Doctor Snuggles is an animated series about a friendly and optimistic inventor named Doctor Snuggles who has unusual adventures with his friends in a slightly psychedelic world.
| # | Title | Director | Writer | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Fabulous Mechanical Mathilda Junkbottom" | Richard Carpenter | 24 June 1981 | |
| Doctor Snuggles builds Mathilda Junkbottom as a help to Miss Nettles. | ||||
| 2 | "The Astounding Treacle Tree" | Richard Carpenter | ||
| The Treacle Tree talks Doctor Snuggles into building it wings. Once the wings are built and mounted the tree takes off and doesn't return. Snuggles and his friends go after the tree in a space ship and find it on a planet ruled by plants. Due to its ability to fly the Treacle Tree is now their emperor and wants nothing to do with Snuggles and the others. | ||||
| 3 | "The Spectacular Rescue of Miss Nettles" | Richard Carpenter | ||
| The evil Professor Emerald arrives at the Snuggle's residence to 'sell' Ms. Nettles a flying carpet, but in reality wants to keep her as his own maid. The doctor tries to rescue her from the megalomaniac wizard, but the magician simply brings her back to her house because she was being rather bossy. | ||||
| 4 | "The Unbelievable Wormmobile Adventure" | Richard Carpenter | ||
| When Doctor Snuggles finds that the animals in the Amazon Forest are being turned into butterflies, he arrives there to find out what the cause is. | ||||
| 5 | "The Sensational Balloonrace" | Richard Carpenter | ||
| Granny Toots is in dire need of a new hospital for her cats, but isn't able to since she doesn't have enough money to do so, so the Doctor has a plan: he enters a balloon race where he can win 1000 pounds. He meets up with Willy Fox and Charlie rat who try to stop them and garner the winnings for themselves, but fail when Snuggles wins the prize. | ||||
| 6 | "The Magical Multi-Coloured Diamond" | Richard Carpenter | ||
| The rainbow is in dire need of repair, and Snuggles tries to figure out how he can make the Rainbow better, so he invents a Diamond-making machine. Things go awry when Willie Fox tries to steal the invention, causing the machine to go haywire, and ultimately create a massive diamond in Rickety Rick. When Doctor Snuggles investigates, he is persuaded to enter the diamond, where he meets up with Woogie. There, he is told to make a rainbow-repairing machine with the large diamond. | ||||
| 7 | "The Remarkable Fidgety River" | Douglas Adams and John Lloyd | ||
| 8 | "The Fearful Miscast Spell of Winnie the Witch" | Paul Halas | ||
| 9 | "The Extraordinary Odd Dilemma of Dennis the Badger" | Loek Kessels | ||
| 10 | "The Wondrous Powers of the Magic Casket" | Paul Halas | ||
| Uncle Bill arrives at the Snuggles house, showing Snuggles a strange map of sorts. The map is examined, and tells the story of a strange casket that, when opened, causes strange and dangerous things to happen. Professor Emerald gets hold of the casket and causes mayhem wherever he goes, and Doctor Snuggles tries to catch up with the wizard. He meets the Space Wanderer, the one who has been looking for the casket for many years. They meet up with Professor Emerald at Emerald Ile, and attempt to bring back the casket before it's too late. | ||||
| 11 | "The Turn of Events with the Unwelcome Invaders" | Paul Halas | ||
| When Ms. nettles suddenly becomes ill, Doctor Snuggles investigates and finds out that a strange group of creatures from another world have sent cans of odd substance to earth. He finds out that there are machines that are destroying planets, devouring their vegetation and rendering them barren. | ||||
| 12 | "The Great Disappearing Mystery" | Douglas Adams and John Lloyd | ||
| 13 | "The Amazing Reflective Myth" | Paul Halas | 22 September 1981 | |