Q Pootle 5, Pootle Phone Home

When Oopsy gets a telephone call from Q Pootle 5 she is very excited. She's never had a phone call before. Pootle says that he has called her, but she's always out, usually at this house. Oopsy is delighted and calls her friends. Groobie, terrified that it might be his Auntie Marjorie calling, isn't keen to talk on the phone. However, Eddi, and particularly Stella, are very taken with the telephone. Eventually the novelty of answering Stella's calls wears off, and Oopsy decides not to answer the telephone anymore. But, maybe she should answer one more call – Pootle and Eddi have gone on an expedition, and they're stuck in a canyon on a faraway planet, with only a telephone box for help…

Stella returns from a trip in space with some special space seeds, and she gives one each to all her friends. Stella, is disappointed that her own seed only produces a small spindly stem, and similarly Pootle, Oopsy and Groobie don't fare much better. But, mysteriously, Eddi's plant is flourishing – he has been singing as he repairs his spaceship and the plants grow when they hear music!

A thick fog has enveloped Okidoki and is causing problems. Eddi is lost, Pootle can't fly his spaceship and Bud-D can't see anything. Groobie sets up a light house and Stella's bagpipes are used to guide people to the shack.

Q Pootle 5 and Oopsy are racing through space when they get an emergency call from Groobie asking for Q Pootle 5's help. He is convinced there is an Eight Eyed Thingy From Galaxy 7 in his store cupboard, it blinked at him, twice. When Q Pootle 5 and Oopsy arrive at the shack it is up to them to flush out the Thingy. But Pootle isn't convinced it's a thingy at all – with good reason. The Eight Eyed Thingy turns out to be some very friendly space mice looking for Groobie's stinky cheese.

When Groobie's new magnet arrives (the Galacto 9000XL) he is very excited and he immediately sets off for Q Pootle 5's house to pick up an old rocket motor. However. Groobie hasn't realised that he accidentally switched the magnet on before setting off, and it is now picking up anything metal along the way – including Stella's watering can and Eddi's biphonium. When Groobie arrives at Pootle's he accidentally picks up Pootle's house and takes off, with Pootle and Oopsy still in it! In an act of daring, Pootle climbs out of his home at high altitude and climbs the rope attached to Groobie's spaceship. Groobie is astonished to see Pootle at the window – and after a moment of panic, takes Pootle and Oopsy back home – but not quite where Oopsy expected.

When Eddi puts some new oil in the engines of his spaceship it causes them to jolt, backfire and make very peculiar noises. Q Pootle 5 and his friends try to cure the spaceship of what is a very strange case of hiccups. They try rubbing its back, hanging upside down, even balancing something on its nose, but nothing seems to work. Inspiration strikes Pootle, maybe Planet Dave can help?

When Eddi visits Stella she tells him she is baking a cake for Ray's special day. Say no more says Eddi – he thinks it's Ray's birthday – but he's forgotten! Immediately he tells Groobie and Bud-D who didn't know it was Ray's birthday either. Eddi dashes off to find some presents for Ray, meanwhile Groobie writes a birthday song for Ray and sings it to Bud-D. When Q Pootle 5 arrives at the shack, he hears Groobie singing to Bud-D and he thinks it must be Bud-D's birthday! Pootle dashes over to Stella to tell her and Oopsy and they also organise some presents. The friends all meet on Planet Dave to wish both Ray and Bud-D a happy birthday, but it's neither of their birthdays. Now they have loads of presents but not birthday to celebrate. But wait, when was Planet Dave's last birthday?

When Q Pootle 5's spaceship breaks down in space it dives towards Okidoki and crash lands in the desert. Back at his house a forlorn Pootle tells Oopsy that he is thinking of getting a new spaceship. Oopsy is shocked at the thought and tries to persude Pootle to think again. However, Pootle has decided and starts his quest for a new spaceship by trying out his friends spaceships. But, he can't decide which spaceship to go for, and so he goes to see Groobie with a picture of what he would like his ideal spaceship to look like. As luck would have it, Groobie and Bud-D have been working on a spaceship in the yard, which fits the bill. Pootle and his friends take a look at the new spaceship – it's Pootle's old spaceship with a few modifications and some enormous new boosters. Pootle is thrilled to have his old spaceship as his new spaceship. He takes to the skies in his "new" spaceship, where Groobie's modifications promptly fall off. But Pootle doesn't care – he has his trusty spaceship back.