Petals (TV series) facts for kids

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Petals opening titles
Genre	Children's television series
Created by	Mark Barnard
Written by	Simon Hopkinson Angela Webber Jenny Lewis Moya Sayer-Jones Richard Tulloch Mark Barnard Bruce Liebau
Directed by	Maurice Giacomini Mark Barnard Bronwyn Morgan
Voices of	Brian Meegan Celia Ireland Gabby Millgate Adam Kronenberg Michelle Doake Lucinda Armour Tim Mieville
Narrated by	Anthony Warlow
Composer(s)	Justin McCoy
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	55
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Barnard Susan Oliver
Producer(s)	Bronwyn Morgan Joy Carroll
Running time	5 min.
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	4:3
Original release	1 June 1998 (1998-06-01) – 22 November 1999 (1999-11-22)

Petals was an Australian children's animated television programme produced and created by Mark Barnard and aired on the ABC. It ran from 1998 to 1999 consisting a total of two seasons and 55 episodes and was aimed at pre-school children aged 2–6. After it ended in 1999, the series was still continued to be repeated on the ABC and ABC1 until 23 January 2004.

Plot

The series revolves around five small petals who live in a large, overgrown garden. Bougie, Boronia, Poppy, Notsy and Imp greet each day in wide-eyed wonder as their explorations among the giant flowers and trees uncover surprises and delights. However the Petals are just small little people that you can't see but you can imagine them. They're also not fairies and don't have magical powers, but they're very athletic and only Bougie and Poppy are able to fly. Here they discover many surprises, delights and adventures such as helping a baby bird, picking berries, helping Imp turn a dripping tap off, playing a game of hide and seek, making bubbles with some soap, Imp rescuing Notsy with fireflies when she got lost, using a broken mirror to frighten Jeffrey and putting on a show to cheer up Worm when he had a kink in his tail. Joining them in their adventures were five other characters who were all insects. They were Cicada, Ant, Spider, Worm and Ladybird. There's also an orange playful cat named Jeffrey who likes to hang around in the garden and cause trouble for the Petals.

Characters

Petals

Bougie

Boronia

Imp

Poppy

Notsy

Animals and Insects

Cicada

Ant

Spider

Worm

Jeffrey

Episode list

Series 1

1. A Boot Full of Petals
2. Getting Dirty
3. The Great Race
4. The Baby Bird
5. The Dripping Tap
6. Firefly Rescue
7. Poppy's Picnic
8. Hide and Seek
9. Car on the Hill
10. Notsy's Knot
11. Mr Exciting
12. Sticky Scary Thing
13. The Jeffrey Free Zone
14. Notsy's Trail
15. Berry Hunters
16. A Turn for Worm
17. Loop the Loop
18. The Flying Imp
19. Snow
20. Water Works
21. Broken Mirror
22. Autumn
23. Windy Weather
24. Cry Wolf
25. Sea-Slide
26. Rainy Day Journey
27. Bubbles
28. Imp's Treasure
29. Broken Wing
30. The Lost Piano

Cast

• Anthony Warlow – Narrator
• Brian Meegan – Bougie
• Celia Ireland – Boronia
• Gabby Millgate – Poppy
• Adam Kronenberg – Imp
• Michelle Doake – Notsy
• Lucinda Armour – Spider / Ant
• Tim Mieville – Jeffrey / Worm / Cicada

International airings

• Petals has also been shown in several other countries including the United Kingdom, South Africa and Malaysia.

Official website / Removal

• In 1999, the ABC later went on to launch a Petals website which contains all the characters, pictures of them as well as some of their memorable sayings, two online activity games which include a jigsaw puzzle and a colouring in game and also some pictures to print out and colour. Additional pictures of the series can also be seen on another print and colour page with other children's programmes from the ABC including Bananas in Pyjamas, Play School, Mixy and Magic Mountain. The online activity games were run by using Adobe Shockwave and they can also be seen on the Games Centre page with other online activity games featuring other ABC children's programmes such as Where's Mixy, Mix n' Match with Bananas in Pyjamas, the Play School Memory Game, the Spud Puzzle from Couch Potato, the Transylvania Slide from Feral TV and a quiz game which focuses on asking questions about different children's programmes and clicking on the correct answer. The show was also listed in the P section of the ABC programmes page along with many other children's programmes from ABC TV. It includes a synopsis about the show and a screenshot of Imp and Notsy taken from "Firefly Rescue". The show's title is red while the synopsis is in purple. However both of them were removed during September 2010 when the new ABC For Kids website was introduced.
• A small video clip of the show can be found at the official ABC Commercial website.

Reboot

In 2013, ABC, Network Ten and China Central Television produced a new series distributed internationally by Daro Film Distribution, developed and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria, developed and financed with the assistance of Screen Australia and produced by Southern Star Entertainment.