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Professor Balthazar is an extraordinary inventor who can invent almost any technical gadget. He invents a pair of special shoes for Florian the postman which allows him to walk for miles every day. Leopold the athlete also gets a pair of shoes so he can master the high jump. Albert the fisherman receive a shoe that will help him catch fish. Tony the bird receives a pair of shoes that will keep his feet warm in the winter. In return his friends help him when he must stay at the hospital.
Professor Balthazar goes on vacation to the South Sea where his friend Hannibal is a lighthouse keeper. Hannibal loves ice cream, difficult enough to find there. His request for transfer is denied until he can arrange a replacement: Johan the yodeler from the Alps.
When professor Balthazar was a child he had a friend named Horatio. Horatio loved music and became a famous conductor. Unfortunately Horatio is disgraced when he drops his pants in public. Professor Balthazar saves him from a career as a chimney sweeper when he invents elastic suspenders. When Horatio falls off from a chimney, he accidentally invents bungee jumping which becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Professor Balthazar's friend Fabian the tram driver is a nice fellow who takes care of a hungry and freezing bird in the wintertime. Grateful, the little sparrow teaches Fabian to fly the next spring. However, Fabian loses his job after causing an accident. Professor Balthazar helps his unemployed friend by inventing a flying tram.
The little town of professor Balthazar has a famous musician, Koko the elephant, who play music with his trunk. However, his best friend Philip serves him too much ice cream and Koko catches a cold. When he recovers after 14 days, he is unable to play music with his trunk and disappears without a trace. With the help of the professor, Koko is found on the South Pole where he has made friends with the penguins.
Martin suffers from the fact that people completely ignores him. Professor Balthazar gives him a book on how to succeed; all the pages are blank and Martin must fill the book with advice himself. Martin leaves the city to live on a mountain top with his friend Arthur the eagle.
Professor Balthazar's neighbor is Oscar the watchmaker. When the professor's pendulum clock is broken he brings it to Oscar's shop. Inside the clock they find Igor the dancing mouse whose highest dream is to see the Elizabeth tower and the Big Ben in London. Some time later when the professor visits London to lecture on to use fog for peaceful means, the Big Ben breaks down. When the professor and Oscar arrive to the watch tower they once again meet Igor the dancing mouse.
Leo the painter is not very successful since he can only paint one thing: paintings with yellow flowers on a pink background. Nobody really cares about this particular motif until Leo appears on television with his friends the dancing butterflies.
In the little town, traffic is directed successfully by Hubert the policeman. When he one day gives in to an urge and direct traffic using a party horn instead of a whistle, he loses his job. Professor Balthazar discovers a way for the people of the city to travel to another dimension in pairs where giving in to harmless urges is permissible.
Professor Balthazar has two friendly neighbors, Mathilde and Clothilde who loves knitting. They knit a sweater for the professor, a sweater with eight arms. Luckily for them, Octavian the octopus, loves the sweater. Professor Balthazar invents a machine that can knit sweaters for every octopus in the ocean.
On the square of professor Balthazar's town, Victor is selling boiled eggs, eggs à la Victor, with the help of his amazing Eggomat. When the machine breaks down the customers are desperate for a solution. Professor Balthazar discovers that a stranded alien has taken the spring from the Eggomat and all the clocks in the clock towers in an attempt to repair his spaceship.
Suddenly in the the little town there is no wind. The flags are not flying and the kite festival is canceled. And then there is a strange shower of hats, which professor Balthazar loads on a ship and sends of to the kangaroos of Australia. Next there is a peculiar shower of umbrellas, which the professor loads on a plane and sends to the penguins of the South pole. When a load of letters and a postman falls from the sky the mystery is solved: all the wind is blowing in the neighboring city.
Three of the little town's inhabitants are music lovers. The tailor likes to play on his scissors, the street sweeper loves playing on the garbage bin and the glass blower play music with the bottles he make. However, the rest of the city are not equally fond of their music and professor Balthazar invents a flying washing machine and fly them to another planet where the three friends and an alien form a singing and playing quartet.
Alfred is a very diligent night watchman at the pasta factory. However, working the night shift means that he is unable to do his day job, mayor in little town nearby. He asks professor Balthazar to help and the professor makes a robot that can help Alfred.
Bim and Bum are two friends with an extraordinary job: to make holes, ready for use anytime somebody needs a hole. Sievemakers, buttonmakers and cheesemakers all need holes to do an excellent product. Bim and Bum can even make a hole for a railroad tunnel. But professor Balthazar must rescue them when they and their work shop fall into a hole in the ground.
The city is ransacked by a group of bandits who torment the inhabitants with a dreadful marching band. Their leader Carambole appoints himself as the new mayor. No citizen is safe from having a pie thrown into the face. When professor Balthazar returns home from a trip he make up a solution to rid the city from this plague.
Young Tom borrows his father's medical kit to visit the zoo and cure the sick animals. Willy is a cowardly tiger, Abdullah the camel has a broken hump, Archia the bear is depressed and Koko the elephant has something stuck in his trunk. When it is believed that Mickey the lion has eaten Tom, professor Balthazar is asked for help.
In the annual city festival there is a prize contest for best achievement. Professor Balthazar competes with a machine that produce a beautiful rainbow. The professor modifies the machine slightly in order for the machine to produce rainbow colored cloth for the unhappy tailor who only cares for making doll's clothes.
As the little river through the city runs dry, the miller is out of business and it becomes pointless to go fishing. All that is left are the frogs. Professor Balthazar succeeds in scaring away all the frogs, except one singing frog who becomes something of a mascot for the city.
Sylvester is an amazing tailor who can make clothes for anybody. But lately his business has been suffering because of his sister Vivianne whose horrendous singing makes it impossible to create his trademark clothing.
Professor Balthazar's friend Johan works at the zoo, carrying ice to the polar bears' cage. A village outside the professor's city is threatened by an avalanche but thanks to one of the professor's machines the avalanche is sucked up by the machine and instead used for the benefit of the polar bears.
Friendly aliens from a distant planet arrive in professor Balthazar's city, fascinated by the fact that humans have hair on top of their heads. Discreetly they take hair from people's dolls to use for themselves. Professor Balthazar travel to the alien planet to help the aliens.
The inhabitants of a neighboring city suffers from the summer's heat and drought. Professor Balthazar help them out by developing a cloud radar, then traveling to England where he finds a cloud that agrees to place itself above the city.
Professor Balthazar's friend Hugo suffers from clumsiness. Unable to hold a job or attend dancing lessons, his only friends are the bears that enjoys Hugo's trumpet playing. The professor develops a solution to help his friend.
The clock tower is out of order which leads to confusion in professor Balthazar's city. People oversleep or work through the night since they do not know the time. The clock is replaced but its grinding noise makes people grumpy and annoyed. Professor Balthazar turn things right again.
The first snowfall is eagerly anticipated and when it finally falls, the people of professor Balthazar's city make the most of it with building snowmen of all kinds. The city council decide to buy snow from the South pole to build the world's largest snowman. But as the spring sun starts to melt the snowman, the city needs the professor's help to save the city from the flooding.
Amadeus is able to repair any machine just by listening to it running. With his sensitive hearing he is able to tell three days in advance when the rain is coming. When the city is suffering from a drought Amadeus is asked to listen for underground streams that can give the inhabitants fresh water again.
The increasing car traffic and the air pollution of the city means that Frank the beekeeper must leave the city with his bees. But something needs to be done about the poisonous environment. Professor Balthazar develops a windmill that purify the air. But without bees, there are no fruit or flowers growing in the city.
Pirate captain Bobo and his crew of one lose their pirate ship and have to find employment. Unsuccessfully working as scarecrows or at the dark ride of an amusement field, professor Balthazar help them out so they can earn a living as pirates in a peaceful way.
In a faraway desert there in only one palm tree with s shadow large enough for one lion. So Leo the lion travel to professor Balthazar's city for help. With the help of a homeless man he finds the professor who is happy to find a solution.
Helmer the gardener has a serious problem: the fruits in his garden are not growing but shrinking. Small fruits only gives him a small income. The professor helps his friend with a potion that super sizes Helmer's plants.
Rudi, a retired scientist, is staking out a pond in the park in the belief it is the home of a giant dragon. He sits there season after season and professor Balthazar decide to help out his friend by finding out if there really is a dragon in the pond.
The whole city wakes up one day feeling angry and in a bad mood, also professor Balthazar. Bakers, policemen, chimney sweepers and old ladies argue with each other for no apparent reason. The professor finally develops a machine that will blow away a big angry cloud in the sky that has covered the sun.
In the fall the storks leave the city together to head south. Only one stork, Peppino, is delayed and must stay by himself over the winter. Professor Balthazar teaches him about geography and famous places so he can be a tourist guide to the other storks the next fall.
At the city zoo, Charlie the penguin, entertains the audience with funny dances. But deep inside he is unlucky because of the fact that he can not fly. Professor Balthazar makes him a propeller beanie that will allow him to fly. Now Charlie can make long trips and find himself a penguin girlfriend.
Alfie the tramp, Peter the postman, Florian the street sweeper and many other inhabitants have lost their right shoes. The baffled people turn to professor Balthazar to solve the mystery of the disappeared shoes. The hunt leads to a centipede who need the shoes to protect her feet against a rocky beach.
Michael the police man is the hero cop of the little town, always courteous and helpful. After judging a cake contest he gains weight and is laid off. He needs help from professor Balthazar to get fit again
The little city is protected against fire by two dedicated firemen, but since there never are any fires, they are laid off. Professor Balthazar find a solution so that they can continue to practice fire extinguishing in a nearby volcano.
An old but beautiful bridge collapses in the little city and the inhabitants are unable to lift it up again. Professor Balthazar find the culprit, Sigmund the saw fish, who has been practicing sawing on the pillars.
