Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated educational wildlife children's television series produced as a co-production between National Geographic Kids Entertainment, CBeebies and King Rollo Films, and distributed worldwide by National Geographic Television International. The series was based on the National Geographic-published book When Mama Mirabelle Comes Home written by Douglas Wood, and uses archived content from the BBC Natural History Unit and the National Geographic Society.
The series originally aired on CBeebies in the UK, with a total of 52 episodes produced. in the United States, the series aired on PBS and packaged into 26 half-hours.
In the American version, all of the main animals except Karla have American voices. Vanessa Williams is the voice of Mama Mirabelle in the US, and Floella Benjamin is the voice for Mama Mirabelle in the UK.
Premise
Set in the African savannah, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels around the world to film real wildlife footage and project them onto a screen of fireflies in front of almost the entire animal kingdom. The "Home Movies" are used for educational purposes not only for the main young characters but for the pre-school audience at home.Characters
- Mama Mirabelle – The show's title character; an elephant who always wears a beautiful orange hat with blue flowers on it. She has travelled the world and made movies of all of the many animals around her.
- Max – Mama Mirabelle's son, who is the youngest of the group. He always says "Whoa" when he sees something intriguing.
- Karla – A zebra foal who is always full of questions. She looks up to Mama Mirabelle and wants to be like her when she grows up.
- Bo – A spunky cheetah cub. He is very adventurous, feisty and high-strung and loves to run fast.
- Chip, Flip and Kip are three silly monkeys. They host the Monkey Minutes interstitials. Unlike the other main characters, they do not speak, except in monkey noises.
- Merlin the bat
- Kayla – A red kangaroo who is friends with Mama Mirabelle.
- Kylie – Kayla's daughter. She only has one line in each episode she appeared in.
- Daddy Stripes – Karla's father who appears in one episode.
- Keisha – A wombat whom Karla befriends. She is only seen in To Sleep With Wombats.
- Benny – a lovebird who loves to aid.
- Winnie – A wildebeest calf who is Karla's friend. She and her migrating herd only appear in Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. She can speak Swahili.
- Jacques – A walrus who is a fellow traveller of Mama Mirabelle.
- Mama Bird – Benny's mother.
- Edna – a young echidna who lives in Australia.
Crew
- Susan Blu – Voice Director
- Kent Meredith – Voice Director
Episodes
- 01. Elephant Walk
- 02. The Sounds of the Savanna
- 03. A Little Help from My Friends
- 04. Baby of a Different Stripe
- 05. Hide and Go Seek
- 06. Tell Me About It
- 07. To Sleep with Wombats
- 08. All Creatures Great and Small
- 09. Anybody Home?
- 10. Healthy Habits
- 11. Play's the Thing
- 12. Sam Spades of the Savanna
- 13. Gourmet Grazing
- 14. Kings and Queens of the Savanna
- 15. I Spy
- 16. Eyes, Ears, Noses, and Trunks
- 17. The Boy Can Blow
- 18. I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes
- 19. What's in a Tail
- 20. Footprints in the Sand
- 21. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- 22. Nobody's Perfect
- 23. Things That Go Yip, Howl and Screech in the Night
- 24. Cracking the Code
- 25. A Savanna Kwanzaa
- 26. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- 27. Change is Gonna Come
- 28. Trumpet While You Work
- 29. Spot the Difference
- 30. Hot-and-Cold Running Critters
- 31. Why Zebras Can't Fly
- 32. Super Duper Savanna Animals
- 33. Come Out of Your Shell
- 34. Travels with Mama
- 35. Tails of the Galápagos
- 36. Happy Habitats
- 37. Savanna Lullaby
- 38. It Gives You Paws
- 39. Out of Reach
- 40. Family Style
- 41. Curtain Up!
- 42. Listen Up!
- 43. Rainy Day Blues
- 44. Take Me to the Water
- 45. Find Your Way Home
- 46. The Nose Knows
- 47. Jumbled Jungle
- 48. Alone Together
- 49. Muddy Wonderland
- 50. Do You See What I See?
- 51. Have You Heard?
- 52. This is Mama's World