The title card for Seasons 2 and 3, with credits imposed over a scene from "Vive la glisse"
Also known as
La Famille Passiflore (France) Die Häschenbande (Germany) La Famiglia Passiflora (Italy)[1] A Família Cenoura (Portugal)[2] Tappancs család (Hungary) Pupu Pitkäkorva (Finland)[3] De Knuffel Konijntjes (Netherlands)[4] Rodzina Rabatków (Poland)
까르르 토끼 친구들 (South Korea)[5] Os Coelhinhos Bellflower (Brazil)[6]
(in Spanish)Los Conejitos Bellflower[7] Russian: Истории папы Кролика
December 24, 2001 (2001-12-24) – July 13, 2010 (2010-07-13)
The Bellflower Bunnies (French: La Famille Passiflore) is a French animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales book series by Geneviève Huriet. The show debuted on TF1 with four episodes airing between December 24 and December 28, 2001.[10] It is a co-production between France's TF1 and several Canadian companies.[a]
The show centers on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven rabbits who live in Beechwood Grove, which is called Blueberry Hill in the English version. The two adults in the family, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violette.
Production
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Early on in its run, the series was produced as a package of four specials by TF1 and its subsidiary, Protécréa, along with TVA International of Montreal and Melusine of Luxembourg;[12]Moran Caouissin, an animator from Disney's DuckTales movie,[13] served as the director. Production of the series began in the fall of 2000, at a cost of over US$2 million,[12] or US$600,000 per episode.[14]
At least six DVD volumes of The Bellflower Bunnies have been released by TF1, Beez Entertainment and Seven Sept in the franchise's native France, separately and in a box set.[18] In Germany, edelkids released the first sixteen episodes in February[19] and August 2008.
North America
Feature Films for Families released the first two volumes of the English version on VHS (in 2001) and DVD (in 2003), as part of a marketing deal with TVA.[12] In 2005, another four DVDs were released under the Direct Source brand. Each disc in this version consists of two episodes. Since the DVDs are now next to impossible to find in the USA; Amazon Prime Video, Kimcartoon and YouTube are the currently only known options in the USA.
Fifty-two episodes of The Bellflower Bunnies were produced over the course of three seasons.[8] and all of these have aired in the show's native France; although episodes 39-52 were first aired on German channel KI.KA in May 2008.[20]
^"Arnan Samson biography" (in Dutch). Arnan.nl. Archived from the original on 2006-01-14. Retrieved 2008-04-07. ...en heeft hij de stem ingesproken van Roderick de Vos in de tekenfilm The Bellflower Bunnies (De Knuffel Konijntjes).
Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. ISBN9781476672939.
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