Pingu (series 1)
This is a list of episodes from the first series of the children's claymotion program Pingu.
Episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | Television broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Hello Pingu" "Pingu is Introduced" | May 28, 1986 | S01E01 |
| Pingu and his family are having lunch, but the little penguin doesn't want to eat his spinach. After a comical lunch, Pingu decides to go outside and play with his red rubber ball, which is stolen by a pair of bullies named Pingo and Pingg. Note: This episode was shelved in the UK during 2003, due to Pingg striking Pingu on the head and Pingo tripping Pingu on his ball. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Pingu Looks After the Egg" "Pingu Helps With Incubating" | June 11, 1986 | S01E02 |
| Pingu's family has an egg and Pingu is in charge of keeping it warm. After getting bored, he decides to listen to some music on the record player, which causes the egg to sprout legs and wreak havoc in the igloo. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "The New Arrival" "Pinga is Born" | June 18, 1986 | S01E03 |
| After being incubated for a while, the egg starts to crack. As Father phones the doctor, Pingu is desperate to see the birth of his new sibling. When the egg is finally opened, it turns out to be a girl and the family decide to call her Pinga. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "Pingu Goes Fishing" | June 25, 1986 | S01E04 |
| Pingu is going fishing and he manages to catch a fish. Mayhem ensues when a seal named Robby constantly eats his bait. After unintentionally hurting the seal's fin, he makes up with him and the duo become friends. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "Pingu Delivers the Mail" "Pingu Helps to Deliver the Mail/Pingu Helps to Deliver Mail" | June 4, 1986 | S01E05 |
| Father allows Pingu to go to the post office with him. They deliver parcels, packages and envelopes to everyone in the South Pole. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "Jealousy" "Pingu is Jealous" | July 2, 1989 | S01E06 |
| Pingu is upset when his Mother pays attention to his little sister, Pinga. He tries everything to get Mother's attention, but unfortunately, he doesn't succeed. Mother soon makes up with a tearful Pingu. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "Hide and Seek" "Pingu and the Snowball Fight" | October 15, 1989 | S01E07 |
| Pingu is having a play date with Robby. They play games around abandoned igloos and then have a snowball fight. When Robby hurts himself, he and Pingu decide to do hula hooping using the old barrel rings instead. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Lost Baby" "Pinga is Left Out" | December 17, 1989 | S01E08 |
| Pingu wants to play with Pingo, but he has to take Pinga with him. He refuses to let his little sister join his games because she too young. Unhappy and lonesome, Pinga runs away from them and soon Pingu and Pingo are trying to find her, only to realise that she went back home. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "Pingu Plays Fish Tennis" "Fish Tennis" | October 29, 1989 | S01E09 |
| Pingu and his friend, Robby find themselves with a large pink fish. They play fish tennis with it, but it gets stuck on the washing line. Pingu on top of stilts manages to get it off the washing line and soon, he and Robby share the fish. | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "Barrel of Fun" "Pingu and the Avalanche Accident/Pingu and the Avalanche Incident" | October 29, 1989 | S01E10 |
| Pingu and Robby enjoy themselves tobogganing on a ruined barrel that resembles a sledge. Trouble occurs when Pingu is trapped inside an ice pillar. Soon, Robby and the doctor manage to get Pingu out of the mound of ice. | ||||
| 11 | 11 | "Ice Hockey" "Pingu Plays Ice Hockey" | December 18, 1989 | S01E11 |
| Pingu, Robby and Pongi play ice hockey with a trio of professionals who are violent and competitive. After getting bruised and bumped, the young friends decide to do figure skating instead. | ||||
| 12 | 12 | "Pingu and Pinga Stay Up" "Pingu and Pinga Don't Want to Go to Bed" | April 7, 1990 | S01E12 |
| It is Pingu and Pinga's bedtime, but they are not at all tired. They keep asking Mother for everything and soon she is worn out. Then, the duo realise what they've done, so they drag Mother to bed. | ||||
| 13 | 13 | "Skiing" "Pingu Goes Skiing/Pingu On Makeshift Skis" | December 16, 1989 | S01E13 |
| Pingu sees Pingo on his brand new skis. He decides to use some old barrel planks as skis and they have fun skiing down a mountain. However, when they reach the bottom their skis break. | ||||
| 14 | 14 | "Pingu Runs Away" "Pingu Runs Away from Home" | January 14, 1990 | S01E14 |
| Pingu and his family are having dinner, but Pingu is feeling grumpy because he is forced to eat his spinach. After ruining the dinner, he decides to run away and never come back home. When Pingu is frightened by some scary ice statues, his parents search for him and all is forgiven. Note: This episode was pulled from a few countries, due to Mother spanking Pingu, the little penguin running away from his igloo and the ice monsters that have frightened children. | ||||
| 15 | 15 | "Building Igloos" "Pingu Builds an Igloo" | January 21, 1990 | S01E15 |
| Pingu decides to go camping with Pingo, but they can't agree on where to build their igloo and soon they have a fall-out. When their incomplete igloos collapse, they make up with each other and both build an igloo. | ||||
| 16 | 16 | "Music Lessons" "Pingu Has Music Lessons From His Grandfather/Pingu Has Music Lessons" | April 14, 1990 | S01E16 |
| Pingu spots an accordion in his toybox and has fun playing with it. The noise is so disturbing that Pingu is sent outside, so he goes to his paternal grandfather's house to be taught how to play the accordion. | ||||
| 17 | 17 | "Pingu's Ice Cave" "Pingu in the Ice Cave" | May 5, 1990 | S01E17 |
| Pingu and Pingo are playing outside with a ball, but it rolls into a mound of ice. Whilst trying to retrieve it, the duo fall into an ice tunnel. | ||||
| 18 | 18 | "Sledging" "Pingu's Tobogganing" | December 16, 1989 | S01E18 |
| Pingu, Pingo and Pingg go tobogganing down a mountain, but Pingu's sledge is very slow. After polishing his blades, the little penguin is soon going really fast. Unfortunately, his sledge is destroyed and he ends up inside his snowman. | ||||
| 19 | 19 | "Little Accidents" "Pingu's Lavatory Story" | April 21, 1990 | S01E19 |
| After lunch, Pingu goes off to a drink shop, where the bartender serves him some fruit juice. However, he drinks so much that he needs to use the loo. Unfortunately, Father is in the restroom. Note: This episode was banned everywhere (except Great Britain), for its toilet humour, depictions of urine and references to alcohol. | ||||
| 20 | 20 | "School Time" "Pingu at School" | April 28, 1990 | S01E20 |
| Pingu goes to school with Robby. He tells his seal friend to hide in the ice pool so The Schoolmaster doesn't notice. Pingu and his friends learn about food from underwater. | ||||
| 21 | 21 | "Grandpa is Ill" "Pingu's Grandfather is Sick" | May 26, 1990 | S01E21 |
| Pingu's maternal grandfather has the chicken pox so Mother rushes over with Pingu and Pinga to his igloo to tend to him. However, the kids misbehave and make too much noise, much to Mother's frustration. | ||||
| 22 | 22 | "Pingu's Circus" "Pingu and Pinga Play Circus" | October 27, 1990 | S01E22 |
| Pingu, Pinga and Robby put on a circus for the penguins in the South Pole. They consist of a marching band, roly-poly tricks, juggling, animal taming and many more. | ||||
| 23 | 23 | "Pingu and the Barrel Organ" "Pingu and the Organ Grinder" | October 20, 1990 | S01E23 |
| Pingu sees a poor penguin playing a calliope and helps him out by giving money, which isn't what the adult penguins do. Pingu decides to help out even more by bringing him some food for lunch, much to the poor penguin's delight. | ||||
| 24 | 24 | "Noise" "Pingu and His Friends Play Too Loudly" | October 13, 1990 | S01E24 |
| Pingu and his friends, Pingo and Pingg are happily playing with a ball. A neighbour is annoyed of the racket the trio are making and takes the ball away from them. | ||||
| 25 | 25 | "Pingu and Pinga at Home" "Pingu's Parents Go to a Concert" | October 6, 1990 | S01E25 |
| Mother and Father are going out to a concert, leaving Pingu and Pinga to manage themselves. They make a mess in the igloo, but clean everything up when their parents are coming back home. | ||||
| 26 | 26 | "Pingu's Dream" "Pingu Dreams" | May 12, 1990 | S01E26 |
| Pingu falls asleep and dreams about the igloo floating away like an alien spaceship and his bed walking and galloping like a horse. Trouble ensues when a colossal walrus tortures poor Pingu. Note: This episode was withheld from rotation, due to the walrus being scary for viewers. | ||||
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