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Neighbourhood Watchout is the seventh episode of the fifth season of Fireman Sam, it first aired on 6th April 2003 in Wales and 12th April 2005 in England.

Plot
Mandy, Sarah and James decide to start a junior neighbourhood watch scheme, but get rather carried away.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) To start off, this is the episode that started the infamous three-strike formula that eventually started to become very overused in tons of other shows owned or made by HiT Entertainment, this episode is a prime example of one due to three things going completely wrong in the episode.
 * 2) *Mandy, Sarah and James think that someone is stealing food from Dilys' shop, but it turns out it was Trevor delivering food to Dilys' customers.
 * 3) *Bella Lasagne accidentally opens the ketchup tin too hard and spills ketchup all over her, but Mandy, Sarah and James mistakenly think that Bella is covered in blood.
 * 4) *Mike's ladder is by Bella's cafeteria, in which Mandy thinks that it was left there behind, but it actually turns out it was there because Mike was fixing Bella's roof.
 * 5) Mandy is a bit dumb and somewhat unlikable in the episode, as she mainly doesn't think before she comes to the conclusion of something suspicious going on. It doesn't help that she only cared about getting appreciated for helping rather than actually apologising for causing the mistake.
 * 6) The episode overall is a waste of a good concept, as the idea of an episode basing around the children characters doing a neighbourhood watch is actually a pretty good idea for an episode, though the execution is pretty mediocre.
 * 7) The Moral of the Episode while good about protecting the neighbour and don't waste everyones time it was thrown out the window and was never brought again after the messege was introduced at the start.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The rest of the characters are still likeable as usual.
 * 2) Mandy at least apologises in the end for her irresponsible actions.
 * 3) "I'll be on that roof before you could say a-wap-bup-loop-bup-a-loop-bup-boom!"