TV season
2001-09-08
Episode 1
2001-09-08 • 30 min
During a sleepover, Harold tells George and Becky that the Shrinks house was haunted a century ago. When eerie noises start coming from the attic that night, the two friends build a ghost-catching contraption and set out to trap whatever is up there.
Episode 2
2001-09-15 • 30 min
For a school project, George and Becky plant bean sprouts in Perdita's vegetable garden, only to see them attacked by one pest after another. When the sprouts start vanishing from below, George tunnels underground in a drilling machine to find the thief.
Episode 3
2001-09-22 • 30 min
Becky's surprise party is George's to plan, and he has handed out a task to everyone. Then her mother arrives with the gift, a lively puppy called Daisy, and leaves her in his care, giving George a runaway pup to manage on top of getting everything ready in time.
Episode 4
2001-09-29 • 30 min
George is inadvertently mailed around the world.
Episode 5
2001-10-06 • 30 min
While the whole town digs through its old junk for an antiques show, George and Becky find half of a treasure map tucked inside a 1931 comic book. Tracking down the missing half means reuniting two childhood friends who can no longer agree on anything.
Episode 6
2001-10-13 • 30 min
Told he is too small to play piano in the band at the charity talent show, George builds a one-of-a-kind instrument with Harold. As they keep bolting on more and more sounds, the contraption threatens to become too much to handle.
Episode 7
2001-10-20 • 30 min
On a family camping trip, Harold entrusts George with a compass handed down from his own father. George soon loses it in the stream while helping a tangled bullfrog, and then spots Harold drifting downriver, asleep in a boat with no paddle.
Episode 8
2001-10-27 • 30 min
George brings a frog home to observe for his science fair project, but his subject unexpectedly lays around two thousand eggs. As the tadpoles hatch and grow legs, the Shrinks household is steadily overrun and George struggles to keep his project under control.
Episode 9
2001-11-03 • 30 min
As the town spruces up its hall for the centennial, a visiting repairman tries to restart the tower clock, silent for a hundred years and rumored to be hexed. When his repair robot is lost inside the works, George volunteers to climb in instead.
Episode 10
2001-11-10 • 30 min
While Aunt Eunice babysits on the night of a meteor shower, a tiny spaceship crashes into the backyard pond. George must help its stranded young pilot reach the mothership before the shower peaks, while two alien trackers close in on the neighborhood.
Episode 11
2001-11-17 • 30 min
With the winter's biggest blizzard on the way, George and Becky stock food and rig alarms so they can watch over the backyard animals from indoors. Then the storm knocks out the power and threatens the shelter they built for the birds.
Episode 12
2001-11-24 • 30 min
George races the Zoopercar in an R/C Race.
Episode 13
2001-12-01 • 30 min
George and Becky build an automated pet-washing machine to raise money for the local animal shelter. Among the crowd of animals is a scruffy stray that slips away after its bath, just as they realize it may be a missing prize dog.
