The Adventures of Grady Greenspace

*The Adventures of Grady Greenspace*
The Adventures of Grady Greenspace
Country of origin	France; Canada
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	13 minutes
Original release
Network	France 3
Release	1992 –; 1995

The Adventures of Grady Greenspace is a children's TV programme that was originally a French/Canadian programme called "Les Enquêtes de Chlorophylle" (roughly translated as "The Investigations of Chlorophylle"), which was co-produced by Damned Productions (Paris), la Société Française de Production, France 3, Productions Espace Vert (Montreal) and Logos Distribution [1] Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine and aired between 1992 and 1993 [2].

The UK version was produced by Central Independent Television for ITV (CITV) from 1994 to 1995.

The series was based on the character Chlorophylle created by Raymond Macherot and published by Le Lombard [3] Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine and was about a group of environmentally aware creatures and their adventures.

The shows characters were a combination of around twelve puppets and a large number of live animals.[4]

Characters

Puppets

Chlorophylle (French) / Grady Greenspace (English) - The show's main protagonist. A black and white dormouse that solved crimes and environmental issues with the aid of his friends. Grady lived inside an old building and slept in a human's old slipper.
Radar - a bat and close friend of Grady.
Bulgy - a frog and close friend of Grady.
Anthracite (French) / Scuzzy (English) - The main antagonist of the series. Scuzzy was a black rat and leader of a group of animals called the Rafia or the "Creepy Crawlers", who were usually the cause of the problem that Grady was trying to solve. Occasionally, however, Grady and Scuzzy had to join forces to deal with other antagonists. [5]
Maeva (French) / Rhonda (English) - A white rat that was the sister of Scuzzy, but far sweeter and nicer than her brother. She was also Grady's love interest.

Live Animals

The Council - A group of Eurasian eagle owls that many local animals often consult when they needed advice
'Golden eagles
Red fox

Cast and crew

Directors

Frédéric Goupil
Claude Grégoire
Michel Marin
Bruno Carrière

Production Manager

Karine Dhont

Writers

Michel Marin
Diane Cailhier[6]

Cinematography

Jacques Meynard

Voice Actors

Terrence Scammell - lead voice actor for English version.[7]

Episodes

There were 52 episodes in total.[8] Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Known episodes:

Vote For Grady - first aired in the UK on 03/05/1995.[9]
Shady Business - first aired in the UK on 17/05/1995.[10]

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