Construction Site

1999 • ABC
4.2
25 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (13)

14 Changing Vrooms (Carrie's Pallets & Carl Wash)
5/15/00
Season-only
Carrie is a little jealous when the bigger machines get to landscape a new park so she decides to invent her own fork-lifting style. But Bozer thinks her spiral pallet piling is dangerous and when she stacks pavement stones for the park like a deck of cards disaster is not far away! It's going to take some inspiration from Maxine to turn a useless pile of broken slabs into proof that there is room for a different way on a Construction Site. / Carl's inventions are legendary...for being a disaster. And when he unveils his new Carl Wash, it's Diggs, Scooch and Carrie who end up being his little wash test dummies. It soon becomes clear that the machine is yet another crazy Carl creation and Diggs and Carrie are keen to tell him the truth. Scooch is worried about hurting his feelings, but eventually he learns that as far as inventors are concerned...it's always better to come clean!
15 Finding The Funny (One Little Word & Testing Behavior)
4/28/00
Season-only
Bozer gives Scooch the morning off so he'll be rested for a big job in the afternoon. But when the other machines ask for his help, his rest turns into helping everyone else! As Maxine says - when you're trying to dump dirt, carry scrap to the landfill and stop Carrie being scared in the old warehouse all at the same time, there's one little word that may come in handy - No! / It's time for the CCT (Construction Certificate Test) and all the machines are very excited. Well, everyone except Carrie whose convinced that the rattle she seems to have developed will scupper her chances of passing. She is so convinced that she won't be coming back, she even gives her beloved planks away to Scooch and Diggs. Luckily she soon finds out that an over active imagination can make a little rattle seem like something much bigger.
16 Warm Up (Bozer's Boo Boo & Don't Panic)
4/3/00
Season-only
When Diggs discovers that Bozer has accidentally dozed a load of gravel over some important bridge roads he faces a dilemma. With Carl stuck on the bridge, those rods need to be founds soon -- but how do you tell the boss that he's made a mistake? Of course, he might just be forgetting what kind of boss Bozer is. / Bozer has gone off site and left Carl in charge. Something that always ends in total chaos...Carl even pleads with Bozer not to be left with the responsibility...but to no avail. Luckily Maxine is on hand with her usual brand of sage advice and tells him to be calm, swing his bally and think things through. So when he finds the small machines in trouble that's exactly what he does...eventually!
17 Dream Machine (Every Dumper's Dream & If Trucks Could Fly)
4/20/00
Season-only
When Lug tells Scooch that grading a road on your own is what every dumper dreams of, the little dump truck decides to do a bit of solo grading himself. But Scooch soon finds himself in trouble and trapped on a mountain ledge. The only truck that might hear his cries is Lug but that means interrupting the grading and ending his dream. Scooch soon realises that some dreams are a little bigger than others. / The new trucks are thrilled to learn that Dumper the Jumper is coming to town! But Scooch is even more thrilled to find out that Lug used to be a daredevil jumper too and his name was Long Leaping Lug. Scooch tries his best to persuade Lug to show Diggs and Carrie one of his famous long leaps but at the last minute he has second thoughts. This leaves Diggs and Carrie wondering if Scooch is telling tall tales. Luckily Carl and his hookey are on hand to reveal all!
18 Warble While You Work (I'm Having Fun Now & Days Of Blunder)
5/22/00
Season-only
Diggs' job doesn't seem as much fun as Carrie's and Scooch's. Moving piles of stones from one place to another is just boring. But when Carrie takes Diggs' job over while he is having a break to put up some road signs he's soon jealous -- especially when Carrie shows him that even boring jobs can be made exciting when you turn them into a game. / A site scattered with piles of materials inspires Diggs to suggest an obstacle race. Almost immediately he and Carrie are competing as to who will be the fastest, leaving Scooch wondering if he's up to the challenge -- but Maxine tells him he doesn't just need speed, he needs 'the stuff between his headlights' as well. Scooch takes heed, and soon finds that he's collecting the prize while Diggs and Carrie are waiting to be prised...from a bendy pipe!
19 Good Hiding (Mine All Mine & Safe & Sound)
4/10/00
Season-only
Bozer makes Diggs the team leader when the new machines get the job of clearing out an old mine. Unfortunately Diggs takes clearing a bit too far and strips out all the mine supports. He's sure that there's no time for thinking, trapped in the collapsed mine with the sounds of mine --monsters all around, but it's Scooch's thinking that gets them out in the end. / The trucks are working in the snowy mountains where safety is the number one priority and safety gear is de rigor. But Diggs just wants to be a cool sliderdude and if that means wearing his kit in an unsafe way then he's cool with that! Until, his fashion statement causes him to find himself doing a very dangerous piece of dangling. Thus teaching him that as far as fashion and safety are concerned...safety should always come first.
20 Secrets (Silencers Are Golden & Call Of The Forest)
6/5/00
Season-only
Carl and Lug have had a bit of a falling out and have even stopped talking to each other. Even though Bozer tells him it's better to leave them to sort it out on their own, Diggs can't stop himself trying to help them make up . It's the trouble he gets into while trying that just so happens to show the two old friends how much happier they can be when they work together. / It's the last day in the forest, the machines are finishing up - when Diggs decides to tell Scooch about the legendary 'call of the forest'. Scooch gets really excited about such a strange and mysterious thing. But that's nothing to how excited he gets when he actually hears the call (courtesy of one of Diggs famous tricks). Scooch then zooms off into the trees to heed it, with Carrie zooming after him on a mission to bring him back. Thus leaving Diggs to a) finish a job made for three and b) to think about whether playing tricks on other machines is really such a good idea after all!
21 There's No Bossyness Like Show Bossyness
6/12/00
Season-only
Scooch would like a bit more space in the idle house but Diggs and Carrie aren't giving an inch. But when he is the first to take up residence in the new site building, it's Scooch that ends up allocating space. / The machines are stuck in the Idle House and wondering what to do, when they come up with the clever idea of telling stories.
22 Thought For The Day (Going Solo & Magno Carrie)
6/26/00
Season-only
While Bozer is off-site, Diggs, only half-listening to Maxine, thinks she told him it's OK to do a job on his own. After all, he can dig and carry and dump so why shouldn't he get all the credit! / Carrie doesn't understand how to work her flashy new re-charger -- so Diggs takes charge, despite the fact he's got no idea what he's doing. Consequently she becomes magnetic.
23 Diggs Should Be So Lucky (Crane Of The Year & Parp Idle)
4/17/00
Season-only
Carl has to knock a chimney down on the site today, giving him a chance to show why he is nominated for Crane Of The Year. But when, after 25 swings, he still hasn't hit it, he loses his confidence. / Due to a wall of ice, the machines are stuck on a slippery mountain road. So while Bozer and Lug set off to get salt grit, Carrie encourages the others to keep warm by performing a Parp Song Contest!
24 We Can Be Heroes (Building Bozer & Whodunnit)
5/8/00
Season-only
When Diggs overhears Bozer talking to himself, it seems that their beloved boss is going to be leaving. What can the construction machines present him with as a farewell gift? / The machines are shocked to find that during the night the new multi storey car park they were building has been destroyed.
25 Catch The Phrase (Emission Impossible & Hi-Pitched Bozer)
5/26/00
Season-only
A new dump truck has come to the site -- Skatch. He's so exciting and so much fun that Diggs and Carrie seem to be ignoring their old pal, Scooch. / Bozer returns from a servicing only to find that his big deep boomy boss voice has changed to something very high and squeaky! This starts him worrying about whether he'll be taken seriously as a boss any more.
26 A Gloopy Mess (Frozen Bozer & Frog)
6/19/00
Season-only
It's very cold today and Bozer reminds the machines to put in their anti-freeze. Trouble is, he's so busy reminding everyone else that he forgets to put some in himself. / The new machines are at the docks. Their job is to shift supplies to a cargo vessel. Diggs assures Scooch and Carrie that they have plenty of time to do the job AND help him take a few shiny things back to his collection.

About this show

Enter the world of "Construction Site," a special place beyond the fence where, through the antics and adventures of trucks and construction machines, children are exposed to important messages about the nature of learning, thinking, and behaving. Children learn along with Digs and his friends as they explore strategies and behaviors for learning and doing their best. Together, they discover that we can all think smarter and learn better.

Ratings and reviews

4.2
25 reviews
Rogelio Escamilla
March 14, 2016
Are you Google going to fix it
4 people found this review helpful
Deandre Mcknight
August 31, 2013
Yes
2 people found this review helpful
Vannessa P
March 16, 2014