Investigating

The Scents of Spring

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Little Nutbrown Hare wakes on the first morning of spring and notices a special new smell in the meadow. He sets out with Little Field Mouse to find its source, smelling hyacinths, bluebells and orange blossom, and exploring the woods and creek, but nothing is quite right. That night he goes to bed disappointed, comforted by Big Nutbrown Hare. The next morning he realises the special smell is all the scents of springtime rolled into one, and the two hares end with their 'Guess how much I love you' exchange.

March Like an Ant

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Little Nutbrown Hare and his father pick red berries for breakfast, but by morning the berries have vanished. With help from Little Field Mouse, Little Nutbrown Hare tracks them down and discovers a line of ants carrying the berries away. His father explains that ants live in underground nests and carry food home to their families. The episode ends with father and son under the old oak tree, sharing the last berries and measuring how much they love each other.

The Sheep Who Couldn't Sleep

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On a farm at night, Otis the tractor says goodnight to all the animals, then notices that Louie the sheep still cannot sleep. Otis tries counting sheep, which accidentally wakes the whole farm, then a lullaby, and finally works out that the bright full moon is the problem. He blocks the moonlight and adjusts it so it is not too dark, and Louie drifts off at last. Otis then heads to bed himself as the farm rests.

Shiny Coins

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Fig, a small blue fox, finds a handful of shiny coins near his home, a wooden ship turned into a house on a sunny island. Curious about them, he sets off with his caterpillar friend, meets a group of small woodland creatures and explores the forest as day turns to night. A hermit crab with a glowing claw lights the way through the dark stretch. The episode closes back at the beach by Fig's home, with the discovery worked out.

Missing Muffin

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Fig, a blue fox, discovers that a muffin has gone missing from his home, an old ship beached on a wooded island. With a magnifying glass in hand he turns detective and follows a trail of pink crumbs across sandy dunes and mossy forest clearings. Along the way he examines clues up close and gets help from his friends. The search ends happily when the muffin is found and the friends come together.

The Rolie Polie

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Sid wants to know how his tiny pet roly-polies move, so he brings them to school to investigate with his friends. Teacher Susie introduces the magnifying glass as a science tool, and the class uses it to look closely at skin, crayons, and the bugs themselves. Sid discovers that roly-polies walk on fourteen little legs and records his findings in a journal. He reports back to his dad during a backyard bug hunt and ends the day imagining a hat full of magnifying glasses.

A Good Case of the Hiccups

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Doc McStuffins runs a pretend clinic where her toys come to life. When Millie the Microphone keeps repeating everything she says, Doc diagnoses 'repeat-itis' and compares it to the hiccups, then tries cures like scaring, hopping while saying 'pineapple', and tickling. She finally realises a dirty CD inside Millie is the cause, cleans it, and Millie is fixed. The episode ends with the Super Star-tastic Sisters singing together for Doc's mom.

The Whale Episode

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Sid wants to know how to measure a giant blue whale with the small ruler his dad gave him. He carries the question through breakfast, a classroom survey and a lab session where Teacher Susie shows the class how to measure using shoes, blocks and their own bodies, a method called non-standard measurement. After a story from grandma and helping his dad measure wood for a toy whale, Sid invents a 'whale ruler' of identical toy whales lined up to count. The episode closes with Sid reminding viewers to keep asking questions.

Tea Party Tantrum

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Susie Sunshine, usually cheerful, turns cranky and refuses to play tea party with Doc and her toys. Doc gives her a checkup and works out that her eyes are stuck open, so she cannot sleep, caused by sticky pineapple residue. After Doc wipes her eyes clean, Susie takes a nap and wakes up happy, ending with the whole group enjoying a fresh tea party.

The Mystery of the New Kid

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Mira, the royal detective, helps her cousin Mina find a missing gold earring in the bustling town of Jalpur. When Mina blames Sandeep, a boy new to town, Mira insists on gathering clues first and traces a feather to a shiny-loving crow. The earring turns up in the crow's nest, Mina apologises to Sandeep, and Prince Neil builds the crow a shiny toy of its own. The episode ends with the group sharing a meal and welcoming Sandeep as a new friend.

The Mystery of the Secret Gift-Giver

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Mira, a royal detective in the Indian town of Jalpur, sets out to discover who is secretly leaving flowers, sweets and bangles at families' doors. With her mongoose friends Mikku and Chiku and her friend Priya, she follows clues from ox tracks to a blue-covered cart and finally to a pair of sparkly sandals. The trail leads to Queen Shanti, who has been giving gifts anonymously on her own birthday. The town gathers by the river to thank her and celebrate her birthday together.

Just Like Mama

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On a bright day on Puffin Rock, puffins Mama and Una set off to gather seaweed while baby Baba and Papa stay behind to guard the burrow from lurking seagulls. Along the way Mama and Una jump on seaweed and race a dogfish, and Una discovers that a large great blackback gull is what has scared the other birds from the cliff. Mama confronts the gull and drives it off, keeping her puffling safe and letting the seagulls return. The family reunites at the burrow, having each done their part.

The Case of the Wrecked Recital

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In the royal city of Jalpur, Mira the royal detective is asked to find the great uncle's sitar that vanished before Neil's first music recital, along with his speech. Mira questions the head guard, rules out a spider-webbed door, and follows the sound of sitar music through the palace. She works out that Neil hid the instrument himself because he was afraid of making mistakes in front of his family. With encouragement from Mira and his great auntie Rupa, Neil performs his recital and thanks everyone for believing in him.

The Harvest Spirit

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During a Harvest Festival dinner in the town of Sturdy Stone, Pinecone questions why everyone hides indoors from a Harvest Spirit no one has ever seen. She, her unicorn Pony and their friend Hawthorn set out on a nighttime quest, following an eerie moaning sound through the streets and into the swamp. They discover the sound comes from jilly-toads driven out of their flooded home by the town's heavy festival float. The town moves the float, frees the toads and celebrates together, agreeing to keep the tradition without harming the swamp.

Monster in the Garden

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Craig and his siblings spend a weekend at their grandparents' house, where granddad's vegetable garden is being mysteriously eaten. Craig teams up with granddad to build a fence and set traps, imagining the culprit is a shapeshifting monster. After each plan fails, he patiently watches the garden at night and discovers the real thief is a deer slipping through a hole in the fence. Grandma, a city councilwoman, calls to have the fence holes patched, and the mystery is solved.

Muck Amok

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Fred, a house cat who calls himself Nature Cat, and his friends Squeeks, Hal and Daisy are called to help Squeeks' cousin Marvin, whose marsh home is flooding. They investigate where the water enters and where it should drain, and discover a pile of trash blocking the stream. The friends clear away the litter so the water can flow again. The marsh returns to health and the animals that had left come back home.

The Great Algae Escape

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Captain Barnacles and the Octonaut crew investigate an underwater area choked with algae where the crabs and lobsters are too sick to move. While they explore, a group of crabs hijacks the Octopod to escape the polluted water. The crew chases down their ship in a gup vehicle, hears the crabs out, and traces the algae back to a leaky pipe. They fix the pipe, clean the excess algae, and the creatures return to health.

How Can We Make Fog Go Away?

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Jessy, a girl in an orange jacket, and Nessy, a purple sea monster, lose their ball in thick fog during a park football game. Curious about where the fog comes from, they try blowing it away and asking friends for help before following a smell high into the clouds. There they find a giant named Eugene cooling a pot of soup, whose steam is making the fog. After everyone helps cool the soup, the fog lifts, the ball turns up over the goal line, and Nessy learns he scored.

Mystery at the Cooking Contest

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At the Jalpur Kids Cooking Contest, Kamla's bowl of rice for her pudding goes missing just as the timer starts. Mira, a young royal detective, investigates with her magnifying glass and follows a trail of sand from the spilled bowl to the bananas and finally to Prince Veer's leaking hourglass, which he had used to tidy up the rice by mistake. The queen adds extra time, and Kamla decides to make coconut laddoos instead. Her new dish wins the golden spoon, praised for her creativity and for not giving up.

The Case of the Vanishing Vessels

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Mira, a royal detective, and her friends race handmade toy boats down a mountain stream in the kingdom of Jalpur when all the boats suddenly disappear. With her father Papa and her mongoose companions, Mira follows clues into a network of secret underground tunnels, reads an old map, and rides a raft through a whirlpool and over a waterfall. She works out that a repeated elephant crest links the tunnels to the palace, and the group heads there. The boats are found spouting from the palace fountain, and the case is closed.

One Note Wonder

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Doc and her friends form a backyard band, but Alma's xylophone sounds wrong because a key is broken. Doc takes it to her clinic, where the toy version, Xyla, comes to life and is diagnosed with a loose key. When Stuffy accidentally knocks the key loose and it is lost, Doc comforts Xyla with the story of losing her own baby tooth, then finds a matching key and repairs her. The instrument is returned to Alma and the band happily plays 'Twinkle, Twinkle' again.

Mystery at the Fashion Show

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Mira, a young royal detective, arrives to help her friend's aunt set up a boutique fashion show when Priya's handmade white dress goes missing. With Neil, Mina and two mongoose friends, Mira searches the washing pools and the road, then realizes the white dress must have turned pink in tinted wash water, just as the mongooses' jackets did. She finds it on the pink rack, and Priya happily wears the now-pink dress as the show's grand finale. Along the way she models observing clues and reasoning from cause to effect.

The Giant Squid

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While Professor Inkling bakes fish biscuits on the Octopod, the Gup-A is grabbed by an unseen creature near a set of underwater caves and escapes coated in slimy ink and ringed sucker marks. Inkling recognises the marks as belonging to his distant cousin Irving the giant squid and joins Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso on a search mission. The crew explores the dark caves, mistaking a manta ray and an eel for the squid, until Irving follows the smell of the biscuits and reunites with his cousin. Irving explains he was simply hungry, eats several baskets of biscuits, and the episode ends with a posed family photo at the Octopod.