Groundling Marsh (1995)
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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Episode 1 - Mossy Bear
Release Date: 1997-10-07Galileo tries to elude Maggie to give up her mossy bear by making up a story about a secret club.
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Episode 2 - To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Release Date: 1997-10-08Galileo stays up all night and has no energy left for a midnight search for blue roses that Eco is certain will bloom. When nightfall comes, Galileo can't sleep at all. Hegdish is restless, too – looking for the perfect scheme that would make Eco mad.
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Episode 3 - Reluctant Hero
Release Date: 1997-10-09When Hegdish rescues Mud/Slinger, they wait on Hegdish night and day, much to his regret.
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Episode 4 - Over the Rainbow
Release Date: 1997-10-10Hegdish strips colours from the rainbow and tosses them around to groundlings, provoking mood swings and making Eco weak.
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Episode 5 - Mine All Mine
Release Date: 1997-10-13Mud/Slinger discover a jack-in-the-box that Maggie gave them. Hegdish coaxes Maggie to take it, turning everyone's mood mad. Eco's story shows that someone's trash is another's treasure.
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Episode 6 - Sproutmaster
Release Date: 1997-10-14Eco grants Galileo the role of Sproutmaster, with responsibility for gathering the sprouts before an impending hailstorm. But the power corrupts Galileo. In an attempt to get the job done quickly, he turns bitter on the other groundlings.
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Episode 7 - Maggie's Tree
Release Date: 1997-10-15Maggie's favorite tree is about to die, and Stacks predicts it will hit Eco's home when it falls. It puts two groundlings in danger: Maggie, who wants to stay with her tree until the end, and Eco, who resigns herself to stay in Hegdish's cave.
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Episode 8 - Maggie's Youday
Release Date: 1997-10-16On a day that she annually gets presents at sunset, Maggie wants a secret peek at what Eco is giving.
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Episode 9 - Purple Pellet Fever
Release Date: 1997-10-17Mud/Slinger become shallow when they charge their fellow groundlings purple pebbles for everything. Intent on getting more purple pebbles, they don't realize the river is overflowing to dangerously deep levels.
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Episode 10 - Lucky Stick
Release Date: 1997-10-20Hegdish takes his stick with him to do all the jobs Galileo find dangerous. When Mud won't go into the cave to find fertilizer, the others ask Hegdish if they borrow his stick.
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Episode 11 - Megaboo Gonna Get You
Release Date: 1997-10-21Hegdish makes up a fantastic story about a fictitious monster to scare the groundlings out of their recently-harvested berries.
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Episode 12 - Free at Last
Release Date: 1997-10-22Stacks is overwhelmed with his new ability to roam through the marsh in a grocery cart. His mobile ways threaten to get the better of him.
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Episode 13 - Crystal Clear
Release Date: 1997-10-23Eco's grandniece, an undergroundling named Crystal, becomes Maggie's newest friend. Consequently, Galileo feels left out.