Jumanji (Seasons 1–3)

Jumanji (1996) is the animated series spun off from the cult board-game movie, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Every roll of the dice is a fresh riddle and a one-way ticket into the jungle.

Siblings Peter and Judy Shepherd dig up an old boxed game. One move, and the room is gone — replaced by vines, quicksand and the beasts of Jumanji. The only way out is to solve your clue. Down there they lean on Alan Parrish, stranded for years because he never cracked his own. And the hunter Van Pelt (voiced by Tim Curry) treats the kids as the prize catch he's been waiting for.

The show ran three seasons and forty episodes, pushing the 1995 film somewhere the movie never went: here Jumanji is a whole surreal world with its own rules and physics turned inside out. Good for kids around seven and up, and for anyone raised on after-school cartoons of the nineties. Stream Jumanji (1996) online on iFILM.