Finding Time
- Studio
- 9 Story Entertainment, WGBH Boston, TV Ontario, Discovery Kids
- Distributor
- Alliance Atlantis Video (Canada)
Synopsis
Here's the good news: Quack is turning into a duck-fish! Here's the bad news: it's a little hard to prove.
Characters
Peep, Quack, Chirp, Ant, Beaver Boy, Beaver Dad, Beaver Mom, Bee, Blue Jays, Bunny #1, Bunny #2, Bunny #3, Dragonfly, Fish, Fish Jr., Frog, Hoot, Nellie, Newton, Porcupine, Rabbit, Raccoon, Robin, Skunk, Squeak, Squirrel, Tom, Tom the Cat
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Rick Marshall, Steven Boeckler
- Assistant Director
- Jamie Whitney
Producing
- Producer
- Marisa Wolsky
- Executive Producer
- Kate Taylor
- Executive Producer (Discovery Kids)
- Jessica Hanlon-Rapsas
- Supervising Producer (Discovery Kids)
- Melinda Toporoff
- Senior Producer
- Vince Commisso
- Coordinating Producers
- Paul Higgins, Steve Jarosz
- Creative Producer
- Kai Pindal
- Live Action Producer
- Geoff Adams
- Associate Producer (Live Action)
- Peter Bowden
Writing
- Writer
- Glen Berger, Kathy Waugh, Peter K. Hirsch
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Joan Cusack (Narrator), Scott Beaudin (Peep), Jamie Watson (Quack), Amanda Soha (Chirp), Rob Tinkler (Ant, Frog), Tessa Marshall (Beaver Boy), Phil Wiliams (Beaver Dad), Kathy Laskey (Beaver Mom, Blue Jay, Robin, Squeak), Diana Peressini (Bee), David Huband (Blue Jay, Porcupine), Melanie Tonello (Bunny #1), Raquel Cadilha (Bunny #2), Alexander Conti (Bunny #3), Cathy Disher (Dragonfly), John McGrath (Fish), Phoebe McCauley (Fish Jr.), Corinne Conley (Hoot), Marium Carvell (Nellie), Colin Fox (Newton), Jayne Eastwood (Rabbit), Jeff Lumby (Raccoon), Adrian Truss (Skunk), Peter Wildman (Squirrel), Alex Hood (Tom), Matthew Knight (Tom the Cat)
Crew
- Head Writer
- Kathy Waugh
- Opening Song Performed By
- Taj Mahal
- Casting Director
- Karen Goora
- Production Manager
- Tia Menich
- Post-Production Manager
- Jason Held
- Storyboard Supervisor
- Stuart Shankly
- Storyboard Artists
- Mike Czunyoscka, Gabrielle Godoy, Greg Hill, Arna Selznick, Stuart Shankly, John Van Bruggen, Jamie Whitney
- Storyboard Clean-Up Artist
- Hong Qi
- Graphic Designers
- Chris Pullman, Elles Gianocostas, Peter Lyons
- Graphic Supervisor
- Jamie Whitney
- Sound Mix Engineer
- Glenn Barna
- Sound Recording Assistant
- Kerry Bone
- Sound Supervisor
- Chris Harris
- Sound Effects Editor
- Michael Mancuso
- Dialogue Editor
- Joe Tetreau
- Production Coordinators
- Catherine Anderson, Jason Cooke
- Production Assistants
- Helena Gomes, Carrie Justason, Wes MacDonald
- Design Supervisor
- Jamie Whitney
- Designers
- Vesna Mostovac, Kellie Devries, Rodica Oancea, Susan Menzies, Daniela Strijleva
- Systems Administrator
- Scott Burgess
- Systems Developer
- Rowena Zuniga
- Content Manager
- Pradeep K. Nair
- Assistant Content Manager
- James Shin
- Scene Planner
- Dave Shepherd
- Scene Planner (Show Lead)
- David H. Shepherd
- Voice Director
- Deb Toffan
- Recording Assistant
- Kerry Bones
- Online Picture Editors
- Igor Boros, Graham Saywell, Joel Zigler, Jordan Crute
- Pre-Production Editing
- Paul Telford
- Additional Production Facilities
- The Post Shop (The Other Studio), Supersonics
- Science Content Director
- Karen Worth, M.S. Ed
- Business and Legal Advisors
- Karen Baseman, Mimi Curran, Jill Fraser, Evie Kintzer
- Promotion
- Susan Barrett, Amy Zall
- Educational Outreach
- Karen Barss, Mary Haggerty, Natalie Hebshie, Sonja Latimore, Jenny Lisle, Gay Mohrbacher, Corinne Pierce, Nicole Sanderson, Elly Schottman
- Special Thanks
- Marjorie Kaplan, Amy Sprecher, Nancy Wheeler Balboa, Tom Ingold
- Executive for TVOntario
- Patricia Ellingson
- Creative Executive for Alliance Atlantis
- Alan Gregg
- Executives for Eggbox
- Derek Lamb, Kai Pindal, Jeff Schon
Companies and other credits
- Music: Egg Plant Productions
- Theme Composed By: Egg Plant Productions
Production notes
Each half-hour episode contains two stories which highlight specific science concepts, plus two live-action shorts presenting real kids playing and experimenting with these concepts in their own big wide worlds.
"Peep," "Quack," "Chirp," "Tom" and "Nellie" were originally created by Kai Pindal for the National Film Board of Canada productions The Peep Show ((c)1962, National Film Board of Canada) and Peep and the Big Wide World ((c)1988, National Film board of Canada). PEEP and the Big Wide World was developed in association with Eggbox, LLC.
"Peep," "Quack," "Chirp," "Tom" and "Nellie" were originally created by Kai Pindal for the National Film Board of Canada productions The Peep Show ((c)1962, National Film Board of Canada) and Peep and the Big Wide World ((c)1988, National Film board of Canada). PEEP and the Big Wide World was developed in association with Eggbox, LLC.