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Angelina Ballerina (2001 - 2003)
producers: Grand Slamm for HIT Entertainment
animation: 2D animation
episodes: 39 x 15 mins
Angelina is an aspiring young ballerina
mouse at "Miss Lilly's School for Girls",
in the Mouseland village of Chipping Cheddar.
Naturally, adventures centre
around the Angelina's family and friends
and her dreams of one day becoming
a prima ballerina like her idol, Miss
Lilly.
Angelina's father Maurice Mouseling is the
proprietor of "The Mouseland Gazette",
whilst mother Matilda has her hands full
with baby sister Polly. Alice is Angelina's
best friend from ballet school, and cute cousin
Henry often tags along for
out-of-school games. Mrs Hodgepodge is a grumpy
old so-and-so, distrustful
of her Mouseling neighbours. And then there
are the prim twins Penelope and
Priscilla Pinkpaws, friends and rivals who
never seem to miss a trick - such are
the trials and tribulations of life in
this competitive environment...
This sweet series is adapted from the
popular story books written by Katharine
Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig. Dame
Judi Dench lends her voice to
Angelina's teacher Miss Lilly, whilst her real-life
daughter Finty Williams voices
our star. Angelina is a feisty young thing,
determined to reach her goal, and
helped through adversitity by her ever-watchful
parents and tutors. Speaking
of tutors, with her European accent
("dahlinks") and white mouse good looks,
Miss Lilly reminds one of Miss
Bianca from Margery Sharp's novels,
made famous in Disney's "The Rescuers".
The tv Angelina has been produced Grand Slamm
Childrens Films and
distributed by HIT Entertainment. Grand
Slamm have adroitly adapted Mick
Inkpen's Kipper
and Percy the Park Keeper and
Satoshi Kitamura's "Sheeep"
into animated series and in 2004, they
brought Beryl Cook's bawdy "Bosom Pals"
into life. So far thirty-nine Angelina
episodes have been produced, as well as
two successful video-features.
• Angelina
was actually a single child, until the birth of Polly in "Angelina's
Baby Sister".
Angelina episodes
The Gift Miss
Lilly comes to Dinner
The Rose Fairy Princess Midnight
Muddle
Angelina at the Fair
Angelina's Surprise
Angelina In The Wings
Two Mice in a Boat
The Lucky Penny
Treasure Tandems
Arthur the Butterfly
The Costume Ball
The Ballet Tickets Miss
Lilly is Leaving
William the Conjuror Angelina
and Grandma
Angelina's Valentine
Lights Camera Action!
Anya's Visit
Henry's Halloween
Sammy's Club
The Legend of Big Paw
Angelina and Anya The
Gymnastics Championship
Ballerina Rag Doll Alice's
Present
The Royal Banquet The
Proposal
Angelina Mouse Detective Heads
and Tails
Angelina's Baby Sister The
Old Oak Tree
Midnight Muddle The
Cheeseball Cup Final
The Silver Locket
Show and Tell
Angelina
in print
The adaptation from books to series has
actually taken some time.
Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig produced
their first Angelina tale
back in 1983. Here are the titles:
Angelina Ballerina Angelina
on Stage
Angelina and the Princess Angelina
Ice Skates
Angelina
at the Fair Angelina's
Birthday
Angelina's
Christmas
Angelina
and Henry
Angelina's Baby Sister Angelina,
Star of the Show
Angelina and Alice
Angelina's Halloween
Numerous spin-off titles have been published
alongside these stories,
as well as a selection of books based
on episodes of the tv series.
Angelina
Ballerina's How to be a Ballet Star was a special new
storybook for 2005, published in aid of
Comic Relief...
»
Angelina
at Amazon.co.uk
See
also
Angelina
Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
Angelina
Ballerina: Princess Dance
Angelina
on DVD
Angelina
Ballerina - The Big Performance
8 episodes / 68mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ April 2005
Angelina
Ballerina - The Magic Of Dance
4 episodes / 68mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ May 2004
Angelina
Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!
4 episodes / 65mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ Feb 2004
Angelina
Ballerina - Rose Fairy Princess
4 episodes / 64mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ Jan 2004
Angelina
Ballerina - The Gift
4 episodes / 65mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ Jan 2004
Angelina
Ballerina - Friends Forever
4 episodes / 64mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ July 2003
Angelina
Ballerina - The Lucky Penny
4 episodes / 64mins / R2 / HIT Entertainment
/ May 2003
Children's
Favourites
Angelina also appears on several
compilation DVDs from HIT Entertainment...
a Grand Slamm Children's Film Production
for HIT Entertainment PLC
original books written by Katherine Holabird
and illustrated by Helen Craig
for HIT: Kate
Fawkes
producer: Ginger
Gibbons
series dir: Roger
McIntosh
episodic dir: Kitty
Taylor
writers: Barbara
Slade, Jan Page, Mellie Buse,
James
Mason, Sally-Ann Lever, Paul Larson,
Diane
Redmond, Laura Beaumont, Dave Ingham
music: Colin
Towns
voices: Finty
Williams (Angelina / Mrs Hodgepodge)
Judi
Dench (Miss Lilly)
Jo
Wyatt (Alice / Henry / Sammy / Pricilla Pinkpaws)
Jonell
Elliot (Mrs Mouseling / Penelope Pinkpaws)
Keith
Wickham (Mr Mouseling / Grandpa)
Adrienne
Posta (Grandma)
On
the web
Angelina
Ballerina
http://www.angelinaballerina.com
The official home for this pert
and pretty tv star is sweet and
simple, with info on the stars,
and all the very latest news from
Chipping Cheddar...
Grand
Slamm Childrens
Films
http://www.gscfilms.com
Info on Grand Slamm's Ginger Gibbons,
and details of the company's
various credits - Angelina included,
of course...
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