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'''Edward and Friends '''was the LEGO company's first ever foray into TV animation. It was a young children's TV show with the runtime of 5 minutes based on their then-running line ''Fabuland'', it was set around the characters of that line, most notably, who else, Edward Elephant and his friends such as Lionel Lion and Bonnie Bunny, and it would usually have some kind of moral for the children every episode. It was made by Film Fair Productions in the usual stop motion puppet style (not actual LEGO stop-motion, though some elements may strongly resemble actual LEGO) and aired in 1987 and continued to air in 1988 in the UK and in Canada on TVO..
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'''''Edward and Friends'' '''was the LEGO company's first-ever foray into TV animation. It was a young children's TV show with a runtime of 5 minutes based on their then-running line ''Fabuland'', it was set around the characters of that line, most notably, who else, Edward Elephant and his friends such as Lionel Lion and Bonnie Bunny, and it would usually have some kind of moral for the children every episode. It was made by Film Fair Productions in the usual stop-motion puppet style (not actual LEGO stop-motion, though some elements may strongly resemble actual LEGO) and aired in 1987 and continued to air in 1988 in the UK and in Canada on TVO.


Unfortunately, the series has had limited home media releases. While there were two VHS home releases, they were discontinued in 1993 and only contained 18 of the originally assumed 20 episodes. The last two are "Christmas in Fabuland" and "Edward and the big balloon". The former is a Christmas special (aired on Christmas day) about Edward inventing a weather machine to make it snow, but instead causes a blizzard that will possibly prevent Santa from landing in Fabuland, and the latter is about Edward discovering what he thinks is a big balloon, but is told by Lionel Lion is a hot air balloon
==Availability==
The series had a mostly complete but not whole home media release, being published in the UK. The first VHS released was ''Edward Gets the Hiccups and 8 Other Stories: Volume 1'', being the first season of the series. The second was a promotional VHS called '''A Taste of' Edward and Friends'', which included 'Edward to the Rescue', 'The Play', 'A Day for Skating', 'Bonnie and the Mole', and 'Max and the Rainbow'. The third was a season 2 release, named ''Edward to the Rescue and 8 Other Stories: Volume 2''. The next two UK releases would be rereleases of Volume 1 and 2 under the ''Children's Choice'' label.


In addition, there were apparently more episodes of the series made. Brickipedia for one, claims two other episodes were made: "Catherine's Cake" and "A Trust To Nature" (also known as "Edward's Butterfly" when reran CBeebies), the former about Edward eating a cake Catherine Cat was going to serve Lucy Lamb for her patients at Fabuland Hospital upon him and his friends' arrival at her house and Catherine hopefully being able to make another cake before Lucy gets back from France, and the latter is apparently the final episode of the show and an Earth Day special (despite the production being British-based and based off of a Danish property) where the characters have the 22nd Annual Earth Day Bug-Off and Edward encounters a butterfly (hence the alternative title), Bonnie accidentally hits Max on the head when trying to catch bugs, to who she thought was a bug only to have them rush back to the Bug-Off at the bush of the butterfly after they realise it's late and the host Lionel Lion started to get concerned, and after they all go to sleep they awake to find that the butterfly has returned to Edward in a cage and is soon put on his writing desk. Incidentally, it is the 22nd Bug-Off because of the episode's number and airdate (April 22nd, 1988).
Volume 1 and 2 would be released in Hungary in a new dub, with notably them containing eight additional episodes not seen in the UK release. These would be known from their television broadcast as ''Edward and the Big Balloon'', ''Catherin's Cake'', ''The Great Race'', ''The Snowfall'', ''The Clock Tower'', ''Clive Is Taller'', ''Edward and the Statue'', and ''The Expedition''. Despite all three sets of episodes airing on TV nearly back-to-back, these eight episodes would be considered 'specials', and not a third season.


These episodes were all considered lost for a while, until most of them resurfaced on YouTube in a video by ElektroMágia TV that contained a heap of the show's episodes in Hungarian dubbing: "Christmas in Fabuland" (01:25:25 - 01:30:27), "Edward and the big balloon" (01:45:33 - 01:50:35) and "Catherine's Cake" (00:05:09 - 00:10:12), confirming the episode's existence (and possibly "A Trust to Nature"), which means that the original English dubs for these episodes remain frivilous, as well as "A Trust to Nature".
Out of the 26 episodes, 18 are available in English, and 20 are available in Hungarian.


And not only that, but the video in question also has five episodes that were not known to have existed before (some of their titles couldn't be translated). The first one called "The Great Race" (01:20:31 - 01:25:25) has the characters in a cliche competitive race against each other, possibly in homage to the famous comedy film. The second one "The Clock Tower" (01:40:28 - 01:45:33) is about the characters doing something about the town's clock tower, possibly fixing it. The third one "Kornel magasabb" (01:50:35 - 01:55:35) has the characters, namely Clive Crocodile and Edward, on stilts, possibly in relation to height. The fourth one "Eduard es a szobor" (01:55:35 - 02:00:39) features an important statue arriving but accidentally getting broken upon arrival, leading to Edward and his friends trying to come up with a solution to the problem. And the last one "A Felfedezout" (02:05:41 - 02:10:50) features the characters on yet another ship cruise with Wilfred Walrus.
It was speculated that they were two more episodes of the series, being ''A Trust To Nature'' (also supposedly renamed ''Edward's Butterfly'' during its run on CBeebies) and ''Christmas in Fabuland''. However, it would later be confirmed that they were only in book form.


So if the elusive "A Trust to Nature" episode and original English dubs for all of the other preceding episodes can resurface at this point, and if there are any other lost episodes, is anyone's guess.
{| class="wikitable"
==The Found English-dubbed Episodes==
! Episode Title !! English Availability!! Hungarian Availability
These are taken from the two aforementioned volumes of the show released on VHS.
|-
|Edward Gets the Hiccups||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|Lionel's Party||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|Boris Gets a Scooter||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Clive's Kite||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|Bertie's First Case||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Edward and the Camera||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/ZJFXdw5g2M8<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Edward Joins the Band||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|Edward Goes Jogging||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|Wilfred's Treasure||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/ABS1QW2IYPo<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Edward to the Rescue||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/UzADMzAr-9M<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|The Play||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|A Day for Skating||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Bonnie and the Mole||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/jOcdIZLHEds<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Max and the Rainbow||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|Wilfred's Rocking Chair||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/LlvmCL-7fWw<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Edward Tries to Help||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Lionel's Car||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/w-kDG9VEWC4<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|A Robot for Max||[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxixAGwsBa_eKne3wAtFsz3KPXUbsgWS<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Edward and the Big Balloon||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Catherin's Cake||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/LlvmCL-7fWw<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|The Great Race||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|The Snowfall||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|The Clock Tower||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Clive Is Taller||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|Edward and the Statue||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|The Expedition||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/Xm5tRnxK-a0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|}


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Latest revision as of 18:53, 21 August 2023

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Title card.

Status: Partially Lost

Edward and Friends was the LEGO company's first-ever foray into TV animation. It was a young children's TV show with a runtime of 5 minutes based on their then-running line Fabuland, it was set around the characters of that line, most notably, who else, Edward Elephant and his friends such as Lionel Lion and Bonnie Bunny, and it would usually have some kind of moral for the children every episode. It was made by Film Fair Productions in the usual stop-motion puppet style (not actual LEGO stop-motion, though some elements may strongly resemble actual LEGO) and aired in 1987 and continued to air in 1988 in the UK and in Canada on TVO.

Availability

The series had a mostly complete but not whole home media release, being published in the UK. The first VHS released was Edward Gets the Hiccups and 8 Other Stories: Volume 1, being the first season of the series. The second was a promotional VHS called 'A Taste of' Edward and Friends, which included 'Edward to the Rescue', 'The Play', 'A Day for Skating', 'Bonnie and the Mole', and 'Max and the Rainbow'. The third was a season 2 release, named Edward to the Rescue and 8 Other Stories: Volume 2. The next two UK releases would be rereleases of Volume 1 and 2 under the Children's Choice label.

Volume 1 and 2 would be released in Hungary in a new dub, with notably them containing eight additional episodes not seen in the UK release. These would be known from their television broadcast as Edward and the Big Balloon, Catherin's Cake, The Great Race, The Snowfall, The Clock Tower, Clive Is Taller, Edward and the Statue, and The Expedition. Despite all three sets of episodes airing on TV nearly back-to-back, these eight episodes would be considered 'specials', and not a third season.

Out of the 26 episodes, 18 are available in English, and 20 are available in Hungarian.

It was speculated that they were two more episodes of the series, being A Trust To Nature (also supposedly renamed Edward's Butterfly during its run on CBeebies) and Christmas in Fabuland. However, it would later be confirmed that they were only in book form.

Episode Title English Availability Hungarian Availability
Edward Gets the Hiccups Found Lost
Lionel's Party Found Lost
Boris Gets a Scooter Found Found
Clive's Kite Found Lost
Bertie's First Case Found Found
Edward and the Camera Found Found
Edward Joins the Band Found Lost
Edward Goes Jogging Found Lost
Wilfred's Treasure Found Found
Edward to the Rescue Found Found
The Play Found Found
A Day for Skating Found Found
Bonnie and the Mole Found Found
Max and the Rainbow Found Lost
Wilfred's Rocking Chair Found Found
Edward Tries to Help Found Found
Lionel's Car Found Found
A Robot for Max Found Found
Edward and the Big Balloon Lost Found
Catherin's Cake Lost Found
The Great Race Lost Found
The Snowfall Lost Found
The Clock Tower Lost Found
Clive Is Taller Lost Found
Edward and the Statue Lost Found
The Expedition Lost Found

Reference

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