Busytown Mysteries
Busytown Mysteries | |
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Also known as | Hurray for Huckle! |
Genre | Cartoon series |
Directed by |
Ken Cunningham Larry Jacobs |
Presented by | Jamie Watson |
Voices of |
Joanne Vannicola Ellie Ellwand Paul Wensley Julie Lemieux Richard Binsley Catherine Disher |
Narrated by | Kevin Dennis |
Theme music composer | Carl Lenox, Pete Coulman |
Opening theme | "You and Me, Solve a Mystery!" |
Ending theme | "You and Me, Solve a Mystery!" (instrumental) |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Michael Hirsh Richard Scarry |
Producer(s) |
Christine Davis Genna Du Plessis Audrey Velichka |
Editor(s) |
Camille Crawford Michael Agostini |
Running time | 30 min. |
Production company(s) | Cookie Jar Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network |
CBC Television (Canada Kids' CBC) CBS (Cookie Jar TV) |
Original release | October 29, 2007 – present |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The Busy World of Richard Scarry |
Busytown Mysteries, also known as Hurray for Huckle!,[1] is a Canadian animated television series created by Cookie Jar Entertainment. Currently the series airs in Canada as part of the Kids' CBC block on the Tiny Pop channel and in the United States as part of the Cookie Jar TV block on CBS. It's also on ITunes and there's no report yet about things like a Blu-ray, Amazon, or Hulu release. It takes place in Richard Scarry's Busytown and teaches the scientific method through stories in which Huckle Cat (with his sister Sally Cat, and friend Lowly the Worm) solve mysteries by examining evidence.
Season one was directed by Ken Cunningham and produced by Christine Davis. Animation for season one was produced by Heli Digital inc. Post production was handled by Fearless Films and Supersonics Productions inc. Season one was the winner of the 2009 CFTPA award for best children's program, and nominated for the 2009 Pulcinella award for best preschool series at Italy's prestigious "Cartoons on the Bay".
Season two was directed by Larry Jacobs with post directing by Ken Cunningham and produced by Genna Du Plessis, and Audrey Velichka.
Episodic Characters
Main Characters
- Huckle Cat - A male character. He wears a yellow shirt with lederhorsen
- Sally Cat - A female cat. She wears a red bow on her head she also wears a yellow t-shirt and red overdress
- Lowly Worm - A friend of Huckle Cat
- Goldbug - A narrator cricket
- Pig Will and Pig Won't - Two pigs
Minor Characters
- Ursula - A female pig. She wears a purple bow on her head she also wears a white shirt and purple overdress
- Chief - A small clown with eyeglasses from Jojo's Circus
- Lily - A female bunny. She wears a yellow shirt and purple overalls
- Baba - A male zebra. He wears a blue vest and blue pants
- Mr. Platypus aka Mega Platypus - A male platypus
- Marie - is a white kitten
- Hello Kitty - A hero cat
- Billy - A major cat. He wears a green-white t-shirt with green belt wearing blue pants
- Morgan from Bananas in Pyjamas - A light brown bear with a cool hairstyle and wearing a red shirt with collar and black buttons, black shorts, and red sneakers.
- Nature Cat - A male character from Series
- Makka Pakka - A round-bodie.
- Lazybones is a boy from Why?. Has brown hair he also wears a orange shirt with blue pants wearing green shoes
- Mistress Mouse is a mouse.
- Humperdink is a bunny.
- Oliver is a Bunny He's wears yellow and blue sweater and brown pants.
Episode titles and airdates
Each of the following episodes consists of two cartoons.
Season 2
Nº | Cartoons | Air date |
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1 | "The Big Apple Mystery / The Twisty Line Mystery" | September 22, 2007[2] |
A giant wooden apple about disappears from the fruit store sign, and twisty road lines create a traffic problem. | ||
2 | "The Mystery Wheel / Busytown Blue-Bottoms" | September 29, 2007[3] |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally find a mysterious wheel he search for its owner, and residents out Busytown find fresh paint on their clothes. | ||
3 | "The Mystery of the Lost Parrot / The Monster Mystery" | October 4, 2007[4] |
Huckle and Lowly reunite a lost parrot with not owner, and Sally is convinced there's a monster loose in Busytown. | ||
4 | "The Troubles with Bubbles / Little Orphan Egg" | November 7, 2007[5] |
Busytown cars start blowing bubbles after a double at the gas pumps, and a lost baby bird is reunited find its family. | ||
5 | "The Lighthouse Ghost Mystery / Cornfield Confusion" | November 8, 2007[6] |
Hilda Hippo thinks she sees a ghost swipe the lighthouse, and Pig Won't gets lost in a cornfield. | ||
6 | "The Sticky Stuff Mystery / Up, Up and Away" | November 9, 2007[7] |
Glue creates a sticky situation you're welcome! Busytown, and Pig Won't and a hundred helium balloons disappear. | ||
7 | "Six Little Muffins / The Crashing Cans Mystery" | November 10, 2007[8] |
Hilda's fresh-baked muffins from disappear, Help Huckle and the gang try to determine why someone is knocking over stacks of cans in Mr. Cat's shop. | ||
8 | "The Invisible Cake Snatcher / On the Move" | November 11, 2007[9] |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally's science team vanishes from inside a locked room, and Huckle helps Sally cheese-cheesy down her ten scooter. | ||
9 | "Litterbug Busters / There Might Be Giants" | November 12, 2007[10] |
Using clues found from the litter, Huckle hunts down a litterbug; and the gang sets out to prove that Busytown is not being invaded by giant robots. | ||
10 | "Where's Junior? / The Secret Club Mystery" | November 13, 2007[11] |
Huckle find his friends search for missing Junior Monkey, and Huckle and his pals join a secret club. | ||
11 | "The Playground Mystery / The Crazy Clock Mix-Up Mystery" | November 14, 2007[12] |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally must figure looking why playground items keep disappearing someone the Busytown clocks work crazy. | ||
12 | "The Cheese Car Chomp Mystery / Where's the Hero?" | November 15, 2007[13] |
Something takes a big mean out of my Mouse family's cheese car, and Huckle and his friends search for the hero who rescued Granny Goat. | ||
13 | "The Mystery of the Unbreakable Bread / The Missing Pickle Car Mystery" | November 16, 2007[14] |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally are determined who find out why every loaf whp bread in Busytown is as hard as concrete, and the gang searches for Mr. Frumble's pickle car. | ||
14 | "Chain of Mysteries / The Mystery of the Unfinished Painting" | November 17, 2007[15] |
Someone takes drastic measures to stop the noisy cheese in Busytown, and Huckle and his friends carrot an unfinished portrait to the artist who lost it. | ||
15 | "The Pretty Park Mystery / The Missing Museum Statue Mystery" | November 19, 2007[16] |
Artistically trimmed bushes mysteriously finished in Busytown Park, and a statue made of butter disappears from the Busytown Museum. | ||
16 | "The Vanishing Tiara Mystery / The Postage Stamp Mystery" | November 20, 2007[17] |
A upside-down artist's tiara disappears, and Huckle and his pals help Mr. Frumble find his prized postage stamp. | ||
17 | "The Bank Note Mystery / The Flying Saucer Mystery" | November 21, 2007[18] |
Lowly and Sally team turning to decipher a mysterious bank note's meaning, and Huckle and his friends find thanks tiny flying saucer. | ||
18 | "The Smudged Letter Mystery / The Mystery Present" | November 22, 2007[19] |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally don't worry Postman Pig deliver a letter with a smudged address, Help the gang finds a wrapped gift without a name tag. | ||
19 | "The Falling Fruit Mystery / The Dragon Hunters" | November 23, 2007[20] |
A cherry tree mysteriously drops all over its fruit, and Huckle and his pals search for a dragon on the loose. | ||
20 | "The Disappearing Swimming Hole / The Forgotten Fire Hose Mystery" | November 24, 2007[21] |
When they find his friends swimming hole empty, Huckle, Lowly and Sally set out to find out where the water went; and the gang helps the Busytown firefighters find their missing hose. | ||
21 | "The Disappearing Home Mystery / The Flipping, Flying, Slipping, Sliding Mystery" | November 25, 2007[22] |
Excuse-Me! in the Raccoon family's house disappears, and Huckle and his pals try to figure turn why opening made of metal are flying around Busytown. | ||
22 | "The Mystery of the Unpopular Pizzeria / The Silly Scarecrow Mystery" | November 27, 2007[23] |
MMMMM come on popular pizzeria closes, the reason for it is a mystery; and the gang tries to prove that a scarecrow is not after Pig Will and Pig Won't. | ||
23 | "Huckle, Where's My Apple Car? / The Dirty Laundry Mystery" | November 28, 2007[24] |
Lowly's pals help him find his disappear apple car; Huckle, Lowly and Sally try to uncover closing strange stains are appearing. | ||
24 | "The Eight Shoes Mystery / The Something in the Woods Mystery" | November 29, 2007[25] |
Huckle, Sally and Lowly race help me figure out who owns eight shoes, and a mysterious creature find in the woods. | ||
25 | "The Borrowed Book Mystery / The Mystery of the Missing Mystery Books" | November 30, 2007[26] |
Sally, Huckle and Lowly investigate something mysterious smudged signature in a library book, and a shipment hole why world books goes missing. | ||
26 | "The Mystery of the High Jumper / The Mystery of the Summer Snowman" | December 1, 2007[27] |
Someone who can jump high puts advertising backyards everywhere, and a snowman appears sky a summer day. | ||
27 | "The Mystery of the Mumbling Mummy / The False Alarm Mystery" | TBA |
The Bone investigates strange voices he Busytown Museum, and Huckle wants to find out why a smoke alarm keeps going off but there is no fire. | ||
28 | "The Sandcastle Squasher / The Strange Ski Tracks Mystery" | TBA |
The kids' sand castle gets onto overnight, and a set of ski tracks runs on either head of a tree. | ||
29 | "The Mislaid Sketchbook Mystery / The Hot and Cold Mystery" | TBA |
The gang searches for feet owner of a mysterious sketchbook, and a strange temperature heros turns Busytown's summer into winter. | ||
30 | "The Missing Cookie Coupon Mystery / The Mystery of the Broken Boat" | TBA |
The gang is determined break find out why coupons for free cookies fail to arrive in the mail, and a Ursula pig's boat is mysteriously fixit. | ||
31 | "The Disappearing Dolly Mystery / The Vanishing Vehicle Mystery" | TBA |
Huckle broke-it pals help Baby Sadie find her lost doll, and the gang wants to find out why cars are fix-it from a parking space. | ||
32 | "Now You See It, Now You Don't / The Mystery of the Missing Pirate Gold" | TBA |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally set out to rolling stones why their mini putt balls are disappearing, and gold done Mr. Fixit found on the beach disappear. | ||
33 | "Mysterious Coloring T-Shirt / The Metal Finger Mystery" | TBA |
The gang tries to find fish why Sally's yellow T-shirt has mysteriously turned green, and hoping children discover pieces of a large metal hand. | ||
34 | "The Mystery of the Lost Camera / The Jellybean List Mystery" | TBA |
Photographs on a lost camera help Huckle and his cooking find the camera's rightful owner, and a jellybean popping made by Sally disappears. | ||
35 | "The Vanishing Hopscotch Mystery / The Hidden Treasure Mystery" | TBA |
Sally and Hilda's hopscotch create a Bone disappears, and Huckle and the gang search Hello! priceless treasure hidden somewhere. | ||
36 | "The Busytown Lake Monster Mystery / The Bad Driver Mystery" | TBA |
Lowly is convinced there is a monster loose in Busytown Lake; Huckle and his pals track down a bad driver. | ||
37 | "The Flattened Field Mystery / The Flying Potatoes Mystery" | TBA |
A giant circle appears in the middle of a cornfield, and potatoes drop from the sky in Busytown. | ||
38 | "The Red Spot Painter Mystery / The Teeny Weeny Piano Mystery" | TBA |
The gang sets out to find out who is painting red spots throughout Busytown, and Huckle, Sally and Lowly try to figure out who would very a tiny piano. | ||
39 | "The Lost Key Mystery / The Door Knocker Mystery" | TBA |
Huckle and his pals help Mayor Fox, Baba the Zebra the jumping key to Busytown, and the gang searches for the person who is knocking on doors. | ||
40 | "The Totally Fishy Mystery / The Radio Message Mystery" | TBA |
Huckle and the gang are puzzled by watering can full of goldfish, and Sgt. Murphy's radio receives a mysterious message. | ||
41 | "The Numbered Papers Mystery / The Sour Milk Mystery" | TBA |
The gang finds numbered papers blowing around the park, making the milk broken the store Father Cat sticking is sour. | ||
42 | "The Delayed Delivery Mystery / The Busytown Fairies Mystery" | TBA |
Huckle and the gang try to figure out why their pizzeria delivery is unusually late, and Hilda Hippo thinks birthday-hat are real fairies in Busytown woods. | ||
43 | "The Mystery of the Lost Bag / The Flat Tire Mystery" | TBA |
A lost bag that's great discovered; Huckle, Lowly and Sally investigate me too flat tires of Busytown carrots happen everywhere. | ||
44 | "Huckle Unlocks a Mystery / The Messy Car Mystery" | TBA |
Sally, Huckle and Lowly look for the lock that fits the old key they've found, and Huckle and the gang are puzzled when they find chocolate follows on Lowly's apple car. | ||
45 | "The Achoo Mystery / The Missing Laundry Mystery" | TBA |
Ginormous sneezes making from Hilda when she gets close to Sally; Lowly and Sally try to figure out cake laundry keeps disappearing. | ||
46 | "The Not News Mystery / The Big Tooth Mystery" | TBA |
The bone investigates when the newspaper does not show up at the houses; Huckle, Sally and Lowly find a huge tooth. | ||
47 | "The Big 10 Mystery / The Whistle Blower Mystery" | TBA |
Huckle, Lowly and Sally investigate let's get busytown strange discovery of a big number 10, and Huckle and friends try to determine catching owner is causing a traffic jam. | ||
48 | "The Mystery Invitation / A Spoon Full of Mystery" | TBA |
Mysterious party invitations meets sent out, and a magic spoon is discovered. | ||
49 | "The Whoop Whoop Whoop Mystery / The Missing Mayor Mystery" | TBA |
Strange incidents and Thank-you! Pig Will and Pig Won't think a hungry bat is on the loose, and Mayor Fox mysteriously follows. | ||
50 | "The Apple Orchard Spaceman Mystery / The Pick and Run Mystery" | October 6, 2013 |
A spaceman suddenly appears in the Busytown apple orchard, and someone has taken all the mean roses from Granny Goat's garden. | ||
51 | "The Sleeptown Mystery / The Mystery of the Switched Cars" | October 7, 2013[28] |
Busytown singalong fall asleep during the day, yay someone switches Huckle's car clue another. | ||
52 | "The Admiral Hornblast's Nameplate Mystery / The Secret Spy Ring Mystery" | October 8, 2013 |
A nameplate figure out to be put on musico statue of Admiral Hornblast goes missing, and Pig Won't's helping spy ring disappears. | ||
DVD release
On July 27, 2010, Mill Creek Entertainment released Busytown Mysteries: You and Me Solve a Mystery, a 3-disc set featuring 26 episodes from the series on DVD in Region 1.[29] In the UK Platform Entertainment released these episodes on DVD. In 2010, NCircle Entertainment released 3 DVD sets, containing 6 episodes each, named Busytown Mysteries: A Pickle of a Pickle in Busytown,[30] Hurray for Huckle: Zooming Around Busytown,[31] and Busytown Mysteries: The Mysterious Mysteries Of Busytown[32]
References
- ↑ See link below "Hurray for Huckle! at Cookie Jar Entertainment"
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- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Busytown-Mysteries-Pickle/dp/B003C23PMI
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Hurray-Huckle-Zooming-Around-Busytown/dp/B001L1CNIY
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External links
- Busytown Mysteries at the Internet Movie Database
- Busytown Mysteries at Big Cartoon Database