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The Treacle People (1996) | Couchpile

Series 2

13 Episodes

1997

E01

One Flu Over the Boggart's Nest

5/2/1997·10m

When all the Boggarts in Sabden are sick, Brendan's Scottish cousin, "Digger" comes over and brings his special recipe cure, porridge.

E02

Digger Digs In

5/9/1997·10m

Now, Digger has taken up residence in Sabden, he must find a job. Silas is reluctant to employ him at first but Digger mentions he is not interested in any wages and just wants a roof over his head and plenty of unpaid work, much to Silas' delight. Unfortunately, Pendle causes a stir the next morning when he accidentally causes the Bubble and Boggart to blow up whilst hitting a pressure cooker full of porridge.

E03

Stuck Up Job

5/16/1997·10m

Rosie, Wizzle and Tapper help to fix the "Bubble and Boggart" whilst Lil takes refuge from Nellie Newchurch, but it isn't long until they're at each other's throats once again.

E04

Loose Change

5/23/1997·10m

The Professor's changing formula liquid accidentally gets mixed in with a batch of Silas' black pudding ginger beer and soon nearly everybody except Rosie, Bert, The Prof and Brendan has changed their natural personalities. Can the Prof find a way to get them back to normal?

E05

Scares and Stripes

5/30/1997·10m

PC Nicko Pendle needs to have made 100 arrests by the end of the day to be promoted to sergeant. He soon finds excuses to arrest everybody in Sabden, and when there is no one else left, he even arrests himself! Unfortunately, there are some real criminals on the loose and they take advantage of having the empty village to themselves.

E06

Smug Smugglers

6/6/1997·10m

Barrow and Furness, the robbers on the loose, wire into Silas' telephone connection and trick Lil into thinking Furness is Silas and asks for a barrow full of treacle butties to be left by the mine. When the real Silas finds out, he realizes something is afoot and the villagers get their own back on the two villains.

E07

The Quest for the Golden Nugget!

6/13/1997·10m

Wizzle's treacle tracker finds a treasure chest buried in the moors. Inside the chest is a map claiming there is a golden nugget somewhere in the mine. Silas and the other villagers are soon on the trail, but so is Barrow and Furness...

E08

A Grim Day Out

6/20/1997·10m

When all the villagers except Digger, go away for the day on Bessie. Barrow and Furness take advantage of having the village all to themselves. But when they get back, the thieves find themselves in a rather sticky situation and so does PC Nicko Pendle...

E09

Sounds Crazy

6/27/1997·10m

Rosie and Wizzle use the Professor's new sound sponge to record all the sounds of Sabden.

E10

Rollercop

7/4/1997·10m

When Nicko Pendle requests a form of transport from his stingy superior, Chief Inspector Foulridge. The double-dealing detective gives Nicko a rather humiliating gift, a pair of roller-blades!

E11

Euroboggart

7/11/1997·10m

Silas wants Tapper and Digger to dig a tunnel to France to export their treacle and so that French tourists can visit Sabden.

E12

It's a Funny Old Game!

7/18/1997·10m

The villagers play against the boggarts in a football match. But those cheeky boggarts decide to play unfairly...

E13

Sticky Like One!

7/25/1997·10m

Silas asks Wizzle to build a statue of the person who has brought the most fame and fortune to Sabden. However, Silas is none too pleased when he sees who the statue Wizzle built is actually of!

Series 1

14 Episodes

1996

E01

Treacle Trouble

5/3/1996·10m

As the story starts, times are hard for The Treacle People. The once great treacle mines of Northern England are running dry and the treacle industry is in trouble. Things look bleak for Professor Baines-Pilling, inventor of the world's first treacle-powered engine and all the others who depend on the sticky stuff for a living. That's until Rosie and Wizzle, the local youngsters, enter the scene. Armed with nothing but a simple treacle-divining stick, can they save the village, or will the Treacle People come to a sticky end? Tune in to our YouTube Channel every week and find out for yourself!

E02

The Great Escape

5/10/1996·10m

Having discovered treacle in the mines, our sticky heroes also discover that they can't get out. However, thanks to the Professor, two old mine-carts and a sack full of bubbles, all is not lost...

E03

Trouble at t'Mill

5/17/1996·10m

Uncle Silas discovers that Rosie and Wizzle are better employed being unemployed,when they go in search of a job for the school holidays. The great treacle mines of Sabden roar into life, then all but roar out with a boggart in the works.

E04

Up, Up and Away

5/24/1996·10m

The Prof builds a balloon to map out a treacle-exporting route, with Bert the Boggart in the pilot's seat.

E05

Double Digging

5/31/1996·10m

In this glutinous instalment, the villagers are still searching for a treacle exporting route, and with the help of Tapper's new creation, set about digging their way to success.

E06

It Must be Fête

6/7/1996·10m

The villages hold an ill-fated fête, with over-competitive competitors, misjudged judging and a band that should be banned.

E07

Stormy Weather

6/14/1996·10m

When rain stops play, Wizzle goes to rescue Moobark and ends up trapped in a ginger beer flood.

E08

Revolting Boggarts

6/21/1996·10m

There's trouble when the Boggarts revolt and run riot in Bessie. Luckily, Silas is there to negotiate, even more luckily, Rosie is there to stop him.

E09

What's the Drill?

6/28/1996·10m

The Professor's latest invention the "Frothmatic Turbo Drill" causes chaos by tunneling through treacle and wrecking rocks.

E10

Sticky Like us

7/5/1996·10m

The Professor's new Treacle Vapour system goes horribly wrong, and the villagers find themselves somewhat stuck. Will they ever get free?

E11

Where's Charlie?

7/12/1996·10m

Charlie leaves the "Bubble and Boggart" after constant harassment off Lil, and goes to seek his fortune, but only finds misfortune when he ends up at Nellie Newchurch's Perfect Parkin Parlour.

E12

Slippery Slopes

7/19/1996·10m

Silas tries to make a fortune out of waffles and when that ends in disaster, Tapper accidentally makes an artificial Ski Slope with the remaining waffles, much to Rosie's delight.

E13

Show up for Showdown

7/26/1996·10m

Will the sticky heroes survive the village show? And what on Earth are they going to do with 300 tonnes of candyfloss?

E14

Sticky Christmas

12/13/1996·15m

It's Christmas time in Sabden and the Professor has invented a weather making machine to create snow. But when the machine smothers the sky full of thick fog and snow clouds, Rosie worries that Santa will not find the village and not deliver everybody's presents.