains where safety is the number one priority and safety gear is de rigor. But Diggs just wants to be a cool sliderdude even if that means wearing his kit in an unsafe way.

2000-06-04T23:00:00Z

2x13 Silencers Are Golden

2x13 Silencers Are Golden

  • 2000-06-04T23:00:00Z18m

Carl and Lug have had a bit of a falling out and have even stopped talking to each other. Even though Bozer tells him it's better to leave them to sort it out on their own, Diggs can't stop himself trying to help them make up

2000-06-04T23:00:00Z

2x14 Call of the Forest

2x14 Call of the Forest

  • 2000-06-04T23:00:00Z18m

It's the last day in the forest, the machines are finishing up - when Diggs decides to tell Scooch about the legendary 'call of the forest'.

2000-06-11T23:00:00Z

2x15 Space Invaders

2x15 Space Invaders

  • 2000-06-11T23:00:00Z18m

Scooch would like a bit more space in the idle house but Diggs and Carrie aren't giving an inch. But when he is the first to take up residence in the new site building, it's Scooch that ends up allocating space.

2000-06-11T23:00:00Z

2x16 Star Truck

2x16 Star Truck

  • 2000-06-11T23:00:00Z18m

The machines are stuck in the Idle House and wondering what to do, when they come up with the clever idea of telling stories.

2000-06-25T23:00:00Z

2x17 Going Solo

2x17 Going Solo

  • 2000-06-25T23:00:00Z18m

While Bozer is off-site, Diggs, only half-listening to Maxine, thinks she told him it's OK to do a job on his own. After all, he can dig and carry and dump so why shouldn't he get all the credit!

2000-06-25T23:00:00Z

2x18 Magno Carrie

2x18 Magno Carrie

  • 2000-06-25T23:00:00Z18m

Carrie doesn't understand how to work her flashy new re-charger - so Diggs takes charge, despite the fact he's got no idea what he's doing.

2000-04-16T23:00:00Z

2x19 Crane of the Year

2x19 Crane of the Year

  • 2000-04-16T23:00:00Z18m

Carl has to knock a chimney down on the site today, giving him a chance to show why he is nominated for Crane Of The Year. But when, after 25 swings, he still hasn't hit it, he loses his confidence.

2000-04-16T23:00:00Z

2x20 Parp Idle

2x20 Parp Idle

  • 2000-04-16T23:00:00Z18m

Due to a wall of ice, the machines are stuck on a slippery mountain road. So while Bozer and Lug set off to get salt grit, Carrie encourages the others to keep warm by performing a Parp Song Contest

2000-05-07T23:00:00Z

2x21 Building Bozer

2x21 Building Bozer

  • 2000-05-07T23:00:00Z18m

When Diggs overhears Bozer talking to himself, it seems that their beloved boss is going to be leaving. What can the construction machines present him with as a farewell gift?

2000-05-07T23:00:00Z

2x22 Whodunnit

2x22 Whodunnit

  • 2000-05-07T23:00:00Z18m

The machines are shocked to find that during the night the new multi storey car park they were building has been destroyed.

2000-05-25T23:00:00Z

2x23 Emission Impossible

2x23 Emission Impossible

  • 2000-05-25T23:00:00Z18m

A new dump truck has come to the site - Skatch. He's so exciting and so much fun that Diggs and Carrie seem to be ignoring their old pal, Scooch.

2000-05-25T23:00:00Z

2x24 Hi-Pitched Bozer

2x24 Hi-Pitched Bozer

  • 2000-05-25T23:00:00Z18m

Bozer returns from a servicing only to find that his big deep boomy boss voice has changed to something very high and squeaky! This starts him worrying about whether he'll be taken seriously as a boss any more.

2x25 Frozen Bozer (A Gloopy Mess)

  • 2000-06-18T23:00:00Z18m

It's very cold today and Bozer reminds the machines to put in their anti-freeze. Trouble is, he's so busy reminding everyone else that he forgets to put some in himself.

2000-06-18T23:00:00Z

2x26 Fog

2x26 Fog

  • 2000-06-18T23:00:00Z18m

The new machines are at the docks. Their job is to shift supplies to a cargo vessel. Diggs assures Scooch and Carrie that they have plenty of time to do the job AND help him take a few shiny things back to his collection.

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