Bob the Builder

Bob is digging a ditch for Farmer Pickles when he notices something in the trench. Suspecting it might be a dinosaur bone, he rings Mr Ellis the museum curator.

Farmer Pickles asks Bob for some old tyres to hold down a tarpaulin in his field. Bob agrees to drop them off on his way to the Lazenby’s. At the field, Scoop starts sneezing. Bob realises he has hay fever, and sends him home. Spud follows Bob to the Lazenby’s, where he causes mischief as usual.

While refurbishing Farmer Pickles’ cottage, Bob finds a hibernating hedgehog. Scoop takes it to the yard for Wendy to look after, but she has gone to the builders’ merchants. Scoop leaves the hedgehog with Roley and goes off to join her.

Bob is building a shed in Farmer Pickles’ field while Wendy whitewashes his farmhouse. Pilchard comes too in Dizzy’s mixer. As Bob lays the shed’s foundations, some mice appear and Pilchard gives chase – Dizzy stops them running onto the concrete, but skids into it herself. Bob smoothes it out and goes to fetch the shed, leaving Dizzy to guard the cement.

While Wendy takes the Machines to build a Crazy Golf course, Bob stays at the yard to assemble one of the novelty ‘holes’ – a miniature windmill. Wendy discovers the instructions in her toolbox and phones Bob, who says he doesn’t need them.

Bob is putting up a rainwater tank in Farmer Pickles’ field, while Wendy builds a toy sailing boat for her nephew’s birthday. A curious Spud sees Lofty pass by with the tank, and decides to help.

Bob is refurbishing the bandstand in the park for a concert which Farmer Pickles will conduct. Roley is excited about meeting the band, and the machines provide their own ‘Oom-pah’ accompaniment as they work. Farmer Pickles is driving into town to make copies of the sheet music, but it falls off the back of Travis’s trailer.

Farmer Pickles calls by to ask Bob to build a run for Scruffty, but he drops his mobile phone. Wendy is about to leave to build a bike shed at the school, when she hears Farmer Pickles’ phone ringing. It is Mrs Percival reminding him that he has promised to look after the school’s guinea pigs for the holidays.

Mrs Percival is raising money for a new sports pavilion but, despite Bob going on a sponsored run, she is still far from reaching her target. The Machines volunteer to undertake a ‘sponsored demolition’ of the old pavilion. During a practice session, Lofty loses control of his demolition ball so Bob fastens it tightly to avoid further accidents.

Bob has a new personal organizer, which has details of all his jobs for the day. However, as soon as Wendy sets off to build a garden wall, the screen goes blank. Rather than admit that it is broken, Bob ties knots in his handkerchief to remind him of his jobs – put up a new bin, clear Mrs Broadbent’s guttering… or is it Mrs Potts’?

One scorching hot day, Bob is installing a garden pond for rock star Lennie Lazenby. Roley is excited to be meeting his hero. Wendy is laying out a Nature Trail: first she erects a signpost, then Lofty has to clear a fallen tree. Spotting a duckling behind the tree, Lofty panics and the duckling rushes away.

Mr Ellis, the museum curator, is planning a Time Capsule, to which everyone in town contributes an item. Bob builds a metal chest to be used as the Capsule and he and Wendy are to dig a hole outside the museum to bury it in.

Some paving slabs are delivered to Bob’s yard for a special job which Mr Bentley the Buidling Inspector wants done. Meanwhile, Wendy is taking a day off to do some water-colour painting in the country. Bob and team arrive at the Town Square to find that the slabs have to be assembled into the pattern of the town’s coat of arms.