The Magic Tree (Magical Event)

**The Magic Tree** is one of the nine Magical Events. It features a beautiful tree which magically appears in Teletubbyland. The event first appeared in the episode Lambs. The tree's leaves begin to grow and five white birds land on it. The tree then loses its leaves, the birds fly away and the tree disappears. It wasn't one of the most popular Magical Events of the program, but the beautiful music, the beautiful tree and the charm of the event make some children cry at the end of the event when the tree vanishes. Some children cry and become very upset as the music shifts from happy to sad, with a beautiful birth-like tune and a sad death-like tune at the end. However, the creators know the tree isn't dying, the tree is just losing its leaves for winter, just like all deciduous trees do.

Like most of the Magical Events, the tree and birds were CGI animated.

## Episodes that it appears in

* Ned's Bicycle (UK CBeebies Version)
* Lambs (UK Original Version)
* Playing in the Rain (2nd Sunday Special Version)
* Making Flowers (Sunday Special Version)
* Photo Faces (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Drawing Cacti (UK Original Version)
* Emily and the Trap (Sunday Special Version)
* Walking in the Woods (UK Original Version)
* Mark and Zoe Cooking (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Hey Diddle Diddle (Sunday Special Version)
* Haymaking (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Throwing (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Numbers: 5 (Version 1) (Sunday Special Version)
* Butterfly (Sunday Special Version)
* Hickory Dickory Dock (UK Original & CBeebies Versions)
* Picking and Sorting (Sunday Special Version)
* Urban Birds (Sunday Special Version)
* Leaves (Sunday Special Version)
* Naughty Horse (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Numbers: 5 (Version 2) (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Naughty Pig (UK Original & CBeebies Versions)
* Naughty Sock Returns (Sunday Special Version)
* Drumming with Norris (UK CBeebies Version)
* Painting Easter Eggs (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Animals: Snails (Sunday Special Version)
* Making Lanterns (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Playing with Dough (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Becky's Flake Cakes (Sunday Special Version)
* Numbers: 10 (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Hair Braiding (Sunday Special Version)
* Squeezy Painting (Sunday Special Version)
* Peacocks (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Colours: Orange (UK CBeebies Version)
* Double Bass (UK CBBC Version)
* Sparkly Spider (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Cat's Night Out (UK CBeebies Version)
* Ten Little Men Finger Play (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Harp (Sunday Special Version)
* Clockwork (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Crawling (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Cuddles' Poor Paw (UK CBeebies Version)
* Circles (UK CBeebies Version)
* Colours: Brown (Sunday Special Version)
* Catching Leaves (Sunday Special Version)
* Rosie's Hairdo (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Mum's Portrait (UK CBeebies Version)
* Watering the Garden (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Jack and the Beanstalk (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Afro-Caribbean Vegetables (Sunday Special Version)
* Bird Bath (South Africa) (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Wrap with Eggs
* Walking with My Bike
* Feather Hunting
* Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
* Bobsleigh
* Laboratory
* Garden Centre
* Ned's Ice Cream
* The Tortoise and The Hare
* Drumming with Patrick
* Treehouse
* Lemon Picking
* Cooking with Debbie
* Strawberry & Apples
* Bingo
* Feeding the Kittens
* Urban Pictures
* Chemistry Set
* Making Sounds
* Our Frog Ben
* Girls and Boys Come Out To Play
* Gumball Machine
* Drawing Pictures
* Construction Set
* Nursery Rhymes [Video]
* The Early Days [Video]
* Magical Surprises [Video]
* The Best of Noo-Noo [Video]

## Synopsis

The Magical Event starts with The Magic Windmill spinning before the Teletubbies silently arrive at a place in Teletubbyland, just as the Windmill tune ends. The Sun Baby giggles and the Teletubbies then hear a beautiful harp tune and run off to the destination of the Magical Event. The Teletubbies arrive outside their house and gasp in excitement and amazement as, in the distance, they see a branch growing. A beautiful tune starts playing as the branch splits into many different branches and green leaves grow on them, transforming it into a tree. The leaves of the tree go from a spring light green to a beautiful summer dark green. A beautiful white dove then flies around the tree with the tune more blissful and then it lands on the tree. One by one, four more white doves fly from the sky and around the tree before landing on it. The five doves then blissfully and peacefully sit on the leaves of the tree. The doves shake their wings gracefully and then eventually fly away into the sky. The tree's leaves then change colour from dark green to a pretty autumn yellow, where the musical shift changes from C major (happy) to a D minor (sad) as the tree begins to lose its leaves. The leaves then blow away and the winter tree with bare branches appears, with the tune changing to a sad death-like tune. The tree then starts to slowly and magically disappear. The tree then completely vanishes and the bare hill is shown for a few seconds, then the Magic Windmill stops spinning or Sun Baby Giggles.

## Trivia

* Due to the tree disappearing at the end, this was the least popular magical event.
* This is the only also Magical Event that features the Tubbytronic Superdome.
* In Bird Bath, the windmill stops spinning, but after it stops, the Teletubbies do the rocking dance.
* In Lambs, Photo Faces and Walking in the Woods, a fade effect is used to transition to the Windmill stopping after the magical tree disappears.
* The gasping sound the Teletubbies make is the same gasp from the Dancing Bear.
* In Photo Faces, the Baby Sun Clip was not shown when the Teletubbies go to watch the Magic Tree.
* In Peacocks, Garden Centre, Drumming with Patrick, Strawberry & Apples and Making Sounds, after the magical event, a fade effect is used to show the next segment.
* In Haymaking and Girls and Boys Come Out To Play, the opening harp tune immediately plays while the Windmill is shown spinning. Then, the camera goes straight to the Teletubbies arriving in front of the Superdome instead of showing them arriving at the Magic Event place.
* Compared to the other trees within Teletubbyland, which are evergreens, the magic tree is a deciduous tree.
* An alternate version of this event's music was released on the Teletubbies CD album.
* In Nursery Rhymes, the scene of the Teletubbies arriving silently at the Magic Event place in Teletubbyland comes before The Magic Windmill spinning.
* In Naughty Horse, Naughty Pig, Bobsleigh, Lemon Picking, Treehouse, Our Frog Ben and Construction Set, the Sun Baby giggles for Tubby Bye-Bye after the magical tree fades away.
* In Wrap with Eggs, Ned's Ice Cream, Chemistry Set and Gumball Machine, the Teletubbies don't gasp when they arrive outside the dome and see the tree growing.
* In Cooking with Debbie, the windmill stops spinning and the Teletubbies do The Jumping Dance.
* In Chemistry Set, the Teletubbies do The Bendy Dance after the event.
* In Watering the Garden and Gumball Machine, the Teletubbies do The Splashing Dance after the event.