Merry Make Believe

Synopsis

Ron Blaskett, Gerry Gee and Bernard the Magician are celebrating Christmas with Happy Hammond when Santa Claus arrives. He explains that there are children living nearby who he can’t visit because they don’t believe in him. Ron, Gerry, Happy and Bernard visit Uncle Silas, and his niece and nephew, Cindy and Mark. Uncle Silas thinks make-believe is “stuff and nonsense”. Bernard casts a spell, revealing a magic lake with a boat that takes them all to Make Believe Land where they meet King Ratbaggy. The king tells them there’s all sorts of trouble in Make Believe Land because somebody back in the normal world doesn’t believe in them. He takes the visitors to meet Humpty Dumpty who has fallen off his wall and broken. They come across Little Bo Peep, who has lost her sheep, and Mary Mary whose flowers will not grow. Later, Uncle Silas sneaks out of the King’s palace. He finds Humpty Dumpty and repairs him with a tube of glue. He comforts Little Bo Peep, whose sheep return. And he helps Mary Mary to water her flowers which then bloom. She gives a bunch of flowers to Uncle Silas. King Ratbaggy is amazed at the change of fortune and explains that the person who didn’t believe, now does believe. The visitors re-board the boat and sail back to Uncle Silas’ house. When Cindy finds a bunch of flowers on the floor, Uncle Silas realises it is the bunch of flowers given to him by Mary Mary and that his dream was true. He changes his ways and acknowledges that “children are the most important people in the world”. There is singing and dancing and a happy celebration of Christmas by all.