The Bellflower Bunnies
The Bellflower Bunnies | |
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Also known as | La Famille Passiflore (France) Die Häschenbande (Germany) La Famiglia Passiflora (Italy)[1] A Família Cenoura (Portugal)[2] Tappancs család (Hungary) Pupu Pitkäkorva (Finland)[3] De Knuffel Konijntjes (Netherlands)[4] Rodzina Rabatków (Poland) 까르르 토끼 친구들 (South Korea)[5] Russian: Истории папы Кролика |
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 |
Composers | Season 1: Daniel Scott Valérie Baranski Seasons 2 & 3: Alice Willis |
Country of origin | France Canada |
Original language | French |
No. of seasons | 3[8] |
No. of episodes | 52 [9] (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Entire series: Patricia Robert Seasons 2 & 3: Yves Pont Franck Algard |
Producer | Patricia Robert |
Editors | Season 1: Graham Chisholm Robert Newton Seasons 2 & 3: Lysanne Villeneuve |
Running time | 26 min. |
Production companies | Season 1: Protécréa TVA International Melusine Productions Seasons 2 & 3: Euro Visual Tooncan Bigcash (Season 2) |
Distributor | Beez Entertainment (seasons 2 & 3) |
Release | |
Original network | France TF1 Playhouse Disney (Season 2) Canada TVA (Season 1) |
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.[10] It is a co-production between France's TF1 and several Canadian companies[a]
52 episodes were produced.[11]
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.
Production[]
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Early on in its run, the series was produced as a package of four specials by TF1 and its subsidiary, Protécréa, along with TVA International of Montreal and Melusine of Luxembourg;[12] Moran Caouissin, an animator from Disney's DuckTales movie,[13] served as the director. Production of the series began in the fall of 2000, at a cost of over US$2 million,[12] or US$600,000 per episode.[14]
Starting in 2004, later episodes were produced by Euro Visual,[15] Tooncan, Megafun,[16] Big Cash, Dragon Cartoon[17] and Disney Television France. This time, Eric Berthier directed, and Alice Willis composed.
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.[18] In Germany, edelkids released the first sixteen episodes in February[19] 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.[12] 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.[8] 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.[20]
Voice cast[]
Season 1[]
- Regine Candler
- Tom Eastwood
- Rhonda Millar - Periwinkle, Violet (Pirouette)
- Joanna Ruiz Rodriguez - Poppy
Seasons 2 & 3[]
English version[]
- [21]
- Anik Matern - Violette
- Holly Gauthier-Frankel (as Holly Gauthier-Frankle) - Mistletoe, Dandelion
- Eleanor Noble - Periwinkle
- Mark Camacho
- - Papa Bramble
- - Poppy
- Danny Wells
- John Stocker (voice actor)
- Susan Glover
- A.J. Henderson
- Rick Miller
- Rick Jones
- Danny Brochu
French version[]
See also[]
References[]
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- ^ (in Italian) La Famiglia Passiflora at AntoniaGenna.net's Il Mondo Dei Doppiatori. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ (in Portuguese) A Família Cenoura at rtp.pt. Retrieved March 17, 2008.
- ^ (in Finnish) Pikku Kino at YLE TV2 site. Retrieved April 4, 2008.
- ^ "Arnan Samson biography" (in Dutch). Arnan.nl. Archived from the original on 2006-01-14. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
...en heeft hij de stem ingesproken van Roderick de Vos in de tekenfilm The Bellflower Bunnies (De Knuffel Konijntjes).
- ^ (in Korean) C4U Media: 까르르 토끼 친구들[permanent dead link]. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
- ^ (in Portuguese) Boomerang lança séries para adolescentes e crianças pequenas (2006, October 2). UOL Crianças. Retrieved March 13, 2008.
- ^ (in Spanish) ¡Octubre de estrenos y diversión en Boomerang![permanent dead link] (2006, October 24). Cantv.net. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Les interventions du CNC dans l'animation" (PDF) (in French). Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). 2005. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
La Famille Passiflore n° 3
- ^ "La Famille Passiflore episode list" (in French). AnimezVous.com. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ "Films d'animation". Le Monde (in French). Paris. 2001-12-23. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ 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. 66. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Bunnies bent on broadcast (Up Next: What's developing in kids production)". KidScreen Magazine. Brunico Communications. 2001-05-01. Retrieved 2008-07-25.[dead link]
- ^ Beck, Jerry (2005). "DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp". The Animated Movie Guide. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader Press. pp. 68. ISBN 1-55652-591-5.
- ^ Staff (2001-04-01). "Canada at the market - animation". Playback. Brunico Communications. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ "Corporative profile for Euro Visuel (Franck Algard)" (PDF). Canada-France Mini-Immersion (in English and French). Telefilm Canada/SPFA. 2005-06-05. p. 57. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ "Productions Mégafun Inc. company profile" (in French). Telefilm Canada. Archived from the original on 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ "La Famille Passiflore" (in French). AnimeKa Network / Association AnimeKa. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ (in French) La Famille Passiflore, Vol. 1-5. Chapitre DVD. Retrieved January 8, 2008.
- ^ (in German) edelkids: Unterhaltungsspaß mit Pettersson und Findus und der Häschenbande (2008, January 17). Brandora. Retrieved March 10, 2008.
- ^ "Episode list for Die Häschenbande" (in German). KI.KA (kika.de). Archived from the original on 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Platypus Theatre - Emily Saves the Orchestra Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 22, 2008.
- ^ Season 2 was produced with the participation of Disney Television France.
External links[]
- The Bellflower Bunnies at IMDb
- (in French) The Bellflower Bunnies at TF1.fr
- (in French) Episode list
- (in German) KI.KA's Bellflower Bunnies site (with a video clip from the "Room to Move" episode)
- Series' second theme song by Alice Willis
- Promo clip of the show[permanent dead link] at ZDF site (requires RealPlayer)
- Trailers for the first two Region 1 volumes at YouTube:
- 2001 Canadian television series debuts
- 2010 Canadian television series endings
- 2000s Canadian animated television series
- 2010s Canadian animated television series
- 2001 French television series debuts
- 2010 French television series endings
- 2000s French animated television series
- 2010s French animated television series
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
- Canadian children's animated comedy television series
- French children's animated comedy television series
- Canadian television shows based on children's books
- French television shows based on children's books
- Animated television series about rabbits and hares