Dani's House (series 2/3)

Dani's House (Series 2 & 3)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	13 (Series 2) 13 (Series 3)
Release
Original network	CBBC Channel
Original release	30 November 2009 – 3 December 2010

The second series of Dani's House began airing on 30 November 2009 with double episodes each week. It aired double episodes for 5 weeks and continued to air one episode each week. There was a Christmas Special "Scrooge Tube" that aired on the 21 December 2009. There was also a sport's relief special "Marathon Man" which aired on March 19, 2010. Series 3 began airing 10 September 2010 but was supposed to air in March 2010 after the Sport's Relief Special. But was decided to move to September 2010 instead. The series stars Dani (Dani Harmer), Sam (Klariza Clayton), Jack (Darragh Mortell), Max (Sebastian Applewhite) and Ben (James Gandhi). Harry Culverhouse as Toby left the show but has continued to work as Coordinator Zang.

Cast and Characters

• Dani - Dani Harmer
• Sam - Klariza Clayton
• Jack - Darragh Mortell
• Max - Sebastian Applewhite
• Ben - James Gandhi

Episodes

Series 2 (2009)

In series 2, Darragh Mortell appears as the new character of Jack who replaces Toby. Eoghan Quigg and Same Difference guest star. Harry Culverhouse still appears as Co-ordinator Zang. This is the second time Dani Harmer has worked with Darragh Mortell as they worked together in The Story of Tracy Beaker. The series also included a 2010 Sport Relief special.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
14	1	"Jack in the House"	Dez Mccarthy	Paul Rose	30 November 2009	3.7
Dani has moved house and finds out that she has been offered a record deal to celebrate she throws a massive party for all her mates, but finds everything thrown into chaos when the oddly-familiar DJ Jack causes mayhem. Meanwhile, Dani's brother Max plans to embarrass his big sister and ruin her party, just as soon as he can find out why his best friend Ben is under investigation by a secret agent.
15	2	"Wedding Dress"	Dez McCarthy	Holly Lyons	30 November 2009	3.7
Dani is rehearsing for a romantic role but cannot quite get into the part. When a hassled Sam has to leave her very demanding sister's wedding dress in Dani's care, Dani sees the perfect opportunity for some role play. But can Dani and Jack be relied upon to keep the dress pristine, especially when Max and Ben are having an ongoing prank war?
16	3	"Hit the Jackpot"	Dez McCarthy	Emma Ko	1 December 2009	3.4
Dani needs to raise her profile but Sam and Jack's attempts to help her create a perfect pop promo may not have the required effect. Meanwhile, Max is in need of cash and decides he has the perfect solution – appearing on top quiz show Family Misfortunes. The first problem? Max will need his sister to appear with him. The second problem? Max and Dani find themselves up against top contestants Erik and Erika, who haven't lost a quiz in 19 years.
17	4	"Abracadisco"	Graeme Harper	Trevor Neal & Simon Hickson	1 December 2009	3.4
Jack needs a new gimmick for his gigs. Despite Dani and Sam's doubts, he decides to become a DJ-gician, a combination DJ and magician. All he needs now is an audience to test himself on. At the same time, Max has decided that the perfect way to get what he wants is to act like a five-year-old. The plan works beautifully until Max discovers an old toy and realises how much it means to him. Things come to a head when Jack decides the toy would be perfect for his sawing-in-half trick.
18	5	"Double Trouble"	Dez McCarthy	Joe Williams	2 December 2009	3.5
Sam and Jack are tired of Dani ditching them for auditions and try-outs, so she promises faithfully that she won't let them down again. When the perfect audition clashes with a date with her mates, Dani has to find a way out fast. Luckily she runs into Maggie, who could be her double. Maggie agrees to stand in for Dani but soon turns out to be more trouble than Dani could have imagined, especially when she starts advising Max and Ben on their project to build a space shuttle.
19	6	"Break a Leg"	Graeme Harper	Holly Lyons	2 December 2009	3.5
Sam has written a play; Dani thinks it is dreadful, but doesn't want to hurt her best friend's feelings. Soon, she finds herself agreeing to be the play's star. Desperate for some way to get out of her new role, Dani pretends to have broken her leg. A suspicious Sam decides to test her friend out. Meanwhile, Max has managed to con his friend Ben out of his lucky medallion, but soon comes to think that, far from being lucky, it may actually be cursed!
20	7	"The Axolotl Factor"	Dez McCarthy	Paul Rose	3 December 2009	3.4
Dani could finally be getting her big break. Top talent spotter Guy Flannel has heard her voice and thinks she might have the Z factor. But can Dani play along when Guy decides he wants her best friend Sam to be his new star?
21	8	"Lady and the Vamp"	Dez McCarthy	Paul Rose	3 December 2009	3.4
Dani has never found dancing lessons easy, but things are made an awful lot worse when Jack gets it into his head that her new dance teacher is a vampire. With Max working out a dastardly scheme for revenge involving super-itchy fleas and some ultra-cute kittens, things could be about to get much worse.
22	9	"Use Your Noodle"	Graeme Harper	Paul Rose	4 December 2009	3.4
Dani has become the face of Noodle Puffs. Jack is delighted but Sam is appalled: Noodle Puffs are unhealthy and made from endangered dugong milk. Sam decides she must put an end to Dani's career in advertising and Max immediately volunteers to help out. Meanwhile, Ben has won a top DJ deck in a Noodle Puffs competition and Jack decides to give him lessons.
23	10	"Secret Millionaire"	Graeme Harper	Joe Williams	4 December 2009	3.4
Thanks to a mix-up, Dani and Sam come to believe that Jack is a secret millionaire – it would explain his eccentric behaviour and shabby dress sense, after all. When someone claiming to collect money for Booties for Pooches latches onto Jack, Dani assumes she is a gold digger and decides to expose her. Meanwhile, Max and Ben are having a very sticky time of it as a plan to become sweet makers becomes too tasty to resist.
24	11	"Alien Invasion"	Dez McCarthy	Paul Rose	14 December 2009	3.8
Dani is the understudy of the part of a witch in Macbeth: The Musical, which means Jack and Sam get the job of ensuring that Max does not cause chaos. Dani's most loyal viewers, the aliens, have got bored of never getting to meet their heroine and her pals and have decided to teleport down to Earth, where they soon find themselves embroiled in Max's scheme to win the 10,000 pound reward from the UFO Society.
25	12	"Scrooge Tube"	Dez McCarthy	Paul Rose	21 December 2009	3.9
It is Christmas Eve and Dani and the gang get to welcome old pal Toby back from University. Meanwhile, Dani's brother Max is getting into the yuletide spirit – and demanding loads of presents. But, that night, Max is visited by a series of ghosts, who do their best to teach him the real meaning of Christmas.
26	13	"Marathon Man"	Graeme Harper	Joe Williams	19 March 2010	3.8
A very useless Jack, wants to run a marathon for Sport Relief. In addition of this, Dani and Sam try him to help him with his training and would like to sponsor him lots of their donation money. Meanwhile, Max and Ben set up a website for Jack's running marathon which gets loads of donations given for Charity. Ben and Max are caught with the money and Dani takes the money from them and empties Max's pockets filled with the rest of the money.

Series 3 (2010)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
27	1	"Weird Wednesday"	Dez McCarthy	Story by: Melanie Martinez Teleplay by: Paul Rose	10 September 2010	3.2
Life continues for Sam and Jack as Dani and Max's endless fighting is still ongoing. Determined to stop them, Sam and Jack along with Ben decide that Max and Dani should swap places for the day. But Dani has to have an important audtition and Max is competing in Chess Fess. How can the siblings do each other's work when they are like enemies?
28	2	"Chat Show"	Dez McCarthy	Simon Nickson & Trevor Neal	17 September 2010	3.3
Dani enters a Chat show which that means she gets to be on live TV. But when she goes on things get embarrassing.
29	3	"Grandad and the Emo of Doom"	Graeme Harper	Paul Rose	24 September 2010	2.9
An Emo called Brandon Noir comes to stay with Dani, and Max invites their Grandpa to come and stay just to annoy Dani. Grandpa is afraid that Dani is too young to sing with a rock star so Grandpa, Max and Jack decides to sabotage the show.
30	4	"The Cook Off"	Dez McCarthy	Emma Ko	1 October 2010	4.2
Sam, Jack and Dani enter the Junior Cook off which turns into a cut-throat competition. Meanwhile, Max and Ben invent Dreams R' Us and they steal Dani, Sam and Jack's food items to invent it. Blind to Max and Ben's robbery, the friends start blaming each other and then all of them end up losing!
31	5	"Only Child"	Graeme Harper	Gary Parker	8 October 2010	2.9
In a rash moment which she thinks is just a joke, Dani says she wishes Max would disappear. Amazingly, he does – and Dani is full of remorse as she tries to get him to come home. Little does she know that he is hidden in the attic with Ben's help, determined to make Dani miss him for real.
32	6	"Book Squirm"	Graeme Harper	Joe Williams	15 October 2010	3.5
When the local Library closes down, Dani reluctantly agrees to set up the library in her house. With Sam and Jack's help, she turns it into a hip and happening reading place, but just before the Mayor comes to inspect how well she's doing, the entire place starts to fall apart.
33	7	"Maxworld"	Graeme Harper	Paul Rose	22 October 2010	3.4
Max decides to lock Dani, Sam and Jack in Dani's bedroom so they can sort out their differences, but it is all just a plot so he can take over the house and turn it into his very own theme park. When some local bullies arrive and start throwing their weight around, Max is forced to enlist the help of Dani and her friends to get rid of them.
34	8	"Driving Miss Dani"	Graeme Harper	Harwant Bains	29 October 2010	3.6
Dani wants to learn how to drive, but can't afford proper lessons. When Max and Ben get hold of a new driving game, Dani becomes completely obsessed and can't be stopped from playing it day and night. Max has to join forces with Jack and Sam to cure Dani of her unlikely new game addiction. Jack's friend then later takes Dani for a driving test, but she fails.
35	9	"Jack's Rival"	Dez McCarthy	Paul Rose	5 November 2010	3.9
An old DJ competitor of Jack's shows up to fix the plumbing at Dani's house, and Dani's lyric book of songs mysteriously goes missing. When Sam and Dani fall for his charm, Max and Ben must become detectives to help Jack prove it's his old nemesis who has nicked the book and is not what he seems.
36	10	"Who Do You Think You Aren't?"	Graeme Harper	Emma Ko	12 November 2010	5.6
Dani discovers a famous branch of her family tree who has definitely lost touch with his roots! The now-famous celebrity comes to visit, but is truly on another wavelength, so the gang contrive a series of lessons to help get him get back to his real self. Guest Starring Kieran Gough
37	11	"Valentine"	Dez McCarthy	James Gandhi	19 November 2010	6.4
Dani is upset that she has no date for Valentine's Day, but Max and Ben (Dressed up as a cherub) are making loads of money delivering flowers and candy to love-struck clients. While Sam is doing research on animal hormones, Dani breaks a bottle by mistake. The 'love potion' falls on Dani and makes her an object of accidental love for, of all people, Ben!
38	12	"Buddy Movie"	Dez McCarthy	Gary Parker	26 November 2010	6.3
Against all odds, Dani gets a part in a big action movie and can take one friend with her to the exotic location. Sam and Jack vie to see who can be Dani's most indispensable friend – but manage to turn her into a selfish and vain wannabe who neither of them end up wanting to be with.
39	13	"ESP"	Dez McCarthy	Paul Rose	3 December 2010	5.3
When Sam does a science experiment on Dani, Sam and Jack are "convinced" that Dani is physic. Jack is convinced that he saw little foot at the door delivering a pizza. Meanwhile, when Max and Ben eavesdrop on the friends, Max lightens things up in the house.