Lunar Jim

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Lunar Jim is a pre-school-oriented stop-motion television show produced in Canada by the Halifax Film Company and Alliance Atlantis. The show is based on an original concept created by Alexander Bar, and is written by Peter Sauder of Nelvana fame.

Jim and his team – Rover the Robot Dog, Ripple the Super Space Mechanic, Eco the Farmer, and TED, the Technical Equipment Device – live on Blue Moon L22, the second-to-last moon on the edge of the Milky Way. Focusing on exploration and inquiry, Lunar Jim intends to promote such life skills as problem-solving, persistence, creativity, and cooperation, with an emphasis on "pre-science skills". His rallying cry is: "Let's get lunar!"

1 Characters And Description
2 Moonaluna
3 Vehicles
4 External link

[edit] Characters And Description

Jim is the main character in the series. He is an adventure loving fag. He is a very mad character,which should inspire children to follow his example by asking questions and actively seeking their answers.
Rover is a robot dog and is always by Jim's side. Rover loves to play fetch and is always helping Jim on his lunar missions.
Ripple is the engineer on the moon. She is always coming up with new inventions to help Jim and often helps him on his missions.
Eco is the farmer on the moon who works in the Eco dome growing plants and raising the animals. Eco loves to collect rocks and plants to study and help Jim. He doesn't often go on missions because he is too busy farming in the eco dome.
TED (Technical Equipment Device) is another robot. Unlike Rover, TED is a humanoid robot. He is the most clumsy on the moon and usually trips on rocks. However, he is quite smart and sometimes solves the problem in the story. TED represents a child and essentially, the show's target audience.
Pixel is the computer that helps Jim and his friends find things on the lunar surface and tell them their jobs for the day.
Dolores is a chicken.
Daisy is a cow.

[edit] Moonaluna

Moonaluna is the small settlement where Jim and his friends live. The settlement includes the Eco dome, Mission control, Jim's home, Ripple's home (never mentioned) and a windmill which is also never mentioned. Mission control is the building where Jim "gets lunar" and where all the vehicles are stored. The Eco dome is basically a greenhouse and this is the place where Eco is usually found farming and taking care of Daisy and Dolores. Jim's home is where he Rover live and is sometimes a place where the story begins. The place where TED lives is never mentioned.

[edit] Vehicles

When Jim gets lunar, he chooses a vehicle for his mission. Here is what they are.

The Hopper—The hopper is the only vehicle with wheels and does not really hop. It comes with a trailer and a winch.
The Lunar Lifter—A hovering vehicle. Its main use is using the built-in winch on the bottom.
The Crawler—The crawler is basicly a backhoe on tracks. It has a selection of arms and once had a voice control unit.
The Scrambler—The fastest vehicle on the moon. It is small and sleek for getting to a mission fast.
The Scooter—Basically the same thing as the Scrambler only it has a winch at the bottom.