Episode 1 - Fruit Fun
A fruit salad is a delicious dessert filled with fruit and fun. It is made up of many different fruits like orange, pineapple, banana, grapes and blueberry. Somebody who knows this very well is a particular chef whose speciality is making fruit salad. His name is chef. For many years he has worked to make gourmet fruit salads of the best quality, with fruits that work together peacefully. But one day, a fruit salad proved harder to make than all of the others, because the fruits stopped getting along. This is the story of that fruit salad.
In Episode One, meet Tomato, a stubborn fruit who wants to play tennis with some of his fruit friends. After realising that each fruit (Banana, Grapes, Pineapple and Orange) doesn't want to play his way, Tomato gives in and lets them play with their own rules. This could only end in disaster...
Episode 2 - Banana Party
After a disastrous game of tennis, where we saw how the fruits could not play nicely together, Banana decides to throw a party where all of her friends could get along.
Unfortunately, Blueberry did not turn up, and when they tried to play musical chairs it only created another disaster. Determined for the party to be fun, all the fruits except for Tomato go off in search of Blueberry. Will they find him?
Episode 3 - Enter the Chef
Chef, a skilful fruit salad making master, is just about ready to make another of his famous fruit salads when he realises he has no fruit. Determined to complete his dish, he sets off to visit his fruit friends, who can supply him with the ingredients he needs.
When he gets there, however, he discovers that Blueberry, a vital ingredient of the salad, is missing. After Tomato badly suggested that he should take Blueberry's place in the salad, Chef threatens to turn the fruits into a fruit cake if they cannot find Blueberry. What will happen next?
Episode 4 - Hunt for Blueberry
The fruits have just about given up looking for Blueberry, as he is nowhere to be found. But still afraid of being turned into a fruit cake, they decide to give searching for him one last go. On their hunting journeys, Pineapple, Banana and Grapes find an interesting character named Frank. Does Frank hold the keys to Blueberry's location, or is he just a distraction from the main plot?
Episode 5 - Losing Hope
Lost for a solution to the Blueberry situation, Chef decides to call his boss to see if there is a way around making a normal fruit salad. Unfortunately, there is not, and Chef must still find the missing Blueberry.
Meanwhile, we find out that Blueberry has actually been kidnapped! But by who? And where is he being kept? You'll have to keep watching to find out!
Episode 6 - Frank Fake
The fruits have finally given up their search for Blueberry, but they still don't want Chef to turn them into a fruit cake instead of a fruit salad! Distressed, the fruits come up with the idea to trick Chef into thinking they've found Blueberry by using a fake blueberry.
But who should they use as a fake blueberry? Frank, of course, the strange man they met in the trolley, the shop and the car park when they were previously searching for their blue friend. Will this plan work? You'll have to watch to find out!
Episode 7 - Trapping the Chef
So Chef did not fall for the Frank fake, but all hope is not lost, even though Chef is chasing them down.
After losing their pursuer for a little while, the fruits come up with a new plan: to trap Chef, so he can't possibly try and turn them into a disgusting fruit cake. Tomato and Banana rush off to set up the trap, while Grapes and Orange try to distract Chef. Surely this plan cannot fail...
Episode 8 - Blue Clues
While cleaning one of their rooms, Banana and Orange stumble across the Chef they had worked so hard to capture earlier. The cunning cook used the opportunity to convince the two fruits that he was actually on their side, and that he could help them find Blueberry with his special Blue-Ray glasses.
Interested in the glasses, and a new way to find Blueberry, Banana and Orange agree to free Chef and let him help. What clues will the Blue-Ray glasses reveal? And is Chef really on the same side as the fruits? You'll have to find out!
Episode 9 - Seeing Blue
In episode nine, we immediately see that it was in fact Tomato who kidnapped Blueberry, because he wanted a position in the fruit salad. Frustrated that his whole plan was not working, Tomato begins seeing red, and goes off in search of a giant hammer, so he can squash Blueberry into blueberry juice!
Meanwhile, through the blue vision of his glasses, Chef leads the other fruits to the location of the captive Blueberry. The fruits then see the familiar blue of their friend for the first time in a long time, and are happy. But how long can this happiness last? Watch to find out.
Episode 10 - Fruit Salad
After a chase scene involving tomato chasing all the others, the red fruit has Blueberry beneath the weight of his giant lamp. Fortunately, however, Orange remains clumsy and falls into Tomato, saving the little, blue friend.
Tomato is angered further by this, and heads away to find a blender so that he can destroy them all and take over the world. Chef decides to lead an attack against Tomato before making the fruit salad, to make the world a safer place. With weapons and all, they meet climactically outside the house for a final battle, which the fruits win.
Finally, the fruit salad can be made, and there are happy endings all round.
Credits
Fruit: Emily Wood, David Coulter, Ben Barnett, Merrin Sprague, Brendan Petty, Jono Croxford
Chef: Chris Davies
Frank: Stephen Hicks
Head Chef and Vice Chef: Suzie and Louise Wilton
Music: Brendan Petty with Chris Cameron and Ben Croxford
Directed and Edited by: Jono Croxford
Camera Assistance: Tim Barnett
Thanks to: Karen Croxford, Lauren Pinches
Filmed in Templestowe, Victoria
Serial Drama Movie 2009 © Peninsula SUFM. Music © 2009 Brendan Petty