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Genre | Childrenโs |
Written by | Jan Page |
Directed by | Ralph Tittley, Animation: Jonny Lewis (first 15 episodes) |
Voices of | Rik Mayall |
Narrated by | Rik Mayall |
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Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 97 |
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Running time | 5 mins |
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Network | ABC for Kids (Australia) GMTV (UK) |
Release | 1998 2001 | โ
Jellabies (also known as Jellikins or The Jellies) is a British[citation needed] children's animated television series that first aired on the UK television network (GMTV), from 18 May 1998 until 2001. It was also shown in Germany, (Super RTL), U.S. (Fox Family Channel, now Freeform), The Netherlands (Kindernet), France (TF! Jeunesse), and Australia (ABC Kids). The target audience is for children ages two to six.
It was one of the first television series to be produced fully in CGI.
Format
The program was conceived and developed in Worcestershire, UK by Jonny Lewis, a 3d artist/animator and Optical Image Ltd, a small TV/video editing house, using CGI animation. The show was narrated by Rik Mayall.[1] 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 that 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 are 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.
History
Jonny Lewis designed and created the characters and developed the pilot episode with his brother Mikel Lewis, using 3D Studio Max software. It was loosely based on Jelly Babies candies. In the early months, before funding, Jonny Lewis lived in a dusty basement in Malvern so he could afford to develop the show on his home PC. The pilot led to the series being commissioned by GMTV and then in many other countries around the world. It was the first British fully 3D computer-animated series to make it on to television.
Optical Image sealed sponsorship from Basset's. Other animators who made significant input were Meena Kamurai Pai, Andrew Lindsay, Richard Smart, Andy Day, Ian Friend, Harjit Birdi, making each episode with only five days to complete each one in order to meet the schedule.
Music written and composed by Dave Lowe and Vo Fletcher.
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 twin sisters and 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 green 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. Waiting
Season 2 (1999)
1. Birthday
2. Echoes
3. Sky
4. Egg
5. Monster
6. Sheep
Season 3 (1999)
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. Captain Jellybeard
Season 4 (1999)
1. Shadow
2. Sun
3. Jelly Day
4. Animals
5. Jelly Lake
6. Jellyphone
Season 5 (1999)
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 (1999)
1. Night
2. Bouncing
3. Butterfly
4. Parrot
5. Spring
Season 7 (1999-2000)
1. Baa!
3. Autumn
4. Nature
5. Zebra
6. Big
7. Magic
8. Where's Pepper?
9. Hot
10. Robot
11. Wheels
12. Chums
Season 8 (2000)
1. Rubbish
2. Silly Sax
3. Small
4. High
5. Tower
6. Footprints
7. Yuk
Season 9 (2000-2001)
1. Jelly Disco
2. Mountain
4. Jelly Christmas (special)
5. Paint
6. Feelings Rhyme
Newscreen era (2001)
๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ฆ
Strum's Concert[2]
Hats[3] (all characters have a version)
Magic Seeds[4]
Painting
Unconfirmed episodes
Fair[5]
Coral's Pet[6]
Jungle[7]
Kangaroo[8]
Theme song
The theme song Wobbly World Theme written by David Lowe and Vo Fletcher which featured an opening narration by Rik Mayall.
CD release
In 1999, a CD was released titled Jellikins: Songs from the TV series which featured songs performed by Mayall.
Ride(s)
Since 2000, there has been a Jellikins roller coaster at British theme park, Fantasy Island. Amutec had rights to make a Jellikins coin-operated ride featuring Bouncey in his bumper car from 2001 up until a currently unknown year/date.
International Broadcast
North America
USA
- Fox Family Channel (now Freeform)
Canada
Australia
Asia
โIran โIRIB TV5
Europe
United Kingdom
France
Germany
The Netherlands
- Kindernet
- Nickelodeon (Nick Jr.)
Italy
References
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 444. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ trailer
- ^ Coral's version is at https://youtube.com/watch?v=G5WI7Uveql4?si=PniumZRiBd-Dkfbq&t=260 (at the timestamp provided)
- ^ (not to be confused with Seeds or Apple)
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Great-Jelly-World-Jelly-Flap-Books/dp/1575846896
- ^ storytape cassette
- ^ storytape cassette
- ^ storytape cassette