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. Mossy Bear
Aired 7 October 1997
Galileo tries to elude Maggie to give up her mossy bear by making up a story about a secret club.
2. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Aired 8 October 1997
Galileo stays up all night and has no energy left for a midnight search for blue roses that Eco is certain will bloom. When nightfall comes, Galileo can't sleep at all. Hegdish is restless, too – looking for the perfect scheme that would make Eco mad.
3. Reluctant Hero
Aired 9 October 1997
When Hegdish rescues Mud/Slinger, they wait on Hegdish night and day, much to his regret.
4. Over the Rainbow
Aired 10 October 1997
Hegdish strips colours from the rainbow and tosses them around to groundlings, provoking mood swings and making Eco weak.
5. Mine All Mine
Aired 13 October 1997
Mud/Slinger discover a jack-in-the-box that Maggie gave them. Hegdish coaxes Maggie to take it, turning everyone's mood mad. Eco's story shows that someone's trash is another's treasure.
6. Sproutmaster
Aired 14 October 1997
Eco grants Galileo the role of Sproutmaster, with responsibility for gathering the sprouts before an impending hailstorm. But the power corrupts Galileo. In an attempt to get the job done quickly, he turns bitter on the other groundlings.
7. Maggie's Tree
Aired 15 October 1997
Maggie's favorite tree is about to die, and Stacks predicts it will hit Eco's home when it falls. It puts two groundlings in danger: Maggie, who wants to stay with her tree until the end, and Eco, who resigns herself to stay in Hegdish's cave.
8. Maggie's Youday
Aired 16 October 1997
On a day that she annually gets presents at sunset, Maggie wants a secret peek at what Eco is giving.
9. Purple Pellet Fever
Aired 17 October 1997
Mud/Slinger become shallow when they charge their fellow groundlings purple pebbles for everything. Intent on getting more purple pebbles, they don't realize the river is overflowing to dangerously deep levels.
10. Lucky Stick
Aired 20 October 1997
Hegdish takes his stick with him to do all the jobs Galileo find dangerous. When Mud won't go into the cave to find fertilizer, the others ask Hegdish if they borrow his stick.
11. Megaboo Gonna Get You
Aired 21 October 1997
Hegdish makes up a fantastic story about a fictitious monster to scare the groundlings out of their recently-harvested berries.
12. Free at Last
Aired 22 October 1997
Stacks is overwhelmed with his new ability to roam through the marsh in a grocery cart. His mobile ways threaten to get the better of him.
13. Crystal Clear
Aired 23 October 1997
Eco's grandniece, an undergroundling named Crystal, becomes Maggie's newest friend. Consequently, Galileo feels left out.