S01E04: The House Detectives / The Backyard Jungle / The Best Doggone Show in the World
Olie and Zowie must find Percy's keys; Olie grows a giant tomato plant; Telly (Tubey) the Television gets under the weather and the Polies can't watch their favorite show.
Overview
Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior.
Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere reminiscent of the 1950s and early 1960s, with futuristic elements.
Episodes
S01E01 Little Sister, Big Brother / Through Trick and Thin / Bedlam
October 4, 1998 22 min
Olie's getting ready for school. Zowie, as usual, is just happy to be with her big brother. But she's starting to get on his nerves.; Olie wishes he and Spot could be like his TV...
S01E02 Ciminin Toast / I Find Rock / Tooth on the Loose
October 11, 1998 22 min
Olie and Zowie decide to make breakfast for their parents. However, what will they make and will it taste good.; Zowie fids a rock and wants to keep it as a pet. Even though her...
S01E03 Nap for Spot / The Monster Movie Night / The Top Dog Fish
October 18, 1998 22 min
Spot's sleepy and he must find his way.; Olie's friend Billy stays at the Polies for the late-night TV Monster Movie Marathon; When the Polies look after a fish from Olie's school, Spot becomes jealous.
S01E04 The House Detectives / The Backyard Jungle / The Best Doggone Show in the World
October 25, 1998 22 min
Olie and Zowie must find Percy's keys; Olie grows a giant tomato plant; Telly (Tubey) the Television gets under the weather and the Polies can't watch their favorite show.
S01E06 Where's Pappy? / Hopin' and a Hoppin' / Just Like Dad
November 8, 1998 22 min
While Olie and Zowie are baby-sitting Pappy, he tries to teach them a magic trick. The vanishing grandfather trick seems to work too well, though.; Olie's trying to hop through the entire house on one...
It is Spot's birthday and the Polies look back when Spot was first adopted back to the day that Zowie was a baby; Olie pretends to be a knight; a new remote makes everything go...
Olie devises a square world for him and Billy to play in; Zowie has a harmonica; Olie and Billy learn that life without rules isn't always a good thing.
A storm ruins the Polies' plans, but Pappy manages to entertain Olie and Zowie with stories about his childhood.; Mrs. Polie tells Olie to put Zowie down for her nap; however, when Zowie starts to...
Olie and Zowie will be meeting their Uncle Gizmo for the first time. However, aunts and uncles are people to be avoided (according to Billy, that is).; Olie can't decide what to be when he...
S01E13 Scavenger Hunt / What's Up Jack? / Grown Ups and Kids
December 30, 1998 22 min
A scavenger hunt in the backyard; Olie pretends to rescue Zowie's toy dragons from a jack-in-the-box, who pretends to be the bad guy; Olie, Billy and Zowie imagine themselves as the grown-ups and the Polie...