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HOME AWAY FROM HOME HOME AWAY FROM HOME Seven junior high students are granted access to a mysterious castle. The only thing connecting the kids is that none of them go to school during the day. Kokoro sees the castle as the only place where she truly...
Maddy challenges Pumpkin to a fishing competition. Maddy doesn't even like to fish. Slippery, slimy fish freak her out! But when Doris runs off, Team Turbo finds a stranded whale. Saving the whale is far more important than winning a fishing competition!
Stace has to have lunch with her family on Sunday. She would rather be out with Team Turbo. However, this Sunday, there is a surprise. Uncle Pete's friend, Shelly, is there. Stace is sure that Shelly has a secret. But what is it?
Stace, Carlo and Benjy find a bottle on the beach by the hut. The bottle has a map in it and the children follow the map to find the treasure. The treasure they find isn't what they expect, but it is good all the same!
Stace and Carlo help out at the riding stables in the holidays. But when a bushfire startles the fillies, Stace turns to her beloved horse, Bella, for help. But Bella is old and unwell will she be able to bring the fillies to safety?
When Pumpkin and Curly scare Evie with their stories about monsters, Maddy has a brilliant plan to get back at them. The first part of the plan is to challenge Pumpkin to a race against Carlo. The second part is to build a monster.
Benjy and his family are downsizing from a house to an apartment. Team Turbo is there to help. Benjy, Doris and Benjy's mum are sad about the change. Despite the strangeness of moving to a new place, Benjy assures Doris that they'll get used to it.
Evie likes to think she is a fishing expert. She bets Pumpkin that she can beat him at fishing. Pumpkin catches the first fish and things aren't looking good for Evie. Even Carlo isn't having any luck. Then a seagull flies by...
Team Turbo is up against Pumpkin's All Stars in the minileague basketball final but then Harry hurts his finger. When it comes down to a shootout, there is only one spare player they can use - Evie Ferrando.
Evie is only six but she has a good memory for numbers. When she and Nonna are nearly knocked over by a blue car on a crossing, Evie remembers the number plate. Then she hears about a blue car seen speeding away from a burglary in a sports shop. Evie starts to...
Someone has painted graffiti across the big window of Maddy's mum's ice cream shop. The words sprayed on the window are "Team Turbo". Who would do this? Maddy and Harry crack the mystery and clear Team Turbo's name.
There is a film crew in town and they are looking for extras. Team Turbo starts practising their acting and singing. But then they get another flyer saying that the tryouts are on The Donut. So they head off in their kayaks across the bay.
Team Turbo uses a code to make sure Pumpkin and Curly can't know their plans. But their chocolate cake has gone! Has Pumpkin taken it? Team Turbo wants the truth. Meanwhile, where is Doris?
Stace's catch when she goes magnet fishing is a vessel's name plate. Team Turbo takes it to the town librarian, Mrs Winston, for information. Together, they uncover a mystery that includes a shipwreck, stolen gold and the founding of the Naneek Museum and...
Maddy and Team Turbo go to the beach so that Maddy can take fun photos for a competition. They notice a sea lion and he isn't happy. He has a strip of plastic around his neck. The children get help for the sea lion and Maddy takes a different kind of photo.
Harry is always late and that makes Maddy cross. He is late to meet Team Turbo at the swimming hole. He is late to join the queue at the Carnival, too. But when he turns up late to meet Team Turbo at the Ghost Train, he has a good excuse and a cool surprise.
During a wild storm, a man has to be rescued from his little boat. The weather washes seaweed, driftwood and plastic rubbish onto the beach. So Team Turbo decides to organise a beach cleanup.
The Saltspray Funday has a Fear Factor competition. Stace enters all of Team Turbo, even Evie. Maddy isn't sure that she wants to enter but in the end she is the one who faces the fear that no one else will.
Pumpkin can't find his brand new jeans anywhere. Then he spots them for sale at the Saltspray Market Day. His mother had given them to Team Turbo's recycled clothing stall because they had rips all over the knees! Poor Pumpkin - his coolest jeans gone!
Pumpkin Patterson is known as Porter until something happens on the finish line of the Saltspray River Raft Rumble Shield Race. After that, Team Turbo always call him Pumpkin!
Carlo is practising mountain bike tricks. They come in useful when he and Team Turbo find a man who has fallen off his horse and broken his leg. But where is the horse? Carlo rides down into the valley to help.
Tshirts, movie tickets, book vouchers, boat rides to Gannet Point and The Donut, computer games, surfing lessons, fishing trips - these are prizes to be won at the Bonza Beach Dig. Team Turbo join in the fun. And by the end of the day, even Doris the dog has...
It's Saturday and Maddy is left in charge of her mother's icecream shop. When there is a power cut, she has to do something to stop the ice creams from melting. Team Turbo is a great help!
Carlo and Stace are working for a school badge by helping in Maddy's mum's ice cream shop. Forty tourists arrive wanting ice creams - with sprinkles - and they only have a 15minute stop! What can they do? Carlo comes up with a plan.
Stace and Carlo have perfected their marshmallow slice for the Saltspray BakeOff. Pumpkin and Curly are baking a monster chocolate cake. But something goes terribly wrong with the marshmallow mixture. Harry knows why and who is responsible.
Benjy has seen a gigantic eel. He wants Team Turbo to help him catch it. Harry helps by searching the web for ways to catch eels without using a hook. Do Team Turbo catch the eel or does it slip away?
Harry isn't very popular today. Team Turbo has missed out on free tickets to the bungy bouncers because he was on his phone. But at the school quiz, there is a tie for first place and Harry's phone use finally pays off.
Team Turbo is at the beach when the friends notice a bird on a mudbank. Harry flies his drone over to see what the problem is. The bird is an eastern curlew and it is covered in a plastic bag. Evie's inflatable pink flamingo comes to the rescue.
The members of Team Turbo get treats when they do good deeds. Pumpkin wants treats, too. But first he has to do a good deed. So he decides to rescue a kitten that is stuck in a tree in the school playground. This doesn't work out quite as he had planned.
After a morning at the skatebowl, Carlo is going to have lunch with his Nonna. She makes the best pasta and meatballs. But when Doris eats Pumpkin's lunch, Carlo has to invite Pumpkin and Curly to Nonna's for lunch, too. He feels odd introducing them to her as...
Team Turbo decides to explore the cave under the cliffs in the holidays. On the way, the friends are happy to find a little bit of money on the path. But when they also find an open safe with cash spilling out, they know they need to tell the police.
Pumpkin wants to beat Carlo in the Saltspray CrossCountry race. So he trains hard using positive thinking as his inspiration. But during the race, there is a medical incident. Will Pumpkin win or will he stop to help?
Maddy decides that Team Turbo should form a group, enter the Saltspray Idol contest and become the next singing sensation. They win the local round, but then they need to raise enough money to get to the final in Sydney. How are they going to manage that?
Carlo wants to show what a good surfer he is on Grom Comp Day - a competition for young surfers. Maddy sets up a sandwich stall and Team Turbo watches the competition excitedly. But when Carlo's board breaks in two, it looks like he has missed his chance...
Flicker is Harry's favourite gamer. When Flicker announces he will be livestreaming his latest game, Harry is determined to be there. But the bus breaks down on the way, so Team Turbo are too late to get into the event. Outside the arena, Harry notices...
The school fete is bigger than ever. Benjy accepts Pumpkin's challenge to see who can win the most games. The scores are even at the end of the Crockery Crash, the Ring Toss, the Sponge Throw and the Bungy Stretch. But it is Stace who helps to decide the...
Team Turbo wants to win the prize for the most innovative invention by recycling junk. The children decide to make a puppet booth. Then they create puppets, write a story and perform a play. Will this be enough to win the prize?
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'These odd bods were wrong, they didn't belong. . .' When the Strange family moves into town, the villagers treat them with suspicion. They don't like their weird ways or their 'ludicrous house in the trees'. But when a storm hits and floods the valley, who...
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