Nanna's Cottage

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Nanna's Cottage is a Christian children's television series created by husband and wife producing team Davey Porter and Karen Sponsler-Porter.

The series is about a 75-year-old grandmother Abigale "Nanna" Macaroon, a world traveler and archeologist, who gives away love and knowledge to her granddaughter and her friends about the world, and the importance of character. It featured adults, puppets and children, as well as regular guest characters. The television series was produced in Eugene, Oregon.^[1]

In 2020, Nanna's Cottage was featured in an edition of the Adult Swim webseries .

Episodes[]

The first season of 13 episodes was broadcast between October 7, 2006^[2] and January 13, 2007. A second season was broadcast between April 7, 2007 and November 10, 2007.^[3]

Season 1

• Welcome to Cottage Hamlet
• Time Well Spent
• Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!
• The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery
• Rushin' There and Russian Here
• Tick Tock Travelers
• Everyone's A Winner
• Bookworms
• A Clean Sweep
• Music! Music! Music!
• Remember When?
• There's Never Enough Gus
• The Ones You Like the Best

Season 2

• Spring Has Sprung
• Rosey's Friends
• Rosey's Cartoon Carnival
• Gus Fixes Everything
• Heather Horsetrotter
• A Lazy Day
• A Really Busy Day

Monster Sunday School[]

Monster Sunday School is a series of shorts seen on TBN, filling the commercial breaks of Nanna's Cottage, featuring a basic Bible story lesson involving puppet monsters, a la Sesame Street. The shorts are generally two minutes in length, with three featured per episode. Nanna's Cottage's Marvin and Little Harry also appear. The shorts began airing with TBN's broadcast of Nanna's Cottage on October 7, 2006.^[2]

Cast[]

• as Nanna
• as Gardener Gus (Absent: Tick Tock Travelers, A Clean Sweep and Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Aunt Trudy (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Episode: Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!)
• as Rosey Smartidoodle (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, A Lazy Day, A Really Busy Day, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, Rosey's Friends, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!, A Clean Sweep, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Danny (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Heather Horsetrotter, Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, A Lazy Day, A Really Busy Day, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery, Rosey's Friends, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!, A Clean Sweep, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Heather Horsetrotter (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Heather Horsetrotter, Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, A Really Busy Day, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery, Rosey's Friends, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!, A Clean Sweep, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Fu Cheng (Episodes: Heather Horsetrotter, Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!)
• as Sasha Playnowski (Episodes: Heather Horsetrotter, Bookworms, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Larry Letterleaver (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Time Well Spent) / The Moon Dudes (Episode: Welcome to Cottage Hamlet) / Gilbert Gadgetseller (Episode: Time Well Spent) / Go Go Man (Episodes: Time Well Spent & Music! Music! Music!)/ The Moon Men (Episode: Music! Music! Music!) / Franklin Ticketaker & Arlo Cartonpacker (Episode: Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• Davey Porter as Mean Marvin Mister O Clock/Babylonian Boss (Episode: Tick Tock Travelers)
• as Arbuckle (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Heather Horsetrotter, Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, Time Well Spent, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery, Bookworms, A Clean Sweep, Rushin' There and Russian Here) / Cousin Arby (Episode: Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!)/ Chip the Sweep, Prize Patrol Guy and Puppy Arbuckle (Episode: Music! Music! Music!)
• as Bunny Hoppergrass (Episodes: Tick Tock Travelers, Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, A Really Busy Day, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Andy Puddlesplash (Episodes: Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!)
• as Anna Belle Jingleheimer (Episodes: Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, A Really Busy Day, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery, Rosey's Friends, Bookworms, Music! Music! Music!, A Clean Sweep)
• as Beatrice Bookshusher (Episode: Bookworms)
• as Babylonian Trainee (Episode: Tick Tock Travelers)
• Eric A. Stillwell as The Moon King (Episode: Welcome to Cottage Hamlet)/ King of the Moon Men (Episode: Music! Music! Music!)
• as Little Harry (Episodes: Welcome to Cottage Hamlet, Time Well Spent, Happy Birthday, Arbuckle!, The Great Cottage Hamlet Mystery, Music! Music! Music!, A Clean Sweep, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Little Harry (Episode: A Really Busy Day)
• as Benjamin Franklin (Episode: A Really Busy Day & Music! Music! Music!)
• as Operissimo (Episode: Music! Music! Music!)
• as Christopher the Geography Boy (Episodes: Music! Music! Music!, Rushin' There and Russian Here)
• as Senor Cocina (Episodes: Music! Music! Music!, Rushin' There and Russian Here (Credited as Pete Noriega))
• as Lola Belle (Episode: Music! Music! Music!)
• as Jimmy (Episode: Music! Music! Music!)
• Puppets by at Monsterpuppets

The Cottage Hamlet Kids (Episodes: Bookworms & A Clean Sweep)

• Sora Boyd
• Jake Hoffman
• Zachary Hoffman
• Callie Perlman
• Sam Perlman

DVD releases[]

Some episodes of Nanna's Cottage have been released on DVD, from Digiview Entertainment.^[4]

Stations[]

The series has been aired on other television channels in the United States and Canada, including Trinity Broadcasting Network.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Nanna's Cottage at IMDb
• The Next Generation of Kid TV, Oregon Daily Emerald, November 16, 2006^{[permanent dead link]}
• Child actors do their part for 'Nanna's Cottage' pilot. The Register-Guard, Eugene OR, October 1 2005