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29 Episodes 2003 - 2006
Episode 0
25 mins
The residents of Greendale set to work restoring the old railway station and steam engine with the help of some new friends.
Episode 1
15 mins
It's a very windy day in Greendale and Ajay has organized a special Kite Flying Festival. Everyone has entered. Julian and Charlie try to build the perfect kite but can't agree over their designs. Pat delivers a special long kite tail to Ted. Ted has built a large box kite. Jess chases the tail into the kite and is then terrified when a sudden gust of wind carries him aloft. Pat and Ted give chase as the Jess Kite flies over Greendale. Julian and Charlie have built the ideal kite by compromising and combining both their designs. Finally Pat and Ted arrive at the Kite Festival just as the Jess Kite flies in among the other entrants. Julian and Charlie use their kite to perform a special loop-the-loop trick around Jess' kite, which enables them to pull it safely to the ground. Jess wins a prize for being the Bravest Kite.
Episode 2
15 mins
Rosie the hungry goat causes trouble for Postman Pat and the residents of Greendale.
Episode 3
15 mins
Ted Glen is working on an ice-cream machine for the children's picnic, but there are a lot of problems with it.
Episode 4
15 mins
Pat, Alf, Ted, Ajay and PC Selby take part in a race with their trusty vehicles, but who will win?
Episode 5
15 mins
Pat helps Nisha gather up items for a big jumble sale during a big recycling effort in Greendale.
Episode 6
15 mins
It's Meera's birthday and the adults have planned a special surprise - a magic show featuring Pat the magician.
Episode 7
15 mins
There is an outbreak of chickenpox in Greendale.
Episode 8
Postman Pat decides to make a video diary of Greendale with his new video camera, but he captures more than he bargained for.
Episode 9
15 mins
Julian and Pat are playing in a five-a-side children's and parents football match in Greendale. Julian is worried that Pat won't play very well. Its years since Pat last played football and he hasn't had a chance to brush up his skills. After a busy day rushing to deliver the post, where Pat finds himself catching flying parcels, heading oranges, vaulting fences and weaving in and out of flocks of sheep, Pat is more than fit for the game and scores the winning goal.
Episode 10
15 mins
Pat offers to take Alf's racing pigeon for a check-up while delivering the mail. Later, when Pat runs out of petrol, he relies on the pigeon to get help.
Episode 11
15 mins
Pat takes Julian out on his post round so that he can learn all about different jobs the people of Greendale do ahead of a class talk.
Episode 12
15 mins
Pat looks after Nikhil Bains for the day so that Meera and Nisha can join Julian and Sara in a trip to the cinema.
Episode 13
15 mins
Two rare butterflies have escaped from Pencaster Zoo and there are free passes on offer for their safe return.
Episode 14
15 mins
It's Pat's day off and Ajay has invited him to be a train driver for the day. Pat is thrilled but soon discovers that being a train driver is harder work than he supposed. The train is making good speed when Pat notices that the boiler is dangerously low on water. Everyone rushes down to the River Pen with buckets, thermos flasks or anything else they can find to refill the water tank. With disaster averted the Greendale Rocket sets off once more. Ajay soon gets up speed again but Pat notices that the carriage has become disconnected from the train. They hurriedly reverse and reconnect the train. "Surely nothing else can go wrong" says Pat but he's spoken too soon. Alf's sheep have wandered onto the line and the train has to stop for a third time. Pat suggests that the best way to get the sheep back to Greendale is by train and the passengers find themselves riding with some woolly companions. That night, back at home, Julian asks Pat which job he would rather do - postman or train driver. "Postman" replies Pat. "It's much easier!"
Episode 15
15 mins
Julian, Charlie and Meera search for UFOs. Meanwhile, the post office is in a terrible muddle due to a mix-up.
Episode 16
15 mins
The children of Greendale are bored until Ted Glen and his friends accidentally bring the beach to them.
Episode 17
15 mins
The village decides to do a job swap as a fund raising event for the school. Pat will act as judge for the day to see how everyone does. Ted works at the caf... for the day and invents a brilliant system for pouring multiple cups of tea - before he realises he doesn't have any customers. Nisha and Sarah decorate Dr Gilbertson's house and end up wallpapering over the door. The Rev. Timms tries to look after Alf's sheep and soon finds that a real flock is rather different to a human flock. Alf tries to teach a PE Class and finds it easier to pretend that the children are sheep and herd them. Throughout the day Pat helps everyone as they get into difficulties. At the end of the day Mrs. Goggins tallies up all the sponsor money. Hooray! They've reached their target.
Episode 18
15 mins
Julian is thrilled when he's picked to bring home the school guinea pig, Dotty. The next morning he's distressed to discover that Dotty has escaped. Pat offers to look for her whilst he's on his rounds. All day long Pat keeps seeing strange things. Firstly Mrs. Goggins's knitting seems to move on it's own, then Julia Pottage's old fur hat runs off down the path on it's own and finally the station caf... tea cosy jumps off the table and runs out of the door. Pat is convinced that he's seeing things but Jess knows better. It's naughty Dotty who has been trying to find a cosy nest all day and has been hitching a lift in Pat's van. Back at home Pat is astonished to see his own postman's cap suddenly moving across the table. He lifts it up to discover Dotty underneath. Jess springs at her but Dotty quickly runs away and dashes into her old cage once more. Home sweet home for Dotty!
Episode 19
15 mins
Postman Pat helps audition singers for Julian and Charlie's band.
Episode 20
The adults are making the children a dinosaur slide while the children go on a dinosaur hunt.
Episode 21
15 mins
Sarah has been working hard in the garden and unbeknown to her, Pat has arranged a surprise for her. Julian and his friends are having a sleepover at Forge Cottage and Pat leaves to collect his 'surprise' from Ted whilst Sarah reads spooky stories to the kids. He leaves the house with the words of the spooky story in his mind -'a whistling wind, strange creaking, weird lights and looming shadows'. Pat arrives at Ted to find him gone and gets spooked by the wind. At the station, he hears creaking but it is just Ajay tinkering with the Greendale Rocket. On the road, he sees a strange light, which turns out to be PC Selby's bicycle lamp. At Thompson Ground, he hears the creaking again and gets the fright of his life by seeing a big shadow on a farm wall. It turns out to be a friendly sheep. Meanwhile the kids are frightened by a strange noise in the hall, which turns out to be Jess trapped in a cupboard. When Pat gets back home, he thinks the creaking noise has followed him but it is just Ted with the surprise for Sarah. It's a swinging garden chair on creaky chains. The mystery is solved.
Episode 22
15 mins
It's time for the traditional Midsummer Market but it can't start until Alf's pigeon, Cedric, comes down from the church belfry. Traditionally the ringing of the church bell always starts the market. Everyone tries different ways to get Cedric down but nothing works until Pat has the bright idea of luring him down with music. The Reverend plays a variety of instruments, ending with a boogie-woogie solo on the piano. Cedric is charmed down and the Midsummer Market can get underway.
Episode 23
15 mins
Ajay receives a letter telling him that the Greendale Rocket and the station are to be inspected that day. He immediately panics. The Greendale Rocket isn't working and the station is a complete mess. Pat quickly rallies the villagers, who arrive to help tidy up the station. Ajay and Ted work on the Rocket but discover that the missing piece needs to be fetched from Pencaster. Pat rushes to Pencaster in his van to collect the missing piece of machinery and the Greendale Rocket is soon running again. The train inspector arrives at that very minute and, after a nerve-wracking inspection the train and station are given a certificate of merit. Ajay thanks Pat and the whole village. He couldn't have done it without them.
Episode 24
15 mins
It's still frosty in Greendale and the children decide to go sledging. The twins lose control of their sledge and end up on an icy pond. They are in a dangerous situation, particularly when the ice starts to break up. Luckily Pat is on his deliveries and has a long, retractable ladder, which needs to be delivered to Alf. He uses the ladder to crawl across the ice and rescue the children. Alf puts up a notice by the edge of the pond, warning every one of the dangers of broken ice.
Episode 25
15 mins
The snowfall has been heavy and all the kids are out snowboarding. They build a giant snowball, which careens out of their control and crashes onto the railway line. Whilst some of them stay to wave at the train and try to make it stop, the others snowboard to Thompson Ground and find Pat on his rounds. Pat quickly jumps on a snowboard and heads off to the railway line. The kids are impressed by Pat's snowboarding prowess, although actually Pat is terrified. Pat manages to get the attention of the train by waving his coat, which has reflective bands. The train stops just in time. Pat, the kids and the passengers clear the track of snow. Pat is a hero.
Episode 26
15 mins
The kids are all making sculptures or doing drawings of "My Most Exciting Thing" to show to their parents for the school open day. As they each draw their picture they reminisce about their different favourite things. For Julian it is finding the Greendale Rocket and driving her, whilst for Bill it is the time he was a clown in the Circus. The twins remember how scary it was when Pat rescued them from the ice whilst Charlie makes a wonderful sculpture of an alien and recalls looking for flying saucers in Greendale. Sarah Gilbertson is at a loss as to what to draw until Pat arrives with some pastel crayons wrapped in spotty paper. She quickly draws a picture of everyone with chicken pox and recalls that her favourite moment was when everyone in Greendale took her advice to gargle with warm water and got better. Pat is so inspired by the children's drawings that he draws his own "favourite thing": a map of Greendale with all the children's artwork stuck onto it.
Episode 27
25 mins
One Christmas Eve, Postman Pat gains a magical mystery assistant on his post round and plans a big surprise for the children of Greendale.
Episode 28
25 mins
Pat's Cousin Matt returns to Greendale to find the Greendale Cup. which he buried when he was young, in time for the flower festival.