It is 1100, when something heads towards England very fast and then crash-lands in the forest. Simpkins the poacher gets the shock of his life. He has just seen a man with blue and green hair and a giraffe neck. Fortunately, there is something about George that will solve all the problems...
It is freezing cold and Big George is sleeping gently, as he has done for the past hundred years or so. But it is so cold that eventually even Big George wakes up and ventures into an unfamiliar, snowy, ice world, with more friends to make and (poor George!) more enemies to make too…
It is the year 1305, and our hero Big George is still sleeping. Until knight-in-training Walter, on the run and desperately searching a hiding place, literally drops in on George. Once awoken, George, who is from a planet far away, has blue and green hair, a face that shines like the moon, and is the size of several large trees, really isn't quite sure what is happening. But he likes the look of Walter, and decides to stick with him. On the way they pick up Jo, a young poacher who is determined to gain her freedom, and together they journey into adventures that climax with the Midsomer Tournament, and Walter desperately throwing down a challenge to defeat all the knights at the jousting tournament to save his father's life.