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The Foxbusters

Comedy, Children · 1999

Last aired: S2 E13, In the Beak-ginning · 2000-11-24

The chickens of Foxearth Farm have long lived in fear of marauding foxes, but now three brave new birds have arrived and everything is set to change. Calling themselves The Foxbusters, the newcomers form a flying defence team and vow to defend their friends against the sly menaces.

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg Ransome

JH Jimmy Hibbert Voracious

Jane Horrocks Jeffries

Joanna Lumley Sims

Rob Rackstraw Todd

Season 2

Season 1 Season 2

E1 Ackluckalypse Now 2000-09-01 · 11 min

E2 Big Trouble 2000-09-08 · 11 min Sims' new invention accidentally makes King Voracious huge and Ransome dinky till she travels through space. After an escalating growth battle between Sims, Jeffries and Voraciou,s they grow the earth to fit their scale.

E3 Day of the Hunter 2000-09-15 · 11 min Hunter Hawk is about to have the Foxbusters grounded, but they thwart his attempt. They then have to rescue Hunter's wife and child from the foxes.

E4 Fear of Flying 2000-09-22 · 11 min

E5 The Not So Great Escape 2000-09-29 · 11 min Todd gets taken by accident into the farm. He has no luck escaping and ends up being staying there mistaken for a chicken.

E6 Love Bites 2000-10-06 · 11 min The Foxbusters get all foxes and vixens to fall in love to create a ceasefire, but it only improves their efforts against the chickens. The Foxbusters get the couples to break up.

E7 Eggs, Lies and Videotape 2000-10-13 · 11 min A zoologist is astounded by the flying Foxbuster hens. The Foxbusters try to avoid a flying pose for the zoologist's camera until they give him flying foxes to film.

E8 Of Mice and Hen 2000-10-20 · 11 min Jeffries is starting to feel overlooked. She goes on a freelance mission to rescue field mice from an owl. After she rescues them, they all rescue Sims and Ransome from the foxes.

E9 Some Like It Otter 2000-10-27 · 11 min Carlotta is through with Rotter and moves in with the Foxbusters. Rotter uses this as an opportunity to grab some eggs. Then Carlotta double crosses everybody.

E10 The PrisHener 2000-11-03 · 11 min Ransome has been taken away to an automatic farm, which acts like a prison. All Ransome's attempts to escape fail until she makes the systems go haywire.

E11 Peace 2000-11-10 · 11 min King Voracious has enough of chicken fighting and declares peace with the Foxbusters, but both Sims and Volpone break it all up.

E12 One Paw in the Grave 2000-11-17 · 11 min

E13 In the Beak-ginning 2000-11-24 · 11 min Sims tells an ugly duckling a story of how she and her sisters were raised by traditionalist parents and became a disgrace to the farmyard due to their flying talent, but gained their placed after rescuing the hens from the fox pack and gained the title as Foxbusters.

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