The Gumby Gang plunge into action again, but as usual their good ideas never turn out as they should! Steve, Debbie, Howie, and Bet decide to go and cheer up an old lady who's in hospital. Their visit is a great success, but on their way out they discover they've been entertaining the wrong old lady! When a Bird Show is held in their village, the gang borrow a parrot and enter it in the 'Most Talkative Bird' competition, with hilarious results. Then there's the day the river floods...
Lord Bellingham, Carsely's biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing ... Agatha is introduced to three old-timers Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry and Josephine Merriweather, whilst visiting the Carsley’s allotments. They are lamenting the neglected...