COME ALONG FOR SOME PEGGY TALES:
1. "Castaway Moose"
In the pilot episode, Peggy is helping Nanny polish the glass on the lighthouse lamp, and can't wait to light it up. However, Nanny says she only lights the lamp when it's foggy or dark. Frustrated, Peggy heads outside, followed by Droolie, carrying her fiddle to her to cheer her up. Peggy is about to play when she hears a strange moaning sound echoing through the harbour…. What in Little Harbour was that?! Peggy summons Lops and Duff with her fiddle and together the travel on Walter the Whale to Blueberry Island to investigate.
Once on the island they trek with trepidation as they get closer to the source of the strange sound. As they get within a stones throw, and are arguing about who should lead the rest of the way, Droolie crashes through the bushes and discovers… it's Bruce the Moose! As Duff and Lops dive into the mouth-watering patch of blueberries, Bruce explains why he's in distress. It seems he wandered over to the island to have a nice breakfast of blueberries, but when he tried to get back, the water had moved and covered his trail. Now he's stuck on the island and can't get back home!
Peggy thinks they'll just get Bruce back the same way they came – on Walter's back! So the gang try to get Bruce up on Walter, but his hooves are too slippery, and mightily as he tries, Bruce fails miserably at mounting Walter's tail. They even try to bailing the water out of the bay, but it just keeps coming back. Then Peggy notices that some of the buoys have stopped dinging and she realizes that water is moving back out again. Peggy knows a little about 'the tides' from Nanny, but with a closer look and listen, and wee bit o' patience maybe she'll find out how they work, and maybe just get a chance to light up that lamp, too!
2. "Unbearable Bonnie"
Peggy is all excited about staying up until midnight and watching the SS Bignose, the most famous tall ship on the high seas, sail into Little Harbour under the moonlight. Unfortunately, Mom and Dad say she has a bedtime and she needs to stick to it. The ship will still be in the harbour in the morning, hopefully. "But-but it won't be the same!" While Peggy dwells on the unfairness of it all, she hears an odd growling sound coming from the forest.
Peggy summons her friends and goes to investigate, hoping to get a picture of the mysterious growler with Nanny's camera. They follow the echoing sound through the hummocks, rocks, and into the caves, startling Bonnie, who seems uncharacteristically cranky. Bonnie doesn't know anything about any sound, though. They follow some tracks which lead them right back to Bonnie's cave. And then they hear the sound again! Lops envisions a great big slobbering monster has got hold of Bonnie! Peggy says that's just his imagination running wild. Lops points at a giant shadow on a cave wall. "Then what's that?!" The eerie sound gets louder and more menacing, until Lops and Duff are cowering behind Peggy. Droolie forges ahead and right into… Bonnie, who lets out a great big growly yawn! They realize its Bonnie who's been making the noise all along!
You see, Bonnie really needs to hibernate for the winter, but she doesn't want to miss out on seeing the S.S. Bignose! So it's up to Peggy to come up with a plan to capture the Bignose setting sail at sunrise with Nanny's camera, and saving it for Bonnie to see when she awakes from her big sleep. And the only way she'll be up on time for that is if Peggy gets her pig-tails on her pillow in that dory-shaped bed, lickety-split!
3. "It's the Jinker!"
Local grumpy fisherman, Foggy Bill, tells Peggy his lack of luck at fishing is due to a 'Jinker.' Nanny further explains to Peggy that a Jinker is supposedly someone who brings bad luck to others. To Nanny, though, this is all just a bunch of 'chuckle-headed nonsense.' Peggy isn't so sure about that, especially when, looking back at Foggy Bill, she trips over her own feet and soils her favourite yellow sweater! Ol' Bill's got a Jinker following him for sure! Then Peggy hears a strange rustling and sighing sound.
Peggy summons her friends and search for the source of the sound, and finally find Lops all tangled up in some fishing nets that were set out to dry! Once free, Lops explains that he's having the worst day ever -- he's lost his lucky starfish he carries with him everywhere he goes, and now everything seems to be going wrong! Peggy is just learning about this whole luck thing, but she's beginning to think it's pretty important. So they help Lops in his search for his lucky starfish.
Will Lops get his good luck back? Will Foggy Bill ever get a tug on that fishing line? Will the Jinker be revealed? Peggy and her harbour friends are about to find out!
4. "Listen Up, Peggy"
For a little girl who listens with her heart, Peggy isn't listening to others very well. Peggy pops out of her dory-shaped bed one morning to find that she can't find anything! Her favourite rubber boots have gone missing, and her favourite sweater is gone, too. "Naaaannny!" Peggy bellows for her Nanny, who is down in the yard hanging up Peggy's sweater on the line to dry, and has her boots propped up on two fishing poles. It's washing day. She told Peggy that yesterday. Wasn't she listening? Peggy frowns. She's the best listener in the world! Nanny must be mistaken… or is she?
A strange scrabbling sound in the treetops sends Peggy summoning her friends to go investigate. Bruce arrives in a dither about someone or something invading his blueberry patch. He's spotted some tracks and wants to follow them, but not by himself. Peggy is barely listening to him, as she's got her own agenda. She's off to find the strange sound in the forest. "Listen! There it is again!" Soon, Peggy has them dashing off madly in all directions trying to find the source, but they're having no luck at all. Tired of being ignored, Bruce heads off to find the blueberry scoffer on his own, without Peggy even so much as noticing.
Once the rest of the gang get her attention, Peggy realizes that the strange scratchy, growly, scrabbling sound is coming from Bruce's favourite berry patch! "Bruce, is th-th-that you?" Not likely. Now Peggy is worried for her friend, and really wishes she would have listened to Bruce more closely in the first place!
SOME OTHER FISHY TALES IN THE WORKS:
5. "Splish-Splash, Who's Taking a Bath?"
Peggy's being a little bull-headed only seeing one way to do things – her way! A strange splashy-splashy sound gets her on an adventure to discover a salmon, that isn't strong enough to make it upstream with the rest of its school. So the gang create steps with rocks so the salmon can jump from one rock step to another, making it easy for it to get up stream. Peggy takes her newfound open-mindedness back to the lighthouse where she finds there's more than one way to get the job done!
6. "Blueberry Festival Blues"
Peggy's upset that she's broken a string on her fiddle, and they're special strings from the mainland, so she won't be able to play at the Blueberry Festival later that day. Then she hears an unfamiliar sound, summons her friends, and discovers Duff, who's upset that his nest was blown away in a storm, and the special sea-grass he used to make it is nowhere to be found. Peggy helps Duff learn that you can't always have what you want, but you can always make do with what you've got. So with a little seaweed, some yarn, and a tuft of hair from Bruce's mane, Duff has the next best thing, and, in turn, Peggy finds that the same holds true for her fiddle strings!
