Inui

When Crackpot meets his friends they all "take": He has a little bow tied to the end of his antlers. As they don't explain their reaction Crackpot sneaks into Inui's igloo and accidentally breaks her looking glass. Inui tells him not to worry. She leads her friends in making distorting mirrors. Lady P is horrified when she looks in her mirror!

Inui is on a "beach-combing expedition when she stumbles over something on the shore. It's a message in a bottle for Lady P. Her sister requests a reply by the next tide. Lady P writes a reply, inserts it in the bottle and replaces the cork. Inui's friends all have a go at 'posting' the letter but with little success. Either the waves bring the bottle back or Sacha or Albert.

Crackpot hides behind a tree-trunk playing hide'n seek with Inui. At the sight of the flower his snout begins to twitch... ACHOOO! A split second later Crackpot shoots horizontally across the ground propelled by his sneeze. He thinks he has hay fever and Inui suggest moving uphill where there would be no spring flowers.

Inui persuades her friends to climb a high mountain in order to see the Northern Lights. Her lantern leads the way to the summit. Inui says they must make sure they don't fall asleep and miss the show. Crackpot says he knows a good way to keep awake and drops an icicle down the back of Inui's parka. She does a stamping dance to get rid of it.

It is a lovely, sunny Arctic summer's day and Inui and her friends are at the beach. Grouchy, Lady P and Sacha cool off in the sea. As Crackpot hesitates on the water's edge, Inui and her friends decide to give him a gentle prod. He hovers over the water, running in mid-air before he flings himself back onto the beach. He admits he can't swim. In fact, he's never even learned to float!

Inui and her friends listen to the hail pounding on her igloo. When the hail-storm is over Inui pokes her head out of the igloo: the icy ground is pitted with holes and strewn with hailstones. Grouchy gives one of the hailstones a desultory kick. In an aerial shot we see the hailstones bouncing off each other. Inui persuades her friends to help her build their very own 'Crazy Golf' course.

Inui and her friends are on a fishing expedition. But there is no sign of any fish. Sacha appears in the fishing hole juggling fish. The fish seem to be complicit in this. They decide to move off somewhere else. They all peer into the water. Lady P leans so far forward that she falls into the hole and disappears. Her friends worry. Grouchy starts to cry.

Crackpot is ice-skating. He attempts an ambitious figure of eight, loses control and accidentally smashes a caribou-shaped hole into Inui's igloo. In his haste to repair the damage he actually makes the hole bigger. Inui says it's probably better if he leaves the repairs to her, Lady P and Grouchy who have dropped round to see if she's playing.

Inui, Crackpot and Grouchy are all calling on Lady P. Suddenly, she runs screaming out of her home. Inui looks indoors and gasps when she sees a big bristling shadow on the wall. Inui and her friends link hands and decide to face the unspeakable horror together. They peep around the edge of the doorway and see eight little eyes narrow! Horrible!

Inui and her playmates set out to discover where snowflakes come from... It is not white rice blown all the way from China, as Lady P suggested. Grouchy's theory - wind-blown confetti - proves to be wrong as well. Just like Crackpot's assumption that snow is sugar fallen off a great big doughnut.

Inui and her playmates once again are beachcombing the shore. They are so distracted looking at their 'precious' finds that they fail to see a thick sea-fog rolling inland. It quickly encloses them. They become lost in the fog and can't find their way home. Inui has an idea: she marshals all her friends into a living pyramid with her at the top.

Inui refuses an invitation to Sacha's party because the seal was too busy to play with her but played with all her friends instead! Alone in her igloo Inui hears the babble of voices and music off screen. Curiosity gets the better of her. At the party everyone is there. But there are some extra guests too. Three seals that look just like Sacha! Inui gets the misunderstanding.

Crackpot 'takes' in surprise when he sees a diminutive figure wandering around. He hurries to his friends: they got to see the sleep-walking little snowman! Inui gently scoops him up. He's awfully warm and soft for a man made of snow. In the moonlight they see he is in fact a little Arctic owlet. Inui asks the little owl where his parents are but he shakes his head.

For once Inui and her friends are bored. Whitney Whale encourages her friends to make an ice sculpture of her. She slides a huge block of ice onto the foreshore with her tail. The ear-splitting crunch shakes Inui and her friends out of their lethargy. As the sculpture is meant to be a surprise they work behind a duvet.

During a snowball fight a strengthening wind begins to blow. They all get an unintentional face full of snow as the wind blows the snowballs back. They duck down behind a tarpaulin-draped wood-pile. The wind rips the tarpaulin free. It wraps around Crackpot's antlers forming a slack sail between them. Inui quickly leads their sledge to Crackpot.

Inui and her friends can't decide on an activity they would all like to do because they have different ideas of fun. Riding on an icy geyser is far too cold for Inui. Building pebble-penguins is 'too pebbly' for Crackpot. The suggestion of going into the woods does not meet Lady P's approval: the forest is too branchy.

Inui and her playmates are caught in a blizzard and seek shelter in some ice-caves. Lady P, Grouchy and Inui play 'I-spy'. Inui asks Crackpot what game he would like to play and when she receives no reply she turns and sees that he is missing. They separate to try and find their caribou friend. Grouchy curls up in a little cave for a nap. As he falls asleep he starts to snore.

When Crackpot accidentally breaks Inui's sledge she finds a suitable replacement: her own bed. Grouchy is pleased that he won't have to forgo his sledging fun and sets off downhill. He makes the bed bobsleigh go into a spin until he slows to a stop and dizzily dismounts. Lady P heaves a sigh of exasperation. They really need her to show them how it is done!

Grouchy hears someone calling for help. Snowy, a tiny arctic hare, is trapped under a big icicle. Grouchy lifts the weights as if they were light as a feather and throws them aside. Snowy is impressed. She asks Grouchy to teach her to be a polar bear just like him. Grouchy reluctantly agrees. Snowy tries to lift heavy things, climb an iceberg and swim in the sea - but fails.

Under a fiery sun Crackpot starts to sweat. He sees a snowman picking up speed as he melts faster and faster and finally melting into a puddle: "Oh no, I'm melting too!" Inui shakes her head at her friend's silliness. They decide to play a practical joke on their friends by trying to convince them that the sweating caribou is actually melting.

Inui has promised her friends that she'll play 'follow my leader' with them but a blizzard interrupts her plans. When the snow storm dies down, she goes to find them but they seem to have disappeared. However, she has a funny feeling that she's being followed by some strange snowmen.

On a sunny day Inui asks: what shall we play today? Lady P states she will have tea first. The others find different occupations. Grouchy starts modelling a snow bear together with Inui. Crackpot takes a juggling lesson from Sacha, then all enter into a competition who can slide downhill faster.

When he notices strange footprints in the snow, Crackpot is afraid there may be a "fluffy white ghost" at the North Pole. Even if Lady P, Grouchy and Inui are not convinced about Crackpot's theory, they agree to help him get to the bottom of the mystery. In the course of the investigation they all have no doubt: a fluffy white ghost is trying to scare them.

Inui wakes to find that there has been a particularly heavy snowfall in the night. She calls out to her friends: it'll take more than deep snow to stop them playing out! She begins digging a path while Grouchy tunnels through the snow. Crackpot clears a path like an automatic snow-blower. Inui's friends build a snow-maze by accident - but they miss each other all the time.