Jellabies

1998 TV series or program

Jellabies

Also known as|

* Jellikins
* The Jellies

Genre| Children’s
Written by| Jan Page
Directed by| Ralph Tittley, Animation: Jonny Lewis (first 15 episodes)
Narrated by| Rik Mayall
Music by|

* David Lowe
* Vo Fletcher

Country of origin|

* Australia (Jellabies)
* United Kingdom (Jellikins/Jellies)

Original language| English
No. of episodes| 97
Production
Producers|

* David Clement
* Mike Prince

Animators|

* Richard Smart
* Tony Tinsley
* Meena Kumari-Pai
* Andy Day
* Andrew Lindsay
* Mikel G Lewis

Running time| 5 mins
Production companies|

* Optical Image Broadcast
* Winchester Entertainment

Original release
Network| ABC for Kids (Australia) GMTV (UK)
Release| 1998 (1998) –
2001 (2001)

Jellabies (also known as Jellikins or The Jellies) is an Australian-British[citation needed] children's animated television series that first aired on the British television network (GMTV), from 18 May 1998 until 2001. It was also shown in Canada (Treehouse TV), Germany (Super RTL), U.S. (Fox Family Channel, now as Freeform), The Netherlands (Kindernet), France (TF! Jeunesse), and Australia (ABC Kids). The series' target audience is children aged two to six.

It was one of the first television series to be produced fully in CGI.

## Format

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The programme was conceived and developed in Worcestershire, UK by Jonny Lewis, a 3D artist/animator and Optical Image Ltd, a small TV/video editing house, using CGI animation. The show was narrated by Rik Mayall.[1] The Jellabies are jelly-made children that live in the Jolly Jelly World, which is the magical land at the end of the rainbow, where their first job is to make rainbows. (for which they have a machine called the Jelliscope, a computer/teleporter/rainbow generator that is constantly monitoring weather conditions around the world) Although each Jellaby has its own vehicle to drive around in, their main use of travelling long distances around Jelly Land is on the "Jelly Train", a train that only consists of a cab (without any actual locomotive) and one passenger car. The show premiered in 1998 and ended in early 2003.

Jellabies are also known as Jellikins in certain parts of the world, including the United Kingdom. This version is exactly the same as the Jellabies in every way, except the characters' heads were changed to look like gummy bears. However, Duffy the dragon remained the same. This version aired on GMTV in the United Kingdom until January 2004.

## History

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Jonny Lewis designed and created the characters and developed the pilot episode with his brother Mikel Lewis, using 3D Studio Max. It was loosely based on Jelly Babies candies. In the early months, before funding, Jonny Lewis lived in a dusty basement in Malvern so he could afford to develop the show on his home PC. The pilot led to the series being commissioned by GMTV and then in many other countries around the world. It was the first British fully 3D computer-animated series to make it on to television.

Optical Image sealed sponsorship from Basset's. Other animators who made significant input were Meena Kamurai Pai, Andrew Lindsay, Richard Smart, Andy Day, Ian Friend, Harjit Birdi, making each episode with only five days to complete each one in order to meet the schedule.

Music written and composed by Dave Lowe and Vo Fletcher.

## Characters and voice cast

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Each of the six Jellabies represent the colours of the rainbow.

### Main

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* Narrator (Rik Mayall)
* Strum (voiced by unknown) – Lives at the train station, is purple, and is the musical Jellaby who plays the saxophone.
* Bouncey (voiced by unknown) – Lives in a bumper car, and is yellow.
* Denny (voiced by unknown) – Lives in a boat on the Jelly Lake, and is blue.
* Pepper (voiced by unknown) – Lives in a treehouse, and is red.
* Amber and Coral (voiced by unknown) – Two Jellabies who are twin sisters and are orange and pink, respectively. Amber lives in a hot air balloon and Coral lives in a house made out of building blocks and other fun objects they have a little light pink toddler little jelliebies sister name zahra who is 1 years old and loves dancing ballet zahra doesn’t have her own house so she living both amber and coral and sometimes either amber or coral or their friends helping zahra the light pink toddler little jelliebies sister changing her dexcom and omipod on her arm and stomach

### Supporting

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* Duffy – The only non-Jellaby character in the series. He is a green dragon who lives in the Jelly Caves.

## Episodes

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### Season 1 (1998-99)

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1\. Caterpillar

2\. Circus

3\. Pepper's Den

4\. Hide and Seek

5\. Apple

6\. Seeds

7\. Burst Balloon

8\. Snow

9\. Music

10\. Drum

11\. Drumsticks

12\. Waiting

### Season 2 (1999)

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1\. Birthday

2\. Echoes

3\. Sky

4\. Egg

5\. Monster

6\. Sheep

### Season 3 (1999)

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1\. Train Trouble

2\. Balloon

3\. Jack in the Box

4\. Lost Voice

5\. Sneezes

6\. Invisible

7\. Runaway Train

8\. Rescue

9\. Seal

10\. Super Jelly

11\. Bridge

12\. Race

13\. Captain Jellybeard

### Season 4 (1999)

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1\. Shadow

2\. Sun

3\. Jelly Day

4\. Animals

5\. Jelly Lake

6\. Jellyphone

### Season 5 (1999)

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1\. Shipwreck

2\. Cave In!

3\. Bouncy Ball

4\. Camping

5\. Tobbogan

6\. Jelly Dance

7\. Fancy Dress

8\. Obstacles

9\. Football

10\. Sounds

11\. Caves

12\. House

13\. Twins

### Season 6 (1999)

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1\. Night

2\. Bouncing

3\. Butterfly

4\. Parrot

5\. Spring

### Season 7 (1999-2000)

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1\. Baa!

3\. Autumn

4\. Nature

5\. Zebra

6\. Big

7\. Magic

8\. Where's Pepper?

9\. Hot

10\. Robot

11\. Wheels

12\. Chums

### Season 8 (2000)

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1\. Rubbish

2\. Silly Sax

3\. Small

4\. High

5\. Tower

6\. Footprints

7\. Yuk

### Season 9 (2000-2001)

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1\. Jelly Disco

2\. Mountain

4\. Jelly Christmas (special)

5\. Paint

6\. Feelings Rhyme

### Newscreen era (2001)

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𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥, 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘋𝘶𝘣𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦

Strum's Concert[2]

Hats[3] (all characters have a version)

Magic Seeds[4]

Painting

### Unconfirmed episodes

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Fair[5]

Coral's Pet[6]

Jungle[7]

Kangaroo[8]

## Theme song

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The theme song Wobbly World Theme written by David Lowe and Vo Fletcher which featured an opening narration by Rik Mayall. The song adds with a Caribbean flavour.

## CD release

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In 1999, a CD was released titled Jellikins: Songs from the TV series which featured songs performed by Mayall.

## Ride(s)

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Since 2000, there has been a Jellikins roller coaster at British theme park, Fantasy Island. Amutec had rights to make a Jellikins coin-operated ride featuring Bouncey in his bumper car from 2001 up until a currently unknown year/date.

## International broadcast

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### North America

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* USA
* Fox Family Channel (now as Freeform)
* Canada
* Treehouse TV

### Oceania

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* Australia
* ABC For Kids
* New Zealand
* TV2

### Asia

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* South Korea
* Seoul Broadcasting System
* Taiwan
* EBC Yoyo

### Middle East

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* Iran
* IRIB TV5

### Europe

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* United Kingdom
* GMTV
* Fox Kids
* France
* TF! Jeunesse
* Germany
* Super RTL
* The Netherlands
* Kindernet
* Nickelodeon (Nick Jr.)
* Italy
* RAI

## References

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1. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 444\. ISBN 978-1476665993.
2. ^ trailer
3. ^ Coral's version is at https://youtube.com/watch?v=G5WI7Uveql4?si=PniumZRiBd-Dkfbq&t=260 (at the timestamp provided)
4. ^ (not to be confused with Seeds or Apple)
5. ^ Man-Kong, Mary (2000). The Great Jelly World Fair. Reader's Digest Children's. ISBN 1575846896.
6. ^ storytape cassette
7. ^ storytape cassette
8. ^ storytape cassette

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