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In the remote and mysterious Moominvalley live the Moomins, gentle and peaceful creatures. Young Moomintroll and his family experience many strange adventures, both magical and mundane.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Moomin Season 1 Episode 12 - The Pirate
    6.4/10(60 votes)

    #1 - The Pirate

    S1:E12

    Moominvalley is hit by a terrible storm, and an old sailing ship is wrecked offshore, finally sinking. But, it is no usual ship - she is seen flying a black flag with a skull and crossbones. The pirates have made it to the shore unhurt and trouble starts when the captain, a terrible villain, grabs Snorkmaiden and holds her hostage, demanding a new getaway ship from the people in Moominvalley. The Inspector is frantic and helpless and it is left to Moomin to bring about her rescue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  2. Moomin Season 2 Episode 2 - The Girl with Birds
    6.7/10(24 votes)

    #2 - The Girl with Birds

    S2:E2

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Masaaki Sakurai

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  3. Moomin Season 2 Episode 7 - The Beach
    6.9/10(19 votes)

    #3 - The Beach

    S2:E7

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Masaaki Sakurai

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  4. Moomin Season 2 Episode 3 - A Wind of Freedom
    7.0/10(20 votes)

    #4 - A Wind of Freedom

    S2:E3

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Masaaki Sakurai

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  5. Moomin Season 2 Episode 1 - The Ring on a Finger
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #5 - The Ring on a Finger

    S2:E1

    The Moomins are back with more exciting adventures and your favourite characters! In the first episode "The Ring" Moomin gets closer to doing something he never thought he'd do...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Shiramizu

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  6. Moomin Season 2 Episode 10 - The Circle of Secrets
    7.1/10(18 votes)

    #6 - The Circle of Secrets

    S2:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hiroko Naka

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  7. Moomin Season 1 Episode 43 - The Prima Donna
    7.2/10(40 votes)

    #7 - The Prima Donna

    S1:E43

    Torrential rains have once again caused massive flooding in Moominvalley. Even a circus was washed away. With their last ounce of strength, an artist and her horse managed to save themselves by reaching the vicinity of the Moomins' house. Moomin is completely enchanted by the equestrian artist. Snorkmaiden has to work hard to bring him back down to earth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Naoko Miyake

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  8. Moomin Season 2 Episode 4 - Mr Caramel
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #8 - Mr Caramel

    S2:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hiroko Naka

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  9. Moomin Season 2 Episode 9 - The Time Travel Machine
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #9 - The Time Travel Machine

    S2:E9

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Fuyunori Gobu

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  10. Moomin Season 1 Episode 50 - The Imp
    7.3/10(35 votes)

    #10 - The Imp

    S1:E50

    Hidden deep in the forests of Moominvalley, an old tree stump has stood for more than 500 years. Leaves have not grown on it for as long as anyone can remember, and yet the old tree refuses to rot away. The elders in the valley remember that there is something special about the tree. One day, Moomin and his friends are playing hide-and-seek near the old tree stump—there is hardly any other place in the forest that is so mysterious—and they discover that there is indeed still life slumbering in the tree's ruins.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  11. Moomin Season 1 Episode 15 - Snorkmaiden's Lost Memory
    7.4/10(62 votes)

    #11 - Snorkmaiden's Lost Memory

    S1:E15

    During a spell of rainy weather Snorkmainden has crammed herself with stories about princesses and chivalrous knights. On the first sunny day she and Moomin climb a mountain, where Snorkmaiden sees what she believes is, an Edelweiss. Needless to say it isn't (no such things in Moominvalley), but they have to climb down to get it. Snorkmaiden slips, rolls down the mountainside and winds up in a faint. When she comes to she has forgotten all, and thinks she is of royal blood...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  12. Moomin Season 1 Episode 17 - A Change of Air
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #12 - A Change of Air

    S1:E17

    Bored stiff with calm, sunny weather and stuck in his memoirs, Moominpappa craves adventure. Stinky decides to comply and provides a set of gigantic footsteps, leading up from the sea to Moominhouse. This creates a diversion, but is not enough and Moominpappa decides he and Moominmamma should elope (they never did it before because they had no one to elope from). Stealing off in the middle of the night they leave Moomin to fend for himself, something he doesn't manage all that well. Sniff and Little My help him cook and it is probably a very good thing that his parents haven't managed to get very far...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  13. Moomin Season 1 Episode 27 - Aunt Jane
    7.4/10(55 votes)

    #13 - Aunt Jane

    S1:E27

    One day, Moominpappa gets a very rare thing, a letter! It is from Aunt Jane, a stinkingly rich relative of whom Moominpappa is rather scared. She is great on duty, and particularly on one's duty to money, so Moominpappa packs a knapsack and flees before she arrives. And very wisely, too, for she wants Moominpappa to look after her gold doubloons when she gets too old! There are, however, those in Moominvalley who need gold for their pet projects - and those who need gold just because they like it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  14. Moomin Season 2 Episode 6 - Sand Sculptures
    7.4/10(20 votes)

    #14 - Sand Sculptures

    S2:E6

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hiroko Naka

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  15. Moomin Season 1 Episode 3 - The Discovery of a Wrecked Ship
    7.5/10(97 votes)

    #15 - The Discovery of a Wrecked Ship

    S1:E3

    Moomin and his friends go mountain climbing, encounter a very depressed Hemulen, sunk in gloom because his stamp collection is finally complete and he has nothing more to collect They learn from him about a sailboat wrecked on the beach. They start repairing the boat, hoping to sail the seven seas. Deciding to start collecting plants instead, Hemulen gets over his depression, and they all go for a trial sail.

    Director:Itaru Saito
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  16. Moomin Season 1 Episode 11 - The Wings
    7.5/10(69 votes)

    #16 - The Wings

    S1:E11

    Snorkmaiden's brother has finished planning his flying ship, and has constructed a pair of wings so he himself can try out his theories, jumping of from the highest cliff in Moominvalley. But he is not the only one to think that flying is great - Stinky would like the wings for very Stinky-like purposes...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  17. Moomin Season 1 Episode 41 - Crooks in Moomin Valley
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #17 - Crooks in Moomin Valley

    S1:E41

    Life in Moominvalley is far too peaceful for the police inspector. That's why the Moominvalley police station is to be closed down. Of course, Moomin and his friends don't want that to happen, so they come up with a plan to prevent the closure.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  18. Moomin Season 1 Episode 31 - The Big Explosion
    7.6/10(49 votes)

    #18 - The Big Explosion

    S1:E31

    One day, Muffel shows up in Moominvalley. He claims to be a famous inventor and is looking for his "fellow inventor" Snork to show him his latest invention, a super fuel. However, Snork suspects a trick.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  19. Moomin Season 1 Episode 33 - The Spirit in the Lamp
    7.6/10(47 votes)

    #19 - The Spirit in the Lamp

    S1:E33

    Moomin and Snorkmaiden pass the time on the beach looking for shells. Moomin digs up an old oil lamp. He rubs it, just like in the fairy tale about the genie. They are hugely surprised when smoke actually billows out of the lamp and a real genie appears before them. And just like in the fairy tale, he grants Snorkmaiden's wish for a pearl necklace. But instead of conjuring up a new one for her, he prefers to steal Mrs. Fillyfjonk's necklace. Stinky also takes an interest in the thieving genie. For him, he is the ideal partner for doing dirty deeds.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  20. Moomin Season 1 Episode 34 - The Kite
    7.6/10(48 votes)

    #20 - The Kite

    S1:E34

    After a stormy night, the children find a tattered kite in the branches of a tree. Little Mü is very excited as they repair it. She has secretly come up with a brilliant idea: being small and light, it should be no problem for her to attach herself to the kite and fly up into the sky with it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  21. Moomin Season 1 Episode 40 - The Secret Fireworks
    7.6/10(42 votes)

    #21 - The Secret Fireworks

    S1:E40

    The pretty young girl wakes up from her deep sleep and says she is looking for Mr. Hemul. He, however, does not know the girl at all. At the moment, Mr. Hemul has other things on his mind. He is anxious because he is eagerly awaiting a letter from the Botanical Society. He hopes to receive confirmation that he has discovered an unknown plant. The arrival of the letter naturally gives rise to a huge surprise fireworks display, and the matter of the unknown girl and the nightly explosions is finally cleared up...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  22. Moomin Season 1 Episode 16 - A Close Encounter with Aliens
    7.7/10(64 votes)

    #22 - A Close Encounter with Aliens

    S1:E16

    One day a flying saucer lands in Moominmamma's vegetable garden. It is apparently unmanned and she and Moomin salvage a strange box-like apparatus which looks rather home-made, but which has many remarkable properties. The Inspector is on the war-path trying to nab extra-terrestrials and when the Moomins find one, a runaway child, they have to hide him, quickly deciding that he has probably not come to invade Moominvalley. Their task isn't made any easier by the fact that the box-like apparatus has now made the Inspector iridescent, this fascinating the child so that he follows the Inspector everywhere.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  23. Moomin Season 1 Episode 24 - Hurry Up Snufkin
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #23 - Hurry Up Snufkin

    S1:E24

    Wintering away from bed can't be very good for Moomins, for when spring comes Moomin has a terrible cold, and takes to bed when all the others get up. This year Snufkin is very late and Moomin worries far more than is good for him. Finally Snorkmaiden sets off to try and find Snufkin and bring him back, hoping this would bring about a speedy recovery. Stinky makes a bedside call, and agrees to help Moomin go out to look for Snufkin. Poor Stinky - he learns that when you have a bad reputation good deeds don't really help much.

    Director:Itaru Saito
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  24. Moomin Season 2 Episode 24 - The Birthday Surprise
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #24 - The Birthday Surprise

    S2:E24

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Fuyunori Gobu

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  25. Moomin Season 1 Episode 1 - The Moomin Valley in Spring
    7.8/10(138 votes)

    #25 - The Moomin Valley in Spring

    S1:E1

    Spring has come to Moominvalley, and Moomin and his family come out of their winter hibernation. Up in Lonely Mountains Moomin, Snufkin, Sniff and Little My find a large top Hat, which they bring home. Too big to be worn they use it as a waste paper basket, but it is a Hat of magical qualities, and anything thrown into it changes into something completely different...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Pirate" is the worst rated episode of "Moomin". It scored 6.4/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Akira Miyazaki, it aired on 6/28/1990. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Girl with Birds".