Toad & Friends, Poetry Slam

It's spring and Mole is whitewashing his burrow. His friends come to help while the watching weasels spy an opportunity to play a prank on them.

Ratty takes his friends out for a boat trip and insists as Captain, what he says goes. But when the boat is scuppered on the rocks, he finds that listening to his friends is the way to save the day.

When Toad resolves to live the simple life and camp by the riverbank, the weasels take the opportunity to take over Toad Hall. Can Toad now ever return?

Toad enlists his friends to help him make a superhero movie but his overbearing ego means they soon leave him to his own devices. But when the Weasels trick him, he finds himself in a pickle without his friends to help.

Hedge tries out Toad’s new power kite and gives the Weasels an idea of how to get into Toad Hall.

It’s the annual Regatta race and everyone is determined to win, especially the previous winner Ratty. But even he has to learn that winning isn't the only goal.

Toad decides to create his own stylish cologne. But when the weasels ruin it and then occupy his home, is the new stinky cologne the answer to regaining Toad Hall?

The weasels hear of Toad’s fear of scarecrows and use this to frighten Toad out of Toad Hall for good.

When Toad accidentally injures Smudge, the weasels prey on his good nature to get into Toad Hall to convalesce. Nurse Toad though proves to be too much even for the wily weasels.

Ratty tries to teach Mole, Hedge and Toad the rules of poetry but loses Hedge’s poem in the strong wind. Can he and Hedge retrieve it or Mole and Toad remember it before it get destroyed or forgotten?

Kingfisher is singing a very irritating song, to everyone’s annoyance. Only Chief Weasel appreciates the song because he can use it to get Tinker and Smudge to obey him. But will Kingfisher now ever be able to leave the Wild Woods?

Mole is making his winter supply of jam but it’s Portly’s birthday and Mole very generously gives everyone a jar of jam to give to Portly for a birthday present. Soon he has none left for winter. And Portly has rather a lot of jam!

It’s the Midsummer Festival and everyone is contributing to it, with Badger as the master of ceremonies, the Jack of the Green. But when he finds himself trapped in his own home, how can the festival start?

Everyone is too busy to play with Toad so he foolishly opens the lock gates in order to propel his new boat. But this creates a giant wave that demolishes the Otters’ holt downstream. Toad must now repair their home, finding help from an unexpected quarter.

Toad installs a new Mauss security system to protect Toad Hall from the weasels but Toad’s arrogance and rudeness towards Mauss leaves Toad locked out of Toad Hall for good. Only a big mouse sized apology can put things right.

Toad shows off his new hammock but refuses to let anyone else have a nap in it. The weasels trap Toad in the hammock, leaving Toad Hall wide open for them. Can Toad’s friends use the hammock to regain Toad Hall?

Many of the riverbank folk have their eyes on Toad’s ripe pears. Ratty offers to guard the pear tree all night but in the morning, all the pears are gone thus mounting an investigation to find the culprit.

When Ratty’s brother comes to visit, Ratty has to pretend that he lives in Toad Hall as he had claimed in his letters. Ratty persuades Toad to be butler and his friends reluctantly go along with it.

When Mole goes to find Hedge in the Wild Woods without his glasses, the weasels play a nasty trick on him and Mole falls into a ditch with Hedge. How will they ever get out to find Badger and get Mole’s glasses fixed?

Toad boasts he can get to the seaside in his hot air balloon and be back in time for his grand dinner. He soon gets into trouble and crash lands in the Wild Woods. Trapped in the ropes and branches of trees, Toad is helpless to stop the weasels marching on Toad Hall.

Toad commissions a portrait of himself from Mrs Otter but can’t keep still enough for her to paint him. Will there ever be a portrait of Toad hanging in Toad Hall?

When Toad throws out an old chair, he immediately regrets it but the Weasels have now claimed it. Can Toad and his friends persuade them to return it to him?

Badger finds an old dirty painting of the Riverbankers’ ancestors as a choir and Ratty offers to put a new choir together. Chief and Tinker won’t let him Smudge join. Only a full restoration of the painting will reveal who really was in the The Wild Wood Warblers!

Toad volunteers to babysit Portly for the Otters only to find babysitting isn’t as easy as it looks.

Hedge normally hibernates but this year she is determined to see Christmas. Although she’s not much use in decoration preparation, she is able to bring peace and understanding to all when there is a dispute over the Christmas Tree.

Tinker comes up with a cunning plan for herself and Chief to be delivered as a parcel into Toad Hall. But the journey there proves to be more much more arduous than she could possibly imagine.

Chief agrees to accompany Toad on a day trip out in the car but only if he can drive. Chief’s plan is to steal the car by throwing Toad out but his erratic driving sees them perched precariously over the river bank. Can they ever be friends now?