The Bellflower Bunnies
The Bellflower Bunnies is an animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales book series by Geneviève Huriet. The show debuted on the TF1 network with four episodes airing between December 24 and December 28, 2001. It is a co-production between France's TF1 and several Canadian companies. The show centers on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven rabbits 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.
Type: tv
Season: 3
Episode: N/A
Duration: 26 minutes
Release: 2001-12-24
Rating: 8
Season 1 - The Bellflower Bunnies
2001-12-24
The Bellflower children are going on vacation to stay with Grandfather Theo and his dog Grumps. Mistletoe has an accident down the stairs and breaks his arm. Grumps and Mistletoe both feeling left out go on a journey to find the rare and legendary Snow Rose on Three Pine Hill. When Mistletoe realises he took his siblings' racing sled, he forgets the Snow Rose and joins his siblings in time for the race.
2001-12-25
The Bellflower children suspect their father, Bramble, is keeping something secret from them. Bramble reveals they will move to a house called Blueberry Cottage. Everyone is excited, except Periwinkle, who misses the house already. A magpie named Magda tries to scare the bunnies out of the house but fails. After the family decorates the house, Periwinkle runs away. Bramble finds Periwinkle in a small tent and he accepts his new house when Bramble invites him to help build a workshop there. Bramble and Periwinkle warm up to their new neighbours and invite them to an enjoyable party.
2001-12-27
The Bellflower family prepare for the Venicette Annual Carnival but Dandelion is a bit young to join in, so the other children take full responsibility and Bramble agrees. The children drive in Bramble's "Super Carrot Mobile". At the carnival, two sneaky foxes Roderick and Marmaduke kidnap Dandelion for their dinner. The siblings follow a trail of radishes left by the foxes. After a tricking encounter with the foxes, the children find Dandelion and meet up with Bramble and Zinia and they all join in the parade.
2001-12-28
Poppy's new flying invention is put to the test and Poppy reluctantly lets Violette be his co-pilot, but the glider gets wrecked. The Bellflower family rescues two guinea fowls Lizzi and Loti (the aviation contest judges) from their hot air balloon. As the children play in the ballon, Poppy inflates it and the rope breaks causing them to go airborne. Eventually they crash land into Darkwood Forest. After Poppy and Violette make up, all the siblings build a boat to and down the river they unite with their family and rebuild the glider.
Season 2 - The Bellflower Bunnies
2004-09-22
Aunt Zinnia takes part in a seniors' cycling competition, with nephew Poppy as her companion. But as the race goes on, they get swept away in a river and end up at a mill.
2004-09-29
Left alone by Bramble and Zinnia, the five young rabbits decide to make fried doughnuts. During the attempt, however, they soon set the house on fire.
2004-10-06
Dandelion plants his first garden, but a clever turtle targets it and makes him very angry.
2004-10-13
After spring cleaning, the Bellflower children search for Aunt Zinnia's stolen trophy. Violette thinks some jackrabbit family took it. They befriend the girl Gamba and Violette accompanied by Periwinkle continue to find the trophy. The others seek the help of the Secret Mole Network. Violette retrieves the trophy from a mountain goat. That night the Bellflowers celebrate with the jackrabbits.
2004-10-20
Periwinkle shares his dreams with Pimpernelle to go to Rabbit Island. Next morning Bramble shows off his new invention: a water boat for rabbits, to the chagrin of the villagers. That night, Periwinkle takes Pimpernelle to the island, but get captured by the otters, who shows them the treasure is passion berries. Periwinkle offers the otters to get supplied with delicious foods in exchange for the passion berries and Bramble's invention is accepted.
2004-10-27
Poppy sets off to get some cabbage for Violette as a birthday present. Then, with help from Sylvester, an Angora rabbit, he must face Kazoar the ogre in order to get the supply.
2004-11-10
Tricked by Magda the magpie, Periwinkle learns some dance steps that could either embarrass his family or delight the villagers.
2004-11-17
The Bellflower children decide to surprise Zinnia and Bramble with music. A travelling musician named Aldo comes to shelter in the house from some geese. While Violette, Dandelion and Mistletoe help Aldo to get back his instrument, Poppy and Periwinkle keep an eye on him. The children find out that Aldo is constantly harassed to play for the geese, go so they displease the geese and Aldo gives a special music lesson for everyone.
2004-11-24
During a treasure hunt, an old riddle from their great-great-grandfather leads Poppy and Periwinkle to a library hidden within an oak tree.
2004-12-01
Violette is chosen to perform on the trapeze when a circus comes to Beechwood Grove, but Mistletoe tries to prove he can do it better.
2004-12-08
While Poppy investigates a neighbourhood robbery for his siblings' new newspaper, he falls in love with a girl named Pammy. However, their friendship soon takes an unexpected turn for the worse.
2004-12-15
Mistletoe wants to be a beekeeper like Papa Bramble, but first he must learn about the serious responsibility and risks of that job.
2004-12-25
The Bellflower family make their Christmas preparations. The children rescue a stranded reindeer occupied by three Christmas Elves, then they work all night to help them launch to the North Pole, but Dandelion takes the beacon to head there himself.
2004-12-29
When two evil eagles threaten the village, the brave bunnies must save Beechwood Grove by building a monster to scare them off.
2005-01-05
Mistletoe befriends Gamba, Violette's best friend, but then the two suddenly come face to face with foxes.
2005-01-12
At the request of Ernest Babine, a famous chemist, Poppy attends a school for young scientists. But while doing so, the smart Bellflower feels he will miss his family a lot.
2005-01-19
After watching a movie, the little rabbits search for their brother Dandelion, who is on a mission to find a young actor's teddy bear.
2005-01-26
The Bellflower children learn about a haunted lighthouse from their friend Anthony, and encounter weird, unexplained sounds during their stay in Scotland.
2005-02-02
A wizard's spell makes Periwinkle behave strangely; the family helps him when they discover the cause.
2005-02-09
Violette and Periwinkle come to the rescue of a polecat family whose spring has dried up.
2005-02-16
Though they promise to be obedient for two days, the young rabbits defy the expectations of Theo, and his pet dog Grumps, by going down a snow slope.
2005-02-23
Dandelion takes care of a baby groundhog from Grandfather Theo's garden, but must face a difficult challenge returning it to the parents after Nettles, Theo's vile neighbour, keeps threatening it.
Season 3 - The Bellflower Bunnies
2007-04-04
Violette is granted the powers of a fairy from Aunt Zinnia's childhood book.
2007-04-18
The Bellflowers investigate the mysterious appearance of a gigantic white rabbit in their village.
2007-04-25
Periwinkle takes care of an injured bird from the forest, but it ends up dead the following morning. After Papa Bramble tells him what happened, the young rabbit goes on an adventure in search of his deceased friend.
2007-05-02
To meet a jealous badger's demands, Poppy must build a machine to lift out a sacred treasure from a lake.
2007-05-09
A meteorite strikes Beechwood Grove, then causes problems for the community after it is stolen.
2007-05-23
Mistletoe feels reluctant about his house duties, but eventually learns that there is no holiday from chores.
2007-05-30
The Bellflowers receive a visit from the Barapoul, a trio of musical chickens.
2007-06-06
Bramble takes his family to the seaside, where the children take sailing lessons and help a friend. Later, their day is ruined when Dandelion gets caught in a smugglers' trap.
2007-06-13
A love fragrance makes Periwinkle attracted to the perfumer's granddaughter, Clara, and his neighbour Pimpernelle, at the same time. Now he must make a tough decision over whom he truly loves.
2007-06-20
The family adopts a red-eyed white rabbit, only to find out that a stork with poor eyesight delivered it to them by mistake.
2007-06-27
On his birthday, Poppy goes on an expedition to the world's largest glacier.
2007-07-04
On his birthday, Poppy goes on an expedition to the world's largest glacier.
2008-05-07
With his parrot—a pirate whose ancestors have been robbed of their treasure—Anthony from Scotland gives the Bellflowers a hand once again.
2008-05-12
Poppy is thrilled at the newest flying machine around, owned by a rooster, but Bramble forbids his children from going on it.
2008-05-13
Dandelion wanders away from the house during stormy weather, and is then saved by a group of ravens. However, the rabbit has suspicions that they could be thieves.
2008-05-14
Papa Bramble's old friend, an inventor named Agathe, pays a visit to the family; her daughter Lilli comes along.
2008-05-15
During an intense heat wave in Beechwood Grove, Periwinkle and his father visit an underground stream. While there, they come across the cursed belt buckle of Baldini, the legendary Knight.
2008-05-16
During a rough winter, the Bellflowers try to get Violette a new dress.
2008-05-19
A car accident lands a restaurant critic close to the Bellflower home; impressed by Aunt Zinnia's cooking skills, he persuades the rabbits to open their own establishment. Though hoping to help his family out, Periwinkle gets left behind with rats who eventually force him to make their meals.
2008-05-20
While the young rabbits spend another winter at Theo's, Poppy discovers a dinosaur fossil and informs Ernest Babine about it; a well-preserved specimen soon awaits both of them.
2008-05-21
The Bellflowers go to a local election to decide which of two partridges will rule their land.
2008-05-22
Mistletoe and Poppy become rivals with Romeo, a race car driver; even Violette falls in love with him. However, the Bellflowers suspect that he could be a fraud.
2008-05-23
The young bunnies try out an old carousel machine. But when they break it down, it could land them into trouble with its owner and his brother.
2008-05-26
Because his siblings feel he is too small to qualify for a track competition, Dandelion suddenly strays away from the family.
2008-05-27
In order to impress his girlfriend Pammy, Poppy builds a moon-ready rocket. But upon her return, her new stepbrother Norbert puts Poppy in a bad mood.
2008-05-28
Violette goes for the main role in a stage production, but then her costume gets stolen. Eventually, as she searches for it, she ends up in the cave of an evil witch.
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