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Animal Stories

1998–2001 · 4 seasons

Gentle, rhyming fables with a different animal each time, easy and soothing for very young viewers.

Overview
Animal Stories run like modern-day Aesop Fables and tell us all about a Penguin who can't fly, a Leopard who wants to change his spots, a Fly who learns how to read and many more.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • friendship
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • nature
Places
  • fantasy world
Era
timeless
Audience
kids
Form
  • anthology
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism1
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness1
Complexity1
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
animation
Created by
Christopher O'Hare, Tony Collingwood, Trevor Ricketts
Written by
Alan Gilbey, Jan Page, George Tarry, Nigel Crowle
Starring
Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Marriott
Length
4 seasons, 52 episodes
Network
ITV1
Languages
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