Plot
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.
Cast
as Marnie McBride
as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
as Edwin the Eagle (voice)
as Bruno the Bear (voice)
as Ailsa the Adder (voice)
as Ross McBride
as Michael Scot
as William McTaggart
as The Storyteller (voice)
as Nathaniel Stone
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
September 21, 2004
Last Aired Date
November 27, 2005
Production Companies
BBC Scotland
Blueprint Entertainment
Alberta Filmworks
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
2
Number of Episodes
26
Links
Gallery
Reviews
I discovered Shoebox Zoo quite recently, nearly 18 years after it originally aired (as of the time this review was originally written). Truthfully, I went into it with very low expectations, and was very hesitant to check it out at first, but my curiosity was piqued and so I ended up deciding to watch it. Much to my shock, I ended up enjoying it quite a lot, so much so that I’d even rank it among…
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Season 2
2005|13 Episodes
Marnie, with the Shoebox Zoo animals in tow, travels from Edinburgh to her hometown of Denver. Now accompanied by her best friend Kyle, the quest for the Book of Forbidden Knowledge continues as the two friends must piece together several clues in order to find the true location of the book, all the while having to once again stop the evil plans of Toledo, who is seemingly back from the dead as a ghostly apparition. Will Marnie and Kyle be able to find the book and turn the Shoebox Zoo back to their human forms? Or will the nefarious shapeshifter prevail?
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