Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
Format	Animated television series
Country of origin	UK USA
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	11 minutes (UK); 30 minutes (USA); 10 minutes (Canada)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBeebies PBS
Picture format	720x576 16:9
Original run	2006 – present

Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is a 2006 animated television series. Set in the African savanna, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels around the world to film real wildlife footage and project them onto a screen of fireflies in front of almost the entire animal kingdom. The "Home Movies" are used for educational purposes not only for the principal young characters, but for the target audience at home. It is animated using the same computer software as Peppa Pig. The live action footage comes from the BBC Natural History Unit archives, as well as the National Geographic, and is also shown in the United States on PBS. In the American version all of the animals except Karla have American voices. Vanessa Williams is the voice of Mama Mirabelle in the US, and Floella Benjamin is the voice for the UK Mama Mirabelle. The series is produced by UK animation company King Rollo Films, whose other shows include Paz, Maizy, and Mr. Benn. Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies season 1 runs as 52 11-minute shows on CBeebies, but the show is running on PBS Kids as of 2008^[update] in a thirty-minute slot by combining two ten minute shows with extra songs, features, and games. Music for this show is written by Lester Barnes, the composer for Horrid Henry, Me Too!, Paz, and Urmel.) The series was created by Douglas Wood, who is also the author of the companion children's picture book, When Mama Mirabelle Comes Home, published by National Geographic Channel Book.

Characters:

• Mama Mirabelle the elephant aged 35 years old; she wears a beautiful hat in orange and blue.
• Max the elephant aged 5 years old
• Karla the zebra aged 9 years old
• Bo the cheetah aged 10 years old

Episodes

1. Elephant Walk / Sounds Of The Savanna
2. A Little Help From My Friends / Baby Of A Different Stripe
3. Hide-And-Seek / Tell Me About It
4. To Sleep With Wombats / All Creatures Great And Small
5. Anybody Home? / Healthy Habits
6. Play's The Thing / Sam Spades Of The Savannah
7. Gourmet Grazing / Kings And Queens Of The Savannah
8. I Spy / Eyes, Ears, Noses, Trunks
9. The Boy Can Blow / I Don't Like Spiders And Snakes
10. What's In A Tail? / Foot Prints In The Sand
11. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow / Nobody's Perfect
12. Things That Go Yip, Howl, And Screech In The Night / Cracking The Code
13. A Savannah Kwanzaa / You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
14. Change Is Gonna Come / Trumpet While You Work
15. Spot The Difference / Hot And Cold Running Critters
16. Why Zebras Can't Fly / Super Duper Savannah Animals
17. Come Out Of Your Shell / Travels With Mama
18. Tails Of The Galapagos / Happy Habitats
19. Savanna Lullaby / It Gives You Paws
20. Out Of Reach / Family Style
21. Curtain Up! / Listen Up!
22. Rainy Day Blues / Take Me To The Water
23. Find Your Way Home / The Nose Knows
24. Jumbled Jungle / Alone Together
25. Muddy Wonderland / Do You See What I See?
26. Have You Heard? / This Is Mama's World
27. On Thin Ice part 1 / On Thin ice part 2 / On thin ice part 3

Television Airing

Mama Mirrabelle's Home Movies aired on 2006.

Country	Channel	Title
Singapore	Kids Central/okto	Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
United Kingdom	CBeebies
Australia	ABC1/ABC2
United States	PBS Kids / PBS Kids Sprout
Canada	TVO Kids
Portugal	Canal Panda / RTP1 / RTP2 / SIC	Mãe Mirabelle
Poland	MiniMini	Opowieści Mamy Mirabelle
Japan	Disney Channel Playhouse Disney	ママ・ミラベルのムービータイム
Hong Kong	aTV World	媽媽貝拉補習班
Turkey	Cartoon Network (Turkey)	Mama Mirabel
Germany	KI.KA	Mama Mirabelle's Tierkino

External links

• Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies at CBeebies
• Mama Mirabelle at PBS Kids