The Little Lulu Show

*The Little Lulu Show*
The Little Lulu Show
Genre	Comedy
Based on	Little Lulu, by Marjorie Henderson Buell
Directed by	Greg Bailey; Louis Piché; Nick Rijgersberg;
Starring	Tracey Ullman (season 1); Jane Woods (seasons 2-3)
Theme music composer	Buddy Kaye; Sidney Lippman; Fred Wise;
Opening theme	"Little Lulu"
Composer	Jeff Fisher
Country of origin	Canada; United States; Germany (season 3);
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	52 (156 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Micheline Charest; Nancy Steingard; Ronald A. Weinberg; Peter Völkle (season 3);
Producers	Ronald A. Weinberg; Cassandra Schafhausen; Lesley Taylor; Associate producers:; Thomas LaPierre; Natalie Dumoulin;
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	CINAR Corporation; Western Publishing/Golden Books Family Entertainment; TMO-Loonland Film GmbH (season 3);
Original release
Network	Canada; CTV (seasons 1–2); Family Channel (season 3); United States; HBO (seasons 1–2)
Release	November 11, 1995 –; November 26, 1998

The Little Lulu Show is an animated series based on Marjorie Henderson Buell's comic book character Little Lulu.^[1] The series aired from 1995 to 1998 after the cartoonist's death in 1993.

The series was produced by the CINAR Corporation, in association with Western Publishing Company, Inc./Golden Books Family Entertainment, alongside HBO, Beta Film and the CTV Television Network Ltd. for the first two seasons, with the participation of The Cable Production Fund (Season 2) and the Family Channel (Season 3). For the third season, TMO-Loonland Film co-produced the series with CINAR.

Plot

Quick-witted Lulu can outsmart boys, bullies and even grownups! Whether she’s catching frogs for a local restaurant, searching for hidden treasure or tracking down a thief, Little Lulu’s always got an ace up her sleeve. Together with her best friend Tubby, pint-sized Alvin, buck-toothed Annie, smooth Willie and the rest of the neighborhood gang, Lulu always finds herself in the middle of an adventure.

The series focuses on the life and the adventures of Lulu Moppet (voiced by Tracey Ullman and later Jane Woods) and Tubby Tompkins.^[2] Between stories called LuluToon, they featured stand-up comedy that Lulu hosted and a series of the musical shorts called Lulu-Bite is also shown. Each episode contains 3 sketches with the different stories, interspersed with a "stand up-comedy" presented by Lulu and 2 short 30-second introductions without speech, based on the last comic stories (with only 3 scenes).

Each storyline featured in the LuluToons are used from comic book releases (including John Stanley ones), with minor alterations.^[3]

The series is different from Little Lulu and Her Little Friends, a Japanese anime featuring the same characters made in 1976 and aired internationally in 1978.

Broadcast

The series was aired on HBO Family in the United States and CTV in Canada. The series continued to air on Family Channel, Teletoon Retro (English and French), VRAK.TV, and TeleNiños (Spanish dub only). In foreign countries, the series is also aired on ABC (part of ABC for Kids), Rai 2, E-Junior, Cartoon Network and Rede Globo.

Characters

Episodes

Season	Segments	Episodes	Originally aired
Season	Segments	Episodes	First aired	Last aired
1	18	6	October 22, 1995 (1995-10-22)	December 26, 1995 (1995-12-26)
2	60	20	May 3, 1996 (1996-05-03)	July 4, 1996 (1996-07-04)
3	78	26	November 30, 1998 (1998-11-30)	February 21, 1999 (1999-02-21)

Voice cast

Characters	Voice actors
"Little" Lulu Moppet	Tracey Ullman (Season 1) Jane Woods (Seasons 2–3)
Thomas "Tubby" Tompkins	Bruce Dinsmore
Annie Inch	Michael Caloz (Seasons 1–2) Vanessa Lengies (Season 3)
Iggy Inch	Dawn Ford
Willie Wilkins	Andrew Henry (Seasons 1–2) Ricky Mabe (Season 3)
Eddie Stimson	Justin Bradley (Seasons 1-2) Michael Yarmush (Season 3)
Wilbur Van Snobbe	Jacob Tierney
Gloria Goode Darling	Angelina Boivin
Alvin Jones	Ajay Fry (Seasons 1–2) Jonathan Koensgen (Season 3)
Mrs. Martha Moppet	Sonja Ball
Mr. George Moppet	Gary Jewell
Mrs. Ellie Tompkins	Susan Glover
Mr. Jim Tompkins	Terrence Scammell
Officer McNabb	Terrence Scammell
Margie	Angelina Boivin
Jeannie and Joannie	Danielle Desormeaux
Janie	Danielle Desormeaux
Miss Feeny	Ellen David
Butch, the Lead West Side Boy	Michael Yarmush

References

^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 364–365. ISBN 978-1538103739.
^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-1476665993.
^ "Everybody's Favorite Juvenile Feminist". comicreaders.com. Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2019-10-25.

^ Known as CINAR Films for the first two seasons. Animation outsourced to Wang Film Productions (seasons 1–2) and AKOM (season 3).

External links

The Little Lulu Show at IMDb

[Perlmutter-2] Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 364–365. ISBN 978-1538103739.

[3] Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-1476665993.

[4] "Everybody's Favorite Juvenile Feminist". comicreaders.com. Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2019-10-25.

[1] Known as CINAR Films for the first two seasons. Animation outsourced to Wang Film Productions (seasons 1–2) and AKOM (season 3).

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