Richie Rich

Piggy Bank PrankReggie Van Dough doesn't believe Richie's statement that his mansion is burglar-proof and uses Professor Keenbean's gadgets to get past the security devices of the manor. Reggie overcomes all the anti-burglar devices but one, the "money-drowning shower," where he is deluged with money and repentance for his prank.Muscle BeachDollar accompanies his master to Rich Beach, where he falls in love with a pretty French poodle. In pursuit of his true love, he clashes with a bulldog, who also is competing for the beautiful poodle. The hilarious competition ends when the two dogs, exhausted, see their "lady-fair" rambling playfully across the beach with another dog.The RobotnappersIrona, one of Richie's most famous security devices, is stolen by a gangland boss who reproduces her, planning to use the reproductions to steal from every bank in the city. Using all of Professor Keenbean's security devices, they find Irona, who immediately uses her steam-shovel apparatus to flatten her robot counterparts. With the fake Ironas eliminated, Richie and his friends are able to capture the crooks and turn them over to the police.

The Rare ScareA million-dollar stamp blows out the window of Richie Manor. Irona finds it and inadvertently uses it to mail a letter to China. When she realizes her error, she musters all her supermagnetic powers to find it, but fails. Just when Richie is confessing the loss to his father, the postman interrupts by returning the letter, stating that the U.S. Government does not accept rare stamps for postage.Kitty SitterThe absent-minded Professor Keenbean accidentally shrinks himself in one of his inventions and is chased throughout Richie Manor by the high-strung pet cat, Precious. Fortunately, the mishap is corrected when Precious triggers the shrinking device to restore the Professor's former growth. Richie is delighted to see his tense Precious finally relaxed, not realizing the cat's need for exercise was amply provided by the unfortunate Professor.One of Our Aircraft Carriers is MissingRichie's friend, Jeff, enlists his help to find his father, who has vanished while aboard the aircraft carrier, Bunker Hill. Professor Keenbean's "Beat the bad guys all purpose gadget kit" helps locate the evil Captain Hook and his pirate henchmen, and thwart their plans to control the world's seas.

Spring CleaningMr. Dirty and his messmaking robot turn Rich Manor into a pile of garbage, forcing the evacuation of its occupants and leaving him free to ransack the empty mansion. Richie and his faithful Irona use Professor Keenbean's unique "spring-cleaning" gadget to clean up both the manor and Mr. Dirty, who begs to be taken to a dirty prison cell.Silence is GoldenRichie has contracted "$" measles and Irona takes the doctor's orders literally when he states, "peace and quiet." She vacuums shoes off, brings down a jet plane, etc., even forbidding Richie's father to visit him. When Mr. Rich does get into his son's bedroom, he happily finds his Richie is cured, but his joy quickly fades when he discovers he has the "$" measles.The Shocking Lady Strikes AgainThe Shocking Lady, who uses electricity as a weapon, robs two of the Riches' charity functions and then takes off for both the gold mines of Nevada and the U.S. Mint. Richie enlists the aid of Professor Keenbean, who gives him his super rubbery bubble gum, which offsets the Shocking Lady's electrical power and quickly wraps her in a sticky cocoon.

The BlurA blur is mysteriously stealing all the items of value in Rich Manor and Richie borrows Professor Keenbean's slow-motion camera to see a supersonic-speed robot doing the thievery. The Rich family is further threatened when the thieves state that they will steal Richie unless they are given all of the family jewels. Richie convinces his family to "play along" with the crooks until he programs Irona to catch the burglars with her super-speed.Cur WashDollar's bath day arrives and he is subjected to a severe cleansing, which he stoically endures. Soon he is clean, but unfortunately, splashed with mud and forced to undergo the torture bath again. Once more he ventures out and encounters a garbage truck. Determined to avoid the ritual again, he instead ends up in the family laundry and is "hound-laundered" along with Richie's shirts.The Kangaroo HopCecil, Richie's friend from Australia, enlists his help to clear his father from a diamond-smuggling rap. Richie, with the assistance of Professor Keenbean's ingenious gadgets, thwarts an evil research scientist, Dr. Kanga and his remote-controlled kangaroos, who are actually doing the smuggling. Soon the villains are in prison and Cecil's father is set free.

Irona versus DemonaThe evil Dr. Slick short-circuits Irona and she is sent off to a robot-spa to recover. In the meantime, the villain replaces the faithful maid with a robot called Demona, who is programmed to steal the Rich's money. Irona, fortunately "cured" at the spa, returns and sends Dr. Slick and his Demona off to prison.Chef's SurpriseChef Pierre, in desperation with Dollar's food thefts, decides to remove the kitchen from Rich Manor. First, he tries the tree house, but Dollar uses a trampoline to get in, then, finally, Pierre hires a plane to fly the kitchen away from Dollar's clutches. To no avail... as the breakfast is sent down, via parachute, Dollar intercepts it on a hang-glider, leaving Richie to admit to the upset Pierre that Dollar is, after all, a "bird-dog."The Snow BoundersDr. Blemish, scientist turned crook, aims his freeze ray at Rich Manor and turns the estate into a snow pile. Richie hurries to Professor Keenbean's laboratory and fights the freeze ray with a powerful snow cannon the inventor directs toward the evil Blemish and his henchmen. Soon, the villains are trapped in a giant snowball and the frozen Rich Manor melts in the summer sun.

The Abominable Snow PlanForbidden to accompany Richie and Gloria on their picnic, Reggie plans revenge with an array of mischievous pranks. With his security device, Richie sees Reggie's ultimate joke: an automated abominable snowman, and he reverses the creature's gears so it turns on Reggie instead of Richie's friends and their picnic fun.Miss Robot AmericaMr. Yakinyak, a robot salesman, convinces Mr. Rich to pit his new robot, Brutus, in a contest of skills with Irona. Richie is apprehensive as he sees Brutus defeat Irona in every test, but both he and his father decide to keep Irona after she saves Richie's life from a stack of falling money. Unfortunately, Brutus was not programmed for rescue skills.ConstructoOn the day Professor Keenbean is to be honored for his Constructo invention, a device super-powered to build highways, the evil Destructor steals the remote-control box from the hapless inventor and then hypnotizes him. Soon, the evil villain has the state of the country frozen with his ransom demands, and Richie and Irona are forced to use Professor Keenbean's powerful, giant magnet to stop Constructo, as well as put the thief in prison.