Sun, Jan 5, 1997
'Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest': Arthur tries to write a jingle for the Crunch Cereal contest, but he has trouble making up a good melody./'D.W. Flips': Whenever D.W. starts a new activity, she never wants to practice, but her mom allows her to join a gym class anyway. At the gym class, D.W.'s obstacles include "Miss Perfect" Emily, the teasing Tibbles, and not being able to do a cartwheel.
Sun, Jan 12, 1997
1. "Meek for a Week": Muffy bets Francine that Francine can't be nice for an entire week. 2. "Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper": Arthur and Buster are stuck sitting at the "Tough Customer Table." Buster tells the Tough Customers that Arthur is really good at gleeping, not knowing what "gleep" means. Eventually, Arthur and Buster learn that "gleep" means "steal," and Arthur's reputation as a thief escalates.
Sun, Jan 19, 1997
'Arthur's Chicken Pox': Arthur feels funny in art class. It turns out that he has the chicken pox. D.W. is jealous of the attention that Arthur is getting because he's sick. Even Grandma Thora gives Arthur special treatment/Sick as a Dog': Mr. and Mrs. Read keep telling Arthur not to give his food to Pal. One day, Arthur finds Pal acting lethargic and making weird noises. Arthur is worried about what the vet will do to Pal, and Arthur blames D.W. for making Pal sick.
Sun, Jan 26, 1997
'D.W. Rides Again': D.W. wants to ride in the bike-a-thon, but she has a trike, not a bike. Arthur offers to teach D.W. how to ride her new bike, but after the Tibble Twins tease her about using training wheels, D.W. decides that it is best for her to teach herself./'Arthur Makes the Team': Francine's dad is the new baseball coach. The kids take turns pitching so Coach Frensky can decide who would be the best. Francine pitches the ball too high, and Arthur has trouble catching balls in the outfield. Can the kids get along as a team?
Sun, Feb 2, 1997
'Arthur's Almost Boring Day': Mr. Ratburn gives his students an assignment to write a short report on what they do over the weekend. Arthur, Buster, and Francine planned on going to the park, but the rain ruins their plans. Arthur doesn't want to play with D.W. because he is embarrassed what the other kids will think. Eventually, Arthur and D.W. go over to Grandma Thora's house/'The Half-Baked Sale': Grandma Thora is a terrible cook, but Arthur and D.W. don't want to hurt her feelings. When Thora tells her grandchildren that she is in charge of the school bake sale, Arthur and D.W. try to come up with a way to keep people from buying Thora's cookies.
Sun, Feb 9, 1997
'Sue Ellen Moves In': A new family has moved to Elwood City. Buster thinks they're aliens, but Arthur doesn't believe it. All the kids think that the girl, Sue Ellen, is not a normal kid. They have theories that she is an art thief or a spy. Who is she really?/'The Perfect Brother': Brain is spending the weekend at the Reads' house. Arthur is mad at Brain because Brain is always being smarter than him, being neater than him, and eating better than him.
Sun, Feb 16, 1997
'D.W.'s Snow Mystery': D.W. has kept a snowball in her freezer ever since last winter. When she discovers that it's missing, she accuses Arthur, Buster, and Francine of stealing it. Everybody has different ideas of what could have happened to the snowball and accuse each other of taking it out of the freezer./'Team Trouble': Arthur, Buster, and Francine are teamed up to do a report on Ancient Rome. Together they agree to make their report creative and decide to do a comic book. Arthur works on the 1st page, Francine the 2nd, and Buster the 3rd. But when they show each other their finished pages, they notice that their completely different and tell the other two kids to change their pages.
Sun, Feb 23, 1997
'Bully for Binky': Binky Barnes in the toughest kid in school, and he's always taking the other kids' desserts! So the picked-on kids try to come up with an "anti-Binky plan." Binky ruins Sue Ellen's attempt to break a rope-jumping record and that makes her mad. So she tells Binky to meet her outside the school at 3:00. When Binky learns that Sue Ellen takes classes of the martial art Tae Kwon Do, he does all he can to avoid meeting Sue Ellen./'Mis-fortune Teller': For Prunella's half-birthday, she receives a fortune-telling device called a "cootie catcher." The kids test it by asking questions about future events. Finally convinced about the power of the cootie catcher, they start asking questions that would make decisions for them.
Sun, Mar 2, 1997
'Arthur's Tooth': Francine calls Arthur a baby because he is the only kid in Mr. Ratburn's class who hasn't lost a baby tooth. So Arthur does all he can to get his loose tooth out./'D.W. Gets Lost': When Emily shows D.W. her new earrings, D.W. begs her parents to buy some earrings for her. Mrs. Read tells D.W. that she will take her to the department store so they can look at the earrings together and will make a decision once she sees the earrings. When D.W. and Mrs. Read are at the store, Mr. Crosswire asks Mrs. Read if she can spare 5 minutes to talk. During those 5 minutes, D.W. and her imaginary friend Nadine wander around the store looking for the earrings, but they end up getting lost.
Sun, Mar 9, 1997
'D.W. Thinks Big': Aunt Lucy is getting married. Arthur is the ring bearer. Cousin Cora is the flower girl. D.W. wants to help, but she's too little. When Arthur loses the ring in the church organ, D.W. finally does her part./'Arthur Cleans Up': The park is covered with trash, and Arthur wants to do something about it. Mr. Read comes up with the idea of a "kids' clean-up brigade." He tells Arthur's friends that it was all Arthur's idea, but his friends don't want to help because it means making sacrifices. Francine's dad, who is a garbage man, has all the sanitation workers get involved.
Sun, Apr 20, 1997
'My Dad, the Garbage Man': Mr. Ratburn's class has been learning about careers. Muffy's dad, Brain's mom, and Francine's dad have offered to show the class what their jobs are like. But Francine is worried what will happen when the other kids learn that her dad is a garbage man./'Poor Muffy': Muffy is allergic to the new rugs in her house. Francine suggests that Muffy stay at her apartment until all the carpet is taken out. While staying at the Frenskys', Muffy complains about only getting three TV channels, eating leftovers, and not being allowed to play her music really loud.
Sun, Apr 27, 1997
'D.W.'s Blankie': D.W. takes her blankie with her wherever she goes. But somehow it ends up missing. Arthur promised to watch "Renegade Joe" with Buster, but D.W. persuades Arthur to help her look for her blankie, and D.W. has a lot of crazy theories about what happened to it./'Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble': Mr. Ratburn gets sick and his sister Ms. Ratburn is the substitute teacher. The students think that she'll be tough like Mr. Ratburn, but it turns out that she is an easy teacher.
Sun, May 18, 1997
'I'm a Poet': Fern is the only student to sign up for the poetry contest. She bets all the other kids that they can't write a poem, and the kids are up to the challenge./'The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club!': Kids are waiting in line at the library for the latest book in the 'Scare-Your-Pants-Off' series. But an organization called 'PAWS': Parents Against Weird Stories, wants to ban the books. So Arthur and his friends decide to make petitions to keep the books.
Sun, May 25, 1997
'My Club Rules!': The Strawberry Festival is coming to Elwood City, and the kids have ideas for parade floats. When curious D.W. climbs up the treehouse, the kids tell her that they belong to a parade float club and that she can't join. After Muffy says that the treehouse needs fixing up and insists that everyone pays dues, the kids decide to form their own clubs./'Stolen Bike': Francine is embarrassed that her bike is old while everyone else has a new bike. After getting rid of it, she tells everyone that it was stolen.
Sun, Jun 1, 1997
'Arthur's First Sleepover': There are rumors about spaceships, and D.W. wants to take a picture of one. Arthur, Buster, and Brain are having a sleepover in Arthur's yard, and D.W. wants to be at the sleepover too so that she can take pictures of aliens. But, of course, she's not invited, so D.W. decides to pull a prank on them./'Arthur's New Years Eve': For the past few years, Arthur kept on trying to stay up until midnight for the new year, but he always fell asleep. This year he decides to not stay up at all, until his friends tell him what happens every year. But they all have different stories.
Mon, Oct 20, 1997
1. "Binky Barnes, Art Expert": Arthur and Buster are teamed up with Binky to do a report on a piece of art from the museum. Arthur and Buster think that they're doomed, and decide to let Binky do his report while they do a report on a different piece of art. 2. "Arthur's Lucky Pencil": Arthur uses a pencil that seems to be lucky and then lends it to his friends. But it gets shorter and shorter, so Arthur decides to use it for emergencies only.
Tue, Oct 21, 1997
'D.W. the Picky Eater': Because D.W. made a big fuss over the salad she was served had spinach, her mom says that she can't eat at restaurants until she learns to eat everything on her plate. Can Arthur get D.W. to eat spinach?/'Buster and the Daredevils': Arthur and Buster want Toby and Slink to teach them some skating tricks, but Toby and Slink say that they have to do some dares first. Arthur quits before the first dare, but Buster keeps on fulfilling dare after dare.
Thu, Oct 23, 1997
1. "Arthur's Underwear": Arthur can't stop laughing about Binky's pants splitting during class, until Arthur keeps having nightmares about his underwear. Can Buster help make the bad dreams go away? 2. "Francine Frensky, Olympic Rider": Francine has saved up enough money for riding lessons, but her sister Catherine has to take her. It turns out that Catherine is better at riding a horse than Francine is. Francine is humiliated when she overhears Stanley the instructor tell Catherine that Francine is not quite up to her level.
Sun, Oct 26, 1997
1. "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver": Who is the biggest hero in Elwood City? Buster Baxter! Actually, all that happened was that a cat that was stuck in a tree wanted to eat the fish that was in Buster's ice cream, so the cat decided to jump onto Buster. At first, Buster tells everyone that he was just in the right place at the right time, but then he starts acting like a big shot and makes up a TV series in which his character is a super hero. 2. "Play It Again, D.W.": D.W. listens to her "Crazy Bus" CD all the time, and Arthur is tired of hearing that song. The Read family attends "Crazy Bus Live," and Arthur is embarrassed. When D.W. discovers that her "Crazy Bus" is missing, she accuses Arthur.
Mon, Oct 27, 1997
Arthur's TV-Free Week: It's trouble, right here in Elwood City. The kids--and their parents--have all pledged not to watch TV for one whole week. That's days, hours, and a whole bunch of minutes (10,680 to be exact, as Buster is horrified to discover). Can they last? Who will be the first to break? Night Fright: Big, brave Binky Barnes. He'd be toast if people ever discovered he can't sleep without a night light. It's his deepest, darkest secret. When Arthur spends the night, and discovers the truth, Binky has no choice but to try... bribery.
Tue, Oct 28, 1997
Arthur vs. The Piano: "Local Boy Wrecks Concert!" "Bad, Bad Musician!" These are the headlines Arthur can all-too-easily imagine, after he gets stage fright during a rehearsal. Now he's terrified of playing to another audience. Will he be able to get through his recital without any mistakes? Or should he just move far, far away? The Big Blow-Up: When two very opinionated friends butt heads, look out! Can Francine and The Brain put aside their differences (their "rancor," as Brain would describe it) for the good of the soccer team? Probably not--so Arthur and Buster decide to "write" some wrongs.
Wed, Oct 29, 1997
Lost!: For an eight-year-old, Arthur is usually pretty cool. Except for D.W., there's not too much that upsets him. But one day, Arthur falls asleep on a bus and awakens in a strange--and scary--part of town. Will he ever find his way home? Can he keep himself from crying? And will D.W. ever forgive Arthur for scaring her like that? The Short, Quick Summer: Summer vacation is over? It just started! What about all those great, fun things Arthur intended to do--like have adventures and explore the unfathomable mysteries of space? As Arthur learns, you don't have to go far from home to have a great summer.
Thu, Oct 30, 1997
D.W. Goes to Washington: D.W.'s on her way to Washington. (Someone should have called ahead and warned the government). She's bored, bored, BORED by it all until she gets lost during a tour of the White House. A kind employee reunites her with her family and invites them all in for pizza. (Come to think of it, the guy sure has a nice office. And doesn't he look a little... familiar?) Arthur's Mystery Envelope: When Mr. Haney gives Arthur a sealed envelope to bring home to Mom, Arthur fears the worst. (His friends are only too eager to help him imagine what "the worst" might be.) Is Arthur being sentenced to summer school? Does he HAVE to give the envelope to Mom, or could he just sort of... misplace it?