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Wee Willy the imp was a Silly Billy ickle soul. Scared of how own reflection, he was our early warning system - until he got impudent! This episode is a very gentle tale of running like the clappers. Quiet clappers. Something like that.

Fanar, who earned the nickname Kadunk, was a wheel engineer. Wheels, before what we know them as, were treacherous, bumpy and accident prone. Or maybe that was just Kadunk...

Euplo Bob the curious Euplocephalus discovers more than he can imagine in one massive adventure. A strange new world awaits. He can barely contain himself - in fact he let's one out. Two, if you count the one he launched...

Euplo Bob is a curious dino: In this episode he asks how his family became good at the things they do so well. They seem to like talking about what they're good at: Bob learns from them. In between clonks... Warning: 3 annoying ding-dongs at beginning of the story, and some minor bean-bag scrunching.

Bob the Euplocephalus is a curious creature. In this episode he takes time out from adventures and just waddles along with family. We get an insight into how the Euplocephalii operate as a herd, and how Bob fits in. Where do they go? What's Euplo fun? What's good to eat? Let's find out!

Alex is a hero. That's what he always says. He's got the T-shirt. He designed it himself! And he has a faithful but totally ordinary sidekick, who doesn't even have a superhero nickname: his sister Charlotte. He is Amazing Alex, and she is just "Charlie", but he puts up with her, tells her how to do it properly, and leads her into adventures. He really is amazing...

AI comes in many forms and how bad can it be to ask to help others? Is it a pure form of intelligence to aim for co-operation and peace, or is there something odd about being single-minded, selfless or zealous which plays badly in the real world? These are the questions the special peacenik mech AI group that tried to buddy the whole universe should have asked. Even after their first, quite grand and impressive fails, no such thought seems to have occured to them. Call yourselves intelligent? AI my... Oh my.

A particularly gentle and calm episode about meeting a giant ancient tree called dryrahdyrhh. Gerald is a decent translation into English. Gerald lives in deep, dark magical forest hidden somehow inside a small copse, in its own glade at the centre, but he is not the only one around. His main concern is (human) encroachments, but explaining that to others may be a bit of an art...

Bob the Euplocephalus is concerned that caves wiggle when he isn't paying attention. He is very careful not to thagomise anything *too much* so it can't be him. Trees move! Water moves! Rocks slide! Do caves jiggle when your back is turned? He sneaks up on one to catch it unawares and discover how it acts when it thinks it is alone.

Richard Trevithick was an inventor so bubbley and hardworking that it was worth booking a slot in a time machine to meet him. It was glorious! Mistakes were made though... Lessons will be learned.

Bob the Euplocephalus has met many strange creatures of the late Cretaceous era, and one, Peter the Sauropelta, got Bob's goat! Not literally, they are both herbivores. Peter seemed too clever by far to Bob, whose thoughts run like mud through a marshy brain. So Bob spends a day of discovery, before a cracking Eureka moment!

This is a particularly gentle, and slightly soppy, fantastic magic episode because it involves blowing kisses, but only after using a magic portal ring. Not the best use of a portal, but it seemed amusing at the time. Older and wiser, these are still fond memories, and promises made to solve the issue are magically binding forever.