Windfalls

Genre	Children's television Educational television
Created by	Jenny Kenna
Written by	Jenny Kenna
Directed by	Jenny Kenna
Voices of	Peter Hawkins
Narrated by	Peter Hawkins
Theme music composer	Joan Alexis
ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Joan Alexis
Template:Pluralize from text of origin	United Kingdom
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	26
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Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Graham Clutterbuck
ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Maya Kemp
EditorTemplate:Pluralize from text	Andi Sloss
Running time	5 minutes
Production Template:Pluralize from text	FilmFair Central Independent Television
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Network	ITV
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Windfalls is a British stop motion-animated children's television series created, written, and directed by Jenny Kenna. The Windfalls stories teach children about reading signs in nature, herbal medicine, and the plants of the British countryside. All of the animated characters are real leaves, grasses, and pressed flowers.

Plot and plant-based characters

The stories follow three friends: Berry, Butterbur, and Rosebay. They are Windfalls, and they live in Windfall Land. They meet many other Windfalls on their adventures. The programme features a cast of 23 supporting characters, each designed from a different plant: Cornflower, Daisy, Uncle Onion, Bella Donna, Evening Primrose, Delphinium, Nettle, Dock, Foxglove, Pampas, Daffodil, Fern Polypody, Thistle, Cowslip, Clover, Lucky Four-Leaf Clover, Vi, Ola, Pansy, Couch Grass, Twitch Grass, Holly and Ivy.

Production

Windfalls was produced by FilmFair and Central Independent Television for ITV; it premiered on 14 April 1989, and ran for 26 episodes. Two episodes were transmitted back-to-back for each broadcast. When the series was syndicated on other networks, such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia, Knowledge Network and TVO in Canada, Channel 5 in Singapore and TVNZ's Channel 2 in New Zealand, the episodes were broadcast singly. The series was also broadcast on the military channel BFBS in Germany as well as in several countries including Cyprus and the Falkland Islands but with the series transmitted back to back with two episodes just like its original UK television airings.

The programme was animated by Isabelle Perrichon, who later worked on the FilmFair animated series Rod 'n' Emu (1991).

Episodes

• Fine Weather Friend
• Bella Donna
• An Evening with Primrose
• Rosebay Needs a Home
• The Wild Ones
• Nettle and Dock
• Pampas
• Weather Signs
• Springtime
• Flying Flowers
• Green with Envy
• Creatures of the Night
• Cowslip Needs Protection
• The String
• Light and Shade
• Honey Day
• Lucky Scarecrows
• Country Cousins
• The Oak Tree
• Butterbur's Marsh
• Brumble Shrub
• The Red Toadstool
• Autumn Changes
• The Invader
• Winter in Windfall Land

Home releases

Little Croft Studios distributed 18 of the 26 episodes of the series on three VHS videotapes, sold separately. Each volume has six stories:

Learn to Love Nature with the Windfalls

"Light and Shade", "The Oak Tree", "The Red Toadstool", "Autumn in Windfall Land", "The Invaders", "Winter in Windfall Land"

Learn to Love the Countryside with the Windfalls

"Country Cousins", "Weather Signs", "Lucky", "Flying Flowers", "Bramble Shrub", "Nettle and Dock"

Learn to Love the Flowers and the Trees with the Windfalls

"Fine Weather Friend", "Bella Donna", "An Evening with Primrose", "Butterbur's Marsh", "Cowslip Needs Protection", "Honey Day"

References

• Windfalls at the BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 4 January 2013
• Windfalls at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata

External links

• Windfalls, an episode guide at Toonarific. Retrieved 6 January 2013.