Chucklewood Critters

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Chucklewood Critters was an American line of television specials and an animated TV series, which centered on two woodland animals: Buttons, a young bear cub, and Rusty, a fox cub. It started as a Christmas special in 1983 called The Christmas Tree Train, followed by eight more holiday/seasonal specials. In 1997 it was developed into a series entitled The New Chucklewood Critters, which ran for two seasons.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Specials 3 Series 3.1 Season 1 (1997) 3.2 Season 2 (1998) 4 Availability 5 External links

[edit] Characters

• Buttons lives in a cave in Chucklewood Park, along with his parents, Abner and Bridgett.

• Rusty and his parents, George and Rosie, live in the same cave as Buttons' family.

• Ranger Jones, a.k.a. Jonesy, is the park ranger in charge of Chucklewood, and the only regular human character in the series.

• Bearbette and Frisky are a female bear cub and a female fox cub, respectively; they were introduced in the Valentine's Day special, Honeybunch. They live in Chucklewood with Bearbette's parents, Darwin and Bernadine; Frisky is an adopted member of the family.

• Lester is a Cajun alligator who lives in nearby Crystal Bayou, which is where Bearbette and her family lived before moving to Chucklewood; Lester is a close friend of the family.

• Franklin the Owl is the cubs' teacher, who sometimes turns into a rap singer to make the lessons more interesting.

• Freddy the Raccoon is a friend and classmate of the cubs, who tends to be a troublemaker.

• Claude the Coyote is a trader who'll stoop to underhanded means to make a deal; he was introduced in the episode An Eye for a Tooth. His voice is modeled after that of W. C. Fields.

[edit] Specials

• The Christmas Tree Train (1983)
• Which Witch is Which? (1984)
• The Turkey Caper (1985)
• A Chucklewood Easter (1986)
• The Adventure Machine (1991)
• What's Up Mom? (1992)
• Honeybunch (1992)
• 'Twas the Day Before Christmas (1993)
• School Daze (1994)

[edit] Series

[edit] Season 1 (1997)

1. Mudcats Galore
2. Chucklewood Cousins
3. The Salmon are Running
4. The Big One
5. No Cave Like Home
6. Mother Nature's Missing
7. An Eye for a Tooth
8. The Mystery of the Sneaky Snacker
9. Anything You Can Do...?
10. Raging Rivers
11. Scenter of Attention
12. Timeout
13. Family Feud

[edit] Season 2 (1998)

1. Winter Wonder
2. The Creature from Chucklewood Lake
3. Where Did I Come From?
4. Nora Know it Owl
5. Spring Eternal
6. The Gram who Came to Dinner
7. The Wishing Stone
8. Smile Please Lester
9. The Lone Pony
10. Unidentified Furry Object
11. The Treasure of Chucklewood, Part 1: The Search
12. The Treasure of Chucklewood, Part 2: The Rescue
13. Arrival of the Fittest

[edit] Availability

Most of the holiday specials were released on VHS videocassette, but these are now out of print. More recently, the entire series and all the specials have been made available on a four-volume DVD set.

[edit] External links

Series and specials:

• Stephen's UnOfficial Chucklewood Critters Home Page

Specials:

• The Christmas Tree Train at the Internet Movie Database
• A Chucklewood Easter at the Internet Movie Database
• The Turkey Caper at the Internet Movie Database
• Which Witch is Which? at the Internet Movie Database