12x1 - The Sink

September 11, 1978

12x2 - Episode 2

September 12, 1978

12x3 - Let's Make an Opera

September 13, 1978

It all started as a game - instead of talking to each other you sing to each other. This leads to a Pipkins play, with singing instead of talking...

12x4 - Episode 4

September 14, 1978

12x5 - Episode 5

September 15, 1978

12x6 - Gnome Sweet Gnome

October 16, 1978

12x7 - Episode 7

October 17, 1978

12x8 - Hartley and Granny Atlas

October 18, 1978

Grannies aren't usually strong enough to lift heavy weights - even if they can roller skate. But Hartley discovers differently in this episode...

12x9 - The Broom Seller

October 19, 1978

Playing at market stalls is fun. It's even more enjoyable if someone else plays at buying items from your market stall. But no one seems prepared to buy anything from Hartley...

12x10 - Bedtime

October 20, 1978

Topov thinks it's unfair that he should have to go to bed first just because he is the youngest. But he soon changes his mind when he goes to bed late...

12x11 - Hartley and the Dog

November 20, 1978

Not every Hare has a dog in the yard, but Hartley finds one there. He decides that if the dog is to come and live with them, it might as well be trained to do something useful...

12x12 - Episode 12

November 21, 1978

12x13 - Episode 13

November 22, 1978

12x14 - Uncle and the Marrow

November 23, 1978

This was nearly the sad tale about the fate of the most beautiful marrow ever grown by Hartley's Uncle. But as it turns out, Uncle makes one of the most amazing and wonderful discoveries of his life...

12x15 - The Royal Astronomer

November 24, 1978

Hartley wants to be an astronomer, but there is more to it than looking through a telescope. You have to know when to look, where to look and it's better if you're not helped by Topov...

12x16 - Episode 16

December 25, 1978

12x17 - Shadows

December 26, 1978

Shadows and strange noises can be frightening, unless you know what they are...

12x18 - Weighing Tortoise

December 27, 1978

Tortoise has his own lift, but something has happened to it. Hartley cannot turn the handle...

12x19 - Hartley Laureate

December 28, 1978

Hartley is a poet, so the whole world has to know it, and he soon becomes very boring...

12x20 - Someone's Birthday

December 29, 1978

Whose birthday is it ? Even if Hartley can find out, how can he provide a present if no one has any money ?