The WORST episodes of Tracy Beaker Returns
Every episode of Tracy Beaker Returns ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Grandad
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/2011
Frank is ready to go fishing with his grandad when he learns, to his distress, that his grandad died nearly a week earlier, and the funeral has already been held. At his granddad's grave, Frank vows to get him a headstone and to get money, sells his only family heirloom—the antique pocket watch his grandad gave him—to a dodgy antiques dealer. When Frank returns with the money, he gets more bad news: his grandad is buried in a multi-occupancy pauper's grave and isn't allowed a headstone. However, Tracy comes up with a cunning plan to make the dealer part with the heirloom.
#2 - Snake Bite
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/2011
Elektra's old friend Kali turns up, and it seems she and Elektra were in a gang called Cobras who weren't very nice and Kali went to prison. But when she and Elektra sneak out, Kali seems like she is back to her old tricks with a gang of new Cobra members. Kali persuades Elektra to run away with her and the gang, so Elektra goes to pack her things. Toby tries to stop her, but she goes anyway. Meanwhile, Gina is preparing for a dance night, but finds that her dancing is being mocked by the children so decides not to go. Liam, Frank, Johnny, Carmen and Tee try to force Gina to go dancing.
#3 - Refugees
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2011
Two refugees named Ade and Dayo are left at the Dumping Ground and Gus tries to find out what their story is. Lily decides that she wants to visit the Dumping Ground, and Tracy decides to bring Tee and Carmen back to her house to see her. Ade and Dayo reveals that their parents had been killed by men with guns and they both ran and hid in a rubbish dump. Tracy brings Tee and Carmen back to Cam's house and they all organise a fashion show. Mike receives a word from Immigration Control that they are coming to take the two boys away – or are they?
#4 - Eggs
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/2012
The kids want a new computer, but Mike will not get one until they prove they can look after their things. So Tracy sets an 'egg sitting' challenge; the kids team up in pairs to look after an egg without smashing it. Meanwhile, Sapphire tells Harry, who is visiting her at her flat with Carmen and Tracy, that she is not his mum and he has to get used to her not being at the Dumping Ground. Carmen offers to be his mum instead and back at the Dumping Ground they team up for the egg challenge. Harry soon asks why he and Jeff (Harry's toy giraffe, which he takes everywhere) can't go back and live with his real mother, and Tracy explains that his mother used to hurt him.
#5 - The Scare Game
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/25/2011
Tracy takes Lily out shopping, but unexpectedly Lily's dad shows up to say sorry. Lily wants to get some answers from him, so she and Sapphire follow him to his hotel without telling Tracy. Lily then reveals that she wants to stay with her dad. But is Steve ready yet? Tracy is upset about this, as she loves Lily as her little sister, but Cam says that both of them never really had her, and that they are just giving her back. Meanwhile, Liam, Frank, Toby, Carmen and Tee are trying to scare each other, but they always end up scaring someone else — including Mike and Gina. In the end, Mike and Gina give them a fright.
#6 - Tracy Beaker Superstar
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2010
Tracy's new life is going brilliantly, she has achieved her dream of becoming a writer and even appeared on TV. That is until she gets arrested.
#7 - Drained
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/7/2011
The Dumping Ground re-opens and Mike is suspended due to investigation about Lily's fall from the roof in the previous episode. Lily successfully recovers the fall and is moved out of hospital when Cam decides to foster Lily. Tracy brings Lily back to the Dumping Ground for a visit, but Carmen and Sapphire now hate her for supposedly causing them to move to Burnywood. Mike is later taken into court for a hearing.
#8 - Crushed
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2011
When Lily moves into Cam's house, Tracy starts to feel jealous as she is used to having just the two of them together and now she feels Lily has all the attention. Tracy decides to get a night job at a cafe to put her mind elsewhere. Meanwhile, everyone at the Dumping Ground starts to have their doubts about Toby returning to the care home so everyone decides to take all of his stuff to keep. Toby starts talking to a girl named Sara at the comic book store and realise that the two have very much in common, but when Toby tells her that his parents are still alive and that he has two sisters, Sara tells Toby that her mother had died. Toby then returns to the Dumping Ground realising everything he owned has gone. Can Tracy be a proper sister and can Toby tell the truth?
#9 - Good Luck Boy
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2010
Toby and the lads have to fake being a family when they win a free holiday to Florida.
#10 - A Day in the Country
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/2011
Mike and Gina have planned the weekend in the countryside to perfection. That is, until Gina twists her ankle and can't join in with the activities. While Liam and Elektra tease each other about who is going to win, Tracy is made the new leader of Gina's team, with the other team leader being Mike. Feeling that Tracy and Harry are slowing down the team's chances of winning, Elektra changes the direction from right to left, so that Tracy ends up leading their team the wrong way. Elektra then sets off with Toby and Carmen, after telling Tracy that she can't lead them anywhere. While the other team is more confident, danger comes in Tracy's team when Carmen falls over a bridge and Jeff is confronted by a poisonous snake.
#11 - Belonging
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/2012
Hoping to re-unite the family, Lily has coached her dad Steve in all things Poppy and Rosie in readiness for his first meeting with them. But, having no memory of their dad, Poppy and Rosie run out crying. Convinced Steve would do better without official interference, Carmen and Tee help Lily plot a second meeting between Lily and her sisters — without telling anyone her dad will be there too; Tracy is persuaded to take the girls to the park where Steve is waiting with a picnic spread. Meanwhile, Frank secretly adopts a three-legged dog that follows him back to the Dumping Ground, which the kids name Shadow. When Shadow pees in his bedroom and gives him fleas, Frank takes it to Sapphire who refuses to adopt it. Fortunately, Shadow finds a new home with Steve and Lily.
#12 - Shadows
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2012
There is a storm and a escaped prisoner. Tracy is left in charge of the kids when Mike goes to get some torches. They all think the prisoner has entered the house when the front door is open and there are muddy footprints on the floor. They take a search, but find nothing. Tee and Lily go to the cellar to try and solve some riddles, but Carmen will not go because she is scared. A figure goes past Carmen's door and she screams. Gus's room also gets wrecked.
#13 - New Life's Eve
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2010
Working at the Dumping Ground, Tracy finds she is not as indispensable as she thought. Will she get the sack?
#14 - Firestarter
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/2012
Dennis Stockle has taken over the Dumping Ground, and there are notices everywhere banning everything allowed before "By Order of Dennis Stockle". A fire breaks out in the attic. Dennis thinks Harry is responsible because he was playing with joss sticks, but it wasn't. Gus's notebooks have been burnt and Dennis locks the attic. Tracy and Gus start an investigation into the fire and enter the attic, but Gus falls through the floor and lands on Lily's bed. Dennis fires Tracy, and subsequently tries to frame Lizanne for the fire at Burnywood. It is revealed that Dennis started the Dumping Ground fire by smoking in the attic and when found out he is forced to resign his job.
#15 - 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.
#16 - By The Book
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2010
Tempers reach boiling point when Tracy comes between brother and sister.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#23 - 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?
#24 - 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?
