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Shoebox Zoo: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Sep 21, 2004
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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

The Magic Is Awakened

Sep 21, 2004

On her 11th birthday, still grieving over her recently deceased mother and uncomfortable with being moved from Colorado to Scotland, Marnie discovers that she is able to make a gro

S1·E2 Core

Friend or Foe?

Sep 28, 2004

It's Marnie's first day of school at her new home in Scotland. She has an encounter with a bully but makes a new friend in Laura. Back home, she receives a package from America con

S1·E3 Core

Echoes of the Past

Oct 5, 2004

When a mysterious problem causes school to be cancelled for the day, Marnie and Laura visit the nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral in order to find clues about the shoebox animals, as Joh

S1·E4 Core

A Guide for the Perplexed

Oct 12, 2004

Marnie manages to get the red book she was looking for from the library, after which a familiar old man appears before her and says that she must make use of a peculiar looking map

S1·E5 Core

The Inner Sanctum

Oct 19, 2004

Since Marnie's suggestion to go to Tantallon Castle was agreed on by majority vote, her class goes there for a field trip. While exploring the castle, Marnie goes off the beaten pa

S1·E6 Core

A Strange Birthday Party

Oct 26, 2004

Marnie is reluctant to go to John Roberts' birthday party until she has a dream revealing that he was really the evil shapeshifter Toledo all along, and so she plans to confront hi

S1·E7 Core

A Little Knowledge

Nov 2, 2004

Marnie leaves school in the middle of the day to try to get in touch with Michael Scot, while Toledo tries to convince Marnie's father that she needs to be brought in for therapy,

S1·E8 Core

Mother’s Footsteps

Nov 9, 2004

Marnie is on a class trip to visit a "stately home," and uses her new powers to defeat a bully, but the shoebox animals become separated from her and find themselves trapped in the

S1·E9 Core

Where the River Flows

Nov 16, 2004

Marnie hopes to find the archway shown on the clue she just received, and plans to do so while on a camping trip to the Eildon Hills with the help of Dougie and Laura, but things g

S1·E10 Core

The Sign of the Unicorn

Nov 23, 2004

The shoebox animals plead with Marnie to continue the quest, but she insists on trying to catch up on her schoolwork after largely neglecting it. Despite her efforts, she gets fals

S1·E11 Core

Where Four Elevens Meet

Nov 30, 2004

Marnie and Wolfgang confront Michael regarding the events that lead to the creation of the Shoebox Zoo. Meanwhile, the other animals decide that they must find the book on their ow

S1·E12 Mytharc

Los Contrarios

Dec 7, 2004

Toledo hypnotizes Edwin and orders him to open the Book of Forbidden Knowledge. The dark energy released from inside the book awakens the shapeshifter’s devious creations, which ar

S1·E13 Mytharc

The Day of Reckoning

Dec 14, 2004

Marnie makes one last attempt to stop Toledo from taking the book, and comes out victorious after realizing that the book was a fake created to seal the evil shapeshifter’s magic a

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