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Genre | Children's television series Animation |
Created by | Naomi Iwata |
Based on | Characters by Naomi Iwata |
Directed by | Mike Fallows Dan Wakabayashi |
Voices of | (See Voice cast section) |
Country of origin | Japan Canada |
Original languages | English, Japanese |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26(list of episodes) |
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Executive producers | Michael Hirsh Naomi Iwata Patrick Loubert (season 1) Clive A. Smith (season 1) Scott Dyer (season 2) Makoto Toriyama |
Producer | Kim Cleary |
Running time | 30 minutes (2 15-minutes episodes per timeslot) |
Production companies | Yomiko Advertising Nelvana Limited Milky Cartoon |
Original release | |
Network | Teletoon (Canada) TV Tokyo (Japan) |
Release | September 3, 2001 (2001-09-03) – September 18, 2002 (2002-09-18) |
Pecola (Japanese: ペコラ, Pekora) is an animated children's television series which stars cube-shaped anthropomorphic animals in a place named Cube Town. It is based on a series of children's picture books by Naomi Iwata.[1][2] It was first aired on Teletoon in Canada from September 3, 2001 with the final episode being aired on September 18, 2002. In Japan, the show aired on TV Tokyo, and in the United States, the show aired on Cartoon Network in 2003.[3] Prior to that, a series of Pecola shorts aired on Fuji Television as part of Ponkickies during 1998.[4]
The show that focuses on Pecola, a curious and hyperactive penguin who tries to help the people of Cube Town but often wreaks havoc instead. Pecola is an orphaned penguin who lives with Pecolius, his grandfather. Cube Town is a small, isolated coastal village which contains an art museum, a beach, a lighthouse and a canal. It is located adjacent to Crescent Bay surrounded by the Rookery Mountains coastal range and serviced by regular ships (including a weekly freighter) which deliver mail, food and other supplies, as well as occasional tourists from a nearby metropolis named Cubic City. The heights above it lead into Glacier Valley which is snowbound even during summer.
No. | Segment 1 | Segment 2 | Original airdate (Teletoon)[5] | Prod. code |
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1 | Double Troubles (pilot) | Detective Pecola | September 3, 2001 (2001-09-03) | 101 |
2 | Constellation Pecola | Good Deeds | September 4, 2001 (2001-09-04) | 102 |
3 | Fire Drill Frenzy | Hurricane Pecola | September 5, 2001 (2001-09-05) | 103 |
4 | Robo-Rocket | Mayor Muddle | September 6, 2001 (2001-09-06) | 104 |
5 | Your Wish is my Command | Robbie to the Rescue | September 7, 2001 (2001-09-07) | 105 |
6 | One Lonely Night | Miss Lucky's Bloopers | September 10, 2001 (2001-09-10) | 106 |
7 | Spring Cleaning | Monster Moth | September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11) | 107 |
8 | The Cube Town Tri-Brag-a-Thon | The Wild Ride | September 12, 2001 (2001-09-12) | 108 |
9 | Half Baked | Hide 'N' Go Sleep | September 13, 2001 (2001-09-13) | 109 |
10 | Not Seeing is Disbelieving | Melancholy Pecola | September 14, 2001 (2001-09-14) | 110 |
11 | Pecola's Penguin Special | Bot and Switch | September 17, 2001 (2001-09-17) | 111 |
12 | Golagola | Operation Papazoni | September 18, 2001 (2001-09-18) | 112 |
13 | High and Dry | Two Brilliant Inventors | September 19, 2001 (2001-09-19) | 113 |
No. | Segment 1 | Segment 2 | Original airdate (Teletoon)[5] | Prod. code |
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14 | Ode to Pecola | Laundry Quandary | September 2, 2002 (2002-09-02) | 114 |
15 | Cool It! | Yeti or Not | September 3, 2002 (2002-09-03) | 115 |
16 | The Curse of Cube Town | Postman Pecola | September 4, 2002 (2002-09-04) | 116 |
17 | Runway Pecola | Pecola's Island | September 5, 2002 (2002-09-05) | 117 |
18 | The Town Crier | Pecola Grows Horns | September 6, 2002 (2002-09-06) | 118 |
19 | Coco's Concert | Spaceman Pecola | September 9, 2002 (2002-09-09) | 119 |
20 | Robo-Rudy | Lights, Camera, Pecola! | September 11, 2002 (2002-09-11) | 120 |
21 | A Career Day | Power Pecola | September 10, 2002 (2002-09-10) | 121 |
22 | Prince Puggalski | Painting Pecola | September 12, 2002 (2002-09-12) | 122 |
23 | Pecola and the Pirates | Mysterious Pecola | September 13, 2002 (2002-09-13) | 123 |
24 | Gazelle's Goof | Pecola in a Yacht of Trouble | September 16, 2002 (2002-09-16) | 124 |
25 | Yorkshire's Puddin | Pecola's Tunnel Trouble | September 17, 2002 (2002-09-17) | 125 |
26 | Yo! Pecola | Great Cubes of Fire! | September 18, 2002 (2002-09-18) | 126 |
Pecola first aired on Teletoon in Canada from September 3, 2001 with the final episode airing on September 18, 2002 with repeats until the mid-2000s. In Japan, the show aired on TV Tokyo at 9 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. on Sundays from October 6, 2002 until March 30, 2003. In 2003, Pecola premiered on Cartoon Network in the U.S., and also aired on the now-defunct Qubo from 2007 to 2017, then started airing again from April 5, 2020 to July 26 of that year. The show also aired on Spacetoon in Indonesia from 2005 until 2013, and on RTÉ2 in Ireland from 2002[6] to 2003.[7]
The show was released to DVD in Japan, Australia, France, and Taiwan. A DVD release of the show in the U.S. has yet to be announced; however it is available on Amazon Video.[8]
In Japan, an educational game based on the shorts was released for the Sega Pico entitled Pecola no Daibouken Maboroshi no Aisukurīmu wo Sagase! (ペコラのだいぼうけん まぼろしのアイスクリームをさがせ!).
Teletoon Canada, Inc original programming
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