Sparkle Friends | |
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Created by | Mukpuddy Animation |
Voices of | Charlie Panapa Serena Cooper Richard Mills Tāmati Coffey Jeremy Dillon Jason Gunn |
Country of origin | New Zealand |
Production | |
Running time | 2-3 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | TV2 |
Release | 7 May 2006 – 25 July 2011 |
Sparkle Friends is a New Zealand animated series and segment produced by Mukpuddy Animation for New Zealand's long running children's show, What Now . The series stars the What Now presenters as children and a creature named Gun-gi, who vomits gunge, something that features heavily in What Now.
Series 1 ran from 7 May to 2 July 2006.
Number in series | Number in season | Title | Original air date | Ref |
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1 | 1 | "Got Gunge?" | 7 May 2006 | [1] |
2 | 2 | "Snap!" | 14 May 2006 | [2] |
3 | 3 | "In the Deep End" | 21 May 2006 | [3] |
4 | 4 | "Teething Trouble" | 28 May 2006 | [4] |
5 | 5 | "It's All Downhill" | 4 June 2006 | [5] |
6 | 6 | "High Score" | 11 June 2006 | [6] |
7 | 7 | "Sparkletron" | 18 June 2006 | [7] |
8 | 8 | "Survival of the Cutest" | 25 June 2006 | TBA |
9 | 9 | "The Sparkle Show" | 25 June 2006 | [8] |
10 | 10 | "What Becomes of the Broken Gungi?" | 2 July 2006 | [9] |
Series 2 ran from 9 May to 9 July 2007.
11. Return of the Gun-gi.
12. Yabba Dabba Don't!
13. Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Gunge
14. Kentucky Fried Charlie
15. Invasion of the Richie Snatchers
15. Beauty and the Yeast
17. Are We There Yeti?
18. Rock'em Sock'em.
19. Insert Coin Here.
20. Send Out the Clowns
Series 3 ran from 15 July to 2 October 2008.
Series 4 ran from 17 November 2009 to 15 March 2010.
Series 5 ran from 8 November 2010 to 25 July 2011.
1. Sparkle Friends Next Level Part I
2. Sparkle Friends Next Level Part II
3. The Finale!
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