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Steam Bath Ch'oondaii

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Molly, an Alaska Native girl, wants to help her mother recover from a cold so she can pass the annual medical exam she needs to keep flying. With advice from Auntie Midge and her mom, Molly and her friend set out to build a traditional steam bath, first trying shop-style instructions, then realising those don't fit their village or their age and returning to Auntie Midge for the traditional willow-frame method. They gather volcanic rocks with Grandpa Nat's help, build the bath in clear steps, and the warm steam helps mom breathe and feel close to her own mother. The episode closes with a short 'Ask Molly' segment exploring real Alaska Native houses at a heritage center.

The Impossible Dream

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A boy named Carl is building a spaceship from boxes, boards and odds and ends he borrows from his neighbour Stillwater, a panda who lives next door. When Carl's brother and sister insist the spaceship will never fly, Stillwater tells him the story of Joku, a farmer who refused to believe it was impossible to catch the sun. Encouraged, Carl decides to keep trying and lowers his sights to getting just a little way up. The episode ends with Carl, Addy and Michael taking turns on a pretend flight, thrilled that it feels like the spaceship is really soaring.

A Perfect Fit

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In this Stillwater story, young Carl wants to help his older siblings Michael and Addy build a soapbox racer but feels useless when his offers to help keep getting turned down. Their panda neighbour Stillwater visits with lemonade and tells Carl a fable about Hannah and her cracked water pot, which secretly waters a path of flowers. Encouraged that everyone has a gift, Carl helps pick hard-to-reach lemons, names the racer, and discovers he is just the right size to drive it. The episode ends with Carl steering the finished racer down a hill while his siblings cheer.

3, 2, 1 Liftoff!

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Lyla, a girl who solves problems step by step with her blue companion Stu, joins a classroom project to build model spaceships with a partner. She teams up with Joey, a new boy, on a water-powered rocket, but Joey keeps going quiet and slipping away whenever the group gets big. Over two days Lyla realizes Joey feels shy in crowds, and she finds ways to include him one person at a time while they work out why their rocket won't fly. The episode ends at the park, where they seal a leak in the bottle and launch their spaceship together with the whole class.

The Qyah Ice Classic

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In a small Alaskan village, Molly and her friends start their own Ice Classic, setting up a tripod on the frozen river and guessing when the spring ice will break and topple it. Each child uses a different method, looking up past dates, measuring the ice, watching for signs of spring, and building a model, while their friend Oscar helps everyone without entering himself. In the end Oscar wins by combining all the information his friends gathered, and they share the ice cream prize together. A closing live-action segment shows real children in Nenana explaining the real Ice Classic tradition.

Pterodactyl-Doodle-Doo

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On a ranch where dinosaurs serve as the farm animals, siblings Jon, Min and Miguel are woken each morning by their pterodactyl friend Teddy. After an accident with a hay machine wrecks Teddy's roost, Miguel builds him a fancy new one high on the barn, but Teddy calls out all night and no one can sleep. The children try a new pillow and extra features, then camp out to watch him, and discover that Teddy simply missed sleeping near his friends. They move him back to the clubhouse and the whole ranch finally rests.

Puppet Theater

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Dora, Kate and their friends are staging a free puppet show of the three little pigs for the children in their neighbourhood when Pablo accidentally sends the piggy puppets flying backstage. Dora and Kate follow them into Puppet World, a handmade fairy tale land where they help the seven dwarves, the gingerbread man, Rapunzel and Jack along the way. They reach Littlest Piggy in time to finish his brick house, using frosting in place of glue, and when the big bad wolf arrives he huffs, puffs and tumbles into the water. The group pulls him out, he apologises, blows the flattened houses back into shape, and joins the puppet show as its most dramatic performer.

Petey the Stargazer

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Petey, a boy who loves stargazing, decides aliens must not be real after a supposed UFO turns out to be a blimp. His friends Goldie and Romeo, unwilling to let him lose that wonder, secretly stage crop circles, a homemade UFO and an alien visitor named Zor-Zor, and soon the whole town of Boysenburg prepares a welcome. When Petey discovers it was all his friends' doing, he decides that having friends like them means anything is possible and keeps believing. The segment ends with the group back at their telescopes and a short teaser for the next story.

Nancy versus Dudley

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Nancy is building a model Eiffel Tower in her backyard playhouse when her little sister JoJo keeps interrupting to play. Nancy suggests JoJo invent an imaginary friend, a pirate hat named Dudley, but then feels left out when JoJo would rather play with Dudley than help her. After the unfinished tower falls and the sisters drift apart, JoJo returns, and the two finish the tower together while Nancy tells her sister she matters more than the project.

Breezy Rider

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Nature Cat and his friends Daisy, Hal and Squeeks are flying kites on a windy day in the park when a gust carries Squeeks off and strands her on an island across the water. Unable to swim, the others notice the wind pushing a leaf and decide to build a sailboat from logs, branches and their kites. They launch the boat they name Breezy Rider and learn to steer it by adjusting the sail as the wind shifts. They reach Squeeks, bring her safely back, and head off to keep enjoying the windy day.

Mayor Teeny

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When the town playground falls into disrepair and the busy mayor cannot keep up, a child named Teeny is made 'mayor for the day' and quickly finds the job harder than it looks. As phone calls, a flooding water main and a runaway dog pile up, her friends Goldie and Romeo quietly rebuild the playground to cheer everyone up. The mayor returns, sets the mishaps right and thanks the children for reminding him to make time for fun. The episode ends with the whole group playing together on the fixed seesaw.

Astronuts

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Nature Cat, a house cat named Fred, dreams of being the first cat to walk on the moon. With his friends Daisy, Squeeks and Hal, he builds a rocket ship, learns what the moon is like and packs supplies for the journey. After a tense moment when a booster comes loose in space, the crew reaches the moon and discovers it is made of dust and rock rather than cheese. The episode ends with the friends celebrating and setting out to explore.