Boblins

Pinny writes a newsletter all about the Boblins, specifically about their individual skills, talents and interests.

Pinny is having a tea party and has invited everyone to join her. Meanwhile Pi has made a robot to help Ruddle paint all the buildings. Yam Yam switches on the robot before Pi has finished it and the robot starts painting anything in its path. As Pi tries to track it down it causes mayhem for everyone which makes them late for Pinny's tea party. The robot finds Pinny alone at the tea party and they become friends through their shared talent for painting. Eventually the other Boblins arrive at the tea party and the robot paints a group picture of them all.

It’s that time of year when all the characters get together for a race. They all build their own racing carts, but Pi and Ruddle both add a few extra gadgets to theirs which gets them into trouble, whilst Yam Yam whose cart falls apart, improvises and wins the day.

Onny goes to the vegetable patch to get some carrots and sees them disappearing into the ground. She goes to Pi to get help. He decides to use his drilling machine to investigate the mystery of the missing carrots, and takes Gully with him. Underground they find a large cavern inhabited by moles, and Gully finds out that they are taking the carrots to help them see in the dark. With the mystery solved, they head back but Pi realises they are stuck because the drilling machine can only go downwards. They discover that the cavern contains magical bouncing mushrooms that they use to bounce up the the hole in the ground made by the drilling machine and they get back overground safely.

It snows in Rainbow's End and everyone is having fun, except Gully who doesn't like the cold. Onny asks Gully to find Yam Yam and give him his hat, whilst Ruddle is sent to find firewood. Ruddle finds a large log and with the help of some of the others, he puts it on a couple of sledges to lower it down a hill. Unfortunately the log gets out of control and Gully ends up riding it down the hill. Gully has so much fun riding the log that she forgets about the cold and ends up enjoying the snow.

A baby bird is being trained by Gully to fly. Unfortunately he hasn’t quite got the hang of it and a few of his friends laugh when he crashes to the ground. Gully reassures the little bird that one day he will be able to fly really well. Ruddle makes a kite for Pinny but before he can give it to her the wind blows it from his grasp. Ruddle gives chase promising to retrieve it for Pinny but before he knows it the kite has flown far from Rainbow’s End and towards the mountains. Bodkin is busy rock climbing when the kite knocks him off the ledge of a mountain, he grabs hold of the kite which mangages to take him flying all over Rainbow’s End before crashing into an old tree. Ruddle and Pi catch up with him and they hatch plan after plan to get the kite but it’s just too high. Luckily the birds realise the Boblins’ predicament and the baby bird takes the initiative to retrieve the kite for Pinny.

Whilst collecting rocks, Ruddle and Yam Yam accidentally take a Rainbow Dragon egg. The egg hatches and Gully and Yam Yam try to return the baby dragon to its mother. On the way Yam Yam and the dragon end up in a boat which falls over a waterfall but they are rescued by the dragon's mother.

Pi and Ruddle decide to take a hot air balloon ride so that Pi can make a map of Rainbow's End. When Pi has climbed into the basket, Ruddle unhooks the ropes holding down the balloon and the balloon starts to fly away. Ruddle tries to stop the balloon by holding onto the ropes but he gets pulled into the air and is dangling below Pi. Pi tries to land the balloon which results in him falling from the basket and getting caught on a rope too. Yam Yam bounces into the basket and becomes the hero by helping to land the balloon. They return home safely tell the others about their misadventure.

Pi finds Ruddle clearing out unwanted items from his workshop. Pi thinks he can help Ruddle clear up by inventing a device that vacuums up old bits of junk. Pi unveils his contraption which resembles a mechanical chicken. He presses a few buttons on a remote control and the chicken vacuums up the rubbish. Astounded, Ruddle can’t wait to take the chicken to the workshop to get rid of all the junk. Ruddle and Pi relax while the chicken gets on with its work but unfortunately it malfunctions and decides to vacuum up everything else as well, including Ruddle’s beloved cart and shed. The robot chicken makes a dash for it with Ruddle and Pi in hot pursuit. They finally catch the robot chicken and Pi fixes it.

Gully’s chickens are running wild, so Ruddle decides to surprise her by making her a chicken enclosure at the farm. The other characters keep Gully busy whilst Ruddle builds it.

Pi invents a shrink ray and wants to show it off to the others, but after a small accident, Pi, Yam Yam and Gully end up getting shrunk. The only way Pi can return them to their normal size is to use his grow ray which is back at the lab. They head back towards the lab but it’s taking them a long time as they are so small. They get stuck at the edge of the river when they meet a large beetle who offers to take them home.

Some aliens land in Rainbow's End because their spaceship runs out of rainbow power. They meet the Boblins who think they look like chickens. The Boblins help the aliens recharge their spaceship by providing objects, each a colour of the rainbow, to restore the ship's rainbow power.

Yam Yam is looking for a fancy dress costume for Pinny and accidentally takes a witch's magic broom. Pinny is carried off by the broom and ends up stuck in a hollow log whilst Ruddle becomes stuck in a giant pumpkin as he jumps out of the way. The others try to free Pinny and Ruddle whilst the broom helps Onny to clear up all the mess. They then have their fancy dress competition and Pinny wins with her tree outfit.

Yam Yam is playing on a pile of rocks and accidentally causes them to roll down a slope, blocking the entrance to a cave, which happens to be a bear's home. The bear returns home but can't get to his food, which is in the cave. Just then Gully walks by with a jar of honey, and the bear follows the scent of the honey. Gully arrives at the farm and puts down the jar of honey whilst she goes to get some eggs. The bear picks up the unguarded honey and walks off with it. Gully enlists the help of Pi to solve the mystery of the missing honey and they follow clues which lead them to the bear cave, where they find the bear with the jar of honey. Gully finds out that the bear can't get into his home and Ruddle and Yam Yam help to unblock the cave entrance. The bear gives them some fruit to say thanks.

Onny finds some seeds in the magical clearing and takes them home to make bread. Unknown to her they are magical seeds. Whilst Onny is making bread with the seeds a hungry chicken eats some, and is turned into a giant chicken. Hilarity ensues. Eventually Ruddle, Gully and Yam Yam lure the chicken back to the magical clearing where it is restored to its normal size.

Gully meets a gorilla and goes for a walk with him. Yam Yam mistakenly thinks she is in trouble and he and the other characters try to rescue her. Eventually the gorilla meets a female gorilla and the two fall in love.

It’s Pinny’s birthday and whilst out walking, Bodkin discovers a treasure map and decides to look for the treasure to give to Pinny as a present. Ruddle goes with him. They find the treasure, which looks like an ordinary teapot, in a secret cave. When Bodkin picks it up it sets off a booby trap and they have to run away from an enormous boulder heading their way. As they run, Bodkin wishes that they had Ruddle’s cart with them and the teapot makes the cart magically appear from nowhere and help them to safety. They realise they’ve found a magic teapot that grants wishes and take it back home. However, the teapot becomes more trouble than it’s worth, and Bodkin ends up wishing that the teapot goes back to where it came from. With the teapot gone they can all enjoy Pinny’s birthday party.

One of Gully’s chickens becomes a little ill and Onny suggests that the fruit from a tree at the top of Yeti Mountain will help it feel better. Bodkin overhears Onny and loving adventures he offers to go and get the fruit. Whilst up the mountain Bodkin meets a yeti who has a thorn stuck in his foot, Bodkin helps the yeti by pulling the thorn out and in return he helps Bodkin get the fruit and return home quickly.

Gully and Bodkin try to discover what has been chopping down trees all over the forest and find that it is a beaver. Meanwhile Pi, Ruddle and Yam Yam try to clear a blockage in the river but unfortunately this turns out to be the beaver's new home. They then work together to rebuild the home and divert the water around it.

The cows, unhappy with being black and white decide to go to the magical clearing to change colour. Meanwhile Gully panics because they are missing and a search ensues. Gully, Yam Yam and Pi find the cows in the magical clearing, as they change colour from black and white to colorful rainbow cows. Unfortunately this drains the colour from all the other animals in Rainbow's End. Eventually the cows decide they do not like being rainbow coloured because they can't tell each other apart. Everyone goes back to the magical clearing to change the cows back to normal. The status quo returned, everybody is happy.

After hearing a great pirate story from Onny, Yam Yam finds Ruddle and Bodkin about to go on a fishing trip. Yam Yam decides that fishing is something a pirate would do and goes on the trip with them. Whilst fishing, they see a large pirate ship heading towards Rainbow’s End, captained by a parrot and his first mate, the alligator. The parrot turns out to be an old friend of Gully’s and he invites her onto his ship for a meal. Ruddle and Bodkin try to get on the ship and end up stuck in a couple of barrels. Whilst Yam Yam is trying to get on he breaks through the floor causing the ship to leak, which Ruddle has to fix - something he can only do when he gets free of the barrel.

Pi invents a rocket to take himself, Yam Yam and Ruddle to the moon. Yes that’s right, the moon! Whilst they are packing a sheep accidentally climbs on board, unknown to the rest of the crew. After they land on the moon’s surface each of the Boblins goes off to explore the new world, whilst the sheep manages to put on a pair of rollerskates that was packed by Ruddle and starts his very own roller disco by going up and down the moon hills, accidentally knocking Pi onto his back, skating off out of control. Ruddle and Yam Yam go off in the moon buggy and rescue them both in the nick of time, just before they go over a big moon cliff. They all then blast off back to Rainbow’s End just in time for tea and cakes.

Yam Yam meets a rainbow river troll on the way back home from collecting apples for Onny. Yam Yam invites him back home for tea where the troll ends up breaking things accidentally when he only means to help. Onny suggests he breaks some eggs for her as he's so good at breaking things. He turns out to be a master chef and makes the rest of the Boblins a slap up meal for causing so much trouble.

Yam Yam gets bumped on the head by a meteor, which makes him as clever as Pi. They both then solve problems together, but Yam Yam is unhappy because even though he is now clever he has lost his bouncing ability. Pi and Yam Yam invent a bouncing machine together so that Yam Yam can bounce again. The machine goes out of control and in the mayhem that follows he gets a bump on the head again, causing him to lose his new found cleverness, but his bounces have returned!

Pinny is walking along the woodland path and discovers a unicow behind some bushes but before she can say hello, it disappears. Pinny rushes off to tell Onny about her experience only to be told she probably imagined it. Pinny and Yam Yam then go off to play hide and seek and Pinny finds a hollow tree stump to hide in. Yam Yam spends all day trying to find her but to no avail. Pinny gets bored waiting for Yam Yam to find her and decides to come out of hiding, only to realise that she is lost. Just then the unicow appears from the woods and takes Pinny back home through a scientific process known as flight. All the other Boblins see her land with the unicow and now believe her story of seeing one earlier. As a reward for the unicow helping her, Pinny paints his portrait

Marlon the Wizard visits Rainbow’s End to collect some ingredients for one of his spells. He asks Yam Yam to look after his magic wand and spell book whilst he goes away with Onny to collect the gear. Yam Yam plays around with the wand and ends up turning several of the Boblins into animals including turning himself into a frog. The whole thing is resolved when the Wizard arrives back and reverses the spells.