Episode 1 - "Meet the Primaries"
Red, Yellow and Blue. The most popular colours of all.
We meet "the primaries" at blue's house, were they're having a bit of a party. Unfortunately for them, Beige (a boring browny-white colour) also comes along. The primaries don't like Beige, and they don't let him fit in.
Beige is sick of feeling left out from the other colours, and so is Brown (Blue's housemaid).
Episode 2 - "A Blue Day"
We take a look at a blue day - a day in the life of Blue.
Blue and his colleague, Cyan, are once again at work doing quality control on all things blue.
Meanwhile, Beige is fed up with the primary colours, and decides to recruit a sidekick before making plans to 'taking over the world' by making everything beige.
After a few problems finding the right tools for the job, Beige initiates his evil plan, and it seems that he has removed all colour from Red, Yellow and Blue, and that they will now be beiged forever...
Episode 3 - "A Bester Plan"
Returning where we left off last week, Beige has just tried to convert the primaries to his own colour, by covering them with blankets.
Did it work? No.
Did anyone expect it to? No.
Will this stop Beige with his evil plans? Of course not!
Beige and Brown sit down to come up with A Bester Plan, and eventually decide on a strategy that can't fail.
A short time later, they have all the things they need to put their plan into action. The primaries had better watch out!
Episode 4 - "Flour Power"
Again, we see Beige's latest plan to turn the world beige. Unleash the beige powder - it's time for a flouring!
Red, Blue, and their friend Pink, get the shock of their lives when Beige and Brown attack with the flour. (Especially since Beige forgot to open the bag before throwing it!)
At first, it seems that the new plan has worked, and all the colours have turned beige. But they soon dust off and return to their normal pigments. Frustrated, they chase after Beige and Brown, but they get away.
Pink realises that the primaries are going to have to sit down and come up with a better plan to stop Beige and his crazy beigy antics, before he hurts someone, or takes over the world.
How will the primaries react? Can they stop Beige?
Episode 5 - "Three Colours and a Rope"
Yellow, Blue and Red have a meeting to decide what to do to stop Beige. Once Red and Blue finish arguing, they all manage to agree on a plan.
They pull off the ambush without a hitch, and despite Beige's pleas for Brown to 'savorize' him, Beige is now trapped, and seems to have no way of escaping.
We also get to sit in on a rare and thrilling interview with Beige, we hear a bit about his past, and gain some insight into his complex, devious mind.
Will Beige be able to free himself, or will Brown come back to help him escape? Or will he be trapped forever?
Episode 6 - "The Tables Have Turned..."
So Beige is trapped, tied to a tree. With rope.
Luckily Brown comes back to rescue him, and unties the rope. This scene would have been largely uneventful except that...
Beige has decided to become a different colour! *scary music plays*
Is this even possible? Can colours change their colour? What will happen to everything beige in the world?
Beige and Brown set out to find a new colour for Beige, and they come across some orange. It looks like Beige is finished, and
Orange will take his place.
Aside from all the troubles Beige is having, we also get to see part of a day in the life of Red - the fast one.
It's a fantastic episode that can't be explained with just words - check out the video to see what I mean!
Episode 7 - "Where are the Colours?"
You thought Beige was bad? Now we meet Colourless - a bad apple who's going to suck all the colour out of the world!
While Beige still tries to fit in as orange, with no success, Colourless begins his preparations for taking over the world. He needs to find special batteries for the Colour Sucker 5000, because without them he can only suck a little bit of colour at a time. When he gets the batteries, the whole world will be grey.
It's getting tense, folks, I don't know how you can sleep at night knowing that Colourless is out on the run!
Episode 8 - "Three Colours Cop a Battering"
Just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse for the primaries, Colourless stumbles upon some batteries for his Colour Sucker 5000. Now there's almost nothing stopping him from sucking up all colours from the world - making it grey forever.
There's only a small challenge in getting the batteries out of the hands of a sleeping security guard (who thought they were juggling balls), which is a problem that can only be solved with lemons.
We also catch up with Beige, who is trying his best to be Maroon, then Green. None of the new colours are working for him - does he have to be Beige forever?
Episode 8 finishes with the primaries learning the news of Colourless' theft of the batteries - who knows how this will finish?!
Episode 9 - "Grey Skies are Looming"
Now that colourless has the batteries, he's getting ready to take over the world, to suck out all the colours, to make the skies grey forever.
Red and Blue have found Colourless, and stall him while they call Beige for help.
Meanwhile, Beige is trying his latest colour - green - and seems to be enjoying a new connection with nature. But an urgent call for help that comes from Red and Blue is enough to get Beige and Brown running to the rescue.
Just when it seems there's nothing the colours can do to stop Colourless' scheme, Beige and Brown arrive with a plan that could turn any professional punster green with envy, "Let's dye him!"
Episode 10 - "True Colours"
Beige (still pretending to be green) climactically announces that the colours need to dye Colourless. But as Red and Blue run off to get some colours (and to find Yellow!), Colourless attacks Brown, and removes her colour.
Blue, Red, Yellow and Beige begin the dyeing, but it appears that Beige's efforts as green are not helping. The colours aren't sticking to Colourless - and he's getting irritated.
Beige realises that he'll have to stop putting on his proud face, to go and ask Brown for advice. She explains to him that he needs to stop pretending, and just be himself.
Beige goes back to the battle scene as his true colour, Beige, and gets stuck into Colourless once again. This time it works much better, with all the colours working as a team.
Colourless gets coloured. He has been defeated in his plan to suck the colour out of the world.
Blue manages to put the Colour Sucker 5000 into reverse mode to restore the colour to Brown's cheeks, and they all take a bow.
Another Serial Drama, another happy ending.
Thanks for watching the first Serial Drama Movie!
Credits
Colours: Josh Wood, Ben Chong, Grace Wilson, Jono Croxford, Brendan Petty, Lauren Pinches
Narrators: Esther Sprague, Matt Waters
Music written by: Brendan Petty
Performed with: Chris Cameron, Jesse Taylor, Warren Breeland-Clencie
Edited by: Brendan Petty
Recorded at: Jono's house
PS. If you're wondering what the giant teabag's all about - it will soon reappear in another Serial Drama!