
Lunar Jim
Lunar Jim is an animated preschool-oriented stop-motion television show produced in Canada by Halifax Film and Alliance Atlantis, and aired in the USA as well on Discovery Channel and V-Me from 2005-2012. The show is based on an original concept created by Alexander Bar. Season 1 was Executive Produced by Jeff Rosen. It was script-edited in Season one by Peter Sauder. Season two was helmed by award-winning veteran producer/writer Jed MacKay. Ben Zelkowizc provided the voice of Jim. Jim and his team; Rover the Robot Dog, Ripple the Super Space Mechanic, Eco the Farmer, and TED, the Technical Equipment Device, live on Blue Moon L22, the second-to-last moon on the edge of the Milky Way. Focusing on exploration and inquiry, Lunar Jim intends to promote such life skills as problem-solving, persistence, creativity, and cooperation, with an emphasis on "pre-science skills". His rallying cry is "Let's get lunar!"
Seasons

1. Meteor Mystery
Air Date: 2016-01-01

2. That Sinking Feeling
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3. Pest Problem
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4. The Secret of Crystal Cave
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5. The Moon Thief
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6. That's Odd, Where's the Pod?
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7. Up, Up, and Away (almost)
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8. The Whistling Craters
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9. Wrong Way, TED
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10. Running on Empty
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11. Jim Gets Mucky
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12. Forget Me Nots
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13. Recipe for Rover
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14. Voice Recorder TED
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15. Real Slick, TED
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16. The Space Pirate
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17. Puddle Predicament
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18. The Chime Flowers
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Ripple ends up having an unplanned siesta when she wanders into a meadow of sleep-inducingflowers and Jim, Rover and T.E.D. have to find a way to wake her without snoozing themselves.
19. Mind and Muscle
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20. Moonbubbles and Bellyburps
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21. The Big Switcheroo
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22. A Little Moon Music
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23. Rover's Big Dig
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24. The Big Sneeze Mystery
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25. Too Many Fluffies
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26. Jim and TED's Wild Ride
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27. Cosmic Kite
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28. Crater Critter
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29. Lost and Found Friends
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30. Space Junk
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31. Ripple's Moon Blast-Off Board
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32. Force Field Trampoline
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33. The Fallen Star
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34. Big Bowling Bash
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When Jim teaches TED how to bowl, he starts to get obsessed with bowling. He reluctantly goes with Jim and his friends for a treasure search, but the cave with the treasure is blocked by large rocks. It turns out bowling is the solution to the answer when they notice a large boulder on a slope, which could be pushed to knock away the large rocks.
35. Scooperbot Hide'n'Seek
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36. Ripple's Web Sprayer
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37. Moon Mischief
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38. Short Circuit Gloves
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39. I'm Like a Bird
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A beautiful moon bird leads Jim and friends on a merry chase all over the moon. It all comes to a screeching halt when the bird manages to snatch the key to Jim's vehicle and they need to find a way to get it back.
40. Lunar Lily Pads
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Jim's discovery of some marvellous lunar lily pads proves to be just the right solution when Eco and the Hopper end up in a mucky mess.
41. The Topsy Turvy Zone
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Everything is the wrong way around when Jim starts doing everything backwards - he's eating breakfast at night, even flying and walking in reverse. A return trip to the Topsy-Turvy Zone will set him right again.
42. Robo Puzzle
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The team rescues a battered and broken Colby and put their heads together to put him back together.
43. Lunar Litter Bugs
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Jim dives into Stinky Lake to find out what's wrong with the pipes and is thrilled to discover a beautiful underwater world.
44. Rhyme Me a River
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A day in Moonaluna turns into rhyme-time when a stone with special powers is discovered.
45. Incredibly Shrinking TED
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It's a weird and wacky day in Moonaluna when blue moon bananas grow to giant size and poor Ted shrinks smaller than a moon rat. It takes the sweet strains of Eco's music to restore harmony.
46. Rover's Rocket Roamer
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The super robo-pup takes the controls when his small size is just what the team needs to save the supply pod.
47. TED and the Beanstalk
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Intrepid explorer Ted discovers an amazing seed that sprouts like a sky-scraper. But instead of bringing it home to Moonaluna, he has to use it in an "up, up and away" rescue.
48. Moon Pixies
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There's lots of moon monkey business when a shovel plays baseball with a rake, chairs spin on their own and Ted's head get stuck facing backwards. What could be causing all this trouble?
49. Lunar Attraction
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Crashing comets! Ted is bonked on the head by a comet chunk and loses his memory.
50. The Floating Fruit
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After eating some recently discovered fruit, both Jim and Eco experience pretty strange side effects. A balanced diet turns out to be the cure.
51. Cowboy TED
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It's a rootin' tootin' time at the Moonaluna corral as Ted goes western and saves the day with his lassoing skills.
52. A Surprise for Jim
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Happy birthday Jim! It's a fun-filled mission for Jim as he travels around the moon looking for clues that lead to a big surprise.
1. Tag the Dog
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Rover’s dog tag falls off while he’s testing Ripple’s Space Springers, and he loses his sense ofdirection. He’s discovered high up on a column in Crazy Column Cave. Jim uses the SpaceSpringers to jump up to Rover and rescue him.
2. Homemade Circus
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T.E.D. is extremely disappointed when the Super Space Circus has to cancel their visit to MoonaLuna at the last minute. The day is saved when each of the others transforms a work activity into acircus act.
3. T.E.D.’s Big Bang Boomerang
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A blade on the fan of the Ecodome heater has broken, and it’s getting dangerously cold for theplants. Luckily, a replacement fan blade is scheduled to arrive on the Supply Pod.
4. Magnetic Personality
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T.E.D. has trouble figuring out how to use Ripple’s new magnetizer – magnetizing himself insteadof other objects. But when Rover gets marooned on the thin ice of Glassy Lake, it’s a magnetizedT.E.D. who is lowered down to Rover to lift him off the ice and save the day.
5. Moon Mole Madness
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The base is in need of powerstones that Ripple has discovered buried under the lunar surface. Theonly problem is that the surface is too hard for shovels, drills, or the Earth Eater to break through.
6. Ted & The Stick-um Plant
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When T.E.D. inadvertently sticks himself to Delores with Eco’s sticky tree tar, his hand pops freewhen it comes in contact with Ripple’s frozen lunarberry treats. Who knew lunarberries had thatkind of property?
7. March of the Fluffies
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The Fluffies are on their annual march, and nothing can stop their forward progress as they headfor the lunarberry fields. When Pixel reveals that they’re marching straight toward a deep canyon,something that can function as a bridge has to be found quickly. T.E.D. ends up being the bridge,and the Fluffies cross safely.
8. Lunar Laser Flies
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Jim, T.E.D. and Rover investigate a strange glow in a cave. Its lunar laser flies, who becomeattracted to T.E.D. when he inadvertently gets some of their goopy food on him.
9. Poppin’ Pancakes
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Yik Yak has arrived to share a treat from his home planet with the Moona Luna gang – Poppin’Pancakes. These special pancakes start as a small ball of dough, then pop and expand to 100 times itssize. But before anyone can chow down, Jim has to go to on a mission.
10. Night Light
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Skye is preparing a class assignment on night and day. When Ripple announces a distant solar panelis malfunctioning, Jim, T.E.D. and Skye go out to fix it.
11. Moonshrooms
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Jim, Skye and T.E.D. have discovered some colourful small plants on a fruitless mission to locatesome moon clover for Daisy. Jim gives one little plant to Eco, Skye gives one to Ripple, and Jimsaves one for his house. To his dismay, he and Eco discover that the plant is called a Moonshroom,and it grows very quickly once a year
12. Leaf Thief
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It’s a very hot day on Moona Luna. Eco has found a lunar grove where it’s nice and shady. But whenthe gang arrives, all the leaves from the moon trees are gone! It’s too hot to stay outside, so back tothe Ecodome they go – only to discover that leaves are missing from Eco’s apple trees. There’s a leafthief on Moona Luna!
13. Let’s Get Balloonar!
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Jim and Skye search out the source of some mysterious large balloon-shaped orbs that seem to berising from Bottomless Crevasse. Skye disobeys Jim’s warning about getting too close to the edge ofthe crevasse, and they both slide to the bottom.
14. Tight Squeeze
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Yik Yak is enchanted by the sound of air escaping from tires – it reminds him of music back on hishome planet. As the gang heads out to clear some meteorites from a Supply Cave opening, Yik Yakslows their departure by deflating one of the Hopper’s tires so the escaping air can accompany hissong of farewell
15. Popper Berries
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Eco is going to bake some Popper berry pie, so Jim, Skye, Rover and T.E.D. set out to pick some.The only problem is that the berries pop when they’re touched. How can they be picked?
16. Moonport Blues
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After much discussion, our team puts bright blue landing lights instead of red ones on the Moonport.But spaceships stop landing at the Moonport. Rover notices that the spaceships are landing in anotherspot.
17. The Lunar Twist
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T.E.D. discovers a creature called a Dansilla, which only communicates through dance movements.While trying to teach it the Lunar Twist – his favourite dance – T.E.D. gets his leg trapped in a lunarrock pile. It’s up to the Dansilla to try and communicate to the Moona Luna gang that T.E.D. is introuble and needs their help.
18. A Prickly Problem
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A satellite dish is broken and needs to be replaced. When Jim and the gang arrive to replace it,they’re bombarded with thistles by nearby plants.
19. Copy That, Jim!
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Skye has made a new substance – called Clomp – in her lab at the Lunar Academy. It starts off soft,but hardens quite quickly – perfect for making moulds and sculptures. When a gear breaks on thebase’s water pump, a perfect replacement needs to be found quickly!
20. The Space Chompster
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Jim and Ripple have ordered a surprise for Eco – a “Choo Choo” plant. But when Zippity delivers it,there appears to have been something else in the cargo bay – a voracious Space Chompster!
21. The Missing Astronaut
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The gang receives an SOS from a stricken spaceship. They manage to bring it in to the Moonport byremote control, but discover there’s no one on board. A search turns up an escape pod fired from theship, but with only a wilted plant inside. Where is the astronaut?
22. Comet Atchou
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Comet Atchou - a rare comet - passes over Moona Luna, sprinkling everyone with its sparkly dust. Alittle while later Jim, Ripple and Eco unaccountably freeze, statue-like, while Rover, T.E.D. andSkye – who has a bad cold – are unaffected.
23. Where’s Jupiterbug?
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Zippity has left a rare Jupiterbug with the gang for safekeeping while he makes a special delivery forEco. When T.E.D. unwittingly lets the bug out of its terrarium, the race to find it is on – made moredifficult by the bug’s chameleon-like ability to change colour.
24. Hatching A Plan
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A spheroid-shaped UFO has appeared on Moona Luna. The gang takes it back to the base, anddiscovers it’s an egg. They try to hatch it by various means, but are unsuccessful until they return itto where they found it – the place where the conditions were perfect in the first place.
25. The Lunar Leaper
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A Lunar Leaper has leapt onto Moona Luna and threatens the base with its reverberating jumps. Allattempts to tire it out fail, until Jim remembers the soothing music he uses to lull himself to sleep.
26. The No-See-Um Ray
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Yik Yak’s No-See-Um Ray has turned Eco’s apple tree and Daisy invisible. Its antidote, thePeekaboo Ray, has fallen somewhere on Moona Luna. It’s found in the nest of a protective LunarLoon. T.E.D. has to turn himself invisible to retrieve the Peekaboo Ray, and thus return Daisy andEco’s apple tree to visibility.
27. The Homeless Crab
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Jim and the gang try to find a new home for a little Lunar Crab, who has outgrown its old one.They try various possibilities – a box, a flowerpot, a moon melon rind – but finally discover that ahollow rock Jim and Rover found is perfect for the little crab
28. The Bouncing Buzzpip
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Skye needs to get a photo of the elusive Bouncing Buzzpip for a project at the Lunar Academy.Many people have tried, but the Buzzpip will never stay still long enough.
29. T.E.D.’s Pet
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Zippity has brought T.E.D. a new pet. Everyone else thinks it’s just a rock, but T.E.D. insists it’s avery special rock, named Jeffrey. He teaches it tricks, takes it for walks, lets it have a nap, andfinds other moon rock friends for it.
30. Yik Yak in the Crater
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While T.E.D. and Yik Yak are fooling around out at Crater Corner, Yik Yak gets firmly stuck in acrater. All attempts to free him fail, until Eco realizes he can use the pent up gas from his barrel ofFizzyberry juice to blow Yik Yak out of his trap in the crater.
31. Wind Power
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T.E.D. creates havoc when he reverses the motor on Ripple’s vacuum cleaner and blows Zippityright up his conveyor belt into his Mail Rocket. But when Rover is trapped in a Supply Cave by arockslide, all attempts to free him fail until T.E.D. realizes the motor on the Sampler can bereversed.
32. Lunar Legs
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After rescuing Yik Yak – who has gotten himself stuck in a plant – by using some Yik Yak SlikSlak, (a lubricant from Yik Yak’s planet), Jim learns the Yik Yak handshake – high five, low five,palm tickle. Yik Yak has the opportunity to help Eco and Ripple with his Slik Slak – and teachthem his handshake, too. When Jim, Eco and Ripple come down with Lunar Legs – an ailmentwhich causes their legs to move crazily for a while - no one can figure out how they got it.
33. Moonbeard’s Treasure
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Jim discovers an ancient treasure map hidden by Moonbeard, an ancient Space Pirate. It promises atreasure of “Ruby, sapphire, emerald, gold”. The gang has to decipher three clues to find thetreasure – which turns out to be the root-ball of a tree. They plant it, and a Rainbow Tree sprouts,revealing branches of "ruby, sapphire, emerald, and gold".
34. Rocket Pack T.E.D.
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T.E.D. disobeys Ripple’s wishes and tries out her new invention, a rocket pack. There’s only oneproblem – he doesn’t know how to land! Both Jim and Skye try to rescue him – unsuccessfully.Ripple’s Space Pillow Foam – invented to protect Delores’ eggs from breaking – is hastily spreadover the Moonport just as T.E.D.’s fuel runs out above them.
35. Skater T.E.D.
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T.E.D. loves practicing on his new skateboard. The only problem? He keeps getting in everyoneelse’s way! But when the Scrambler breaks down on a mission to get some Cosmic Cactus juicefor Zippity to take on an emergency run to another base, it’s T.E.D. who saves the day.
36. Space Symphony
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The Moona Luna gang is going to perform a live music piece for an intergalactic broadcast. ButT.E.D. doesn’t have an instrument! He and Jim set off to find one.
37. A Major Problem
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T.E.D. klongs his head on Zippity’s mail hatch door as he rushes to get his latest copy of hisfavorite comic “Rocket Robot”. His circuits get scrambled and he thinks he’s Rocket Robot.
38. The Real Ripple
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Ripple is accidentally duplicated by a space copier. Confronted by two Ripples, the gang has tofigure out which one is genuine? Luckily, a “likes and dislikes” quiz T.E.D. gave everyone at thestart of the show provides the clue to revealing the real Ripple.
39. A Sticky Situation
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Eco and Skye, and then Jim, get stuck to a fruit while trying to pick it. Ripple comes to the rescue,but its Rover who notices birds can land on and take off from the fruit with no problem – afterthey’ve landed on a nearby bush. Closer examination reveals pollen on the bush’s flowers, whichnegates the stickiness on the fruit.
40. The Squawker
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A baby bird’s loud squawks are disturbing everyone and making work impossible. Attempts tocalm it down are all unsuccessful, unless T.E.D. is present. The problem is the baby bird keepspecking at the coloured wristband T.E.D. is wearing to remind him of the chores he has to do.Eventually they realize that the colour of T.E.D.’s wristband reminds the baby of its mother’sfeathers.
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Rating
7.0/10
Release Date
2016-01-01
Episodes
92 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
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Videos
Production Companies

CBC

Alliance Atlantis

Halifax Film Company