Hard Out - Season 1
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: June 8, 2003
Aliens have landed in suburban New Zealand. Well, that’s what Jeff and Noodle think when the freaky Neo Corporation arrives in Middledon with plans to waste their beloved skate park.
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: June 15, 2003
When Jeff and Noodle try to break into the Neo Corporation headquarters, Noodle finds himself in a real mess and Jeff’s teetering on the edge.
3 - Episode 3
Air Date: June 22, 2003
Jeff is enchanted by Astrid’s charms as she gets close enough to implant a fibre optic controller in his brain. Noodle comes to the rescue, but the boys are horrified to discover Jeff can’t skate anymore.
4 - Episode 4
Air Date: June 29, 2003
Jeff and Noodle chain themselves to the skate ramp as a last-ditch effort to save it, but no one can see them as the bulldozers bear down on them. Hard out!
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: July 6, 2003
Jeff and Noodle wake up in a strange place, and think they are dead. However, they are just in the new, improved Middledon – now known as Arohadale. Meanwhile, Astrid plots to get the boys out of her way for good.
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: July 13, 2003
Jeff wins the Neo Future Stars competition, but gets too big for his boots when the Neos groom him as a pop megastar. When Noodle tries to save his mate, things go horribly wrong, as usual.
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: July 20, 2003
After his accident, Jeff is in Wellness World, the freaky Neo hospital, where Brian experiments on his brain, and makes an astonishing discovery.
8 - Episode 8
Air Date: July 27, 2003
When Jeff and Noodle try to insert anti-Neo messages into a new TV advert starring the sexy Anahera and Astrid, jealous, accessorises her body as Volleybabe, the shoot is chaos.
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: August 3, 2003
Jeff and Noodle eat heaps and rub chicken fat onto their skin in a desperate attempt to bulk up to play cage rugby, but when they see the size of the hulks they are up against...
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: August 10, 2003
Playing in a TV reality show, Neo Saliva, Astrid’s latest mind control game, Jeff and Noodle are in big trouble when the pretend spears in the jungle fight turn out to be real.
11 - Episode 11
Air Date: August 17, 2003
When Gran is arrested as an unfit caregiver, Jeff and Noodle convince Brian, who has now become a social worker, to let her off the hook. But Astrid gets her hooks back into Jeff.
12 - Episode 12
Air Date: August 24, 2003
Brian tells Jeff the reason he and Noodle are not brainwashed is because they have powerful imaginations but just as Brian is about to reveal the aliens’ big plan, the world stops.
13 - Episode 13
Air Date: August 31, 2003
Jeff and Noodle discover the real secret of the town, the spaceship and the aliens and even find their stolen skateboards, but are they too late?