Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Michael, or Red as he's known in the Great House he lives in, wants to escape from the horrid institution. He meets a green flying boy who exchanges places with him, granting him freedom and the ability to fly. (13′30″)

The new Loblolly Boy flies to a small bay and meets Captain Bass who has a magic telescope that can see into the future. The Loblolly Boy also learns he can't be seen by most people, only by Sensitives and Collectors. (13′33″)

The Loblolly Boy looks through the Captain's telescope and sees an angry woman with two girls and a dog, and a sinister-looking butterfly collector. (12′14″)

The Captain gives the Loblolly Boy a small model train engine and instructs him to return it. Michael flies off to find his future. He meets Suzy and Meg and sits with the dog Bella while they're at school. They must be Sensitives. (10′52″)

The Loblolly Boy goes to Meg and Suzy's home and gives Meg the model train to look after. They all go to the park and see a creepy-looking insect collector who scares the girls. He catches The Loblolly Boy in his net. (12′09″)

Suzy comes into the room where the Collector has trapped the Loblolly Boy in a cage and agrees to exchange with him. She will become a Loblolly Boy and be able to fly away free, and he will become Suzy left in the cage. (12′36″)

The Collector returns to the room to find a girl in his cage. There's a knocking at the door. It's Suzy's sister Meg and their mother who angrily tells the Collector off and takes who she thinks is Suzy home. Meg learns that Suzy is in fact the Loblolly Boy and his name is Michael. She shows him a picture of her brother Michael exactly the same as one Michael has seen before. Then The Loblolly Boy Suzy flies in but she is having too much fun flying and being invisible and doesn't want to exchange back. (11′54″)

Michael/Suzy has learnt that he's staying with his mother and sisters. But he wants to be his real boy self Michael. He and Meg go to the park, she does the exchange. The Collector appears and chases the two girls. But new Loblolly Boy Meg drops a garden gnome on his head and fells him. (11′43″)

After a bit of exchanging, Meg and Suzy become themselves again and Michael is the Loblolly Boy once more. He goes back to the Captain to return the model train and is nearly caught by the Collector again. He persuades the Collector to look through the telescope where he sees a butterfly and turns into it. The Captain says the engine is not to be returned to him, but to the boy at the Great House Michael first exchanged with. (14′35″)

The Loblolly Boy flies back to the Great House and finds Red, the boy who exchanged with him in the first place. He gives him back the train and Red agrees to exchange back to being a Loblolly Boy, just as Suzy, Meg and their mother turn up. Meg has cleverly written a letter to their mother pretending it's from Michael at the Boys Home. She is overjoyed at getting her long lost son back, and the new Loblolly Boy flies off in search of his own family. (12′08″)