The Animal Friends (TV Show)

The Animal Friends is a high energy music live-action children's TV show with the band of the same name living in a treehouse in a forest

Intersitials

 * Interviews with Real Kids (start)
 * Riba and Baley Cartoons (middle)
 * Exercise with Billy and Rangers Dave & Julie (end)

Locations in the series

 * The Treehouse
 * Billy's Dam by the Stone Bridge
 * Riba and Baley's Burrow
 * Forest REC Center
 * Animal Daycare

Episodes (so far)

 * Riba's Basketball
 * Kyle and Moss are Stuck
 * A Forest Wedding
 * Billy's Soccer Showdown
 * Baley's Cold
 * Going Nuts
 * Scary Ghosts

Production Companies

 * Iowa PBS Kids
 * Music'n'More Studios
 * Sony Pictures Television

Sound Effects Companies Used

 * Sound Ideas Series 4000
 * Warner Bros. Sound Library
 * Hanna Barbera Sound Library

PBS Kids Funding

 * Culver's
 * The Children's Music Fund
 * St. Jude Children's Hospital
 * The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
 * SmileTrain
 * Contributions to your PBS Station from Viewers Like You, Thank You

Animation Company for the Riba and Baley Cartoon Skits in the middle of each episode
Grasshorse Studios, Winfield IA

Studio

 * Iowa PBS Studios, Johnston IA

Filming On Location Areas

 * Mount Pleasant IA
 * Coralville IA
 * Iowa City IA
 * Burlington IA
 * Cedar Rapids IA

Traditional Songs (so far)
(The ones that are guest star duets are in bold)


 * Long Legged Sailor (tune used for the theme song)
 * BINGO
 * Itsy Bitsy Spider
 * Down by the Bay
 * Pay Me My Money Down
 * He's Got the Whole World in his Hands
 * Loch Lomond
 * Jim Along Jose
 * The Green Grass Grew All Around
 * Marie's Wedding
 * This Little Light of Mine
 * Arkansas Traveler
 * Apples and Bananas
 * Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
 * Mary Had a Little Lamb
 * She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain (featuring John Stevens Jr)
 * John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
 * Michael Finnegan
 * Over in the Meadow
 * The Wheels on the Bus
 * Polly Wolly Doodle
 * Alice the Camel has Five Humps
 * If You're Happy and You Know It
 * Risseldy Rosseldy
 * Michael Row the Boat Ashore
 * The Beggarman
 * Baa Baa Black Sheep
 * The Black Velvet Band
 * Brown Girl in the Ring (titled as White Bunny in the Ring)
 * Three Little Fishies
 * Tingolayo
 * Wee Willie Winkie
 * Halloween Song

More Coming Soon

Cover Songs (so far)

 * One Little Coyote (original by Riders in the Sky)
 * Gotta Hop (original by Greg & Steve)
 * Little Children (original by Brian Wilson)
 * Morningtown Ride (original by Malvina Reynolds)
 * The Wellerman (original by Nathan Evans)

More Coming Soon

Guest Stars (so far)

 * John Steveons Jr.
 * LeBron James
 * Shaquille O'Neal
 * Alex Padilla