Passed Away at Punky's Place

Air date: 5/4/88

While Henry is in Detroit to pick up a new pizza oven for the restaurant, Punky and Cherie decide to run the restaurant for the one day that Henry will be out of town, and they panic when a customer named Ralph falls asleep because of narcolepsy. Punky and Cherie don't realize that Ralph is just asleep - they think Ralph's dead because of the secret ingredient Cherie uses when she makes hamburgers.

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Christmas Hero

Air date: 5/5/88

Punky desperately wants to give Henry a pocket watch for Christmas. When rich businessman Horatio Lake is robbed of a briefcase containing valuables, Punky solves the robbery and figures out that it was Mr. Lake's son Jerry who took the briefcase. Punky tells Mr. Lake what went on - Jerry figured that he would take the briefcase and lay low with it for a few days, and then when the police gave up, Jerry would say that he found the briefcase. That way, he would be the hero, and maybe Mr. Lake would pay more attention to him for a change. Jerry wanted attention from his father after years of being pretty much ignored by him. Mr. Lake wonders how he could've let things get to a point where Jerry thought he had to do what he did and realizes his mistake of ignoring Jerry all these years, vowing not to let that mistake happen again. As a reward to Punky for solving the robbery and helping Jerry and Mr. Lake become closer than ever, Mr. Lake gives Punky a pocket watch, and Punky gives it to Henry as a Christmas gift.

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Beauty Lesson

Air date: 5/6/88

Punky and Cherie sell cosmetics door-to-door for Lady Contempo Cosmetics - until they discover that Lady Contempo Cosmetics is a scam run by a con artist named Sidney. Henry washes his hair with Lady Contempo shampoo...and he wakes up the next morning with no hair on his head. And the blue face mask that Betty rubbed on her face won't come off. Punky and the gang have to deal with angry customers who have also felt the various side effects of Lady Contempo products, and when they go to Lady Contempo to confront Sidney, they notice that no one's there. It turns out that the reason why Henry is bald headed is because he washed his hair with Contempo furniture stripper that Sidney had disguised as Lady Contempo shampoo, and the reason why the blue face mask won't come off of Betty's face is because the face mask is actually kitchen floor wax that was disguised as the face mask cream. While they're in Sidney's office, a police detective named Denko shows up looking for Sidney, who has cleared out.

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See You in Court

Air date: 5/9/88

One of Betty's favorite patients dies and leaves her a Texan car with big bull horns on its hood, but Betty doesn't know how to drive. Henry's attempts to teach Betty how to drive result in Betty crashing the car into a tree. Because of that, Henry and Betty decide to sue each other, and they each tell Judge J. F. Taylor a different story about what happened. It's Punky and Cherie who help Henry and Betty put aside their differences and be friends again.

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Radio Daze

Air date: 5/10/88

Punky and Cherie enter a radio scriptwriting contest sponsored by a local radio station that has just changed its format from rock music to to an old-time drama format. Punky, Cherie, and Margaux hope to win the grand prize trip to Disneyland, but they’re up against a pair of arrogant opponents, Garth Goobler and Grant Goobler, the sons of a famous radio star. The Gooblers have a strong script, and they steal a box of sound effect equipment from Punky and Cherie, but the girls quickly gather some more sound effect equipment and are able to pull off the win.