Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
Using live-action wildlife films from the National Geographic and the BBC archives, this animated PBS series tells the warmhearted story of an elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels the world filming wildlife movies that she shares with her family and friends back home in the African savanna, including her son Max, Bo the cheetah, a zebra named Karla and three monkey brothers -- Kip, Flip, and Chip.
Seasons & Episodes
- 1.01Elephant Walk/Sounds of the SavannaRate
- 1.02A Little Help from My Friends/Baby of a Different StripeRate
- 1.03Hide and Go Seek/Tell Me About ItRate
- 1.04To Sleep with Wombats/All Creatures Great and SmallRate
- 1.05Anybody Home?/Healthy HabitsRate
- 1.06Play's the Thing/Sam Spades of the SavannaRate
- 1.07Gourmet Grazing/Kings & Queens of the SavannahRate
- 1.08I Spy/Eyes, Ears, Nose & TrunksRate
- 1.09The Boy Can Blow/I Don't Like Spiders and SnakesRate
- 1.10What's in a Tail?/Footprints in the SandRate
- 1.11Here Today, Gone Tomorrow/Nobody's PerfectRate
- 1.12Things That Go Yip, Howl, and Screech in the Night/Cracking the CodeRate
- 1.13A Savannah Kwanzaa/You Must Have Been a Beautiful BabyRate
- 1.14Change Is Gonna Come/Trumpet While You WorkRate
- 1.15Spot the Difference/Hot & Cold Running CrittersRate
- 1.16Why Zebras Can't Fly/Super Duper Savanna AnimalsRate
- 1.17Come Out of Your Shell/Travels with MamaRate
- 1.18Tails of the Galapagos/Happy HabitatsRate
- 1.19Savannah Lullaby/It Gives You PawsRate
- 1.20Out of Reach/Family StyleRate
- 1.21Curtain Up/Listen UpRate
- 1.22Rainy Day Blues/Take Me to the WaterRate
- 1.23Find Your Way Home/The Nose KnowsRate
- 1.24Jumbled Jungle/Alone TogetherRate
- 1.25Muddy Wonderland/Do You See What I See?Rate
- 1.26Have You Heard?/This Is Mama's WorldRate
- 2.01Return of The Home Movies/I SpyRate
- 2.02Mama Mirabelle's New Theatre/It Gives You PawsRate
- 2.03The Ways of The Elephant/Everyone Needs a NapRate
- 2.04Hally's Little Buddy/A Little Help from My FriendsRate
- 2.05Savannah Symphony/Bo's BirthdayRate
- 2.07Travels with MamaRate
- 2.09Elephant WalkRate
- 2.11Who's Faster?/Too LoudRate
- 2.12Too Much Termites/Thank You MamaRate
- 2.13Cheetah in Training/Earth DayRate
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10 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Alan Marriott
as Gerald the Giraffe
Phillipa Alexander
as Karla the Zebra Foal
Jules De Jongh
as Bo the Cheetah Cub
Teresa Gallagher
as Max the Elephant Calf
Vanessa Williams
as Mama Mirabelle
Floella Benjamin
as Mama Mirabelle
Elly Fairman
as Merlin the Bat
Katherine Dillon
as Karla the Zebra Foal
Moya O Shea
as Cuddles the Caterpillar
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