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BALAMORY
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Balamory is a
Scottish live action television series on
British television (
BBC One, BBC Two and CBeebies) for pre-school children, about a fictional small island community called Balamory in
Scotland. It was produced between
10 February 2002 and 14
April 2005 by
BBC Scotland, with 254 episodes made (including a DVD-exclusive
Christmas episode). The series was created by
Brian Jameson.
Balamory was filmed mostly in
Tobermory on the
Isle of Mull, with the exception of scenes at
Archie's castle filmed at
Fenton Tower inNorth
Berwick and other scenes like the park and nursery filmed in
Glasgow
A select series of episodes was shown for two brief seasons in the
United States on the
Discovery Kids channel. It was also shown onTLC. In
Ireland, episodes were shown until recently on weekdays on
RTÉ Two's
The Den and continue to be shown on The Den's replacement,
Other than
Suzie Sweet and
Penny Pocket, who share a building and run Pocket and Sweet (a shop set in Balamory), each main character has their own house in the town, and each house has a distinctive colour. The colour of each character's house is the same as the clothes they wear with the exception of Penny Pocket, who lives in the
Red House but wears blue, and
PC Plum, who lives in the white house but wears a police uniform. They also have their own songs which they often sing during their appearances in the programme.
What's the Story in Balamory is the theme of the show and a sample in the background on the credits. Sell Me A Coat (which is by
David Bowie) and the coloured house song to see which coloured house they're going to (e.g. Red,
Pink,
Orange,
Yellow,
White, Blue or
Green) after
Miss Hoolie's vocals. Archie makes anything out of boxes, drink boxes, sausage boxes, milk bottles, pebbles, pizza boxes, tape cassette, chocolate boxes, yogurt pots, cotton reels and more and he lives in the pink house, which is actually a castle. He went up the top of the castle tower using binoculars which was seen on
Symbols and
Signs.
Josie Jump does gymnastics (e.g. swimming, bouncing, running, exercise and more) The characters are Suzie Sweet, Penny Pocket, Archie,
Spencer, Josie Jump, PC Plum,
Edie McCredie and Miss Hoolie (and the nursery children).
Each show also includes the following songs:
What's
The Story in Balamory?
Which
Coloured House Are We
Going To?
A typical episode begins with Miss Hoolie opening the nursery and telling the audience what the weather is like in Balamory today, and then meeting one of the other main characters who has a "problem" that can be solved by visiting another main character.
The main character with the problem sings and dances to a
Calypso style song to decide which of the coloured houses "is the one for me" (i.e. is the one where the helpful character lives), and then makes a procession of visits to various characters until the problem is solved. For example, Josie Jump is looking after her neighbour's rabbit and needs to know how to look after the rabbit so she goes to visit PC Plum who advises her to feed the rabbit some vegetables. Josie then decides to go to Pocket and Sweet to buy some rabbit food, then takes the rabbit to the nursery so the children can look after the animal.
At each visit, the progress of the story to date is summarised by drawing a rainbow of balloons in the air with the hands. The balloons burst open. summary of today's "story in Balamory" narrated by the visitor. The entire story is also summarised at the end of each programme by Miss Hoolie.
Each episode of Balamory contains at least five songs;
Opening song (What's The Story In Balamory?)
Miss Hoolie's song (
Nursery Song or a day off song depending on if it is a working day or a day off)
Which Coloured House Are We Going To? (Sung by one of the characters. There is also an instrumental version for Miss Hoolie to narrate at the end of each episode.)
One or more character songs (Penny and Suzie, Archie, Spencer, Josie, PC Plum and Edie)
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