The Bellflower Bunnies facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Bellflower Bunnies |
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The title card for Seasons 2 and 3, with credits imposed over a scene from "Vive la glisse."
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| Genre | Children's animated series comedy |
| Created by | Geneviève Huriet (original book series, Beechwood Bunny Tales) |
| Directed by | Season 1: Moran Caouissin Seasons 2 & 3: Eric Berthier |
| Voices of | See below |
| Composer(s) | Season 1: Daniel Scott Valérie Baranski Seasons 2 & 3: Alice Willis |
| Country of origin | France Canada Luxembourg (1st season) |
| Original language(s) | French |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Entire series: Patricia Robert Seasons 2 & 3: Yves Pont Franck Algard |
| Producer(s) | Patricia Robert |
| Editor(s) | Season 1: Graham Chisholm Robert Newton Seasons 2 & 3: Lysanne Villeneuve |
| Running time | 26 min. |
| Production company(s) | Season 1: Banco Production Melusine Productions Protécréa TVA International Seasons 2 & 3: Big Cash Hangzhou Flying Dragon Cartoon Euro Visual Tooncan Megafun Disney Television France |
| Distributor | Beez Kids, a label of Beez Entertainment (seasons 2 & 3) |
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| Original network | TF1 (France) CBC Television (Quebec) |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| First shown in | France |
| Original release | December 24, 2001 – July 13, 2010 |
The Bellflower Bunnies (French: La Famille Passiflore) is a 2001-2010 animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales book series by Geneviève Huriet. The show debuted on the TF1 network with four episodes airing between December 24 and December 28, 2001. It is a co-production between France's TF1 and several Canadian companies. 52 episodes were produced.
The show centers on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven rabbits who live in Beechwood Grove (called Blueberry Hill in the English version). The two adults in the family, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violette.
Contents
Home video and DVD
Europe
At least six DVD volumes of The Bellflower Bunnies have been released by TF1, Beez Entertainment and Seven Sept in the franchise's native France, separately and in a box set. In Germany, edelkids released the first sixteen episodes in February and August 2008.
North America
Feature Films for Families released the first two volumes of the English version on VHS (in 2001) and DVD (in 2003), as part of a marketing deal with TVA. In 2005, another four DVDs were released under the Direct Source brand. Each disc in this version consists of two episodes.
Episodes
Fifty-two episodes of The Bellflower Bunnies were produced over the course of three seasons. and all of these have aired in the show's native France; although episodes 39-52 were first aired on German channel KI.KA in May 2008.
Voice cast
Season 1
- Tom Clarke Hill
- Regine Candler
- Tom Eastwood
- Rhonda Millar - Periwinkle, Violet (Pirouette)
- Joanna Ruiz Rodriguez - Poppy
Seasons 2 & 3
English version
- Danielle Desormeaux
- Anik Matern - Violette
- Holly Gauthier-Frankel (as Holly Gauthier-Frankle) - Mistletoe, Dandelion
- Eleanor Noble - Periwinkle
- Matt Holland
- Joanna Noyes
- Liz Mac Rae
- Mark Camacho
- Simon Peacock - Papa Bramble
- Laura Teasdale - Poppy
- Danny Wells
- John Stocker (voice actor)
- Sonja Ball
- Susan Glover
- A.J. Henderson
- Rick Miller
- Rick Jones
- Danny Brochu
French version
- Flora Balzano
- Julie Burroughs
- Hugolin Chevrette
- Mario Desmarais
- Antoine Durand
- Marylène Gargour
- Annie Girard
- Hélène Lasnier
- Elisabeth Lenormand
See also
In Spanish: Los conejitos Bellflower para niños
