At least today we have more than one recording. The first starts with the end of Big Cook Little Cook.
There’s a trailer for Doodle Do. Then CBeebies presenter Pui gives a short presentation on the basics of Set Theory, as she has one set of round, red fruit, and one set of long, green vegetables.
Then, an episode of SMarteenies. Jay draws a cow and a zebra.
They’ve let Lizi do more than just thumb painting today. She’s been helping the children draw their shadows.
Kirsten is in her Pattern Palace.
Mark makes a picture of a penguin with sugar.
And a big floor picture as well.
BBC Genome: CBeebies – Sunday 22nd January 2006 – 12:40
There’s a trailer for The Roly Mo Show, Pui shows off some wintry pictures, and then there’s the start of an episode of Postman Pat – Postman Pat and the Playful Pets.
The next recording is effectively a repeat of the last one, but with signing for the deaf.
BBC Genome: CBeebies – Sunday 22nd January 2006 – 15:40
The final recording today starts with the end of Songs of Praise. There’s a trailer for The Virgin Queen and for Big Cook, Little Cook.
Then, it’s the second episode of Johnny and the Bomb – The Butterfly Effect. Johnny is in the shopping centre, wondering what they’ve done in the past that has changed so much, including that his grandfather never married, and had no children or grandchildren. He sees a woman who looks just like his mum, but who doesn’t know him. (I didn’t understand this bit – it doesn’t seem to follow the time travel rules that seem to be in play here).
He runs up the stairs and meets the mysterious man in the big car who’s been looking for him. “Read the paper, Johnny, it’s all in the paper” he says, as Johnny runs off to have a musical montage, running past people who have frozen in time.
Johnny rejoins Kirsty and Yo-Less. His newspaper which he got from Mrs Tachyon now says that nineteen people died when Blackbury was bombed, when before, nobody died.
The mysterious man joins them. He’s being very cryptic, even though he appears to know everything that’s happened. I suppose if he just told them exactly what to do, that would make for a dull show. He asks if they’re heard of The Butterfly effect. Kirsty has. “Is that when you step on a butterfly, and thousands of years later it turns out you’ve started World War III?” He tells Johnny that something changed as a result of them going back, and because of that, the air raid siren didn’t go off, and the people in the street died. He tells him to go back and fix it. And advises them to get less conspicuous clothes.
The only place they can find ‘old clothes’ is the costumes for the dress rehearsal of The Sound of Music at the local community centre. Kirsty is mortified at having to wear a dress.
Meanwhile, back in the past, Wobbler is helping Councillor Seeley and his wife with the gardening. She’s played by Felicity Montagu. They’re quite taken by him.
Johnny goes to see Rose, his grandmother, and tries to warn her about the air raid.
The police and Captain Harris are still questioning BigMac. His mobile phone is particularly interesting. All it says is “Searching for Network”. BigMac takes a picture and shows it to them. “If I had a signal, I could send that to someone.” “Really, would that be someone on the network?” “Yeah, I suppose.” “But first you’d need a signal?” “A signal for his network of Nazi spies.”
Kirsty and Yo-Less are eavesdropping on the interrogation when they’re spotted by a policeman, one that they met during the last trip, and Kirsty threw down with her Judo skills. He recognises Yo-Less. “Where’s the other lad, the one that assaulted me?” Kirsty squares up to him. “No, I don’t believe it. You’re a girl.” Once again, Kirsty throws him to the floor and they run.
Wobbler is enjoying a meal with the Seeleys. Clearly, being councillor means he doesn’t have to worry about rationing.
Johnny has been invited in by Rose, and Tom Maxwell – his Grandad to be – is there, getting ready for his shift as lookout on the hill, as part of the Home Guard. Johnny asks what would happen if the phones were dead because of a storm. “Doctor Harris would drive to the station in his MG.” But we know his MG was damaged by BigMac when he accidentally drove it down the hill. And if that doesn’t work, Tom would use the police bicycle to ride to the station. They’ve thought of everything.
BigMac uses a tea break as an opportunity to try to escape. Harris shoots at him but misses, and hits the control for the air raid siren, breaking it. And BigMac steals the police bicycle to ride away.
Johnny spots BigMac cycling past the chapel and stops him. He dumps the bike and runs inside. He’s upset and just wants to go home. But they still need to find Wobbler. Yo-Less suggests the use the time bags to jump to when they first arrived. BigMac is still whining about his ordeal. She says “You’ve got to pull yourself together from it. OK?” “I’ve been shot at.” “Yeah. Yeah.” “By a soldier” “I know. But in a minute you won’t have been, because we’re going to go back to before any of it happened and all the bad men will have gone away. OK? So stop wazzing about and get your hands on that trolley.” I’m really starting to warm to Kirsty. It must be really hard being the smartest person there. “Honestly, it’s like herding cats.”
But instead of going back to where they first landed, they land in the water feature of the future shopping centre.
Back in 1941, Wobbler is helping Mrs Seeley with tea. She asks him if he has mince very often. He doesn’t know what mince is (slightly strange) but tells her about burgers. Which she’s never heard of. She tells Wobbler that if he ever needs somewhere to stay, they have a spare room. “And you can show me how to make those burgers.”
Back in the future, the mysterious man gives burgers to the soaking children. “Walter’s Wobblers. The biggest and the Best.” They realise who the man is – it’s Wobbler, now over 50 years older.
Walter tells Johnny that he was adopted by the Seeleys, and his invention of burgers (?) made him a billionaire. He tells Johnny he has to go back and fix things. And he says that he wouldn’t mind if they brought their Wobbler back. He could have another life. “I’ll invent something else. Something bigger.”
Johnny goes to his Grandad’s house looking for something. But Grandad comes home and catches him.
Recorded from BBC ONE on Sunday 22 January 2006 17:33
BBC Genome: BBC One London – Sunday 22nd January 2006 – 17:35
After this, there’s trailers for CBBC Drama, and for The Virgin Queen. Then the recording ends after the start of Last of the Summer Wine – The Second Husband and the Showgirls.
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