Below is a list of episodes of the British-Canadian children's television series, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, created by David Kirk. The series aired for three seasons.[1][2]
Below is a list of episodes of the Canadian children's television series, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, created by David Kirk.The series aired for three seasons. MISS SPIDER SUNNY PATCH FRIENDS. Miss Spider's - Fly Away Friends / Bedtime. Miss Spider's - Something's Stinky in Sunny Patch / The Listening.
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Series overview[edit]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired (U.S. dates) | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 13 | September 7, 2004 | May 2, 2005 | |
2 | 13 | December 10, 2004 | March 21, 2006 | |
3 | 17 | March 22, 2006 | October 26, 2008 |
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2004–2005)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | 'I'll Fly Away / All Pupa'ed Out' | September 7, 2004 | |
Dragon wants to leave Sunny Patch to join the Flying Aces, who are dragonflies like he is. He feels like he would belong better with them.Squirt and Shimmer find an orphaned baby caterpillar in the meadow. They ask Miss Spider and Holley if they can take care of her, but get more work than they bargained for. | ||||
2 | 2 | 'Bug Your Mom Day / Cloudy Day in Sunny Patch' | May 2, 2005 | |
3 | 3 | 'Something's Stinky in Sunny Patch / The Listening Walk' | September 15, 2004 | |
Opened in a Private-Eye style mystery, Stinky investigates the case of the theft of bark from Mr. Mantis' house. Spiderus accuses Shimmer of eating the bark, and spreads the rumor. Shimmer realizes how much gossip hurts her feelings. It is figured out that the culprit was the bark beetles, who eat and lay their eggs in bark. The beetles apologize for not realizing they were eating someone's house.Wiggle is scared of nighttime noises. Miss Spider takes him on a listening walk, like her mother took her on when she was a young bug. They are joined by Squirt and Dragon on their walk, followed by Bounce a little later. One by one, the bugs identify the nighttime noises and realize it's really the nocturnal bugs who are active at night. | ||||
4 | 4 | 'Country Bug-Kin / A Star Fell On Sunny Patch' | September 8, 2004 | |
An orphaned cockroach named Sweetie is blown by the wind into Sunny Patch. She is taken in by the Spider family until it is safe to go home. Squirt is taken with her, and tries to impress her by taking her on a midnight stroll. He worries when he thinks nothing will interest her.The bugs, along with Uncle Gus, go out stargazing. They learn about constellations, shooting stars, and wishing stars. Squirt makes many wishes on a star, and Uncle Gus jokes that he wished the star out of the sky. When Squirt and some of the other bugs find what looks like a wishing star, Squirt worries that what Gus said was true. They try to return the star to the sky. | ||||
5 | 5 | 'A Little Slow / Stalking the Beanstalk' | September 9, 2004 | |
Miss Spider takes the bugs on a nature walk for Bug Scouts. Squirt takes along his friend, Shelley the snail. But the others get annoyed at having to walk slowly to keep pace with Shelley. The other bugs race ahead while Miss Spider and Squirt discover the things you do not always notice when passing by too fast. When the other bugs get lost, they are found by Miss Spider, Squirt, and Shelley. They worry over how they will get home when Shelley shows them how he leaves a trail of slime wherever he goes. They follow the trail to get home. N/A | ||||
6 | 6 | 'Family Circus / Eight Is Not Enough' | March 14, 2005 | |
The children get out of hand while waiting for the circus. To improve their behavior, Holly shows them the wishing web. When the others reach the top of the web before them, Bounce, Dragon, and Squirt vow to help each other. When Squirt's plan backfires his brothers come to his defense and Holly and Mrs Spider decide they can go to the circus for helping each other. Miss Spider and Holley are busy trying to keep up with their little buggies' activities. Soon Bounce accidentally bumps into Holley, who falls down and injures himself. Mrs Spider decides to take over all parent roles while Holley rests. But she ends up trying to visit so many activities at once that she too falls down and gets hurt, and has to be carried home. The kids are upset at first until they realize their mom had gotten hurt. | ||||
7 | 7 | 'The Marin Rose / A Sticky Situation' | September 13, 2004 | |
Miss Spider reads the children, the story of the Marin Rose. N/A | ||||
8 | 8 | 'Happy Heartwood Day / Ground House Rules' | February 14, 2005 | |
N/Ahe children are made a play area called the 'Ground House'. Spiderus wishes the kids would all just quiet down, so he tells Dragon to make certain rules so fewer kids can play in there. Eventually, Dragon feels bad and apologizes. | ||||
9 | 9 | 'Fly Away Friends / Bedtime Story' | September 10, 2004 | |
N/AMiss Spider and her husband, Holley, try to get their children to go to bed on time. After spinning a web to help their children reach their goal of going to bed on time for an entire week, Miss Spider and Holley meet success. But they still cannot seem to get to bed on time themselves! | ||||
10 | 10 | 'Sing It Sister / Ant-tution' | September 14, 2004 | |
The bugs see the Dribbly Dell Singers, an acapella group who are doing tryouts since one of their singers moved away. Pansy hears the news and decides that she wants to be part of the group, so she starts practicing. The other bugs try to be nice, but they see it's not her natural talent. When Snowdrop's beautiful singing is overheard, she's asked to give Pansy advice. Pansy realizes that she sounds better singing with her twin. Pansy has some trouble at her audition, so Snowdrop sings with her. Katie mistakes Snowdrop was trying out, and she is accepted instead. On the night of the show, Snowdrop refuses to go, but Pansy accompanies her. Both Snowdrop and Pansy sing gracefully at the concert to everyone's surprise. A 'first' frost is nearing Sunny Patch and all the bugs are working to put away storage for the winter, but Squirt would rather have fun. Squirt loses control of a cart that rolls toward Ned and Ted's ant hole. When the ants come out, Squirt explains they are harvesting. Ned and Ted convince Squirt that winter's far off and nobody should need to harvest for a while. They throw a This Summer Will Never End party. Miss Spider and Holley show Squirt the signs of winter, and then Miss Spider's crew collect all they need, and Ned and Ted are surprised at the end of the night when snow begins to fall. | ||||
11 | 11 | 'What a Tangled Web / Cry Buggie' | September 17, 2004 | |
Squirt accidentally leaves all of his leftover webs all over Sunny Patch and instead of cleaning it up he goes off to play. So Miss Spider is stuck cleaning up after him. But when Roxie the Sky Queen gets injured from one of the wayward webs, Squirt realizes what he must do, and he helps his mom clean up all of the webs. On the day before the Soccerberry tournament, the kids have a practice game. When Wiggle loses, he bursts into tears. Dragon explains to Squirt that Wiggle's a 'cry buggie' and that older bugs never cry. Squirt takes these words to heart and does not even cry when he hurts one of his legs and cannot play in the tournament. Squirt keeps all of his bad feelings bottled up inside of him, until his parents tell him that all bugs need to cry sometimes, even older bugs. Squirt then lets all his feelings out in tears, and Holley feels so bad for his son that he cries too, and they both start to feel a lot better afterwards. After the tournament is canceled due to rain, Dragon starts to cry, but is too embarrassed to admit it, so Squirt tells Dragon the same thing his mom and dad told him, that it's okay to let your feelings show. | ||||
12 | 12 | 'Wiggle's Squiggles / Basketberry Blues' | September 16, 2004 | |
The bugs learn at school how to collect 'colors' from the meadow to paint. Mr. Mantis instructs them to paint the daisy he has placed them in front of. Wiggle is excited to show his painting off, but after first viewing Shimmer's painting which looked like a perfect recreation, he gets discouraged. Then he refuses to show everyone until he can paint a better one. After a few mishaps, he shows them his original painting which everyone loves. He learns that he has his own creativeness that he can be proud of. The bugs are trying out for basketberry, Sunny Patch's version of basketball. Dragon is a very talented basketberry player, and Spinner usually just keeps score. One day Spinner plays with them, but he's not very good. Miss Spider convinces Dragon that he should help coach Spinner to build his confidence. He resorts to trickery, so Spinner thinks he's improving. When Spinner discovers the trick, he is upset and refuses to try out. With some convincing and apologizing from Dragon, he tries out, realizing that he can still have fun playing anyway. | ||||
13 | 13 | 'A Scary Scary Tale / A Bug-A-Boo Day Play' | October 25, 2004 | |
14 | 14 | 'Hum Bug / Dashing Through the Snow' | December 10, 2004 |
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Song
Season 2 (2005–2006)[edit]
№ | Title | Overview | Release Date |
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15 | No-See-Um Is Believin'! / A Little Bug Music | In the 'No-See-Um' episode, when Squirt wants to continue playing volleyberry but his siblings want to go home, he gets sad. But then he hears a voice that seems to come out of nowhere. The voice says her name is Pippy, and she is a bug that is very tiny and difficult to see. So when Squirt befriends her and they play together but Pippy doesn't talk, they begin to suspect that Squirt has an imaginary friend. But then when they are all playing together one day, they are threatened by a chicken, but Pippy jumps in to save them, proving that even if you are very tiny, you're never too tiny to help out your friends. And Squirts family then apologizes for not believing him before about his new friend. | March 16, 2005 |
16 | Taste-Bugs / Top O'Big Tree | March 15, 2005 | |
17 | Captain Sunny Patch / Captain Sunny Patch Flies Again | March 13, 2006 | |
18 | The Bug Flu / A Time Telling Tale | Dragon fakes being sick so he can get out of going to Spindella's tea party./After Squirt keeps on running late, it prompts Miss Spider and Holly to build a clock in the village square, and help the children learn how to tell time. | March 17, 2005 |
19 | Family Tree / The Jitterbug | March 14, 2006 | |
20 | Thinking Stone / Big Bad Buggysitter | Squirt faces a tough party decision, so Holley helps him find a quiet place to think./It is Miss Spider and Holley's wedding anniversary and Spindella is babysitting their children while they are out on a date. Shimmer wants Spindella to give her a baking lesson, but she is too busy playing with her other kids. Meanwhile, Spiderus is having a dilemma as well until Shimmer invites him to join them. When Spiderus helps babysit, things go much smoother. | March 15, 2006 |
21 | Seeing Straight / Stumped! | Frank the firefly is out on a stroll when a leaf crashes into him, causing his glasses to fall off. Dragon is assigned to find their owner, but he plays instead, so he eventually loses them. However, after a long search that night, the glasses are again found./Shimmer needs a blueberry for her scarecrow, but Squirt needs the same blueberry for a soccerberry game. Miss Spider and Holley try to settle the argument in multiple ways until they give them a time-out on a stump. | March 16, 2006 |
22 | Eight Legs Up / Spider Mom | March 20, 2006 | |
23 | Best Bug Buddies / Snuggle Bugs | March 21, 2006 | |
24 | Secret Frog | July 21, 2005 | |
25 | The Big Green Bug | July 21, 2005 | |
26 | Be Good to Bugs...and Frogs | July 21, 2005 |
Season 3 (2006–2008)[edit]
№ | Title | Overview | Release Date |
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27 | Fungus Among Us / Ground Bound | In 'Fungus Among Us', Sunny Patch has been having damp weather lately, and while on a walk Wiggle sees a small mushroom and wants to bring it home. Holly warns him that even a small mushroom can cause problems. Wiggle hides it in his backpack, and takes it to his room, the spores make him sneeze. While trying to fan away the spores, the mushroom falls out the window. The next day there are mushrooms all over the Hollow tree and Spiderases. Wiggle tells his parents that he brought spores indoors, and offers to help get rid of the mushrooms in Sunny Patch. | March 22, 2006 |
28 | Pitch and Itch / Bounce Back | Ted and Ned are in the search for seeds and then one day they go for a wild ride on a leaf. Thinking it is a magic carpet, they start a magic carpet shop. Soon the carpets don't fly-they just cause itchy diseases./Squirt, Bounce, Shimmer, and Dragon are about to have fun when Squirt teases Bounce about his stuffed doll, and Bounce 'loses his smile' as a result. Then, Shimmer tells a story of the Knights of the Round Toadstool about how Sir Bounce-a-Lot had lost his smile. At bedtime, Squirt makes up for what he did, making Bounce a happy bedbug again. | March 23, 2006 |
29 | Lost and Sound / It's My Party | May 14, 2007 | |
30 | Lulla-Bug / The Most Perfect Parent | November 19, 2006 | |
31 | Dam the Puddle / Flower Power | In 'Dam the Puddle', the weather in Sunny Patch has gotten very warm, and Taddy Puddle (where Felix lives) is drying out. He sadly tells Squirt and the other bugs that his parents want them all to move before there isn't any water left, and they become stranded. Squirt doesn't want his friend to move, so he rallies a lot of other bugs to build a dam for the puddle, so that the water that is still there will stay, and Felix won't have to move. Holley appreciates his son's enthusiasm, but gently reminds Squirt that they might not be able to finish such a large project in only one day. However, with a lot of teamwork, the project is finished! And in the morning when the little bugs rush back to see if their project has worked, it has! They all celebrate, since this means that Felix doesn't have to move away. | May 16, 2007 |
32 | Snake Charmer / A Party For Pops | March 31, 2007 | |
33 | Frog in the Moon / Moon Music and Sun Songs | When Felix the frog talks with his bug friends about how high he can jump, they wonder about what it would be like if he could jump all the way to the moon. The spiders spin a web-trampoline to help him jump higher, but Felix still can't jump any higher than parts of the Hollow Tree. Felix really wants to be the first frog on the moon, so he decides to stay up late and try, but only succeeds in getting himself stuck in the very highest part of the tree. The little bugs think that Felix really made it to the moon, but Miss Spider and Holley realize Felix is stuck, and they all work to get him down safely. Felix is sad that he didn't make it to the moon, but his friends reassure him that he is still special because he is the first frog to jump all the way to the top of the tree./One night when all the little bugs are headed off to bed they hear some loud music coming from the base of the tree. Miss Spider realizes that this must be their new cricket neighbors, so the next morning she and Holley (joined by Spiderus) go to welcome the crickets (a cricket named Scratch, and his brothers) and ask if they could please keep the volume down on their music. The crickets just say that they are 'doing their own thing' and the confused spiders leave them be. Tired, but excited about the energetic music, Dragon and some of his siblings decide to start their own band and play music during the day. This annoys the crickets though, who ask the young bugs if they could please be quiet. The young bugs protest that they too, are just 'doing their own thing' but Miss Spider and Holley say that they have to stop, because they want to respect their neighbors' need to sleep. The crickets realize they were also too loud, but Miss Spider and Holley come up with a solution: both bands can practice in a location further away from the tree, so that neither will have their sleep disturbed with the music that is being made. | December 3, 2006 |
34 | Giddy-Up Bugs / A Plushy Parable | In 'A Plushy Parable', Miss Spider and Holley are out on their Web Weeding Workshop and Pansy misses them terribly. Grandma Betty shows Pansy Miss Spider's old white doll which what they call a 'plushy' and tells her that a plushy tree used to make plushy dolls for kids in Sunny Patch, until one day when it blew off in a wind storm. The next day, Pansy accidentally loses the plushy doll while playing and Spiderus and his daughter find it. Soon they find another plushy tree and make another plushy doll. That evening after Miss Spider and Holley get back, Spiderus and his daughter return the old plushy doll and deserve to have the new one. | September 16, 2006 |
35 | Mr. Mocking-Bug / Odd Bug Fellows | April 7, 2007 | |
36 | Spring Unsprung / Bumbling Bees | In 'Spring Unsprung' Squirt plans to wake up Felix the frog even though there is still snow on the ground. | March 26, 2007 |
37 | Eclipse / Hide and Sleuth | There is a solar eclipse occurring in Sunny Patch. Bounce is afraid the Sun won't come back (even though Uncle Gus tells him it will), and he does a dance to make it do so./Squirt, Bounce, Stinky and Shelly play games of Hide-and-Go-Seek. Shelly goes off on a trail and there are multiple clues to help find him. | September 17, 2006 |
38 | Master Mantis / Bug-Versity | May 8, 2007 | |
39 | Bringing Up Shrubby / Stuck On You | October 26, 2008 | |
40 | Bug Talk / The Befuddled Butterfly | May 2, 2007 | |
41 | Good Deed Seeds / Shelly and the Brain | October 8, 2006 | |
42 | Little Ladybug Lost / A Beetle-ful Family | May 20, 2007 | |
43 | Night and Day / Cob Fog | In 'Cob Fog', the Corn Carnival is occurring in Sunny Patch, and then Flying Aces Rocky and Roxie show up, along with their newest member, Wilbur. Soon, the Aces and Dragon go on a flying trip, but during it, they get lost and stuck at the top of a tree, thanks to a huge pack of fog. They eventually manage to get home with the help of lights laid by the Sunny Patch residents. | October 22, 2006 |
TV special: The Prince, the Princess and the Bee[edit]
№ | Title | Overview | Release Date |
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44 | The Prince, the Princess and the Bee | Aired and produced as a stand-alone TV special,[3]The Prince, the Princess and the Bee follows Shimmer as she flies to Mushroom Glen to discover whether or not she is the descendent of a royal jewel beetle (Limmer), who had gotten lost in a storm. | July 24, 2006 |
References[edit]
- ^https://www.amazon.com/Spiders-Sunny-Patch-Friends-Season/dp/B00AWMIVS4
- ^http://www.nelvana.com/show/114/miss-spiders-sunny-patch-friends
- ^http://www.nelvana.com/show/201/miss-spiders-sunny-patch-friends-the-prince-the-princess-and-the-bee
External links[edit]
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Cast
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends on IMDb