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Never miss a moment of your favourite Australian children’s television series. Visit our guide for more information about what’s on free-to-air and pay TV.

MONDAY: Hoopla Doopla!, 1.32PM on ABC2

Episode 24
Trading Places
It is the Lantern Festival, and Bop needs help to make the lanterns. If Zap helps Bop make lanterns, then who will do his deliveries? If Mimi does deliveries, who will make the dumplings? Soon, everyone in town has traded places.

Also catch: WAC (World Animal Championships), 8.35Am on ABC ME; Bushwhacked! – Series 3, 9.00AM on ABC ME and Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.54PM on NITV.  

TUESDAY: Bushwhacked! – Series 3, 9.00AM on ABC ME

Episode 9
Platypus
Kayne and Kamil are heading to Tasmania in the name of platypus population research, and to uncover a little known dangerous characteristic of this popular species.

Also catch: WAC (World Animal Championships), 8.32AM on ABC ME; Bushwhacked! – Series 3, 9.00AM on ABC ME; Hoopla Doopla! 1.32PM on ABC2 and Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.54PM on NITV.

WEDNESDAY: Hardball on ABC iView

When Mikey moves from New Zealand to Western Sydney, he finds himself in the thick of the ultra-competitive, schoolyard game of handball.

After saving a kid on the playground from a wayward ball and finding he has the powerful strike in the world, Mikey is befriended by Jerry and Salwa, who join forces to train him to become a weapon of precision and skill - equipped to topple resident king of the court, Tiffany, and take home the Western Suburbs handball crown - if only he could make the ball land in the right suburb!

Also catch: WAC (World Animal Championships), 8.35AM on ABC ME; Bushwhacked! – Series 3, 9.00AM on ABC ME; Hoopla Doopla!, 1.32PM on ABC2 and Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.54PM on NITV. 

THURSDAY: WAC (World Animal Championships), 8.35AM on ABC ME

Episode 49
Ultimate Warrior
The contenders are shining their armour and sharpening their skills, all in preparation for the ultimate battle. But, only one can take out the title of Ultimate Warrior! 

Also catch: Bushwhacked! – Series 3, 9.00AM on ABC ME and Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.54PM on NITV.

FRIDAY: Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows on ABC iView

Feature-length movie, Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows, follows on from the first two television series and picks up a year after the boys crossed dimensions, discovered magic and battled the restoring demon.

On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell, when Felix discovers a magically sealed ‘Book of Shadows’. Unwittingly, this releases a powerful force of chaos, and the gang is reluctantly drawn into a showdown that threatens their world and all they love…

Also catch: Hoopla Doopla! 1.32PM on ABC2 and Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.54PM on NITV.

SATURDAY: The Inbestigators on ABC iView

After Maudie, a ten-year-old puzzle prodigy, solves a crime on her first day at school with her new classmates Ezra, Ava and Kyle, the future is obvious: the four children must form a detective agency together. Operating out of the granny flat in Ezra’s backyard, these funny and disparate kids from Grade Five solve one thorny school playground or neighbourhood mystery after another, and become best friends in the process.

SUNDAY: Little Lunch, 9.26AM on ABC ME

Episode 6
The Lost and Found Box
After Debra-Jo loses her glasses the children take her to the Lost and Found box to look for them, where they discover all their long-lost own belongings.