Balamory (series 4)

This article contains episode information and plot summaries[1][2][3] from the television show Balamory for season Four. Season Four was broadcast in 2005.


Cast

Main cast are listed on the main Balamory page.

Episodes

Season four
Title Description Original air date
Auntie's Bloomers Archie's kilt is a bit draughty. 4 April 2005
The Eagle Flies PC Plum offers to get a photograph of an eagle for Miss Hoolie to show the kids in the nursery. However, he's having a busy day and needs help to find the elusive eagle. 5 April 2005
Plum Abroad PC Plum goes on holiday. 6 April 2005
The Game Show Balamory has been asked to make up a team for the television game show Do The Job. PC Plum thinks it will be easy to organise. 7 April 2005
The Wedding Katie and Roddy are getting married and PC Plum is the best man. Archie is driving them to Abbey Island and Edie is recording the wedding but when Archie's car breaks down outside the police station, it is up to Edie to save the day. 8 April 2005
Woodwork Spencer teaches Edie how to carve a wooden puppet like Pinocchio. 11 April 2005
The Time Machine Archie tries to build a time machine to help teach the children about olden days. 12 April 2005
Signing PC Plum is taking the nursery on a nature walk, so he needs to find a new way to communicate to keep everyone quiet. Learning sign language seems to be the best option. 13 April 2005
The Falkirk Wheel Archie makes an indoor canal so the children can sail boats on it. 14 April 2005
The Snowman It's snowing in Balamory but one child has a cold. Josie Jump and Miss Hoolie come up with a novel way of entertaining him. They want to go tobogganing with Miss Hoolie and Josie, while Spencer paints a picture of the get well soon card. Archie is staying is the castle, Miss Hoolie is absent in the snow. Earlier on in this wintry episode, Miss Hoolie is a great day for today, Miss Hoolie is made a wonderful snowman by the journey longer.
  • In this episode Miss Hoolie sings the coloured house song for the first time
15 April 2005
Lobster Fishing Miss Hoolie is playing a game of hunt the thimble with the children, which leads to Josie organising an unusual treasure hunt with a little help from PC Plum and a lobster fisherman. Josie learns about how floats help fishermen locate their lobster pots. 18 April 2005
The Portrait Gallery Archie and Spencer are taking the nursery children to see a painting gallery in the Balamory Art Museum. 19 April 2005
The Slide Projector PC Plum is very keen to give a lecture on the history of the bicycle, but who can make his lecture an exciting event for all? 20 April 2005
Harvest Edie helps the children celebrate the harvest. 21 April 2005
Truck Parade A trip is organised to the mainland to see a big truck parade, but they accidentally leave Spencer behind as he wants to come too. 22 April 2005
Big Cats Miss Hoolie's cat proves less than cooperative when Spencer tries to paint him for the children. 25 April 2005
The Orchestra Suzie needs help learning to play the cymbals in the orchestra. 26 April 2005
How Far Archie wonders who will be able to put his fabulous new measuring invention to good use 27 April 2005
The Map Edie is taking all the children on a tour around the island but how can she keep everyone interested as she drives? It's not as easy as it looks! 28 April 2005
I Went to School One Morning Having a picnic at the top of Balamory hill sounds like fun, but getting there could be a bit of a problem. How will they do it? 29 April 2005
The Yoghurt Pot Bird Suzie gets in a muddle as she tries to help Edie teach the children about birds-of-paradise. 2 May 2005
The Allotment Josie does some gardening, but can't find any vegetables. 3 May 2005
Too Much of a Good Thing Miss Hoolie has got too many tin foil trays in her cupboard. When Archie is unable to find a use for them all, who will come to the rescue? 4 May 2005
Continental Shopping A new product range is introduced in Pocket 'n' Sweet, but will it prove a success? 5 May 2005
Carnival There is a carnival in the big city on the mainland, but what will Miss Hoolie wear? 6 May 2005
Slippy The snow makes everything slippery; Spencer visits Archie to make a sledge. Back in the nursery, it’s time for music. 9 May 2005
The Optician Archie takes a memorable trip to the optician. 10 May 2005
Bonjour Miss Hoolie gets help teaching French. 11 May 2005
Worried Plum Plum has a day of worrying about everything, so who can make him a little less glum? 12 May 2005
Feeling at Home Miss Hoolie has friends staying with her, so she organises a special picnic for them to feel at home. 13 May 2005
Musical Boats Edie has a cold and has to stay at home, but an annoying noise outside stops her getting any peace. 16 May 2005
Shapes and Patterns Edie has a brilliant day out at the mosque with Spencer and the children. 17 May 2005
Hello Day It's the Hello Day at Balamory Nursery, so Suzie takes Penny along to get her away from her personal stereo. 9 April 2005
Butterflies Josie wants to teach the children a butterfly dance, and Edie suggests they try to catch a butterfly with nets. PC Plum intervenes to protect the butterflies from harm, and has an alternative for Josie. 18 May 2005
The Giggler Granny McLeod comes to visit the children in the nursery, and keeps them laughing. 19 May 2005
Highland Games Archie asks Spencer to make some leaflets for the Balamory Highland Games. He goes back to his castle and finds his latest invention there. He tries to use it so everyone at the games will hear about them. But his invention is too big, so Edie carries it in her bus to the Highland Games.

(Trivia: This was actually filmed at the Callander Highland Games.)

20 May 2005
Colour Surprise Day Archie invents a special 'colour surprise' machine to the delight of the children in the nursery. 23 May 2005
Video Guide Penny and Suzie create a video guide for their shop. The shop has a lot of visitors, all with questions about the island, so Suzie and Penny come up with a way of providing all the answers 24 May 2005
Shadows Josie Jump asks PC Plum to investigate when things go bump in the night during a windy spell 25 May 2005
Holiday Snaps Josie says she has photos of her journey and comes up with an idea for a game of Snap. So Josie goes to see Edie. 26 May 2005
Roller Skates Spencer is trying to ride around Balamory in roller skates, so Miss Hoolie helps him. 27 May 2005
The Loch Bala Monster Spencer wants to paint a picture of the Loch Bala Monster but how will he find it? 30 May 2005
ABC Song It's a snowy day in Balamory so PC Plum banishes the winter blues by relieving his summer holiday. 31 May 2005
Moving House Penny Pocket shows how to organise a house move, but will everything work out? 1 June 2005
The Piano Edie has came back from her holiday in Paris, France, together with Archie and gives everyone at the nursery souvenirs she bought while she was there. She explains to Miss Hoolie that she recorded Archie's experiences in Paris but needs vocals from him in order to complete the video which she plans to show to the children. But while working on the video, Edie accidentally dropped her screwdriver which presses a button that wipes out all the sound in the video, leaving it "sound-less" for the children to hear. This is when Spencer comes to the rescue and uses music instead to make up for the sound wiped out from the mini-accident. That way the children can enjoy the Paris video happily. 2 June 2005
Wheelie Day Josie uses a talking device to help people hear her on Wheelie Day but gets a bit muddled, so Edie volunteers to help her out. 3 June 2005
Snap Josie is going to play a quiet game of cards with the children, but when she goes to borrow a pack of cards from Edie, some of the cards are missing. 6 June 2005
Mix Up Suzie and Penny reorganise the shop, but some crossed wires causes problems when the fruit delivery to the shop goes wrong. 7 June 2005
Phone Frazzled Suzie has a new mobile phone, which leads to some problems. The phone becomes more important than the people around her! 8 June 2005
Nature Symphony It's raining so PC Plum has to cancel a nature walk. Instead he comes up with another way of helping the children enjoy the magic of nature. 9 June 2005
The Sniff Along Archie is looking after Sharon and Christopher but he has some shopping to do. PC Plum helps Archie to make shopping fun for the children. 10 June 2005
Trip to the Moon Edie wants to take the children on a trip to the moon. 13 June 2005
Hot Sun It's a very hot day, so Archie invents a machine to keep everybody cool, but Edie has other plans. 14 June 2005
Wrong End of the Stick PC Plum gets the wrong end of the stick. 15 June 2005
Ballroom Dancing Josie Jump decides to teach Ballroom Dancing in her dance class, she tries to dance with Miss Hoolie but she steps on her toes, she then tries PC Plum but she then steps on her toes. 16 June 2005
Sand Sculpture Festival There is a sand sculpture festival at the beach and Spencer is organising it. He goes to the cafe to catch the bus to go and then he realises that he forgot to organise the bus. He goes to Edie McCredie to organise the bus but she is planning to go windsurfing. After telling her about the food. She agrees to organise the bus. When they get back to the cafe. Spencer realises that he forgot to organise the food. It is up to Suzie Sweet to help. 17 June 2005
The Oil Platform Christopher's uncle cannot come to his birthday party because he is away at sea on an oil rig. Edie comes to the rescue so that everyone can take part in the celebrations 20 June 2005
Plum the Musical Josie is organising a musical, but which famous resident of Balamory will feature in it? 21 June 2005
The Cinema When Edie and Spencer arrive home from Spain, everyone wants to see Edie's latest home movie. So many people are keen to see it and that is where the problems start. 22 June 2005
Fingal's Cave Archie and Miss Hoolie visit Fingal's cave, but is Archie fully prepared for the trip? 23 June 2005
The Prize PC Plum is in charge of running the Balamory Yacht Race. 24 June 2005
Nuts Someone or something is stealing all of the bird nuts from the bird table for all the birds residing at the nursery. Josie Jump decides to help Miss Hoolie buy some more bird nuts at Pocket & Sweets and feed the birds with the nuts. But when the bird nuts are stolen again, PC Plum investigates the mystery and finds out that a squirrel is taking all of the bird nuts. So he tells Josie and Miss Hoolie to use a bird feeder to prevent the squirrel from stealing the nuts and for everyone to enjoy birdwatching at the nursery. At the end of the day, Miss Hoolie closes the school cupboard and gets the nuts. 25 June 2005
The Top Man PC Plum has a police man visiting from Canada but wonders how he can take the Mountie on patrol, so he goes and sees Archie to make another bike. Last in the series. 26 June 2005

References

  1. "Balamory - CBeebies - BBC". www.bbc.co.uk.
  2. "Balamory". locatetv.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Locate TV Listings
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