Punky Brewster: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Punky Brewster Season 3.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
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The Nun's Story
Apr 27, 1988 · 23 min
Punky and Cherie must get back an urn that contains the ashes of Henry's late aunt Mable, after Punky and Cherie give the urn away to a convent without knowing what's in the urn.
Crushed
Apr 28, 1988 · 23 min
Punky has a crush on 16 year old Kevin Dowling, who is helping Punky install a stereo in the treehouse. Punky tells Henry about Kevin, and Henry, who doesn't understand that Punky
Going to Camp
Apr 29, 1988 · 23 min
Punky, Cherie, and Margaux go to summer camp, where they learn about such traditions as T-shirt raids, and the kissing rock, but Punky doesn't seem to have the same romantic vision
Poor Margaux
May 2, 1988 · 23 min
When Margaux and her parents go bankrupt and auction off all of their belongings, Punky and Cherie use their skiing trip money to buy Margaux's favorite doll back for her -- a true
Brandon's Commercial
May 3, 1988 · 23 min
Brandon gets a shot at stardom when Churchill,the famous dog hired for a dog food commercial to be filmed at the restaurant, gets camera shy -- and so does Brandon, blowing a chanc
Passed Away at Punky's Place
May 4, 1988 · 23 min
While Henry is in Detroit buying supplies for the restaurant, Punky and Cherie decide to run the restaurant, and they panic when a customer named Ralph falls asleep because of narc
Christmas Hero
May 5, 1988 · 23 min
Punky wants to give Henry a pocket watch for Christmas. When rich businessman Horatio Lake is robbed of a briefcase just before Christmas, Punky solves the robbery and figures out
Cosmetic Scam
May 6, 1988 · 23 min
Punky and Cherie sell cosmetics door to door for Lady Contempo Cosmetics, until they discover that Lady Contempo Cosmetics is a scam run by a con artist named Sidney. Henry washes
See You in Court
May 9, 1988 · 23 min
One of Betty's favorite patients dies and leaves her a Texan car with big bull horns on its hood, but Betty doesn't know how to drive. Henry's attempts to teach Betty how to drive
Radio Daze
May 10, 1988 · 23 min
Punky and Cherie enter a radio scriptwriting contest sponsored by a local radio station that has just changed its format from rock music to radio stories, and Punky, Cherie, and Ma
Aunt Larnese Is Coming to Town
May 11, 1988 · 23 min
Cherie's aunt Larnese, who is Betty's sister, arrives for a visit on Cherie's 12th birthday, and asks Cherie if Cherie would like to live with Larnese in Paris, France.
Dear Diary
May 12, 1988 · 23 min
A nosy Punky sneaks a peak at Cherie's diary, and Punky is shocked to see that Cherie has written unkind things about Punky in it.
The Reading Game
May 13, 1988 · 23 min
Cherie's cousins Paula and Bobby arrive for a visit, and Paula, who doesn't know how to read, can't read the warnings and help messages on a bottle of fabric softener that Bobby dr
Ouch
May 16, 1988 · 23 min
Punky is terrified when she has to have her appendix removed, and angry when it delays the vacation that Punky, Cherie, Brandon, Betty, and Henry were getting ready for when she co
No No, We Won't Go
May 17, 1988 · 23 min
The apartment building's new owner -- Margeaux's father Benjamin J. Kramer -- wants to increase Betty's rent by 60%. Betty is afraid that a 60% rent increase would force her and Ch
Bad Dog
May 18, 1988 · 23 min
Punky and the gang want to know why Brandon is acting so strange lately, then Brandon is accused of biting a new neighbor, Ms. Jenner, and as a result, Ms. Jenner wants Brandon to
Vice Versa
May 19, 1988 · 23 min
When Punky is grounded, she has a dream that she is an indulgent parent who lets her kids do whatever they want to do.
Wimped Out
May 23, 1988 · 23 min
Cherie thinks she's a wimp after failing to prevent Punky from falling out of the treehouse, and Punky suffers a broken leg as a result. Cherie later regains her courage in a stall
One Plus Tutor is Three
May 24, 1988 · 23 min
Punky's new math tutor Walker Wimbley turns out to be a Casanova who tests the friendship between Punky and Margaux by falling head over heals for Margaux -- crushing a lovestruck
The Dilemma
May 25, 1988 · 23 min
Punky is in a mess when she ends up having to juggle two dates -- Brian and Tom -- at the Saturday afternoon movie, and Cherie carries a camera around with her and takes pictures o
What's Your Sign?
May 26, 1988 · 23 min
During a firefly girl troop meeting, Punky befriends a deaf girl named Maria Aragon, and Maria begins to think that because of her disability, she'll never be accepted by the other
Wedding Bells for Brandon
May 27, 1988 · 23 min
In the final episode of Punky Brewster: Punky and the gang throw a wedding for Brandon and another golden retriever named Brenda, who is owned by Punky's friend Myron. As Punky and