About this season
Groundling Marsh was a Canadian children's television series featuring puppets. The show was produced by Portfolio Film & Television Inc., Children's Television Workshop and J.A. Delmage Productions. It included songs and animated segments, and enjoyed a certain amount of success and popularity at during its time. The only merchandise produced for the show were videos and they are now exceptionally rare and no longer produced. In the United States, it aired on PBS and the Disney Channel. It received funding from the International Production Fund, formerly the Maclean Hunter Television Fund. This series premiered October 1, 1995. Groundling Marsh was nominated at the 12th Annual Gemini Awards for Best Preschool Program or Series. John Pattison was also nominated for a Gemini for the episode "Bah Hegdish". The show had its series finale on November 28, 1997. The show is still seen on Bell Media-owned educational station CTV Two Alberta in Canada.
Episodes (13)
1. Fungus Amungus
Aired 1 September 1997
Mud/Slinger try to earn fame by making cookies out of fungus, but they don't leave any fungus at Mossy Meadow for the swarming crunchybugs.
2. The Featherbeam
Aired 2 September 1997
In need of a friend, Galileo decides he wants a pet. He thinks he has one when a featherbeam bird enters his life.
3. Big Dreams
Aired 3 September 1997
Galileo decides he needs to explore outside the marsh. He builds a boat, ready to take off for some adventure, but the adventure comes to him. A plant from a frozen climate floats by, and Galileo decides he will return it to its rightful place in the mountains. Eco tries to remind Galileo about Nature's way through a story about an unruly tribal leader.
4. Truth & Consequences
Aired 4 September 1997
Maggie decides to trick as many groundlings as she can, but some trust is lost, which proves costly.
5. Maggie's Quest
Aired 5 September 1997
Maggie craves attention. She declares to all that she will look for a flower known only in stories.
6. Night and Day
Aired 8 September 1997
Mud/Slinger comes down with a rare disorder and can't speak coherently. Hope for a cure may be thwarted unless Galileo and Maggie learn to cooperate.
7. Life Before Stacks
Aired 9 September 1997
Stacks is ashamed when confronted with the fact that he is a machine. Eco eases things by telling all the ground-lings how Stacks came to be.
8. Heat Wave
Aired 10 September 1997
How can the Groundlings find relief from the oppressive heat? Mud/Slinger try out a myriad of inventions, none of which work--until they hit upon a fancy fan. But it takes an isolated thunderstorm to remind Mud/Slinger that they don't need certain tools all the time.
9. Pot of Plenty
Aired 11 September 1997
After Eco accidentally breaks the Pot of Plenty prior to the annual harvest meal of gratitude, she and Galileo follow the legend of their grandcestors in an effort to create a replacement pot.
10. All for One
Aired 12 September 1997
Eco is intent on spending time by herself while all the other groundlings seek attention.
11. Flower Power
Aired 15 September 1997
Galileo chases Maggie out of the marsh on the grounds that she doesn't serve any useful purpose. But an invasion of fast-rising flowers threatens to drown out the marsh and everyone in it, and Maggie is the only groundling to evade a floral disaster.
12. Them Dingling Dozy Daisies
Aired 16 September 1997
Mud/Slinger's new invention to protect the groundlings from the drowsy effects of doy daisies leads to a potential explosion.
13. Sticks and Stacks
Aired 17 September 1997
Stacks feels left out because all the groundlings have been ignoring him. All that changes when Stacks suffers from amnesia, thinking he's a tree.