Walking

Birthday Soup

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It is Little Bear's birthday, and he believes his mother has forgotten, so he decides to make Birthday Soup for any friends who might visit. After a quiet walk through the forest, he gathers vegetables and cooks a large pot of soup in the cottage kitchen. Hen, Duck and Cat arrive one by one and sit down together at the table to share the meal. Mother Bear returns with a birthday cake, showing she remembered all along.

Father Bear Comes Home

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Little Bear hears that his father is coming home from a long fishing trip far out on the ocean. As he walks home he tells Hen, Duck and Cat the news, and imagines that Father Bear will bring back a pretty mermaid with blue and green hair and silver eyes. When Father Bear arrives there is no mermaid, but he brings seashells, and the friends discover they can hold them up and 'hear the ocean'. The episode ends with the family together at home.

Paint on the Mail

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Siblings Phoebe and Jay live in an apartment building called Tobsy Towers with their dad and grandma. When wet paint smears the addresses on two packages, the family delivers them by reading the leftover clues, floor numbers, apartment letters, and wayfinding signs, meeting several neighbors along the way. They reach the right doors, make new friends, and learn that a kind neighbor named Mr. Gurley never gets any mail. The episode ends with the children hand-delivering him a gift that blends their two favorite games.

Square's Very Kind Gesture

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Square finds a rare banana tree with two bananas and decides to give one to his friend Circle so he can be known for a kind gesture. Each time he tries, Circle passes the spare banana on to Triangle, and Square ends up with neither the fruit nor the praise he hoped for. He waits for the tree to grow again, rehearses his plan, and keeps trying. By the end he finally eats one banana at a picnic, still weighing whether to share the other.

Make Your Bark

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In the town of Montgomery, the Doxie family of dachshunds, parents Greta and Pretzel and their five pups, walk Mom to her job as mayor and notice a dull, blank wall that no dog wants to be near. Paxton suggests painting a mural, the city council votes to approve it, and the pups gather paint and try out designs at home. When they cannot agree on a single picture, they decide to let every dog add a paw print instead. The wall fills with colourful prints, dogs gather to play nearby, and Paxton is proud to have 'made his bark.'

Curious George, Cat Sitter

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George visits friends who run a dog-sitting service and learns their routine of a snack, a bath and a walk. He then takes on three cats, Gnocchi, Lucky and Elsie, and discovers that cats do not eat dog biscuits, enjoy baths or walk on leashes. After several failed attempts he watches what the cats actually respond to and gets them to behave like cats. The cats settle down, the pasta party goes ahead, and George is thanked for his help.

Caillou Hates Vegetables

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Grandma tells Caillou a story about when he was three and refused to eat his peas and carrots. While he is at her house, grandpa takes him to the park and shows him how caterpillars, birds and squirrels each eat to get energy. Back home, Caillou and grandma pretend to be bears so the peas and carrots become 'berries', and he finishes his plate. Mom and dad arrive to pick him up, and the episode ends with cookies for dessert.

Fintastic Adventure

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Harvey the dog joins his friend Fins on a long walk to a waterfall, where Fins plans his biggest ever dive. Along the way Harvey keeps stopping to notice nature, and after some exploring they miss the only cable car to the falls. They decide to return an acorn dropped by Nutmeg the squirrel, and in thanks she flies them to the waterfall in her plane. Fins finally makes his big dive, and the friends sing about being thankful.

The Jökulhlaup Is on Us

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Molly, an Alaska Native girl, learns that a glacial flood called a jokulhlaup could wash away Auntie Cecilia's old fishing cabin by Lake Kaya. Using Nina's 3D topographical map, Molly and her friends find higher ground out of the flood zone, then work out how to slide the cabin there on a bed of logs. The cabin is moved safely and Molly discovers the family doll she lost as a baby. The episode ends with the family settling the cabin into its new home.

Downward Dog

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Michael spends the weekend pet-sitting the neighbour's dog, Yuko, with big plans to become her best friend. When Yuko prefers playing with his younger brother Carl, Michael feels left out, until the panda neighbour Stillwater shares a story about Dario, a mouse who learns the joy of giving. Michael realises that keeping Yuko safe and happy, and sharing the fun with Carl, is what good pet-sitting is about. The episode closes with the whole group heading out for a walk together.

In the Dark of Day

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Molly, Trini and Oscar walk home from school in an Alaska village where the winter sun sets in the early afternoon, and Oscar is sure a monster is waiting in the dark. The friends look up sunset times on a weather website, learn about the winter solstice, and try several plans to face the creature. Auntie Midge tells a story about a wolf pup who overcomes its fear of the dark by finding a pack. Emboldened by his friends, Oscar finally confronts the monster and finds it is just a large pile of snow.

Barbara Birdwatcher

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Barbara, a birdwatcher, visits the Helpsters' help shop because she has seen every bird except the yellow warbler. The team makes a three-part plan: learn the bird's call, find where it lives, and call it to them. They practise the call, read that the bird lives near trees, grass and water, and take a walking tour until they find a real park with all three. Waiting quietly behind a bush, they call out and spot the warbler, completing Barbara's list, then celebrate with a song about the difference a plan makes.

Dinner at Bernie's

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On a warm afternoon on Puffin Rock, young puffin Oona and her baby brother Baba set out to help Bernie the hermit crab prepare a feast for a visiting lady crab friend. They gather food across the island with the pine marten Mossy, whose earlier theft of the crabs' berries brings the crabs after them, until Mossy apologises and everyone shares. The gathered feast is lost, so the children bring Bernie a piece of bark instead, which delights him. The episode ends with Bernie and his friend sharing a quiet sunset dinner.

The Double Dare

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Brother Bear sets out to win back Sister's jump rope from Too Tall and his gang, and after crossing a log on a dare he is invited to tag along. The gang keeps daring, double-daring and de-double-daring him into riskier stunts, ending with stealing watermelons from Farmer Ben's patch, where Brother is caught. Farmer Ben explains, using chickens and sheep, why following the crowd is a mistake. Brother takes the lesson to heart, refuses the next round of dares, and returns Sister's rope.

The Sweater Collection/New Bus Stop

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Carl, a young raccoon who loves collecting things, stars in two stories. In the first, his grandfather Pop Pop knits him a sweater that turns out too itchy to wear, and after his blunt comments upset his friends, Carl learns that honesty works best when it is also kind. In the second, Carl's bus stop is moved a few blocks away, so with his friends he makes a map, marks landmarks and practices the walk until he can reach the new stop alone. Both stories end with Carl succeeding, keeping the sweater for his teddy bear and managing the new route on his own.

The Gratitude Collection/The Pet Rock Collection

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Carl, a young raccoon who loves collecting and sorting, stars in two stories set in his town of Fuzzy Town. In the first, he realises he has never thanked the people who help him and spends the day showing gratitude, accidentally causing a traffic jam before finally giving mail carrier Sarah his biggest heart-shaped rock. In the second, he shares his pet rock collection with friends but insists they play with the rocks only his way, until he watches them having fun and decides there can be more than one right way to play. Both stories end with Carl reconnecting warmly with his friends and his Mama.

Bots of the Forest

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Doug, a young robot, visits the Rebots warehouse with his dad and becomes curious about a pair of hiking boots, which leads the two of them onto a real hike in the autumn woods. When their robomaps lose signal after a moose scares them off the trail, they get lost and fear they will never get home. Two human hikers, Kath and Barb, teach them to find their way using trail blazes, a compass, the setting sun and the North Star. Back safe at the trailhead, Doug puts blazes up around the warehouse so everyone there can find their way too.

A Bot's Best Friend

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Doug, a curious young robot, wants to know why people keep pets, so he heads to his human friend Emma's home to help look after her dog, Princess Wolfingham. Along the way the family also hunts for Dad's missing lucky shoes before his big audition. Doug learns to feed, play with, walk, and wash the dog, and the pup turns out to have known where the shoes were all along. The day ends with Doug asking his own family if they can adopt the little critterbot as a pet.