Franny's Feet
| Franny's Feet | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Animation Comedy Educational |
| Created by | Cathy Moss Susin Nielsen |
| Written by | Nicole Demerse Shelley Hoffman Louise Moon Cathy Moss Robert Pincombe |
| Directed by | Joanne Boreham |
| Voices of | Phoebe McAuley George Buza Katherine Crimi |
| Theme music composer | Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner |
| Opening theme | Where will my feet take me today? Opening theme song |
| Ending theme | Where will my feet take me today? Closing theme song |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Steven DeNure, Neil Court, Beth Stevenson |
| Producer(s) | Elana Adair, John Mariella, Kym Hyde |
| Editor(s) | Paul Hunter |
| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Decode Entertainment |
| Distributor | WNET New York |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Family Channel CBC Television (Canada) PBS Kids (U.S.) Channel 5 (UK) |
| Picture format |
4:3 16:9 |
| Original release | January 1, 2004 – September 7, 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Franny's Feet is a Canadian/American animated series for children created by Cathy Moss and Susin Nielsen. The series was produced by Decode Entertainment in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The show follows the adventures of Francine "Franny" Fantootsie (a portmanteau of "fantasy" and "tootsie") as she tries on various pairs of shoes and travels to different places in the world. It appeared on CBC Television on January 1, 2004, then began to air on Family the following September, and was introduced to PBS Kids Sprout in the United States July 8, 2006 and ran through April 8, 2010.
Francine "Franny" Fantootsie visits with her Grandpa every day at his shoe repair shop in Vancouver. They like to talk about matters until a customer comes. The customer presents the problem shoes to Grandpa, and he gives the pair to Franny to place inside the shoe repair box. Franny tries on the footwear (either in her stocking feet or barefooted) and they take her to a magical place such as a Native American powwow in Wyoming, a sunny beach in Jamaica, or a high mountain in China. At the end of each episode, after Franny solves the problem in a magical place, she receives a treasure and adds it to her shoebox treasure keeper and solves her own problem. In the fourth season, Franny's clothes change into a costume based on where her imagination takes her (for example, a swimsuit in Jamaica, pioneer clothing for a pioneer-time farm, etc.). The opening has also been redone; the theme is the same and shows the same events as the first three seasons but the animation has been redone to show Franny in costume for the events, as opposed to her regular clothes. At the end of each show in seasons one and two on PBS Kids in the United States, comes Music Time with SteveSongs; in season three, it was Dot's Story Factory. In season four and onwards, it was "Who's That Dog?", a segment that shows a live-action child showing the viewers his/her dog and its special tricks.
The show is designed to teach children about the joys of exploring for the first time. It has been praised by critics in the United States and Canada and has been honored as an Outstanding Product of 2006 by iParenting Media Awards May 2011.
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