While Professor Fischer is away at a conference in San Francisco, Pete and Hone get busy on the house. Deb prefers to dabble in spirits.

A spate of letter-bombs puzzles the police. In addition, lawyer Ratu Rewiri is as puzzled as they are.

Flying around in their radio-controlled model of a First World War plane, Pete and Hone enjoy the natural scenery of the land. Pete and Hone fly their radio-controlled model of a First World War aeroplane and find the past catching up with the present. Pete takes some interesting photos when he attaches a camera to a radio-controlled model airplane.

Professor Fischer believes he has stumbled upon Du Fresne's bottle, a historical relic which recount the battle between the Maori and the French.

Steve seems busy with a charity fund, and convinces Pete to sit for the university's first year examination for him. It is only when Ratu tells Pete that there have been similar cheating cases that Pete realises Steve is dishonest

Professor Fischer's favourite wine comes from a small vineyard, which has to close down.

Professor Fischer and his children have recently arrived in New Zealand from England. Miriana buys a used car at a cheap price, which surprises everyone in the family. To make doubly sure she has not been cheated, Hone, the mechanical wizard checks it out and finds nothing wrong with it.

But when the car disappears from the car park, the reason for its cheap price becomes evident.

James Marriott offers Pete and Deb's school the option to buy over his land. Professor Fischer is a widowed New Zealander who has been away in England for many years. On his return, with his children, he is faced with a family feud.

ln this episode, James Marriott intends to make another fortune from his old family estate. With the city encroaching on the surrounding farmland, he plans to sell part of his estate at a profit. But he is worried about the old lease of Pete's and Deb's school. As a solution, he offers the school an option of buying over the land.

A deadly, infectious disease is plaguing the animals around while the Marriot Research Laboratory is trying to find an antibiotic that will arrest the disease. But Dr King, the lab researcher, plans to blackmail James by threatening to spread the deadly virus.

Professor Larry Fischer's beautiful 1929 Vaaxhall Hurlingham, (after which the series takes its name) is the family treasure and the pride and joy of the professor. James Marriott, Professor Larry Fischer's rival to his property, has an expensive thoroughbred horse, Auckland Star. He intends to use the horse, to earn himself some money. Deborah, Professor Cross's teenage, daughter, loves horses. James, up to some devious tricks, decides to let her take care of all his horses, including the Auckland Star. But strange things start happening when Kerry, one of the horses and Auckland's constant companion, suddenly starts behaving strangely. Pete, Deborah's brother, investigates.

A canoe with a skeleton on the prow keeps apearing from the mists and guys in Maori-style dress spook the locality. Pete is abducted by them and revealed as a convert to the cause when the masks are all pulled off.

Tapou Maori island is sacred and an ancient phantom war canoe has been sighted on the lake.

Professor Fischer has been offered a post at Cambridge and it looks as if things won't be the same for the family now. Meanwhile, an unexpected threat arises...

Things don't look good in the Fischer household. James Marriott only has feelings of bitterness for his relatives, the Fischer family. But for Pete, he has tempting plans.

With Meriana's ex-fiance reappearing in her life, and Hone wanting to join an outlaw motorbike gang. It looks as if the Fischer household Is going to break up.

Deb and Hone go to one of New Zealand's famous blacksand beaches to catch the waves while Pete joins the Beach ranger who has a different catch on his mind - poachers.

Pete and Hone take their hang-gliders to the cliffs above the beach. At the same time, their uncle James Marriott's surveyors are at work in this nature reserve. Pete's kite crashes into the cliff-face, and there is no way to reach him in time,

Professor Fischer finds that his bank account has been credited with funds from the Archaeological Exploration Trust. This puts the scholar in a hot spot as he has to explain the reasons for his receiving the money. Peter tries to solve the mystery by hunting through the memory circuits of a top secret computer.

Still on the topic of rare animals, this time with the Fischer family who cross swords with the business empire of their hostile uncle James, to save a rare bird the KoKaKo, and its habitat.

The Fischer's magnificent vintage car which attracts attention wherever it goes, is stolen by a con-man who ingratiates himself with the Fischer household.

An Egyptian exhibition, a terrified phone call, two mysterious deaths — and suddenly Prof Larry Fischer is the only survivor of the team who excavated the Tomb of the Priest Kina.

Deb wants her brother as crew in the sailing series, but the cheating soon starts, with their powerful uncle joining in.

A widow is threatened with eviction, and Professor Fischer tries to help.

Shady characters want to take possession of the Tiki.

Tiki is an ancient Maori amulet that puzzles Professor Fischer.

Professor Larry Fischer returns with his children, Pete and Deb to their birthplace, New Zealand, after many years spent in England. But this proves to be the start of a family feud, starting with the scholar being arrested at the airport. And it's not only because of their beautiful vintage car, The Flying Kiwi. The family soon discovers that they have powerful enemies who want their house, land... and the Flying Kiwi itself.