Charlie and Lola

2005 • BBC

4.0

789 reviews

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Season 1 episodes (13)

1 I Will Not Ever, Never Eat a Tomato

11/7/05

Season-only

Lola is a very fussy eater, she won't eat mushrooms, or peas or fishfingers and she will never ever eat a tomato! Charlie helps her to discover that peas are really green drops from Greenland and mashed potato is cloud fluff from the pointiest peak of Mount Fuji. But will she eat that tiny weeny tomato? Never! But she might just eat a moonsquirter.

2 We Do Promise Honestly We Can Look After Your Dog

11/12/05

Season-only

Lola and her friend Lotta know everything there is to know about dogs. So they are really pleased when Marv lets them look after Sizzles in the park. They stroke him, they pat him, they groom him. It is all going well - until Sizzles disappears. And when they find him, there isn't just one Sizzles, but two! How will they tell them apart?

3 I'm Far Too Extremely Busy

11/28/05

Season-only

Lola simply does not have time to play today, she is far too extremely busy organising her office full of mermaids, running her own café, dentist and library. She's far too busy to play with Charlie, or Lotta, or even her imaginary friend Soren Lorensen. However, when Marv comes round to play cards, Lola is not sure that being extremely busy all the time is quite such a good idea.

4 It's a Secret

11/20/05

Season-only

Lola has to keep Charlie's birthday surprise a big secret. And it's really, really hard to keep secrets. To stop Lola from telling him, Charlie decides to try to guess the surprise by coming up with the most extraordinary suggestions. Through this he discovers it is old and big and scary. But nothing could ever have prepared Charlie for the best birthday surprise ever.

5 I Love Going to Granny and Grandpa's

11/21/05

Season-only

Granny and Grandpa's house is by the sea where there are pony rides and lovely things to eat, a big dressing-up box and Caspar the Cat. But Lola is worried that Soren Lorenson, her imaginary friend, might miss her while she is away. Charlie solves that problem. Then she says she cannot go away because Mum and Dad might miss her. Charlie comes up with another solution. But Lola still doesn't want to go. Can Charlie put her little troubled mind to rest?

6 I'm Just Not Keen on Spiders

12/24/05

Season-only

Lola likes all sorts of creepy crawlies, but she is just not keen on spiders. Charlie tries to show Lola that spiders are not bad at all, in fact they are really quite clever. He shows her that spiders can walk upside down, and build fantastic webs that are bouncy like trampolines. Soon Lola gets very attached to a little spider they have found in the house and, before we know it, she has given him a name, made him his own house, found him a friend and is throwing a spider tea-party.

7 I'm Really Ever So Not Well

11/15/05

Season-only

Charlie has promised Marv that he'll play football with him but poor Lola has a very nasty cold and is stuck in bed. She begs Charlie to stay with her. Charlie tries all sorts of ways of making her feel better but a butterfly chase at Flutterby Mountain finally does the trick. Will Charlie ever make it to his football match?

8 I'm Not Sleepy And I Will Not Go To Bed

11/9/05

Season-only

Will Lola ever be sleepy enough to go to bed, Charlie wonders? She drinks pink milk with tigers, cleans her teeth with a lion, shoos whales down the plughole and has a pyjama party with some dancing dogs. When at last, Charlie manages to get his little sister to feel sleepy, there's a surprise waiting for him in his bed.

9 But That Is My Book

11/10/05

Season-only

You have to be quiet when you're in a library. But that's very hard for Lola when she can't find her absolutely most favourite book, Beetles Bugs and Butterflies. Charlie introduces her to books about dinosaurs, and books about Romans, and he even takes her into a beautiful Chinese pop-up book. But nothing matches Beetles Bugs and Butterflies. Or does it?

10 Boo! Made You Jump

11/17/05

Season-only

It's ever so easy for Charlie to make Lola jump. But what Lola wants more than anything is to make Charlie jump. This proves quite tricky. Lola tries everything. She asks her best friends Lotta and Marv to help her make Charlie jump.

11 I Want to Play Music

11/27/05

Season-only

Introducing Charlie on clarinet and Marv on keyboards! The boys are presenting a piece all about Outer Space, accompanied with music, in front of the whole school tomorrow in assembly. Lola is desperate to join in. But it takes a lot of time and hard work to learn how to play an instrument. Lola is not deterred. Improvising instruments is much more fun and, what's more, Lola's makeshift band turns out to be just what is needed.

12 The Most Wonderfullest Picnic in the Whole Wide World

11/18/05

Season-only

You cannot have a picnic without swirly tennis and boildy eggs and, of course, sunshine. Lola, Lotta, Charlie and Marv are really excited because they have all of those things. But just as the fun is about to begin, the storm clouds gather. Luckily, Charlie knows how the desert people have picnics indoors and a potential disaster turns into the most wonderfullest picnic ever.

13 You Won't Like This Present as Much as I Do

11/25/05

Season-only

It is Lotta's birthday, and of course Lola wants to buy her friend the very best present in the whole wide world. She is over the moon when she finds the very thing - a doctor's kit! But it is really hard to give your best friend the best present ever when you really, really like the present yourself!

About this show

Follow the adventures of seven-year-old Charlie and his feisty little sister Lola in a children's animation based on Lauren Child's award-winning picture books. Charlie is loving, patient, and very bright. His little sister Lola is small, mischievous and very funny. Together they deal with the numerous dilemmas that every small child encounters. These little stumbling blocks spiral into a succession of imaginative games and role-play to coax his spirited little sister Lola round to seeing things in a more reasoned way.

Ratings and reviews

4.0

789 reviews

Rob Welham

September 19, 2014

Charlie and Lola is extremely popular and well liked by kids. Entertaining, bright, colourful and to some degree educational. However, whether it's the fault of BBC or Google these Play editions are way too expensive. There is the convenience of having the episodes available anywhere online and being able to throw it to the big screen through Chromecast etc. However, one can buy a box set of all 80 episodes from Amazon or the BBC shop for a little over £15. The price on Google play would amount to nearly £100 [£94.90 to be precise]. Given one does not technically 'own' the online edition and it can't be passed on to your kids on one's passing, this is even more outlandish. A change in the way of thinking has to be established on pricing and digital ownership and transferability . Five stars for the products itself, but only one for the reasons explained

102 people found this review helpful

Dua Fatima

March 5, 2015

How much is this? next time please make it clearer to see as if I dont know then I might not buy it and you may lose many customers because of that silly reason lol be grateful that I gave you one star

4 people found this review helpful

Tegan Gacha-101

May 26, 2015

I think the best way to get more children to watch it is to provide it to be free.!Also it mite be a good idea to write a text about some of the most popular ones.

3 people found this review helpful