It Wasn't Me | |
Series 1, Episode 14 | |
Air Date | 23 September 1999 |
Writer | Trish Cooke |
Director | Kay Benbow |
Previous | Rockpool |
Next | Noise & Quiet |
It Wasn't Me is the fourteenth episode of the first series. It first aired on September 23, 1999.
Plot[]
Max brings a marionette puppet to show the Tweenies and it asks to make their own puppet show. The marionette is delicate. and they are warned not to play with it. so they must be careful. However. Bella accidentally breaks one of the strings. hides the puppet in Doodles's beanbag. When the Tweenies made the background forest and the puppet wolf, Max discovers that the marionette is missing and everyone looks for it. Everyone is about to give up until Bella makes up a story that Doodles broke the marionette. Max finds the marionette under Doodles' bag. Everyone is upset what Doodles did. Doodles says it wasn't him. Bella says it wasn't her and begins to cry. Max tells Milo, Fizz and Jake to clean up while he talks to Bella.
Max wants Bella to tell the truth as he suspects that she wanted to play with the marionette. Bella eventually owns up and reveals she didn't tell because she knew Max would be angry. Max says he's not angry but sad, not because Bella broke the marionette, he's sad because she told a lie. Bella says she didn't mean to tell a lie, it just came out. Max says it wasn't fair to let Doodles get the blame for what Bella did. Bella apologizes to Doodles, and soon he forgives her. Max phones for a better marionette that is less delicate not shown. and soon enough he shouts to the Tweenies that he has fixed it. They tell the story of "The Boy who Cried Wolf".
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Trivia[]
- This is the first episode that Bella cries.
External links[]
- Radio Times listing: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1c5b158299264edb9a6ef065e0578933