Franklin is an American-Canadian-French children's animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois, and produced by Nelvana, Big Bang Digital Studios, LuxAnimation, Alphanim, Taffy Entertainment, and Mike Young Productions. It has since been taken off the air and replaced with a new adaptation, Franklin and Friends.
The animated Franklin has also appeared in several TV-movies: Franklin and the Green Knight (2002), Franklin's Magic Christmas (2003), and Back to School with Franklin (2005).
Plot[]
Franklin focuses on the eponymous growing young turtle who, as his television stories and books always begins with counting by twos, and tying his shoes. He goes to school, lives in a small village called Woodland with his friends, and has many adventures playing and learning in the world around him, sometimes with the helping hand of an adult such as his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Turtle. Franklin likes swimming, arts and crafts (especially drawing), and loves shoofly pie. He's been known to be afraid of the dark and thunderstorms. Franklin has a best friend named Bear, as well as a blue blanket and a blue stuffed dog named Sam. In earlier seasons, he sleeps with his blanket and Sam. When Franklin is scared by thunderstorms, Sam and his blue blanket help keep him calm instruments.
Cast[]
- Noah Reid
- Cole Caplan
- Cameron Ansell
- Bryn McAuley
- Elizabeth Brown
- Richard Newman