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
 * Riba and Baley Cartoons
 * Exercise with Billy and Rangers Dave & Julie
 * Songs

The Treehouse
The main home for The Animal Friends, it has a fridge of forest-grown fruits, furniture made out of deer hide, and instruments where Zach, Allison, Owen, and Kyle practice their music

Billy's Dam by the Stone Bridge
The home and Woodcarving stand owned by Billy Beaver is across the stone bridge from the treehouse, Rangers Dave and Julie's Cabin is next door, and it's filmed on location at Saunders Park Pavilion in Mount Pleasant Iowa

Riba and Baley's Burrow
The home of Baley Bunny and Riba Rabbit is underground like most bunnies, It has Hispanic furniture

Forest REC Center
The place where the Animal Friends and their pals exercise and prepare for sporting events, it is filmed on location at the Mount Pleasant REC Center

Animal Daycare
The place where the Animal Friends play with real kids, sometimes the games give each of the Animal Friends a solution to a problem.

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
 * Billy's Tap Lesson
 * Dave and Julie's New Baby

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
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
 * Five Little Ducks
 * The Beggarman
 * Baa Baa Black Sheep
 * Five Currant Buns (titled as Five Chocolate Buns)
 * 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
 * Johnny Works With One Hammer (titled as Billy Works with One Hammer)
 * Phil the Fluter's Ball
 * Haru Ga Kita
 * Old Dan Tucker
 * Mister Sun

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)
 * Hey Dum Diddly Dum (original by Sharon, Lois, and Bram)
 * The Wellerman (original by Nathan Evans)

Songs Based on Books (so far)

 * Deep in the Swamp

More Coming Soon

More Coming Soon

Guest Stars (so far)

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