List of The Bellflower Bunnies episodes

"The Bellflower Bunnies" ( _fr. La Famille Passiflore) is a children's animated series based on the "Beechwood Bunny Tales" books by Geneviève Huriet, Amélie Sarn and Loïc Jouannigot. It debuted on TF1, a French television network, on 24 December 2001.cite news|title=Films d'animation|date=2001-12-23|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/735156.html|format=Subscription required|work=Le Monde|location=Paris|accessdate=2008-03-20|language=French] Many French and Canadian companies have participated in the show's production over the years; TF1 has always been involved. The series is written by Valérie Baranski, and produced by Patricia Robert. Moran Caouissin directed the first season, and Eric Berthier did the last two.

The show centres on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven rabbits who live in Beechwood Grove. The two adults in the family, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violette.In the first four English episodes, Violette retains her original French name, Pirouette.]

"The Bellflower Bunnies" originally aired on TFOU TV (formerly TF! Jeunesse), the children's service of TF1, and has since appeared on France's local Playhouse Disney. The series has also been broadcast on CBC Television and TFO in Canada, KI.KA in Germany, Portugal's RTP in the Azores, and in several other countries.

The show has fifty-two episodes: four in the first season, [cite web|url=http://www.filmfund.lu/filmfund.lu/mu/cp/list/00020/index.php|title="The Bellflower Bunnies"|year=2001|accessdate=2008-09-30|publisher=Film Fund Luxembourg] twenty-two in the second,cite web |url=http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/upload/projectx/MIA_catalogue_participants.pdf#page=57 |title=Corporative profile for Euro Visual (Franck Algard) |accessdate=2008-09-30 |date=2005-06-05 |format=PDF |work=Canada-France Mini-Immersion, |publisher=Telefilm Canada/SPFA |pages=p. 57 |language=English/French ] and twenty-six in the third.cite web |url=http://www.ficam.fr/upload/documents/bilan_anim_2005_.pdf#page=14 |title=Les interventions du CNC dans l'animation |accessdate=2008-04-05 |year=2005 |format=PDF |publisher=Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) |pages=p. 14 |language=French |quote=La Famille Passiflore n° 3] In the entire series, thirteen are based directly on installments in "Beechwood Bunny Tales", published by Milan Presse of France and Gareth Stevens in the United States; the rest are based on scripts by Valérie Baranski. The complete series has aired on KI.KA, where the last season appeared in early 2008.cite web |url=http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?serie=7031&seite=6 |title="Die Häschenbande": Sendetermine der TV-Serie |accessdate=2008-09-30 |publisher=imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG |language=German] In France, TF1 has aired it through episode 45, "Chez Zinia". Distributors in Europe,cite web |url=http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f28448_la_famille_passiflore_-_vol_1_a_5_pack_special.html |title="La Famille Passiflore, Vol. 1 à 5" (Pack spécial, 2006) product description |accessdate=2008-03-24 |publisher=DVDfr.com |language=French] cite web |url=http://www.brandora.de/ProductPage.aspx?Pro=169149&DID=5904&PPs=1&PRV=169151& |title="Die Häschenbande, Folge 1" DVD information|accessdate=2008-03-20|publisher=Brandora AG|language=German] cite web|url=http://www.dvd-home.hu/main.phtml?target=film&id=3002|title="Tappancs család: "Tappancs Dani kertecskéje + Tappancs Papa találmánya" product information|language=Hungarian|year=2006|accessdate=2008-09-22|publisher=DVD-HOME Hungary Kft.] cite web |url=http://www.beslist.nl/dvd-video/d0000086912/Knuffelkonijntjes_Dvd_-_Box_4dvd.html |title="Knuffel Konijntjes Avonturenbox" product information |accessdate=2008-04-07 |publisher=beslist.nl |language=Dutch] North America,cite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007YXQUU/ |title="The Bellflower Bunnies: Tales" product information |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=Amazon.com] and South Koreacite web |url=http://zine.c4uent.com/product/product19.jsp |title= "까르르 토끼 친구들"|accessdate=2008-03-23|publisher=C4U Media|language=Korean] have released DVDs of the first two seasons.

Overview

Titles been only been given in Germany for all 52 episodes, which have aired on KI.KA and ZDF. The English episode titles come from Feature Films for Families and Direct Source's Region 1 DVDs, as well as the online schedules of the Al Jazeera Children's Channel in the Middle East (for season 2). The list of original titles at AnimezVous.com gives the official order of the episodes,cite web |url=http://www.animezvous.com/liste/permalink/id_da/2515/nom/famille-passiflore-la/ |title="La Famille Passiflore" episode list |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=AnimezVous.com |language=French] which differs from how TF1 broadcast it.

eason 3

Notes

References

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*cite web|url=http://inatheque.ina.fr/SEARCH/BASIS/dltv/dlweb/dl/SDW?W%3DITOUSTI+PH+LIKE+%27Famille+Passiflore%27|title=Search results for "La Famille Passiflore" airdates|language=French|year=2008|accessdate=2008-09-26|publisher=Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
*cite web |url=http://www.kika.de/scripts/fernsehen/a_z/index.cfm?b=d&a=4&i=1007 |title=Episode list for "The Bellflower Bunnies" ("Die Häschenbande") |accessdate=2008-03-20|format=|publisher=KI.KA (kika.de)|language=German
*cite web|url=http://www.jcctv.net/index.html|title=Interactive schedule|format=Flash required|language=English/Arabic|publisher=Al Jazeera Children's Channel|accessdate=2008-09-26
*Some French titles for season 3 were provided by TFO's [http://tfo.org/television/horaire/ schedules] fr during its summer 2008 run.

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External links

*fr [http://lachaine.tf1.fr/lachaine/jeunesse/0,,3394132,00-tfou-famille-passiflore-.html "The Bellflower Bunnies"] at TF1.fr
*imdb title|id=1185090|title=The Bellflower Bunnies
*Official sites for the U.S. distributors, [http://familytv.com/ Feature Films for Families] and [http://directsource-sp.com/en/ Direct Source]
*Official sites for the French distributors, [http://www.tf1video.fr/ TF1 Vidéo] , [http://www.beez-ent.com/ Beez Entertainment] and [http://sevensept.net/ Seven Sept]