Groundling Marsh
Groundling Marsh was a Canadian children's television series featuring puppets. The show was produced by Portfolio Film & Television Inc., Children's Television Workshop and J.A. Delmage Productions. It included songs and animated segments, and enjoyed a certain amount of success and popularity at during its time. The only merchandise produced for the show were videos and they are now exceptionally rare and no longer produced. In the United States, it aired on PBS and the Disney Channel. It received funding from the International Production Fund, formerly the Maclean Hunter Television Fund. This series premiered October 1, 1995. Groundling Marsh was nominated at the 12th Annual Gemini Awards for Best Preschool Program or Series. John Pattison was also nominated for a Gemini for the episode "Bah Hegdish". The show had its series finale on November 28, 1997. The show is still seen on Bell Media-owned educational station CTV Two Alberta in Canada.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Fungus Amungus
01-09-1997Mud/Slinger try to earn fame by making cookies out of fungus, but they don't leave any fungus at Mossy Meadow for the swarming crunchybugs.
- Ep 2
2.The Featherbeam
02-09-1997In need of a friend, Galileo decides he wants a pet. He thinks he has one when a featherbeam bird enters his life.
- Ep 3
3.Big Dreams
03-09-1997Galileo decides he needs to explore outside the marsh. He builds a boat, ready to take off for some adventure, but the adventure comes to him. A plant from a frozen climate float...
- Ep 4
4.Truth & Consequences
04-09-1997Maggie decides to trick as many groundlings as she can, but some trust is lost, which proves costly.
- Ep 5
5.Maggie's Quest
05-09-1997Maggie craves attention. She declares to all that she will look for a flower known only in stories.
- Ep 6
6.Night and Day
08-09-1997Mud/Slinger comes down with a rare disorder and can't speak coherently. Hope for a cure may be thwarted unless Galileo and Maggie learn to cooperate.
- Ep 7
7.Life Before Stacks
09-09-1997Stacks is ashamed when confronted with the fact that he is a machine. Eco eases things by telling all the ground-lings how Stacks came to be.
- Ep 8
8.Heat Wave
10-09-1997How can the Groundlings find relief from the oppressive heat? Mud/Slinger try out a myriad of inventions, none of which work--until they hit upon a fancy fan. But it takes an iso...
- Ep 9
9.Pot of Plenty
11-09-1997After Eco accidentally breaks the Pot of Plenty prior to the annual harvest meal of gratitude, she and Galileo follow the legend of their grandcestors in an effort to create a repl...
- Ep 10
10.All for One
12-09-1997Eco is intent on spending time by herself while all the other groundlings seek attention.
- Ep 11
11.Flower Power
15-09-1997Galileo chases Maggie out of the marsh on the grounds that she doesn't serve any useful purpose. But an invasion of fast-rising flowers threatens to drown out the marsh and everyo...
- Ep 12
12.Them Dingling Dozy Daisies
16-09-1997Mud/Slinger's new invention to protect the groundlings from the drowsy effects of doy daisies leads to a potential explosion.
- Ep 13
13.Sticks and Stacks
17-09-1997Stacks feels left out because all the groundlings have been ignoring him. All that changes when Stacks suffers from amnesia, thinking he's a tree.
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