Inigo Pipkin has problems. When he had a telephone put into the workshop, he didn’t realize the trouble it would cause…

Topov keeps getting his beard in the cornflakes…

Bertha sets out for the workshop to see Johnny but when she arrives Mr Pipkin and Johnny are out. Although she’s a bit cross, she decides to clean up while they are out. Hartley helps out, but finds the vacuum cleaner too loud for his big ears!

A new puppet has been made and it’s nearly ready to be shown. But Hartley can’t wait. He wants to see it now, and it’s through trying to take peep at it that he has an accident.

The new puppet makes snorting noises. He also eats all the time, often rather strange things. Hartley puts up with this for a while, until he finds drawings of food among his own pictures…

A dustman calls to take away the old junk, but Mr Pipkin wants to keep it. He can make animals out of things that people throw away. The dustman is so excited by what he sees in the workshop that he gets left behind by the dust cart.

Charlie the dustman brings some "useful junk" round to Mr Pipkin...

It's Hartley's birthday - and there are lots of surprises. He doesn't know he's going to have a party, a present and a surprise telephone call!