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19 Episodes 1994 - 1995
Episode 1
14 mins
Pippin is frightened when she finds two geese swimming on the pond in Auntie Mabel's garden. They fly in Spotty Plane to a place where there are many different kinds of geese and some goslings. They get home just in time to see the geese fly away. Auntie Mabel gives Pippin a new cushion filled with goose feathers. But Pippin wants to play with it, the cushion splits open and feathers fly everywhere.
Episode 2
Auntie Mabel and Pippin have been out for a walk and they got caught in the rain. Auntie Mabel's Wellington boots have holes in them and her feet are wet. They fly in Spotty Plane to the shoe shop in the High Street but Auntie Mabel is dismayed to find they have sold out of boots in her size. So they fly on to The Gates Rubber Company, a factory where they watch Wellington boots being made. There Auntie Mabel shows us how the rubber is pressed flat, a lining is glued on, the rubber is formed into the shape of a boot, and soles and heels are added. Auntie Mabel buys a new pair. She tells the story of Martha the firefighter who couldn't get her boots off until everyone came to help.
Episode 3
14 mins
It's Pippin's bath day and so she is hiding in the cupboard. Auntie Mabel is about to run the bath when she sees a spider. She lifts it out of the bath, counts its legs and shows how it can spin a thread and hang from it. A spider is seen spinning a web to catch an insect. Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to Peter's house and visit some big spiders, including a tarantula, and their spider-lings. When they get home it's time for Pippin's bath - but Auntie Mabel has to catch her first.
Episode 4
Auntie Mabel has to return some books to the library before it shuts. She and Pippin climb into Spotty Plane but it won't start and so they have to go on the bus. Auntie Mabel is in such a hurry that she leaves Pippin asleep on the bus by mistake. Pippin ends up at the bus depot where she helps the bus driver look for lost property and sees a bus being washed and filled with fuel. Auntie Mabel discovers her plane wouldn't start because its tank was empty, and Pippin gets a special ride home on the bus.
Episode 5
14 mins
Auntie Mabel and Pippin visit an apple orchard in Kent where Cox's Orange Pippins are growing. They help with the harvesting, watch the apples being sorted and ride with the apples to market where they are bought by a shop-owner. They go to the shop where the apples are put on display and Auntie Mabel buys some for a fruit salad.
Episode 6
It is Pippin's birthday. Auntie Mabel is cleaning the house and washing her kitchen floor ready for a party. She takes her laundry to the launderette where Pippin helps with the washing while Auntie Mabel takes her best dress to be dry cleaned. Pippin's friends and relations arrive for the party and sing 'Happy Birthday'. Auntie Mabel is about to serve a big trifle when Pippin chases her friend Danny round the kitchen, trips up Auntie Mabel and the trifle goes all over the clean floor and her best dress.
Episode 7
Auntie Mabel and Pippin are buying some tricks for a children's party, including a fake poo made of plastic. When they get home, Auntie Mabel notices Pippin has made a poo on the path outside her front door. She cleans it up and puts it down the lavatory. She decides to follow Pippin's poo, to find out where the dirty water goes and explores an underground sewer. Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to visit a sewage treatment plant. They see how water is cleaned and returned to the river and how solid waste can be treated and used as fertilizer to be spread on fields. Back home again, Pippin tricks Auntie Mabel into thinking the fake poo is real.
Episode 8
Auntie Mabel is knitting a blue jumper for her sister Edie when she runs out of wool. She and Pippin go to the shop to buy some more, but they have sold out of blue wool. Auntie Mabel decides to begin at the beginning. She and Pippin set off in Spotty Plane to find some sheep. They watch the sheep being shorn and find out how the wool is carded and spun into a long thread. They visit a factory where the wool is dyed and at last Auntie Mabel finds the blue wool she needs to finish the jumper.
Episode 9
14 mins
Auntie Mabel buys a packet of her favorite cheese and onion crisps and decides to find out where potato crisps come from. She and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to the fields where potatoes are being harvested. Auntie Mabel describes the life-cycle of the potato plant and Pippin helps to dig them up. They see the potatoes being sorted and then travel to the Golden Wonder crisp factory. Auntie Mabel watches the potatoes being washed, sliced and cooked. She sees how the flavor is added and the crisps are sealed in air-tight packets ready to be sold in the shops.
Episode 10
A mouse lives in a hole in Auntie Mabel's kitchen wall. She and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to a wood to look for holes that are home to different animals. They find holes in tree trunks and in the ground which might be occupied by squirrels, woodpeckers and badgers. Auntie Mabel remembers the day when a hole in the back door saved her life. She had installed a dog flap for Pippin. One day she became trapped in her larder and her chip pan caught fire. Pippin got out through the dog flap and ran to fetch the fire brigade. The firemen arrived just in time to put out the fire and save Auntie Mabel.
Episode 11
Auntie Mabel and Pippin have been to stay with their friend Dora. But Pippin is frightened by Dora's big dog and she leaves her little suitcase behind. When they get home, Auntie Mabel writes a letter to Dora. They take it to the Post Office and buy a stamp. Auntie Mabel decides to travel with the letter to see what happens to it. They watch letters being sorted, ride in a post van and on the night train. After a long journey they end up, with the letter, back at Dora's. Pippin stands up to the big dog and retrieves her suitcase.
Episode 12
Auntie Mabel brushes her teeth with some striped toothpaste because today is check-up day at the dentist. Pippin is taken to the vet to have her teeth checked too. They go to a chemist to buy some more of Auntie Mabel's toothpaste and then visit the factory where the toothpaste is made and find out how they put in the stripes.
Episode 13
Auntie Mabel decides to build a rockery in her garden. She and Pippin fly off in their Spotty Plane in search of some stones. They visit a beach but the stones are too small for a rockery. So they go to a stone quarry where they see huge slabs of stone being dug out of the ground and watch the stone masons at work shaping pieces of stone which will be used to decorate the wall of a building. At the quarry Auntie Mabel finds some pieces of stone just the right size for the rockery.
Episode 14
14 mins
Auntie Mabel prepares a picnic hamper and puts some sausages in Pippin's lunch box. They fly to the countryside in Spotty Plane looking for a good place to have their picnic. They come across a field of blackcurrants being harvested. Auntie Mabel decides to follow the blackcurrants to the factory where they are turned into blackcurrant juice and put into cartons. Auntie Mabel buys one to drink on the picnic. They are about to start their picnic when Auntie Mabel hears the sound of a woodpecker coming from the woods nearby. She and Pippin follow the sound and see the woodpecker. Now Auntie Mabel can't remember the way out of the woods, but Pippin has left a trail of food and they follow it back to their picnic.
Episode 15
14 mins
A cat is after Auntie Mabel's goldfish, but she shoos it away. She and Pippin fly to the river in Spotty Plane where they feed and watch all sorts of freshwater fish. They meet a fisherman and his dog who catch a trout, and Auntie Mabel tells the story of Bernard the stickleback who looked after all his brothers and sisters. When they return home Auntie Mabel sees something in the cat's mouth. She thinks it's one of her goldfish but it turns out to be one of Pippin's sausages.
Episode 16
14 mins
Auntie Mabel is looking after her sister Edie's rabbit Bobby. Pippin is sulking as Bobbie is getting all the attention. Bobby is staying in a hutch in the garden, with a fence round it. Auntie Mabel changes the straw in the hutch and Pippin begins to make friends with the rabbit. They fly to the countryside where they see some wild rabbits and visit some baby rabbits in a Nature Park. When they get home, Auntie Mabel feeds Bobby with a meal of dandelion and cabbage leaves. But she leaves the gate open and Bobby hops out of his enclosure and into the garden. Auntie Mabel tells the story 'Brer Rabbit and the Well'. She returns to the hutch to check on Bobby and is horrified to find him gone. But eventually she finds him - curled up with Pippin in her basket.
Episode 17
14 mins
Auntie Mabel and Pippin collect some newly-laid eggs from their hens. They look at pictures of different eggs then fly in Spotty Plane to an ostrich farm where they see an ostrich's nest containing some very large eggs. They watch an ostrich egg hatching and meet some baby ostriches. When they return home, Auntie feeds her hens but is distracted when the phone rings and leaves a gate open by mistake. Pippin spots a fox hiding in the bushes and runs to fetch Auntie Mabel who shoos away the fox and closes the gate just in time.
Episode 18
Auntie Mabel finds some dandelions growing in her garden. She tells the story of how they came to be there. One day she and Pippin had flown to the city for a day out. They saw tall buildings and busy streets full of traffic and people. In this urban environment Auntie Mabel had been surprised to see a dandelion plant growing in a crack in the concrete. Pippin sneezed on the dandelion's seed head and some seeds landed on her coat. They traveled on Pippin's back all the way to Auntie's garden where they took root and grew into new dandelion plants.
Episode 19
Auntie Mabel is moving house and there are packing cases and boxes everywhere. Pippin is feeling sad and Auntie Mabel gives her the key to their new house to look after. Pippin packs her little suitcase and Auntie Mabel packs her 'treasure chest' which has some special boxes in it - a Jack-in-the-box, a musical box and a jewelry box. While Auntie Mabel tells the story 'The Magic Box' Pippin hides in the back of the removal van. By the time the van is ready to leave, Auntie Mabel can't find Pippin anywhere. She spends a long time looking for her then flies in Spotty Plane to her new house to tell the removal men what has happened. But by the time she arrives they have found Pippin, and the key, and unloaded all the furniture.