Season 12

1. The Sink

1978-09-11 • 15 min

2. Episode 2

1978-09-12 • 15 min

3. Let's Make an Opera

It all started as a game - instead of talking to each other you sing to each other. This leads to a Pipkins play, with singing instead of talking...

1978-09-13 • 15 min

4. Episode 4

1978-09-14 • 15 min

5. Episode 5

1978-09-15 • 15 min

6. Gnome Sweet Gnome

1978-10-16 • 15 min

7. Episode 7

1978-10-17 • 15 min

8. Hartley and Granny Atlas

Grannies aren't usually strong enough to lift heavy weights - even if they can roller skate. But Hartley discovers differently in this episode...

1978-10-18 • 15 min

9. The Broom Seller

Playing at market stalls is fun. It's even more enjoyable if someone else plays at buying items from your market stall. But no one seems prepared to buy anything from Hartley...

1978-10-19 • 15 min

10. Bedtime

Topov thinks it's unfair that he should have to go to bed first just because he is the youngest. But he soon changes his mind when he goes to bed late...

1978-10-20 • 15 min

11. Hartley and the Dog

Not every Hare has a dog in the yard, but Hartley finds one there. He decides that if the dog is to come and live with them, it might as well be trained to do something useful...

1978-11-20 • 15 min

12. Episode 12

1978-11-21 • 15 min

13. Episode 13

1978-11-22 • 15 min

14. Uncle and the Marrow

This was nearly the sad tale about the fate of the most beautiful marrow ever grown by Hartley's Uncle. But as it turns out, Uncle makes one of the most amazing and wonderful discoveries of his life...

1978-11-23 • 15 min

15. The Royal Astronomer

Hartley wants to be an astronomer, but there is more to it than looking through a telescope. You have to know when to look, where to look and it's better if you're not helped by Topov...

1978-11-24 • 15 min

16. Episode 16

1978-12-25 • 15 min

17. Shadows

Shadows and strange noises can be frightening, unless you know what they are...

1978-12-26 • 15 min

18. Weighing Tortoise

Tortoise has his own lift, but something has happened to it. Hartley cannot turn the handle...

1978-12-27 • 15 min

19. Hartley Laureate

Hartley is a poet, so the whole world has to know it, and he soon becomes very boring...

1978-12-28 • 15 min

20. Someone's Birthday

Whose birthday is it ? Even if Hartley can find out, how can he provide a present if no one has any money ?

1978-12-29 • 15 min