1978
Aka 141.3 ep#553 Noni and John clean the budgerigar cage for Peppino and Peppina. Noni looks at cuttlefish, shells, pebbles and a sea urchin collected from the beach. She decorates a shoebox lid with the shells. John looks at an aquarium with defensive sea creatures including jelly fish, hermit crabs and spiky sea urchins. Noni sings 'Little Shell'. Hamble is sitting at the seaside behind the rocket clock. Noni reads 'Lucy and Tom at the Seaside' by Shirley Hughes, a book about the English seaside. John builds a sand castle tower and sings 'I take my shovel'. Noni adds sand castle turrets, walls and a moat to the castle. John fills the moat. Noni looks at images of London. There is a large model of a castle in the studio. John uses soldier toys to act out an attack of the castle by knights and archers. Noni helps Big Ted, Jemima and Hamble ride in on Dapple the rocking horse to attack John's cardboard box castle. John helps Humpy and Little Ted defend the castle with paper aeroplanes as they're bombarded with scrunched paper cannon balls. Jemima and Humpy are both hit in action, Big Ted and Hamble use a battering ram damaging the castle wall, which leads to a sword fight between Little Ted and Jemima. Little Ted is wounded and pleads that Jemima spares his life, at which point Jemima is declared the victor and everyone sings 'For she's a jolly good fellow'. Through the arched window dogs are playing at the English seaside. Noni sings 'Here is the sea' and feeds Bit and Bot. John and Noni knock down the sandcastle before saying goodbye.