WellieWishers (TV series)

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WellieWishers
Based on American Girl doll franchise
Written by Valerie Tripp
Directed byBouwine Pool, Wip Vernooij, Anneke de Graaf, Dario van der Vree
Voices ofAshley Gebhard
Lola Salsbury Lipson
Yasmine Wright-Capers
Dana Heath
Lily Sanfelippo
Country of originUnited States
Netherlands
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producerChristopher Keenan
ProducersDenise Green
Bruno Felix
Femke Wolting
Running time11 minutes
Production companies Mattel Creations
Submarine Studios
Original release
Network Amazon Video
ReleaseOctober 14, 2016 (2016-10-14) [1]  
May 19, 2017 (2017-05-19) [2]

WellieWishers is an animated web series based on the American Girl doll franchise. [1] The series premiered on October 14, 2016 on Amazon Prime Video in the United States and Spain, [3] and subsequently aired on Televisa, [4] plus Tiny Pop in the United Kingdom. [5] The series is co-produced by Mattel Creations and Submarine Studios B.V. [6] and animated by Jam Filled Entertainment. [7]

Contents

The series features five six and seven-year-old girls: Willa, Camille, Emerson, Kendall and Ashlyn. Each girl wears a pair of colourful Wellington boots as they play in Willa's Aunt Miranda's garden. [1]

Unfortunately, the show will not air on Pop Girl due to its closure in 2015, 1 year before WellieWishers premiered

Characters

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

  1. The Bothersome Bird
  2. Little Tree
  3. Snow-flaking
  4. Copy Cat
  5. Butterfly Ballet
  6. Glowing in the Dark
  7. I Do, You, Hair-Do
  8. Now You See It, Now You Don't
  9. It Takes Two to See-Saw
  10. Coloriffic Scavenger Hunt
  11. Ashyln's Tall Tale
  12. Anything for a Laugh
  13. The Rainmakers

Season 2 (2017)

  1. Kendall Rules the Roost
  2. All Times Favorites
  3. Out of Line
  4. Camille's Poem
  5. Honking in the Winter Wonderland
  6. All's Wellie That Ends Wellie
  7. Duck, Duck, Oops!
  8. Truth or Hare
  9. Honey, I Spoiled The Bunny
  10. Owie Zowie
  11. The Party That Blew Away
  12. Mighty Girl
  13. The Importance of Being Ashlyn

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