Strange Hill High Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - King MitchellA very strange thing has happened at Strange Hill – Mitchell has actually completed an assignment! He’s made a beautiful wooden skateboard for his woodworking project. But when his hopes and his project are smashed – literally - by school bully Tyson, the story takes a turn for the truly bizarre. Behind the walls of one of the school lavatories, Mitchell, Becky and Templeton discover an ancient chamber, an ancient lavatory seemingly from Arthurian times. Inside, there’s a giant stone toilet guarded by the vigilant statue of a knight. There’s also an ancient round table. Mitchell is quite taken by the beautifully carved wooden table and decides to take it… and claim it as his own for his woodworking project. When he swears to Abercrombie that the table is his – literally laying claim to it – weird things happen in the ancient lavatory and the statue of the knight comes to life. The thousand year-old knight – Sir Bogivere – pledges his loyalty to the owner of the Round Table, Mitchell, and declares him king. So now Mitchell’s King of Strange Hill and, with a genuine Knight to do his bidding, he decides to take advantage of his new power. And the school will never be the same.
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Episode 1 - Health & SafetyDuring School Safety Week, Mitchell, Becky and Templeton are placed in detention and forced to watch a horrible old school safety film from the 70’s. This being Strange Hill, the trio soon find themselves trapped in the film itself, in a 1970’s version of the school where anything that can go wrong, does. In a horribly unsafe way. They must find a way out of the film as they face a school on the brink of multiple disasters – pretty much every disaster film from the 70’s. Along the way, they get help from an unlikely source – the mysterious school custodian, Murdoch who has a mysterious connection to the film itself.
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Episode 2 - The Ghost Writers of Strange Hill HighMitchell hasn’t done any of his assignments – neither his English report on Charles Dickens nor his proposal for the Young Entrepreneurs Club. Looking for a place to hide and avoid his teachers, Mitchell stumbles on an unused classroom, a room that looks like it hasn’t been used for 100 years. But he’s not alone – it’s occupied by the ghostly figures of students from the past. Freaked out, Mitchell runs from the room, leaving his unfinished work behind. When he returns to the room with Becky and Templeton, they discover something incredible – all his homework and his Young Entrepreneurs proposal have been completed! By the ghost students! They appear to be stuck in the room, eager to do all work assigned to them. Being a crafty young entrepreneur, Mitchell realizes he’s got quite a potential business here and soon puts the ghosts to work, creating a “Guaranteed A” homework service. Meanwhile, Abercrombie’s impressed that a student business is actually earning money. But it begins to unravel when Mitchell, Becky and Templeton realize the ghost students are actually underachievers placed in a form of eternal detention and the work they’ve been doing is really shoddy. Can the trio free these poor ghosts from their eternal detention while avoiding it themselves? Will these ghostly troublemakers get free and wreak havoc in the school? Will Mitchell ever turn a project in on time? Yes, yes, and no.
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Episode 2 - 99 Cool Things to Do with a Time MachineThe really old Strange Hill building is dominated by its really old clocktower, which rises high above the school, chiming away the centuries. As it chimes the beginning of another school day, Mitchell rushes toward school. It’s the first day of Exams Week and, of course, he’s late. He sees the clock and has an idea. If he sets it back 10 minutes, nobody can claim he’s late. So he climbs up and pushes the minute hand back 10 minutes. When he enters the school, he finds he’s arrived at class 10 minutes early! He’s actually turned back time! Mitchell and his friends soon go mucking about with time, setting it forward and backward according to their whims (going back to a particular day when the school lunch was actually good, fast-forwarding through boring lessons, outwitting bullies, etc.) But their messing so much with time causes the ancient clock to break and time begins to come apart at its seams! With Becky rapidly aging forward and Templeton aging backwards to babyhood, the only help Mitchell can find is a version of himself from earlier and together, the two Mitchells must literally fix time.
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Episode 3 - The Lost and Found BoyThings have been disappearing around Strange Hill High. Lots of things. Including Templeton’s trousers. As the new kid, suspicion falls on Mitchell. With his smart-mouthed attitude and natural defiance of authority, Mitchell has unwittingly positioned himself as the prime suspect. Especially in Headmaster Abercrombie’s eyes. Mitchell tries to clear his name with the help of Becky and Templeton. Our trio soon discover the Indiana Jones-like treasures of the vast school Lost & Found room. As well as its mysterious, annoying and possibly magical inhabitant, Peter Dustpan. Is it Peter who’s been causing havoc around the school and, if so, why? Will they escape from the Lost & Found room and Peter’s irritatingly playful grasp? Will Mitchell clear his name? Will Templeton ever find his trousers? The answer to all these questions is yes. It’s how it all happens that’ll surprise you.
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Episode 3 - Teacher's PetIt’s a snowy day and Strange Hill students are having fun with snowballs, snowmen and chainsaws. So it’s inevitable that it’s also a day Mitchell, Becky and Templeton get tossed into detention. They’re forced to clean the really old and cramped Science Room, scrubbing old science equipment as well as the cages of the various school pets that live in the lab, hamsters, mice, rabbits, etc. Becky has a soft spot for animals and sets them free from their cages. Meanwhile, Mitchell and Templeton discover a dusty old device they soon learn is a Matter Transmogrifier – it can alter the shape and size of any piece of matter and has apparently been used exclusively by the School Chef to, for example, save on the cost of potatoes by transmogrifying one small potato into a giant one that can feed the whole school. Only at Strange Hill. They have some fun with the machine then return to class. Which is soon disrupted by the site of giant animals roaming the school hallways (this episode features a creative breakthrough never-before-done on TV, but we can’t say what it is in case it doesn’t work!) It becomes like a 50’s horror movie as our trio set to correct things, but only succeed in turning Headmaster Abercrombie into Headmaster Toadercrombie. How will they solve this one? A delightful combination of “Attack of the 50 ft. Woman,” “The Fly,” and many other 50’s horror movies.
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Episode 4 - Lucky BeckyIn her neverending quest for popularity, Becky wants to join the cheerleading squad. The stuck-up girls on the squad won’t let her, but allow her to become the school mascot. Finding a ratty old rabbit costume in a neglected corner of the locker room, Becky puts it on and soon finds her luck changing. Along with the school’s luck, too. As she bounces about and cheers inside her mascot costume, good things begin to happen and Becky becomes more popular. Whether it’s winning a game or scoring well on a test, Mitchell, Becky and Templeton find this ratty old costume to be a wonderful thing. Until they discover that for every piece of good luck it’s brought, a corresponding piece of bad luck has also occurred. Becky tries to take off the costume, but can’t! As the good luck/bad luck cycle increases in intensity – gradually threatening the entire world – the trio must take desperate and counterintuitive measures to stop it.
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Episode 4 - SnoozicalBecky has dreams of becoming the star of a big musical and wants to audition for the upcoming Strange Hill High musical. Unfortunately for Becky – and everyone around her – her singing is awful. But Becky won’t take “No! Please, no!!” for an answer. Even the threat from her music teacher Miss Grackle, who tells her “You couldn’t sing to save your life,” fails to dissuade Becky. It’s a cold winter day, and as Becky falls asleep in class next to the radiator, she has an incredible dream in which she and her friends are pursued by a hideous musical beast called The Grackle. But is it just a dream? Dreams, musicals and reality all collide in this, Strange Hill’s fantastical take on the musical genre.
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Episode 5 - Becky vs. BockyBecky has a lot of big hopes and dreams. And one of them is to be popular. It’s school election time and Becky sees this as a perfect opportunity. If it weren’t for the ever-popular (in her own head), perennial Class President Stephanie Bethany. Stephanie’s running yet again and with her henchman Croydonia, she’s blanketed the school with election material. It seems Becky has no chance of defeating her. Until something strange happens in the school Art Room. To increase Becky’s exposure, Mitchell has persuaded the art teacher Mr. Kandinsky to let all the students make portraits of Becky. Templeton’s made a horrible lumpy version of Becky in clay. That night, Croydonia sneaks in to deface all the portraits, but trips up the creaky old school generator. A mysterious spark flies into Templeton’s clay model of Becky. The next day, our trio discover this hulking, lopsided version of Becky has come to life! This thing could be just the thing Becky needs to persuade people to vote for her! So the giant clay Becky goes on the campaign trail to help Becky. That is, until crafty Stephanie tricks the not-too-bright clay monster into defecting and running as her Vice President. Now Becky is not only running against Stephanie, but a monstrous version of herself! It’s Strange Hill’s version of “Election” meets the ancient tale of the Golem.
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Episode 5 - Big Mouth Strikes AgainAfter years of disgusting food, the school chef has finally won students over with his seemingly endless buffet of sweet, sweet treats. Everyone loves it except for Becky, who’s been on a recent health kick. In fact, she’s set up a stall to sell “healthy snacks” like vegetables. Of course, it’s not very popular and the chef has no worries about competition until a freak accident with the school graffiti artist, Gazza, turns Becky’s vegetables glowing fluorescent colours. Suddenly popular, Becky’s snack stand poses a threat to the school chef. A bigger, darker, more evil threat than one can imagine. Because behind the chef (or perhaps inside the chef as our trio learn) is none other than the Tooth Fairy. This is not the graceful friendly Tooth Fairy of legend, but the real life greedy awful Tooth Fairy, the one who must obsessively collect children’s rotting teeth for his own nefarious purposes. So our trio go into a heated battle – both literally and businesswise – with one of history’s most beloved Fairy Tale figures.
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Episode 6 - The Most Boring Book in the WorldAs a new student at Strange Hill High, Mitchell tends to look at things with cynical amusement - surely things aren’t as strange as they seem. So when he’s told that no student ever goes into the school library because of a mysterious book that’s supposedly there and causes students who read it to disappear… Mitchell heads right for the library. And he drags his friends Becky and Templeton with him. Searching the creepy library – despite the protests of the equally creepy school librarian – they find a book called “A Most Intriguing History of Strange Hill High.” And it’s an unfinished book! When Becky and Templeton get sucked back to Victorian times at Strange Hill, Mitchell seeks to rescue them. And with the help of Mr. Balding - the history teacher who seems like he’s been around forever and may actually have been – Mitchell and his friends uncover one of the greatest mysteries the school has ever seen.
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Episode 6 - End of TerminatorCutting-edge technology hasn’t been Strange Hill’s strength since 1862 and all the machines around the school are hopelessly out-of-date, breaking down, going up in smoke or simply falling apart. Including Maths instructor Nimrod. Once the world’s most advanced computer (in the 50’s), he’s been relegated to teaching school maths to unappreciative kids at an inner city school. Irritatingly logical and with a mighty 12k memory, Nimrod thinks he can outsmart the students. But he’s never faced Mitchell before. Having received a “G” in Maths (one below “F” and not even a grade according to an outraged Mitchell), Mitchell is sure Nimrod is malfunctioning and sets out give him a total breakdown. Literally. He succeeds and the students are delighted to see Nimrod and the other old machines replaced by slick new ones, including the enticing Miss CATE, a friendly, caring computerized robotic Maths instructor. In fact, Headmaster Abercrombie and School Secretary Miss Grimshaw have used this as an opportunity to update not only the school’s electrical system, but the school’s security systems as well. With CCTV-like cameras now in place around the school and CATE teaching Maths, strange things begin to happen. Strange, good things according to Abercrombie and Grimshaw – delinquents like Tyson suddenly become perfectly behaved and the school finally seems to be running in an efficient lockstep. It’s all too perfect to Mitchell, Becky and Templeton and the secret they uncover – with the help of disgraced Nimrod – is shocking.
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Episode 7 - Read All About ItMitchell’s desperate to see his favorite rapper in concert, so desperate that he’ll actually join a school activity to do so! When he learns he can get free tickets by reviewing the concert for the school paper, Mitchell signs up, along with Becky and Templeton. But there’s a catch. Croydonia is Editor-in-Chief of the paper and she’s not going to just let Mitchell have those tickets. First, he must find a worthy news story, write it up, and give it to her. If it’s up to snuff, he’ll get the tickets. Hard work and the ability to dig deep into current events is the cornerstone of good journalism and Mitchell will have none of it. He just makes up the story. Croydonia likes it and prints it, but leads him on about the concert tickets. So Mitchell keeps making up more and more outrageous news stories. As they’re printing up a batch of papers, the trio replace the ink in the printing press with an ancient vial of ink they find in a dusty old cabinet. The next day, when the paper comes out, they find all Mitchell’s outrageous news stories have come true! It’s all insane, tabloidy, sensationalist fun until one of his stories backfires, the school begins to crumble and school custodian Murdoch gets fired. A rare dose of guilt sets Mitchell, Becky and Templeton on the track to help the man who has helped them so much before. As well as saving the school from imminent destruction.
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