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The Best Episodes of Moomin

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In the remote and mysterious Moominvalley live the Moomins, gentle and peaceful creatures. Young Moomintroll and his family experience many strange adventures, both magical and mundane.

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    Moomin Season 1 Episode 26 - The Day the Lighthouse Lit Up
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Day the Lighthouse Lit Up

    S1:E26

    The Moomin's first night in the abandoned lighthouse is haunted by ghosts from the mysterious ghost ship, who finally take off. One of their group is left behind, and the Moomins have to build a raft for it to sail away on. Moominpappa is in vain trying to light the beacon in the lighthouse and they all try to unravel the mystery with the absent keeper. It is finally solved with the help of the small boy, Toft, from the fishing boat, and when the Moomins sail back to Moominvalley they see the lighthouse lit for the first time.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  2. Moomin Season 1 Episode 8 - The Hobgoblin's Magic
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Hobgoblin's Magic

    S1:E8

    The Groke has gone, having been given a very special sea-shell which was a gift from Snorkmaiden to Moomin, who is now in trouble. Moominmamma's handbag disappears, and she promises the finder a huge party. It seems the Groke was not the only one interested in the contents of the suitcase, however...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  3. Moomin Season 1 Episode 4 - The Moomins Discover the Island
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Moomins Discover the Island

    S1:E4

    Moominfamily and their friends set out for adventure in their new sailboat, and finally arrive at a seemingly uninhabited island. It is, however, populated by some very strange creatures with whom Hemulen has an unpleasant encounter. A terrible storm hits the island and they decide to stay over night, pulling up the boat as far as she will go and taking taking refuge in their tent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  4. Moomin Season 1 Episode 5 - The Secrets of the Hattifatteners
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Secrets of the Hattifatteners

    S1:E5

    Our friends have forgotten to tie their boat up in the storm and are attacked by hordes of electrified Hattifatteners, who want their sacred barometer back. Swimming about after the storm Moomin and Snorkmaiden find the most exciting things brought by the storm, but the most exciting find is undoubtedly made by Snufkin.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  5. Moomin Season 1 Episode 6 - Tiny Guests
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Tiny Guests

    S1:E6

    One day two very small guests arrive at Moominhouse. They bring a suitcase, so Moominpappa knows they have come to stay and builds a small bed. Everybody is dying to know what's inside the suitcase, which Thingumy and Bob guard day and night. The terrible Groke knows, however, and she is coming to get it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  6. Moomin Season 1 Episode 7 - The Suitcase
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The Suitcase

    S1:E7

    After the visit of the Groke, Snorkmaiden finally finds out to whom the contents of the suitcase belong, but this only makes the problem worse, and it is with great misgivings they await the return of the Groke. Only Moominmamma has a plan, but will it work?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  7. Moomin Season 1 Episode 9 - An Invisible Friend
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - An Invisible Friend

    S1:E9

    Too-Ticky brings Ninny to Moominhouse view. Ninny has been frightened so often by her aunt that she has become invisible. Moominmamma concocts an infallible remedy, but will that and kindness be enough? Stinky does his best to see to it that it doesn't.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  8. Moomin Season 1 Episode 13 - The Last Dragon on Earth
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - The Last Dragon on Earth

    S1:E13

    After a tremendous downpour Moomin finds a very small dragon in a puddle. Smothering this most exotic of pets with love he expects great devotion in return, but finds that love is a fickle thing indeed, and particularly difficult to contain in a glass jar.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  9. Moomin Season 1 Episode 14 - Our Neighbour is a Tough Teacher
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Our Neighbour is a Tough Teacher

    S1:E14

    One day, Fillyjonk moves into the Moomin Valley with her three children. Although the Moomins hold a welcome party with a lot of unique idea's meant to please them, Fillyjonk just dismisses them as harmful to the upbringing of her children, strictly prohibiting them from playing with Moomintroll and his company. Her children try to follow their mother's BEHAVE-YOURSELVES type of orders at first, but their natural instinct as children gradually draws them into Moomintroll's circle of playmates.

    Director:Itaru Saito
    Writer:Naoko Miyake

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  10. Moomin Season 1 Episode 15 - Snorkmaiden's Lost Memory
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Snorkmaiden's Lost Memory

    S1:E15

    During a spell of rainy weather Snorkmainden has crammed herself with stories about princesses and chivalrous knights. On the first sunny day she and Moomin climb a mountain, where Snorkmaiden sees what she believes is, an Edelweiss. Needless to say it isn't (no such things in Moominvalley), but they have to climb down to get it. Snorkmaiden slips, rolls down the mountainside and winds up in a faint. When she comes to she has forgotten all, and thinks she is of royal blood...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  11. Moomin Season 1 Episode 16 - A Close Encounter with Aliens
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - A Close Encounter with Aliens

    S1:E16

    One day a flying saucer lands in Moominmamma's vegetable garden. It is apparently unmanned and she and Moomin salvage a strange box-like apparatus which looks rather home-made, but which has many remarkable properties. The Inspector is on the war-path trying to nab extra-terrestrials and when the Moomins find one, a runaway child, they have to hide him, quickly deciding that he has probably not come to invade Moominvalley. Their task isn't made any easier by the fact that the box-like apparatus has now made the Inspector iridescent, this fascinating the child so that he follows the Inspector everywhere.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  12. Moomin Season 1 Episode 17 - A Change of Air
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - A Change of Air

    S1:E17

    Bored stiff with calm, sunny weather and stuck in his memoirs, Moominpappa craves adventure. Stinky decides to comply and provides a set of gigantic footsteps, leading up from the sea to Moominhouse. This creates a diversion, but is not enough and Moominpappa decides he and Moominmamma should elope (they never did it before because they had no one to elope from). Stealing off in the middle of the night they leave Moomin to fend for himself, something he doesn't manage all that well. Sniff and Little My help him cook and it is probably a very good thing that his parents haven't managed to get very far...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  13. Moomin Season 1 Episode 19 - Buried in a Jungle
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Buried in a Jungle

    S1:E19

    Moominfamily and their friends have a great time in the jungle. The Hemulen is botanizing as fast as he can, everyone is eating tropical fruit and Moomin and Snorkmaiden play Tarzan and Jane, building a leaf hut. Suspiciously helpful, Stinky offers to get them some animals, too, so it will be more like a real jungle. He is as good as his word, but the animals that he provides are not exactly of the kind they had in mind.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  14. Moomin Season 1 Episode 20 - Moomin Saves the Tigers
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Moomin Saves the Tigers

    S1:E20

    Moominfamily have befriended all the wild animals that Stinky let out of the zoo (except the crocodiles and who wants to be friends with a crocodile, anyway?) and when the zoo-keepers come to take the animals back, the Moomins, aided by the Inspector, fend them off. But, also, the hot spell doesn't last. Autumn comes, the jungle withers in the cold and the animals huddles, shivering, in front of open fires, wondering if chilly freedom is really better than a warm zoo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  15. Moomin Season 1 Episode 21 - Snufkin Leaves Moomin Valley
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Snufkin Leaves Moomin Valley

    S1:E21

    Again winter is at the door and Moominpappa and Moomin are collecting wood to keep the house warm during their long hibernation. Moomin is feeling very sad because it is time for Snufkin to go away on his long annual trip. Moomin talks his parents into letting him go along, but Snufkin says no - he needs some time to himself. Moomin takes to his bed, utterly dejected, but Snorkmaiden manages to bring him out of his gloom by showing him something very, very special.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  16. Moomin Season 1 Episode 22 - Moomin and Little My's Adventure
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Moomin and Little My's Adventure

    S1:E22

    For no special reason Moomin wakes up in the middle of winter and can't go back to sleep. This is quite unheard-of. He is unable to wake the others, and finally, shivering, he makes his way outside into the bleak, unfamiliar whiteness. He meets Little My, who has woken up even before him, and Too-tick who lives in the bath-house. He meets the invisible mice, who also stays there for winter, and he almost meets the Lady of the Cold, the most fearsome of all winter's manifestations...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  17. Moomin Season 1 Episode 23 - Visitors in Winter
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Visitors in Winter

    S1:E23

    Moomin and Little My have finally settled into their wintry existence, living on Too-ticki's fish soup and Moominmamma's jam, of which there fortunately is an awful lot. One day, Mr. Brisk arrives, a very hearty and jovial person, who likes cold baths and roughing it in igloo's. He is much taken with Sorry-oo, a very timid dog who only dreams of running with the wolves that are nightly heard howling in Lonely Mountains. He considers them his brothers, but unfortunately they don't... Mr. Brisk finally leaves, having consumed the last jar of his (and Moomin's) favorite jam.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  18. Moomin Season 1 Episode 24 - Hurry Up Snufkin
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Hurry Up Snufkin

    S1:E24

    Wintering away from bed can't be very good for Moomins, for when spring comes Moomin has a terrible cold, and takes to bed when all the others get up. This year Snufkin is very late and Moomin worries far more than is good for him. Finally Snorkmaiden sets off to try and find Snufkin and bring him back, hoping this would bring about a speedy recovery. Stinky makes a bedside call, and agrees to help Moomin go out to look for Snufkin. Poor Stinky - he learns that when you have a bad reputation good deeds don't really help much.

    Director:Itaru Saito
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  19. Moomin Season 1 Episode 25 - The Lighthouse
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Lighthouse

    S1:E25

    Once again the very fine weather is boring Moominpappa to tears and this time he decides to take the whole family with him and sail for a lighthouse on a small island, not bigger than a fly-speck on the chart. Loaded down they set off and arrive next morning after a harrowing experience with a ghost-ship during the night. They meet a small boat with a man and a boy fishing, but when they get to the lighthouse it is empty, thick with dust and the beacon has gone out. What has happened?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  20. Moomin Season 1 Episode 27 - Aunt Jane
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Aunt Jane

    S1:E27

    One day, Moominpappa gets a very rare thing, a letter! It is from Aunt Jane, a stinkingly rich relative of whom Moominpappa is rather scared. She is great on duty, and particularly on one's duty to money, so Moominpappa packs a knapsack and flees before she arrives. And very wisely, too, for she wants Moominpappa to look after her gold doubloons when she gets too old! There are, however, those in Moominvalley who need gold for their pet projects - and those who need gold just because they like it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  21. Moomin Season 1 Episode 28 - The Floating Theatre
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Floating Theatre

    S1:E28

    An underwater volcano off the coast threatens Moominvalley. A huge cloud of smoke signals that the volcano is active again, and shortly afterwards a tidal wave sweeps over the land. Only the top floor of the Moomin house is visible above the water, and the Moomin family, Sniff, Snorkmaiden, and Little My save themselves by climbing onto a house that is floating by. As the Moomins explore their floating home, they discover that it is a theater.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  22. Moomin Season 1 Episode 29 - The Lost Children
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Lost Children

    S1:E29

    When Moomin and Snorkmaiden wake up, the floating theater has disappeared. They are alone, surrounded by a vast watery desert. The floating house hits a rock, and the violent jolt causes Little My to fall overboard. The current sweeps them away. To find the lost children, Moominpappa and Moominmamma look for a way to make as many people as possible aware of their fate. Cleaning lady Emma has a good idea: what if everyone performed a new play together? The title would have to be "The Lost Children."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  23. Moomin Season 1 Episode 30 - Midsummer
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Midsummer

    S1:E30

    Moominpappa finds writing plays very difficult. He spends hours writing page after page, only for them to end up in the trash. The lost children have been put behind bars for tearing down the prohibition signs in a park. When their prison guard wants to attend the premiere of Moominpappa's new play in the evening, the children want to use the opportunity to escape.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shozo Matsuda

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  24. Moomin Season 1 Episode 31 - The Big Explosion
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Big Explosion

    S1:E31

    One day, Muffel shows up in Moominvalley. He claims to be a famous inventor and is looking for his "fellow inventor" Snork to show him his latest invention, a super fuel. However, Snork suspects a trick.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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  25. Moomin Season 1 Episode 32 - The Golden Fish
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Golden Fish

    S1:E32

    Mr. Hemul tells a mysterious story: somewhere beyond the lonely mountains lies a lake where a legendary fish is said to live—at least, that's what his great-grandmother told him. Moomin and his friends want to find out the truth. But it's not quite that simple, because his great-grandmother also said that the fish only jumps out of the water after a violent thunderstorm. Moomin and his friends set off as dark clouds darken the sky. They have just reached the eerie Witch's Forest when the thunderstorm breaks out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Akira Miyazaki

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Day the Lighthouse Lit Up" is the best rated episode of "Moomin". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Akira Miyazaki, it aired on 10/4/1990. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Hobgoblin's Magic".