Tue, Jan 4, 2000
Whilst on holiday in the country, Barry and Paul see a flying saucer land, and, when they arrive at the hotel, all the other guests claim to be from Venus. In the event they are at the hotel for a convention of the Venus Mattress and Duvet Company and the flying saucer is a gimmick, but the brothers think they are aliens poised to take over the planet and take appropriate action.
Tue, Jan 11, 2000
The Chuckle Brothers buy a suit each from a second hand shop in order to smarten up their image and find something highly unusual about Barry's suit.It is impossible to stain - any marks on it just wipe off. Paul decides to claim it as his invention, naming it Pauloline, and takes it to garment manufacturer Harold Stone, to sell to him. However, it becomes clear that Stone wants all the credit for himself and wants to cut the brothers out of the deal.
Tue, Jan 18, 2000
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.
Tue, Jan 25, 2000
The brothers are house-sitting for Auntie Hilda while she is in Spain and Barry leaves a coffee cup ring on the mantelpiece, so, to cover it,he and Paul go to buy an ornament in an antique shop. They are mistaken for secret agents and given the Maltby Falcon, which contains the Jewel of Boris. When Comrade Ivanov and the shop-keeper realise their mistake, they come after the siblings but fortunately Auntie Hilda returns to save them.
Tue, Feb 1, 2000
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.
Tue, Feb 8, 2000
Whilst taking wheelchair-bound Mrs. Pringle out in the park Paul and Barry meet No Slacking, with his auntie Doris, also in a wheelchair. The two old ladies decide to play a joke on the men, first by swapping places and then by running off, so that Barry is called upon to impersonate Auntie Hilda, to stop No Slacking finding out. All is ultimately resolved, in the hair salon, where Barry ends up with a blue rinse.
Tue, Feb 15, 2000
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. . .
Tue, Feb 22, 2000
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.
Tue, Feb 29, 2000
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.
Tue, Mar 7, 2000
Whilst erecting an aerial mast for Dan the Van, Paul and Barry meet Mr. Macaw, a bird-watcher out to secure the very rare egg of the fast disappearing macaw-hawk, which is nesting at the top of the aerial. Barry is determined to stop him from stealing the egg and goes to very great lengths to give the impression that the macaw-hawk is not rare after all.
Sat, Feb 12, 2000
Paul and Barry Chuckle go to the museum to see a grand unveiling by Dan the Van, only to find that the suave and plausible stranger on stage is not their old school-mate but an impostor. He explains that he is a professional decoy employed to keep Dan safe from 'two hooligans' who keep plaguing him. Paul and Barry are too stupid to realise that the description is of them, but they do end up on display in the museum.
Mon, Dec 18, 2000
Paul is working as a school crossing man and Barry as a traffic warden, and they antagonise Mr. Davenport when Paul sits in the road and Barry gives Mr. Davenport a ticket for stopping, so he steals Paul's lollipop stick. The brothers pursue him to his hypermarket, dressed as old ladies, to join a conducted tour, which turns very messy. The brothers get the stick back but they also get clamped.
Tue, Dec 26, 2000
Working as waiters for No Slacking's catering firm, the brothers are called to serve a romantic dinner given by the Duke of Kimquat for Evadne, an heiress he has never seen but plans to marry for her money. When they find out that Evadne is Dan the Van's daughter, Paul and Barry plan to stop the duke's little game with No Slacking impersonating Evadne to the Duke's horror, whilst Barry masquerades as the Duke and dines with Evadne. The wedding is off but Dan is not pleased.