List of The Bellflower Bunnies episodes

The 2005 Region 2 box set of the original French series. Standing up: Papa Bramble, Aunt Zinnia. Below: Dandelion, Poppy, Periwinkle, Violette and Mistletoe.

The Bellflower Bunnies (French: 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.[1] 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.[Note 1]

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 Disney Junior (formerly 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,[2] twenty-two in the second,[3] and twenty-six in the third.[4] 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. Distributors in Europe,[5] North America,[6] and South Korea[7] have released DVDs of the first two seasons.

  1. ^ "Films d'animation". Le Monde (in French). Paris. 2001-12-23. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  2. ^ "TF1 International (MIP-TV 2001 Profiles)". Television Europe. 4 (4). Reed Business Information: 114. April 2001.
  3. ^ "Corporative profile for Euro Visual (Franck Algard)" (PDF). Canada-France Mini-Immersion (in English and French). Telefilm Canada/SPFA. 2005-06-05. p. 57. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
  4. ^ "Les interventions du CNC dans l'animation" (PDF) (in French). Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). 2005. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2008-04-05. La Famille Passiflore n° 3
  5. ^ "La Famille Passiflore, Vol. 1 à 5 (Pack spécial, 2006) product description" (in French). DVDfr.com. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
  6. ^ "The Bellflower Bunnies: Tales product information". Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  7. ^ 까르르 토끼 친구들 (in Korean). Kyobo Book Centre. Retrieved 2010-09-04.


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