The Gas House Kids take a job delivering an automobile to California, unaware that it is a stolen car. Upon their arrival, they discover a hot-car ring run by a crooked ranch foreman with lecherous designs on the rancher's daughter.
Vitello is brimming with energy and has good friends in Max and Hasse, but misses having a father in his life, so he decides to go off in search of one, only to find he isn't the person Vitello was quite expecting.
The children are playing outside and Robert says he wants to know what happens at nighttime. Barney has the kids stay up all night to find out how that is.
As Moomintroll gets wasp-stung Moominpappa wants to cheer him up by telling about his own adventurous youth. Pappa tells about how he escapes from an orphanage and about his historic meeting with an inventor called Hodgkins.
This is about a sailor and his adventurous journey while sailing the world all alone.
