Shoebox Zoo

Season 22004

Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.

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13 Episodes

E01 The Magic Is Awakened

On her 11th birthday, still grieving over her recently deceased mother and uncomfortable with being moved from Colorado to Scotland, Marnie discovers that she is able to make a group of four old toy animals come alive.

September 21, 2004

E02 Friend or Foe?

It's Marnie's first day of school at her new home in Scotland. She has an encounter with a bully but makes a new friend in Laura. Back home, she receives a package from America containing a necklace that belonged to her mother. She also discovers that her shoebox animal friends were once human, and that only a lost book can return them to their original form.

September 28, 2004

E03 Echoes of the Past

When a mysterious problem causes school to be cancelled for the day, Marnie and Laura visit the nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral in order to find clues about the shoebox animals, as John Roberts said he saw a depiction of them on a stained glass window there.

October 5, 2004

E04 A Guide for the Perplexed

Marnie manages to get the red book she was looking for from the library, after which a familiar old man appears before her and says that she must make use of a peculiar looking map that’s within the contents of the book.

October 12, 2004

E05 The Inner Sanctum

Since Marnie's suggestion to go to Tantallon Castle was agreed on by majority vote, her class goes there for a field trip. While exploring the castle, Marnie goes off the beaten path and finds herself face to face with the great wizard Michael Scot.

October 19, 2004

E06 A Strange Birthday Party

Marnie is reluctant to go to John Roberts' birthday party until she has a dream revealing that he was really the evil shapeshifter Toledo all along, and so she plans to confront him. However, things take a strange turn when Michael Scot appears at the party as a stage magician.

October 26, 2004

E07 A Little Knowledge

Marnie leaves school in the middle of the day to try to get in touch with Michael Scot, while Toledo tries to convince Marnie's father that she needs to be brought in for therapy, as he plans to manipulate her into giving him the Book of Forbidden Knowledge while masquerading as the school psychologist.

November 2, 2004

E08 Mother’s Footsteps

Marnie is on a class trip to visit a "stately home," and uses her new powers to defeat a bully, but the shoebox animals become separated from her and find themselves trapped in the basement.

November 9, 2004

E09 Where the River Flows

Marnie hopes to find the archway shown on the clue she just received, and plans to do so while on a camping trip to the Eildon Hills with the help of Dougie and Laura, but things go awry when Toledo interferes.

November 16, 2004

E10 The Sign of the Unicorn

The shoebox animals plead with Marnie to continue the quest, but she insists on trying to catch up on her schoolwork after largely neglecting it. Despite her efforts, she gets falsely accused of cheating during a test, leading to further drama with the school principal.

November 23, 2004

E11 Where Four Elevens Meet

Marnie and Wolfgang confront Michael regarding the events that lead to the creation of the Shoebox Zoo. Meanwhile, the other animals decide that they must find the book on their own, without Marnie's help, and so they head to the University Library in an attempt to solve the next clue.

November 30, 2004

E12 Los Contrarios

Toledo hypnotizes Edwin and orders him to open the Book of Forbidden Knowledge. The dark energy released from inside the book awakens the shapeshifter’s devious creations, which are shadowy dopplegangers of the Shoebox Zoo made to destroy them.

December 7, 2004

E13 The Day of Reckoning

Marnie makes one last attempt to stop Toledo from taking the book, and comes out victorious after realizing that the book was a fake created to seal the evil shapeshifter’s magic all along. She then learns that the location of the real book is somewhere back home in Denver, and that she must return there in order to continue the Quest.

December 14, 2004

Shoebox Zoo

E01 The Magic Is Awakened

E02 Friend or Foe?

E03 Echoes of the Past

E04 A Guide for the Perplexed

E05 The Inner Sanctum

E06 A Strange Birthday Party

E07 A Little Knowledge

E08 Mother’s Footsteps

E09 Where the River Flows

E10 The Sign of the Unicorn

E11 Where Four Elevens Meet

E12 Los Contrarios

E13 The Day of Reckoning

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E01 The Magic Is Awakened

E02 Friend or Foe?

E03 Echoes of the Past

E04 A Guide for the Perplexed

E05 The Inner Sanctum

E06 A Strange Birthday Party

E07 A Little Knowledge

E08 Mother’s Footsteps

E09 Where the River Flows

E10 The Sign of the Unicorn

E11 Where Four Elevens Meet

E12 Los Contrarios

E13 The Day of Reckoning