The Slammer - Episode 4
First broadcast: Friday 13 October 2006, BBC ONE/CBBC Channel, 4:55pm

Ted, the Governor, is having his daily meeting with the prison wardens. He tells them which lucky inmates he has chosen to perform in the Freedom Show. Les Bubb, a mime act with a difference, Professor Bumm's Story Machine, D-wing's greatest juggler Kris Kremo and the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain.

However, it's not all good news. It has been brought to the Governor's attention that escape attempts are on the up. Quite literally! Earlier that day he discovered four prisoners trying to get over the prison wall in a hot air balloon. Fortunately he managed to bring them down with his catapult. But the important thing is that they could have got away, and the Governor will not have that in his prison! He wants the wardens to be extra vigilant. Mr Burgess couldn't agree more, and finds that the prison sometimes looks like a holiday camp. That's why the Governor has decided to issue all prison wardens with a new piece of equipment. This piece of equipment, if worn correctly, will make it 99.9% impossible for prisoners to escape. The platform boot!

Melvin's not happy, it's his gran's birthday, and every year he picks her up from the nursing home and takes her out for tea and cake. She'll be heartbroken if Melvin doesn't show up, she'll think he forgot about her. Peter Nokio asks why Melvin doesn't invite his gran round to the prison, but Melvin's tells him she doesn't know he's in the Slammer. There's only one thing for it, he's going to have to escape.

> Videoclip: "Melvin wants to escape"

Meanwile, Mr Burgess and the Governor's nephew Jeremy are having problems with their new platform boots. "If I had my way, I'd do things a lot differently!" Mr Burgess tells Jeremy, who quite likes the boots. They make him feel quite special. "With these boots on, nothing's going to get past me!" Jeremy says whilst a giant panda attacks another warden.

Little Titch is wondering how Melvin's planning to escape. Melvin's been locked up for years, and Peter Nokio asks him what he usually does to visit his granny. Usually, it's not a problem: "I wait for the show to start, that way the Governor and the audience are all distracted watching the show. Then I nip out into the excercise yard, hop over the wall, pick up granny from the nursing home, take her for a quick cake and cuppa, drop her back off at the nursing home, hop back over the wall, nip back through the excercise yard and I'm back in my cell before you can say Hot Shoe Shuffle! Piece of cake!" This time it's different however, the prison warden's new platform boots make it 99.9% impossible for Melvin to escape. Peter Nokio's got a plan!

> Videoclip: "Peter Nokio's got a plan"

In the meantime, Mr Gimbert and Jeremy find a magic act rehearsing in the corridor. The magician hasn't got permission and will be severely punished by Mr Burgess, but he can finish his act first. The magician disappears in his box, and out of the prison. Mr Burgess and Gimbert have been had, a prisoner escaped in front of their eyes!

> Videoclip: "A magical escape!"

Peter and Titch tell Melvin about their plan. A while ago, Peter was beginning to get worried and started to think he'd never get a spot on the Freedom Show, so he dug a tunnel underneath his bed. A passport to freedom, to be used only in an absolute emergency. Melvin's shocked. Peter also reveals he used to be a master sculptor, and tells Melvin he's gonna make a life-size model of him. Melvin enters the tunnel.

The Governor's getting ready for the Freedom Show, when Mr Burgess and Jeremy drop into his office. More prisoners have escaped. "But that's impossible, what about the boots?" the Governor asks. The boots are the problem! The Governor holds his hands up, the boots are not all what they're cranked up to be. "But I'll tell you one thing they are good for, dancing!" The Governor's dancing around and falls through the floor, right into Peter's escape tunnel! Melvin is discovered.

> Videoclip: "Melvin's escape attempt"

It's time for the Freedom Show, in which the audience decides who gets to leave The Slammer with the help of the Clap-O-Meter. Whoever gets the loudest applause wins a price money can't buy, freedom. The children were amazed by The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain, but decided master juggler Kris Kremo should leave The Slammer.

> Watch The Freedom Show!

The Results:
Les Bubb / 89.8
Professor Bumm's Story Machine / 82.5
Kris Kremo / 104.2
The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain / 100.1