'The Tweenies' is an innovative pre-school television series for children aged three to five. Tweenies storybooks are based on events that occur in the program, so the Tweenies themselves are the main characters of the stories. In keeping with the high tech nature of the program, the books are illustrated with life-like, computer-generated models of the Tweenies and the set.
The Tweenies have been talking about going up and down - rockets, bouncers, butterflies, balloons. They go into the garden and play an Up and Down game on the slide. Suddenly they hear "Help!" It's Doodles. He's climbed a tree and now he's stuck! How can he get down? Flap his ears and fly? Sit on a leaf and wait until autumn? The Tweenies sing a special song - 'I Wish I Could' - and one by one they imagine how they would rescue Doodles - bouncing on a pogo stick, being a butterfly, flying in an aeroplane, or a hot air balloon, but Doodles rejects all these offers. Will Max lend them an axe so they can chop down the tree? No, Max has a better idea. He fetches a ladder - and rescues Doodles!
Later on, it's news time. The Tweenies talk about all the things they've done during their Up and Down day. Fizz hopes that Doodles won't get stuck up a tree again. Just then they hear "Help! I'm stuck." Doodles is up on the slide. "Oh, Doodles!" they all exclaim. "Only kidding", says Doodles, and he slides down!
