1: "DON'T FORGET TO TURN LEFT"
Zyrgon is a cold, ice-bound planet halfway across the galaxy. That's where X is a Family Organizer. She's only eleven - but she's in charge of her family of five. FATHER is a lovable rogue, devoted to gambling. MOTHER'S a dizzily talented Wear Designer. DOVIS is X's older sister, about seventeen, and stunningly beautiful. QWRK is eight, and a genius.
X is such a good organizer, she wins the coveted Pearlrock Logotype. She returns home - to disaster. FATHER has been discovered cheating in the government lottery - after winning it twenty-seven times in a row. The fearsome Law Enforcer-in-CHIEF comes to arrest him. X promises to see justice is done. But X loves her father too much to let him go into detention.
Determined to keep the Family together, she decides on exile. X gets directions from LOX, a gorgeous but empty-headed space shuttle pilot she adores from afar. They travel halfway across the galaxy - and turn left.
Towards Earth - and Bellwood. That's where JENNY ROLAND lives. X is meticulously organized. JENNY loves mess. X keeps a tight hold on her emotions. JENNY lets hers hang out. Especially since the recent turmoil in her family, which resulted in her dad leaving - and her mum being left with JENNY, her cynical brother COLIN, and her two bratty kid brothers. In space, X instructs her family to do nothing that might give them away in exile.
2: "EXILES ON REMARK STREET"
In a paddock on Earth, X shepherds her family off the spaceraft. Then utilizing her special powers, she creates an airpocket - and hides the raft inside. Having seen a strange light, JENNY arrives at full tilt. She finds an odd looking family - but no sign of the light. X insists they saw nothing. She leads her family away towards Bellwood, and leaves JENNY wondering. The Family are amazed by their first impressions - but X is more concerned with keeping their identity secret in this strange land.
Their first job is to find a house. They secure one through XAVIER YOSHIDA, a real estate agent.
X - against her better judgement - leaves FATHER to buy food, while she and QWRK go to purchase furnishings and home appliances. When they get home, the furniture's already arrived. And the delivery men are staring at the way MOTHER'S filled the house to the ceiling with flowers, while DOVIS has cloned into a cat. X is furious but worse is to come as FATHER returns home in a shiny, red specially modified GTS Monaro. Bought with money obtained by kinetics from currency-producing machines all over town!
X takes the keys - from now on FATHER must ask permission to use the car - and orders him to burn the currency he obtained from the Automatic Teller
facilities. They're in a strange new place, with no one to turn to. If they're going to survive, they have to live perfectly ordinary lives. Nothing less we do.
Meanwhile, the CHIEF has cloned into a Professor to try and discover the Family's whereabouts from Aunt Hecla. After an afternoon of Hecla's singing and rocktails without gaining any information, the CHIEF loses his temper and clones back into himself, threatening retribution.
3: "NEXT ITEM ON THE SCHEDULE - SCHOOL"
While at her ranch on the Second Moon, Aunt Hecla is being threatened by the Chief to reveal the family whereabouts...
On Earth, X insists they choose new names for their stay on Earth. Henceforth, FATHER will be known as Mortimer, MOTHER as Renee, DOVIS as Astrella, and QWRK as George. X has to choose a new name for herself. She gets it from the recipe Father's cooking. Apple ... Charlotte.
Sending MOTHER to look for a job - for she's always been the Family breadwinner - X has FATHER drive her and the others in search of a school. If they're going to live perfectly normal lives, that's their next priority. But it's going to be hard - especially arriving in a superpowered car at the same school JENNY attends, and with two of the pupils, MICHELLE and DALLAS already dubbing the family "weirdos" - on first appearances.
MISS BREWSTER, the principal, is intrigued by the Family - and happy for them to attend her school, but is left flabbergasted, when she is kissed by FATHER, mimicking a local custom he has witnessed.
For the first time in her life, X finds her authority as an organizer ignored. For the first time she begins to realize things are different on Earth. Children here don't run families. Or worry about them. They leave all that to their parents. X struggles to come to terms with Earthly practice. But as X clings to the past, she doesn't realize how well the rest of the Family are adapting. They're not out to hide their powers - but capitalize on them.
AUNT HECLA escapes the CHIEF and heads for Earth to help her favourite niece, X. ZEPPY, her favourite zeppolope accompanies her.
But the CHIEF is determined to catch them. JADY has cloned into a pretty Kiosk Attendant to meet X's friend, LOX. She also nearly locks onto DOVIS'S kinetic beam bringing material to Earth for Mother to impress Andrea, owner of Bellwood's leading boutique. The family's elusiveness is making the chief angry, they better watch out.
4: "FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL"
MOTHER plans to wow the entire fashion world with garments of Zyrgonese pearlrock. FATHER'S had all his gambling instincts reawakened - and discovers the TAB. But X is too busy to notice. It's her first day at school. As they set off, X gives the others strict instructions. It may be difficult but they must act normal.
QWRK'S introduced to his prep grade - and set the humiliating task of telling the time. DOVIS is introduced to a senior class - and instantly wins their hearts with her beauty. X joins MISS HARROW'S maths class - and immediately runs into trouble. She gets on the wrong side of MICHELLE, the class bully, and her best friend, DALLAS. She gets all her algebraic calculations right, but uses the wrong - that is, Zyrgonese - method. And when MISS HARROW asks about where she's from, X parrots out the Family cover story about coming from Peru, like a walking encyclopedia! MISS HARROW becomes suspicious. MICHELLE and DALLAS think she's a know-all. But JENNY'S in the class, too. She's attracted to X. Already thinking they could be friends.
Like X, QWRK'S had an exhausting day, singing inane songs about bananas. But DOVIS takes immediately to school-life on Earth. She's constantly surrounded by adoring admirers, who want to sit with her, talk with her - anything! DOVIS adds to X's anxiety by performing a Zyrgonese dance for her new friends, accompanied by music she has made to play through the school's P.A. system.
Meanwhile, Hecla has reached Yorp's Fuelstop on her way to Earth to help X.
While back at Zyrgon, Jady in the guise of a Shuttle Kiosk attendant is gaining Lox's confidence in order to help Chief in his quest to get X.
5: "HOMESICKNESS"
When X, QWRK and DOVIS return home from their first day at school, they find MOTHER and FATHER missing. At first they fear that they have been captured by the Chief. But when Mother comes home, X finds what they've been doing. FATHER, gambling. MOTHER showing off her talents - with exotic Zyrgonese fabrics. Both in defiance of X's strict orders.
It's too much for X. The pressures of their exile and her responsibilities as Organizer take their toll. Her family's never heard X so emotional.
X shuts them out - and turns to the one who's always been there. The one she adores. She beams LOX, back on Zyrgon.
X ticks her family off. FATHER will ,stay at home and tend to the kitchen. MOTHER will lead an ordinary working life. And DOVIS, QWRK and she will go to school as usual - and be perfectly normal! It's not that easy. Not even for X. The more she tries to be perfectly normal, the more DALLAS and MICHELLE thinks she's a weirdo. QWRK doesn't help, when he's asked for a list of ten words starting with "A" - and comes up with "autochthonism" and "antonomasia". DOVIS is busy delighting in her new-found friends to worry - so it's left, as always, to X to brood.
MISS BREWSTER insists on seeing MOTHER and FATHER because of Qwrk's precocious intellect. X commands the Family to learn a cover story, but, despite her despair at their inattention, it is she who almost gives the game away.
And finally, to make the worst mistake of all - and invite DALLAS and MICHELLE back to the house - to prove they're quite normal. JENNY comes with them. Like DALLAS and MICHELLE, she's sensed there's something different about X. But where the others feel threatened, Jenny's on X's side. If X is hiding something, JENNY is willing to help her.
But it is not only X and her classmates making for the Jackson home - HECLA too is on her way!
6: "A DAY AT THE BEACH"
X arrives home accompanied by MICHELLE, DALLAS and JENNY, unprepared for what awaits her. Mother's been homesick. And despite X's strict instructions, she's beamed even more contraband items from Zyrgon. The kitchen has a glass flower ornament, while in the lounge stands Father's monstrous Klickscore Trophy, that whizzes and ticks, with all kinds of readouts. X desperately tries to explain away all of this to the others. She nearly succeeds, propelling them out of the house - but the final shock awaits.
HECLA is on the doorstep. She bullied their whereabouts out of Lox and came halfway across the galaxy to be with the Family. She grabs hold of MICHELLE. Inspects her closely. Great thundering zelphs! What funny looking children! MICHELLE and DALLAS - and JENNY run
for their lives. And X knows, hers will never be the same...
Despite X's resistance, HECLA moves in, with ZEPPY, her pet zeppolope. When X learns that her aunt has left her spaceraft in public view in the park, she goes to hide it. But finds it's been mistaken for playground equipment by a gang of young boys. She chases two of them, who think the rudder's a bat. She catches them outside their house - which is also where Jenny and Colin live. ANDREW and SHANE are their younger brothers. On being confronted by
COLIN, X pretends the bat's nothing special. His brothers are welcome to it. But her sudden arrival only confirms JENNY'S
earlier thoughts. There's something about X that's mysterious. Special. JENNY wants to know more...
When JENNY invites X's family to go on a picnic to the beach, X discovers some of the pleasures enjoyed by children on Earth.
While MOTHER resents HECLA'S influence on the family, X worries she will betray them as alien - as she nearly does when XAVIER YOSHIDA, the real estate agent, arrives with the lease. The solution is Hecla to go back to Zyrgon. With MOTHER'S assistance, X beams LOX to arrange some kind of transport for Hecla's return - only to hear the shattering news that he's betrothed. To Jady - the gorgeous girl who runs the Space Shuttle Kiosk.
7: "A VISITOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET"
HECLA believes that X is taking her organizing duties far too seriously. She should relax and enjoy her new planet, but X feels she must involve herself in everything. For example, diverting MISS BREWSTER'S attention from QWRK'S intelligence. He's always been hopeless at music. Over QWRK'S protests, X decides he'll learn the violin. X is determined to keep their cover intact - but strangely, increasingly, it's not the others who create the danger, but X herself. When MICHELLE and DALLAS tease her with taunts about her weird family, X loses her cool. Her thought-power switches to retribution mode - making DALLAS and MICHELLE believe their hair has changed, which has them creating a disturbance in class.
X is called to the Principal's office. She fears the worst that her secret has been discovered. To her surprise, MISS BREWSTER shows X - QWRK playing a difficult violin concerto at his first lesson!
MISS BREWSTER and MR. HOHENHAUS have found a prodigy. X hasn't time to take her anger out on QWRK - she's wanted for the Inter-house Swimming Team Selections trials. To everyone's amazement, X beats MICHELLE in the trial - and is applauded for the first time in her life.
It's a strange feeling - but not its strange as visiting Jenny's house. All X's instincts as an Organizer recoil at the sight of the chaotic, messy Roland house. But her biggest trial is Jenny's room. For JENNY wants X to be her best friend. X feels weak all over. She's not prepared for this sort of closeness. All her doubts and fears climax in a gigantic sneeze. MRS. ROLAND decides it's the flu, and hurries her home.
The Family finds it hard to believe that X could be ill. She wouldn't allow herself to get sick. They look on in consternation - X tells them they'll have to get along without her while she goes to bed to recover from this Earthly ailment. HECLA repeats her advice. You're making yourself ill with your constant anxiety.
Meanwhile, the Chief is getting closer, having just left Yorp's fuelstop and he vows he is going to get X.
8: "X IS NOT HERSELF"
X tries to maintain control of her family - but it's difficult, when your head throbs, and you're struck in bed with the flu. X does her best. She teas to - for rebellions in the air. The Family are loving -the new please-yourself lifestyles. And HECLA is saying how free she feels on Earth. Irresponsibility. Lack of self-control. She'll be a bad influence on FATHER.
Without X's restraining influence, DOVIS gets into trouble at school when she releases all the rabbits from the biology laboratory. QWRK continues to impress MR. HOHENHAUS.
All these problems pale into insignificance however when JENNY comes to visit X and tells her she's seen somebody from Peru. Her description fits the Chief exactly. X asks JENNY to do her a huge favour. She wants
JENNY to let herself be seen by the CHIEF wearing her Pearlrock Logotype and then tell him that X and her Family have left. But the CHIEF does not believe
JENNY and follows her to the Jackson home.
Her suspicions stirred by seeing Jenny wearing X's pearlrock logotype, HECLA returns home. She guesses that X's jumpiness cannot be explained by even a bad case of flu and realizes the truth. X decides the only thing she can do to protect her family is to give herself up to the CHIEF.
The CHIEF is delighted to have X do just this and gloatingly takes her back to Zyrgon in his pursuit raft. However, it is not X he has captured but HECLA simulated into X.
9: "THE JACKSON MUTINY"
While the Chief is enjoying his triumphant welcome back in Zyrgon, having delivered the criminal X to the Authoritarians, on Earth X is waking from her exhausted sleep caused by a severe viral attack. only MOTHER is in, the rest of the family are out and about, enjoying themselves.
X finds MOTHER over the moon, having been offered a half-share in the design boutique where she works. X realizes with a shock that things have run out of control during her illness.
X lays down the law to her family, but they fight bank. FATHER wants to open a restaurant, QWRK is determined to be the best violinist on Earth, DOVIS is stepping out with DAVID CARRUTHERS. X retires to her room to regroup.
COLIN goes to the Jackson house to return the runaway ZEPPY and is bewitched by the vision of the girl he knows as Charlotte bathed in luminescent thoughtbeams as she communicates with LOX.
X has intercepted LOX'S thoughtbeam to Mother and discovers he believes her to be in the Chief's Detention Centre. X now realizes why HECLA is missing - her aunt has simulated into her and gave herself up as X to the Chief. X is appalled. HECLA, her greatest rival in organizing, has put her eternally in her debt.
X instructs her family they must leave for Zyrgon, otherwise HECLA will be punished in her stead.
10: "THE TURNING POINT"
LOX is caught trying to steal X's records and is thrown into a cell with X, that is, HECLA simulated as X. LOX is aware that it can't really be X because he has spoken to her on Earth by thoughtbeam. The CHIEF discovers X is HECLA and decides to throw both LOX and HECLA into the boiling lava.
Meanwhile on Earth, X resumes control. She orders DOVIS and QWRK to school for one last day. When it's over they will come straight home, clean up and board the raft. There will be no argument. MOTHER may have a brief, final day, at work. They will pick up FATHER later from his foolish restaurant. Sadly, obediently, the Family do as they are told. They must return to save HECLA. X sets off to school, meeting JENNY on the way. Full of forgiveness - and an invitation to go iceskating - and the surprising news that COLIN wants to come too.
X tells JENNY she can't go - she won't be here tomorrow. JENNY is devastated at the news. More than anything, X realizes she wants to be Jenny's best friend. But it's too late, and too much divides them. There's no turning back. She doesn't explain. JENNY can't understand. Her hurt and anger spills over. X lines up for the fifty metres Inter-House Swimming Carnival. As the race starts, she hears Hecla urging her on, willing her to win. She wins, beating MICHELLE and gets overwhelming applause, and a fine medal. It's the high point of her stay on Earth. X struggles with her emotions - and insists it changes. nothing. They're still leaving.
The Family sadly farewell their house. The situation is too poignant for words. They leave, to walk to the restaurant, and FATHER. On the way, they're met by COLIN and JENNY. COLIN'S finally conquered his cynicism - and told JENNY about the beam. JENNY has guessed the truth - and come to plead with X to stay. X admits the truth. She wishes she could get out of it, and just be herself. But she can't. X and JENNY will be friends always - but half a galaxy away.
11: "HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS"
JADY tricks HECLA and LOX by allowing them to escape to the Family apartment where the CHIEF is waiting to push them to their death down the inclinator shaft into the boiling lava but they are saved by YORP who leads the growing movement of dissidents on Zyrgon.
At his restaurant, FATHER'S engrossed in cooking. He insists they can't leave till he's served a meal. X hurries everyone through their delicious meal. They dine sadly, miserably, to the mournful music of QWRK'S violin.
Back at Jenny's, she and COLIN are miserable too. They know the truth now. Losing a friend hurts - no matter where she's from. MRS. ROLAND tries to comfort JENNY. To her surprise, she finds her daughter stronger and wiser when it comes to losing someone.
Meanwhile FATHER enters with a cake for X. Fifty candles, one for each metre X swam. X is touched by her family's love but before she can blow out the candles they flicker and die. It's LOX trying to get through on a thoughtbeam. He tells them that he and Hecla have been saved from the lava, then drops his bombshell: the CHIEF told him that X never won the Scholarship fair and square - but cheated. X is flabbergasted. So is the rest of the family - all except FATHER. He admits he was the one who changed X's marks. He couldn't bear to see her fail.
The CHIEF arrives on Earth. He's traced the rudder from Hecla's spaceraft to Jenny's room. He takes Jenny to help him find the whereabouts of the Family's raft.
X struggles to cope with the knowledge of her twin failure. She's no good as an organizer - because she was never meant to be one. She feels stupid and miserable - but to FATHER'S credit, he knows he's the guilty one. He convinces X at last, they can stay. And slowly, X sees he's right. The burden is lifted. They can go to the paddock, not to leave - but to load the spaceraft with everything that came from Zyrgon and send the raft off into space to avoid detection - and stay.
The Family hurries off to the paddock - only to be met by the CHIEF. He takes FATHER prisoner. X trades her freedom for JENNY. With his prisoners aboard, the CHIEF exults - but finds he is pursued by the Family, COLIN and JENNY in Jenny's dad's old boat. An awesome chase conducted at molecular level results in the raft being brought down. X and FATHER are saved - but the CHIEF is gone.
12: "X - THE UNKNOWN FACTOR"
The Family, together with JENNY and COLIN return the boat to Jenny's house.
MOTHER reminds everyone they're still in danger. The CHIEF could strike back at any time. He could clone into any one to do so. But the main thing is they're staying. X is determined about that. She learnt the lesson her family taught her. If you're different, there's no point in hiding it in trying to be normal. The only thing to be is yourself. They'll stop running - but they'll stick together. And when the CHIEF comes - as he will - they'll fight.
So X and JENNY; DOVIS and QWRK head off for school. COLIN'S sorry he has his own school to go to - he's grown fond of X in the last few days. MOTHER goes to work, alert and vigilant and FATHER returns to his restaurant. As we start to suspect the CHIEF has cloned into someone entirely unexpected - MICHELLE - whose family has just moved next door to the
Jackson's.
MICHELLE [Chief] invites X down to the pool, for a grudge match, to settle once and for all who's the best. X accepts, deciding it's time to put Michelle in her place. As they head for the pool, DALLAS wants to come too. MICHELLE lingers and argues - and shuts the squealing DALLAS into a locker. On her release, JENNY realizes what's happened. She rushes to the pool, warning DOVIS and QWRK.
Locked in the sporting complex, X fights for her existence as her earthly nemesis clones back to her galactic one. X's nightmare starts to happen in reality. The Chief is determined that X will go back to Zyrgon... as a Roobot!
When JENNY, DOVIS and QWRK break into the sporting complex, a solitary ROOBOT hops around. And X lies exhausted, but victorious.
At the paddock, the Family concentrate - and send the raft to the dark side of the Second Moon. But before they head for home to get back to normal, X takes COLIN and JENNY fishing in the boat, flying over Bellwood ostentatiously, recklessly. And MICHELLE sees them...
13: "FUN IS DANGEROUS"
The exhilaration of her victory over the Chief leads to a new recklessness in X. She resigns her position as Family Organizer and informs her parents and siblings that from now on her life is dedicated to fun. But no sooner does X decide to devote her life to good times, than things start getting confusingly serious.
When Michelle is caught peering in the Jacksons' window, X, Jenny and Colin take the Roobot (the Chief) to the Rolands' house and hide him in their shed. Colin gives her some patronising tips about tactics and she wins an annual race between the boys and the girls defeating her smug adviser in the process. X doesn't understand why Colin is miffed, so Jenny gives her a crash course in the subtleties of the male ego.
Things go from confusing to worse when Miss Harrow takes X to a Sports Clinic for a series of fitness and aptitude tests. X allows a blood sample to be taken before she and Jenny realize - too late - that her blood will prove conclusively she's an alien. After Miss Harrows media class discusses the many grisly fates that could befall aliens visiting Earth, X decides urgent action is required. She coerces Father into breaking into the Sports Clinic and replacing her blood with that of a human. Colin donates his blood for the purpose - greater love hath no budding chauvinist. The minor crime is accomplished without incident. Colin apologizes to X for his reaction to her win, and the two run into the darkness together, hand in hand. It's a night filled with relief and budding romance.
14: "QWRK LANDS ON HIS FEET"
After wistfully watching other boys playing games of football and skateboarding with their friends, QWRK asks DOVIS'S advice on making friends. QWRK follows his sister's recommendations by learning to skateboard in his own way so he can be mates with the skateboarders. He develops a formula which optimizes their zenith potential.
QWRK'S new pastime horrifies MR. HOHENHAUS and alarms MISS BLOOM sufficiently for her to call MOTHER and FATHER into her office for a serious chat. It appears QWRK has adopted the skateboarders' lingo and has accused his teacher, MISS PAYNE, of having a "filthy mind".
Following MISS BLOOM'S advice, MOTHER and FATHER take a firm stand with George, trying their best to behave like Earthly parents. Keeping X right out of the situation, MOTHER and FATHER forbid QWRK from associating with the hooligans, threatening a surprise punishment if he disobeys.
When QWRK falls off the skateboard, he thinks it is his punishment. He then decides to comply with his parents ruling, after one more meeting with the skateboarders, where his formula wins him a fan in skateboarder, BINDY LIPTRAP, and acceptance with the skateboarding gang.
15: "HEARING A DIFFERENT DRUMMER"
When Lox thoughtbeams from Yorp's office, needing somewhere to hide, X reluctantly agrees to allow him to stay with them on Earth. Their intergalactic communication causes havoc with the electric appliances in the Froggatt household, which only adds to the anger Froggatt already feels towards his neighbours.
The Roobot breaks loose from the Rolands' shed, nearly destroying their house, Father and Colin finally trap it in a net with Father given the task of destroying it.
David Carruthers takes Davis to visit a famous ballet teacher, Emilia Flint. The woman is quite entranced with her dancing, but knows this young girl has a secret. The wise teacher instructs her to find herself first before seeking tuition - only then will she be a great performer. This advice makes Dovis question the concepts of honesty and truth in her relationship with David but it does not stop her discovering the joys of young love with the infatuated young man, but becomes upset when he tries to kiss her. As kissing is unknown on Zyrgon, Jenny counsels on its benefits.
The arrival of the silver clad spaceman, Lox, who immediately charms Jenny adds to X's anxiety... and Froggatt's suspicions.
If they only knew... that Father has been unable to destroy the Roobot and has hidden it in his wardrobe.
16: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL"
The Jackson family are short of money. When this fact becomes known to their next door neighbours, together with the strange appearance of Lox, Froggatt, with the help of Michelle and Dallas, decides to do some investigating.
A strange parcel from Zyrgon finds Qwrk. Inside it is a money tree. Just what he needs when he is feeling the lack of cash. The plant soon brings fruit and Qwrk orders up big.
Unbeknown to the rest of the family, Father has not destroyed the Roobot but is keeping him in his wardrobe. On his surveillance visit to the
Jackson's, Froggatt hears the noise of the trapped Roobot. He concludes that what with the delivery of expensive packages, the
Jackson's are responsible for a recent Bellwood robbery and have the courier imprisoned in the wardrobe.
Complicated by David trying to get Dovis to forgive him for his kiss and Michelle finding the money tree, Qwrk's money making venture comes to a sticky end when the money tree dies and Froggatt calls the police.
17: "STRANGE ENCOUNTERS"
A visit from Michelle's disreputable Cousin Mick results in X and Qwrk being held hostage at the supposedly haunted Clayton House to produce a money tree like Michelle discovered in Qwrk's bedroom.
Lox, accompanied by Colin and Jenny, go to the rescue. While Colin and Jenny lead Mick and his equally crooked accomplice, Ace, on a merry chase around the old house, Lox is untying X and Qwrk. Unbeknownst to the rest of the household, Father enters the scene with the Roobot and thoroughly scares the crooks into locking themselves into the library.
Using his powers, Qwrk makes the painting in the library come alive much to the terror of the rooms occupants, who quickly flee the premises, promising to lead a strictly legal existence.
X's only problem now is to destroy the bud from the money tree in Michelle's possession. With the help of her family, she makes the note explode leaving the Froggatts stunned and shell-shocked.
And Father... he safely makes it back home, after locking the Roobot in his restaurant storeroom, without any of the family knowing about his presence at Clayton Hall or the Roobot still existing.
18: "UNDERSTANDING THE MATERIAL WORLD"
Mother is very excited. she has been asked to exhibit her latest creations for three buyers from a Parisian couture house. Due to an unfortunate accident caused by Lox, the garments are destroyed.
At the last moment, X allows Mother and Dovis to kinetize some Zyrgonese material down to make replacements. But the models refuse to wear the garments, because the material is so odd.
Finally Lox and Dovis model the creations to mad acclaim from the Parisians.
Unbeknownst to anybody, Qwrk has entered an astro-physics competition and wins it. X insists that Father go to the symposium to deliver the winning theory as an eight year old genius debating advanced physics would certainly give the game away.
Fathers efforts prove disastrous in front of the television audience and it is only Qwrk's quick thinking that saves the day.
After the triumph of the fashion show, everybody is appalled to learn that Mother has accepted the offer to become a designer - in Paris.
19: "WELCOME TO THE HUMAN RACE"
X, Father, Qwrk and Dovis are shocked and saddened by the news that Mother will soon be departing for Paris. Their feelings of loss and regret affect them differently. As they try to absorb and understand these unwelcome emotions, we feel they are finally aware of what Earthly love can mean. Being as shallow as a puddle, Lox is plagued with no such problems. His biggest worry is whether to become a cowboy or a model. He settles on the former, and with a bright new shirt - courtesy of Mother.
Father's sadness about Mother's impending departure leads to carelessness. The Roobot, locked in the restaurant storeroom gains strength from the sugary stores to transform itself back into the Chief. The Chief resumes his search for Father and X, terrifying Shane and Andrew Roland in the process. Shane and Andrew raise the alarm, and when the Chief arrives at the Jackson House, they're waiting for him.
Meanwhile, next door, Clive Froggatt, with Michelle's assistance, has set up surveillance on his strange neighbours. Disgusted, Mrs. Froggatt orders her daughter to sit down to dinner and respect their privacy. This proves rather difficult, especially since every electrical appliance in the Froggatt house goes suddenly haywire, and the Jacksons' house is reverberating with pulsating lights and loud thumps.
A titanic struggle is underway between the Jacksons and the Chief. With Lox's help, they finally overpower him and shove him into the Klickscore trophy. Then they kinetize him into space, and the Klickscore trophy disappears to hurtle through the galactic waste. Only then do the
Jackson's realize that the chief has crackle-beamed Mother. They kneel over her lifeless body miserably. Then Father mentions the word "Paris" and she awakes. She's all right! But alas, she's still leaving.
When Miss Bloom warns the school against a potentially dangerous man fitting the Chief's description, Michelle informs Miss Harrow that such a man was at the
Jackson's wild party the previous evening. When confronted, X advises that he has definitely left the country and is now a long way away. Little does her teacher know how far.
20: "WE'RE THEM NOW"
Mother's imminent departure casts a gloomy shadow over the Jackson family. Father is particularly miserable, and his sad spaniel eyes stir strange feelings in Mother - feelings like guilt and apprehension. They're entirely new to her, and she's not sure she likes them. Not one little bit.
Qwrk and Dovis both want stardom. They audition as a dancing/violin playing duo for a sleazy promoter called Mickie More at his less than reputable establishment, 'The Frantic Funk Jump Club'. Mickie is impressed, but stresses that they need to be louder and more outrageous. Qwrk develops an audio pick-up for his violin that raises the decibel level a thousandfold; and Dovis works up an outrageous look that would not appear out of place at a punks' convention. Clive and Michelle Froggatt witness their outrageous look in conjunction with cowboy Lox lassoing a chair in the Jacksons' yard. They're more convinced than ever that the Jacksons are lunatics.
Like the rest of her family, X is trying to come to terms with Earth's love and the attentive feelings it stirs inside. Earth has made them more free to be what they truly are and want to be: Dovis, a dancer, Mother, a Parisian fashion designer - and Lox, a fighter for truth and justice in the Western way - but not here - on Zyrgon.
Colin finds out about Qwrk and Dovis's dealings with Mickie More, and he accompanies them to their call-back audition. Luckily for them. Because when going over the contract later, Colin discovers Mickie More will take eighty per cent of their earnings. Colin rips up the contract, thereby ending their shot at stardom. Qwrk is grateful. Dovis is furious.
The dreadful day arrives. The farewells start in a restrained Zyrgonian fashion, and end in an Earthly tangle of tears and embraces. Mother hurriedly climbs into Lox's spaceraft, watching her tearful family as she is sped away by Lox - both following their star. Au revoir.
21: "ILLEGAL ALIENS"
Lox's spaceship departure has stirred up interest in aliens and U.F.O's, with Michelle doing her best to link such phenomena to the Jackson Family.
Anxious to get rid of his strange neighbours, Froggatt tips off the Immigration Department of his suspicions about the Family. An inspector calls on the Jacksons and is appalled that they have no I.D. or passports. X snatches a date out of the air, declaring it to be the day of their arrival from Peru. The inspector leaves to run this information through the main computer.
Knowing there will be no record of their entry into the country, it is left to Qwrk to save the day by hacking into the immigration computer to implant some fictitious information... but it is a race against time.
Meanwhile, Michelle and Dallas photograph Dovis walking on a pond to rescue a kitten and report the strange incident to Miss Bloom. With the help of Colin and Jenny, X kinetizes a log just below the ponds surface to prove to Miss Bloom that nothing miraculous occurred.
Qwrk's hacking is successful - and the inspector turns his attention to Froggatt to explain some irregularities concerning his great grandfather's immigration.
22: "GROWING UP QUICK"
Jenny is feeling depressed about herself, convinced she is a dag and wishing she was older - so people wouldn't treat her like a child. Then she sees a spectacular dress which she believes would make her look more sophisticated. Unfortunately her mother hasn't the money to spare, but suggests she gets a part-time job.
Jenny begs X to age-simulate her so she will be old enough to get a job at Amusement Arcade. Reluctantly X simulates her friend into a Dovis clone.
It is Dallas Hohenhaus's brother, Carl, who hires her. Immediately taking a shine to the attractive Dovis [Jenny], he asks her out. This leads to disaster when David's friends see them together. Soon a puzzled Dovis is being berated by an upset David who announces he is now her ex-boyfriend.
This is further complicated by Michelle and Dallas witnessing Carl kissing Dovis as Jenny has become. The next day David confronts Carl about it at the Amusement Arcade. Way out of her depth, Dovis [Jenny] runs away and it is left to Dovis to clear up the mess she has made.
A very pleased Jenny is changed back by X. She is now happy to be eleven, even if she is a dag. After all, what she is inside is what's important.
23: "THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL"
X's life is changing. Mother's gone to Paris and the family are fitting into Earth's way of life: becoming more independent and not needing X's organizing.
These changes become very evident to X when she is wrongly blamed for the graffiti on the school buildings and stealing from Gino's milk bar. It seems the real culprits, Michelle and Dallas, are right: no one's going to believe she didn't do it. Not even her family.
X's powers even fail when she tries to thoughtbeam Lox for comfort. But little does she know, her thoughtbeam has collided in space with the Klickscore Trophy which has the Chief locked within, diverting its course.
Frustrated and depressed by her family's treatment, X runs away. She hides from the world in a storm drain, frequented by Qwrk for the purpose of "hanging out".
X's hiding place becomes dark and scary with rats and strange noises. She bumps her head and when Colin finds her, she believes he is the Chief chasing her. While her family and friends ponder what to do, X lies in bed delirious with her strange nightmares.
Mother arrives home unexpectedly and immediately sets X straight by explaining how bad things could have been for the family if it wasn't for her organization.
X rallies and recovers, happy her family is together again, and ready to accept Earth as her home.
24: "THE PAST IS CREEPING BACK"
X's unwittingly diverted the course of the Klickscore Trophy with a failed thoughtbeam to crash on Yorp's Fuel-stop. The chief emerges from the ruins of the Trophy, free to exact his revenge on X. He is pounced upon by Rusty - a ruthless salesmen.
JADY arrives with a plan to capture X. Believing X has eluded them because her mind has grown strong and independent away from Zyrgon, she has come equipped with a device of the Technical Wizard, "The Mind Drill" to destroy X's mind.
Waves from the Mind Drill bounce-back causing X sensory distortion in the form of visions from the past.
Confused and frightened by her dreams, X, accompanied by Colin, returns home not able to complete her journey to school. Dovis comes home to look after her and is relieved when Mother unexpectedly returns. To the surprise of her daughters, Mother swiftly moves to take X to the doctor.
When Mother rings home, Dovis realizes that she had been deceived by a clone and rushes to catch X... But is only in time to see her being dragged by Jady and the Chief into a spaceraft which immediately takes off.
25: "CRESCENDO"
Manacled, X is escorted by a triumphant Chief and Jady back to Zyrgon where she is put into a cell to be made an example of before being thrown in the lava for the crime of treason. Lox's efforts to try and release her result in his capture and imprisonment.
Back on Earth, a rescue operation is being mounted. The spaceraft is brought from an air-pocket and repaired by Qwrk whereupon Dovis, Jenny and Colin set out in it for Zyrgon.
The intrepid three arrive for refuelling at Yorp's, the friend of dissidents. Though believing they're up against impossible odds,
Yorp joins them in their mission to free X.
With Yorp and Dovis's assistance, Colin and Jenny manage to gain entry into the Law Enforcers Headquarters where X is being held. But their luck fails them and they come face-to-face with their deadly enemy, the Chief.
26: "DARK NIGHT, STAR BRIGHT"
With X imprisoned on Zyrgon and Dovis, Colin and Jenny on their way to try and save her, Father, Mother and Qwrk are alone with their thoughts... and desolation.
In this saddened state, they have to contend on their own with queries about X and Dovis's whereabouts from Miss Bloom and David.
But their minds are full with images of the missing members of their family and what could have been.
Qwrk has his music to express his feelings, while Father and Mother have only their memories.
Meanwhile, in the Froggatt household, a visit from Miss Bloom has provoked thoughts about the ideal society.
27: "TRIAL BY LAVA"
X is brought to trial on Zyrgon, watched by Father, Mother and Qwrk on their modified microwave in their home on Earth. Just as the verdict is to be announced the scream goes blank, caused by Froggatt's electronic jammer device. Hearing no word from X or Dovis, Father, Mother and Qwrk fear the worst and decide to go somewhere with no memories.
Meanwhile, back on Zyrgon, Dovis and Yorp watch the proceedings, helpless as X is pronounced guilty, with only one possible sentence - the lava. Hecla, in disguise, makes herself known to Dovis and Yorp, advising them to trust in the people, but looking around at those assembled in the community centre the prospects look grim.
Before passing sentence, Principa's curiosity has been aroused by a number of Earthly practices described in the transcript. X's explanations to her questions seem to be swaying the head of state to the prisoner's side, much to the chagrin of the Chief.
Finally, unable to endure this dilly-dallying any longer, the chief takes matters into his own hands by sentencing the prisoner himself and dragging her to the lava.
The people of Zyrgon is in uproar as they surge forward, led by Hecla, Yorp and Dovis, storming the Law Enforcers headquarters. Colin, Jenny and Lox are released from their bonds and join Dovis, Yorp and Hecla as the Chief is about to throw X into the lava. Just as he is about to let her fall, he stumbles. Colin tries to save X. But it is too late and both X and the Chief tumble down the inclinator shaft to the lava.
28: "WE LIVE ON THE BEST ONE" (last episode)
JENNY, COLIN, DOVIS and HECLA are appalled - as is everybody else who witnessed it - that X has plummeted into the lava along with the CHIEF.
On Earth, MOTHER, FATHER and QWRK are similarly appalled although all they know is X has been found guilty. FROGGATT is particularly delighted at his jammer.
But the CHIEF and X have not perished - they are snagged on a ledge just above the lava and it is here they have a long, levelling talk. The CHIEF suffers some sort of breakdown when he is confronted with the truth that love has touched his life - JADY loves him.
X and the CHIEF reach a tacit armistice and find their way out of the depths together.
The people in the Community Centre are amazed at the return from the dead of X and the CHIEF. They welcome her but want to toss him back in the lava.
X prevails on them to let him go... and the people acclaim her as their new ruler. JENNY and COLIN cannot believe their ears - X will stay to be the new Principa.
MOTHER and FATHER decide to leave Bellwood forever since it contains too many reminders of X.
A downcast COLIN, JENNY and DOVIS are about to set off from Zyrgon when X runs up to them, having spoken to HECLA and changed her mind.
They arrive outside the Jackson house to be confronted by every sign that MOTHER, FATHER and QWRK have gone... but they have caught them just in time.
The Family's cup of joy finally runneth over when FATHER wins the lottery. They decide to stay on the Blue Planet forever.