ShortSummary
| - Struck with an intense heat wave all over London, the boys decide to start up their own hair-cutting business to earn money to buy ice cream like everyone else using Nancy's scissors without permission. Unfortunately, their only customer happens to be Bill Sikes who eventually ends up chasing the boys across the city when he discovers the horrible haircut they unintentionally gave him; realizing he had been conned the whole time. Meanwhile, Nancy worries about her missing scissors; not realizing they've been taken and damaged after Dodger used them to cut Sikes' hair earlier. Once back home, Nancy eventually discovers the truth and somehow decides to help the boys out on certain conditions afterwards. After Nancy falsely compliments Sikes, the boys are forced to do all of Nancy's water collecting for a week as they discover to their surprise that everyone else has somehow adopted Sikes' new hairstyle on the way as well. (en)
- After receiving a science lesson and demonstration about the effects of hot air from Fagin, Dodger talks Oliver and Charlie into building a hot air balloon to host a ride up and down in the air. However, after completing the balloon, Annushka unwittingly unties the rope holding the balloon to the ground and ends up flying with the boys in it over London. After a bird pokes a hole in the balloon, a whining, homesick Annushka and the boys end up lost in a forest. The boys head into the forest to find something to help repair the balloon before a storm arrives while Annushka stays behind. After much difficulty, the boys finally repair the balloon using tree sap, but their happiness is cut short when a forest fire appears. Once they're up in the air again and using salt from the weight bags, they are able to create rain to put out the fire just in time before it spreads. After making it back home, Dodger ends up being chased by an angry Annushka after joking with her about a charge for the ride. (en)
- After an awry race across London, Dodger gets himself and his two friends involved in a chimney sweeping job, but their masters, Algernon and Ernest are only using this as a cover to steal from houses while the boys take the blame for the robberies. So, the boys decide to catch the real crooks in their latest heist at Buckingham Palace and clear their names. Then, the Queen offers the boys a reward in gratitude for capturing the crooks before heading back home. (en)
- Oliver, Dodger, and Charlie come to see a rare blue elephant named Momo owned and brought from Zulemaine to England at the explorer society for two days by the beautiful Princess Masha, who later becomes the object of both Oliver and Dodger's rival affections along the way. However, due to an accident while trying to get a better look at the elephant, the boys unintentionally set Momo loose on the streets. To make it up to the heartbroken princess, the boys decide to help her retrieve her friend while preventing two unscrupulous big-game hunters from the hunter society: Lord Sureshot and Slug from shooting and hunting the elephant down during a safari. When trying to search for her elephant as well, the princess finds herself captured and used as bait by the hunters. Luckily, the boys manage to find the elephant, save the princess, and stop the hunters once and for all. (en)
- Having found a map leading to Sir Francis Drake's secret treasure while playing pirates one evening, the boys decide to go on a treasure hunt. After facing many difficulties on the way, they unintentionally end up at the workhouse where Oliver gets captured by Bumble and his goons and thrown in a cell. With a little help from the other orphans, Dodger and Charlie manage to free Oliver, defeat Bumble's goons, and escape the workhouse once again. On the way back home, the boys finally locate the treasure which turns out to be nothing more than just old laundry, not knowing that the real treasure is hidden beneath it; much to their despair. (en)
- After evading Scratch and Sniff again, Dodger is mistaken for a French Prince. Roquefort is trying to overthrow the French Prince to prevent a trade agreement for his own business. Oliver and Charlie help Dodger and they manage to trap Roquefort as the real prince arrives. After being rewarded with Limbirger cheese for their services, the boys find themselves being chased by Scratch and Sniff again. (en)
- Having earned enough money from all the muffins she's baked and sold, Annushka's dream to go to a Russian circus and see a famous acrobatic clown troupe act finally becomes a reality. The boys want to join in as well but are refused entry by Bill Sikes currently working as the circus' security guard since they're broke. So, the boys dress up as clowns and sneak in with ease. After Sikes naively mistakes the real clowns for the boys and locks them up, the boys decide to take their places in the upcoming act in order not to disappoint Annushka but to no avail once they find themselves surrounded and chased by lions and tigers. After Annushka fails to free the real clowns; thanks to Sikes' stupidity, thieves plan to steal all the money they earned from the paying customers. Luckily, with a little help from a monkey, Annushka helps free the clowns to save the act after the boys' own act against a pursuing Sikes leaves the crowd laughing. After Annushka joins in the act with the clowns and succeeds, Charlie discovers the theft, so, the boys decide to save the circus. (en)
- Wanting to see a pageant show at Buckingham Palace, the boys agree to help an old man catch 15 frogs for him in exchange for money to get into the show. Once they've caught all 15 frogs as promised, they discover that the old man has sold them to Scratch and Sniff for Bumble's latest plan to put them to work on his invention to do 10 times as much work as the orphans. Though the boys' rescue attempts allows the frogs to go free, Charlie ends up caught in their place instead. Luckily, the frogs come to rescue Charlie and destroy Bumble's invention. Then, with the frogs' help, the boys finally make it to the pageant while evading Bumble and his goons once again. At the show, Bumble and his goons are arrested and put on kitchen duty for supposedly bringing wild animals on the palace grounds. Later, the boys along with the frogs are able to see the show using stilts. (en)
- After the boys discover an old-fashioned printing press when thinking about life on the moon, Dodger decides to open up their own newspaper, which they agree as long as they stick to the truth as pointed out by Fagin. However, when their stories prove unsuccessful from all the scoops they've collected to sell, Dodger goes to extreme lengths with exaggerated stories about space creatures invading London up to a point where the boys dress up as space creatures, which leaves the entire town panic-stricken and in a riot. After Fagin discovers the truth behind Dodger's latest scheme, the boys are ordered to go out and explain everything to the people but find themselves being chased by an angry mob either way. (en)
- Inspired by Fagin's latest detective story, when the boys deliver one of Fagin's inventions to a certain Lady Hoffington, they suddenly find themselves having to solve the mystery behind the theft of the lady's priceless golden garland. During the investigation, Oliver gets temporarily sidetracked by a song he recognizes that only his mother knew and used to sing to him. Eventually, the boys discover the thief to be a bird using the garland for its temporary nest and imitating the song Oliver remembers, thus, giving him hope that his mother is still out there waiting to be reunited with him. (en)
- Oliver, Dodger, and Charlie set off to rescue Fagin who is being held prisoner in the Tower. With the help of the ghost of a disgraced knight, Charlie frees Fagin and they make their escape while facing two evil ghosts. (en)
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