The BEST episodes of Tracy Beaker Returns
Every episode of Tracy Beaker Returns ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tracy Beaker Returns!
When Tracy is arrested for using Cam's credit card to publish her autobiography, Tracy seeks refuge at the Dumping Ground, a care home where she used to live as a child. She meets the children who are intrigued by her and her story. Wanting to pay Cam back, Tracy asks Mike for a job. As Mike is short-staffed, he agrees to hire her an assistant care worker since she knows so much about life in care. Tracy then uses her background as a former child in care to become fully involved in the lives of those of whom she is now in charge.
#1 - The Visitors
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2012
When a fire breaks out in Burnywood, four young children and their mysterious care worker, Dennis Stockle, arrive at the Dumping Ground. Carmen recognises one of the children as a boy called Tyler who nicked all her stuff at Burnywood and the person who bashed her. Since Sapphire has moved out, Rick and Tyler sleeps in Sapphire's room and Kitty sleeps in Toby's since he got fostered. Carmen finds out that someone has used all her shampoo and put glue in her hair while Tracy tries to help Kitty settle in. Later, Johnny's money is stolen and he thinks Lizanne has stolen it because she was the only one who saw it. Dennis searches everywhere, but the money can't be found. But things have gone worse when Tracy falls down the stairs and Dennis sees an opportunity to take over the running of the Dumping Ground.
#2 - Family Values
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2010
Lily and her sisters get fostered, leaving Carmen alone. Her loneliness leads to conflict with the other kids.
#3 - Goodbye Tracy Beaker
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/23/2012
Tracy is leaving the Dumping Ground and everyone has a party. Mike hires a new girl called Melanie Jay, and she saves Jody's life as Jody goes into anaphylactic shock after eating nuts; Jody is taken to hospital. When Sapphire says she wants to move back into her flat, Tracy and Sapphire make their way to the flat to protest against the council, who have sold the building off. Mike follows them and orders Sapphire to leave. Tracy and Mike argue. When Tracy exits the flat, she slams the door and the ceiling collapses on Mike. Luckily, Tracy saves Mike and she is glad that he is all right. Tracy and Mike say a tearful farewell. How far can Tracy go? Tracy Beaker will always be part of the family.
#4 - Viva Carmen
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2010
Carmen's mother turns up wanting her daughter to live with her again. Is she all she seems to be?
#5 - What You Don't Know...
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/2011
Johnny and Tee have a chance to go and live with the Watsons. Things don't work out though, as the Watsons think that Johnny dominates Tee. Mike and Tracy tell Johnny that it wasn't his fault, but he reads his file and finds out it was. He decides that Tee should go and live with the Watsons without him. Johnny tries to phone Tee every day, but stops because Mr. Watson told him so. When Tee discovers what Mr. Watson has done, she is disgusted and returns to the Dumping Ground.
#6 - Elektra
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/2011
A new girl called Elektra arrives at the Dumping Ground. But she ends up stealing and threatening to do something to the kids if they tell the adults what she has done. After she becomes the most popular person there, she tries to steal even more money and possessions by starting a gang (SETA). Tracy and Sapphire accidentally use the pasta sauce for the curry, and then go out shopping for food. They go and have sausages and then they find out that they have no money for a bus ride home. Elektra eventually cuts the leg off of Harry's toy giraffe, Jeff. Sapphire, being close friends with Harry, finds out about this and fights Elektra on the upstairs landing.
#8 - Justine Littlewood Returns
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/2012
Justine Littlewood, Tracy's arch-enemy from her time in care, arrives at the Dumping Ground, wanting Mike to give her away at her wedding as she is marrying Charlie, who is actually a sleazy conman. Charlie ends up running into Rick, but bribes him to keep his mouth shut with a new computer, which everyone was trying to get in the previous episode, Eggs. Justine arrives in shock that after years of wanting to leave, Tracy actually works where they both grew up. After asking Mike if he can give Justine away at the wedding, Mike asks why her real dad can't, she responds by saying that Mike's like a dad to her and her dad already said no. He accepts. All the kids come in, and are judging her by what Tracy said in her book.
#9 - Sisters
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2010
Lily returns to the Dumping Ground without her sisters. Tracy resolves to reunite them, which leads to disaster. Tee hides a sheep in her room.
#10 - The Werewolf
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/2010
Who or what is the werewolf Carmen sees lurking in the grounds?
#11 - Going Home
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/2/2012
Elektra's sister Melissa arrives, announcing that she is getting married and wants Elektra to be her bridesmaid. Melissa takes Elektra shopping to get a new dress and says she wants Elektra to visit their mum and dad; she agrees, and takes Tracy with her. However, Elecktra ends up having a huge argument with her mum and dad because they had not told Melissa's soon-to-be husband that she is in care (having told him instead that Elektra was away at boarding school), and goes back to the Dumping Ground. Meanwhile, Sapphire comes back due to a flood at her flat and gets angry very quickly.
#12 - Reward
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/17/2012
It is the annual care home certificate awards, where each child gets given a certificate so the children can feel special about themselves. Normally, Mike would make the certificates, however disaster strikes so Tracy has to do it this year. Tracy made one for everyone but Johnny, as she couldn't think of one to describe him as other than 'Clean and Tidy'. Johnny stands on the other side of the door, overhearing the conversation; seeking revenge he turns to Elektra for help. Meanwhile, Sapphire arrives and finds out she didn't get an award, as the awards are based from last year. Angry at being humiliated, Sapphire storms home where Johnny and Elektra are already at her flat. Johnny wanders off to another person's apartment where there are loads of stolen phones, games etc., but the occupants turn out to be robbers and grab him; they smash a painting of the Dumping Ground made by Sapphire. The bullies aim to carry out a robbery and pick one of the trio to do the work for them. Johnny picks himself. The bullies warn Sapphire and Elektra that if they follow them, Johnny will be hurt...
#13 - Big Brother
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/2012
Liam is scammed with some unauthorized DVDs and wrecks the stall where he bought them. Fleeing, he bumps into a woman who thinks he is a mugger. The stallholders leave him to get arrested and Liam is punished with a curfew and electronic tag – if the alarm goes off three times, Liam will be sent to a youth offenders' institute. Liam gets a letter from a big brother he didn't even know he had. Liam finds out that his brother was actually the one selling the DVDs.
#14 - Anarchy in the DG
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/2010
With Gina at a party and Mike unwell, Tracy is left in charge of the night shift, with disastrous consequences.
#16 - Money
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/28/2011
When a big bag of cash is dumped in the garden, Liam, Frank and Toby decide to hide it in their bedrooms, only to be found by Carmen and the rest who take a share of the money to hide in their rooms. Toby meets his social worker, Seth, and thinks that he is one of the people getting the money back. Liam and Frank decide to spend their share of the money on a new television, but end up running from security. Two police officers arrive at the Dumping Ground to search for the money, but after searching the garden, the police officers find no trace of the money. What will the kids do?
#17 - The Burnywood Menace
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2011
The Dumping Ground in threatened with closure when the Council impose sweeping budget cuts. Meanwhile, Lily is feeling left out by Matt and Christie. Christie takes Lily to the Dumping Ground, where Carmen tells Lily that if she stays with her foster family, the council might reconsider closing Elm Tree House. But Lily wishes to stay at the Dumping Ground, as she feels she doesn't fit in at the Perrys'. Can Tracy save Elm Tree House with a Tracy Beaker Plan? Or will the young people be sent to Burnywood?
#18 - Out of Control
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/2011
Liam and Frank are out and Liam starts 'messsing around' on a mobility scooter and gets caught. Liam has to go to court and is told that his punishment is seven days' work in an old people's home. Realising he is lucky he didn't have a more serious punishment and so agrees to do it. But there is a scammer at the nursery home. Liam is out to find what is going on. Meanwhile, everyone at the Dumping Ground are joking about Gus dating Jenny.
#19 - The Invitation
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/16/2012
Mike is stunned by the news that he’s been nominated to receive an MBE and everyone is excited about a potential trip to the Palace. But when Mike discovers he can only take three guests along with him, Tracy comes up with a plan to let the young people democratically decide who should go with him. Elektra also bribes her way to go to the palace, as she plans to ruin Mike's big day. She also involves Rick, who hates the Queen (as his parents are in prison), and will do anything to annoy her. Rick calls down Gus to join the kids, and finds out that it was Gus who had recommended Mike for the MBE. The children decide that Harry (along with Jeff, of course), Gus and Tracy should go to the Palace.
#20 - Jody Jackson
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/9/2012
Jody Jackson arrives like a whirlwind — dirty, smelly and taking no attitude from anyone. With the Dumping Ground full, Jody must share with Carmen, threatening Lily’s respite care. Carmen doesn't like this arrangement and when Jody borrows her cardigan when she feels cold, Elektra locks Jody in the toy cupboard to stop the fighting which is happening in the living room where she is watching TV. Seeing as she doesn't fit in, Jody runs away back to her home – only to find her mum and brothers have abandoned the house. Meanwhile, Mike cancels Lily's respite care, since her dad is coping well, but Tracy feels that Lily is upset about this arrangement.
#21 - Secrets
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2010
Tracy finds stolen goods in Sapphire's room, and Liam and Frank discover Gus' notebooks are full of people's secrets.
#22 - Bad Luck Boy
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2010
Toby believes his life is jinxed and Tracy makes it worse by writing about him in her article.
#23 - Summer Holiday
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/2012
Everyone’s off to a farmhouse in the country for the start of the annual Dumping Ground holiday. But when Tee accidentally leaves the field gate open and the sheep get into the farmer's house, the farmer throws everyone out. Tensions build as the young people take their anger out on Tee. She tries to make it up to them by looking for another holiday. Meanwhile, Lily is planning to go to Wales where her dad is camping out for the holidays, and persuades Carmen to come with her. Tee finds out when she sees them looking for coach times to Wales, and Lily and Carmen blackmail her into not telling. Tee gets worried with guilt, and she tries to get advice from Gus, without telling him that they've run away.
#24 - By The Book
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2010
Tempers reach boiling point when Tracy comes between brother and sister.
#25 - Chain Reaction
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/25/2011
When Cam goes to New York for four weeks, Tracy is finding it hard to live alone. Cam is offered a six-month contract over in New York. Meanwhile, a friendship blossoms between Carmen and Elektra, but is soon ruined when Lily returns and that Carmen had asked Elektra to give her necklace back, so she could then give it to Lily as a welcome back present. Jealous Elektra begins to bully Carmen. Tracy doesn't feel well and the rest of the others try to make the longest paper chain.