Season 1 aired from 1990 to 1991. Even though Pingu is a children's television series, some of the episodes have been censored before they reached UK television: some episodes were even banned completely from being shown. For a full list, see Pingu Censorship
Episodes[1][2]
| Screenshot | Title of episode | Production year | Episode | ||
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Hello, Pingu | 1988 | #1 | ||
| Pingu's red rubber ball gets stolen by a pair of bullies. | |||||
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Pingu Looks After the Egg | 1988 | #2 | ||
| Pingu is egg-sitting while his parents are out. | |||||
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The New Arrival | 1988 | #3 | ||
| Pingu's new sister, Pinga, is born. | |||||
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Pingu Goes Fishing | 1988 | #4 | ||
| Pingu goes fishing and makes a new friend. | |||||
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Pingu Delivers the Mail | 1989 | #5 | ||
| Pingu helps his father to deliver the post. | |||||
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Jealousy | 1989 | #6 | ||
| Pingu is jealous because his Mother gives Pinga all her attention. | |||||
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Hide and Seek | 1989 | #7 | ||
| Pingu and Robby have a snowball fight. | |||||
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Lost Baby | 1989 | #8 | ||
| While playing with his friend, Pingu's sister Pinga runs away! | |||||
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Pingu Plays Fish Tennis | 1989 | #9 | ||
| Pingu and Robby play with an enormous fish. | |||||
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Barrel of Fun | 1989 | #10 | ||
| Pingu and Robby have fun riding in a broken old barrel. | |||||
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Ice Hockey | 1989 | #11 | ||
| Pingu and his friends play an ice hockey game. | |||||
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Pingu and Pinga Stay Up | 1990 | #12 | ||
| Pingu and Pinga try to avoid going to bed. | |||||
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Skiing | 1990 | #13 | ||
| Pingu has fun with skis, but is he any good at skiing? | |||||
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Pingu Runs Away | 1990 | #14 | ||
| Pingu is punished and decides to run away but ends up getting lost and scared. | |||||
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Building Igloos | 1990 | #15 | ||
| Pingu and Pingo decide to build an igloo but cannot agree on where to build it. | |||||
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Music Lessons | 1990 | #16 | ||
| Pingu pulls an accordion out of the toy chest, but the noise is awful when he plays it. | |||||
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Pingu's Ice Cave | 1990 | #17 | ||
| Pingu and his friend get trapped in an ice tunnel. | |||||
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Sledging | 1990 | #18 | ||
| Pingu has difficulty with his sledge but knows how to solve the problem. | |||||
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Little Accidents | 1990 | #19 | ||
| Pingu rushes to the loo because he has drank too much, but his father is in the bathroom. | |||||
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School Time | 1990 | #20 | ||
| Robby goes to school with Pingu. | |||||
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Grandpa is Ill | 1991 | #21 | ||
| Grandfather is sick, so Pingu and Pinga go with their mother to look after him. | |||||
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Pingu's Circus | 1991 | #22 | ||
| Pingu, Pinga and Robby play at putting on a circus. | |||||
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Pingu and the Barrel Organ | 1991 | #23 | ||
| Pingu goes shopping for poor Mr. Peng-Hoven. | |||||
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Noise | 1991 | #24 | ||
| Pingu and his friends are playing ball, but they do not notice how loud they are. | |||||
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Pingu and Pinga at Home | 1991 | #25 | ||
| Pingu and Pinga have a party while their father and mother go to a concert. | |||||
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Pingu's Dream | 1991 | #26 | ||
| Pingu has a nightmare of a huge walrus! | |||||
Releases
iTunes artwork
Physical Home Video
From 1991-1992, The series was released across three VHS tapes by BBC Video in the United Kingdom.
Select episodes from this season were featured on the UK compilation DVD and VHS "Pingu Forever!" released in August 2003.
Later, The entire series was released on DVD in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand under the title "Classic Collection" (The Complete Series One in the United Kingdom and Ireland).
Digital retail
The complete series is currently available to purchase on iTunes in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Streaming
The complete series is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Kidstream worldwide and Play RSI in Italy. The series (along with the next 5 seasons and the A Very Special Wedding special) has played on Pop Up, a linear streaming network available through EE TV, Freeview, Freely, LG Channels, Plex, Pluto TV, Netgem TV and Samsung TV Plus in the United Kingdom.
Trivia
- In the mid 1990s, due to the new soundtrack and voicing made for Season 3, Season 1's audio was re-done and the title sequence was replaced with a section of David Hasselhoff's "The Pingu Dance".
- When this series and possibly all the other classic seasons aired on CBeebies since 2002, The episodes we're cropped and presented in 14:9 ("halfway widescreen").[3]
Gallery
(found on Pingu and His Friends)
(found on Pingu Has Fun)
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