Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
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Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is a 2006
2006 in television
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 animated television series. Set in the African savanna
Savanna
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, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant
Elephant
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 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
Animal
Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...

. 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
Peppa Pig
Peppa Pig is a British animated television series created directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies and distributed by eOne Entertainment. To date, three series have been aired. It is shown in 180 territories.-Background:...

. The live action footage comes from the BBC Natural History Unit
BBC Natural History Unit
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 archives, as well as the National Geographic, and is also shown in the United States
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 on PBS. In the American version all of the animals except Karla have American voices. Vanessa Williams
Vanessa L. Williams
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 is the voice of Mama Mirabelle in the US, and Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin
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 is the voice for the UK Mama Mirabelle. The series is produced by UK animation company King Rollo Films, whose other shows include Paz
Paz (Ready Set Learn)
Paz is an American television show produced by Telescreen BV, Egmont Imagination, King Rollo Films, Open Mind Productions, and Discovery Kids. The series runs as 80 eight-minute shows, each of which combines both a five-minute animation with live action before and after...

, Maizy
Maizy
Maizy is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France....

, and Mr. Benn. Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies season 1 runs as 52 11-minute shows on CBeebies
CBeebies
CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

, but the show is running on PBS Kids 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
Horrid Henry
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, Me Too!, Paz
Paz (Ready Set Learn)
Paz is an American television show produced by Telescreen BV, Egmont Imagination, King Rollo Films, Open Mind Productions, and Discovery Kids. The series runs as 80 eight-minute shows, each of which combines both a five-minute animation with live action before and after...

, and Urmel.) The series was created by Douglas Wood
Douglas Wood (producer)
Douglas Wood is a writer, creative executive, director and producer. From 2005-2009 at the feature animation studio, Animation Lab, Wood was Head of Creative Affairs then director and executive producer on its first feature, "The Wild Bunch." He has previously served as VP of Feature Animation...

, 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
Kids Central/okto
Okto
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Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
CBeebies
CBeebies
CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

ABC1
ABC1
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/ABC2
ABC2
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PBS Kids
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States founded in 1993. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial. It is aimed at children ages 2 to 10...

 / PBS Kids Sprout
PBS KIDS Sprout
PBS Kids Sprout is a U.S. digital cable television channel, video-on-demand service, and website providing PBS Kids shows and original programming for preschoolers and their families...

TVO Kids
Canal Panda
Canal Panda
Canal Panda is the first Portuguese cable television channel dedicated to children's programming, mostly animated series. The channel was founded in 1996 as Panda Club in Spain and Portugal, but the name was changed to Canal Panda in 1997. In 2000, the channel left Spain, thus concentrating...

 / RTP1 / RTP2 / SIC
SIC (Portugal)
SIC - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação is a Portuguese television network and media company, which runs several television channels. Their flagship channel is the eponymous SIC, the third terrestrial television station in Portugal, launched on October 6, 1992...

Mãe Mirabelle
 Poland MiniMini
MiniMini
MiniMini+ is a Polish television channel owned and operated by Canal+. Its mainstreaming its programing mainly to 2-7 children....

Opowieści Mamy Mirabelle
 Japan Disney Channel
Disney Channel Japan
For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel . For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel.Disney Channel Japan is a television channel that is broadcast in Japan.-The Current Shows:* JONAS...

 Playhouse Disney
ママ・ミラベルのムービータイム
 Hong Kong aTV World
ATV World
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媽媽貝拉補習班
 Turkey Cartoon Network (Turkey)
Cartoon Network (Turkey)
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Mama Mirabel
 Germany KI.KA
KI.KA
KI.KA is a public non-commercial free television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. It is a joint venture of national public television channels ARD, and ARD's constituent broadcasting institutions – BR, HR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen, RBB, Saarländischer Rundfunk, SWR, WDR and ZDF, and is targeted at...

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