1967

S1.E1 ∙ The Printer and the Bill Poster

Mon, Jan 02, 1967

Mr Munnings is printing some posters advertising the Fire Brigade band's forthcoming concert. Captain Flack tells his men to put the posters up around town but where can they put them? Nick Fisher the bill poster helps them out.

8.3 /10

S1.E2 ∙ Miss Lovelace and the Mayor's Hat

Mon, Jan 09, 1967

On a windy day the Mayor goes to inspect the park and finds a broken bench. Chippy Minton is sent for. Miss Lovelace is walking her dogs in the park and the Mayor's hat gets stuck in a tree. The Fire Brigade come to retrieve it.

8.1 /10

S1.E3 ∙ Mrs Cobbit, the Ice Cream Man, and the Branch

Mon, Jan 16, 1967

The flower seller, Mrs Cobbit, isn't at her usual pitch in the square. Chippy Minton finds that a branch has smashed through her roof damaging her flowers and now Mr Antonio has set up his ice cream van on her spot in the square.

8.1 /10

S1.E4 ∙ Miss Lovelace and the Statue

Mon, Jan 23, 1967

Miss Lovelace asks Chippy Minton to come around and fix her door which is sticking. While he and Nibbs are working on the door her dogs escape into the street causing a truck to swerve and knock the crown off the Queen's statue.

8.4 /10

S1.E5 ∙ Mr Platt and the Painter

Mon, Jan 30, 1967

The Mayor informs Mr Platt the clockmaker that the Town Hall clock is going to be painted. After Mr Harkin finishes the job Mr Troop goes into Mr Platt's shop to tell him that the clock has stopped. What could be stopping it?

8.1 /10

S1.E6 ∙ The Mayor's Birthday

Mon, Feb 06, 1967

Nobody knows what to get the Mayor for his birthday. Chippy sees an artist painting outside his cottage but only later hears that the Mayor would like a painting of the Town Hall. Now where has that artist gone? The search is on.

8.1 /10

S1.E7 ∙ Telephone

Mon, Feb 13, 1967

Chaos ensues when one of Miss Lovelace's dogs falls down a manhole where an engineer is trying to fix the Mayor's phone line. The dog disconnects all the wires and the engineer mixes them up causing everyone to get crossed lines.

8.4 /10

S1.E8 ∙ The Rag and Bone Man

Mon, Feb 20, 1967

The Mayor launches a 'Tidy Up Trumpton' campaign prompting Mrs Minton to clean out Chippy's workshop. She gives an old rocking horse to the rag and bone man but doesn't know that Chippy has been saving all their money in it.

8.7 /10

S1.E9 ∙ The Window Cleaner

Mon, Feb 27, 1967

Mr Robinson the window cleaner arrives in the square. While he is cleaning Miss Lovelace's windows she asks him to have a look at her chimney. But while he's up there Mr Troop removes his ladder leaving him stuck on the roof.

8.3 /10

S1.E10 ∙ Cuthbert's Morning Off

Mon, Mar 06, 1967

Cuthbert, one of the firemen, has got the day off so he is going to meet his Aunt. But when he goes in to Mr Platt's shop to get his watch repaired he misses his Aunt's arrival. The Fire Brigade are called out to find Cuthbert.

8.3 /10

S1.E11 ∙ The Plumber

Mon, Mar 13, 1967

Chippy and Nibbs are called out to the Town Hall to fix some squeaky floorboards. But they are forced to call out the plumber when they find that the water tank is leaking. But it is too big to get through the trapdoor.

8.3 /10

S1.E12 ∙ Pigeons

Mon, Mar 20, 1967

Mr Platt is showing Mrs Cobbit his homing pigeons but Chippy doesn't think that they can fly home. So Mr Platt tells him to take one home and release it. But a storm brings down a tree blocking the road. How can they get help?

8.4 /10

S1.E13 ∙ The Greenhouse

Mon, Mar 27, 1967

It is the day of the annual vegetable show at the park, but the park keeper tells the Mayor about the poor condition of the chimney on his greenhouse. The Borough Surveyor condemns it as unsafe disrupting the holding of the show.

9 /10