Little Gems - Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Narrated by Bernard Cribbins

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Simon Main Page	Season II Eps 1-6	Season II Eps 7-12

Season II Episodes 7-12

7. Simon and the Robot

Whilst in the LOCD, Simon is approached by the train driver who wants Simon to extend the railway track. Simon agrees, however he does not want to do all the extra drawing which will be required. He walks home thinking of a way round the problem and then goes and does a drawing on his blackboard. The next day in Chalk Land he finds that there are rail tracks everywhere. Simon had drawn a robot to do the drawing for him and it had gone mad drawing rail tracks everywhere. Simon soon has to clean up the mess thus creating more work for himself that drawing the rail tracks in the first place would have done.

{short description of image} Simon at home Rail tracks everywhere

8. Simon and the Measles

Simon had been in bed with measles and was still not very well at all. He decides on his first day up to do a drawing on the blackboard. The boy next door to Simon arrives and asks him what it is like having measles. Simon does not feel like talking and so draws them on the blackboard. The next time he visits Chalk Land, however, all the chalk people, animals, birds and flowers have spots. Even the train and building has spots. Simon does his best to help by rubbing them off but needs to find the source of the problem. The spots are finally located hidden in a fruit tree and before Simon can catch them they rush off and start to re-infect all the people of Chalk Land. Simon eventually captures them on the outside of a rocket and sends them to the moon. There they beome stars around the crescent shaped moon.

Outside Simon's bedroom A very ill Simon Simon and the boy next door

Simon describing what it is like to have measles Henry has spots Everyone has spots

Catch those nasty spots Spots safely around the moon

9. Simon and the Flags

Whilst in the LOCD Simon meets the school teacher who is very excited. All the school children want a flag day so Simon is asked to draw them some flags. Simon thus goes home to his blackboard and make a start. Whilst at home he decides to draw lots of of flags with different desings for each type of person in Chalk Land. Problems ensue the next day when each person in Chalk Land wants their flag ahead of other people's flags and no one wants to be at the back. Simon and Henry thus wait until everyone is alseep that night and then he and Henry take all the small flags and make a large one out of them. This sorts the problem and everyone is happy.

Simon drawing flags Even the cats and dogs are arguing Problem sorted

10. Simon and the Chalk Drawing Sports Day

Simon watches the Chalk Land folk as they prepare for their sports day. He decides to enter the race event and goes home to train hard. The very next day he gets up early and goes out for a run. Whilst out, he passes the fence and meets the dog which is surprised Simon is entering the race but runs along with him. Simon has a very hard time keeping up. He soon loses sight of the dog but meets the cat who does the same. The Chalk Land children do the same until Simon is totally exhausted. After very hard training he is too tired to run the course.

Children training Simon in training Simon meets the dog

11. Simon and the Pop Singer

Simon has visitors. His two girl cousins have come to stay with him for a while and he is not too happy about it. All they seem to want to do is listen to pop music and dance. They pester Simon to draw a pop singer. He reluctantly does this just to stop them from bothering him. Next morning he meets the Chalk Land Band Sergeant who is very unhappy because the Band are no longer being listened to by the Chalk Land people. Simon's pop singer is making music which all the Chalk Land children are dancing to. Not everyone is dancing though. The Sun and the Cloud are very angry and the Sun hides behind the cloud. This makes the cloud very angry as he cannot hide behind anyone. The cloud eventually loses his temper and sends a thunder bolt down to destroy the speaker and so silences the loud musical din.

Simon's cousins Grooving to the music Simon forced to draw

Children dancing Everyone is dancing A very very angry cloud

12. Simon and the Detective

Whilst passing the fence Henry asks if Simon has been drawing any stars and planets because something has appeared in the sky in the Chalk Land. Both Simon and Henry decide to investigate this twinkling planet and set off in the Chalk Land rocket. On landing on the unknown planet they meet an odd looking figure with a large magnifying glass. Simon realises that it is the detective that he recently drew. He then meets a load of finger prints who are annoyed because they want to be on things and be examined by someone who is interesting. Simon helps them by drawing lots of trees and flowers and things for them to be on. That way the detective can investigate and examine the finger prints. Everyone is happy in the end as Henry and Simon decide to go home after their little adventure.

A rocket to the moon Simon, Henry and the Detective The finger prints

And so ends an enchanting little series beautifully scripted, drawn and adapted for television. Below are a few more images from this wonderful animated series.

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Simon Main Page	Season II Eps 1-6	Season II Eps 7-12