| The Berenstain Bears Show | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animation Family Children |
| Created by | Stan Berenstain Jan Berenstain |
| Developed by | Joe Cates |
| Directed by | Buzz Potamkin |
| Voices of | Brian Cummings Ruth Buzzi David Mendenhall Christina Lange Josh Rodine Frank Welker |
| Composer(s) | Elliott Lawrence |
| Country of origin | Australia United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 26 (52 shorts) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Salter |
| Producer(s) | Buzz Potamkin |
| Editor(s) | Robert Ciagilia |
| Running time | approx. 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Southern Star |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | September 14, 1985 – March 7, 1987 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Berenstain Bears Play Ball |
| Followed by | The Berenstain Bears |
The Berenstain Bears is an Australian-American co-produced animated television series based on Stan and Jan Berenstain's Berenstain Bears children's book series, produced by Hanna-Barbera and Southern Star Productions.
It aired on the United States from September 14, 1985 until March 7, 1987 on CBS with over 52 11-minute episodes in 26 half-hour shows produced. Each show consisted of two episodes, the first being an adaptation of one of the books, the second being an original story.
The series was nominated in 1987 for a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming; it was also nominated that year for a Humanitas Prize in the category of Non-Prime Time Children's Animated Show.
During the early 2000s, the show was seen in reruns as part of a kids' programming block on the now-defunct UPN.
Contents |
The series tells the story of a bear family that lives in a tree basically the bears are just like humans. The family consists of Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear and Sister bear. The series teaches lessons and much more. Each episode follows the struggles of the family, mainly the kids. It states that Brother Bear is in the 3rd grade and Sister bear is in 1st grade.
| # | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Messy Room" | 14/09/1985 |
| Mama gets the children to give bedroom a complete cleanup within 15 minutes. Failing to do so, she tries to throw away their toy collection, but Papa comes up with a better solution. | ||
| 2 | "The Terrible Termite" | 21/09/1985 |
| Raffish Ralph meets the Terrible Termite (who can eat wood in seconds) and decides to use him to start an insurance business, but Sister and Brother discover his swindle and the termite refuses to further serve Ralph. | ||
| 3 | "Go Fly a Kite" | 28/09/1985 |
| Brother and Sister want to enter the Kite Contest | ||
| 4 | "The Trojan Pumpkin" | 05/10/1985 |
| The Bears make a pumpkin | ||
| 5 | "The Spooky Old Mansion" | 12/10/1985 |
| Brother, Sister and Freddy | ||
| 6 | "The Fly Away Pizza" | 19/10/1985 |
| The Bears' pizza | ||
| 7 | "The Giant Bat Cave" | 26/10/1985 |
| Papa, Brother and Sister try to save the cave from Raffish Ralph | ||
| 8 | "The Wild Wild Honey" | 02/11/1985 |
| Papa wants to get honey | ||
| 9 | "The Neighborly Skunk" | 09/11/1985 |
| After the woodchucks moved out, | ||
| 10 | "The Missing Pumpkin" | 16/11/1985 |
| Papa's pumpkin goes missing | ||
| 11 | "Too Much Birthday" | 23/11/1985 |
| Sister's sixth birthday is coming up. The preparations for the party are bigger than Mama expected, including ponies and a merry-go-round Papa hired. The party is pretty distressing for Sister, but by the end of the party she sees the advantage of growing up. | ||
| 12 | "To the Rescue" | 30/11/1985 |
| The rescue scouts Brother, Sister and Cousin Freddy try to earn their merit badges. Papa tries to help, but his reckless and clumsy antics make him the one in need of rescuing. Still the scouts earn their badges eventually. | ||
| 13 | "The Soccer Star" | 07/12/1985 |
| Brother wants to enter the soccer | ||
| 14 | "Shoot the Rapids" | 14/12/1985 |
| The Bears go whitewaterinh | ||
| 15 | "The Knight to Remember" | 18/01/1986 |
| A knight | ||
| 16 | "The Superduper Bowl" | 25/01/1986 |
| The Big football | ||
| 17 | "The Not So Buried Treasure" | 01/02/1986 |
| The Bears found treasure | ||
| 18 | "The Condemned Backscratcher" | 08/02/1986 |
| A tree that everyone uses to scratch their backs is being torn down by the order of Mayor Honeypot | ||
| 19 | "King For a Day" | 15/02/1986 |
| A king arrives to Bear Country | ||
| 20 | "Blaze a Trail" | 22/02/1986 |
| The Bears Scouts go hiking | ||
| 21 | "No Girls Allowed" | 13/05/1986 |
| While viewing family memories, Sister gets angry that her Brother outdid her. But today Sister turns the tide on her fellows. In response they exclude her from their clubhouse, so Papa decides to start a new clubhouse for celebration. | ||
| 22 | "The Missing Dinosaur Bone" | 13/05/1986 |
| In the Bearsonian Institute dinosaur exhibit, the skeleton is missing a right thigh bone. Sister, Brother, Cousin Freddy and Snuff are on the case with Papa's not so helpful assistance. Snuff turned out to be the thief to get a lick at the bone. | ||
| 23 | "The Spookiest Pumpkin" | 13/05/1986 |
| Papa is ambitious to win a pumpkin carving contest and Brother and Sister are also joining in. Papa is extremly secretive with his own pumpkin and guards it closely. Papa then has nightmares and he chooses to miss out on the contest. | ||
| 24 | "The Dancing Bees" | 20/05/1986 |
| Papa buys from Raffish Ralph "The Secret of the Dancing Bees" book and dons on a bee costume in hopes of extracting Queen Nectar's honey. His plan works and humours the bees but when Ralph tries it, the bees are not impressed. | ||
| 25 | "Learn About Strangers" | 27/05/1986 |
| During their outdoor playtime, Sister is in the habit of talking to people she doesn't know. Papa's warnings about stranger danger scare her, but Mama coaxes her that this isn't all true. | ||
| 26 | "The Disappearing Honey" | 03/06/1986 |
| With Papa's honey supply missing, Brother, Sister, Cousin Freddy and his dog Snuff do detective work, while Papa does his ineffective searching. It turns out Papa took and ate the honey in his sleep | ||
| # | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | "In the Dark" | 13/09/1986 |
| Brother reads a scary book to Sister. Sister gets the creeps in bed. Mama tries to help leaving the light on for Sister, which causes inconvenience for Brother. Papa shows Sister how to overcome her fear in the attic. | ||
| 28 | "Ring the Bell" | 20/09/1986 |
| The Bear family are entering contests at the fair. When faced by Too Tall Grizzly, Brother's quarrel leads Papa into a challenge against Two-Ton. Meanwhile Queen Nectar has a vendetta against Papa for honey theft, but they unwittingly help Papa win the strength competition. | ||
| 29 | "Forget their Manners" | 27/09/1986 |
| After being pushed around at Cousin Freddy's party by Too Tall, Brother and Sister develop their own bad habits. Mama puts some discipline on the family to improve their manners, which are put to practice even outside the house. | ||
| 30 | "The Wicked Weasel Spell" | 04/10/1986 |
| Brother, Sister and Freddy have a hunch the weasels are up to something. Sure enough Weasel McGreed intends to hypnotise Bigpaw to turn against Bear Country, but Brother, Sister and Freddy thwart their plan. | ||
| 31 | "The Truth" | 11/10/1986 |
| Brother has quite a passion for soccer and won't join in other activites with Sister. When they begin to fight, they accidentally break Mama's favorite lamp. They tell fibs about how it broke, but Mama tells them that the truth has great value. | ||
| 32 | "Save the Bees" | 18/10/1986 |
| Weasel McGreed creates a new flower which traps bees to cut off Bear Country's honey supply. Raffish Ralph tricks Mama into planting the flowers. Brother and Sister catch wind of the plot and a meeting to save the bees ensues. Only a skunk's stink gas can wilt the flowers. | ||
| 33 | "Get in a Fight" | 25/10/1986 |
| Papa is not in a good mood this morning. The next day Brother is in a rotten mood with Sister and they both refuse to play with each other and bicker. The fight intesifies until Mama shows them the pointlessness of quarrelling. | ||
| 34 | "The Bigpaw Problem" | 01/11/1986 |
| Bigpaw comes to Beartown, but his uncontrollable strength causes major tremors. Raffish Ralph is on the verge of getting rid of Bigpaw, so Weasel McGreed can trigger the biggest earthquake in Bear Country, but Bigpaw repels the quake in Beartown. | ||
| 35 | "Get Stage Fright" | 08/11/1986 |
| Sister is going to take part in the school play Grizzlystiltskin, but she is nervous about being the main role especially on stage. With a little encouragement from Mama she overcomes her problems and performs well. | ||
| 36 | "Go Bonkers over Honkers" | 15/11/1986 |
| Raffish Ralph seizes an opportunity to trade Bigpaw some pet geese for a gold rock. After the geese cause trouble and good help, Bigpaw shortly has to return them to their mother. | ||
| 37 | "The Great Honey Pipeline" | 22/11/1986 |
| After some convincing from Brother and Sister, Papa promises not to go after Wild Wild Honey anymore. But when Queen Nectar's honey supply goes missing, the Bear Detectives find Papa broke his word, so they recover the honey and give Papa a lesson he'll never forget. | ||
| 38 | "The Great Grizzly Comet" | 29/11/1986 |
| The Great Grizzly Comet is passing. Some aliens arrive with a warning that the comet is on a collision course with Bear Country. The whole scenario is actually a big hoax managed by Raffish Ralph to swindle the bears out of their homes, so Bigpaw drives them away. | ||
| 39 | "The Sun-Fire Bait" | 06/12/1986 |
| 40 | "The Cat's Meow" | 13/12/1986 |
| 41 | "The Trouble with Friends" | 20/12/1986 |
| Sister wants some friends her age just like Brother. Just then the Bruin family move in next door and Sister befriends Lizzy. Lizzy's bossy behaviour soon makes the two of them split, but they quickly get together since there are more things they can't do by themselves. | ||
| 42 | "The Coughing Catfish" | 27/12/1986 |
| Jake the giant Catfish among other animals are affected by garbage dumping in the lake. Brother and Sister get help from Professor Actual Factual to scan the extensive garbage pollution. Their solution is to use a sunken pirate ship as an attraction to fund cleanup projects. | ||
| 43 | "The Substitute Teacher" | 03/01/1987 |
| 44 | "The Mystery Mansion" | 10/01/1987 |
| 45 | "Bust a Ghost" | 17/01/1987 |
| 46 | "The Ice Monster" | 24/01/1987 |
| The ice carnival is starting soon. Suddenly Raffish Ralf spots an ice monster. The ice monster is revealed to be a sleepwalking Bigpaw, who decides to skip his hibernation and join in the fun. | ||
| 47 | "The Crystal Ball Caper" | 31/01/1987 |
| 48 | "The Raid on Fort Grizzly" | 07/02/1987 |
| 49 | "The Forbidden Cave" | 14/02/1987 |
| 50 | "The Hot Air Election" | 21/02/1987 |
| 51 | "Life with Papa" | 28/02/1987 |
| Mama entrusts Papa to look after the cubs and the house while she goes to cousin Mim. Brother and Sister do their best to keep Papa out of trouble, but he manages to make a combined mess in the house, but Mr. Skunk comes to help out and tidy before Mama comes back | ||
| 52 | "Save the Farm" | 07/03/1987 |