Today's Special
Series· 1982· 30m

Today's Special

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Today's Special is not currently streaming on any Indian OTT platform, and is not available to rent or buy in India.

Creator:
Clive VanderBurgh

Today's Special is a 1982 English kids series created by Clive VanderBurgh. It spans 7 seasons and 121 episodes. The cast is led by Jeff Hyslop, Nina Keogh and Nerene Virgin. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.2.

Synopsis

Today's Special was a Canadian children's television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1981 to 1987. It also ran on Nickelodeon and the Faith and Values Channel/Odyssey as well as many PBS stations throughout the United States. It was set in a department store, based on the flagship location of the now defunct Simpson's in Toronto. Many sequences for it were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store after hours.

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Season 7
11 episodes
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    E1Mrs. Pennypacker's Problem
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    Mrs. Pennypacker must stay home during the day in order to rest her feet so she can go mountain climbing next year. Problem is, she'll have nothing to do. So the others try and think of a job she can do at home, but she isn't very good at becoming an advice columnist, or a fashion designer, But will do great at writing a book of her memoirs and all her great adventures.

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    E2The Queen of Hearts
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    Sam has just baked a piecrust and needs 2-dozen (4 and 20) blackbirds that sing to finish the pie (a la ""Sing a Song of Sixpence), which gets everyone on the subject of nursery rhyme food. But unexpectedly, The Queen of Hearts shows up in the store in search for the tarts she baked and the Knave who stole them. While the others are helping the 'demanding' queen for the tarts, Jeff found them and the queen thinks Jeff was the thief. Jodie was able to convince her that it could not have been good old Jeff and manages to make friends with the queen. When they finally catch the knave, he admits that he was going to give the tarts to, get this, Old Mother Hubbard.

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    E3A Runaway Spell
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    Sam is practicing his magic trick that won't seem to work. So TXL is able to help him, thanks to the magic circuits that Waldo programmed into her. But after Sam left the magic circuits on, A magic spell runs loose in the store that changes everyone into storybook characters from King Arthur, to Captain Hook, to Alice in Wonderland, to Little Red Riding Rood, to the Big Bad Wolf, etc. But when they finally figure out what's going on, the must catch the magic spell and mail it back to Waldo.

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    E4A Visit to the Opera
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    While Jodie is preparing for a giant ""ribbon-sale"", Mrs. Pennypacker is about to go to the opera. Then Mort shows up with two tickets to go to the opera with Muffy. Also, Waldo shows up with a machine that will allow Jeff to go outside the store for a few hours without turning into a mannequin. But while they're gone Jodie and Sam must hold on to the machine and follow special instructions or Jeff will be a mannequin forever. Sam and Jodie are happy to do it for Jeff who is about to go to the opera with Waldo but when Harvey Hardcassel from head office shows up to inspect the store, Jodie and Sam may be in trouble so the others - including Jeff - decides to stay and help Jodie and Sam. Jodie and Sam show up an opera they imagine called ""The Rainmakers"" where they are two Apple Farmers who travel to the clouds and request rain. The rainmakers include Jeff as lightning, Mrs. P as the wind, Muffy and Mort as pitter and patter, and Mr. Hardcassel as thunder.

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    E5Sam and the Robot
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    The new night manager, Crandall J. Crummington, III, a very sly fellow, convinced Sam that they needed a younger, stronger Security Guard. So he quit his job. However, when Sam finds an old robot named Bleep in the dumpster behind the store, who has been thrown away too by Mr. Crummington, Sam and the robot come back into the store to stand up to Mr. Crummington. In order for Sam to get his job back, he must pass a physical and do five chin-ups. So everyone helps him train for it - and tries to retrain Bleep.

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    E6Mrs. Waldo
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    Waldo's wife, Mattie is in the store shrunk on a shelf (a little trick she picked up) and is upset because Waldo forgot their 30th wedding anniversary. Waldo shows up in the store claiming that he didn't forget but lost track of time, He tries apologizing to Mattie without much success. The others decide to help him after having to listen to him play an awful tune on the saxophone.

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    E7Rich and Famous
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    Sam is attempting to get in the world record books by knitting the longest without stopping because he wants his name to mean something. Muffy however, is trying to get rich in advertising Cereal with broken toys, adjustable beds, and plastic lips without much success. Jeff and Jodie try and get them to stop the nonsense by convincing them that their special for who they are. When that doesn't work, they stage a gimmick of their own by pretending to enter a race of riding a bicycle blindfolded and handcuffed.

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    E8Ice Cream
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    Flora Frimble, the sister of the storeowner is in the store checking for any mistakes and has a big list. Meanwhile, Jodie set up her display of an old fashion ice cream parlor for the customers and will have all sorts of flavors. But Mrs. Frimble wants them to come up with something new and since Sam is the only one who ever made ice cream, they ask him. But the only new flavor he picks is... Sardine.

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    E9Bedtime
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    It's almost morning in the store and the day staff will be in soon, that means it's time for Sam, Jodie and Mrs. P to go home, Jeff to be a mannequin, and it's Muffy's bedtime. Muffy's not very sleepy so she sees Jodie for a bedtime story: The teeny-tiny mouse, After that, she sees Sam for another bedtime story: The shoemaker and the elves, After that she sees Jeff for yet another bedtime story that they make up about a statue and a dancing mouse. After all this he goes to bed, and Jodie and Sam go home after getting Jeff in the store window where he becomes a mannequin.

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    E10Locks
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    The store got a new security system with different kinds of locks with illuminators, cards, and very high tech. But when Jeff, Jodie and Mrs. P. take the box of old locks to the stock room, Sam is trying to figure out how his system works and accidentally locks them in the stockroom for a while. Muffy has another problem; she lost the key to her diary, but finds it in the end.

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    E11Memories
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    In the last episode, the store is holding a favorite memories contest for all the employees and whoever has the best one wins. Mrs. Pennypacker's favorite memory is when she helped a jungle man find a king's treasure; Jodie's favorite memory is her date at her prom with Gerald; Sam's favorite memory is when he save the life of Captain Cooperthuate at sea; Muffy's favorite memory is when she got the mozzarella award at her school graduation. But since Jeff didn't have any memories before he was in the store, the others put together a photo album to help him choose his favorite memory - which came from all his friends.

Season 6
12 episodes

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Season 5
21 episodes
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    E1Songs
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    The store is having a song-writing contest and the prize is $1000. So Jeff, Jodie, Sam and Muffy decide to each write their own song to enter the contest. But after Sam's loud-speaker goes out of control, The whole store can hear the ""Yo Hee Ho"" playing. Muffy thinks that Sam did that on purpose to distract the others. So She distracts him by playing a tape of the ""Rockin' Rodents"" using a huge speaker, and this escalates. But problems get worse when Muffy tries one of Waldo's magic spells that make everyone exchange voices, and in the end they decide to work together in writing a song.

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    E2Daisies
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    Jeff and Jodie receive the daisies for the display. But Greedy O'Grady, a thief wants to get those daisies so he can ransom them back to everyone. So Sam lets him in the store after O'Grady tells him he's from Frankfurter's flowers but Mrs. P knows who he is and locks him in a box. He manages to escape, steals Sam's uniform and the daisies and hides them on the roof. When he is pegged, he decided to change and be nice from now on.

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    E3Jeans
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    The store is having big sale for jeans and Jeff seems to be into the style of wearing them, but Muffy will only wear the fashionable ""Mr. Mouster's"" jeans, but the store hasn't ordered any. She is even more upset when she learns that her cousin Mort is coming for a visit and Muffy thinks he won't play with her if she isn't wearing Mr. Mouster's jeans. But Mrs. Pennypacker and the other try and convince her that ""It's what's inside that counts."" Later on, the director of Mr. Mouster's jeans commercial comes to the store and wants to use Muffy, Jodie, Sam and Jim. I mean Jeff in his commercial, until he has a look at Mort's new jeans that may put Mr. Mouster out of style.

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    E4Hello Friend
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    A friend of Jodie's, Levy, a handicap who can't walk and only speaks in ""Bliss symbols"" visits the store. We learn about Blyss symbols but when Jeff, Jodie and Muffy get trapped in the elevator, Levy manages to send a message to Sam to get them out.

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    E5Waldo's Hat
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    Waldo the Magnificent arrives at the store but gets trapped in his own hat after his rabbit stole his wand and bewitched his hat, and anyone who touches it falls in. Jeff has already fallen in the hat but TXL warns the others not to touch the hat. Now, Jodie, Muffy and Sam search the store until they find the rabbit, which turns into a kangaroo and old shoe, and manage to get Waldo's wand back and break the spell.

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    E6Letters
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    Jeff is writing a letter to Wanda Willoby about stuff that has happened the last few days. Muffy got popcorn all in her mouse hole, after all that was straightened out, they end up chasing toads around the store.

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    E7Heroes
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    Muffy is upset when she can't help the others with their work since she is small and she begins to hate being small. But after the other tell her a story about a mouse named Androcles who helped a fierce lion in distress, So she decides to becomes ""Mega Mouse"" and tries doing heroic things - but also dangerous things to show everybody that she can be important.

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    E8Grandmothers
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    Muffy's 88 year old Granny Sweet visits the store and is quite a surprise: She can ride a motorcycle like a wild mouse, she plays the bagpipes and she likes hot-chili pepper. But she's a true grandmother underneath. The gang later does a play for her: ""Little 'blue' riding hood.""

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    E9Being Alone
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    Jeff is alone in the store when Jodie is off to her nephew's birthday party, Sam goes fishing, and Muffy goes golfing. Jeff is a bit afraid but gets better. However, Jodie, Sam and Muffy get worried about him and decide to return to the store.

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    E10Help!
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    While playing catch with Jeff, Muffy hurts her toe after Jeff throws the ball. So after getting back from the doctor, Jeff volunteers to do anything for Muffy and becomes her servant - but ends up taking advantage of him, when he could be helping Jodie move a whole bunch of boxes.

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    E11Buttons
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    Waldo shows up in the store with his latest ""wishing machine"", and with the touch of a button, Jeff, Jodie, Sam, Muffy and Waldo take a whirl to a monkey maze, the moon, a clay castle, Storybook Land, and a button factory before cracking the code of the wishing machine that Waldo hadn't completely perfected.

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    E12Sam's Speech
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    Sam has been chosen to give a speech at the Royal Naval Academy and he must do it the next day. So he has a hard time figuring out what to say and remembering. So the other try and help him. The Academy turns out to be just children.

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    E13Dancing Shoes
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    Jeff and Jodie got some new tap-shoes and practice tap dancing in the Children's Department. But Sam and Muffy are tired and annoyed with all the tapping noise so Jeff and Jodie try tapping in the stock room, but Mrs. P is busy hammering off beat. They then try the roof, but it starts raining. Finally they go back to the children's department but Sam and Muffy have had quite enough. So they lock Jeff and Jodie's feet in a giant boot but end up feeling too guilty about it.

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    E14Storybooks
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    Waldo shows up in the store looking for a ""Robin Hood"" storybook that has a terrible spell in it. Muffy happens to be reading it and accidentally activates the magic spell and ends up in the land of make-believe thinking she's Robin Hood. So Jeff, Jodie, Sam and Waldo go to the land of make believe to protect her until the spell wore off facing the evil sheriff.

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    E15Going Out
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    When Jeff and Muffy hear about Jodie going to a dance with some prince, they fear that she will become a princess and leave the store to live in a palace. So When Jodie need a dance lesson from Jeff, He shows her a dance that will make a fool out of her so that they will laugh at her, But he later feels guilty about it and Sam tells him that she may leave the store one day and that they have to let her do what makes her happy. But it turns out that Jodie is only going to a costume dance with a young boy.

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    E16Fun
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    When all the nighttime work is done, Jeff, Sam, Jodie and Muffy decide to have some fun. Mort arrives too, and they play a lot of tricks, they sing songs, and Sam makes donuts that keep mysteriously disappearing. And they think there is a ""donut thief"" in the store who turns out to be Mrs. Pennypacker.

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    E17Jeff
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    Jeff is alone in the store and he talks with us as we see clips from when he first came to the store, going to the haunted castle and learning to roller skate. But the local trouble happens when the balls he is playing with end up in front of the store window and he has trouble getting them back without being seen by pretending to be a mannequin, which he is, more or less.

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    E18Jodie
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    On Jodie's day off, We join her at her apartment and take a trip to the laundromat. She has been offered a better job as a store manager somewhere else and is debating on whether or not to take it. She keep remembering all the good times such as visiting the laundromat with Sam, when she saved the store from being torn down. She ends up turning down the new job because she is happy where she is.

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    E19Muffy
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    Muffy is visiting Mort's farm and is trying to write her life story ""The Story of Muffy."" She writes about how she came to the store, when she met the alien from space, having her tonsils out, and being captured by Herman T. Horrible. As she is writing, she is having trouble finding a quite place to write.

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    E20Sam
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    On Sam's day off, he is on his friend Kevin O'Reilly's houseboat fishing. Kevin wants Sam to retire and stay with him on the boat. But he starts remembering old times like when him, Jeff, Jodie and Muffy dressed up in costumes, His donut incident with Mrs. P, the ""Three Bears"" opera, and when he went flying. As Sam goes through a boat loch, he figures he can't retire.

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    E21Live on Stage
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    Jodie, Sam and Muffy are getting ready to leave for the theatre for the ""Today's Special"" live on stage performance. Jeff can't go since he can't leave the store, but he decides to take a chance and hides in a box that is about to be sent to the theatre. When the others arrive to the theatre, they go on stage and the costume box arrives with Jeff in it - but he's a mannequin and his magic hat won't work. So they call Waldo who arrives to help Jeff on this occasion. When Jeff comes to life, they have a great performance.

Season 4
15 episodes

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Season 3
20 episodes

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Season 2
20 episodes

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Season 11982
22 episodes

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Today's Special — frequently asked questions

Where can I watch Today's Special?
Today's Special is not currently streaming on any Indian OTT platform, and is not available to rent or buy in India.
Is Today's Special available on OTT in India?
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Is Today's Special on Netflix?
No. Today's Special is not on Netflix in India, and it is not streaming on any other Indian OTT platform right now.
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Is Today's Special on Prime Video?
No. Today's Special is not on Prime Video in India, and it is not streaming on any other Indian OTT platform right now.
Can I watch Today's Special online for free?
Today's Special is not available on any free or subscription service in India at the moment. Beware of pirated "full web series" streams — they are illegal and unsafe.
How many seasons of Today's Special are there?
Today's Special has 7 seasons and 121 episodes.
When did Today's Special first air?
Today's Special first aired on 14 September 1982.