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21/09/2004 Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure 0h 25m
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Overview

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.

Top billed cast

  1. Vivien Endicott Douglas

    Marnie McBride

  2. Simon Callow

    Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)

  3. Rik Mayall

    Edwin the Eagle (voice)

  4. Alan Cumming

    Bruno the Bear (voice)

  5. Siobhan Redmond

    Ailsa the Adder (voice)

  6. Jason Connery

    Ross McBride

  7. Peter Mullan

    Michael Scot

  8. David McKay

    William McTaggart

  9. Bill Paterson

    The Storyteller (voice)

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Full Cast & Crew

Current Season

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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Reviews

A review by Zen
Written by Zen on 2022-01-08
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 my favorite shows of all time. As such, I wanted to make this review in order to share my thoughts on some of the main aspects of the show, among other things.

To start things off, I’d like to ...read the rest
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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Shoebox Zoo

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