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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
BlackFaithStar
(Less Newbie)
2022-12-01 12:08:34
Looks like it! First one was Through the Dragon's Eye and the other was Zzaap and the Word Master. Thank you so much!
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior

Sometime back in grade school (maybe late 2000's or early 2010's), my class sometimes watched an episode of this series a day. I can only guess the show was British since I was attending a British school. Sometime after we finished that show, I recall watching another similar one, just with a different theme. I may not remember too much but here's what I got:
Show #1: Some kids went to a store (like a book/antique/some traditional looking store) and get sucked into a fantasy world. The obstacles they encounter on their quest to return home come off as puzzles, critical thinking or otherwise. The final episode has them return to the real world and back at the store, and (I'm unsure if this was always there since the start of the show, but) closer to the end, a piece of (wall?) decor that looked like one of the fantastical companions the friends made in the other world moved (its face, maybe a smile or a wink), perplexing an adult/older person who happened to see it.
Show #2: Likely a different cast of kids, but trapped Inside a Computer System somehow, and I distinctly remember this show having a villain for the kids to defeat (the first show probably had a Big Bad too, but I don't recall). He was a virus of sorts that looked like a man, and what definitely stuck with me is that he could trick allies of the kid protagonists, namely a teacher in the real world, to help him in obstructing the kids' escape, like by asking her to do something on the computer to help him recover. Puzzle quests were probably in motion here too. The series concludes after the virus man disintegrates upon being defeated, and the kids probably return home.
Thank you all in advance for the help! 🙏
Edited by BlackFaithStar