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13 Episodes 2000 - 2000
Episode 1
10 mins
Animation narrated by NIGEL PLANER.
Episode 2
10 mins
Timothy frequently throws tantrums at mealtimes and is visited by a spaghetti-smelling poltergeist-like figure. It's suggested by his parents that it was the Spaghetti Man, who kidnaps children that refuse to eat their dinner and takes them to his pasta factory but Timothy isn't convinced, but his actions (and his mother's patience) are tested when he is served toast for breakfast.
Episode 3
10 mins
A boy lies in bed, paralysed with fear by the shadow dancing outside his window.
Episode 4
10 mins
A chocolate bunny unknowingly contaminated by fly eggs is bought by the mother of bullying chocoholic Serena Slurp. During the long, hot summer holiday, her sister Ellie is chasing flies with a swatter and accidentally breaks it in half. Serena takes advantage of Ellie's panicking by threatening to tell their mother if Ellie refuses to become her slave.
Episode 5
10 mins
Jack is scared of the dark, so that going upstairs to fetch a bedtime book is a terrifying adventure.
Episode 6
Mon, Feb 7, 200010 mins
Nigel is cruel to spiders. One day, he kills a pregnant spider and throws her body into the dustbin.
Episode 7
10 mins
Daddy's girl Felicity is furious when she finds out that her mother is buying her new clothes from the creepy-looking Miss Shears, who is a representative of a fashion catalogue. Her father usually buys her fancy and lacy clothes every single week but her mother insists on buying ones that are the complete opposite. Felicity is determined to prove her mother wrong in any way that she can think of.
Episode 8
10 mins
The Happy Cowboy is a ruthless tycoon who makes burgers.
Episode 9
10 mins
Once upon a time, there was the town of Saucy by Sea, which was the home of the rudest children in the world. A barber had opened up his shop and offered free haircuts to some of them which mysteriously changed their behaviour. At one school, Tania and Peregrine's behaviour had been terrorising their teachers for ages so the barber makes an unexpected visit.
Episode 10
Wed, Mar 1, 200010 mins
It's 1952 and Algie is visiting his aunt and uncle in Kent during the summer holidays with his best friend Col, and his pet dog Stinker. They had befriended three of the neighbourhood kids and formed a gang they called "The Chipper Chums" who loved drinking ginger beer. One day, the group go on a picnic in the meadows to find yet another adventure but troubles begin when their youngest member, Alice, wants an apple from an orchard owned by a cider-maker.
Episode 11
10 mins
Elisabeth hates History exams, so when a ghost called Penny appears in the exam hall and offers to help, Elisabeth's delighted.
Episode 12
10 mins
Thomas Rachet misbehaves in a lot of high street stores, making customers and staff angry and embarrassing his mother. After Thomas' behavior turns the family into high street pariahs, Thomas orders his mother to buy him some sweets as she attempts to punish him so he runs away until he becomes lost in another part of town that he had never seen before.
Episode 13
10 mins
Lorelei Lee was always unwell and missed many days of school but in the holidays and at the weekends, she made sudden recoveries. She was actually feigning her sicknesses in a variety of ways and her parents and emergency doctors were fooled every time. One day, she fakes rabies but the emergency doctor isn't convinced and recommends her a "medicus moribundus".