Benjamin Blümchen

In Newtown Zoo they're planning the yearly Spring Festival, where they always collect donations for the zoo. But unhappily the Mayor has also planned a festival on the same day to collect money for his new town hall. He closes the zoo at short notice because he wants the citizens of Newtown to come to him. Benjamin and his friends refuse to have their festival banned.

Gogo Gorilla has hurt his hand while playing. Unfortunately the vet Dr. Zoolittle is away. So Benjamin treats poor Gogo. He does it so well that the Zoo director makes him the new veterinarian. When the zoo gets a new inhabitant - Dusty the African Desert Fox - Benjamin should vaccinate him against the "African Hickhop": an infectious illness that makes you hiccup and hop.

The Newtown weather cock is in desperate need of repair. When Benjamin finds this out, he immediately stands in as the weather elephant. The fire brigade builds him a platform on the town hall tower and Otto supplies his friend with food and drink. At last Carla Caramba gets proper weather reports for her newspaper.

Benjamin and Otto visit the forest ranger's house and discover that the mayor plans to build a road straight through the beautiful forest. The forest animals are to be shut up in cages in the zoo. Mr. Woodman, the forest ranger can't do anything against it because he's lying in bed with a fever. Benjamin becomes his stand-in and immediately has a lot to do.

It's the Zoo Director's birthday and Mr. Pickler, the Mayor's secretary presents him with Chico the tassel-eared monkey from his boss. Because Chico doesn't get on with the other monkeys, he is put into the cockatoos' cage. But then Chico has suddenly disappeared. Benjamin and Otto set off to look for him.

Kashmir the little ghost at Concord Castle can't float or go through walls any more. Now he plans to visit his uncle in Scotland to get his advice and help. The ghostly guided tours will now have to stop. Benjamin wants to stand in for Kashmir but the castle keeper doesn't like the idea. But when Benjamin's friend Otto explains that big ghosts can give you a big fright, then he agrees.

Nino the baby hippo is really cute! But he's got no room to play. When a larger hippo pool is built, Baron Blunderbuss, whose villa is next to the zoo, feels disturbed. Because of a complaint the Mayor cancels all financial help for the zoo. All the building workers go home. But Benjamin and the zoo animals continue the building work on their own.

Benjamin and Otto are standing in for the lighthouse keeper on a small island. Part of their job is to keep watch over the nests of rare birds. During the first night Benjamin and Otto chase an egg thief away. They also have to make sure that the lamp in the lighthouse never goes out so that the ships are warned about the rocks.

The Newtown Zoo has a new inhabitant: Nico Rhinoceros. First Nico has to pass through a new fully automatic animal washing system invented by Eddie Eddison. As he does so, he surprisingly loses his gray skin color and is suddenly white. The Director sees at once that Nico is a valuable albino rhinoceros.

Benjamin and Otto visit Concord Castle. When Benjamin sits in a time machine, which a royal inventor of long ago had developed, the historical apparatus collapses. A wooden beam hits Benjamin on the head and sends him to the land of dreams to Princess Lea and the ghostly children Cuddle and Ticklish, who lived at the castle many years ago.