King Thistle struggles to cope during a busy day, in which he has to launch a boat, judge a fruit competition and make a speech at a dance festival.

The King's Busy Day

Sian Taylor

Preston Nyman

David Graham

Sarah Ann Kennedy

Ian Puleston-Davies

Sara Crowe

Jonny Butler

Judy Flynn

Oliver May

Lucy Moss

Stanley Nickless

Zara Siddiqi

John Sparkes

Fun and Games

The Frog Prince

Holly invites Ben to the annual Royal Fairy Picnic. King Thistle hopes there won't be a repeat of last year's magical jelly flood!

The Royal Fairy Picnic

Ben and Holly like to play with Gaston the ladybird. One morning when they come to his cave the find it empty and moreover it's absolutely filthy. Thinking it will cheer up Gaston they clean up the cave. But when Gaston comes back from his morning walk they realise it was a mistake.

Gaston The Ladybird

Holly loses her magic wand. Without it, the little fairy can't do any spells! Can Ben use his elf skills to locate the magical baton?

Holly's Magic Wand

Holly goes to the elf farm with Ben and Mr Elf to collect an egg for the king's breakfast. While they are there, however, a huge chicken escapes and runs amok throughout Little Kingdom!

The Elf Farm

Holly and her friends must stay in the courtyard and play with Daisy and Poppy. All is fine until the twins borrow a magic wand, escape from the castle and turn the whole kingdom into rabbits, frogs and birds.

Daisy and Poppy

Holly breaks her mother's new teapot, and Ben tries to help her repair it.

Queen Thistle's Teapot

Holly accidentally turns Ben into a frog, and only makes things worse as she tries to rectify her mistake.

Ben uses his elf skills to win at games, so Holly teaches him a lesson.

King Thistle gets a cold, so Holly and the gang work together to collect the ingredients for a magic potion to make him better.

King Thistle is Not Well

Ben, Holly and Gaston the ladybird find a large egg in the meadow. When a tiny chick hatches, the friends must find the mummy bird.

The Lost Egg

Ben is in training for the games. Holly wants to join in but the rules state there's no flying or magic allowed.

The Elf Games

Nanny Plum teaches the girls some important fairy rules. However, when she is blown away, Ben, Holly and Gaston come to her rescue.

Nanny Plum's Lesson

It's almost Christmas and the elves are busy making toys. When there is a problem with the toys, a little bit of magic is needed to save the day.

The Elf Factory

Nanny takes Ben and Holly to visit a witch in the forest. When Nanny is rude to the witch, she gets frozen by magic.

Mrs Witch

Holly and Ben help the Wise Old Elf play a trick on Nanny Plum. She doesn't see the funny side, so decides to turn him into a giant snail!

Elf Joke Day

The king comes to visit. When Nanny accidentally shrinks all of the king's clothes, she magics some more from vegetables in the kitchen.

King Thistle's New Clothes

The Wise Old Elf tells Holly and Ben that no magic should be used at school. Holly finds it difficult to get by until Nanny uses magic to help her.

Elf School

A mole disturbs King Thistle's golf course, so he hires a gnome to drive it away.

The Royal Golf Course

The Wise Old Elf teaches the children how to tell the time, and takes Ben and Holly to see the big clock at the top of Elf Tree.

Morning, Noon & Night

Gaston catches a cold, so Holly invites him to stay at the Little Castle. Soon Gaston is taking over, eating the king's food and sleeping in his bed!

Gaston's Visit

Holly joins Ben and his family on a trip to the seaside. Holly must use magic to rescue herself and Ben when the tide comes in and they are stuck in their castle.

A Trip to the Seaside

Holly forgets Ben's birthday, and rushes home to make him a birthday card. But Nanny has stopped all magic, so Holly has to make the card herself.

Ben's Birthday Card

After Queen Thistle reads the children a story about the stars, they wonder where stars go in the daytime. When they cannot find the answer in the castle's magic books, Ben and Holly pay a visit to the Wise Old Elf.

Books

Ben and Holly make a new caterpillar friend, but she is sad that she cannot fly. King Thistle says that feeding Betty will do the trick, and before long she turns from chubby caterpillar to beautiful butterfly!

Betty Caterpillar

Holly is left in charge when King and Queen Thistle go away on important business. But ruling the Little Kingdom is not as easy as it looks...

Queen Holly

The duo discover that Nanny Plum is a tooth fairy by night, and head out on the job with her, but they receive a shock when they catch sight of the little girl they are visiting.

Tooth Fairy

Mr Elf demonstrates why it takes so long to make flour, but Nanny Plum refuses to wait, and uses magic to speed up the elf windmill.

The Elf Windmill

Holly and her parents try to impress Snobby King and Queen Marigold with help from the elf band.

The Elf Band

Things start to go missing all over the kingdom, and Ben and Holly realise that ants are stealing their possessions.

The Ant Hill

Barnaby elf's uncle Redbeard has lost all his treasure, prompting Holly and Ben to follow the clues in an effort to track it down.

Redbeard The Elf Pirate

Holly takes frogspawn home to look after, but is shocked the following morning to discover it has turned into tadpoles.

Tadpoles

The children visit a big farm to find out where milk comes from.

Cows

Holly, Ben, Nanny and the King have to look after naughty twins Daisy and Poppy for the day.

Queen Thistle's Day Off

Nanny Plum takes the children for a lesson in the woods and uses magic to transform herself into a frog.

Nature Class

The friends fix a broken toy robot, only for it to start cleaning out the castle.

The Toy Robot

King Thistle goes fishing with Mr Elf, Ben and Holly, and decides they should catch the meanest fish ever - Big Bad Barry - for their supper.

Big Bad Barry

Everyone is confused when the King declares no one is allowed to celebrate his birthday, because he does not want to get any older.

King Thistle's Birthday

Holly breaks her wand and must go to the factory at the bottom of the Great Elf Tree to get it fixed.

The Wand Factory

Holly goes on a camping trip with Ben and his parents, but the annoying Mr Gnome turns up.

Camping Out

Snooty King and Queen Marigold invite themselves to dinner at the castle, where they sample Nanny Plum's cooking.

Dinner Party

King Thistle is confused when his magic bird-spotting book fails to identify a new creature that has made a nest in the castle.

The Woodpecker

Nanny Plum conjures up a hamster for the twins, but the naughty new pet causes chaos in the castle.

Daisy & Poppy's Pet

King Thistle competes with the elves to build a rocket that can fly to the moon.

The Elf Rocket

The visitors venture out of the rockets onto the moon, but quickly realise they do not have enough fuel to return home.

Picnic on the Moon

The elf and fairy children learn how the rubbish left after a picnic can be recycled into new toys.

Lucy's Picnic

A gang of squirrels appears at the Great Elf Tree determined to store acorns inside, but the Wise Old Elf has other ideas.

Acorn Day

The duo set sail to retrieve Redbeard the pirate's sunken treasure, but Big Bad Barry tries to stop them.

The Elf Submarine

Everyone visits King and Queen Marigold's castle, but chaos ensues.

Visiting the Marigolds

The twins cause chaos when they invite their friends to the castle for a birthday party.

The Party

The youngsters help when Mr Elf forgets to deliver the last box of toys to Father Christmas.

Snow

The elf plane is forced to make an emergency landing en route to delivering the last batch of Christmas presents.

The North Pole

The friendship between fairy princess Holly and Ben Elf in an enchanted magical kingdom of elves and fairies.

The King's Busy Day

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