Balamory (series 4)
| Balamory | |
|---|---|
| Series 4 | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 63 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBeebies |
| Original release | 4 April – 26 June 2005 |
| Series chronology | |
This article contains episode information and plot summaries[1][2][3] from the television show Balamory for series 4. Series 4 was broadcast in 2005.
Cast[]
Main cast are listed on the main Balamory page.
Episodes[]
| No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Auntie's Bloomers" | 4 April 2005 | |
| Archie's kilt is a bit draughty. | |||
| 2 | "The Eagle Flies" | 5 April 2005 | |
| PC Plum offers to get a photograph of an eagle for Miss Hoolie to show the kids in the nursery. However, he's having a busy day and needs help to find the elusive eagle.* This is the only episode that listens to the William Tell Overture. | |||
| 3 | "Plum Abroad" | 6 April 2005 | |
| PC Plum goes on holiday. | |||
| 4 | "The Game Show" | 7 April 2005 | |
| Balamory has been asked to make up a team for the television game show Do The Job. PC Plum thinks it will be easy to organise. | |||
| 5 | "The Wedding" | 8 April 2005 | |
| Katie and Roddy are getting married and PC Plum is the best man. Archie is driving them to Abbey Island and Edie is recording the wedding but when Archie's car breaks down outside the police station, it is up to Edie to save the day. | |||
| 6 | "Woodwork" | 11 April 2005 | |
| Spencer teaches Edie how to carve a wooden puppet like Pinocchio. | |||
| 7 | "The Time Machine" | 12 April 2005 | |
| Archie tries to build a time machine to help teach the children about olden days. | |||
| 8 | "Signing" | 13 April 2005 | |
| PC Plum is taking the nursery on a nature walk, so he needs to find a new way to communicate to keep everyone quiet. Learning sign language seems to be the best option. | |||
| 9 | "The Falkirk Wheel" | 14 April 2005 | |
| Archie makes an indoor canal so the children can sail boats on it. | |||
| 10 | "The Snowman" | 15 April 2005 | |
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It's a lovely snowy day in Balamory and Miss Hoolie is planning to visit the Mcleod family, but Josie comes in to the cafe to tell Miss Hoolie that Christopher has a cold. The two think up something to make to cheer him up.
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| 11 | "Lobster Fishing" | 18 April 2005 | |
| Miss Hoolie is playing a game of hunt the thimble with the children, which leads to Josie organising an unusual treasure hunt with a little help from PC Plum and a lobster fisherman. Josie learns about how floats help fishermen locate their lobster pots. | |||
| 12 | "The Portrait Gallery" | 19 April 2005 | |
| Archie and Spencer are taking the nursery children to see a painting gallery in the Balamory Art Museum. | |||
| 13 | "The Slide Projector" | 20 April 2005 | |
| PC Plum is very keen to give a lecture on the history of the bicycle, but who can make his lecture an exciting event for all? | |||
| 14 | "Harvest" | 21 April 2005 | |
| Edie helps the children celebrate the harvest. | |||
| 15 | "Truck Parade" | 22 April 2005 | |
| A trip is organised to the mainland to see a big truck parade, but they accidentally leave Spencer behind as he wants to come too. | |||
| 16 | "Big Cats" | 25 April 2005 | |
| Miss Hoolie's cat proves less than cooperative when Spencer tries to paint him for the children. | |||
| 17 | "The Orchestra" | 26 April 2005 | |
| Suzie needs help learning to play the cymbals in the orchestra. | |||
| 18 | "How Far" | 27 April 2005 | |
| Archie wonders who will be able to put his fabulous new measuring invention to good use | |||
| 19 | "The Map" | 28 April 2005 | |
| Edie is taking all the children on a tour around the island but how can she keep everyone interested as she drives? It's not as easy as it looks! | |||
| 20 | "I Went To School One Morning" | 29 April 2005 | |
| Having a picnic at the top of Balamory hill sounds like fun, but getting there could be a bit of a problem. How will they do it? | |||
| 21 | "The Yoghurt Pot Bird" | 2 May 2005 | |
| Suzie gets in a muddle as she tries to help Edie teach the children about birds-of-paradise. | |||
| 22 | "The Allotment" | 3 May 2005 | |
| Josie does some gardening, but can't find any vegetables. | |||
| 23 | "Too Much of a Good Thing" | 4 May 2005 | |
| Miss Hoolie has got too many tin foil trays in her cupboard. When Archie is unable to find a use for them all, who will come to the rescue? | |||
| 24 | "Continental Shopping" | 5 May 2005 | |
| A new product range is introduced in Pocket 'n' Sweet, but will it prove a success? | |||
| 25 | "Carnival" | 6 May 2005 | |
| There is a carnival in the big city on the mainland, but what will Miss Hoolie wear? | |||
| 26 | "Slippy" | 9 May 2005 | |
| The snow makes everything slippery; Spencer visits Archie to make a sledge. Back in the nursery, it's time for music.* Today's song is called "The Slippy Slide Song", tune of:Row Row Row Your Boat. | |||
| 27 | "The Optician" | 10 May 2005 | |
| Archie takes a memorable trip to the optician. | |||
| 28 | "Bonjour" | 11 May 2005 | |
| Miss Hoolie gets help teaching French. | |||
| 29 | "Worried Plum" | 12 May 2005 | |
| Plum has a day of worrying about everything, so who can make him a little less glum? | |||
| 30 | "Feeling at Home" | 13 May 2005 | |
| Miss Hoolie has friends staying with her, so she organises a special picnic for them to feel at home. | |||
| 31 | "Musical Boats" | 16 May 2005 | |
| Edie has a cold and has to stay at home, but an annoying noise outside stops her getting any peace. | |||
| 32 | "Shapes and Patterns" | 17 May 2005 | |
| Edie has a brilliant day out at the mosque with Spencer and the children. | |||
| 33 | "Hello Day" | 9 April 2005 | |
| It's the Hello Day at Balamory Nursery, so Suzie takes Penny along to get her away from her personal stereo. | |||
| 34 | "Butterflies" | 18 May 2005 | |
| Josie wants to teach the children a butterfly dance, and Edie suggests they try to catch a butterfly with nets. PC Plum intervenes to protect the butterflies from harm, and has an alternative for Josie. | |||
| 35 | "The Giggler" | 19 May 2005 | |
| Granny McLeod comes to visit the children in the nursery, and keeps them laughing. | |||
| 36 | "Highland Games" | 20 May 2005 | |
| Archie asks Spencer to make some leaflets for the Balamory Highland Games. He goes back to his castle and finds his latest invention there. He tries to use it so everyone at the games will hear about them. But his invention is too big, so Edie carries it in her bus to the Highland Games.(Trivia: This was actually filmed at the .) | |||
| 37 | "Colour Surprise Day" | 23 May 2005 | |
| Archie invents a special 'colour surprise' machine to the delight of the children in the nursery. | |||
| 38 | "Video Guide" | 24 May 2005 | |
| Penny and Suzie create a video guide for their shop. The shop has a lot of visitors, all with questions about the island, so Suzie and Penny come up with a way of providing all the answers | |||
| 39 | "Shadows" | 25 May 2005 | |
| Josie Jump asks PC Plum to investigate when things go bump in the night during a windy spell | |||
| 40 | "Holiday Snaps" | 26 May 2005 | |
| Josie says she has photos of her journey and comes up with an idea for a game of Snap. So Josie goes to see Edie. | |||
| 41 | "Roller Skates" | 27 May 2005 | |
| Spencer is trying to ride around Balamory in roller skates, so Miss Hoolie helps him. | |||
| 42 | "The Loch Bala Monster" | 30 May 2005 | |
| Spencer wants to paint a picture of the Loch Bala Monster but how will he find it? | |||
| 43 | "Island in the Sun" | 31 May 2005 | |
| It's a snowy day in Balamory so PC Plum banishes the winter blues by relieving his summer holiday. | |||
| 44 | "Moving House" | 1 June 2005 | |
| Penny Pocket shows how to organise a house move, but will everything work out? | |||
| 45 | "The Piano" | 2 June 2005 | |
| Edie has came back from her holiday in Paris, France, together with Archie and gives everyone at the nursery souvenirs she bought while she was there. She explains to Miss Hoolie that she recorded Archie's experiences in Paris but needs vocals from him in order to complete the video which she plans to show to the children. But while working on the video, Edie accidentally dropped her screwdriver which presses a button that wipes out all the sound in the video, leaving it "sound-less" for the children to hear. This is when Spencer comes to the rescue and uses music instead to make up for the sound wiped out from the mini-accident. That way the children can enjoy the Paris video happily. | |||
| 46 | "Wheelie Day" | 3 June 2005 | |
| Josie uses a talking device to help people hear her on Wheelie Day but gets a bit muddled, so Edie volunteers to help her out. | |||
| 47 | "Snap" | 6 June 2005 | |
| Josie is going to play a quiet game of cards with the children, but when she goes to borrow a pack of cards from Edie, some of the cards are missing. | |||
| 48 | "Mix Up" | 7 June 2005 | |
| Suzie and Penny reorganise the shop, but some crossed wires causes problems when the fruit delivery to the shop goes wrong. | |||
| 49 | "Phone Frazzled" | 8 June 2005 | |
| Suzie has a new mobile phone, which leads to some problems. The phone becomes more important than the people around her! | |||
| 50 | "Nature Symphony" | 9 June 2005 | |
| It's raining so PC Plum has to cancel a nature walk. Instead he comes up with another way of helping the children enjoy the magic of nature. | |||
| 51 | "The Sniff Along" | 10 June 2005 | |
| Archie is looking after Sharon and Christopher but he has some shopping to do. PC Plum helps Archie to make shopping fun for the children. | |||
| 52 | "Trip to the Moon" | 13 June 2005 | |
| Edie wants to take the children on a trip to the moon. | |||
| 53 | "Hot Sun" | 14 June 2005 | |
| It's a very hot day, so Archie invents a machine to keep everybody cool, but Edie has other plans. | |||
| 54 | "Wrong End of the Stick" | 15 June 2005 | |
| PC Plum gets the wrong end of the stick. | |||
| 55 | "Ballroom Dancing" | 16 June 2005 | |
| Josie Jump decides to teach Ballroom Dancing in her dance class, she tries to dance with Miss Hoolie but she steps on her toes, she then tries PC Plum but she then steps on her toes. | |||
| 56 | "Sand Sculpture Festival" | 17 June 2005 | |
| There is a sand sculpture festival at the beach and Spencer is organising it. He goes to the cafe to catch the bus to go and then he realises that he forgot to organise the bus. He goes to Edie McCredie to organise the bus but she is planning to go windsurfing. After telling her about the food. She agrees to organise the bus. When they get back to the cafe. Spencer realises that he forgot to organise the food. It is up to Suzie Sweet to help. | |||
| 57 | "The Oil Platform" | 20 June 2005 | |
| Christopher's uncle cannot come to his birthday party because he is away at sea on an oil rig. Edie comes to the rescue so that everyone can take part in the celebrations | |||
| 58 | "Plum the Musical" | 21 June 2005 | |
| Josie is organising a musical, but which famous resident of Balamory will feature in it? | |||
| 59 | "The Cinema" | 22 June 2005 | |
| When Edie and Spencer arrive home from Spain, everyone wants to see Edie's latest home movie. So many people are keen to see it and that is where the problems start. | |||
| 60 | "Fingal's Cave" | 23 June 2005 | |
| Archie and Miss Hoolie visit Fingal's cave, but is Archie fully prepared for the trip? | |||
| 61 | "The Prize" | 24 June 2005 | |
| PC Plum is in charge of running the Balamory Yacht Race. | |||
| 62 | "Nuts" | 25 June 2005 | |
| Someone or something is stealing all of the bird nuts from the bird table for all the birds residing at the nursery. Josie Jump decides to help Miss Hoolie buy some more bird nuts at Pocket & Sweets and feed the birds with the nuts. But when the bird nuts are stolen again, PC Plum investigates the mystery and finds out that a squirrel is taking all of the bird nuts. So he tells Josie and Miss Hoolie to use a bird feeder to prevent the squirrel from stealing the nuts and for everyone to enjoy birdwatching at the nursery. At the end of the day, Miss Hoolie closes the school cupboard and gets the nuts. | |||
| 63 | "The Mountie" | 26 June 2005 | |
| PC Plum has a police man visiting from Canada but wonders how he can take the Mountie on patrol, so he goes and sees Archie to make another bike. Last in the series. | |||
References[]
- ^ "Balamory - CBeebies - BBC". BBC.
- ^ "Balamory". locatetv.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Locate TV Listings
- ^ "Archived copy". www.tv.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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