Green Balloon Club
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| Genre | Children's |
| Starring |
Jake Pratt Isabella Blake-Thomas Debbie Korley Adam Wells Thai Murray-Edwards Aliex Yuill Chris Howard Bill Oddie |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 63 |
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| Original network | CBeebies |
| Original release | 20 June 2008 – 29 May 2009 |
| External links | |
| www |
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Green Balloon Club is a BBC children's television program that started on CBeebies on 20 June 2008.
Green Balloon Club is a wildlife club on CBeebies, both on screen and online. It is hosted by 4 children: Lily-Rose who loves flowers and plants, Ant whose specialty is minibeasts, Cat who is the animals expert and Jay whose interest is in birds. Together with Skipper the dog and their balloonist, Sky, the children fly around the UK looking out for other Green Balloon Club Members and having a look at what wildlife they have in their patch. Special reporters for the programme are Jelly ( The Story Makers, CBeebies Springwatch), Nature Chris and Bill Oddie. The programme was conceived and made by Clare Bradley, Lotte Elwell and the CBeebies Production team, and grew out of their previous award-winning work on CBeebies Springwatch and Autumnwatch.
The show was originally part of the "EcoBeebies" brand. It started with a launch show named Easy Peasy Eco Beebies on 13 June 2008, and this was followed by 48 episodes, one every week from 20 June 2008 to 29 May 2009.
Each episode starts with the children doing the register, then joining in with the "Green Balloon Club" chant. At the end of the show, the balloon "lands" and everybody sings a song.
In 2010, a new series of 15 episodes entitled "Green Balloon Scrapbook" was produced which showed "what the Green Team get up to when they're not in the Green Balloon. Different members of the team check the laptop to find out what the other members of the Green Balloon Club are getting up to". These programmes included 2 song specials. Additionally 5 holiday specials were produced in 2009 (broadcast 2010), with the team visiting the Isle of Arran and a further 5 holiday programmes from Belfast when the team became zookeepers in Belfast zoo for a week. Lastly, the Winter Special, a winter camping adventure which was the final programme, recorded in November 2009. "
All the music for the series was written by Paul Moessl and performed by the cast.
The cast were ordinary children all found at extensive auditions. Jake Pratt was the only one of the children who was at drama school. Isabella Blake-Thomas was the youngest at just 5 when she started on the series.
NOTE: There was a two-week break between this episode and the next, due to the cast going on Christmas holidays.’’
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