Sparkle Friends

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Sparkle Friends
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 time2-3 minutes
Original release
Network TV2
Release7 May 2006 (2006-05-07) 
25 July 2011 (2011-07-25)

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.

Contents

Cast

Episode list

Series 1 (2006)

Series 1 ran from 7 May to 2 July 2006.

Number
in series
Number
in season
Title Original air date Ref
11"Got Gunge?"7 May 2006 (2006-May-07) [1]
22"Snap!"14 May 2006 (2006-May-14) [2]
33"In the Deep End"21 May 2006 (2006-May-21) [3]
44"Teething Trouble"28 May 2006 (2006-May-28) [4]
55"It's All Downhill"4 June 2006 (2006-June-04) [5]
66"High Score"11 June 2006 (2006-June-11) [6]
77"Sparkletron"18 June 2006 (2006-June-18) [7]
88"Survival of the Cutest"25 June 2006 (2006-June-25)TBA
99"The Sparkle Show"25 June 2006 (2006-June-25) [8]
1010"What Becomes Of The Broken Gungi?"2 July 2006 (2006-July-02) [9]

Series 2 (2007)

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 (2008)

Series 3 ran from 15 July to 2 October 2008.

  1. "Son of a Gun-gi / Camilla at Large"
  2. "Almost Famous / Short Fuse"
  3. "Super Tu / Mo' Charlie Mo' Problems"
  4. "How Now Sea Cow / Summer Knights"
  5. "The Case of the Muddy Footprints / The Gungiest Place on Earth"

Series 4 (2009-10)

Series 4 ran from 17 November 2009 to 15 March 2010.

  1. "Super Tu 2"
  2. "Roadblock (Special)"
  3. "Spooky Sunday / Rainbow Connection"
  4. "The Girl Next Door / My Tu Front Teeth"
  5. "Sprinkle Kids / Attack of the 50ft Toby"

Series 5 (2010-11)

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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