ZIGBY

Zigby invents the idea of swapping - a large shell for a stripy pebble, etc. The craze catches on and everyone starts swapping like mad. Things get out of balance on the island when the usual good will evaporates and nobody will play together any more. Zigby comes up with a marvelous solution - sharing!

When Zigby sets up a sporting match things get a bit too competitive between the blue team and the yellow team. As things get completely out of hand, Zigby is inspired to find the solution after a spill of paint. He combines the yellow and blue teams to make the best team of all - the green team!

Zigby gets the idea that everyone should give a present to someone else on the island. They all pull a picture from a basket. Zigby gets Vicky but just can't think of the perfect present to get for her. Seeing Vicky so busy on Present Day, Zigby has an inspiration and his present is to be her personal helper for a day.

Zigby thinks the island needs a good clean, and has the clever idea of organizing a fun scavenger hunt to pick up the rubbish. The monkeys turn the game to their advantage by swapping the lists and having everyone collect fruit for them. When Zigby figures out what's happening, he turns the tables on the monkeys and soon the island is clean and tidy, and there is yummy fruit for all as a reward.

It's the season to see shooting stars late at night. Laurence and Zara want to stay up late and see them, but Zigby has all sorts of trouble trying to get them to have a nap during the day. His efforts tire him out, and in the end, it's Zigby who has a hard time staying awake.

Everyone goes nuts about collecting Kerpuffle flowers until all the flowers on the island have been taken from the wild. The Kerpuffle flowers start to sicken and droop, and Zigby realizes he has to do something before they all fade away. He gets a clever idea how to use the Kerpuffle craze to get the islanders to put the Kerpuffles back where they belong.

Zigby decides to save time and wash all his pairs of pants at once. Stuck in his pyjamas, he then decides to dry them quickly by hanging them high on a line. Unfortunately they all blow away. Despite the best efforts of his friends to help find the pants, Zigby has to improvise so he can play with his friends.

Zigby forms a band but poor McMeer can't find the right instrument to play. Bertie gets more and more worried about practicing after Zigby announces a concert, and McMeer still hasn't found an instrument by the big day. Through a slapstick accident, McMeer discovers he's good at percussion, and the band performance is a huge hit.

Bertie gets hooked on 'hidey-hole', a game like golf, which he finds very safe. Soon he's doing little else but playing hidey-hole and his friends miss him terribly. Watching Bertie play, Zigby has an inspiration, and finds a clever way to get Bertie back playing with his friends.

On his birthday, McMeer is disappointed that his friends don't seem to have time to play with him - as they are busy making him a surprise present. McMeer really wants a talking parrot like Zigby's new friend. Zigby has a brainstorm and combines the present he and Bertie have made with a secret ingredient, and McMeer is suddenly surrounded by talking parrots.

Everyone is puzzled when Zara and Laurence's sandcastle disappears off the beach at night. The friends go to great lengths to protect the new sandcastle, but it disappears again that night. Zigby vows to get to the source of the mystery, and everyone is surprised by the outcome. It was the sea all along.

Zigby performs some magic tricks, and for an encore decides to make McMeer disappear. Nobody is more surprised than Zigby when McMeer really does go missing. Zigby gets Bertie to make him disappear so he can find the missing McMeer, and Bertie gets El to disappear him too. The magic seems to be amazing, until the three friends return and explain what happened.

Zigby builds a fantastic ant-house in the clearing so Zara and Laurence can have ant friends to play with. When food suddenly goes missing each night, everyone suspects the newcomers. Zigby and his friends decide to keep watch to catch the culprit, and discover that it wasn't the ants after all.

Zigby feels bad for Laurence who is too little to win the games being played by the island friends. Zigby tries to helps Laurence win a game, but finds it harder than he first thought. His solution is to invent the game of 'Laurencing' , being composed of all the elements that Laurence is really good at, and which Laurence is sure to win.

Zigby decides to make a surprise for his best friends Bertie and McMeer which involves him going away by himself for a day. Bertie and McMeer are challenged to have fun together without Zigby around, and decide to track him down to make sure he's OK. And that turns out to be great fun, as does Zigby's surprise.

Everyone has seen a lucky shooting star except McMeer. Zigby trots into trouble by making a fake one. McMeer thinks his luck has changed and he is invincible. Seeing that this could lead McMeer into trouble, Zigby has to confess all in order to keep McMeer safe.

Bertie has forgotten that it's his birthday. Zigby decides to organize a secret surprise birthday party for him, but Bertie can't understand why all his friends are too busy to play with him. They are all having a lot of fun secretly preparing the surprise party, but their behavior does seem very odd to Bertie. Bertie finally tracks them down and is surprised and delighted by his birthday party.

Zigby starts a mail service on the island but soon becomes swamped by the amount of letters and parcels he has to deliver. Helped by McMeer and Bertie, he just about copes, but trouble escalates when the rain washes the addresses off the mail. Zigby realizes all the island friends miss seeing each other face to face, and enlists their help to deliver their letters to each other.

Zigby encourages everyone on the island to try out a new hobby. All goes well until Celeen, Vicky and El have trouble choosing a hobby and start to compete instead. Worried that his friends are not happy, Zigby trots out of trouble by coming up with the idea of combining all three of their suggestions into one new super-hobby.

Zigby accidentally loses McMeer's faithful hat, and McMeer just doesn't feel himself without it, and doesn't even want to play with his friends. His friends make him a new hat, but it doesn't smell quite right. Zigby manages to track down.

Laurence has run out of stories so Zigby decides to write one for him. To find inspiration he observes all his friends but, desperate to get into the story, they all act like characters in well-known stories. Zigby decides to make the best of it, and manages to write a marvelous comedy involving them all.

A clever costume invention from McMeer inspires Zigby to orchestrate a costume competition on the island. The prize is the costume invented by McMeer. But what McMeer hasn't quite realized is how difficult it is going to be to win the costume back again. Despite Zigby's help, McMeer almost gives up, but then a happy accident provides him with yet another wonderful costume and he wins the prize

Zigby starts a fix-it service and becomes so busy fixing things that he breaks a promise to play Oogley-Boogley with Zara and Laurence. Because in Zigby's absence the play gets a little out of hand, and many things get broken - it makes Zigby even busier fixing them. Eventually Zigby realizes the most important thing that was broken was his promise to play with Laurence and Zara.

Zigby can't get to sleep because a tap in his kitchen keeps dripping. He wakes Bertie, but can't sleep there, nor can he sleep at McMeer's house. By now half the island is awake while Zigby and his friends look for somewhere to sleep. The three friends end up back at Zigby's house with the dripping tap, and Zigby has an inspiration about how to turn an annoying drip into a soothing lullaby.