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- Two brothers embark on a very silly journey to find a cure to the disease that is infecting Bottomworld.
- Maddy is led away by Carrington-Smythe's men but declares that the machine will still be activated, creating a new Ice Age and, when Gran tells Paul and Barry that she took the real ruby and gave it to Dan to look after, they realise that Maddy could be right - this was the one stolen from the magic show. They arrive at a funfair for a showdown with Murk, Maddy's henchman, whom they pursue across the rides, but they eventually deactivate the machine and save the world.
- The brothers are given three separate building jobs at three different houses. They are unaware that they are being secretly filmed for a television documentary exposing Britain's worst cowboy builders. Presenter Ruth England confronts them with her report. Could it get any worse? (That is, excluding the gravel that gets tipped on the secret filming van.)
- Paul and Barry get jobs cleaning a man's boat but end up sinking it so the two trick the man and his wife into thinking a double-decker bus on the road is a luxury yacht at sea.
- Paul and Barry are running the Chuck Wagon, a roadside refreshment caravan, which they have trouble stabilising and they have a food fight even before their first customer arrives. The home-made pie he ordered is perfection itself . . . until put on the table.
- With the machine parts stolen the Chuckle Brothers search the professor's house to find ways to de-activate it but instead activate another machine which teleports matter, so that a cat's characteristics briefly transfer to Barry, who behaves in a very feline way, whilst Barry himself is turned into a spider for a morning.
- The Chuckle Brothers are running a two-star hotel with Paul as the manager and Barry as everything else. They have two guests, Maurice, an astronomer who wants to stay up all night to look at Uranus and euphonium player Marsha, but there is only one room, so they shuffle the two guests around. Fortunately all ends well when the guests turn out to be a married couple.
- Whilst looking after a second hand book-shop the Chuckle Brothers accidentally summon Merlin the magician who uses magic to tidy up the shelves for them and briefly takes them back in time to the court of king Arthur, whom they turn into a frog before Merlin sends them back to the present.
- After a kite flying incident Paul and Barry end up in the Amazon Rainforest where they meet a crazy professor named Carrington Smythe who uses the two to find a cursed idol but Paul finds it first and goes mad with power.
- The Chuckle Brothers are on a lorry dressed as Mexicans to advertise Dan the Van's Tex-Mex restaurant, but the lorry breaks down, and, in their efforts to fix it, the brothers cause an ice cream van and a car carrying a bride to her wedding to break down as well. Fortunately the bride is an expert mechanic but the brothers are tasked with preventing the groom from seeing her, and, by the time she has mended all the vehicles, a huge tailback has built up.
- Dan the Van, covered from head to foot in bandages, needs to attend an important meeting and Paul and Barry collect him from the hospital to take him. On the way they are attacked by sinister men in black, almost lose Dan in a quicksand and meet a cafe owner who thinks they are Ant and Dec. But they get Dan home on time.
- After a bag of money from the bank lands on the chuckmobile the two end up on the run with a police man hot on their tail.
- Whilst they are staying with their friend Mrs. Finnegan, Paul and Barry decide to enter for the annual worm-charming competition. However, their main opponent Mr. Block is known to cheat and the Chuckle Brothers have to overcome him and expose his tactics as a can of worms.
- The brothers hired a sedan chair; Paul and Barry look up in the sky for a comet; the brothers clean Henry Wilmington Jones's boat.
- The brothers locate the chip to activate the weather machine in the ice cream tray at a cinema run by No Slacking and discover that the Duke of Elstree is to pay the cinema a visit. They try to deliver a red carpet for the event and get thrown out, but have more success impersonating the duke and his man Spriggs, and eventually find the all-important chip.
- The Chuckles begin work as sweet makers in a laboratory, unfortunately for Paul the security guard has taken a disliking to him. When The Chuckles end up creating chewing gum with superhuman side effects, Paul sees it as an opportunity for revenge.
- Paul and Barry go to visit their Scottish cousins, the McChuckles. Dougal is worried because Douglas thinks he is an Australian, having barbies and wearing corks on his hat. They follow him to the mysterious Mists of McIntosh, where Douglas returns to his old self, but another cousin, Duncan, has turned into an Australian.
- In exchange for a decoy ruby to flush out the thief Dan the Van gives Paul and Barry an antique lamp to sell at an auction hall with faulty lighting. The female electrician come to mend it is called Jeannie and the brothers assume that,since each time they rub the lamp she appears, that she is a genie. They squabble for ownership of the lamp before Jeannie explains the truth and buys it from them.
- The Chuckle Brothers go to a film studio, where Paul hopes to impress movie mogul Hiram J. Cugalschriber with his show-reel, but Barry gets mobbed, as he is mistaken for leading man Flint Steele, his exact double. He is called upon to act in a film epic, which he sabotages, and, following a chase around the studio ending in his coming face to face with the real Flint Steele, he is at least given a job. . .as Steele's decoy.
- Paul and Barry are running the White Elephant Stall at the vicar's fete and they quickly fall foul of snooty Sir James Hartley Worthington, who accuses them of selling tat in competition with his supposed antique stall. He makes efforts to sabotage them, which backfire on him, whilst the vicar wins a coconut and Barry wins the Guess How Many Gob-stoppers competition.
- Still hunting for the ruby, Paul and Barry stake out the flat of another guest, Carrington-Smythe, posing as flower sellers. They enter the flat in his absence but it is full of modern gadgetry, controlled by a panel, and they activate it all, as well as turning on the fire sprinklers. When Carrington-Smythe returns, he tells Barry and Paul that he is the head of MI7, and sends the brothers on a mission to locate the ruby,which has fallen into dangerous hands. It may be used to activate a top secret machine which would cause mass destruction and must be recovered at all costs.
- The Chuckle Brothers are in the wastes of the Sahara, where they are running a cake stall. They get involved in hostilities between the warring local tribesmen and the Legionnaires in the nearby fort - but end up getting their just deserts.
- The Chuckle Brothers are putting a wishing well in No Slacking's garden when Barry conjures up Peat, a mischievous leprechaun ,which only he can see, and which sabotages Paul's hard work. When he eventually becomes generally visible the leprechaun creates a beautiful garden but becomes enraged when No Slacking starts to dig for his pot of gold.
- Well-off Uncle Richie gives Paul and Barry a wheelbarrow full of money to give away but they are pursued by another, aggrieved relation, Bob Beans Chuckle, who says the money should given to him. In the event the notes prove to be fake, apart from the ones Barry puts on a bonfire.
- The Chuckle Brothers are running a pet shop but none of the animals are particularly exciting and business is anything but booming. Then they acquire a budgie that can do impressions. It never stops, in fact, and after a few weeks Barry is fed up and wants to get rid of it but Paul sees it as having a future in show business. Needless to say he ends up getting the bird in every sense.
- Barry and Paul get jobs as shop assistants to Monsieur Fromage, the French cheese-maker, who is excited about an up-coming competition, where he is entering his new cheese. As ever the brothers cause havoc but inadvertently expose a rival cheese-maker who is trying to sabotage Monsieur Fromage by leaving a mouse in the shop to discredit him.
- The brothers return to their old school for the Pupil of the Century Award, meeting the obnoxious old boy Gavin Quarmby, who is determined to win at any cost. Barry, however, secretly films him in the head's study, doctoring the short list so that his is the only name on it and he later films Paul, who is trying to add his name onto the list. Both are eventually discredited and Barry is declared the winner.
- Restauranteurs Barry and Paul go to Chuddington's Chowder Factory to find out what is in a tin whose label fell off, and find themselves on the production line of Aunt Gudrun's Aberdeen Broth, until they mess up the recipe settings, and end up creating an entirely new soup product instead. Sadly, they forgot to make any notes as to its recipe and so miss out on yet another money-making scheme.
- Barry and Paul are nightwatchmen at the museum,guarding the priceless ankh of Tutankhamun, which the curator has told them is cursed. However the sarcophagus is open and empty and they are chased around the building by the mummy. They assume that the culprit is a young woman, also in the museum, who claims to be an Egyptology student,and she is scaring them off so she can steal the ankh - but she turns out to be an undercover cop looking after it. So - who is behind the bandages?
- Barry becomes king after being the only one to pump an ancient well with Paul as his jester.
- The Chuckle Brothers are working in a bread shop for Mr. Bunn the baker, who inexplicably, has entrusted them with the care of a watch which is a family heirloom. When they run out of bread the Chuckles go to a wind-mill to make some more. Here Barry drops the watch into a flour bin and it gets baked into a loaf destined for the corner shop, where the brothers create havoc trying to retrieve it.
- Paul and Barry are taking part in a cake-making contest at a village fete, but there is skulduggery afoot, as overly keen contestants start to steal the cakes made by their rivals. An inspector is called in to investigate.
- Barry and Paul are working as milk delivery men on the early morning run. However, they get caught up with a different type of delivery altogether when they have to assist Dr. Smith.
- The Chuckle Brothes retrieve a fly-away balloon for a mother in the park but she doesn't want it back, and it follows them everywhere they go. Paul rubs it on Barry's head to create static to stick it to the side of a van, but it still comes after them and Barry has become magnetised, attracting metal objects. Spy boss Carrington-Smythe feels this could come in useful in his pursuit of a wanted man.
- Carrington-Smythe recruits Barry as a secret agent to track down who stole a plasma ball from a research lab. To the brothers' amazement the balloon turns out to be that ball and it - and they - are taken to a safe house,where tests are carried out on Barry by sinister Dr. Devonish. His attempt to kidnap Barry is foiled but he escapes with the plasma ball.
- Paul and Barry locate Devonish's secret laboratory but the doctor captures Paul, along with Carrington-Smythe, and tells Barry he will exchange them for the ball. Barry substitutes the plasma ball for an ordinary balloon and the exchange is made. Unfortunately Barry has not told Carrington-Smythe, who has a device which will explode the ball and is about to detonate it.
- The Chuckle Brothers are working for the Mayor when a civic ceremony is brought forward at short notice. Paul uses too much polish on the mayoral chain - which breaks - and Barry burns a hole whilst ironing the mayor's robes. However, they get back into the mayor's good books when they learn that his deputy has purposely engaged them to discredit him, so they, in turn, sabotage the deputy's inaugural speech.
- Paul and Barry are amongst Santa's little helpers, making Christmas toys but they annoy Santa when they cut off part of his beard and antagonize head elf Drippy who accidentally gets glued to his stool. Paul is working on a snow-making machine, which he hopes will revolutionize Christmas, but it goes off prematurely. Will Barry be dreaming of a nice Christmas after all?
- Paul and Barry put the micro-chip and the second component vital to starting the machine into a safe deposit box. They now only need the mood chip and find it in a medallion around the neck of rap musician M.C. Ugly, whom they follow on his tour before Barry snatches it from him whilst being lowered onto the stage where he is performing. All the necessary parts are put into the deposit box but next day the brothers find that they have been stolen!
- The Chuckle Brothers are running a coffee stall but feel threatened by Italian gangster Barry Vaderci, who sends his hit-man Garibaldi after them. They go into hiding - in cardboard boxes - but are rounded up by Garibaldi and taken to his boss, who makes them an offer they can't refuse.
- Barry and Paul are being featured in a documentary for television called 'Away From It All', following their efforts to renovate an old house and turn it into a pottery studio. Needless to say it is a chapter of accidents and the pottery Paul has supposedly made himself has been bought in. When presenter Ruth England returns to update the brothers' progress she gets a few messy surprises.
- The Chuckle Brothers are to perform a conjuring set in a hotel where no pets are allowed but their rabbit is missing and appears to have been replaced by a rhinoceros which is in the bath-tub having a bath. The brothers manage to lure it out of the building and in to a safari park, but, on their return, the landlady drops the bomb-shell.
- Paul and Barry are fishing a stream, using sandwiches as bait. Paul of course is rubbish but Barry does very well. Then a trout farmer arrives and tells them they are poaching his waters and they must throw back the fish..except for a giant pike which is eating his stock and he wants rid of. An epic struggle between man and pike follows before the brothers make their final catch.
- The Chuckle Brothers are sent for training at an MI7 camp, giving directions to a motorist on the way. Soon after their arrival, a pompous government minister turns up, expecting a presentation,so the instructor, caught on the hop, plans to present him with a donkey, but the minister is allergic to animals and says he was expecting a marching band. The brothers directed his car to the wrong army base.
- Paul and Barry become shepherds but don't have a sheepdog for the sheepdog trials so Paul dresses Barry in a dog costume.
- The Chuckle Brothers are spending a holiday in the country with Aunt Petal. Barry gets bitten by a were-fox and, when the full moon comes up, strange things start to happen to him.
- Barry and Paul are in Transylvania where they hope to enter the garlic gathering competition and win a Golden Globe. Paul, daft as ever, ignores warnings not to stay at Castle Vlad, where the more sensible Barry is concerned that their host, the Count, may well be a vampire and hangs garlic round his neck. The Count may not be a vampire but somebody is. . .
- Carrington-Smythe sends Barry and Paul to a space station where eccentric Professor Rex Frimley lives in splendid isolation. He has invented a machine which can change the weather and it must not fall into the wrong hands. The professor is abducted by a woman called Maddy, who is after the whereabouts of the machine but before she drags him away he throws Paul and Barry some scraps of paper with clues written on them.
- The brothers are working as waiters for No Slacking and customer Mr. Naza gives Barry an odd-looking ring, with the instruction not to touch it. This is too much for Paul who believes it has magic powers and will make him a king. In fact there is a far more mundane reason not to touch it.