ChuckleVision

- Season 16

(2004)

The Chuckle Brothers are putting a wishing well in No Slacking's garden when Barry conjures up Peat, a mischievous leprechaun ,which only he can see, and which sabotages Paul's hard work. When he eventually becomes generally visible the leprechaun creates a beautiful garden but becomes enraged when No Slacking starts to dig for his pot of gold.

Barry and Paul are being featured in a documentary for television called 'Away From It All', following their efforts to renovate an old house and turn it into a pottery studio. Needless to say it is a chapter of accidents and the pottery Paul has supposedly made himself has been bought in. When presenter Ruth England returns to update the brothers' progress she gets a few messy surprises.

Paul and Barry are running the Chuck Wagon, a roadside refreshment caravan, which they have trouble stabilising and they have a food fight even before their first customer arrives. The home-made pie he ordered is perfection itself . . . until put on the table.

As a result of Paul's latest foolish get-rich-quick scheme Barry ends up getting shrunk to only a foot high. Initially they capitalise on this by taking him around to give shows and demonstrations but then he catches the eye of the villainous Sharkey Esquire who is also keen to exploit him and who abducts Barry.

Barry succeeds in rescuing the miniaturised Barry from the villainous Sharkey Esquire. However, he still has to get him back to his normal size and Sharkey still has Paul's invention to enable miniaturisation. Paul has to get it back by accepting the challenges that Sharkey throws at him.

Walking in the woods Paul and Barry meet motherly Mrs. Cacklebury, who asks them to tea in her cottage. Barry is convinced that she is a witch, fattening them up with cream cakes to eat them, but Paul dismisses this as nonsense. However, drugged tea causes Paul to pass out and Barry has to get them both out of the clutches of Mrs. Cacklebury - or her twin sister.

The Chuckle Brothers are running a two-star hotel with Paul as the manager and Barry as everything else. They have two guests, Maurice, an astronomer who wants to stay up all night to look at Uranus and euphonium player Marsha, but there is only one room, so they shuffle the two guests around. Fortunately all ends well when the guests turn out to be a married couple.

The Chuckle Brothers are running a coffee stall but feel threatened by Italian gangster Barry Vaderci, who sends his hit-man Garibaldi after them. They go into hiding - in cardboard boxes - but are rounded up by Garibaldi and taken to his boss, who makes them an offer they can't refuse.

Eighteenth-century barbers Barry and Paul accidentally deliver Sir Percy, the heroic Purple Pimple, into Robespierre's clutches on the day he is marrying Countess LeBlanc. To make amends they assist the countess in a dramatic rescue - dressed as a pantomime cow - but they too are caught and sentenced to Devil's Island. Luckily for them the countess is an expert sword fighter - and Barry isn't too bad either.

On a visit to the dentist - who looks like Paul - Barry swallows a fly. When he visits the hospital Professor Flitcroft tells him it is a Nicaraguan firefly and will swell up if he drinks fizzy pop. Following this revelation Barry creates havoc in the hospital before waking up to find he has dreamt it all but still has to visit the dentist.

The Chuckle Brothers are competing in a cross-country marathon and Paul aims to beat Barry by cheating - stalling him, as well as stealing a shopping trolley, a skateboard and a motor-bike. However, when the pair approach the Finish line, retribution is waiting for Paul - or rather, the people whose items he stole.

Whilst they are staying with their friend Mrs. Finnegan, Paul and Barry decide to enter for the annual worm-charming competition. However, their main opponent Mr. Block is known to cheat and the Chuckle Brothers have to overcome him and expose his tactics as a can of worms.

Dan the Van, covered from head to foot in bandages, needs to attend an important meeting and Paul and Barry collect him from the hospital to take him. On the way they are attacked by sinister men in black, almost lose Dan in a quicksand and meet a cafe owner who thinks they are Ant and Dec. But they get Dan home on time.

The brothers are working as waiters for No Slacking and customer Mr. Naza gives Barry an odd-looking ring, with the instruction not to touch it. This is too much for Paul who believes it has magic powers and will make him a king. In fact there is a far more mundane reason not to touch it.

Tuba-playing period sleuth Sherlock Chuckle and his assistant Dr.Barry are on the trail of a jewel thief and Sherlock is convinced the culprit is Police Sergeant Potts. He tries to set traps for Potts but each time he is proved wrong. Finally, more by luck than by design he catches the real thief, winning a cruise on board the 'Titanic' as his reward.