The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
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The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon is a children's television series
which aired in Canada
on YTV and the United States
on public television stations, through Tampa, Florida
PBS member station WEDU
. The show ran for four seasons from 1993 to 1997. It was a live-action show incorporating actors, full body costume characters
(notably the titular dragon) and puppets. The story follows Dudley, a dragon who's recently woken up from centuries of hibernation and his new ten-year-old friends Matt and Sally. The two kids would guide Dudley around the modern world and the trio would learn about environmentalism
, friendship and pro-social values.
Graham Greene
won a Gemini award
in 1994 for his role, and was nominated in 1998 for the episode The Tiny Little Raincloud. Jackie Burroughs
was also nominated in 1994 for the same award, for her performance in the episode High Flying Dragon.
Matt - Daniel DeSanto
Sammy/Mr. Robin - James Rankin (voice)
Mr. Crabby Tree - Graham Greene
Louis The Lion - Saul Rubinek
Terry - Robin Weekes
Julia- Natasha Greenblatt
Sally- Asia Vieira
Mickey- Daniel Torjman-Goodfellow
Kellogg's Rice Crispies (1993-Present)
Books A Million (1998-Present)
Macy's
(1998-Present)
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
(1993-Present)
PBS Viewers Like You (1993-Present)
. The creators have stated that the show does not directly compete with Barney
, to which it has been compared and seen as more entertaining for adults, as Dudley was intended for what they claim is a slightly older age group of three years old to seven years old. Jean Morphee-Barnard, an educational consultant on the show, said that, "We don't want to use violence or insults. We want to avoid stereotyping; girls have to be just as involved as the boys are. And usually our villains are misguided rather than evil." The creators of the show have stipulated that merchandising, such as toys and clothing or food products, should be made from natural fibres or should not include any sugar or preservatives. Head writer Alex Galatis was inside the costume for the first two seasons, but later only did the voice.
to rebroadcast the show. APTN also broadcast the series in French as Les adventures d’Arthur le dragon.
In 2009, Breakthrough offers Dudley the Dragon on Children's IPTV service Ameba.
Children's television series
Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...
which aired in Canada
Canada
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on YTV and the United States
United States
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on public television stations, through Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
PBS member station WEDU
WEDU
WEDU is a Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station, serving the Tampa Bay DMA in Florida. The station first signed on the air on October 17, 1958...
. The show ran for four seasons from 1993 to 1997. It was a live-action show incorporating actors, full body costume characters
Costumed character
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(notably the titular dragon) and puppets. The story follows Dudley, a dragon who's recently woken up from centuries of hibernation and his new ten-year-old friends Matt and Sally. The two kids would guide Dudley around the modern world and the trio would learn about environmentalism
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...
, friendship and pro-social values.
Graham Greene
Graham Greene (actor)
Graham Greene is a Canadian actor who has worked on stage, and in film and TV productions in Canada, England and the United States.-Early life:...
won a Gemini award
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...
in 1994 for his role, and was nominated in 1998 for the episode The Tiny Little Raincloud. Jackie Burroughs
Jackie Burroughs
Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.-Life and career:Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival...
was also nominated in 1994 for the same award, for her performance in the episode High Flying Dragon.
Main cast
Dudley The Dragon - Alex Galatis (voice) and Kirk Dunn (costumed performer)Matt - Daniel DeSanto
Daniel DeSanto
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Sammy/Mr. Robin - James Rankin (voice)
Mr. Crabby Tree - Graham Greene
Graham Greene (actor)
Graham Greene is a Canadian actor who has worked on stage, and in film and TV productions in Canada, England and the United States.-Early life:...
Louis The Lion - Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek is a Canadian actor, director, producer and playwright, known for his work in TV, film and the stage.-Early life:...
Terry - Robin Weekes
Julia- Natasha Greenblatt
Sally- Asia Vieira
Asia Vieira
Asia Molly Vieira is a Canadian actress.- Biography :She began her career as a child model at the age of four, later gaining her first major role in 1988 starring alongside Liam Neeson and Diane Keaton in The Good Mother. She is an accomplished gymnast and graduated from the Etobicoke School of...
Mickey- Daniel Torjman-Goodfellow
Episode list
| Title | Original Airdate | Episode # | Summary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Dudley Finds his Home" | 1 | Dudley emerges from a 100-year slumber and finds to his horror that everything has changed. It's up to two children (who are as amazed at Dudley as he is about this new world) to convince Dudley that he is still on familiar ground. | |||||
| "Dudley's Tea Party" | 2 | A planned tea party goes awry when all the water around Dudley dries up. | |||||
| "Mr. Crabby Tree" | 3 | Mr. Crabby Tree gets his first appearance on the show and he ends up leaveing Dudley spinning through the tree rings of time! Now, Dudley must try to do what he can do to get back to his own home timeline. | |||||
| "Dudley and the Genie" | 4 | Is it all too good to be true for after Dudley finds a Genie? He really wants Dudley to waste his energy resources. | |||||
| "Dudley meets Mr. Can" | 5 | When Dudley awakes up of his birthday party, He runs into a nasty attitude problem from his garbage can. Dudley says he's totally absolved from the blame for making a pile of garbage, but is he? He must find the real truth! | |||||
| "Dudley Gets a Tummy Ache" | 6 | Sally is convinced about the fact that Dudley has became poisoned, as a bitter wind comes through! | |||||
| "Dudley Meets a Tiny Giant" | 7 | A Tiny Giant teaches Dudley several things about insects' relationship with plants. | |||||
| "High Flying Dragon" | 8 | Dudley leases a hot-air balloon, and in it, he winds up in a breathtaking hazard. | |||||
| "The Dragon and the Toxin" | 9 | Dudley goes through one big time of a nightmare thanks to a poisonous substance called Vernon, that's causing it. | |||||
| "Dudley Goes Camping" | 10 | Dudley and Sally want their camp-out to go swimmingly, but not if The Force of Nature can help it. | |||||
| "Dudley in the Rainforest" | 11 | Dudley and Aggie are forced into a rainforest on a rescue mission, while trying to describe a lapsing into the usual diatribes. | |||||
| "Dudley and the Dodo" | 12 | What's Dudley doing with a dodo? And what's the dodo doing with the notion that Dudley is his mother? Is this too good to be real? Find out! | |||||
| "Dudley and the Gingerbread House" | 13 | Dudley and Sally don't realize that the troll that they met, is really trying to use them in order to get a horrible "recipe"! | |||||
| "Dudley and the Snowman" | 14 | ||||||
| "Dudley Through the Looking Glass" | 15 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the King" | 16 | It's good to be the king, thinks the King of All Living Things. He is intent on taking down Mr. Crabby Tree, thinking he's nothing but trouble, but Dudley and friends know better. | |||||
| "Have Yourself a Crabby Little Christmas" | 17 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Leprachaun" | 18 | ||||||
| "Dragon's Ahoy" | 19 | Dudley is on the voyage that could cost him his life. Something has to be done to cure his "flu." And even if he gets cured, it won't change the people who wish to endanger his health, as we shall soon see and find out what happens. | |||||
| "Dudley and the Great Race" | 20 | Two teams of two stage an around-the-world race between a hot-air balloon and a faulty car. It's not so much a need for speed in this duel, as Dudley and Sally learn to their dismay. | |||||
| "Dudley Meets Pablo Pickle" | 21 | ||||||
| "Dudley Makes a Movie" | 22 | Dudley assigns a role for everyone in the movie he plans to shoot. But something about Sally's role is just not right. | |||||
| "Dudley and Flammo the Magician" | 23 | ||||||
| "Dudley Meets the Alien" | 24 | ||||||
| "Imagine That!" | 25 | Dudley holds another tea party, This time it's complete with big games. It seems that Terry doesn't want to join in, though, thinking their games are too silly. | |||||
| "The Living Doll" | 26 | ||||||
| "The Spooky Castle" | 27 | It's Halloween Night for Dudley and the Company, and everyone dresses up in their costumes! But it seems that Dudley may probably not be ready for what scary things haunts ahead. | |||||
| "The Tree House" | 28 | ||||||
| "The Unhappy Garden" | 29 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Lion" | 30 | ||||||
| "Mr. Crabby Tree's Really Great Adventure" | 31 | ||||||
| "Once Upon a Time" | 32 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Caveman" | 33 | ||||||
| "Dudley's Amazing Journey" | 34 | ||||||
| "The Trouble with Bubbles" | 35 | ||||||
| "The Red Sneakers" | 36 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Lost City" | 37 | ||||||
| "The Frog Princess" | 38 | ||||||
| "The Royal Crown" | 39 | There is still a dodo lying around, and the Prince wants the dodo's feathers for his crown. | |||||
| "You and Me and Caveman Makes Three" | 40 | Dudley and Laura had been burned by the caveman before, so one can imagine friction would seem inevitable when the three decide to have a picnic. | |||||
| "Dudley's Birthday Surprise" | 41 | A pleasant birthday party makes Dudley want to have a birthday every single day. In a sense of a price, he ends up setting himself up! | |||||
| "The Tiny Little Raincloud" | 42 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Toothfairy" | 43 | ||||||
| "Good Knight Dragon" | 44 | The forest is divided into factions, with Dudley on one side and a Knight his polar opposite–or is he? | |||||
| "Princess and the Pop Star" | 45 | ||||||
| "Mama Crabby Tree" | 46 | ||||||
| "The Flying Frog" | 47 | ||||||
| "Junior Robin's Big Day Out" | 48 | ||||||
| "Showbiz Dragon" | 49 | ||||||
| "The Prince's New Clothes" | 50 | ||||||
| "Alphabet Dragon" | 51 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Cowardly Ghost" | 52 | ||||||
| "Dudley's Big Decision" | 53 | When Laura and her parents move away from the forest, Dudley seeks the Troll's help to sabotage Laura's plans. | |||||
| "Mr. Crabby Tree Falls in Love" | 54 | ||||||
| "Dog Gone Dragon" | 55 | ||||||
| "The Royal Cup" | 56 | It's a Tortoise and the Hare story as Dudley and the Prince race for the Royal Cup. Watch and find out to see who wins! | |||||
| "The Wishing Well" | 57 | Mr. Crabby Tree wants to roam around. When a wishing well grants him a human body, Mr. Crabby Tree soon regrets it. | |||||
| "Cinderella Ha-Ha" | 58 | ||||||
| "Dudley and the Knight Club" | 59 | Dudley wants to become a Knight in armor to improve his image. That prompts a knight called Pointdexter to put Dudley through dangerous tests to prove himself worthy of knighthood. | |||||
| "The Great Dragonberry War " | 60 | Dudley and the Caveman go to war over care of a dragonberry bush called "Priscilla." | |||||
| "The Boy Who Cried Witch" | 61 | The first in a three-part saga finds Mickey making up stories about witches that are out to get everyone in the forest. The first in a three-part saga finds Mickey making up stories about witches that are out to get everyone in the forest. Part 2 is the next episode below. | |||||
| "The Pumpkin King" | 62 | In part two of the trilogy, Dudley, Julia and the Caveman all desire something badly à la The Wizard of Oz. They travel to the Pumpkin King, who will grant them their separate wishes if they can retrieve the hat of one of the witches who had threatened their habitat in the previous episode. The 3rd and final part is the next episode below. | |||||
| "Which Witch?" | 63 | In the third and final part of the trilogy, Willomena and Ernestina were the twin witches who had victimized Dudley and his friends. Now the two witches want to hold a birthday party. It seems impossible for the witches to agree on even that, and now Dudley and his friends may have to pay! | |||||
| "Lullaby Dragon" | 64 | Dudley's plans for a sleepover with his friends seems in jeopardy when he discovers he has lost his comforting teddy bear! Now Dudley will have to look for it! | |||||
| "The Last Dudley" | 65 | This is the last episode to be produced and aired in the TV series. Dudley needs companionship from another dragon. This promts a fortune-teller called the Great Mezmra to snare Dudley into her side show with the promise that they would find another dragon. | |||||
Funding
Danimals (1998-Present)Kellogg's Rice Crispies (1993-Present)
Books A Million (1998-Present)
Macy's
Macy's
Macy's is a U.S. chain of mid-to-high range department stores. In addition to its flagship Herald Square location in New York City, the company operates over 800 stores in the United States...
(1998-Present)
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
(1993-Present)
PBS Viewers Like You (1993-Present)
Production
Dudley first appeared in The Conserving Kingdom, a 1982 play, and the rights to the character were bought by Ira Levy and Peter Williamson, partners in Toronto's Breakthrough Films and Television Inc, who produced the show with provincial educational broadcaster TVO. Dudley appeared as a six-storey tall float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ParadeMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, often shortened to Macy's Day Parade, is an annual parade presented by Macy's. The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, and four years younger than...
. The creators have stated that the show does not directly compete with Barney
Barney & Friends
Barney and Friends, also referred to by HiT Entertainment as Barney the Friendly Dinosaur, is an independent children's television show produced in the United States, aimed at children from ages 1-8...
, to which it has been compared and seen as more entertaining for adults, as Dudley was intended for what they claim is a slightly older age group of three years old to seven years old. Jean Morphee-Barnard, an educational consultant on the show, said that, "We don't want to use violence or insults. We want to avoid stereotyping; girls have to be just as involved as the boys are. And usually our villains are misguided rather than evil." The creators of the show have stipulated that merchandising, such as toys and clothing or food products, should be made from natural fibres or should not include any sugar or preservatives. Head writer Alex Galatis was inside the costume for the first two seasons, but later only did the voice.
Broadcast History
In 2008 Breakthrough closed a deal with APTNAboriginal Peoples Television Network
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is a Canadian broadcast and cable television network. APTN airs and produces programs made by, for and about Aboriginal Peoples...
to rebroadcast the show. APTN also broadcast the series in French as Les adventures d’Arthur le dragon.
In 2009, Breakthrough offers Dudley the Dragon on Children's IPTV service Ameba.