CROC FILES

 

CROC FILES
(Animal Planet, June 28, 1999-January 6, 2001)
 
Discovery Kids, Australia Zoo Productions Pty. Ltd.

 

       Steve Irwin, known as “The Crocodile Hunter”, was an Australian conservationist, environmentalist, zookeeper and television personality. His parents began what is now known as Australia Zoo, which he took over in 1991 and ran with his wife, Terri, until his death in 2006. She was later joined by their children, Bindi and Robert, when they got older. Seeking to educate people about animals and encourage the preservation of their lives and homelands, the Irwins began making the in 1992 during their honeymoon, with the resulting series, The Crocodile Hunter, airing on Animal Planet from 1996-2004. Rather than preach, Steve chose to share his enthusiasm for nature with the audience with an unconventional presenting style. Along with other documentaries and a feature film, the Irwins produced several spin-offs to The Crocodile Hunter. One of those was Croc Files.

Steve Irwin introducing a snake to the audience.

            Also known as The Crocodile Hunter’s Croc Files, the series was geared more towards children. While similar to The Crocodile Hunter with a lot of on location footage taken both inside and outside of Australia Zoo, Croc Files spent a lot of time with Steve and Terri in a shack full of exploration supplies, scientific models of animals and some animal skulls speaking directly to the audience. The connective tissue of the show lay with the titular “files”. Segments were labeled with animations of the tops of file folders; additional facts were presented over a background of collected news clippings and notes like you would find in a file; and the show’s title itself was placed on the front of an animated filing cabinet. It also featured an animated intro of Steve and Terri leaving the aforementioned shack and encountering animals throughout the Australian wilderness using cutout animation. Sharon Gordon, Leanne Forbes, Ben Hartnett and Jayson Price were credited as animators on the series.

Irwin explaining the construction of a crocodile's skull.

            Croc Files debuted on Animal Planet on June 28, 1999; a co-production of Discovery Kids and Australia Zoo Productions. The theme was composed by Greville Patterson, while additional music was composed by Gary Smith, Scott Lloyd Shelly and “Mr. Jones”. After concluding its run on January 6, 2001, it moved to NBC Saturday mornings the following year as one of the debut programs of the Discovery Kids on NBC programming block. It also aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and Network Ten in Australia. A DVD containing four episodes was released by Family Home Entertainment in 2000.

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STRANGE DAYS AT BLAKE HOLSEY HIGH

 

STRANGE DAYS AT BLAKE HOLSEY HIGH / BLACK HOLE HIGH

(Global TV, Discovery Kids, NBC, October 5, 2002-January 28, 2006)

 

Fireworks Entertainment

 

MAIN CAST:

Emma Taylor-Isherwood – Josie Trent, Josie’s clone
Shadia Simmons – Corrine Baxter
Michael Seater – Lucas Randall
Noah Reid – Marshall Wheeler
Robert Clark – Vaughn Pearson
Jeff Douglas – Professor Noel “Z” Zachary
Valerie Boyle – Principal Amanda Durst
Lawrence Bayne – Victor Pearson
Tony Munch – The Janitor

 

 

            Black Hole High, or Strange Days at Blake Holsey High in the United States, was centered on the titular boarding school. The school was located next to a laboratory, Pearadyne Industries, which specialized in various technologies and quantum physics until an accident in 1987 caused several employees to disappear and the lab to be shut down. Ever since, strange things have happened at the school. Random disappearances caused by time-traversing wormholes (or black holes), Pearadyne technology run amok, and strange mutations in the student body that altered their personalities or physical attributes.

Professor Z, Josie, Lucas, Vaughn, Marshall, Corrine and Principal Durst by the school sign.

            Created by Jim Raspas, he conceived of the idea during a period when he was looking for work and heard Discovery Kids was looking for a science show. He thought it might be fun to have a show where the rules of science were turned on their head. A fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harry Potter, he added the element of a group of kids encountering and dealing with strange occurrences. Discovery initially passed on the idea until Canadian production company Fireworks Entertainment expressed interest in making it. And with Discovery’s newly-formed partnership with NBC, they saw the show as a perfect fit for their Discovery Kids on NBC programming block.

The Science Club.

            The series began with the arrival of new student Josie Trent (originally meant to be a Latina, played by Emma Taylor-Isherwood), a brilliant and spirited rebel who had a turbulent relationship with her mother, Kelly (Lori Hallier). Once she arrived at the school, she became enthralled with uncovering the reason behind the mysterious happenings and the secret of Pearadyne. She would befriend and join the school’s Science Club, who would become enwrapped (and sometimes the victims of) the mysteries themselves. They included Corrine Baxter (Shadia Simmons), Josie’s roommate and the daughter of a psychiatrist and neurosurgeon who was a perfectionist and always wanted things her way; Lucas Randall (Michael Seater), the school conspiracy theorist who always had his suspicions about the happenings on campus, which were verified when he witnessed science teacher Professor Middleton (Steve Jackson) disappear into a wormhole; and Marshall wheeler (Noah Reid), a talented musician and ambitious entrepreneur with his own moral code that sees him not minding breaking rules, but has him against lying and cheating. Leading the club was Middleton’s replacement, Professor Noel “Z” Zachary (Jeff Douglas), who believed in engaging his students with unconventional teaching methods and was just as curious to get to the bottom of things as they were.

The Janitor with Josie's clone.

            Running the school was Principal Amanda Durst (Valerie Boyle), who had begun her career there as a science teacher in 1977. She was extremely strict and was quick to hand out detentions for those breaking the rules; however, much of that was motivated by her desire to keep the school’s secrets. Durst seemed to be under the influence of the ever-present and menacing Victor Pearson (Lawrence Bayne), one of the co-founders of Pearadyne and head of the school board. Victor ran Pearadyne with the aid of a stress ball belonging to Josie that became infused with limitless energy, which he took from her during one of her trips into the past. In order to keep tabs on the Science Club, Victor had sent his son, Vaughn (Robert Clark), a popular student and bully, to join them as his spy. And then there was the mysterious Janitor (Tony Munch); a person from the future transported back through a wormhole. He was the observer of the observers; a group of people dedicated to guard and maintain the time stream. He provided Josie help, although often in cryptic fashion, and left secret messages beginning with “Shrink” that often related to an episode’s plot and the developing storyline. He would come to take on Josie’s clone (Taylor-Isherwood with her sister, Sally, as a stand-in when the two were together) as a protégé and send her to be trained as an observer. Finally, there was Andreas Jack Avenir (John Ralston); the mysterious benefactor of the school who seemed to be present in various eras of its history. He would eventually be revealed to be Josie’s father and the real cause behind all the strangeness as he attempted to gain control over the universe.

Josie has that shrinking feeling.

            Other characters included school bullies Tyler Jessop (Christopher Tai), a self-important womanizing show-off who frequently antagonized Marshall, and Stewart Kubiak (Dru Viergever), a star athlete that loved to mock the Science Club, especially Lucas; Madison (Talia Schlanger), a stuck-up cheerleader; Will (Liam Titcomb) and Jarrod (Marc Devlin), members of Marshall’s band, Magnet 360; and Sarah Lynch Pearson (Jenny Levine), Victor’s wife and Vaughn’s mother who co-founded Pearadyne and disappeared after her ambitions caused the accident in the lab.

Victor Pearson: sinister person or just a jerk?

            Strange Days at Blake Holsey High began airing in Canada on Global TV and NBC and in the United States on Discovery Kids and NBC (as one of the launch programs of the Discovery Kids on NBC programming block) on October 5, 2002. The show was filmed at the Auchmar Estate on the Hamilton Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario. It was written by Raspas with Bruce Kalish, Jeff Biederman, David Garber, Lorianne T. Overton, Skander Halim, Joe Rassulo, Richard Clark, Suzanne Bolch, Kevin May, Jeff F. King, Thérèse Beapuré, Jeffrey Alan Schechter, Kevin Lund, T.J. Scott, Ian G. Saunders, Andrew Nicholls, Darrell Vickers, Elizabeth Stewart, Amy Jacobson, and Jennifer Kennedy. Each episode was structured around a particular scientific principle, blending in some of the typica teenage drama often associated with a school-based program. Carlos Lopes provided the music, with Fusion Sound and Picture and Good FX providing the special effects.

Marshall goes invisible.

            After the first six months on air, Strange Days ended up in syndication worldwide. It performed well, earning renewal for three seasons; however, the third season was actually supposed to be part of the second until the production decided to split it in half. It also racked up multiple award nominations, including a Daytime Emmy, Young Artist, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Gemini, and Directors Guild of Canada, however it won none of them. Production ultimately came to an end when Fireworks was sold to ContentFilm (now part of Kew Media Group) in 2005. A film called Strange Days: Conclusions was aired in 2006, wrapping up the main storyline and bringing the series to a satisfying close. That film was later broken up into three episodes and aired as an abbreviated fourth season.

The prospective DVD cover.

            In 2004, it was announced that the first season would be released to DVD in the United Kingdom. However, this release was pulled without any explanation, despite being made available for pre-order on various sites. To date, no official home media releases have been made. In 2010 and 2011, Strange Days returned to the airwaves briefly on The Hub, the network joint venture between Discovery and Hasbro. Raspas has posted frequently on a message board dedicated to the show, as well as on Twitter, with behind the scenes information, details about trying to get a Strange Days reboot off the ground and even webisodes with the original cast. In 2021, after Discovery’s rights to the series expired, Raspas was able to cut a deal to get the rights back and developed a sequel webseries with director Paul Hart-Wilden subtitled Echoes. Echoes premiered on YouTube in 2022 and starred Antonia Carlotta as an astronomer named Iris, a Blake Holsey alumnus, that discovers a new black hole that leads her back into the strange world of the school.

 

 

 

 

EPISODE GUIDE:

Season 1:

“Wormhole” (10/5/02) – It’s Josie’s first day of school and she ends up sucked into a wormhole with Corrine to end up on the scene of a major accident back in 1987.

 

“Invisible” (10/12/02) – Marshall turns invisible when he feels unappreciated, but his enjoyment of the pranking potential ends when he discovers he’s fading away.

 

“Magnet” (10/19/02) – Josie and Corrine’s science experiment gives Josie magnetic powers that she uses to torment a popular girl until they begin to grow out of control.

 

“Thursday” (11/16/02) – Corrine finds herself reliving her worst day over and over.

 

“Lifetime” (11/23/02) – A mayfly bite causes Lucas to begin aging rapidly and enjoy being an adult, until the realities of being on begins to set in.

 

“Fate” (12/7/02) – Travelling back to 1977 causes Vaughn to accidentally alter time and it’s up to Josie to correct it.

 

“Culture” (12/14/02) – A clone of Josie is created from saliva on her chewing gum and puts a further strain on Josie’s relationship with her mother.

 

“Radio” (1/4/03) – Lucas receives a transmission from the future warning that Victor’s demonstration will disintegrate the school.

 

“Storm” (1/11/03) – Vaughn’s emotions begin to manifest as localized storms when Victor asks him to spy on the Science Club.

 

“Who?” (1/18/03) – Professor Z escapes being sucked into a black hole but ends up losing his memory in the process.

 

“Lost” (1/25/03) – Josie and Vaughn end up lost in the woods while searching for the Pearadyne Labs building, and Josie’s obsession to find it leads to Vaughn getting hurt.

 

“Robot” (2/8/03) – Josie finishes her robot with circuit boards from Pearadyne, causing it to take on her personality and cause chaos.

 

“Shrink” (3/1/03) – Josie ends up shrunken and stumbles upon a plan Victor has for the school that will be concealed by the school’s pizza and movie night.

 

Season 2:

“Wormhole 2” (9/13/03) – Josie ends up three hours in the past and has to find a way home before she gets stuck in an alternate dimension.

 

“Pheromones” (9/20/03) – Josie runs against Madison for student council president and Madison tries to use pheromones to get everyone under her control.

 

“Cold” (9/27/03) – Marshall’s cold infects the school via the computer system.

 

“Genome” (10/4/03) – A DNA project causes Lucas to become fearless and devoid of self-control.

 

“Brainwaves” (10/11/03) – Lucas measures Vaughn’s brain activity and ends up accidentally switching both their minds.

 

“Chemistry” (10/18/03) – Marshall’s brother comes to town for a job at Pearadyne and an accident with molecular models causes them to become elements on the periodic table.

 

“Ecosystem” (12/6/03) – Josie takes Corrine’s CDs for a surprise birthday gift causing her to be labeled a kleptomaniac while Porifera sponges reproduce at an abnormal rate.

 

“Technology” (12/13/03) – Tyler threatens Marshall into helping him cheat in exchange for pushing sales of his mobile phone made with old Pearadyne SIM cards.

 

“Equation” (1/3/04) – When Corrine alters the Science Club’s equations the members who wrote them become manifestations of those equations.

 

“Hemispheres” (1/10/04) – Corrine gets transported to an opposite world through an antique mirror and must try and find her way out without losing the logical side of her reasoning.

 

“Nutrition” (1/17/04) – The Science Club must get Lucas and Vaughn off of their energy bar addiction when it’s discovered the bars take energy instead of giving.

 

“Echolocation” (1/24/04) – Josie gains super hearing and overhears Victor talking about running some tests underground.

 

“Stopwatch” (1/31/04) – When Josie’s watch gains the ability to stop time, she uses it to get the Chi ball back from Victor but ends up trapped when her watch ultimately breaks.

 

Season 3:

“Transference” (9/4/04) – An argument leads to Josie’s intelligence transferring to Vaughn, which allows him to build a cold fusion reactor for Victor.

 

“Nocturnal” (9/11/04) – Josie’s proving that she doesn’t need sleep leads to her falling asleep on her project and being able to access Vaughn’s memories.
 
“Allure” (9/25/04) – Marshall feels neglected by Corrine’s constant need to be on a schedule just as her Venus flytrap turns into a girl that all the guys find irresistible.
 
“Tesseract” (10/2/04) – Lucas opts to spy on Victor over the weekend and ends up finding Professor Z’s tesseract device, which causes the school to fold in on itself.
 
“Camouflage” (10/9/04) – Tyler becomes a human chameleon and disguises himself as members of the Science Club in order to spy on them and learn about the vortex.
 
“Nanotechnology” (10/30/04) – Josie swallows a microscopic camera she was using to spy on Tyler, and it threatens to return to regular size inside of her when the batteries run out.
 
“Vision” (12/4/04) – Lucas gives himself X-ray vision to cheat at cards and it ends up getting him trapped in the Pearson home.
 
“Hologram” (12/11/04) – Vaughn’s mother sends him and Josie a message from a wormhole requiring they retrieve a pendant he gave to his father for safe keeping.
 
“Probability” (1/8/05) – To get out of an assignment Marshall takes to writing horoscope predictions that begin coming true.
 
“Chirality” (1/15/05) – The black hole causes Principal Durst’s experiment to switch his personality with Professor Z.
 
“Friction” (1/22/05) – Vaughn and Corrine sneak into the Peradyne ruins to try and recover her memories about what happened there when she fell into the wormhole.
 
“Past” (3/19/05) – Worried Vaughn will try to go through the wormhole himself to speak to his mother, Josie goes through instead and ends up at the school’s founding in 1879.
 
“Inquiry” (3/26/05) – Josie heads into the wormhole to rescue Vaughn, but decides to try and steal the Chi ball from Victor again which strands her in an alternate timeline.

 

Season 4:

“Conclusions: Part 1” (1/28/06) – Avenir plans to close to school after the students graduate and Lucas becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Josie.

 

“Conclusions: Part 2” (1/28/06) – Josie’s clone volunteers to take her place in the alternate timeline and Josie returns only to learn that Avenir is her father.

 

“Conclusions: Part 3” (1/28/06) – The Science Club learns about Avenir’s plans to conquer all universes from Sarah’s message and Josie has to confront Vaughn in order to stop him.

Originally posted in 2020. Updated in 2022.

TUTENSTEIN

TUTENSTEIN

(Discovery Kids, NBC, November 1, 2003-October 11, 2008)

PorchLight Entertainment, Telegael, Discovery Kids Original Productions

MAIN CAST:

Jeannie Elias (as Loren Manda, season 1), Maryke Hendrikse (as Marie Vencer, season 2) & Donna Cherry (season 3 & movie) - Tut Ankh En Set Amun/Tutenstein

Crystal Scales (as Babi Mosquito) & Leah Lynette (season 3 & movie) – Cleo Carter

David Lodge (as Marcus Muldoon) – Luxor, Set

            The mummy lives!

The original Tutenstein.

            Self-proclaimed history nerd Jay Stephens was inspired by a visit to the traveling King Tut exhibit in Canada to develop one of his future comic creations: Tutenstein, a portmanteau of Tutankhamun and Frankenstein. The concept was initially designed with Nickelodeon Magazine in mind, but it was shot down by the comics editor. Tutenstein finally made his debut in 1997’s Land of Nod #3 by Black Eye Productions and was subsequently featured in several of Stephens’ following publications. Tut caught the attention of Fred Schaefer of Porchlight Entertainment who approached Stephens about adapting the character into animation. Stephens would work on designs and script ideas to shop around to various networks, but found little success. Discovery Communications was looking for content for their Discovery Kids channel, and considering they often aired specials dealing with ancient Egypt, the concept seemed a perfect fit.

Luxor, Cleo and Tut, falling to pieces.

            Tutenstein followed the adventures of the 10-year old Tut Ankh En Set Amun (Jeannie Elias, Maryke Hendrikse & Donna Cherry) who had become the pharaoh of ancient Egypt and wielder of the Scepter of Was. When his sarcophagus ended up in the museum where archeology enthusiast Cleo Carter (named after Cleopatra, voiced by Crystal Scales & Leah Lynette) often hung out, he was revived when lightning struck the staff. It also gave Cleo’s cat, Luxor (David Lodge), the ability to speak and a desire to serve Tut. Tut, being 10 and a former ruler, acted about as bratty as could be expected; using magical scrolls to cast spells for his own self-gain that often backfired. Tut was also put at odds with various ancient gods who could be just as arrogant and petty as he; in particular the god of chaos, Set (Lodge), who wanted to claim the Scepter of Was and free himself from his underworld prison. Professor Horace Behedty (named for the god Horus, voiced by Lex Lang as Vince del Castillo) was the museum’s curator and believed he was the smartest in the room; always looking to get more publicity for himself (and sometimes the museum). Walter Jacobs was the museum’s underpaid and dimwitted security guard, often tasked by Behedty to perform jobs not really in his function. Dr. Roxanne Vanderwheele was the professor’s colleague and a bit more open-minded and up-to-date in her approach to archaeology.

Barlow's series-launching image.

            Character designer Fil Barlow was responsible for adapting most of the character and set designs, and in fact it was his rendition that helped sell the show to Discovery. Stephens was on hand as a creative consultant, overseeing all aspects of the production. Egyptologist Kasia Szpakowska provided reference material for Barlow to work off of in order to get the designs to feel as authentic as possible. Barlow’s designs also led to the running gag of Tut’s body parts either falling off or becoming separated from his body somehow. After his 20-episode contract expired, Barlow was replaced by his student, Thomas Perkins, for the remainder of the series.  

 

Set. And he looked like such a friendly guy.

            Tutenstein debuted simultaneously on Discovery Kids and their programming block on NBC on November 1, 2003. Writers on the series included John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, Brooks Wachtel, Cynthia Harrison, Charlotte Fullerton, Scott D. Peterson, Tim Cahill, Kevin Campbell, Julie McNally Cahill, Michael Merton and Philip Morton. With Spzakowska and Karen Hill-Scott, Ed.D. serving as the educational consultants, each episode was able to inject a little factuality into its comedic approach. The ancient gods, for example, were largely accurate to the Egyptian depictions of them. The show was animated by NIC Entertainment Inc. with music by Guy Michelmore.

The Scepter of Was.

            Tutenstein ran for three seasons, concluding with the film Clash of the Pharaohs. The series was nominated for three and won two Emmy Awards in 2004, 2006 and 2007. In 2004, Marvel Comics published a promotional comic in association with Discovery Kids that saw Tut and friends meeting up with Spider-Man and some of the X-Men as they banded together to thwart Set’s latest scheme. In 2007, Discovery Kids released three DVD collections containing four episodes apiece, along with games and documentaries as special features.

EPISODE GUIDE:

Season 1:

“The Awakening” (11/1/03) – Cleo Carter brings Tut back to life and Luxor gains the ability to speak.

“The Curse of the Pharaoh” (11/8/03) – El Zabkar summons Ammut, the devourer of the hearts of the dead, to go after Tut.

“Clash of the Shadbitis” (11/15/03) – Tut’s being lazy and sending shabitis to help Cleo do chores causes things to go out of control.

“I Did It My Way” (11/22/03) – Disliking the modern world, Tut changes everything into ancient Egypt.

“The Boat of Millions of Years” (12/6/03) – Tut asks Ra to delay the sunrise so he can watch movies late, but Ra ends up in trouble and time stops.

“The Powerful One” (1/3/04) – Tut’s anger over not getting his own pyramid causes Hathor, the goddess of love, to be summoned and transformed into Sekhmet, the goddess of war.

“There’s Something About Natasha” (1/10/04) – Tut falls for Cleo’s friend Natasha and has a love spell put on her, but the spell goes horribly wrong.

“The King of Memphis” (1/17/04) – While visiting Memphis, Tut is split into three copies of himself that he must reunite by sunset.

“Roommates” (1/24/04) – Tut moves in with Cleo and constantly annoys her, on top of cheating her out of her stuff.

“Ghostbusted” (1/31/04) – The goddess Isis summons the ghost of one of Tut’s friends to punish him after he cheats her in a game.

“Near Dead Experience” (2/21/04) – Fearing Cleo might die of bronchitis, Tut wants his doctor, Imhotep, to preserve her like he was.

“The Unsafety Zone” (2/28/04) – Tut breaks the alarm that disturbed his slumber, allowing two thieves to escape.

“Happy Coronation Day, Tutenstein” (3/6/04) – Cleo throws Tut a party to honor the good deeds he’s done, but a slave of Set crashes it and steals something from him.

Season 2:

“Old Man Tut” (9/4/04) – Tut breaks his ankh so that he can become older—unfortunately, the process doesn’t stop.

“Cleo’s Catastrophe” (9/11/04) – Tut accidentally causes Cleo and Luxor to switch bodies.

“The Shadow Gobbler” (9/25/04) – When Tut separates himself from his shadow, he allows a shadow demon from the underworld to come to Earth and devour shadows.

“Tut Jr.” (10/2/04) – Tut loses Cleo’s little cousin in the underworld.

“Something Sphinx” (10/9/04) – Tut’s new servant makes Luxor feel left out.

“The Supreme Tut” (10/16/04) – Tut becomes a god.

“The Day of the Undead” (10/30/04) – Tut joins Cleo and her friends for Halloween and summons a demon from the underworld to scare them.

“Friends” (11/27/04) – Tut befriends a couple of delinquents and starts causing mischief.

“Green-Eyed Mummy” (12/4/04) – Tut sends the new mammoth exhibit to the underworld.

“Queen for a Day” (1/15/05) – Cleo takes Tut’s place when he’s kidnapped to the underworld.

“Procras-Tut-Nation” (10/1/05) – Having fun on Cleo’s skateboard may cause Tut to miss the Sed Festival in the underworld.

“Behdety Late Than Never” (10/22/05) – When Behdety calls in someone to help save the museum money, he ends up being a thief that frames Behdety for his crimes.

“Walter the Brain” (11/19/05) – Tut makes Walter smarter, and Thoth believes Walter is the one who cast the spell.

Season 3:

“The Comeback Kid” (9/9/06) – Tut uses a spell that makes him human again, but also brings a dinosaur back to life.

“Rest in Pieces” (9/12/06) – Tut separates his body parts to multitask, but they end up getting dispersed.

“Irresistible You” (9/13/06) – Tut tries to use a love spell to foil Cleo’s rival, but it backfires.

“Sleepless in Sarcophagus” (9/14/06) – Tut gets a snake to help him sleep, but doesn’t know a demon is actually possessing it.

“The Truth Hurts” (9/16/06) – Tut ends up cut-off after he insults some of the ancient gods.

“Was Not Was” (9/23/06) – Tut ends up losing his scepter.

“Tut the Defender” (10/14/06) – Tut brings two Vikings back to life to fight.

“Spells and Sleepovers” (10/28/06) – Tut disguises himself as a girl so he can attend Cleo’s sleepover.

“Fearless” (10/29/06) – Tut’s attempt to prove himself fearless causes him to leave a portal to the underworld open, allowing a demon to escape.

“UnPharaoh” (11/25/06) – A bracelet possesses Dr. Vanderwhelle and leads him to try and prove Tut was no longer a pharoh.

“Tut’s Little Problem” (12/2/06) – Using a size-changing scroll results in Tut becoming tiny.

“Into the Past” (10/9/06) – Cleo goes back to ancient Egypt to find out what happened to her father.

“Keep Your Wandering Eye to Yourself” (1/13/07) – Jealous of Cleo’s outside life, Tut plans to spy on her.

Special:

“Clash of the Pharaohs” (10/11/08) – Nightmares about his death prompts Tut to take a trip back in time and Cleo ends up being mistakenly crowned as a pharaoh. 


Originally published in 2017. Updated in 2021.