Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

*Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies*
Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
Genre	Animated series
Created by	Douglas Wood; Andy Yerkes
Based on	an idea by George Evelyn and Wild Brain; character designs by Eric Brace;
Starring	Floella Benjamin; Vanessa Williams; Phillipa Alexander; Jules de Jongh; Teresa Gallagher
Opening theme	"Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies" by Floella Benjamin/Vanessa Williams; "Movie Time!" by Floella Benjamin
Composer	Lester Barnes
Country of origin	United Kingdom; United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	10 minutes
Production company	King Rollo Films; National Geographic Kids
Original release
Network	CBeebies (UK); PBS Kids (US)
Release	March 19, 2007 –; January 18, 2008

Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated educational wildlife children's television series. The live action footage comes from the BBC Natural History Unit archives, as well as the National Geographic Society. The series originally aired on CBeebies in the UK and was created by Douglas Wood, who is also the author of the companion children's picture book When Mama Mirabelle Comes Home, published by National Geographic Books. A total of 52 episodes were produced; in the United States, they were packaged as 26 half-hours.^[1]

In the American version, all of the animals except Karla and Bo have American voices. Vanessa Williams is the voice of Mama Mirabelle in the US, and Floella Benjamin is the voice for Mama Mirabelle in the UK.

The series is produced by UK animation studio King Rollo Films, whose other shows include The Adventures of Spot, Discovery Kids' Paz, the Nick Jr. block and Noggin's Maisy, Sprout's Poppy Cat and Mr. Benn. The show's opening theme was written by Lester Barnes (the composer for Horrid Henry, Me Too!, Paz and Urmel).

Premise

Set in the African savannah, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels around the world to film real wildlife footage and project them onto a screen of fireflies in front of almost the entire animal kingdom. The "Home Movies" are used for educational purposes not only for the main young characters but for the pre-school audience at home.

Characters

Mama Mirabelle (voiced by Floella Benjamin in the United Kingdom and Vanessa Williams in the United States) – The show's title character; an elephant who always wears a beautiful orange hat with blue flowers on it and is the lead mother of the series.
Max (voiced by Phillipa Alexander in the United Kingdom, Teresa Gallagher in the United States, and Josephine Schmidt in Germany) – Mama Mirabelle's son, who loves a good bit of muddy fun with his adopted siblings Karla and Bo.
Karla (voiced by Teresa Gallagher in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and Jennifer Wieb in Germany) – A zebra who is a bit of a prim and proper animal but also loves mud. Her favourite game is called Nuzzle Tag. She is the adopted daughter of Mama Mirabelle and the adopted sister of Bo and Max.
Bo (voiced by Jules de Jongh in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and Jesco Spirgen in Germany) – A cheetah who is adopted son of Mama Mirabelle and adopted brother of Max and Karla. He loves to pounce.
Merlin the bat (voiced by Kuchi Brasso in the United Kingdom and Tajja Isen in the United States)
Kayla (voiced by Moya O'Sullivan) – A red kangaroo who is friends with Mama Mirabelle.
Ronjy – A tiger who appears in the episode "Muddy Wonderland".
Kylie (voiced by Gabriella Lewis) – Kayla's daughter. She only has one line in each episode she appeared in.
Daddy Stripes (voiced by David Holt in the United Kingdom and Lucien Dodge in the United States) – Karla's father.
Keisha (voiced by Emma Tate in the United Kingdom and Katie Leigh in the United States) – Karla's wombat friend.
Benny (voiced by Lizzie Waterworth-Santo) – a bird who loves to aid.
Winnie (voiced by Sarah Williams) – A wildebeest who is Karla's friend.
Jacques (voiced by Alan Marriott) – A walrus who is a fellow traveller of Mama Mirabelle.
Mama Bird (voiced by Elly Fairman) – Benny's mother.
Edna (voiced by Felicia Hamilton) – a young echidna who lives in Australia.

Crew

Susan Blu – Voice Director
Kent Meredith – Voice Director

Episodes

01. Elephant Walk
02. The Sounds of the Savanna
03. A Little Help from My Friends
04. Baby of a Different Stripe
05. Hide and Go Seek
06. Tell Me About It
07. To Sleep with Wombats
08. All Creatures Great and Small
09. Anybody Home?
10. Healthy Habits
11. Play's the Thing
12. Sam Spades of the Savanna
13. Gourmet Grazing
14. Kings and Queens of the Savanna
15. I Spy
16. Eyes, Ears, Noses, and Trunks
17. The Boy Can Blow
18. I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes
19. What's in a Tail
20. Footprints in the Sand
21. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
22. Nobody's Perfect
23. Things That Go Yip, Howl and Screech in the Night
24. Cracking the Code
25. A Savanna Kwanzaa
26. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
27. Change is Gonna Come
28. Trumpet While You Work
29. Spot the Difference
30. Hot-and-Cold Running Critters
31. Why Zebras Can't Fly
32. Super Duper Savanna Animals
33. Come Out of Your Shell
34. Travels with Mama
35. Tails of the Galápagos
36. Happy Habitats
37. Savanna Lullaby
38. It Gives You Paws
39. Out of Reach
40. Family Style
41. Curtain Up!
42. Listen Up!
43. Rainy Day Blues
44. Take Me to the Water
45. Find Your Way Home
46. The Nose Knows
47. Jumbled Jungle
48. Alone Together
49. Muddy Wonderland
50. Do You See What I See?
51. Have You Heard?
52. This is Mama's World

References

^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 275. ISBN 9781476672939.

External links

[1] Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 275. ISBN 9781476672939.

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