Between the Lions

S01E04: Farmer Ken's Puzzle

Lionel plays a computer game called ""Farmer Ken's Puzzle"", in which he must figure out how to get a hen, cat, and bag of seed, across a river one at a time. When Leona wants to play, Lionel refuses to let her, claiming: ""The box says ages 7 and up! Not 4 and down.""

Overview

Between the Lions is a PBS Kids puppet television series designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, in Mississippi. The show has won seven Daytime Emmy awards between 2001 and 2007. The target audience is children 4 to 7 years old. It has the same puppet style as Sesame Street and several season 2 episodes, notably in Dance in Smarty Pants, had a few characters from Sesame Street guest appearing. Between The Lions started its 10th and final season on September 20, 2010. The Show Ended in November, 22 2010 Along with Reading Rainbow

Episodes

S01E01 Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West

April 3, 2000 30 min
Theo reads the cubs a book about the wild adventures of Pecos Bill, specifically about the time ol' Bill wrangled a tornado. When the tornado escapes from the book, however, and wreaks havoc inside the...

S01E02 The Lost Rock

April 4, 2000 30 min
A lost rock mysteriously appears in the library, and he can't remember who he is or where he comes from. The lions then decide to set out and search for clues as to what book...

S01E03 Little Big Mouse

April 5, 2000 30 min
When a mouse from a children's book becomes a hero, everyone in the library floods her with fan mail - which leaves Click the Computer mouse feeling unwanted.

S01E04 Farmer Ken's Puzzle

April 6, 2000 30 min
Lionel plays a computer game called ""Farmer Ken's Puzzle"", in which he must figure out how to get a hen, cat, and bag of seed, across a river one at a time. When Leona wants...

S01E05 Shooting Stars

April 7, 2000 30 min
The lions try to stay awake at night, in order to see a meteor shower. Of course, this is not as easy as it sounds, as Theo says, ""Lions need a solid 22 hours of...
The Hopping Hen

S01E06 The Hopping Hen

April 9, 2000 30 min
A Hopping Hen causes a mighty ruckus in the library, so the lions decide to put up ""No Hopping Hen Here"" signs, in order to stop the problem. But the problem is only beginning, because...

S01E07 Touching the Moon

April 11, 2000 30 min
Cleo reads the cubs a bedtime story about a Queen who wants to be able to touch the moon, but can't. However, Leona is then unable to get to sleep without wanting to learn more...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf

S01E08 The Boy Who Cried Wolf

April 12, 2000 30 min
Click the Mouse brings the Boy from the story ""The Boy Who Cried Wolf"" out of the storybook, so he can learn more about how to properly care for his sheep.

S01E09 Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?

April 13, 2000 30 min
The famous Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear from the classic children's rhyme visits the library, where everyone is immediately caught up in ""Fuzzy Wuzzy Mania!"" Everyone except Lionel, because if he hears that danged rhyme once more,...

S01E10 Lionel's Antlers

April 14, 2000 30 min
Lionel wakes up one morning, much like he does every day, to find that overnight, he's grown a pair of antlers on his head! To help him feel better, Cleo reads him the book ""Imogene's...

S01E11 To the Ship! To the Ship!

April 16, 2000 30 min
The lions learn about a real-life pirate named Ann Bonnie, after Lionel refuses to let Leona play pirates with him (claiming that there was no such thing as girl pirates).

S01E12 The Chap With Caps

April 18, 2000 30 min
Writer Babs Caplan visits the library, hoping to smooth out the bumps in her new book, called ""The Chap With Caps"". It's going to need more than just a little smoothing out - because it...

S01E13 Pandora's Box

April 19, 2000 30 min
After reading the story ""Pandora's Box"", Lionel and Leona come across a similar-looking box, themselves, and wonder if they should open it or not. Apparently ignoring the moral of the story, they open it, and...

S01E14 Lionel's Great Escape Trick

April 20, 2000 30 min
Lionel gets a few pointers on the technique of doing magic tricks, from the master magician Harry Houdini, himself. When he locks himself in the closet for his act, though, Leona fears that he's stuck...

S01E15 There's a Fly in My Soup

April 20, 2000 30 min
The Lions try to make Click laugh by reading jokes out of Theo's ""The Universal Encyclopedia of Fly Jokes"" book, only to find out from Click that computer pointing devices are not programmed for laughter....

S01E16 The Popcorn Popper

April 23, 2000 30 min
Lionel and Leona read a book about a popcorn popper, and get the idea to take the popper out of the book and into the library, so they can pop all the popcorn they want.

S01E17 Something Fishy

April 25, 2000 30 min
Lionel and Leona learn about Eagles and Fish after reading Cliffhanger's latest adventure.

S01E18 Hug, Hug, Hug!

April 26, 2000 30 min
A sculpter named Pygmalion carves a statue of a woman, falls in love with her, and gives her a hug - only she can't hug him back. The Lions then try to help find ways...

S01E19 The Ram in the Pepper Patch

April 27, 2000 30 min
The naughty ram from the book ""The Ram in the Pepper Patch"" escapes into the library, where he proceeds to make a mess out of everything!

S01E20 A Peck of Peppers

April 28, 2000 30 min
Babs Caplan comes to the library to create a fantastic tongue twister, with some help from the Lions. Then, Babs and Leona go head-to-head with the master of all Tongue Twisters, Lionel.

S01E21 Sausage Nose

May 1, 2000 30 min
The Lions watch a video of a foreign film called ""Sausage Nose"", in which a poor couple receives three wishes from a wise old woman. Somehow, a sausage gets wished onto the wife's nose, and...

S01E22 Red Hat, Green Hat

May 2, 2000 30 min
Leona makes her very own hat, with one red side and one green side. When she walks through the library with it on, one group of people see the green side, and the other group...

S01E23 The Lucky Duck

May 3, 2000 30 min
A cute little duck from a cute little children's book becomes sick and tired of being cute all the time! With Lionel's help, the duck tries to become a rock-n-rollin' leather-clad rebel, but no matter...

S01E24 The Old Man

May 4, 2000 30 min
Babs Caplan returns to the library to work on her new book called ""The Old Man"". Unfortunately, it has no middle or end to it! But with the Lions' help, Babs just might be able...

S01E25 A King and His Hawk

May 5, 2000 30 min
Lionel and Leona read a very sad story about a King and his friend, the Hawk. After, Leona wants to take and hide the book where no will be able to find it, so they...

S01E26 The Roar That Makes Them Run

May 8, 2000 30 min
Lionel and Leona try to convince Theo to show them his Lion-powered ""Mighty Roar that Makes them Run"", but Theo is reluctant to do so -- after all, they're in a library!

S01E27 Piggyback, Piggyback

May 9, 2000 30 min
After reading a book about a king who rode on his friend's back (because he didn't want to get his feet dirty), Leona wants to do the same. So she hops on her dad's back,...

S01E28 The Fox and the Crow

May 10, 2000 30 min
When ""The Fox and the Crow"" fable is read in the library, Walter and Clay get angry over the way the crow was depicted as a ""bird brain"", and then protest to have the story...

S01E29 Giants and Cubs

May 11, 2000 30 min
Lionel gets upset over the outcome of a baseball game, where the Giants clobbered the Cubs. Theo and Cleo decide it would be a good idea to bring the Giants into the library, for Lionel...

S01E30 Be Bop

May 12, 2000 30 min
The jazzy, rhythmic sounds of Be Bop make their way into the library one day, and soon everyone is singing nonsensical Be Bop tunes -- everyone except Barnaby B. Busterfield III, who claims he just...

Cast

Peter Linz
Peter Linz
Theo
Jennifer Barnhart
Jennifer Barnhart
Cleo
Anthony Asbury
Lionel
Kathryn Mullen
Kathryn Mullen
Leona
Heather Asch
Heather Asch
Click / Clay Pigeon
Tyler Bunch
Tyler Bunch
Dr. Nitwhite / Walter Pigeon
Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Westheimer
Dr. Ruth Wordheimer
Chris Phillips
Chris Phillips
Cliff Hanger (voice)
Fred Newman
Fred Newman
Pam Arciero
Pam Arciero
David Matthew Feldman
Tim Lagasse
Tim Lagasse
Arty Smartypants

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