Twipsy - Episode Guide

While Nick Walker is playing on the computer there is a short-circuit and Nick finds himself catapulted into Cyberspace. All his sister Lissie and neighbour Albert can find are Nick's footprints - on the computer monitor. Nick meets the clever, friendly e-mail messenger Twipsy, a creature made of pure energy, who shows him the exciting world on the other side of the computer monitor.

Twipsy shows his new human friend Nick around the Cyber Mall and all its fantastic opportunities. But then there's trouble: Twipsy and Nick are arrested by the Cyber Police for going too slow. As a messenger, it's Twipsy's job to transport e-mails from A to B as fast as possible. Meanwhile, Albert and Lissie are desperately trying to bring Nick back home - and they succeed.

Nick, Lissie and Albert introduce Twipsy to the real world. The children are surprised to find how little Twipsy knows about it - even rain amazes him. Because of Twipsy's homesickness clever Albert has a bright idea: he builds a special scanner so Twipsy is delighted to get back to his cyberworld.

Twipsy and Champ are traveling in cyberspace. But even in this hyperactive electro-cosmos, Champ is overcome by fatigue, and goes to sleep on the Information Highway. Mr Neat and his Tidy Team find her. As they don't know who or what Champ really is, they think they've discovered a virus, and take her off to the Cyberdump.

A robbery in cyberspace: the E-Mail Snatchers snatch an e-mail from Mosey, the laid-back e-mail messenger. It's from Albert to his school friend Rachel. The e-mail falls into the hands of Rumor Rumor and Miss Information. They distort the stolen e-mail to make it say that poor Albert's madly in love with Rachel - only Twipsy can save the day.

There's a talent show in the cyberworld. Twipsy plans to sing a song and accompany himself on the guitar. Unfortunately a guitar string breaks just before the competition begins Nick has a bright idea: he offers Twipsy his new tennis racket. Twipsy sings the song to tennis racket accompaniment, and as none of the cyber-beings has ever seen a musical instrument, they all think it's wonderful.

Champ meets a skunk. The Walkers try all sorts of ways to get rid of the horrible smell, but in vain. The old dog will have to be banished from the house and live outside. Fearing that Champ will be lonely, Nick and Albert send her off to Twipsy in cyberspace. But even the cyber-beings can't stand the smell. This is a case for Mr. Neat and his Tidy Team.

Twipsy needs plenty of money to buy papaya smoothies, his favorite drink. He thinks up a good way to get it - if other people will pay him, he'll do their work for them. The idea pays off, and soon he's busy counting his money. But there's a drawback: Twipsy's friends are cross - he is working so hard he has no time left for them.

The creepy Data Eater has captured Twipsy. Albert bargains with them to get his friend released: Twipsy will be freed in exchange for a "juicy" bit of information. Albert sets to work.

Champ, the rather decrepit family dog, slips into cyberspace. It's the day of the "E-mail Messenger of the Month" race in the cyberworld. Champ notices that the nasty messenger Gazonk has switched the direction arrows for the race, and she warns Twipsy. All the other messengers are running the wrong way - but Twipsy finds another, faster route.

Mr Neat and his Tidy Team think it's time they spruced up Cyberspace but the team gets some important cables and credit cards confused, and there's information chaos. Lissie's credit card number is attached by mistake to Internet orders from all over the world, and as a result all kinds of packages she never ordered are delivered to her home.

Dr. Walker, Nick's mother, gets into the cyberworld by mistake and meets the depressed cyber-messenger Flit, who can't bear to be sending bad news around on the Net. Dr.Walker gives the melancholy messenger therapeutic treatment. When Albert fetches her back with the Print-o-Scan, she bumps her head, and decides that her "illusions" were all the result of this accident.

Albert is too shy to tell his school friend Rachel that he's in love with her. When other children at school tease him, it's just too much - he goes into cyberspace to have an intellectual discussion with Know-It-All. But Know-It-All turns out to be just a silly windbag, showing off by providing any amount of unnecessary information. 

Herbie, Albert's brother, tries his luck as a reporter of sensational news. He takes a photo of Twipsy and sells the story to Art Abrash, a disreputable TV producer. Reporters besiege the house, hoping for a sight of the famous "extraterrestrial". Lissie meets the TV producer and tells him the truth about the cyber-messenger Twipsy. Of course he doesn't believe a word of it, and cancels the show.

A black day in cyberspace: Rumor Rumor and Miss Information think the world is coming to an end. Lissie suddenly appears in cyberspace - with her beloved doll Frieda. Rumor Rumor and Miss Information take Frieda for the goddess Opxerevonnahs, whose arrival they have been hoping for - they think she can save them from the end of the world. They steal the doll.

Twipsy falls in love for the first time in his life - with a light bulb. But it's a short-lived affair, because the light bulb breaks. Twipsy discovers the meaning of unrequited love, and suffers badly. Once he is over his grief, he realizes that there are still a great many interesting things in the real world, for instance "real" food - Twipsy's new passion.

Twipsy is just crazy about food. But enough is enough, and he stuffs himself until he falls sick and has a temperature. He has to get back to cyberspace fast, because after a certain time in the real world he would turn into another form of energy. Making one last raid on the refrigerator, he falls into a mousetrap and can't get out. Nick, Lissie and Albert find him at the last moment.

Twipsy borrows Nick's new bike and takes it into cyberspace, to show it to his friends there. They have a great time with this strange mechanism - until the E-mail Snatchers come and steal the bike. Nick is beginning to wonder why Twipsy isn't back, and sets out into cyberspace himself.

Nick orders a pair of hockey pads on the Internet, but they never arrive. Jack and Jill, the website online construction workers, are so bored they have mixed up several orders, creating confusion in the real world. A new car is suddenly delivered to Dr. Walker instead of the ring she was to have had for her wedding anniversary. Twipsy sorts out the chaos and gets the orders straight.

Love conquers all, even in cyberspace: Miss Information is only too keen on reading other people's e-mail love letters, and she falls madly in love with Twipsy herself. In the end Lissie has to travel into cyberspace to save poor Twipsy from a very awkward situation - just as Lissie arrives, Miss Information is pressing him to marry her! But Lissie introduces herself as Twipsy's wife.

Albert plans to make a great impression at a Science Fair with a fossil. He gives Twipsy his rare fossil, asking him to find out more about it. Twipsy discovers the wanted information in cyberspace, but loses the original fossil in a wild chase when he is pursued by the hungry Data Eater. Twipsy returns to the real world - with the information, but no fossil.

Mrs Barkhorn plans to sell her house and move away, much to the chagrin of Albert and the delight of Herbie. Albert and Twipsy try to persuade potential buyers that the house is in a very bad state of repair. They set mousetraps, make the air smell horrible with moldy cheese, and leave the tap dripping. At first the buyers don't seem impressed.