Jellabies facts for kids

Jellabies (also known as Jellikins) is an Austrailian children's animated television series that aired on the Australian television network ABC Kids from May 18, 1998 to 2003. It was also shown in Germany, (Super RTL), United States (Fox Family Channel), The Netherlands (Kindernet), France (TF! Jeunesse), and the United Kingdom (GMTV) in the preceding years. The target audience is only for children ages 2 to 6.

It was one of the first fully CGI-animated series in the world.

Format

The program was created using CGI animation. The show was narrated by Rik Mayall. The Jellabies are jelly-made children that live in the Jolly Jelly World, which is the magical land at the end of the rainbow, where their first job is to make rainbows. (for which they have a machine called the Jelliscope, a computer/teleporter/rainbow generator which is constantly monitoring weather conditions around the world) Although each Jellaby has its own vehicle to drive around in, their main use of travelling long distances around Jelly Land is on the "Jelly Train", a train that only consists of a cab (without any actual locomotive) and one passenger car. The show premiered in 1998 and ended in 2003.

Jellabies is also known as Jellikins in certain parts of the world, including the United Kingdom. This version is exactly the same as the Jellabies in every way, except the characters' heads were changed to look like gummy bears. However, Duffy the dragon remained the same. This version aired on GMTV in the United Kingdom until 2004.

Characters and voice cast

Each of the six Jellabies represent the colours of the rainbow.

Main

• Narrator (Rik Mayall)

• Strum: Lives at the train station, is purple, is the first Jellaby, and is the musical Jellaby who plays the saxophone.

• Bouncey: The second Jellaby who lives in a bumper car, and is yellow, the same colour as lemons and the sun.

• Denny: The third Jellaby who lives in a boat on the Jelly Lake, and is blue, the same colour as the sky and the world's oceans.

• Pepper: The fourth Jellaby who lives in a treehouse and is red the same colour as ripe strawberries and apples.

• Amber and Coral: The last two Jellabies who are orange and pink, respectively. Amber lives in a hot air balloon and Coral lives in a house made out of building blocks and toys which she can use to rebuild her house as she pleases.

Supporting

• Duffy: The only non-Jellaby character in the entire show, is a dragon who lives in the Jelly Caves.

Episodes

Season 1 (1998-99)

1. Caterpillar

2. Circus

3. Pepper's Den

4. Hide and Seek

5. Apple

6. Seeds

7. Burst Balloon

8. Snow

9. Music

10. Drum

11. Drumsticks

12. The Jolly Jelly World Fair

13. Waiting

Season 2 (1999)

1. Birthday

2. Echoes

3. Sky

4. Egg

5. Monster

6. Sheep

Season 3 (1999-00)

1. Train Trouble

2. Balloon

3. Jack in the Box

4. Lost Voice

5. Sneezes

6. Invisible

7. Runaway Train

8. Rescue

9. Seal

10. Super Jelly

11. Bridge

12. Race

13. Jellybeard

Season 4 (2000)

1. Shadow

2. Sun

3. Jelly Day

4. Animals

5. Jelly Lake

6. Jellyphone

7. Strum's Concert

Season 5 (2000-01)

1. Shipwreck

2. Cave In!

3. Bouncy Ball

4. Camping

5. Tobbogan

6. Jelly Dance

7. Fancy Dress

8. Obstacles

9. Football

10. Sounds

11. Caves

12. House

13. Twins

Season 6 (2001)

1. Night

2. Poor Denny

3. Bouncing

4. Cloud

5. Butterfly

6. Parrot

7. Spring

Season 7 (2001-02)

1. Baa!

2. Found

3. Autumn

4. Nature

5. Zebra

6. Big

7. Magic

8. Where's Pepper?

9. Hot

10. Robot

11. Wheels

12. Chums

Season 8 (2002)

1. Rubbish

2. Silly Sax

3. Small

4. High

5. Tower

6. Footprints

7. Yuk

Season 9 (2002-03)

1. Jelly Disco

2. Mountain

3. Party

4. Christmas

5. Paint

6. Feelings Rhyme

Season 10 (2003)

1. Safari

2. Beach

3. Rainy Day

4. Spider Webs

5. Flying

6. Castle

7. Jellyvision

8. Dinosaurs

9. The Joly Jelly Band

10. Jungle

11. Kangaroo

12. Coral's Pet

13. Rabbit

Theme song

The theme song Jellytastic written by David Lowe and Vo Fletcher was performed by Rik Mayall (who is also the narrator of the show) and Sherrie Ashton with children from The Wyche C.E. Primary School, Malvern.

Ride(s)

Since 2000, there has been a Jellikins roller coaster at British theme park, Fantasy Island. Amutec has got the rights to make a Jellikins coin-operated ride featuring Bouncey in his bumper car in 2001.

International Broadcast

North America

• United States
  • Fox Family Channel
• Canada
  • Treehouse TV

Australasia

• Australia
  • ABC For Kids
• South Korea
  • Seoul Broadcasting System
• Taiwan
  • EBC Yoyo

Europe

• United Kingdom
  • GMTV
• France
  • TF! Jeunesse
• Germany
  • Super RTL
• The Netherlands
  • Kindernet
  • Nickelodeon (Nick Jr)