Noah's Island
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Noah's Island
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| Created by | Elphin Llyod-Jones |
| Developed by | John M. Mills |
| Written by | Steve Walker |
| Directed by | Philippe LeClerc Frederic Trouillot Emile Bourget Alan Simpson |
| Creative director(s) | Elphin Llyod-Jones |
| Voices of |
Jon Glover Sally Grace David Holt Ron Moody Jill Schilling Melissa Sinden |
| Composer(s) | Detlev Kühne |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Theresa Plummer-Andrews (for BBC) Siegmund Grewenig (for WDR) |
| Producer(s) | John M. Mills (series producer) Wolfgang Wegmann (for WDR) Jean-Paul Gaspari (for Praxinos) |
| Editor(s) | John Daniels Ken Morgan |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Telemagination Praxinos |
| Distributor | European Broadcasting Union |
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| Original network | BBC1 |
| Original release | 29 September 1997 – 21 December 1999 |
Noah's Island is an animated television series for children made by the creators of The Animals of Farthing Wood and commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union. It was directed by Emile Bourget, Philippe LeClerc, Alan Simpson, and Frederic Trouillot, with the episodes written by Steve Walker. Each of the 39 episodes ran for 28 minutes. Although not as successful as Farthing Wood, it was fairly popular on Saturday mornings in many British households, particularly with its younger demographic. Based on the Bible story Noah's Ark, the series was praised for its characterization, imaginative storylines and for introducing ecological themes.
The series focused on the adventures of a community of animals on a floating island that was originally part of the Canadian Coastline before being struck by a flaming meteorite. Their leader is a polar bear named Noah, and the community includes a pair of woolly mammoths called Salomi and Mammothsbody, as well as a group of animals from a closed down zoo who survived the sinking of a cargo ship. The Island is able to float because of a core of molten magma called the 'Fire-Bowl', which was formed from the meteorite. Noah uses the Fire-Bowl to steer the Island across the ocean, following a map that Salomi's father drew that leads to Diamantina, an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean where the animals can be safe from humans. During their quest, Noah and the community pass by several continents, rescuing animals in peril wherever they go.
Other animals which join the community on the island's way to Diamantina include a pangolin, a bandicoot, two three-toed sloths, a mongoose, two Spix's macaws, an entire herd of African elephants, and several giant tortoises.
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