Guess with Jess

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Guess with Jess
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GenreChildren's
Animation
Educational
Based onJess the Cat from Postman Pat
by
Written byTim Hastings
Lane Leuras
Gene Grillo
Directed byMike Shiell
Creative directorDonald Anderson
Voices ofCharlie George
Morwenna Banks
Jo Wyatt
Bailey Pepper
Beth Chalmers
Daniel Anthony
Kyle Stanger
Sian Taylor
Theme music composerJonathan Evans
Opening theme"Guess With Jess"
Ending themeVarious
ComposerJulian Nott
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes52
Production
Executive producersMandy Kamester
Doug Murphy
Chris Rose
Scott Dyer
Jane Smith
Heather McGillivray
ProducersCeri Barnes
Annika Bluhm
Tracey Dodokin
Jocelyn Hamilton
EditorAlan Simpson
Running time10 minutes
Production companies Entertainment Rights (Earlier Season 1 episodes)
Classic Media (Later Season 1 episodes and Season 2)
Nelvana [lower-alpha 1]
Original release
Network CBeebies (United Kingdom)
Treehouse TV (Canada)
Release9 November 2009 (2009-11-09) 
7 March 2010 (2010-03-07)
Related
Postman Pat

Guess with Jess is an interactive animated children's television series featuring Jess the Cat from the television series Postman Pat . [1] The show follows Jess' adventures with his friends on Greendale Farm in London, England, and how they always try to solve each other's problems with a Big Question, which is answered by "asking, testing, find a way". Jess and his friends search for the answers to science and nature-based questions, allowing children to learn about the world around them. 52 episodes were produced.

Contents

Unlike his appearance in Postman Pat, Jess in this series has the ability to talk to his friends on the farm.

New episodes of the series originally aired on the DreamWorks Channel in Thailand until 2020. [2]

Characters

Episodes

Season 1

  1. How Can We Make a Boat?
  2. How Can We All Keep Warm?
  3. What's Happened To Chloe The Caterpillar?
  4. When Will My Coloured Stripes Come Back?
  5. Who Did I Hear In The Big Hollow Log?
  6. Who Wants To Live In Baa's Meadow?
  7. What Can We Do With Mimi's Rubbish?
  8. Why Are The Ants Visiting Mimi?
  9. Why Do Spiders Build Webs?
  10. How Can We Bring The Outside Inside?
  11. What's My Favourite Thing About Spring?
  12. How Can I Hide Without Being Found?
  13. Why Do Bees Make Honey?
  14. When Will The Owl Go Hooooo!?
  15. Where's My Puddle Gone?
  16. Why Has My Shadow Gone Away?
  17. When Will The Water Come Back?
  18. How Can We Paint The Lilly Pad Green?
  19. Where's My Feather Gone?
  20. Where Have All The Stars Gone?
  21. How Can We Make Music For Mimi?
  22. How Can We Find Sammy Snail?
  23. Why Won't My Kite Fly?
  24. How Did A Dandelion Seed Get Into Mimi's Garden?
  25. What's The Grumbly Rumbly Noise?
  26. When Will The Snow Come?

Season 2

  1. What Do We Need To Grow Beans?
  2. Why Is Hedgehog Curled Up?
  3. How Can We Make The Most Beautiful Garden Ever?
  4. Why Are There Little Hills In The Orchard?
  5. Why Are There So Many Ladybirds?
  6. How Can I Stop Little Bird Eating The Seeds?
  7. How Can I Go Up And Down On The See-Saw?
  8. What Can I Do With My Nature Collection?
  9. How Can I Make My Peach Soft?
  10. How Can We Help Billy Stay Warm?
  11. How Can We Hide To Watch Butterflies?
  12. How Can I Go Faster Than Joey And Jinx?
  13. What Shall We Have For Our Harvest Breakfast?
  14. What Hat Should Mimi Wear?
  15. What's Happened To My Little Tree?
  16. How Can We All Keep Cool?
  17. What's The Funny Little Creature In The Pond?
  18. How Can We Keep Dry For Horace's Concert?
  19. How Can I Cheer Up Kevin?
  20. How Can We Decorate The Christmas Tree?
  21. How Can I Make The Trolley Go Faster?
  22. How Can We Mend Baa's Trough?
  23. What's That Green Hairy Stuff?
  24. How Can I Find My Friends?
  25. Why Are Acorns Buried Under The Tree?
  26. How Can I Sound Like Brown Bird?

Development

The series was first commissioned on 21 March 2006, for a 2008 delivery. [3]

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References

Notes

  1. As Refrain Productions for Season 1, and Guess with Jess Limited for Season 2

Sources

  1. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 142. ISBN   9781476672939.
  2. Frater, Patrick (28 July 2015). "DreamWorks Animation Launches TV Channel in Thailand". Variety. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. "BBC Commissions 'Guess with Jess' from ER". Archived from the original on 15 May 2006.