Busytown Mysteries

2008 • CBS
4.2
54 reviews
G
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Season 2 episodes (26)

1 The Mystery of the Mumbling Mummy / The False Alarm Mystery
1/1/08
When Huckle and the gang hear strange mumbling voices in the Busytown Museum, it begins to look like it's coming from the new Mummy Exhibit. However, after tracking down the clues and putting them together, the sounds turn out to be the voices of the workmen echoing up through air vents from the basement. / The ice cream shop smoke alarm keeps going off but there's no fire to be found. Huckle and his mystery-solving team get the smoke alarm tested by Mr. Fix-it and he determines it's working properly. Huckle discovers the source of the smoke is a barbecue cart parked too close to the window outside.
2 The Missing Cookie Coupon Mystery / The Mystery of the Broken Boat
1/1/08
Mr. Rabbit makes up coupons for free cookies to celebrate the grand opening of his cookie shop and gives them to his young son to drop in the mailbox outside. But the coupons never arrive. After chasing down the clues from the mail carrier to the post office and back again, Huckle determines that Jr Rabbit mistakenly dropped the coupons into the trash container beside the mail box. / Something unknown crushes Oliver's model boat en route to the Busytown Craft Show. How could such a thing happen without Oliver seeing it?! Huckle, Lowly and Sally source out the clues and discover an icicle fell on it and melted away before anyone noticed it.
3 The Mislaid Sketchbook Mystery / The Hot and Cold Mystery
1/1/08
The kids search for the owner of a sketchbook that contains drawings done from a high point of view. After determining the artist wasn't drawing at the top of a ladder or up in a tree, they discover the sketchbook belongs to one of Busytown's tallest residents, Jeremy Giraffe. / A summer heat wave suddenly changes to winter-like weather, but only in Busytown. When Huckle, Sally and Lowly investigate why, they discover that hundreds of air conditioners installed by Mr. Fix-it have been accidently put in backwards, so they suck heat into buildings and blow cold air outside.
4 The Sandcastle Squasher / The Strange Ski Tracks Mystery
1/1/08
The kids' awesome sandcastle gets trampled overnight. A lone set of footprints along the beach leads to a prime suspect who claims not to have seen their sandcastle, yet he's carrying a big shell that once adorned it. As it turns out, no one touched their castle. The culprit was the rising waters of high tide. / When the gang discover a set of ski tracks that run on either side of trees, boulders and through fallen logs, Huckle leads Lowly and Sally in a quest to discover who could do such a thing. Ultimately they figure out that the tracks were made by two mice snowboarding side by side on mice size snowboards.
5 The Mysterious Colour Changing T-Shirt / The Metal Finger Mystery
1/1/08
The new yellow t-shirt that Sally planned on wearing for her portrait painting has mysteriously turned green. Huckle and Lowly help Sally look for clues as to how this colour-change happened. They discover that mixing different colours results in the creation of a new one. It turns out that the dye from a blue blanket turned the yellow shirt green in the washing machine. / A tall moving object has been banging into objects too low for it to pass under. Investigating the debris left behind, Huckle and his pals literally piece together clues and reconstruct a large bronze hand. It belongs on the arm of Mayor Fox's new statue, about to be unveiled at City Hall.
6 The ''Now You See It Now You Don't'' Mystery / The Mystery of the Missing Pirate Gold
1/1/08
All the balls at Farmer Patrick Pig's new mini putt are disappearing. After much investigation Huckle and the gang track the missing balls to Patrick's record breaking egg laying chicken. / Mr. Fix-It is using his metal detector to find coins in the sand of Busytown Beach. Even though he drops each one into his collectors sack as he finds them, he soon discovers his bag is empty! Huckle, Lowly and Sally set out to find out how someone could have taken them without Mr. Fix-It seeing. It turns out Mr. Fix-It repeatedly found the same coin which kept falling through a hole in his bag.
7 The Disappearing Dolly Mystery / The Vanishing Vehicle Mystery
1/1/08
Baby Sadie's dolly has mysteriously gone missing somewhere between home and the band shell in Busytown Park. Huckle and his team search for clues at all the places Sadie visited that day. They discover the dolly inside a grand piano that's playing a few sour notes. / Pig Will and Pig Won't can't figure out where their car went. While Huckle and his pals look for clues, Lowly's car disappears from the same spot. After staging an ambush, the kids discover that Miss Mouse towed the cars away because they were parked in a handicap space. It turns out that the sign designating the special parking space was knocked over by a pair of unobservant piggies.
8 The Busytown Lake Monster Mystery / The Bad Driver Mystery
1/1/08
It seems some sort of monster is causing havoc in Busytown Lake. The kids catch glimpses of it and find numerous finny footprints by the shoreline. However closer investigation reveals it to be Mr. Fix-it's latest invention - a swim fin-wheeled amphibious submarine car! / When a reckless driver does some off road damage around their Busytown neighborhood, Huckle and his pals resolve to track down who's responsible. The mystery is solved when the kids discover it's not a bad driver banging into things, its Mr. Fix-it's new self-propelled shopping carts, making their way back to the supermarket.
9 The Vanishing Hopscotch Mystery / The Hidden Treasure Mystery
1/1/08
Someone in Busytown Park got rid of Sally and Hilda's newly drawn hopscotch board. Huckle and Lowly set about helping the girls find out who's responsible. As it turns out the culprit isn't a who, but a what - the park's new sprinkler system washed the chalk drawing clean off the sidewalk. / A treasure is hidden somewhere in Mr. Gronkle's mansion. All anyone knows is that the secret hiding place has something to do with a rooster, an arrow and the number four. It turns out the treasure is hidden where the shadow of the arrow on the rooster weather vane points to four eggs on a garden statue.
10 Mystery of the Lost Camera / The Jellybean List Mystery
1/1/08
The kids try to find the owner of a camera using the photos for clues. All the pictures are sporting events, so they eventually find out the camera belongs to the sports reporter for the Busytown Bugle. / Sally wrote a list of contestants' guesses for her "How Many Jellybeans In The Jar" contest on a piece of paper which is now suddenly blank. After a trail of suspects and clues, Huckle discovers that she wrote the list with an invisible ink pen from Pig Will and Pig Won't's Magic Kit. When put under water her blank paper list "magically" reappears.
11 The Lost Key Mystery / The Door Knocker Mystery
1/1/08
Forgetful Mayor Fox has misplaced the giant key to the city that he's supposed to be presenting to a visiting astronaut. Huckle and his pals try to figure out where he set it down. They learn that Mayor Fox did one thing while touring a candy factory that required both his hands - stirring a huge pot of candy goo. Not far away they find a big chocolate-covered key. / A couple of Busytown residents are confounded by mysterious knocking at their doors. Huckle and his mystery-solving team attempt to find out who it is, but they're eluded at every turn. When they're drawn to a knocking sound in a treetop, the kids discover a noisy woodpecker. In the end, they learn it's that same bird responsible for all the door knocking.
12 The Red Spot Painter Mystery / The Teeny Weeny Piano Mystery
1/1/08
Red spots suddenly begin appearing on everything in Busytown from Mr. Rabbit's mail box to Hilda Hippo's roof! Huckle ultimately discovers that the red spots are really juice marks made from cherries falling from overhanging trees. / Sally finds a teeny weeny piano the size of her hand. As Huckle and Lowly help her try to figure out who it belongs to, they discover that it plays music when you wind it up. That leads Huckle to further figure that the tiny piano is, in fact, a musical jewelry box, a lost gift Peppino the pizza guy bought for his wife.
13 The Flattened Field Mystery / The Flying Potatoes Mystery
1/1/08
A mysterious giant circle appears in the middle of a corn field. Although Pig Will and Pig Won't are convinced it's the landing site of an alien flying saucer, Huckle puts the clues together and ultimately goes up in a hot air balloon to reveal the flattened area is actually Vincent Van Goat's latest artistic endeavor. / Potatoes are mysteriously dropping from the sky along one Busytown street. Huckle, Sally and Lowly investigate where they're coming from. In the end, it turns out that a faulty French fry slicer is flinging them from a block away.
14 The Totally Fishy Mystery / The Radio Message Mystery
1/1/08
The Pig Twins discover a puddle full of stranded goldfish. Huckle and his pals try to solve the mystery of where they came from. It turns out they were blasted out of the park fountain when an obstruction in the drain hole suddenly got unplugged. / Sgt. Murphy gets a broken message on his police radio. All they hear is 'goat...duck...socks...HELP!' It's only when Huckle and the gang realize that because different words can sound the same do they figure out that the message was really saying 'boat...stuck...rocks...HELP!
15 The Numbered Papers Mystery / The Sour Milk Mystery
1/1/08
The kids find some numbered papers blowing around the park. After investigating several possibilities of where they could be from, they finally figure out they were once fastened to trees in the park as part of a self-guided tour to celebrate Arbor Day. / Huckle and his pals try to uncover why the fresh milk Farmer Pig delivered to Huckle's Dad's store was sour while the milk he delivered everywhere else wasn't. It turns out that the unusually hot weather melted the delivery truck ice that was keeping the milk from spoiling. So by the time it got to the last delivery, Huckle's Dad's store, it was sour.
16 The Delayed Delivery Mystery / The Busytown Fairies Mystery
1/1/08
Peppino delivers pizzas faster than anyone in Busytown, so when the kids wait an unusually long time for their pizza to arrive, they figure something must be wrong at the pizzeria. But Peppino isn't there and neither is his delivery car. By following his delivery route, the kids ultimately find Peppino stuck in an elevator. / The Amazing Mouse Acrobats are in town. What's more amazing is that Hilda has found evidence of real live fairies in Busytown Woods. Putting the clues together, one by one, Huckle and his pals figure out that the 'fairies' are really the mouse acrobats practicing their stunts.
17 The Mystery of the Lost Bag / The Flat Tire Mystery
1/1/08
When Huckle, Lowly and Sally find a lost bag, they use the eyeglass case, atomizer, map, and a red scarf inside it to determine that the owner is a famous international opera star who's come to Busytown to perform for the first time. / A rash of cyclists getting flat tires prompts Huckle and his pals to find the cause of the puncturing. Since only bicycle tires are affected, the investigation is narrowed down to a freshly paved street that's blocked off to cars and trucks. The kids soon discover that the cyclists have been unwittingly riding over a carpenters spilled nails, embedded in the soft asphalt.
18 Huckle Unlocks a Mystery / The Messy Car Mystery
1/1/08
Huckle and the gang race all over Busytown trying to find the lock that fits and old key they found. They search everywhere from the Busytown Museum to Mr. Gronkle's antiques. They come up empty until they remember that an old roll top desk was being delivered to the antique store near where they found the key and had a lock on it. They try the key and it fits. / Lowly discovers chocolate sauce dripping down from his apple car roof. No one can figure out how it got there. When the kids encounter a taxi with the same gooey problem, they learn that both vehicles have recently been through the car wash. Further investigation leads them to the problem - a delivery truck lost one of its chocolate sauce bottles in the car wash's polishing brush.
19 The Achoo Mystery / The Missing Laundry Mystery
1/1/08
When Hilda arrives at Sally's dance party, she's suddenly struck with a severe case of the sneezes. Thinking she's come down with a cold, her friends take her to Doctor Lion who informs her she has an allergy to something. It turns out she's allergic to her best friend Sally - or rather, the new rose-scented perfume Sally's wearing. / First Ella's washing disappears right off her clothesline, then Mr. Frumble's BBQ, then Miss Honey's deck chair, all in a blink of an eye! Our heroes work their way to solving the mystery by determining that it was none other than Mr. Fix-It and his Super Duper Silent Street Cleaner that's been sucking everything up along with the trash.
20 The No News Today Mystery / The Big Tooth Mystery
1/1/08
When Mr. Frumble's morning newspaper disappears off his front step, Huckle sets out to investigate what happened to it. After a number of other innocuous items "disappear" from across town, Huckle ultimately discovers that the culprits are none other than Pig Will and Pig Won't. They are enthusiastically taking part in Busytown's Annual Recycling Drive by picking up anything they see that can be recycled. / Huckle and his pals find a huge tooth and try to track down who it belongs to. By putting the clues together, they ultimately determine the tooth fell out of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton on its way to Busytown Museum.
21 The Big Ten Mystery / The Whistle Blower Mystery
1/1/08
Trying to figure out what a strange piece of metal with a number 10 on it is, Huckle and his pals take it to Blacksmith Bear who helps them discover strange writing on it. Figuring it must be a foreign language, they take it to Ms Honey and, with her help, determine the piece of metal is a lost tap from Hilda's French tap dance shoes. / Sergeant Murphy directs traffic with the aid of his whistle, but drivers suddenly get confused when someone else blows a whistle too. After the ensuing traffic jam, Huckle and his pals try to find out who the mystery whistle blower is. Following a number of clues leads them to Mr. Fix-it's steam-power car that whistles like a boiling tea kettle.
22 The Mystery Invitation / A Spoon Full of Mystery
1/1/08
Huckle and his pals all receive party invitations, but the party's location is a mystery. Small circular marks left behind by whoever delivered the invitations are an important clue. It leads Huckle and pals to Miss Honey who's been walking with a crutch. Grateful for the help she got raking up all her leaves, Miss Honey decided to throw a party for all the volunteers. / Huckle, Sally and Lowly find a gigantic spoon and the Pig Twins find an enormous bowl. Has a giant come to Busytown? While the kids search for clues, others are searching for the Super Soup Restaurant that no longer has a sign. As it turns out, the trailing anchor on Rudolph von Flugel zeppelin accidentally pulled the bowl and spoon off the restaurant's sign.
23 The Whoop Whoop Whoop Mystery / The Missing Mayor Mystery
1/1/08
Something knocks Sgt. Murphy's hat off his head, chops the tops of Baker Humperdink's baguettes, and sheers a path through a flower bed. Although no one saw anything, they all heard it make the same whoop whoop whoop sound. Putting the clues together, Huckle, Sally and Lowly figure out that it was Vanderbuilt's new, out of control, boomerang. / When Mayor Fox doesn't appear for an important ribbon-cutting ceremony, the kids go to city hall to see where he is. His secretary informs them that the Mayor left his office hours ago. The discovery of a brake lever is an important clue that leads the kids to the end of a road where Mayor Fox was unable to stop. Following some distant horn honking, the kids find the Mayor stuck in a nearby swamp.
24 The Apple Orchard Spaceman Mystery / The Pick and Run Mystery
1/1/08
Huckle, Lowly and Sally set out to prove to Pig Will and Pig Won't that the figure they saw wearing a strange yellow suit and helmet is not a spaceman from another planet. The clues finally lead them to the realization that it was really Granny Goodpig wearing her yellow suit to protect her while she collected honey from her beehives. / Someone picked all the red roses in Granny Goat's flower garden. While Huckle and friends are investigating the case, they learn about a brazen robot that snatched away Junior Bunny's red ball. It turns out that Mr. Fix-it's apple picking robot wandered away from the orchard in search of more red objects to pick.
25 The Sleepytown Mystery / The Mystery of the Switched Cars
1/1/08
It's midday and Busytown citizens are dozing off all over town. Huckle, Sally and Lowly try to find out why. Noticing the number of sleeping people holding melted ice cream cones is an important clue. Ultimately, the kids discover that the ice cream truck isn't playing the usual perky tune to announce its arrival - it's playing a lullaby. / Someone has taken Huckle's car by mistake and left their own car in its place. Although both vehicle look the same, our heroes find books in the trunk. After tracking down the books, they determine that Huckle's car was mistakenly taken by the local bookshop owner.
26 The Admiral Hornblast's Nameplate Mystery / The Secret Spy Ring Mystery
1/1/08
When a new nameplate is about to be placed on the statue of Admiral Hornblast, it suddenly disappears. Huckle, Sally and Lowly check out the photos and videos taken at the scene and ultimately determine that the statue slide over the plate when it was bumped by an out of control bulldozer. / When Pig Won't looses his precious Spy Ring, Huckle, Lowly and Sally check everywhere he's been but turn up empty. It isn't until they see a strange lump in Vanderbuilt's Venus Fly Trap that Huckle puts the clues together and determines Pig Won't's ring slipped off his finger and flew into the fly eating plant.

About this show

Curiosities are everywhere in Busytown and so are Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Sally Cat, Hilda Hippo plus Pig Will and Pig Won't. Each episode is an innovative blend of humor and learning based around six unforgettable friends and many other colorful characters from the amazing world of Richard Scarry's books. Viewers follow the friends as they scour Busytown looking for the answer to the episode's mystery. Every time looking for fun and adventure and with everyone driving their own unique vehicle, getting there is half the fun!

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4.2
54 reviews
Bonnie Braier
August 27, 2015
I liked it better when you had to look for gold bug and he wasn't a main character.
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Talia Cameron
April 30, 2015
I didn't read it but it's definitely STUPID
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Kitten Paws
September 19, 2015
What is wrong with you people who created the nonsense if you like this you are better than a group of retards
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