Kathryn Mullen
Director
Between the Lions (2000)
Season 2
Between the Lions is a PBS Kids puppet television series designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, in Mississippi. The show has won seven Daytime Emmy awards between 2001 and 2007. The target audience is children 4 to 7 years old. It has the same puppet style as Sesame Street and several season 2 episodes, notably in Dance in Smarty Pants, had a few characters from Sesame Street guest appearing. Between The Lions started its 10th and final season on September 20, 2010. The Show Ended in November, 22 2010 Along with Reading Rainbow
Released April 3, 2000
Episode 30 min
4+
Genres: Children, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Kids
Keywords: imdb.picture-book, imdb.children-s-literature, imdb.reading, imdb.educational, imdb.lion, imdb.library, imdb.book + 9 more, imdb.intelligence, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.mother-daughter-relationship, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.father-daughter-relationship, imdb.animal-in-title, imdb.animal-in-series-title, imdb.practical-effects, imdb.three-word-title
Production Companies: WGBH Boston, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Sirius Thinking
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Sad Dad
Bruno Kirby plays a Dad whose house is overrun by kids: ""There's hardly enough room to put on pants!"" he complains. Fed up with all this overcrowding, he decides to seek the advice of an old wise woman in town - who only adds to the problem!
April 2, 2001, midnight
S2E2 - Humph! Humph! Humph!
Lionel's friend, Gus, gets annoyed when Leona asks him to be her designated reader for the day -- because he can't read.
April 3, 2001, midnight
S2E3 - The Good Seed
Click the Mouse gets a computer virus that turns everything in the library into a total disaster area!
April 4, 2001, midnight
S2E4 - Icarus's Wings
The story of Icarus, the boy who made wax wings and flew too close to the sun, inspires Barnaby B. Busterfield to follow his dream of...flying! With help from Walter and Clay, of course.
April 5, 2001, midnight
S2E5 - Zoop! Zoop!
The story of Abiyoyo terrifies Leona, and it takes some cleverness on the part of her mother to help Leona beat her fear.
April 6, 2001, midnight
S2E6 - Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!
Theo ""borrows"" the typewriter from the book ""Click-Clack Moo!"", and has a hard time letting it go when the cows want it back.
April 9, 2001, midnight
S2E7 - Poetry Day
It's Alice day in the library, which means everything has something to do with ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", and the backward logic of the looking glass. Calloo Callay!
April 10, 2001, midnight
S2E8 - Bobby the Hopping Robot
Lionel's new toy, a hopping robot named Bobby, is a real tough job to put together. Lionel, Theo, Cleo, and just about everybody has a try at assembling the robot correctly -- but it still doesn't work! Who could've guessed Leona would come up with the solution!
April 11, 2001, midnight
S2E9 - Teacher's Pet
Cleo catches the ""I-Can't-Hear-or-Smell-or-Tell-if-Someone's-Sneaking-Up-On-Me"" Flu, right before she's scheduled to go and visit her old teacher.
April 12, 2001, midnight
S2E10 - The Last Cliff Hanger
Lionel is devastated (Shocked! Taken Aback! Apalled!) when he discovers that there will no longer be any new ""Cliffhanger"" books - since the author, Livingston Dangerously, has decided to call it quits. But being the devout ""Cliffhanger"" fan he is, Lionel decides to do something about this dire situation!
April 13, 2001, midnight
S2E11 - Pebble Trouble
Featuring the book ""Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"", in which a young donkey boy discovers a magic pebble in the woods, and somehow wishes himself to be a rock. His parents spend many months out looking for him, and eventually find him as the rock, and unknowingly transform him back into his old self!
April 16, 2001, midnight
S2E12 - Oh, Yes, It Can!
A storyteller visits the library one day, and tells an old story about a Yammering Yam and how it led to a whole series of unbelievable (but true) events for a farmer, a fisherman, and king.
April 17, 2001, midnight
S2E13 - Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks
Lionel's friend, Lenny - a fellow ""Cliffhanger"" aficianado - comes for a visit, after having since moved away. When he arrives at the library, however, Lionel finds out that Lenny doesn't like ""Cliffhanger"" anymore. That instead, he has taken a liking to a similar book hero, ""Justin Time""! Can Lionel and Lenny still be friends, even if they don't like the same things?
April 18, 2001, midnight
S2E14 - Bug Beard
In the story ""Bug Beard"", a woodcutter brings home a grubby, buggy old man he finds in the woods. His wife is not amused by the buggy old man, and so she sets about trying to clean him up. When the buggy man is finally all cleaned up, it turns out he just isn't his happy, dancing, singing old self. Can the Lions help?
April 19, 2001, midnight
S2E15 - Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains
Lionel gets a brainstorm after he hears Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. What if he and Leona ride a train through the plain of the book?
April 20, 2001, midnight
S2E16 - Quest, Quest, Quest!
Babs Caplan is back with a new story, The Quest for the Chest. And once again, she doesn't get it right. Originally, there is no action in the story.
GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short E sound.
April 23, 2001, midnight
S2E17 - The Spider and the Lie
Lionel writes a Crime Story, which involves Leona, a slippery character named Monkey C. Monkeydew, a missing library card, and a spider.
April 24, 2001, midnight
S2E18 - Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-Boom!
Theo wants to teach the cubs a lesson, which he finds in a book of concatenations called Because a Little Bug Went KA-CHOO! What Theo doesn't know is that, by pulling that book from the middle of a pile, a pen dropped to the floor, setting off a concatenation in the library. It culminates with a hot-air balloon's bursting.
April 25, 2001, midnight
S2E19 - But, Mama, But ...
Cleo is about to fly off to visit some newborn cubs. Leona feels she is able to spend a couple of days without her, but can she be sure> And what about everyone else? To ease everyone's feelings, Cleo (with eight minutes to go in the program) reads I Miss You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt; illustrated by Cyd Moore.
April 26, 2001, midnight
S2E20 - Dreaming Shakespeare
It's Shakespeare Day at the Library. Fanfares, flowery language and period costumes are the order of the day (Cleo is dressed as the female star of Antony and Cleopatra). A method actor is unable to play Romeo and Juliet because Juliet is sick. Maybe an exasperated hen can fill in.
April 27, 2001, midnight
S2E21 - Rats
After someone calls Leona a nasty name on the playground, a friend of the Lions', named Frank, tells a story about Rats, which shows that bad names can hurt just as much as sticks and stones.
April 30, 2001, midnight
S2E22 - Tweet! Tweet!
An intriguing theory from the book Bone Poems has got the cubs and pigeons thinking: Are birds the descendants of dinosaurs? Walter and Clay Pigeon take that prospect to an extreme. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Double-e sound.
May 1, 2001, midnight
S2E23 - Good Night, Knight
A famous marionette team is preparing to tell the story of Orlando Furioso and his battle to rescue Angelica from the curse of Fallerina. It's a story Leona knows by heart, and she has more than a loving desire to see this play.
May 2, 2001, midnight
S2E24 - The Chess Mess
It's Alice Day at the library, and everyone is very involved in a page from Through the Looking Glass. Theo, a former whiz at chess, accepts Click's challenge to play a few matches. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short e sound.
May 3, 2001, midnight
S2E25 - Stop That Chicken!
Chicken Jane escapes from one of her books and ricochets around the library. Every so often, she writes her advice to characters in other books. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short o sound.
May 4, 2001, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: April 3, 2000
Last Air Date: Nov. 22, 2010, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
Common sense age: 4+
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