Cyberchase (2002)
Cyberchase is an American/Canadian television series for children ages 7-13. The series takes place in Cyberspace, a virtual world, and chronicles the adventures of three children, Jackie, Inez, and Matt, as they use math and problem solving skills to save Cyberspace and its leader, Motherboard, from The Hacker, the villain. Cyberchase has received generally positive reviews and won numerous awards. Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana produced the first five seasons, while Thirteen, in association with Title Entertainment, Inc. and WNET.ORG, produced seasons six through eight. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. All episodes have been released free on the Cyberchase Website. Since July 2010, Cyberchase has been put on hiatus, but was announced that starting in November, Cyberchase will be revived and start airing new episodes with its 9th season.
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Episode 1 - Hugs & Witches
Release Date: 2003-02-14Lady Lovelace comes up with a way to eliminate Hacker's virus, but Hacker traps her and Dr. Marbles in her time machine, and programs it to travel to the beginning of time.
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Episode 2 - Totally Rad
Release Date: 2003-03-31Hacker becomes the king of Radopolis, replacing King Dudicus. Then a competition begins and three players in Team Hacker compete against Matt, Jackie, and Inez in Team Motherboard. If Team Motherboard wins, King Dudicus reclaims his throne. If Team Hacker wins, Hacker becomes the king of Radopolis forever and the Cybersquad will never be able to return to Cyberspace. A later amendment to the bargain is that if Team Hacker wins, Inez will have to become one of Hacker's cheerleaders.
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Episode 3 - Harriet Hippo and the Mean Green
Release Date: 2003-04-01Thanks to one of Wicked's spells, Motherboard starts turning all cybersites mean and green. Digit gets the antidote but it breaks, and there isn't another one available to break the spell, so the kids must figure out how to make the antidote before all cybersites turn bad. Meanwhile, Hacker has a romantic encounter with Wicked.
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Episode 4 - True Colors
Release Date: 2003-04-02Hacker starts an election campaign to become the new ruler of Cyberspace, planning to replace Motherboard. He also appears to turn over a new leaf, doing good deeds all around Cyberspace to gain public favor for votes. The Cybersquad must prove that Hacker is lying about being good before the election is over.
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Episode 5 - All the Right Angles
Release Date: 2003-04-03Ivanca the Invincible has a treasure map that Dr. Marbles mails to Motherboard's "buddy list." However, the virus also causes her to mail it to her "baddy list," which gives Hacker the map. Meanwhile, Digit is on an undercover mission for Motherboard, going to Hacker pretending to have reverted to the dark side, into thinking he's turned evil again, to stall him long enough so the kids can find the treasure first.
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Episode 6 - Mother's Day
Release Date: 2003-05-09While Jackie freaks out over what to get her mother for Mother's Day, Hacker wrecks the Mother's Day festival in Cyberspace by interfering with a train shipment of special flowers. Jackie ultimately gets one such flower for her mother.
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Episode 7 - The Eye of Rom
Release Date: 2003-05-16Hacker steals Pyramida's Eye of Rom from its pyramid, which he plans to use against Motherboard. Because of this theft, when the pyramid's shadow hits the Nile River, the site will crash.
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Episode 8 - Whale of a Tale
Release Date: 2003-05-23Hacker reprograms trapeze artist Glowla's robotic whale partner, Spout, into going rogue to destroy R-Fair City.
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Episode 9 - Double Trouble
Release Date: 2003-05-30Hacker steals the Golden Droplet of Shangri-La, which doubles upon being removed from its pot, and doubles forever. He also kidnaps Master Pi for insurance.
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Episode 10 - Raising the Bar
Release Date: 2003-09-15The Cybrary, owned and operated by Ms. Fileshare, has a bug problem, so she hires an exterminator named the Vermin Vexor (Hacker in disguise) to help her with the problem. Hacker instead adds more bugs so all references of Motherboard get switched to himself, and he alters two bar graphs to hide the truth.
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Episode 11 - The Wedding Scammer
Release Date: 2003-09-16Wicked poses as a princess who had announced to get married, and her groom is Hacker. Sam Vander Rom and his co-host plan to air the wedding on cyberwide TV, while the kids look for the real prince and princess.
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Episode 12 - The Guilty Party
Release Date: 2003-09-17In Poddleville, Hacker gets robbed and frames magician Slythe O'Hand and his dog Presto for it.
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Episode 13 - A Time to Cook
Release Date: 2003-09-18Digit and the kids compete against Hacker on the popular cooking game show "Fearless Chef."
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Episode 14 - Trick or Treat
Release Date: 2003-10-28On Halloween, Hacker invades Motherboard Control Central with a toy frog.