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Littlest Pet Shop is an animated children’s television series based on the toy franchise Littlest Pet Shop released by Kenner Products.[2] The series debuted on September 11, 1995 in the United States and syndicated to local stations by distributor Claster Television. It was produced by Sunbow Entertainment in the United States, and Créativité & Développement and AB Productions in France.[3]
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| Based on | Littlest Pet Shop franchise by Kenner Products |
| Directed by | Xavier Picard |
| Creative director | Jay Bacal |
| Voices of | Lynda Boyd Garry Chalk Babs Chula Ted Cole Ian James Corlett Michael Donovan Shirley Millner Sarah Strange Lee Tockar |
| Theme music composer | Giacomo Cosenza |
| Composer | Giacomo Cosenza |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (80 segments) |
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| Producer | Roy Wilson |
| Editor | Thierry Leray |
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| Network | M6 Kid (France) Broadcast syndication (U.S.) |
| Release | September 11 – November 3, 1995[1] |
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Plot
editLittlest Pet Shop follows the lives of five miniature animals who live in a pet shop on Littlest Lane and have their own treehouse inside of the store.
Characters
editMain
edit- Stu (voiced by Michael Donovan) is a blue dog with a bumbling personality who happens to be a big eater.
- Chloe (voiced by Babs Chula) is a sarcastic purple cat who has been reincarnated many times with her first life being in Ancient Egypt.
- Viv (voiced by Lynda Boyd) is a music-loving pink rabbit who sings and dances. She has a backing band that lives in her top hat. She speaks with a British accent.
- Chet (voiced by Lee Tockar) is a macho yellow horse who acts like a cowboy.
- Squeaks (vocal effects provided by Ted Cole) is a red monkey who loves bananas and speaks in monkey language that the other characters understand.
Recurring
edit- Elwood P. Harvey (voiced by Ian James Corlett) is a man who runs the pet shop. His name and appearance are a reference to the movie Harvey.
- Delilah (voiced by Shirley Millner) is a normal-sized monitor lizard who plots to eat the pets and is owned by Elwood.
- Harriet is a parrot who often joins the main pets.
- Rookie (voiced by Sarah Strange) is a brown puppy who lives in the pet shop.
- Sergeant Butch Kowalski (voiced by Garry Chalk) is a green militaristic hamster.
- Bernice (voiced by Kathleen Barr)is a hamster and Butch's love interest.
- Mumsy (voiced by Kathleen Barr) is an archaeologist and explorer who is Elwood's mother.
Episodes
edit| No. | Title | Original air date | |||
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| 1 | "What Do You Mean Little?" | September 11, 1995 | |||
| "No Starch Please" | |||||
| 2 | "Frogs!" | September 12, 1995 | |||
| "The Closet Eater" | |||||
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"Frogs!": Three frogs -- Slimy, Warts and Fat -- come to the pet shop, but are pretty gross to the animals. "The Closet Eater": Stu spoils his diet and almost becomes a meal for the lizard Delilah. | |||||
| 3 | "Chet, the Dream Horse" | September 13, 1995 | |||
| "Going Bananas" | |||||
| 4 | "Squeaks in Space" | September 14, 1995 | |||
| "Are You My Mumsy?" | |||||
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"Squeaks in Space": Squeaks is held prisoner on a banana planet, the other animals coming to his rescue. "Are You My Mumsy?": Elwood receives an egg in a package from Mumsy. After it is saved from Deliliah, the egg hatches into a baby dragon who befriends Viv and works to save her from Delilah in a rock opera musical number. | |||||
| 5 | "Scaredy Dog" | September 15, 1995 | |||
| "Littlest Pit Stop" | |||||
| 6 | "Treasure of Sierra Pet Shop / Really Big" | September 18, 1995 | |||
| 7 | "The Bully Bugs / The Littlest Whodunit" | September 19, 1995 | |||
| 8 | "The Itch to Be Rich / Mechanical Madness" | September 20, 1995 | |||
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| 9 | "Inmate Rookie / A Game of Cat and Mouse and Dog" | September 21, 1995 | |||
| 10 | "Baby! / Littlest Pet Detective" | September 22, 1995 | |||
| 11 | "Belly of the Beast / Cops and Robbers and Pets, Oh My!" | September 25, 1995 | |||
| 12 | "The Deadly Derby / Return to Sender" | September 26, 1995 | |||
| 13 | "Attack of the Manwolf / My Fair Hamster" | September 27, 1995 | |||
| 14 | "Black-Out / Don't Rain on My Banana" | September 28, 1995 | |||
| 15 | "Do Not Solve Until Christmas / A Gift of Gab" | September 29, 1995 | |||
| 16 | "For the Love of Lovas / Obedience School" | October 2, 1995 | |||
| 17 | "Hamster-Lympics / King Squeaks" | October 3, 1995 | |||
| 18 | "Frankenstu / Wanted: Squeaks" | October 4, 1995 | |||
| 19 | "The Black Cat / Bunny Beat" | October 5, 1995 | |||
| 20 | "Travels With My Mumsy / The Best Things in Life Are Flea" | October 6, 1995 | |||
| 21 | "Littlest Pet Shop of Biggest Horrors / The Jungle Novella" | October 9, 1995 | |||
| 22 | "The Rotten Apple / Nothing Up My Sleeve" | October 10, 1995 | |||
| 23 | "Curse of the Mumsy / Whenever Lola Laughs" | October 11, 1995 | |||
| 24 | "Squeaks' Sibling Rivalry / Slinging Fur" | October 12, 1995 | |||
| 25 | "Kowalski and Juliet / Mind Over Monkey" | October 13, 1995 | |||
| 26 | "They Came from Beyond the Dumpster / Lonesome Chet" | October 16, 1995 | |||
| 27 | "Squeaks on a Stick / The Bug House" | October 17, 1995 | |||
| 28 | "My Fair Rookie / Farewell, Delilah" | October 18, 1995 | |||
| 29 | "Stu Man and Super Squeaks / The Bugs in the Wall Gang" | October 19, 1995 | |||
| 30 | "Night of the Elwood / Drained" | October 20, 1995 | |||
| 31 | "It's a Wonderful Hat / This Old Treehouse" | October 23, 1995 | |||
| 32 | "Informercial Superflyway / Dream Vacation" | October 24, 1995 | |||
| 33 | "The Mighty Clucks / Little Junior" | October 25, 1995 | |||
| 34 | "Wrecking Havoc / Chet Goes Hollywood" | October 26, 1995 | |||
| 35 | "The Young and the Vetless / Chloe Tells All" | October 27, 1995 | |||
| 36 | "Encino Mammoth / When in ROM" | October 30, 1995 | |||
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| 37 | "Chloe's Evil Twin / The Magnificent Pets" | October 31, 1995 | |||
| 38 | "The Perils of Bernice / Delilah's Bell" | November 1, 1995 | |||
| 39 | "Who Scrooged McRude? / Too Many Birds" | November 2, 1995 | |||
| 40 | "Witness Protection Pup / Eleven Minutes of Fame" | November 3, 1995 | |||
Production
editLittlest Pet Shop was animated by AKOM in South Korea, KK C&D Asia in Japan, and Wang Film Productions in Taiwan.
Broadcast
editLittlest Pet Shop was syndicated to local stations in the United States. The series was also broadcast on Tiny Pop and CBBC in the United Kingdom.
Home media releases
editIn 1996, Family Home Entertainment released the show on four VHS cassettes each containing 2 to 4 episodes. The Christmas video entitled Do Not Solve Until Christmas (which contains "Do Not Solve Until Christmas" and "Who Scrooged McRude?") was released as part of the Family Home Entertainment Christmas Classics series.
References
edit- ^ "Carrey on : Fall Kids' Shows Reprise Popular Masks, Fins and Sleuths". Los Angeles Times. 3 September 1995.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 367. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 513. ISBN 978-1476665993.
