Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice returns from a shopping trip with an old top hat she found in a junk store, and a new friend which she found in the top hat - Benny Bunny. In the excitement of mother's lawn party, she sneaks Benny into the house. As far as Alice is concerned the party is dying until Dinah the cat chases Benny out of the house and under the guest's feet.

Alice and Benny go down, down, down the rabbit hole and wind up in Wonderland. Benny introduces Alice to the characters who reside there. Their collective personalities run the gamut from a to z; a for antagonistic, annoying, argumentative etc. to z for zany and zoftic. Despite all their quirks Alice is immediately attracted to them. For her, they are, at least, not boring.

Alice has always wanted to be treated like a big girl. Just one sip from the "drink me" tea pot has changed her into a big, big, big girl. Alice finds this indignity a crying shame, and proceeds to flood wonderland with her tears.

Alice and Benny find themselves running around in circles in a zany caucus race. They soon discover that victory does not always go to the swift ... in fact, in a caucus race, victory doesn't go to anybody.

We've all heard of a large family outgrowing its house, but, in this episode, Alice outgrows the White Rabbit's house all by herself. While the White Rabbit raises hob, Alice raises his roof.

Benny introduces Alice to the sarcastic, slightly unbalanced Humpty Dumpty. While lecturing Alice, Humpty slips and falls off his wall. While his life hangs by a thread (his cravat has caught itself on a limb) Humpty must suffer the taunts, insults and "egg jokes" of the Wonderland locals. Alice brings the King with all of his horses and all of his men to save Humpty.

Alice's puppy, big as a house after taking a sip from the "drink me" tea pot, cuts a wide swath through Wonderland with Alice and Benny in hot pursuit. The chase ends up at the Chess Queen's castle, where the social event of the season is getting underway. The pup gives new meaning to the expression "party crasher".

Alice thinks that sometimes life in Wonderland is more than strange. It, of course, would have to be the Marchhare who gets hold of the Magical Bock and immediately confuses it with a cook-hook. Needless to say, this brings everything into confusion.

With a song in his heart a diabolical scheme in his mind and Alice as a prisoner in the hold of his pirate ship, Captain Black and his band of pirate crows attempt to plunder Wonderland's national treasure. Alice is able to turn the tide, and once more there's smooth sailing in Wonderland.

Alice has long harbored a fear of insects, so imagine her fear when she finds herself only three inches tall and surrounded by menacing spiders, bees, ants etc. These "creepy-crawly" creatures turn out to be friendly and, in fact, go out of their way to offer Alice a helping hand; or in the centipede's case a dozen helping hands.

Alice is growing like a weed again. Her neck telescopes up until her head is in the tree tops, where Mrs. Pigeon mistakes Alice for a serpent, ergo a thief. Accused of stealing Mr. and Mrs. Pigeon's about-to-be-hatched egg, Alice must find the real culprit. She does, and rescues the egg just as that crazed gourmet, the Jabberwocky, is about to turn it into an omelet.

Alice observes the bizarre behavior of the Duchess and her demented cook, and happily volunteers to babysit the Duchess' tiny baby in order to insure the baby's well-being. It is not until she's alone with the toddler that she discovers his tendency to make a nervous wreck out of her and a pig of himself.

The Cheshire Cat is coerced into sharing his disappearing act with Tweedledee and Tweedledum. By the time Alice arrives at the scene, Dee has disappeared into thin air, leaving Tweedledum beside himself. Thus although only one of the twins is left, he makes himself twice as obnoxious. Cheshire Cat is embarrassed. He has forgotten how to make someone reappear.

Alice has barely dreamed her way into Wonderland when problems arise. Because the sales of hats are declining, the Hatter must look about for a new way to make a living. The Hatter can come up with no better idea than to become a "promoter". For his debut he arranges a fight between the Lion and the Unicorn. Everyone is looking forward to the match, but most especially the Queen of Hearts, who has

Once every year the Queen of Hearts Sponsors a tournament of hedgehog croquet. Alice, has also received an invitation and is looking forward to the event. Much to her surprise, hedgehog croquet turns out to be something quite different from what she had imagined. It is not the hedgehogs who play croquet, but the residents of Wonderland who use the live hedgehogs as balls.

Soon after arriving in Wonderland, Alice is confronted with a great problem. The Cheshire Cat has caused Tweedledum to disappear. Tweedledum simply dissolved in the air. At first Tweedledee appears overjoyed about this, as he has always dreamed of a least once being free of his twin brother. But Tweedledee's joy does not last for very long before he begins to miss Tweedledum very much.

A wave of thefts has broken over Wonderland, the like of which has never been heard of before, and everyone is aghast, including Alice. Night for night oysters have been disappearing from the sea and nobody knows where. Alice requests help from the Queen of Hearts. All the residents of Wonderland are summoned to assemble in the Royal Hall of Justice.

For the first time, Alice feels truly sorry for the Queen of Hearts. In order to do a good turn for the residents of Wonderland, the Queen had hit upon the idea of giving a costume party, which she then prepared carefully and with a great deal of love. The high point of the party was to be the universally renowned Lobster Quadrille.

In Wonderland Alice once again has much reason for wonderment. First she is invited to a tea social by the Hatter, at which there is neither tea nor anything very social. And in the end, all of the clocks in Wonderland stop running. Of course, Alice and Benny Bunny try to discover whom the residents of Wonderland have to thank for this misdeed.

Alice has barely dreamed her way into Wonderland when she meets Tweedledum und Tweedledee. The twins have packed their suitcases and are about to leave Wonderland. Life there has become too boring for them. Their dream is to join the circus Spagettini.

Alice has barely dreamed her way into Wonderland when she finally meets the Knave of Hearts, who is on vacation from his boarding school. Alice had long looked forward to this meeting, but her disappointment is very great. The Knave of Hearts turns out to be anything but a pleasant companion. He is fat, lazy, has bad manners and can only talk about one thing: eating.

Not only Alice but all the other residents of Wonderland as well are up in arms over the Queen of Hearts' latest inspiration. The Queen declares that since she has become tired of ruling over nitwits, she has decided to introduce compulsory education to Wonderland. Anyone who refuses to attend instruction will be arrested and forcible brought to the classroom.

By now Alice believes that nothing can surprise her any more in Wonderland, but in this she is mistaken. She has barely arrived in Wonderland again when she discovers that everything has been stood an its head, or, to put the matter more precisely, everything is standing on its hands. The Queen of Hearts has introduced a feet tax.

Alice is very sad. Benny Bunny has disappeared. She has already searched the whole house, but there is no trace what so ever to be found of him. Alice then journeys to Wonderland in hope of finding him there, but her search at first proves unsuccessful. Benny Bunny is not to be found in the house of the Duchess, nor at the Hatter's, and not even the Blue Caterpillar has seen him.