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'' (french: La Famille Passiflore) is a children's animated series based on the '' Beechwood Bunny Tales'' books by

Geneviève Huriet Geneviève Huriet (b. August 24, 1927 in France) is the author of the ''Beechwood Bunny Tales'' (''La Famille Passiflore'') children's book series. Huriet lives in Paris with her diplomat husband and four children, and has travelled abroad in Japan ...

, Amélie Sarn and

Loïc Jouannigot Loïc Jouannigot (born 1953 in Brittany, FranceListe des auteurs BD 2005

. It debuted on

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, a French television network, on 24 December 2001. Many French and Canadian companies have participated in the show's production over the years; TF1 has always been involved. The series is written by Valérie Baranski, and produced by Patricia Robert. Moran Caouissin directed the first season, and

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did the last two. The show centres on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven

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s who live in Beechwood Grove. The two adults in the family, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violette.In the first four English episodes, Violette retains her original French name, Pirouette. ''The Bellflower Bunnies'' originally aired on TFOU TV (formerly TF! Jeunesse), the children's service of TF1, and has since appeared on France's local Disney Junior (formerly Playhouse Disney). The series has also been broadcast on

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and

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in Canada,

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in Germany, Portugal's Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, RTP in the Azores, and in several other countries. The show has fifty-two episodes: four in the first season, twenty-two in the second, and twenty-six in the third. In the entire series, thirteen are based directly on installments in ''Beechwood Bunny Tales'', published by

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of France and Gareth Stevens in the United States; the rest are based on scripts by Valérie Baranski. Distributors in Europe, North America, and South Korea have released DVDs of the first two seasons.

Overview

The English episode titles come from

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and Direct Source's Region 1 DVDs, as well as the online schedules of the Al Jazeera Children's Channel in the Middle East (for season 2).

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Notes

References

;General * * *Some French titles for season 3 were provided by TFO'
schedules
during its summer 2008 run, before the episodes premiered on France. ;Specific

External links

* *Official site for the U.S. distributors
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