Horrid Henry and the Big Dig

==Synopsis==
Mum decides to extend her veg patch which means requisitioning Henry's fort - how is Henry going to persuade her to give up her plans? So Henry teams up with Margaret to find a solution, which arrives in the form of a television show called The Big Dig.
== Plot ==
This episodes opens with Henry looking through his telescope on top of his Purple Hand Gang fort playing pirates with Peter but then he spots their Mum coming and they both retreat inside saying 'Enemy Ahoy!'.
Inside his fort with Peter, Henry looks through his telescope again but gets a shocked when Mum's eye appears. Mum told Henry she wants to talk to him so he comes outside to find her measuring his fort. Mum explains to Henry that she and Dad have decided to take his fort down because it's old, riggity and not safe anymore. She says the part of the garden will be a vegetable garden but Henry turns to the audience recapping what Mum said and faints.
In the kitchen, Peter looks through the vegetable book and finds 'cabbage' which disgusts Henry who begs Mum not to take down his fort but she says if they don't do it, it will fall down by itself on someone. Henry says he loves fort and so does everyone then Mum brings a bowl of cabbage on the breakfast table and Henry screams 'NOOOOOO!!' opening the title card.
The next scene, Henry comes out the front door and begins making a protest with a banner sign to save his fort. He looks both ways and sees no-body here and begins marching up and down as someone watches for through a window. Henry spots Ms Tiddler walking her dog and marches over to them but all she says 'Not little boys on the streets acting like hooligans' then Tiddles sniff his shoe and wees on it before they set off.
At school, Henry asks Bert if he would sign a petition to save his fort but he said 'I dunno'. Henry sees Peter getting signatures for his more veg-reg campaign from his friends and he stomps off. Later, Ralph comes over to find Henry still protesting by chaining himself to his fort and leaves. Just then Margaret appears, having overhead their conversation, and tells Henry she's come to offer her services as a conflict resolver and Miss Battle-Axe says she's always good at it but Henry says she is the conflict usually and Margaret angrily tells him if he doesn't want to keep his fort making him take back what he said. Henry tells Margaret he'd do anything to save his fort pretty much since no-one cares about it except him so she whispers to him.
In the library, Margaret has William, Gurinder, Bert and Clare looking through many books but they have no luck at all and tells them to keep looking because Henry's Mum already ordered the Rotavator. Just then, Brian bursts in telling them he's got it but Mr Soggington, who is on duty, shushes him. Brian shows the group what he's got and says they can save Henry's fort and shouts 'Come On!' then Mr Soggington shushes him again but finds them all gone. Back in the garden, Ralph offers Henry another biscuit but he didn't want one and explains to him that he already made a deal with Margaret that if she and her team came up with anything, she won't have her fee which is being leader of the Purple Hand Gang for a whole month with all the chocolate biscuits she can eat too. Ralph says ‘Oh’ and Henry replies ‘Exactly’.
In her room with Brian, Margaret calls the producer of the Big Dig and tells him about Henry's fort nearly falling down, being under serious threat and on archaeological discovery meaning it needs to be protected right now ending the call. Margaret announces to Brian it's time for Part B of Plan A. Dad answers the door revealing the producer who tells him about a major archaeological discovery then gives him a contract saying never take down forts without prior permission before entering the house with Brian and Margaret who gives Dad a pen to sign.
Mum and Peter are watering vegetables when they spot the producer, Margaret and Brian heading to Henry's fort and find out it's getting restate exactly how Henry wants it making him and Ralph high five each other much to Mum's shock. She and Dad watch from the kitchen thinking they didn't that old teapot of hers but Henry will have a nice new fort at least to go with Dad's new barbecue then Peter brings them outside to see the new fort. Henry unveils the fort truly opened but Mum says it's exactly like it was before which is how he wanted it. Henry then thanks the Producer and Ralph asks him if it was worth making a deal with Margaret who now got her fee but Henry doesn't mind about it because he doesn't have to worry about enemy invasion anymore with her around and the boys share a laugh together.
As The Producer leaves, Mum tells Dad that she'll have to abandon her plan to take over the end of the garden although she thinks Dad's new barbecue will do instead and uses that spot for a nice patch of land. With that, Dad screams 'NOOOOOOO!!!' ending the episode.
==Characters==
*Horrid Henry
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad
*Rude Ralph
*Brainy Brian
*Moody Margaret
*Gorgeous Gurinder (doesn't speak)
*Mr Soggington
*Weepy William
*Beefy Bert
*Tidy Ted (doesn't speak)
*Goody-Goody Gordon (doesn't speak)
*Spotless Sam (doesn't speak)
*Clever Clare (first appearance, unnamed at this point)
*Mr Producer (first appearance)
*Little Old Lady
*Little Old Lady's Dog
*Miss Battle-Axe (mentioned)
== Trivia ==
*Moody Margaret describes Henry as a friend, then not exactly one. This does not mean she hates Henry.
*This is possibly the only episode Margaret makes a genuine agreement to help Henry which she stuck to; though she also agreed to help him in "Horrid Henry's Heist", this was proved to not be genuine as she ended up double-crossing him.
== Videos ==
File:Horrid Henry - The Big Dig - Videos For Kids - Horrid Henry compilation mix - HFFE
File:Horrid Henry and the Big Dig
File:Horrid Henry S02E12 And The Big Dig
Category:OAS Series 2