Between the Lions (2000)

Season 5

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

IMDb

7.2

/1659/

Trakt

/34/

TMDb

/5/

Tomatoes

Kathryn Mullen
Director

Fred Newman

Jennifer Barnhart

Kathryn Mullen

Tyler Bunch

David Matthew Feldman

Ruth Westheimer

Tim Lagasse

Anthony Asbury

S5E1 - Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!/The Three Little Pigs

Theo and Leona don pig snouts for another reading of Pigs Apelnty, Pigs Galore first read in the episode ""Pigs Aplenty."" Midway into the show, Lionel dons three pig snouts as he reads to Leona The Three Little Pigs, heard previously in the episode ""Huff and Puff.""

April 18, 2005, midnight

S5E2 - The Carrot Seed/The Empty Pot

From their roof garden, Lionel and Theo marvel at a flower that gets at Theo's sinuses. Includes re-readings of stories first heard in the episodes

April 25, 2005, midnight

S5E3 - Wings/What's in the Box?

First up: Leona warns Lionel not to lean back on his chair, provoking a flashback reading of a Greek myth first read in Icarus's Wings (from Season 2). Then the library, seen from the inside for the first time this season, receives a reprint (and a reread) of Pandora's Box.

May 2, 2005, midnight

S5E4 - A Shower of Stars/Two Moons and One Lagoon

It's nighttime at the library roof garden as Theo gives an energetic Leona a reread from the episode Shooting Stars. Then, under a full moon, Cleo gives Lionel and Leona a story from the episode Touching the Moon.

May 9, 2005, midnight