Green Balloon Club

Series 1: Green Balloon Club (2008–2009)

Green Balloon Club is a wildlife club on CBeebies, both on screen and online. It is hosted by 4 children: Lily-Rose who loves flowers and plants, Ant whose specialty is minibeasts, Cat who is the animals expert and Jay whose interest is in birds. Together with Skipper the dog and their balloonist, Sky, the children fly around the UK looking out for other Green Balloon Club Members and having a look at what wildlife they have in their patch. Special reporters for the programme are Jelly ( The Story Makers, CBeebies Springwatch), Nature Chris and Bill Oddie. The programme was conceived and made by Clare Bradley, Lotte Elwell and the CBeebies Production team, and grew out of their previous award-winning work on CBeebies Springwatch and Autumnwatch.

The show was originally part of the "EcoBeebies" brand. It started with a launch show named Easy Peasy Eco Beebies on 13 June 2008, and this was followed by 48 episodes, one every week from 20 June 2008 to 29 May 2009.

Each episode starts with the children doing the register, then joining in with the "Green Balloon Club" chant. At the end of the show, the balloon "lands" and everybody sings a song.

Series 2: Green Balloon Scrapbook (2010)

In 2010, a new series titled "Green Balloon Scrapbook," consisting of 15 episodes, was created to depict the activities of the Green Team outside of their time in the Green Balloon. The format involved different team members using a laptop to discover the endeavors of other Green Balloon Club members. This series also featured two special episodes dedicated to songs. Additionally 5 holiday specials were produced in 2009 (broadcast 2010), with the team visiting the Isle of Arran and a further 5 holiday programmes from Belfast when the team became zookeepers in Belfast zoo for a week. Lastly, the Winter Special, a winter camping adventure which was the final programme, recorded in November 2009. "

Songs

All the music for the series was written by Paul Moessl and performed by the cast.

Cast

The cast were ordinary children all found at extensive auditions. Jake Pratt was the only one of the children who was at drama school. Isabella Blake-Thomas was the youngest at just 5 when she started on the series.

Production Team

Ratings

Episode viewing figures from BARB.

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Green Balloon Scrapbook

Note: episode 13 was not shown between episodes 12 and 14, as it was shown within the Christmas schedule