The Best Episodes Written By Shozo Matsuda

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   #1 - The Last Dragon on Earth

   S1:E137/5/1990

   After a tremendous downpour Moomin finds a very small dragon in a puddle. Smothering this most exotic of pets with love he expects great devotion in return, but finds that love is a fickle thing indeed, and particularly difficult to contain in a glass jar.

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   #2 - A Change of Air

   S1:E178/2/1990

   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...

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   #3 - Aunt Jane

   S1:E2710/11/1990

   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.

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   #4 - The Floating Theatre

   S1:E2810/25/1990

   An underwater volcano off the coast threatens Moominvalley. A huge cloud of smoke signals that the volcano is active again, and shortly afterwards a tidal wave sweeps over the land. Only the top floor of the Moomin house is visible above the water, and the Moomin family, Sniff, Snorkmaiden, and Little My save themselves by climbing onto a house that is floating by. As the Moomins explore their floating home, they discover that it is a theater.

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   #5 - The Lost Children

   S1:E2911/1/1990

   When Moomin and Snorkmaiden wake up, the floating theater has disappeared. They are alone, surrounded by a vast watery desert. The floating house hits a rock, and the violent jolt causes Little My to fall overboard. The current sweeps them away. To find the lost children, Moominpappa and Moominmamma look for a way to make as many people as possible aware of their fate. Cleaning lady Emma has a good idea: what if everyone performed a new play together? The title would have to be "The Lost Children."

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   #6 - Midsummer

   S1:E3011/8/1990

   Moominpappa finds writing plays very difficult. He spends hours writing page after page, only for them to end up in the trash. The lost children have been put behind bars for tearing down the prohibition signs in a park. When their prison guard wants to attend the premiere of Moominpappa's new play in the evening, the children want to use the opportunity to escape.

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   #7 - Dame Elaine

   S1:E462/21/1991

   Moominpappa has inherited a real castle from a distant relative. He doesn't really want to accept the inheritance, but when he learns that ghosts are haunting the castle, he changes his mind. No monster awaits him as the castle ghost, but rather Lady Ellen, who has been inhabiting the old walls for seven centuries now. So it's no surprise that the gracefully floating night ghost is a real chatterbox, looking for someone to talk to.

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   #8 - The Water Nymph

   S1:E534/4/1991

   One day, in the aftermath of the gold fever, Sniff walks off upstream to look for gold in the river-bed. He gets lost in a thick mist, and suddenly comes upon a small pond, created by a pile of driftwood. What he sees there makes him completely spell-bound and he walks home in a trance. Learning about this Moomin tails Sniff when he goes back next day - and finds himself spell-bound in just the same way. This happens to most men in Moominvalley, until the women decide they have to do something about it - but before they can act Nature decides to take a hand.

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   #9 - Mymble's Diamond

   S1:E544/18/1991

   Mymble has found a ring on the ground with a big, sparkling stone and gives it in to the Inspector. When no one comes forth to claim it he gives it to her and she is very, very happy, deciding it must be a diamond. She parades it all around Moominvalley, until she is informed by Fillyjonk that if one has a huge diamond like that one must dress accordingly. Not only that, but one must behave accordingly and live accordingly and even though Mymble is helped by Little My and Stinky she soon finds that although diamonds may be a girl's best friend, they should be so in moderation..

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    #10 - Moominpappa's Second Youth

    S1:E554/25/1991

    One day something remarkable happens in Moominvalley, Moominpappa goes for a walk without his hat. When made aware of this he is greatly distressed, fearing that his forgetfulness is a sign of approaching senility. he takes up the most strenuous physical exercises to regain his lost faculties, and makes day into night in an attempt to get out of the ruts of his life. To get him back to normal takes quite a jolt; a very gently one which is administered by Moominmamma - who else ?

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    #11 - Motherly Love

    S1:E575/9/1991

    Two little waifs - abandoned in the woods by their evil step-mother if one is to believe them - are found on the Moominhouse porch. This sad occurrence might have been handled better if Snorkmaiden hadn't just finished reading a book about Motherhood, a book which kept her up all night, filling her bosom with strange feelings. She clasps the children to her, smothering them in motherly love and it takes - even for Snorkmaiden - unusually long to find out that children are much like grown-ups; there are nice ones and then those less nice.

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    #12 - Adventures of Moominpappa: Part 1

    S1:E595/23/1991

    As it seems Moominpappa has left his turbulent youth out of his memoirs (with the usual self aggrandizement of autobiographers he thought them too turbulent for print), he one day decides to at least tell about it so it won't be completely lost to posterity. We learn about his escape from the terrible orphanage and how he meets Fredriksson and sails off with him in his ship "The Oshun Oxtra" (his friend the Fuddler isn't a very good speller), how they managed to launch the ship and, finally, whom Moominpappa inadvertently managed to rescue.

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    #13 - Adventures of Moominpappa: Part 2

    S1:E636/20/1991

    The Moomins and their friends have gone down to the beach, and looking out over the sea Moominpappa is reminded of his youthful life as an adventurer. The appearance of the Niblings saves him from the predicament we left him in last time, but no sooner is that danger past when a storm hits the "Oshun Oxtra", finally stranding our friends in an island kingdom far away. They go to the ruler's hundredth anniversary in the Park of Surprises, and by royal decree become new settlers. Moominpappa builds a house, but only to find that it is haunted...

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    #14 - Adventures of Moominpappa: Part 3

    S1:E688/1/1991

    Again, Moominpappa is talked into telling the others about his stormy youth - never a difficult task with autobiographers. He tells us about how the Fuddler met the Muddle and how they came to share the buttons and the coffee tin; about the re-appearance of the ghost and how he came to share quarters with Moominpappa, about how Fredriksson finally finished his new Oshun Oxtra which brought them up first into the air and then down into the sea, from which they were saved by Edward the Booble, and last, how he came to meet the charming young Moomin maiden who later was to become Moominmamma.

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