Episode Title:
Pinocchio Saves the Day.
Episode Description:
After the shipwreck Pinocchio washes ashore in Morocco where he's rescued by a girl who looks after him as he recovers from the ordeal, once he's able to go out she takes him to the puppet maker's shop to see if he can repair his hand. However the man is drunk and shouts at his son Dennis before tearfully admitting that he wishes he could make and repair puppets again, but hasn't been able to since children haven't been playing with them, which has caused him to drown his sorrows in alcohol. Dennis then gets the idea that children would buy puppets from his father again if all of their old ones were gone and sets to work organising a toy festival where all the children in town will create a bonfire and burn their old and broken toys and recruits two boys to help him break toys that are still good so they will be burnt at the festival; however both Pinocchio and the girl agree that burning broken toys is wrong and decide to boycott the festival, though they aren't able to convince Dennis to cancel it. Upset by both the injustice of the toy festival and the frightened cries of the broken toys Pinocchio goes to try and stop it and sees lights flying out of the pit the toys are being thrown into. These lights tell the forces of nature what the children plan to do, angering them that their gifts are being treated with such disrespect, and Pinocchio once more tells Dennis what he's doing is wrong, only for the children to try and throw him in the pit to be burnt with the other toys. However the forces of nature intervene and attack the children, but assure the puppet that he won't be harmed; he asks for the children to be spared as well since they've learnt their lesson, but a tree lashes out and strikes him, knocking off most of his limbs. The children realise their mistake, prompting Dennis to confess that the festival was an excuse to destroy toys so everyone would have to buy new ones from his father and offers to have him repair Pinocchio. After repairing the puppet Dennis' father sets to work repairing the other toys, glad to be working again he gives up drinking and reconciles with Dennis; seeing the now happy family reminds Pinocchio how much he misses his own father and he sets off to search for him again, not realising he's being followed by Sneeroff.
