While getting ready to promote the new 1984 fall Saturday morning line-up, the Director D.W. and his assistant are interrupted by the infamous Gargamore O'Dette who plans to bring down the special and NBC itself. Gargamore has kidnapped a bunch of the new cartoon characters and sent his live action henchmen (played by James Avery and Bill Saluga from Going Bananas) to stop the real live actors from making it onto the special. Gargamore wants to do this because the new Saturday morning line-up is funny and he's deathly allergic to laughter.
Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.
Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business into bankruptcy and his high school sweetheart has married another man. It is evident his small town has little to offer him except the hard-working life of his father, while the broader world has limited opportunities for a man who left school after the third grade.
Спасаясь от рыбаков, косатка («кит-убийца») заплывает в бухту, в которой расположена научно-исследовательская станция. Работающий на ней морской биолог д-р Доннер не хочет упустить шанс впервые в мире изучить жизнь этих загадочных морских животных и ограждает выход из бухты сетью. Кит-убийца, получивший имя «Наму», остаётся на станции. Но местные рыбаки не прекращают попыток убить косатку, боясь, что она распугает всю рыбу в округе…
