Connie the Cow is a children's television series created by Josep Viciana,[1] and designed by Roman Rybakiewicz.[2] It was produced by Spain-based studio Neptuno Films, and it aired on TV3 in Catalonia.[3] In the United States, it aired on Noggin.
Connie the Cow | |
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Genre | Children's television series |
Created by | Josep Viciana |
Theme music composer | Josep Roig Boada |
Opening theme | "Connie the Cow" |
Ending theme | "Connie the Cow" |
Composer | Josep Roig |
Country of origin | Spain |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 44 (128 segments) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Cristina Brandner |
Running time | 21 minutes |
Production company | Neptuno Films |
Original release | |
Network | TVE 2 |
Release | 8 September 2001[1] – 2005 |
The show combined 2D cel animation for the backgrounds with 3D Computer animation for the characters.[4]
Plot
editA curious young cow named Connie explores her colorful world.
Characters
edit- Connie (voiced by Andrea Vega Guzman in season 1 and Ayseha Mendham in seasons 2–3) is a young female cow. She is very curious, and always tries new things.[5]
- Patch (voiced by Alex Warner) is a playful dog who lives near Connie's farmhouse. He is introduced in the episode "Patch the Stray Dog".[5]
- Wally is a plump multicolored bird who lives in a tree near the farm.
- Grouch is an aptly-named irritable fox.
- Mollie and Bill are Connie's mother and father. They give Connie advice and help out with problems.
- Clara is Connie's grandmother who wears a hat with flowers on it.
- Hedgy is a hedgehog who wears a sock over his nose.
- Maddie is a lamb with orange wool.
- Paddy and Pearl are pigs and Connie's neighbors.
- Dodger is a naughty and crafty cat who likes to steal cakes and tease other animals.
- Snooze is a lazy and tired turtle who likes to sleep inside his shell.
- Sergeant is a sheep dog with a blunt attitude.
- Spike is a spider who likes to play the harp that he made with twigs, leaves, and silk.
- Tom is an ant with six purple legs and antennas. He is part of the ant colony that work together carrying the food and plants.
- Todd is a colorful mole who lives underground.
- Nibble is a squirrel that is often very busy carrying every acorn to her tree. She even has two children.
- Donna is a duck and has her ducklings floating across the river.
- Fast Feather is an eagle who lives on top of the mountain and usually puffs the clouds across the sky with his wings.
- Sandy is a sea turtle who lives at the beach. She has a flower-patterned shell.
- Norbert is a beaver who spends his time gnawing wood to build dams.
- Ronny is a mouse who rolls his cheese through the grass.
- Sam is a rabbit who lives in the forest.
- Henry is an owl who helps Connie with her adventures.
- Cyril is a wolf one of Patch's friends.
- Burt is a bat that lives in the cave.
- Finny is a fish that lives in the water.
- John is a frog who lives in the pond.
- Scoot is a snake who likes to sleep.
- Belinda is a goat with orange fur.
- William is a rainbow-colored worm.
- Rebecca is a chicken who has several chicks.
- George is a crab.
- Buddy is a mouse.
Episodes
editSeason 1
edit- "A Curious Butterfly": Connie chases a butterfly away from home.
- "Present for Mummy": Connie finds her mother the perfect birthday present.
- "The Christmas Tree": Connie needs help finding the special Christmas tree her mom told her about.
- "The Crafty Cat": Connie tries to be sly like Dodger the crafty cat but she learns to be honest at the same time.
- "The Lazy Clouds": Connie helps make the clouds cry for the sheep so it can rain.
- "Patch the Stray Dog": Connie meets an unlike friendly dog named Patch and helps him find a family.
- "The Ugly Caterpillar": Connie learns that caterpillars can be ugly or beautiful, and they transform into butterflies.
- "Connie and Her Grandmother": Connie's grandma takes Connie on a nature walk to show how to love and respect nature.
- "The Grumpy Fox": Connie and her new friend Patch help Grouch the fox cheer up.
- "Wally Bird": Connie goes on a picnic with Grouch and Patch but it ends up on an unexpected adventure because of one very silly bird.
- "Hide and Seek": Connie wants to play hide and seek with Grouch and Wally, but she does not know how to count.
- "The Little Bear": Connie helps an orange bear gets back to its family.
- "A Cold Weather Adventure": To warm Connie while exploring the cold weather, Maddie the lamb rides on Connie's back.
- "The Snow Ghost": Connie, Grouch and Patch mistake a mole for a snow ghost because of his hard digging.
- "The Snowman"
- "The Wolf": Connie meets a wolf that helps Maddie the lamb get back to her parents.
- "The Busy Squirrel": Connie helps a squirrel jump.
- "The Magic Spring": Drinking one of the beaver dam's water, a spring gets Connie into a cow.
- "The Lonely Flower": Connie and Patch help a flower get happy for its special event.
- "The Bird Who Didn't Know How To Fly"
- "A Visit to Grandmother's": Connie gets an invitation to visit her grandma's shed in the woods.
- "A Sock for Hedgy": Hedgy loses the sock that goes on his nose and is upset and shivering in the cold weather, so Connie and Patch must help him find his sock.
- "The Surprise Party": Connie, Grouch and Patch prepare a surprise birthday party for Wally.
- "Wally's Nest": Wally loses his nest and Connie and Patch help him find it.
- "A Toy for Patch": When the ball that Connie and Patch play with is squashed, Connie helps find a new toy for Patch.
- "The Search for Patch's Color": Connie helps Patch reunite with his original color; after that, Connie becomes white, then reunites with her original color.
- "Connie Wants to Be Different"
- "Patch's Wonderful Nose": Patch helps his nose get his sense of smell back.
- "Connie and the Colors": Grandma Clara teaches the friends a game about colors.
- "Connie and the Little Lamb"
- "Connie and the Turtle": Connie and Patch help a lost turtle return to her family.
- "A Hot Day": With the help of her friend the beaver, Connie creates a new swimming pool just for her insect friends.
- "The Travelling Tree"
- "The Five Senses"
- "Connie and the Stork"
- "The Race": Snooze and Dodger have a race and Dodger is determined to win.
- "Connie and the Butterflies"
- "Mummy's Hat": Connie mistakes a lost hat as her mom's.
- "Adventures on the River"
- "What a Lot of Babies": Connie and Patch have fun with birds.
- "Connie and the Cricket": Connie tries to imitate an amazing cricket.
- "Detective Connie": Connie and Patch solve a mystery that involves a path that leads somewhere strange.
- "A Trip with Mum and Dad": Connie and her parents go out on a trip around the forest.
- "Connie and Her Friends": Connie learns that friends can have other friends, when she sees Patch playing with Cyril the wolf.
- "The Trial of Strength"
- "Connie Learns About Shapes": Connie, Patch, Grouch, and Wally play a game about shapes with the lead by Mole.
- "The Vain Bird": Connie meets a vain musical bird and a spider named Spike that have something in common, they both have the same beautiful singing voices, so the friends put on a singing competition during the night.
- "Follow the Clues": Grandma Clara teaches Connie and Patch a follow the clues game that would lead to some animals very special.
- "Connie and Patch in Disguise": Connie's parents watch Connie and Patch playing in disguise.
- "The Lucky Stone"
- "The Bridge": Connie and her friends create a bridge across the river with the help of Connie's father.
- "The Birthday Present"
Season 2
edit- "The Beaver's Dam": Connie and Patch cannot get water from the beaver's dam.
- "The Ant and the Grasshopper": Connie's friend Sergeant tells all of her friends the story of the ant and the grasshopper.
- "Connie and the Tin Can"
- "Connie and the Fruit"
- "The Talking Mountain"
- "The Secret Den"
- "Burt Wants to Play": Connie and Patch help Burt the bat have fun.
- "Honey for Mummy": Connie searches for honey to make a cake.
- "It's Going to Rain"
- "Lost in the Snow"
- "Connie and the Riddle"
- "The Sad Tortoise"
- "The Mysterious Wood"
- "Grandma Makes Jam"
- "The Wonderful World of Nature"
- "The Cat and the Puppy"
- "Where's the Food?"
- "Animals and Their Jobs"
- "Going South for the Winter"
- "Wally's Hat"
- "Connie Hunts for Treasure"
- "The Creature that Could Change Colour"
- "Where's Spike?"
- "Baby Bird and His Nest"
- "The Multi-Colored Snow"
- "The Ant Who Couldn't Concentrate"
- "The Sleepy Bird": During a long night, Connie and Patch follow a sleep-walking Wally.
- "Spot the Difference"
- "The Little Piglet"
- "Connie's Breakfast"
- "The Mysterious Plant"
- "The Singing Frog"
- "Looking for Presents"
- "Connie and the Insects"
- "The Valley of the Butterflies"
- "The Strongest Animal in the Woods"
- "Patch Wants to Fly": Connie helps Patch fly.
- "Making Colors": Grandma Clara teaches Connie and Patch how to make new colors.
- "The Day it Snowed in Springtime"
- "Who Do I Look Like?"
- "Playing with Stones"
- "The Adventurous Ant"
- "Connie's Orchestra": Connie and her friends create an orchestra using different types of instruments.
- "A Different Breakfast"
- "Lots and Lots of Walnuts"
- "Where Does it Belong?"
- "Looking for Grandma": Connie sets out on a quest for her grandma.
- "Connie and the Apple Tree"
- "Cactus Flower"
- "Songs in the Snow": After Connie listens to her mother singing a beautiful Christmas song, Connie and Patch ask their friends if they know any songs, but it turns out they only know the same one Connie's mother sang.
- "The Vain Butterfly"
Season 3
edit- "The Big Surprise"
- "The Selfish Butterflies"
- "Looking For The Color Yellow"
- "All Shapes and Sizes"
- "The Sounds of Nature"
- "Snow in the Woods"
- "The Animal That Had One Leg"
- "The Puzzle"
- "The Strange Trail"
- "The Yellow Ball"
- "Connie Helps the Flowers"
- "Daddy's Party"
- "Good Friends"
- "Happy Times"
- "The Fruit Festival"
- "Connie and the Rodents"
- "Look Carefully"
- "A Ferret Called Willow"
- "Nature Day"
- "A Time for Everything"
- "The Story of the Two Friends": Connie makes up a story about the good times she had with Patch.
- "Dear Mummy and Daddy": Connie writes a poem for her parents.
- "The Basket of Blackberries": Connie and Patch search for a missing basket of blackberries.
- "The Little Fish"
- "Hedgy's Spines"
- "Mummy Tells a Story": When Connie babysits Maddie the lamb for the night, Connie's mother tells them a story about a group of caterpillars.
Broadcast
editIn April 2001, TV-Loonland AG announced they had pre-sold the series in the United Kingdom to Disney Television International to air on their Playhouse Disney channel in the country.[6] The company would later extend the Disney deal to Germany in November 2004.[7] In Germany, the series was also aired as the last segment in certain mid-2000s episodes of Sesame Street's German co-production Sesamstraße.
The show, dubbed in English in the United Kingdom, was broadcast on Noggin[1] in the United States from 2003 to 2007. The series was rerun in the United States from 2017 to 2018 on Starz Kids & Family.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c NOGGIN (20 August 2003). "A Brand Moo Series Comes to Noggin This Fall". PR Newswire (Press release). Retrieved July 26, 2015.
- ^ "Peliculas-a". Archived from the original on 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
- ^ "La vaca Connie". 7 January 2015.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ a b Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Clip from Connie The Cow - Alex Warner TheBritishVoiceOverGuy. YouTube.
- ^ "TV-Loonland Sells Connie to Disney".
- ^ "Connie the Cow goes to Germany".
- ^ "STARZ".