The Three Friends and Jerry
Season 1
It's not easy being ten...Jerry is the new kid who's prepared to do anything to join the "Three Friends" (Frank, Thomas and Eric). The boys always try (and fail) to impress the girl gang at school (Linda, Mimmi, and Tess).
Where to Watch Season 1
18 Episodes
- Kissing LindaE1
Kissing LindaFrank overhears part of a conversation between Linda, Tess and Mimmi and gets the idea that Linda thinks he's the best looking boy around. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course - Linda and the girls were actually talking about a teen idol in a magazine. Frank's mother is Linda's aunt so when Linda' parents leave town they arrange for her to spend the night at Frank' house. Frank makes a bet with Jerry that he'l get to kiss Linda by the end of the evening. He fails miserably, of course, and pays off Jerry the next day at school. In the end, Jerry impresses everyone by going up to Linda and kissing her - but unbeknownst to the three friends it was all part of a deal between him and Linda. Jerry pays her off with the money he won from Frank. - The Bank RobberyE2
The Bank RobberyThe three friends and Jerry are hoping to raise more money than anyone else in the class for their annual charity drive. They decide to go and look for cans over at the industrial site. Meanwhile there has been a hold up at a bank in the area and the thieves, who were disguised as children, have made off with a considerable sum of money. When they see all the attention the ""child gang"" is getting on TV, they begin to regret having disguised themselves. The police spot the three friends and Jerry with their sack of cans and go after them thinking they must be the bank robbers. They finally arrest them in a TV studio where they are giving an interview to a reporter who also thinks they are the ""child gang"". This is too much for the real bank robbers, who show up at the studio demanding their rightful recognition. In the end, the three friends and Jerry are given some cheap piggy banks for having helped catch the robbers, while the bank manager runs off with the sack of cans, and Linda an - The Ant Hill
E3The Ant HillAfter a particularly aggravating day at school Frank rushes home to get ready for Linda who is supposed to be coming over. In his hurry to get home, Frank crashes his bike right into a huge anthill, and arrives home covered in angry ants. His mum rubs him down with vinegar to get rid of all the ants, ruining his chances with Linda and leaving him stinking of vinegar where ever he goes. Desperate for revenge against the ants he gets Thomas and Eric to help him. Their attempts fail and when Jerry appears and pleads for the ants' lives, the three friends follow him home to check out his ant collection. The ant jar falls and breaks and the ants run loose in Jerry's house. When Jerry's mum sees what has happened, she faints and is taken away in an ambulance. - UFO-spottingE4
UFO-spottingThe three friends and Jerry decide to go UFO-spotting, and manage to tempt the girls along with bags of crisps and other goodies. After a long wait one finally seems to have appeared. They are lit up by a beam of light which turns out only come from the torch that Jerry's father is carrying as he is out jogging. After this anticlimax the girls have had enough and go home. Just as the three friends are smacking Jerry about for making them look so silly in front of the girls a real UFO lands and kidnaps Frank, returning him reprogrammed to destroy the human race. A good smack from Roy Johnson snaps Frank out of it but he has no recollection of anything about the aliens. The next day Thomas, Eric and Jerry try to convince the girls and Frank of what happened, but no one believes them. - Brake SlammingE5
Brake SlammingJerry and Frank both have bikes with pedal brakes and decide to have a competition to see who can make the longest skid marks. Frank, determined to win, particularly as the prize is a kiss from Linda, gives it his best shot. He wins the competition but crashes through the door of the shop and ends up in a pile of damaged groceries, too dazed to collect his prize. While everyone is preoccupied with Frank, a lorry drives over Frank's bike transforming it into a pile of twisted metal. Frank is given a new bike by his parents, but this one has hand brakes. Jerry offers to give Frank his father's Sports trophy, which he claims is his championship trophy in ""Brake Slamming"" in return for a ride of Frank's fancy new bike. Frank agrees but when Jerry rides off on Frank's bike to go and pick up the trophy he runs full speed into a wall as he doesn't realise that it doesn't have pedal brakes. - The CircusE6
The CircusThe circus comes to town and the three friends and Jerry can't resist sneaking inside to have a peak at the animals. Two ostriches manage to escape when Jerry opens the door to their cage and go running around town scaring the inhabitants and generally creating chaos. Jerry manages to lasso one of them and is dragged off in a butt of dust. Meanwhile the angry ring master forces the three friends to do all sorts of demeaning jobs in order to pay for the loss of the ostriches. In the end the ring master gets the ostriches back and is so pleased that he pays the boys for a job well done. Jerry, having been dragged way out of town by the ostrich, appears at that moment with an angry bus driver who takes the money from the three friends to pay for Jerry's ticket. - Work ExperienceE7
Work ExperienceThe entire class has an occupation chosen for them by the teacher that they have to try out for a few days. The three friends have to work with the PE teacher, while Jerry gets to work with the forest warden in the fire watch tower. The PE teacher is preparing for the orienteering championships and tells the three friends to go out into the forest with a map and a compass to put up the check points. They manage to take the wrong map and get hopelessly lost. The race begins and with no check points put up, all the participants get lost as well. The whole thing ends in a huge search for the lost children. The PE teacher comes out looking like a real hero for his daring helicopter rescue of the three friends. - Barking up the Wrong TreeE8
Barking up the Wrong TreeWhile in town with Frank's father, the three friends and Jerry walk past the ""Super TV"" studios where their favourite show ""Derision and Degradation"" is made. There they see an advertisement for a new game show that the studio is launching where it says they are looking for kids to be on the show, so the three friends and Jerry apply. Their heads quickly fill with dreams of stardom, and when they each receive an invitation to be on the show they are ecstatic. The whole town starts to treat them as stars, but when they arrive at the studios to be on the show it turns out that they already have enough kids. Just as Frank is contemplating his humiliation, the show host for ""Derision and Degradation"" comes along desperate for someone to fill a last minute cancellation on his show. Frank sees his chance. Of course, Frank's humiliation turns out to be all the more painful as he is brought on the show only to be made a fool on one of the most watched TV shows. - The Beauty ContestE9
The Beauty ContestEach member of the class is asked to bring in a picture of themselves to put up on the wall when they were little, which causes some concern as not everyone is very pleased at the prospect of reminding the class what they looked like at the age of two. Even Linda's memories are tarnished as that was the one year she didn't win the local beauty contest. Brimming with nostalgia even for this lost pageant, Linda and her mum watch a video of the ill-fated beauty contest. Frank, unable to gain entry to the normal categories, toddles unwittingly off into the dog category and wins. Roy Johnson, ever willing to do what he can for his daughter, Mimmi, bribes the near-sighted judge, Vicious Oscar, whose blurred vision picks out Jerry for the girls' prize instead. The flashback ends with Linda's mother violently protesting the jury's decision and Roy Johnson attacking Oscar. Frank tries to avoid being made fun of by gluing his face on a pop star's body, but the class still gets their laugh as Lin - Stars in your EyesE10
Stars in your EyesDick Priest is addressing the adult community's concerns about the inappropriate music that their children are being exposed to and suggests a music competition in which only nice music will be allowed. All participants get to impersonate a band of their choosing, and the winner gets a prize. The three friends and Jerry decide they want to be a heavy metal band and go to Tony for help as they don't actually own any heavy metal music. Always happy for a chance to create mischief, Tony takes advantage of their ignorance and gives them a CD of ""Dogsun"" - the very band most vilified by Dick Priest. After Linda and the girls' performance - which turns out to be a real crowd pleaser despite the attempted sabotage by the three friends and Jerry - the boys head-bang along to ""Dogsun"" in front of a horrified audience. An uncushioned stage dive finale and undoubtedly a good thrashing from the PE teacher puts them all in hospital where they reveal the mastermind behind the fiasco, who is subjecte - FashionE11
FashionThe three friends and Jerry decide they need to do something about their nerdy image if they're ever going to have any luck with girls. They quickly realise that getting cool clothes and haircuts is way beyond their means if they have to pay for them, but decide that they can do it themselves. So, with a fashion magazine as guide they create their own clothes and haircuts. The fashion editor of ""Cool Guide"" spots them on the street, and is so impressed she invites them to a photo shoot. They appear in the magazine's next edition portrayed as a hard inner-city youth gang. Despite having first made fun of their clothes, Linda and the girls melt at the sight of them in a magazine and they arrange to hang out with them after school. Before the end of the day, however, an irresistibly handsome man gives a talk against crime at the school, so when the three friends and Jerry come to hang out after class, the girls will have nothing more to do with them. - The Snowball FightE12
The Snowball FightThe town council gives orders that a new shed be built for Vicious Oscar to live in. Meanwhile, the three friends are having a snowball fight with Linda and the three girls, but they can't get near them in their impregnable snow fortress. Jerry comes along and offers to bring over his snowball catapult to do the job. They launch a great snowball at the fortress, but it overshoots and destroys Oscar's shed with him in it, though he emerges unscathed. Deciding they can't leave him to freeze in the snow they decide that Jerry should take him home to his house, while the three friends try to fix the shed. Oscar ends up emptying out all of Jerry's mother's bottles of perfume and gets thrown out of the house by Jerry's dad. The three friends work throughout the night to fix Oscar's shed only to see it bulldozed the next morning in preparation for the new one. As it turns out, Roy Johnson is also having a new garage built for himself and somehow the plans get exchanged by mistake, so Roy ends - Ice HockeyE13
Ice HockeyThe three friends and Jerry are dreaming of becoming hockey players. When the local ice hockey trainer says they're too old to learn, Jerry's father, the PE teacher, decides to train them himself. He tells the trainer that he'll get them into form in one month when they'll have a test match to prove it. The three friends and Jerry are useless but get unexpected help with their training from the girls figure skating troupe. The big day finally arrives and the trainer comes to see the test match with the three friends and Jerry playing against Linda and the girls. The three friends and Jerry lose miserably as all they seem to manage to do is a series of well executed figure skating moves while the girls keep shooting the puck into the goal. The three friends and Jerry are given parts in the girl's ice skating show and the PE teacher has to eat up his skates as he had promised to do if his boys lost the game. - My Friend is an AntE14
My Friend is an AntAs part of a school project on insects, the teacher organises an insect exhibition and all the kids are asked to bring in an insect for a competition to be judged by a scientist from the natural history museum. Jerry brings his ant, which is immediately recognised by the scientist as a spectacularly rare specimen. Coveting the ant for his collection at the museum the scientist steals the ant from Jerry with the help of some very shady looking characters. Despite getting help from the three friends, Jerry is unsuccessful in his attempts at freeing his little friend. In the end, the ant manages to escape on its own and with Jerry ever on its mind completes the difficult trek back to Jerry's house, sneaking unseen into Jerry's bedroom and snuggling up next to Jerry who's just having a nightmare. Startled by his dream, Jerry sits up suddenly in his bed, and laying his head back down on the pillow, crushes the poor little ant. - Neat and TidyE15
Neat and TidyAs usual, Frank returns home from school completely filthy. His mum, exasperated at the constant washing she has to do on his account promises him 10 pounds if he can manage to stay clean for a whole day. Thrilled at the prospect of easy money, and not completely unaware of the effect an improved appearance might have on Linda, Frank is determined to stay neat and tidy. However, that turns out to be more difficult than he had thought, and he has a hard time avoiding his friends' attempts at sullying him. While at school, they attend an information meeting about the dangers of rabies and how to spot someone who's been infected. By the end of the day, Frank has somehow managed to avoid getting dirty, but if they missed Frank his friends have managed to turn his room into an absolute pig sty, for which his mother takes back the 10 pounds. Enraged that all his efforts came to naught, Frank begins to foam at the mouth. Remembering what they learned in the information meeting Thomas, Eric an - Tony's PartyE16
Tony's PartyTony's parents are going out of town so he decides to have a big party at his house. His little sister, Tess, threatens to tell on him if he doesn't let her and her friends come, too. Meanwhile, the three friends and Jerry are desperately trying to think up a way they can get into the party, which is sure to be the bash of the year. They finally succeed by getting on each other's shoulders and disguising themselves as two big guys from the city and putting on a hat and a coat and using baseball bats as arms. A couple of nasty biker youths get wind of the party and decide to crash it. They bust in, and start threatening everyone. At that moment, the three friends and Jerry who have been dancing start to lose their balance on the dance floor. Flailing with their baseball bat arms in an attempt to keep their balance, they hit the biker youths who flee in terror. Impressed by this show of heroism, the girls' interest in them becomes so intrusive that they unmask the three friends and Jerry - Fishing TripE17
Fishing TripThe three friends and Jerry decide to go out on a deep-sea fishing trip. Linda and the girls show up on the same boat and the captain of the boat announces a fishing competition - the one who catches the largest fish wins a prize. Frank immediately becomes very ill from seasickness and the girls appear to have the competition won, quickly catching a large pile of good sized fish. Meanwhile, after Jerry carelessly puts a magnet next to the compass, the fishing boat stays into an area where the navy is having manoeuvres. After a barrage of near misses the boat heads back to port. When they reach the harbour they pull up Frank's line, which has been untouched the whole trip as Frank has been so seasick, and pull on board the winning fish. Frank's pleasure is short-lived as his first prize turns out to be a four-day deep-sea fishing trip. - Carol SingingE18
Carol SingingThe three friends and Jerry decide to go door to door singing carols in the hopes of getting some money. With Jerry dressed as the virgin Mary they earn a fair amount of cash until they have a run-in with poor old Vicious Oscar who thinks they are a group of angels who have come to take him away. Oscar manages to hit the boys' lantern which sets Jerry's wig on fire forcing him to dive into the snow to put it out. Having lost their Virgin Mary, they let Linda and the girls join their choral group. Just as they're getting ready to divvy up the evening's proceeds, they are attacked by Vicious Oscar again and they all run off in a panic. Each of them thinks the other has the money, but it turns out it all fell on the ground when they ran away from Oscar and he picked it up. So the true spirit of Christmas won out in the end.