The Rubbish World of Dave Spud

Seasons

2019

UK

7

Dave, our magnet for disaster, is a fighter against the odds and our unlikely hero. He knows that no matter how rubbish things get, there is always room for them to get worse. BUT BRING IT ON. For Dave and his Spud family are united - together they WILL prevail and do so with GUSTO!!. Side note: And be back in time for tea.

Episode List

S1 • E1

A Starfish called Gareth

The Spuds take the camper van on holiday, and end up at the bottom of the sea. Dave has to resort to a resourceful solution to get help.

S1 • E2

Donkey

Dave rescues an endangered donkey from the docks. Hiding it in the camper van, things take a turn when the donkey eats Gran's glasses.

S1 • E3

A Whaley Good Time

Fuzzypeg eats the Spuds' fish supper and Dave has to catch another. Things look up when he hooks something, but it turns out to be a whale.

S1 • E4

Born Free

George takes Dave on an adventure camping, but Dave isn't sure it's a great idea. He's proved right when they both wake up in a bear's cave.

S1 • E5

Culture

George takes the Spuds on a day out to the museum of mouldy cheese. Unable to resist Anna's dare to lick the cheeses on display, Dave's bad breath accidentally 'awakes' one of the oldest exhibits.

S1 • E6

Bored Silly

Gran accidentally wins a board game as a bingo prize, but after being locked up for years, the game has developed a vendetta all of its own.

S1 • E7

Blinking 'Eck

Betty wants a nice photo of Dave and Anna, but the camera George uses happens to belong to Gran, and it's been cursed by an ancient mummy.

S1 • E8

Wishes

If there were two things Dave could wish for it would be for Fuzzypeg to smell better, and for Gran to be nicer.

S1 • E9

Crush

Dave gets a girlfriend who turns out to be an alien. And she turns out to bear a striking similarity to a everyday household item.

S1 • E10

Bike

Anna is practicing for the school cycling test and is good at it. Dave isn't, but with a new bike from his parents he really hopes to pass.

S1 • E11

Sports Day

Determined to win this year's Sport's Day, finally making Betty's dreams come true, Dave adapts Anna's chair to speed things up in the final race. Managing to overtake time itself however wasn't quite part of the plan. Soon a tornado has formed, whisking the school away. Nice one, Dave.

S1 • E12

Dig

Betty wants her son Dave to find a hobby, so he takes up treasure hunting below the apartment block and undermines its foundations, causing it to tilt.

S1 • E13

Growing Pains

Dave is given a bulb to grow. Popping it in his lunch box, it isn't long before he discovers it's partial to Betty's sandwiches.

S1 • E14

Fuzzypeg

George adapts the spin cycle of the washing machine causing a black hole to form in the Spuds' kitchen.

S1 • E15

Were-Gran

Gran needs new teeth. Probably not wise to nab a set found on the side of the road though, under a full moon.

S1 • E16

Get Lost

George wins tickets to the local stately home. It's not long before Dave and the rest of the Spuds find themselves lost in its maze.

S1 • E17

Freeze a Jolly Spud Fellow

Summer rears its hot, cheeky head in Grimsby but Dave has found a way to keep the Spud flat nice and cool. Maybe too cool.

S1 • E18

Exchange

When Dave demands to go on a foreign exchange, he soon finds himself headed for a week-long stay in a flat a few doors down.

S1 • E19

Bad Computer

George finds a computer called Val but Val has a mind of her own. Soon she's set about uploading embarrassing videos to social media.

S1 • E20

Coat

Dave needs a new coat and luckily Gran knows of one going spare. But it lives by a bin in a quarry.

S1 • E21

Bog Roll Roll

The biggest sporting event in Grimsby - the bog roll roll - is on, and all Dave has to do is chase the bog roll down the hill and catch it.

S1 • E22

Spud-Ageddon

The Spuds don't care about a carbon footprint, since George has come home with a haul of free electronics that they all want to test out.

S1 • E23

Rat Pack

Dave wants to learn to play the drums at school but is given the recorder instead - with a talent show around the corner, Dave gets practising anyway.