The Box That Chimed

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**The Box That Chimed** is the twenty-second episode of the first season and is narrated by Tom Conti.

## Plot

Andy Pandy is fast asleep when suddenly he is waken by a chiming sound he has never heard before. The sound is coming from his special cupboard so Andy opens it up and takes out a blue box which he thinks would be a fine present for Looby Loo. Andy still wants to know what has made the chiming noise so Andy he puts the box on the table and goes back to his cupboard. When Andy starts looking for the noise, he hears it again. This time the noise is behind Andy but when he looks for it, the noise has stopped. Later on, Andy takes the box he has found in his special cupboard to Looby's house. Looby thinks it is a splendid box and while she looks for a place to keep it, Andy tells her about the strange noise that had waken him. Looby finds a place for her box and she and Andy go to Andy's house to look for the strange noise.

Andy and Looby look around Andy's house but they can't find anything that looks like it would make a strange noise. When Looby asks what the noise sounds like, Andy tells her it was a chiming noise. Then as soon as he says that, Andy and Looby hear the chiming noise, but now it is coming from outside, in fact it is coming from Looby's house so Andy and Looby go back there. By the time Andy and Looby arrive, the noise has stopped again so they search everywhere but they can't find anything that looks like it would make a strange chiming noise. Looby thinks the noise might be caused by Teddy playing one of his tricks, then Andy has an idea - If they take Looby's box to the green to show their friends, they'll be able to watch everything that is going on and they might see Teddy playing his trick.

On the green, Andy and Looby wait and watch until Teddy arrives wondering what they are doing. Looby tells Teddy she and Andy are showing her new box, Teddy thinks it's a good box and then goes for a swing after he has had a look at it. Suddenly Andy, Teddy and Looby hear the chiming noise which Andy then tells Teddy about and Teddy says he will help look for it so the three friends start looking for the chiming noise. Teddy soon gets tired of looking so he sits down to think about what to have for lunch, just then he hears the chiming noise and gets quite a surprise. Andy is sure Teddy is making the chiming noise, Teddy says the noise is coming from the box but Andy wonders if Teddy is trying to trick him.

Looby says they must all sit and watch the box very carefully, that way they will all find out if the noise is coming from it. Missy Hissy, Tiffo and Orbie have heard the chiming noise and they all want to find out if it is coming from the box. Everyone stares at the box for a while but nothing happens so they decide to give up. Just as everyone is leaving, they hear the chiming noise and discover it really is coming from the box but they don't understand how a box can make a chiming noise. Bilbo arrives and points to a door on one side of the box and tells Andy to open it so he does and everyone discovers the box is actually a clock that has a key to make it work.

Bilbo tells everyone how they can look at the clock to see what time of day or night it is, how the key winds up the clock to make it work and how the clock makes its chiming noise to tell them the time. Looby says that as the box is really a clock, she won't be able to keep things in it so Andy must have it back. Andy is pleased about that because now he will always know what time it is. That night, Andy is fast asleep until the clock chimes again waking him up. Andy decides to not wind up the clock as its chiming will keep him awake all night so he takes out the key and goes back to sleep, he won't know what time it is when he wakes up the next morning, but he'll always know what time he has gone to sleep.

## Characters

* Andy Pandy
* Teddy
* Looby Loo
* Bilbo
* Missy Hissy (does not speak)
* Tiffo (does not speak)
* Orbie (does not speak)