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S2.E1 ∙ The Banana Thief

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Benjamin and Otto meet the barrel organ player Gary Grinder and his little monkey Ali Baba who are giving a performance in the Newtown department store. Otto and all the customers really enjoy it. Only the manager of the fruit and vegetable department is annoyed by it. He wants to get rid of Gary Grinder and Ali Baba.

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S2.E2 ∙ The Pink Car

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Benjamin and Otto are given the Mayor's old car and want to repair it. Carla Caramba tells them about a rare, delicate flower in the Botanical Gardens which won't bloom because there are too many fumes from cars in the air. She organizes an inventors' contest for the environment. Benjamin and Otto immediately turn their car into a solar mobile, which is clean.

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S2.E3 ∙ Benjamin Saves the Beavers

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Benjamin and Otto are out on the river in their rowing boat. They find a frightened little beaver and take it to the zoo. But where are the little one's parents? Carla Caramba finds out that Baron Blunderbuss is having a new boathouse built at the river. The beavers' dam has been destroyed and the family has been split up. Benjamin and Otto are able to bring them back together again.

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S2.E4 ∙ The Magic Flower

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Floribus the botanist gives Benjamin his rare "Wake-me-up orchid" to look after. This is a very special flower: whoever smells its scent is immediately wide awake. The two crooks Hinky and Pinky find out about this. They steal the orchid from Benjamin and run off to the harbor where the Maharajah of Rubistan is arriving on his yacht. He is suffering from a rare sleeping sickness.

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S2.E5 ∙ The Squirrel Gang

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Someone is stealing in Newtown Zoo! Otto's peanuts and the Zoo Director's chestnuts have gone. Benjamin and Otto find the thieves: it's three squirrels who are laying in supplies for the winter. No-one can be mad at them for that! But when a silver walnut brooch disappears, which belongs to Baron Blunderbuss, who has his villa right next to the zoo, his butler catches the squirrel gang.

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S2.E6 ∙ Benjamin the Gardener

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

The Zoo Director asks Benjamin and Otto to look after his Aunty Hilda's garden. She has to go away at exactly the same weekend when the grand garden contest is to take place. Benjamin and Otto take on the job because Aunty Hilda would love to win first prize. But then somebody kidnaps Aunty Hilda's frogs and tries to steal her beautiful water lilies.

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S2.E7 ∙ Benjamin and the Blue Elephants

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

A mini flying saucer comes through Benjamin's window. Cap'n Mix and Cap'n Mux, two little blue elephants are on a mission to find sugar lumps because there's no food on their planet Blue Elephantos: They can't dig out any more sugar because there's an enormous monster in the mine. Benjamin and Otto aren't afraid. They fly off to Blue Elephantos to chase away the monster.

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S2.E8 ∙ The Petting Zoo

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Benjamin and Otto go for a picnic and meet an old shepherd who wants to retire and sell his flock to Mr. Scratchsocks, the woolly sock manufacturer. Because the two of them are really fond of the little lamb Spotty, the shepherd gives it to them as a gift. Spotty becomes a big star in the zoo. All the children want to cuddle him and pet him.

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S2.E9 ∙ Benjamin and the Polar Bear Babies

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

The photographer Fred Flash borrows the baby polar bears from the zoo to take advertising photos for an ice-cream company. Benjamin and Otto go with the photographer and keep watch over the cheeky little bears. But once when they're not looking the baby polar bears escape and create merry havoc in Newtown.

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S2.E10 ∙ The Rainbow Festival

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Miserable weather and a miserable atmosphere in Newtown Zoo. When Benjamin sees a rainbow, he gets the idea to paint the zoo in bright colors to put everybody in a good mood. Together with Otto and lots of the animals he paints the enclosures in gay colors. But all their work is in vain because the paint isn't waterproof. During the night, the rain washes it all away again.

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