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

Episodes (so far)

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

Production Companies

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

PBS Kids Funding

 * Arby'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 Baley, Riba and Billy Cartoon Skits in the middle of each episode
Grasshorse Studios, Winfield IA

Venue for the concert footage at the end of each episode
US Cellular Center, Cedar Rapids, IA

Studio

 * Iowa PBS Studios, Johnston IA

Filming On Location Areas

 * Mount Pleasant IA
 * Coralville IA
 * Iowa City IA
 * Burlington IA
 * Cedar Rapids IA
 * New Orleans LA

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 (featuring Imagination Movers)
 * Michael Row the Boat Ashore
 * The Beggarman
 * Baa Baa Black Sheep
 * The Black Velvet Band

More Coming Soon

Cover Songs (so far)

 * One Little Coyote (cover of Riders in the Sky)
 * Gotta Hop (cover of Greg & Steve)
 * Morningtown Ride (cover of Malvina Reynolds)

More Coming Soon

Guest Stars (so far)

 * John Steveons Jr.
 * LeBron James
 * Imagination Movers: Rich Collins, Scott Durbin, Dave Poche, Scott Smitty Smith
 * Shaquille O'Neal