Episode Listing
| Date | Episode title | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 5 October 1984 | (1) Elspeth and Angus Meet the Loch Ness Monster | the first story is where we first meet the Loch Ness monster - or rather the whole family. One day whilst Elspeth and Angus are playing down by the Loch side they spot a large mound, only it isn't a mound, it's Silly-Ness, who's always getting stuck in holes. For helping to rescue Silly-Ness, the Queen Nessy gives the children two "Thistle Whistles" (The thistle being the symbol of Scotland). When ever they need help they can just call on the Nessies. So they blow the whistles and we see just how many Nessies there really are in the Loch. |
| 12 October 1984 | (2) Professor Dumpkopf's Underwater Telescope | Professor Dumkopf is up to his old tricks searching for the Loch Ness Monster, this time with an underwater telescope dangling from a balloon. Scared that Silly Ness might give the game away the children call on the Nessies to warn them. Fortunately Ferocious-Ness - the original Loch Ness monster comes to their aid. |
| 19 October 1984 | (3) Elspeth and Angus Buy a Puppy | A gypsy is passing the loch, and Elspeth and Angus are appalled that he has a poor wee dog attached to the caravan who is being made to run along side. They ask the gypsy if they can have the puppy, and he says they can buy it. As they don't have enough money Eager-Ness searches on the bottom of the loch for coins. Most of what he drags up are bottle tops, however there is one gold coin. |
| 26 October 1984 | (4) Ferocious-ness Changes His Colour | Ferocious Ness likes to hide in bushes and scare passers by - that is until he shows off the fact he can change colour and finds he can't change back again. It's up to Angus and Elspeth to hid him until he does (before Sergeant McFuzz, Mr McTout and the two frightened firemen return). |
| 2 November 1984 | (5) Ferocious-ness and the Look-a-Like Contest | When Ferocious-Ness happens to sit on the children's model of the Loch Ness Monster, he has to take its place in the Monster Look-a-like competition. And gets very annoyed when he doesn't win since the Mayor and Mayoress give the third prize for the MacTout kids who have their nice try! and then when Ferocious-Ness goes back in the Loch, he scares the Mayoress by waving at her on the ferris wheel. |
| 9 November 1984 | (6) Clever-ness Helps with the Homework | When the two children struggle with their maths homework, Clever-Ness helps them work out their problems, during the session Mr and Mrs Flashback take a photo for their local paper, the next morning Mr MacTout is pleased when their homework is done but a bit angry when he sees the monsters hand photo in his article on the paper. |
| 16 November 1984 | (7) Speedy-Ness Saves the Day | Mr McTout enters the local Bagpipe competition, but when he gets on the bus forgets to take his bagpipes with him. Only Speedy-Ness can help, along with an enthusiastic Sporty-Ness to scare four fisherman away to get Sergeant McFuzz (by phoning him to tell a truthful joke) then Elspeth and Angus finally get to the bagpipe contest to give their father his bagpipes at last |
| 23 November 1984 | (8) Ferocious-Ness Loses His Roar | When Elspeth and Angus find Ferocious-Ness hiding in the bushes squeaking to himself (after scaring a lorry driver away to the McTout Cottage), they help the queen prepare a soothing concoction to help his throat with a honey and lemons cure to bring his roar back to scare the four picnickers away. |
| 30 November 1984 | (9) Baby-Ness Gets the Measles | Elspeth and Angus can't find the Nessies, until they spot Careful-Ness hiding in the woods. It turns out Baby-Ness has given them all measles. The two children go to buy sticky sweets to cheer Baby-Ness up, but on their way they are spotted by nasty Willie McFuzz, son of Sargent McFuzz, and his friend Tubby. The two follow Elspeth and Angus to steal their sweets - not bargaining for finding a huge spotty monster at the end! |
| 7 December 1984 | (10) Silly-Ness and the Bubble Machine | |
| 14 December 1984 | (11) Ferocious-Ness and the Sound Machine | |
| 21 December 1984 | (12) Clever-Ness and the Curling Championship | |
| 3 January 1985 | (13) The Maze of Urquhart Castle | |
| 10 January 1985 | (14) Professor Dumkopf Makes a Monster Film | |
| 17 January 1985 | (15) Professor Dumkopf and his Amazing Cannonball | |
| 24 January 1985 | (16) Sporty-Ness and the Highland Games | |
| 31 January 1985 | (17) Hungry-Ness and the Diving Bell | |
| 7 February 1985 | (18) Professor Dumkopf and the Hungry Monster | |
| 14 February 1984 | (19) Clumsy-Ness Upsets Captain Standfast | |
| 21 February 1984 | (20) Angus and the Monster Kite | |
| 28 February 1985 | (21) Captain Standfast and the Golden Key | |
| 7 March 1985 | (22) Thirsty-Ness and the Part-Time Witch | Elspeth and Angus discover a path leading to a hidden cottage. They meet a part-time witch - she's also a bus conductor. She is trying to make an invisibility spell, but is having not much luck, as she is missing an essential ingredient - a spot from the tail of the Loch Ness monster. Elspeth and Angus go and call on Ferocious-Ness, who gives them a spot from his arm. The witch tries the potion but finds that only her bottom half disappears, as the spot wasn't from the tail. She decides to give up on magic and tips her cauldron over, the liquid pouring into the loch. Thirsty-Ness appears and having drunk the water promptly disappears - well half of him anyway! |
| 14 March 1985 | (23) Baby-Ness and the Mayor's Statue | |
| 21 March 1985 | (24) Captain Standfast and the Stowaway | Her-Highness decides to pay a visit to her cousin in China and stows away on Captain Standfast's boat headed out to sea. Unfortunately she forgets her handbag and it's up to the Children to get it before the boat leaves dock. |
| 28 March 1985 | (25) You'll Never Find a Nessie in a Zoo | The final episode of the series doesn't have much of a plot, but is more a blatant attempt to sell the single. Elspeth and Angus spot a poster in the village for a Zoo visiting Inverness, and go to see it passing through the village. at the end Feroucious Ness waves a sad goodbye to Angus and Elspeth (which was how the actual series of the Family Ness ended). |
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