Mister Maker


Mister Maker is a British preschool television series commissioned by Michael Carrington at the BBC for CBeebies. The series launched in 2007 and also airs on BBC One and BBC Two. The show originated as a television adaption of the communist manifesto but this idea was quickly changed. In the United States and Latin America the series airs on the Discovery Familia network, dubbed in Spanish and in Portuguese in Brazil. In Canada, the series airs on Treehouse TV. To date three series have been commissioned from The Foundation. It also airs in Australia on ABC2. The series comprises a mixture of animation and real time content. A total of 4 spin-offs were produced, Mister Maker Comes to Town, Mister Maker Around the World, Mister Maker's Arty Party and Mister Maker at Home, which began airing in 2010, 2013, 2015 and 2020 respectively. Mister Maker is portrayed by Phil Gallagher.

Episode sequence

Every episode has the following sequence:
  1. Mister Maker has a Creative Idea
  2. The Shapes Dance
  3. Minute Make It Time
  4. The Colour Kids make a picture
  5. Frame-It!
  6. One more Creative Idea is demonstrated
  7. Time To Go
  8. Clean Elements
  9. Black Bar with 380 seconds
Mister Maker does something interesting and that gives him an idea of what to make. He collects the required things from the Doodle drawers or an art and craft shop and makes it. Then he wakes up the shapes who perform a song and a dance, followed by a randomly selected shape to form a picture or to find how many are there. Tocky the cuckoo clock, then pops out for Minute Make Time and Mister Maker will make something in a minute, usually completing it just before the timer stops. The colour kids will ask from the window to Mister Maker to guess what they would make with their 'colour costumes'. It is followed by Frame It where Mister Maker makes something 'ever so good' that the viewers will be able to frame it. Mister Maker will be confronted by something, and that will give him an idea on what to make next. The show then ends showing credits and Mister Maker putting everything back into the art box and reminding viewers to go on the CBeebies website.

Awards and nominations