Zombie Hotel

Zombie Hotel
Genre	Animation, comedy horror
Created by	Jan Van Rijsselberge
Directed by	Lilly-Anne
Voices of	Aileen Mythen Hillary Kavanagh Roger Gregg Susan Slott Danna Davis Rod Goodall Philip McGettigan Paul Tylak
Opening theme	Zombie Hotel Theme
Ending theme	Zombie Hotel Theme (instrumental)
Country of origin	France Ireland
Original languages	French English Spanish
No. of episodes	26 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Paul Cummins Christian Davin Clément Calvet Ralph Christians Theresa Plummer Andrews
Producers	Siobhán Ní Ghadhra Moe Honan
Production locations	UK Australia U.S Finland
Running time	Approx. 25 mins
Production company	Alphanim Animation
Original release
Network	CBBC (UK) (2006-08) ABC3 (Australia) (2006-09) TG4 Cúla 4 (Ireland) (2005-) Starz Kids & Family (U.S) (2012-2014) YLE TV2 (Finland) (2011-)
Release	January 2005 – July 2007

Zombie Hotel is an Irish/French animated children's television series about a hotel run by zombies, created by Jan Van Rijsselberge, produced by French production company Alphanim and shown internationally.

Premise

The main characters are Fungus and Maggot, two child zombies who pretend to be human to get into their local school, and their family and boarders at the hotel run by their parents. They make friends with Sam, a human boy whose mother is away most of the time. Sam soon finds out about their zombie powers and all three make a team of friends. Sam uses an old railway carriage as his haunt. The plot often involves a risk of the discovery of Maggot and Fungus' zombie nature and the three trying to prevent this. The hotel itself is one of several main locations used in the show. Others include the school and Sam's railway carriage.

Characters

• Maggot is the courageous, bossy and hot-headed twin sister of Fungus. (Voiced by Aileen Mythen)
• Fungus is the hardworking, cool brother who loves doing impossible DIY. (Voiced by Hillary Kavanagh)
• Sam is Maggot and Fungus' human friend.
• Rictus is the children's father who runs the Zombie Hotel. He doesn't get along with his father well. (Voiced by Roger Gregg)
• Funerella is Rictus' wife. She gets worried a lot, but loves her family. (Voiced by Susan Slott)
• Jeebies is the hotel's elderly butler, who has a hunched back. He is quite prone to losing his limbs. (Voiced by Rod Goodall)
• Chef is a grouchy vampire who is the head chef in the hotel. He is known for his horrible food creations which even the zombies find hard to eat sometimes.
• Wilson is Chef's assistant. His head is detachable and it is shown he can replace it with a new one. (Voiced by Philip McGettigan)
• The Colonel is a small-headed, but rotund bodied zombie who used to be in the military. He is a resident of the hotel and often rolls using his round shape. In one episode it shows that he may have some feelings for Dame Fedora (Voiced by Paul Tylak)
• Dame Fedora is a ghost resident at the hotel who never stops complaining about things.
• Uncle Von is Maggot and Fungus' crazy scientist uncle. He has a laboratory in the hotel.
• Francis is Von's creation and sidekick, a Frankenstein's monster style character.
• Tut is a mummified DJ who likes telling bad jokes. (Voiced by Gary Hetzler)
• Miss Harriet Harbottle is Maggot and Fungus' teacher. (Voiced by Danna Davis)
• Mr. Peabody is the headteacher of Maggot and Fungus' school. (Voiced by Patrick Fitzsymons)
• Harvey Justine is Harbottle's adolescent nephew/son, who Maggot, Fungus and Sam have to often reluctantly babysit. He's similar too Sam in that he loves zombies. Though he doesn't yet realise that Maggot & Fungus aren't dressed up and wearing makeup like zombies.
• Araminta is Sam's mother who is away on business a lot.
• Eli is a student genius at school. Though he made a presentation about Zombies, he thought that Zombies are nasty creatures.

Episodes

1. First Day
2. Love is in the Air
3. Plumbing the Depths
4. Zombie Pride
5. Brat Attack
6. There's Something About Zombies
7. Vote for Zombie
8. Happy People
9. Oh My Goth!
10. It's Not Fair
11. Funerella's Deathday
12. The Bogeyman Cometh
13. Dead Trendy
14. Something Old, Something Newt
15. Too Many Cooks
16. Hexed
17. Inspector Fungus
18. School Exchange
19. Movie Madness
20. The Wrong Von
21. Night of the Undead Babysitters!
22. Toying with Magic
23. Carrots, Sticks and Robots
24. A Zombie's Best Friend
25. The Hug Bug
26. A Class Act

Awards

Zombie Hotel has won a number of awards including Best TV series at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry 2006 awards.

External links

• Series profile at Gaumont Animation.
• www.telegael.com
• Zombie Hotel at IMDb
• Retrojunk: Zombie Hotel