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June 23, 2008 TV Episode Franny's Feet

Studio
DECODE Entertainment, WNET New York, Franny Productions Inc.

Characters

Franny, Grandpa Fantootsie, Lucy, Penny, Katie, Adam, Gunter

Credits

Directing

Director
Joanne Boreham

Producing

Producer
Elana Adair, John Mariella, Kym Hyde
Executive Producers
Steven DeNure, Neil Court, Beth Stevenson

Writing

Writer
John Van Bruggen

Animation

Animator
Sebastian Weber

Music

Music
Meiro Stamm

Editing

Editor
Paul Hunter

Crew

Created by
Cathy Moss, Susin Nielsen
Dialogue Editors
Michael Mancuso, Joe Tetreau
Building Supervisor
Robert Caputi
Modeling Supervisor
Robert Caputi

Production notes

My name is Franny and I'm five-and-a-half years old. Every afternoon, my Grandpa looks after me in his shoe repair shop. I always try the shoes on before I put them in the fix-it box. They take me on amazing adventures where I meet new friends and discover new places. Frantastic!

Where will my feet take me today? Each episode sees Franny off on a different adventure. She puts on the fisherman's boots and lands on a trawler in the middle of the Atlantic. She slips on a pair of hiking boots and is off on an African adventure.

Franny meets fascinating characters with unusual problems wherever she goes. There's the cowboy who's afraid of horses, or the fearsome Yeti who really just needs someone to talk to. Franny always tries to help them with their predicament. She makes friends with the audience, sharing her feelings, fears and advice and teaching them along the way about empathy, cooperation and appreciating that people are all different.

Franny's adventures go well beyond the day-to-day world of school and home life. Franny's Feet lets children explore the bigger world and shows them that you are never too small or too young to be a big help.

Digital animation.

Each 30-minute episode consists of two cartoons.

Commissioned by Five in the UK and Canada's Family Channel.