64 Zoo Lane

- Season 1

(1999)

Nelson the loveable elephant has his story told about his adventures through the garden of Vascodilation to the desert of redfifulaty.

Kevin is a friendly little crocodile who likes to play with his friends Doris the Duck and Toby the Turtle. Victor on the other hand is a big, nasty crocodile. He lures Kevin away from his friends and promises to teach him a few real crocodile tricks such as grinning maliciously, looking mean and tail slamming. Little Kevin is keen to learn, but the harder he tries to be mean and nasty the more he fails. Doris and Toby fall over laughing when Kevin demonstrates his 'mean grin'. After three failed attempts Victor decides it's time for a demonstration. He catches Toby's...

Joey's dad is a champion bouncer. But when the time comes for the little kangaroos to leave their mums' pouches it becomes clear that Joey can't jump! He just falls flat on the ground whenever he tries. Jimmy and the triplets make fun of him. In the middle of the night Joey wanders to a billabong feeling sad and lonely. Suddenly Rolf the Frog jumps from the pool. The crazy frog manages to cheer Joey up with his jokes. He offers Joey his magic jumping boots. Joey tries the boots on and . . . yes he can jump! Joey's mum and dad are over the moon. At the Junior Jump ...

Snowbert lives all alone on the North Pole. He makes snow sculptures and talks to himself a lot. Sometimes he longs for a friend. One morning while Snowbert is fishing a seal pops up in the ice hole. Sidney the Seal is wary of Snowbert first but soon the two become friends. Every day they meet at the ice hole. They play dominoes together, build snow sculptures and have snowball fights. Snowbert is very happy to have a friend. But then one frosty morning the ice hole has closed. Snowbert searches everywhere for Sidney calling his name in vain. When night falls he ...

Henrietta isn't like the other hippos : She's hairy! The others always laugh at her and this makes her feel very sad so she decides to leave the river and look for a new place to live. First Henrietta tries the desert, but it's too hot for her. Dennis the Dromedary takes her to the jungle. Henrietta likes the sounds and colours of the jungle. But then she gets stuck in the giant web of Lot's O' Legs the spider and has to be rescued by Giggles and Tickles who take her to the Blue Mountain. Henrietta climbs over some huge boulders to the top of the mountain. There she ...

Giggles and Tickles love to play tricks on the other animals. First they tell Raymond the Crocodile that there's a pretty crocodilla in the river. Raymond starts to chat up a painted log. Then they slip a coconut into Audrey 's nest. Audrey is a bit surprised at the sight of this hairy egg but she tries to hatch it anyway. Next they tease Zed the Zebra. Finally the monkeys move on to their 'waiting around the rock trick.' They soon have lots of animals waiting for a surprise behind a rock. After a few hours the animals get impatient. Nelson asks where the surprise is....

Zed knows he is the fastest animal in Africa. After all he's the only one with 'go faster' stripes! When the other animals challenge him to take part in an obstacle course he is confident he will win. Zed, Nelson, Nathalie, Herbert, Ronald and Georgina line up for the race. The Snip Snip Bird gives the start signal. Then he flies up in the air to comment on the race. Zed has taken the lead, but after little while he has to stop in front of a dense forest. Nelson the Elephant bulldozes the forest flattening all the trees. The second obstacle is a river. The animals ...

Jazz the Jaguar, Leopoldo the Llama and Dudley the Sloth are playing football. Adam wants to play too but the others say he's too small, so he just sits on the side and watches the game. Jazz and Leopoldo juggle with the water melon like top class South American footballers. Dudley is hanging down from a makeshift goal. He only moves his paws but never misses a ball. But then the watermelon is shattered when it lands on a cactus. Jazz has an idea. He turns to Adam. 'You wanted to play football didn't you? Well now you can. You can be the ball'. This wasn't quite what ...

Georgina is a multi-talented Giraffe. She performs for the other animals: singing, dancing, doing all sorts of acrobatic tricks with her long neck. But when she sings ' I'm so clever, I'm the best, I'm much better than the rest, LALALA!' she not only manages to get a knot in her neck but she also receives very little sympathy from the other animals. Only Molly the Hippo feels sorry for her. After a few unsuccessful attempts to untie the knot Giggles and Tickles take Georgina to their Uncle Gordon who is a knot doctor. Various animals with various knots are queuing in ...

All the animals in the Savannah are bored, especially Herbert. Out of frustration the warthog kicks a small rock. It makes a pleasing sound. Herbert tries to tap different sized rocks slowly building up a rhythmical pattern. Music has been invented! Zed the Zebra joins in shaking two gourds. Aardvark uses his long snout as a trumpet. The musical trio ask Reginald the Lion if he wants to join in too, but Reginald is not interested. He wants to be left alone while he is doing a nap. Herbert, Zed and Aardvark move a bit further away and resume their practice session. ...

Pauline isn't having much luck catching fish in the lake. The fishes are just too clever and slippery. Then she spots a stork who has left his catch unguarded. Pauline takes the fish and hides it in her bill. 'I'll eat this now and catch another fish for stork later.' Pauline flies away with the fish in her bill. A little later she spots Herbert the Warthog who is having a bite of a big juicy water melon. Pauline distracts Herbert and takes off with the watermelon. Later still she spots Reginald the Lion who's holding a chunky piece of meat. Pauline grabs it too. Her ...

Once every seven years in the savannah the Juicy Fruit Tree bears fruit. The single fruit is legendary amongst the animals for its bigness and nobbliness and deliciousness. Unfortunately the favourite foodie treat of every animal is only ripe for one day, so when a flower appears on the tree word travels fast! All the animals get really excited. One morning the animals awaken to the most wonderful smell. As they wonder what it is, TOBY the TORTOISE reminds them that it's the one day of the year when they can gather the delicious fruit. Each of the animals races off in...

NELSON the ELEPHANT is frustrated with doing elephanty things. One day, when he observes a little weaverbird, he decides he wants to be a bird too and learn to fly! He sets about his self-imposed task with extreme dedication and seriousness. Unfortunately, flapping his ears and jumping doesn't work. Sometime later as Nelson walks through the savannah in a sulk he bumps into a Helicopter tree dislodging a whirling Helicopter tree seed which gives Nelson a brainwave.The recently inspired NELSON builds a flying rotor made from three banana leaves and attaches it to a ...

A thunder and rain storm sweeps across the plains one night. The animals take shelter beneath rocky outcrops, amid the long grasses, in the trees, and watch with the storm. Toby the Tortoise is absolutely petrified. One especially loud crack explodes right overhead. He ducks inside his shell, shuddering with fear and vowing never to come out of it again.The next morning Doris the Duck and Kevin the Crocodile call on Toby but he doesn't respond to them. They wonder at his silent and still shell. Audrey sends the other animals away then she asks Toby if the reason why ...

AUDREY the OSTRICH is hatching an egg. Unfortunately, there are things she needs to do. She decides to find an 'egg- sitter' to look after her egg while she's away. She spots NELSON and goes over to ask if he would mind helping. NELSON is only too pleased to oblige.NELSON agrees to be gentle with the egg and AUDREY exits. NELSON realises that he isn't going to help by sitting on the egg so he goes off to find someone more suitable. NELSON asks RONALD the RHINO if he could possibly borrow his TIC TIC BIRD for a while. At first RONALD is not too sure, but when NELSON ...

GARY the Dromedary lives in the desert with his uncle DENNIS. He is always building sandcastles and asking his Uncle difficult questions like 'What's behind the horizon?' 'More sand and more desert, I suppose', replies DENNIS who isn't really interested. He's happy in the desert just looking at the sand. One day GARY's curiosity takes over. GARY asks his uncle for permission to go and see what's behind the horizon.. Although DENNIS doesn't want to join GARY he does give his permission: 'But make sure you're back before dinner time!'.

Lucy tells the animals she has been to her first ballet lesson. She twirls around in the zoo enthusiastically. Lucy grabs Boris' paw and invites the (reluctant) bear for a dance. This reminds Molly the Hippo of her first ballet lesson. 'You, ballet?' The other animals look at her in disbelief. 'Oh yes', says Molly, 'Natalie the Antelope taught me how to dance!' Best friends Nathalie the antelope and Molly the hippo like to dance together across the plains. Nathalie moves with grace and elegance. Molly crashes about like a bull in a china shop - crushing plants in her ...

Beneath a Gum tree near a large magical red rock in the middle of a Great plain lives a very elderly, venerable old Wombat called Wally (or Koala bear called Ken). Wally is slow, chews eucalyptus saves everything and does weird little rain dances. Wally seems to be a bit of a stick in the mud, he's always telling the younger animals (Joey the kangaroo Rolf the frog) off for wasting their time for indulging in water fights etc Joey and friends find the old wombat very amusing and make fun of him. (imitating his dance etc,). The summer continues and the sun shines and ...

The jungle is looking very untidy. HERBERT the WARTHOG thinks it looks OK, but then he would, wouldn't he? When NELSON the ELEPHANT slips on a banana skin, GEORGINA the GIRAFFE decides that the mess should be tidied up, because litter not only looks a mess, it's dangerous as well. All the animals volunteer to help with the big tidy-up, even HERBERT, who loves the thought of a day spent rooting around knee deep in rubbish. The animals follow the trail of rubbish and discover it leads to GIGGLES' and TICKLES' tree home. Banana skins, branches, leaves, rotting fruit and ...

Lucy arrives feeling rather sorry for herself. She has broken off a friendship with her best friend, Trudy. The animals ask why. Lucy explains that Trudy is stupid and clumsy and broke her favourite pencil-sharpener. Boris the Bear remembers someone else who was clumsy... Melanie the Moose. One day Melanie saw some elks frolicking about in a clearing. She marvelled at the finesse and majesty of their movements, and decided to try a bit of frolicking herself. She jumped about in an ungainly manner, leaping ever higher into the trees. Then she accidentally banged into ...

NELSON the ELEPHANT is frustrated with doing elephanty things. One day, when he observes a little weaverbird, he decides he wants to be a bird too and learn to fly! He sets about his self-imposed task with extreme dedication and seriousness. Unfortunately, flapping his ears and jumping doesn't work. Sometime later as Nelson walks through the savannah in a sulk he bumps into a Helicopter tree dislodging a whirling Helicopter tree seed which gives Nelson a brainwave.The recently inspired NELSON builds a flying rotor made from three banana leaves and attaches it to a ...

Melanie, Boris and Randolph take pause to admire the work Beverly's done on the dam. This inspires her to boast: you ain't seen nothing yet! She's going to build the biggest, greatest, grandest log dam in the world! The other animals laugh ruefully. Isn't it just like Beverly to go OTT? Then they resume their own activities - only to have their trees removed mid-scratch/mid-forage/mid-stuff by Beverly. Hey! Not fair, they exclaim. But Beverly's far too busy to take heed of their complaints and carries on chewing down trees, hollering 'Timber!' non-stop. Unable to get ...

DORIS the duck, TOBY the Tortoise and KEVIN the Crocodile are friends. One day they play some sort of role play game together. Doris pretends she's a princess. She's in her element because she can boss the others around. In fact she enjoys herself so much that when the game is over she decides that from now on she's not Doris the Duck but the Zambam Princess! The others are to do as she says! Toby and Kevin are not very pleased but they don't dare protest and so go along with Doris. They are ordered to collect pretty lotus flowers for Doris and nice things to eat etc....

In a burrow in a sandy hill, where the desert meets the jungle, lives ESMERALDA the Snake. She's a house-proud creature: Always dusting and tidying up her underground home. On the other side of the jungle, in another burrow, near the Savannah, lives HERBERT the Warthog.HERBERT is not so tidy. . . One day disaster strikes. There's been a terrible downpour and HERBERT's home has been flooded. HERBERT tries to dig a new burrow, but it's no use. The ground is just too muddy. It looks like he will have to find a temporary home. GIGGLES and TICKLES offer HERBERT a home in ...

Molly is waiting by the Baobab tree. She is supposed to be meeting her young nephew, Eddie, but where is he? Eddie trundles happily across the savannah, narrowly (and very fortuitously) avoiding accidents: He skips along a vine bridge swinging over a perilous gorge, hops between two big rocks, and then slides down a large slide which turns out to be an unfriendly snake. He lands straight at Audrey's feet and bursts into tears. Audrey tells Eddie not too slide down snakes. They're dangerous!

HERBERT the WARTHOG is having a particularly enjoyable day. He is covered in mud, dust and dirt and is running about digging holes and scratching against trees. Trotting contentedly home, he meets several of his neighbours. Each seems to be making a great deal of effort grooming and preening themselves . HERBERT examines his own appearance and begins to wonder if he hasn't let himself go a little too far this time, and maybe that's why he is being excluded. When the animals decide to throw a party, HERBERT goes to AUDREY the OSTRICH for some advice. She advises him to...