Bertha - Season 1

First aired: 4/1/1985 13 episodes

Episodes

1. The Great Painting Job

Aired: 4/1/1985

Bertha is making jixsaw puzzles, only to leave pieces back and making a picture of her own, so the workers have to re-do the puzzles. Meanwhile, Mr. Sprot's assistant Tracey designs a handy robot called TOM to help Mr. Wilmake and Miss. MacClakety paint their office.

2. The Windmills

Aired: 4/15/1985

Bertha is making Musical Windmill Money Boxes which plays music whenever money is put in. However, Roy discovers that when the money's in, you can't get it out! Everyone thinks that the Windmills are not designed properly. Meanwhile, Flo loses her purse with all her money in it...

3. A Mouse in the Works

Aired: 4/22/1985

Bertha is making Jack-in-the-boxes that fail to stay inside the box! When Panjit loads the remaining toys to the dispatch department, he sees holes in the boxes. Roy, asking for a tin of glue, rushes off to tell Mr. Duncan about the situation. It's soon discovered that a mouse is venturing around the factory, chewing on things and creeping inside Bertha! So Mr. Sprot has to design a mouse trap...

4. The Best Machine Competition

Aired: 4/29/1985

Bertha is making Spinning Tops that won't stop spinning! Meanwhile, Mr. Sprot is asked to make 'The Most Unusual Toy' by Mr. Wilmake. Mr. Duncan, the foreman, decides that the new Super Bumper Compresser Machine should do the job, which upsets Bertha...

5. Tom Gets Lost

Aired: 5/13/1985

Tom the robot causes confusion when a magnet upsets his circuitry.

6. The Flying Bear

Aired: 5/20/1985

Why are the plastic bears made by Bertha getting bigger and bigger?

7. The Tea Nurse

Aired: 6/3/1985

Bertha has a faulty lever, but Mrs Tupp comes to the rescue.

8. More Speed, Less Work

Aired: 11/5/1985

Mr Duncan does a time and motion study whilst Bertha makes garden gnomes and a special gnome for Panjid.

9. The Big Order

Aired: 11/12/1985

Bertha has to make 365 new springs, but Tom and Roy have trouble with the twanging steel.

10. The Burglars

Aired: 11/19/1985

Bertha is making Jumping Kangaroos. When Ted accidently sets one off, the others in the boxes jump around the factory! When the batteries run down, it's closing time, so Ted stops Bertha and they go home. That night, however, TOM spots burglars enter the factory and into Mr. Wilmake's safe...

11. Bertha's Birthday Party

Aired: 11/26/1985

Bertha is busy making cuckoo clocks when Miss McClackerty discovers that it's time for a birthday celebration.

12. The Big Sneeze

Aired: 4/16/1986

Bertha gets so cold that the beach balls she makes look like snowballs.

13. Tom's New Friend

Aired: 6/18/1986

Mrs Tupp is cross about a new machine that is delivered, but Tom thinks that it is a new friend.