Pingu (series 1)

This is a list of episodes from the first series of the children's claymotion program Pingu.

Episodes

No. in season	Title	Original air date	Prod. code
1	1	"Hello Pingu" "Pingu is Introduced"	May 28, 1986 (series premiere)	S01E01
Pingu and his family are having lunch, but Pingu doesn't want to eat his spinach. After a comical lunch, Pingu goes outside to play with his red rubber ball, but it is stolen by two bullies named Pingo and Pingg.
3	3	"Pingu Looks After the Egg" "Pingu Helps With Incubating"	June 11, 1986	S01E03
Pingu's family has an egg and Pingu is in charge of incubating it. Soon, he becomes bored and decides to listen to music, causing the egg to wreak havoc in the igloo.
4	4	"The New Arrival" "Pinga is Born"	June 18, 1986	S01E04
After being incubated for a while, the egg starts to crack. Father phones the doctor and Pingu is desperate to see his new sibling. When the egg is finally opened, it turns out to be a girl and the family decide to call her Pinga.
5	5	"Pingu Goes Fishing"	June 25, 1986	S01E05
Pingu is going fishing. He manages to catch a fish, but a seal named Robby eats his bait. When the seal gets his hand hurt, Pingu has remorse and he and Robby become friends.
2	2	"Pingu Delivers the Mail" "Pingu Helps to Deliver the Mail/Pingu Helps to Deliver Mail"	June 4, 1986	S01E02
Father takes Pingu to the post office and along the way, they deliver parcels and envelopes to everyone in the South Pole.
6	6	"Jealousy" "Pingu is Jealous"	July 2, 1989	S01E06
Pingu is upset when his Mother pays attention to his little sister, Pinga. He tries everything to get Mother's attention, but unfortunately, he doesn't succeed. Mother soon makes up with a tearful Pingu.
7	7	"Hide and Seek" "Pingu and the Snowball Fight"	October 15, 1989	S01E07
Pingu has a playdate with Robby. They play games around abandoned igloos and have a snowball fight.
12	12	"Lost Baby" "Pinga is Left Out"	December 17, 1989	S01E12
Pingu has arranged to meet his friend. His mother asks him to take care of his little sister Pinga. Whilst he and his friend play together, Pingu tells Pinga to stay where she is. When they discover Pinga is missing Pingu and his friend look everywhere for her until they have to admit to Mother what has happened, only to find that Pinga has made her own way home.
9	9	"Pingu Plays Fish Tennis" "Fish Tennis"	October 29, 1989	S01E09
Pingu and Robby find themselves with an enormous fish but are not at all hungry. They start to play with it and discover fish tennis. After a game and the retrieval of the fish, when it gets stuck on the line, they have worked up an appetite again and can enjoy eating the fish.
8	8	"Barrel of Fun" "Pingu and the Avalanche Accident/Pingu and the Avalanche Incident"	October 29, 1989	S01E08
Pingu and his friend are enjoying themselves tobogganing. Their runs become wilder and faster, and the two fail to notice that snow is sliding off a snowdrift as they pass. Luckily, when the snow falls on Pingu, Robby goes to get help and a disaster is averted.
13	13	"Ice Hockey" "Pingu Plays Ice Hockey"	December 18, 1989	S01E13
Pingu and his friends agree to a hockey match with a team of professionals. However when the game becomes increasingly ferocious, Pingu and his friends get fed up with the competitive atmosphere. Instead everyone ends up showing what they can do in a peaceful skating exhibition.
16	16	"Pingu and Pinga Stay Up" "Pingu and Pinga Don't Want to Go to Bed"	April 7, 1990	S01E16
The two penguin children try everything in order not to have to go to bed. First they need to go to the loo again, then they're thirsty, then they have to have the light on, and then the door has to be left just a little bit ajar. Their mother is worn out, and falls asleep on the chair and when they see this the children realise what they have done help their mother to bed.
10	10	"Skiing" "Pingu Goes Skiing/Pingu On Makeshift Skis"	December 16, 1989	S01E10
Pingu is admiring a penguin friend's fantastic new skis. He is even allowed to stand on the back of them and ski along with him. However as they go he spots a broken barrel and has an idea. He soon has a pair of home-made skis and they set off again. But when they start showing off it all ends up in a heap of broken skis both old and new.
14	14	"Pingu Runs Away" "Pingu Runs Away from Home"	January 14, 1990	S01E14
Pingu and his family are having dinner, but Pingu is feeling grumpy because he is forced to eat his greens. After unintentionally ruining the dinner, he decides to run away and never come back home. When Pingu is frightened by some scary ice statues, his parents search for him and all is forgiven.
15	15	"Building Igloos" "Pingu Builds an Igloo"	January 21, 1990	S01E15
Pingu and his friend decide to build an igloo. They search for a place to build the new igloo but cannot agree on the spot. They end up fighting over the ice blocks and decide to build their own igloos. However they soon realise that the only way to succeed is by working together.
17	17	"Music Lessons" "Pingu Has Music Lessons From His Grandfather/Pingu Has Music Lessons"	April 14, 1990	S01E17
Pingu spots an accordion in his toybox and has fun playing with it. The noise is so disturbing that Pingu is sent outside, so he goes to his paternal grandfather's house to be taught how to play the accordion.
20	20	"Pingu's Ice Cave" "Pingu in the Ice Cave"	May 5, 1990	S01E20
During a game of catch with a friend, Pingu's ball rolls out of sight. Whilst trying to retrieve it, the two friends get trapped in an ice tunnel. Although at first despairing with a little ingenuity on Pingu's part, they manage to get out and back home.
11	11	"Sledging" "Pingu's Tobogganing"	December 16, 1989	S01E11
Pingu and two friends meet for a toboggan race. They all race down the mountain but Pingu's toboggan doesn't seem to be working properly and he just can't keep up. Pingu knows just what to do and makes a few adjustments. However, his new speedy descent lands him up inside his snowman, and his friends have to melt back out of it.
18	18	"Little Accidents" "Pingu's Lavatory Story"	April 21, 1990	S01E18
Pingu has to rush to the loo because he drank too much. When he gets home however, his father is in the bathroom, and then when he does get in the toilet, it's simply too high. Pingu has to clean up the mess he has made but then, with his mother's help he manages to overcome the problem with stairs round the loo.
19	19	"School Time" "Pingu at School"	April 28, 1990	S01E19
Pingu meets Robby on the way to school and Robby slips into the school ice-hole. During their lesson the class all have to dive into the ice-hole in order to find out what types of fish live beneath the ice. But Pingu 'knows' that not only fish live in the ocean and Robby catches all sorts of creatures for them to learn about.
22	22	"Grandpa is Ill" "Pingu's Grandfather is Sick"	May 26, 1990	S01E22
Grandfather is sick! Pingu and Pinga set off with their mother right away. While mother is looking after grandfather, brother and sister play together, but their noise and nuisance soon means their mother sends them home. There, they paint their faces to look as if they too are ill and Mother comes rushing back only to discover their trick.
26	26	"Pingu's Circus" "Pingu and Pinga Play Circus"	October 27, 1990	S01E26
Pingu, Pinga and Robby play at putting on a circus. Their performances meet with a huge applause, even though not all of them go to plan, in fact the more they go wrong the funnier they seem to be.
25	25	"Pingu and the Barrel Organ" "Pingu and the Organ Grinder"	October 20, 1990	S01E25
Pingu feels sorry for the poor organ grinder. He puts some money in his hat and wants the adult penguins to do the same but they all look the other way. Pingu takes the poor man to his run-down igloo. Then he takes the barrel-organ and plays outside the baker's, the fishmongers', the tailor's and in front of the drinks store. In turn, each shopkeeper donates some goods.
24	24	"Noise" "Pingu and His Friends Play Too Loudly"	October 13, 1990	S01E24
Pingu and his friends are playing ball. They are so excited that they do not notice how loud they are. A neighbour is annoyed at the noise the youngsters are making and keep chasing them away, but they refuse to let themselves be driven off so easily.
23	23	"Pingu and Pinga at Home" "Pingu's Parents Go to a Concert"	October 6, 1990	S01E23
Mother and Father are going out to a concert, leaving Pingu and Pinga to manage themselves. They make a mess in the igloo, but clean everything up when their parents are coming back home.
21	21	"Pingu's Dream" "Pingu Dreams"	May 12, 1990	S01E21
When his mother reads him a bedtime story, Pingu falls asleep and dreams about the igloo floating away like an alien spaceship and his bed walking and galloping like a horse. Pingu finds this fun, but his dream becomes bad when an enormous walrus tortures him.

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