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Between the Lions — Storyline

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

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Kathryn Mullen, Christopher Cerf, Michael K. Frith, Lou Berger, Norman Stiles
• Starring: Peter Linz, Jennifer Barnhart, Anthony Asbury, Kathryn Mullen, Heather Asch, Tyler Bunch, Ruth Westheimer, Chris Phillips

Between the Lions — Series Details

Between the Lions — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West (2000-04-03) — 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 wr
• E2: The Lost Rock (2000-04-04) — 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 the r
• E3: Little Big Mouse (2000-04-05) — 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.
• E4: Farmer Ken's Puzzle (2000-04-06) — 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 p
• E5: Shooting Stars (2000-04-07) — 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 sleep a day!""
• E6: The Hopping Hen (2000-04-09) — 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, b
• E7: Touching the Moon (2000-04-11) — 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 abo
• E8: The Boy Who Cried Wolf (2000-04-12) — 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.
• E9: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy? (2000-04-13) — 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
• E10: Lionel's Antlers (2000-04-14) — 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 ""Imoge
• E11: To the Ship! To the Ship! (2000-04-16) — 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).
• E12: The Chap With Caps (2000-04-18) — 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 – bec
• E13: Pandora's Box (2000-04-19) — 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 o
• E14: Lionel's Great Escape Trick (2000-04-20) — 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 f
• E15: There's a Fly in My Soup (2000-04-20) — 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 no
• E16: The Popcorn Popper (2000-04-23) — 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.
• E17: Something Fishy (2000-04-25) — Lionel and Leona learn about Eagles and Fish after reading Cliffhanger's latest adventure.
• E18: Hug, Hug, Hug! (2000-04-26) — 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 for the statu
• E19: The Ram in the Pepper Patch (2000-04-27) — 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!
• E20: A Peck of Peppers (2000-04-28) — 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, L
• E21: Sausage Nose (2000-05-01) — 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'
• E22: Red Hat, Green Hat (2000-05-02) — 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 sees
• E23: The Lucky Duck (2000-05-03) — 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
• E24: The Old Man (2000-05-04) — 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 t
• E25: A King and His Hawk (2000-05-05) — 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 can't read it a
• E26: The Roar That Makes Them Run (2000-05-08) — 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!
• E27: Piggyback, Piggyback (2000-05-09) — 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, and doesn
• E28: The Fox and the Crow (2000-05-10) — 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 ban
• E29: Giants and Cubs (2000-05-11) — 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 L
• E30: Be Bop (2000-05-12) — 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, w

Season 2

• E1: The Sad Dad (2001-04-02) — Bruno Kirby plays a Dad whose house is overrun by kids: ""There's hardly enough room to put on pants!"" he complains. Fed up with all this overcrowding, he decides to seek the advi
• E2: Humph! Humph! Humph! (2001-04-03) — Lionel's friend, Gus, gets annoyed when Leona asks him to be her designated reader for the day — because he can't read.
• E3: The Good Seed (2001-04-04) — Click the Mouse gets a computer virus that turns everything in the library into a total disaster area!
• E4: Icarus's Wings (2001-04-05) — The story of Icarus, the boy who made wax wings and flew too close to the sun, inspires Barnaby B. Busterfield to follow his dream of…flying! With help from Walter and Clay, of c
• E5: Zoop! Zoop! (2001-04-06) — The story of Abiyoyo terrifies Leona, and it takes some cleverness on the part of her mother to help Leona beat her fear.
• E6: Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack! (2001-04-09) — Theo ""borrows"" the typewriter from the book ""Click-Clack Moo!"", and has a hard time letting it go when the cows want it back.
• E7: Poetry Day (2001-04-10) — It's Alice day in the library, which means everything has something to do with ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", and the backward logic of the looking glass. Calloo Callay!
• E8: Bobby the Hopping Robot (2001-04-11) — Lionel's new toy, a hopping robot named Bobby, is a real tough job to put together. Lionel, Theo, Cleo, and just about everybody has a try at assembling the robot correctly — but
• E9: Teacher's Pet (2001-04-12) — Cleo catches the ""I-Can't-Hear-or-Smell-or-Tell-if-Someone's-Sneaking-Up-On-Me"" Flu, right before she's scheduled to go and visit her old teacher.
• E10: The Last Cliff Hanger (2001-04-13) — Lionel is devastated (Shocked! Taken Aback! Apalled!) when he discovers that there will no longer be any new ""Cliffhanger"" books – since the author, Livingston Dangerously, has d
• E11: Pebble Trouble (2001-04-16) — Featuring the book ""Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"", in which a young donkey boy discovers a magic pebble in the woods, and somehow wishes himself to be a rock. His parents spend
• E12: Oh, Yes, It Can! (2001-04-17) — A storyteller visits the library one day, and tells an old story about a Yammering Yam and how it led to a whole series of unbelievable (but true) events for a farmer, a fisherman,
• E13: Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks (2001-04-18) — Lionel's friend, Lenny – a fellow ""Cliffhanger"" aficianado – comes for a visit, after having since moved away. When he arrives at the library, however, Lionel finds out that Lenn
• E14: Bug Beard (2001-04-19) — In the story ""Bug Beard"", a woodcutter brings home a grubby, buggy old man he finds in the woods. His wife is not amused by the buggy old man, and so she sets about trying to cle
• E15: Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains (2001-04-20) — Lionel gets a brainstorm after he hears Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. What if he and Leona ride a train through the plain of the book?
• E16: Quest, Quest, Quest! (2001-04-23) — Babs Caplan is back with a new story, The Quest for the Chest. And once again, she doesn't get it right. Originally, there is no action in the story.

  GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short E

• E17: The Spider and the Lie (2001-04-24) — Lionel writes a Crime Story, which involves Leona, a slippery character named Monkey C. Monkeydew, a missing library card, and a spider.
• E18: Why the Baboon's Balloon Went Ka-Boom! (2001-04-25) — Theo wants to teach the cubs a lesson, which he finds in a book of concatenations called Because a Little Bug Went KA-CHOO! What Theo doesn't know is that, by pulling that book fr
• E19: But, Mama, But … (2001-04-26) — Cleo is about to fly off to visit some newborn cubs. Leona feels she is able to spend a couple of days without her, but can she be sure> And what about everyone else? To ease ev
• E20: Dreaming Shakespeare (2001-04-27) — It's Shakespeare Day at the Library. Fanfares, flowery language and period costumes are the order of the day (Cleo is dressed as the female star of Antony and Cleopatra). A metho
• E21: Rats (2001-04-30) — After someone calls Leona a nasty name on the playground, a friend of the Lions', named Frank, tells a story about Rats, which shows that bad names can hurt just as much as sticks
• E22: Tweet! Tweet! (2001-05-01) — An intriguing theory from the book Bone Poems has got the cubs and pigeons thinking: Are birds the descendants of dinosaurs? Walter and Clay Pigeon take that prospect to an extrem
• E23: Good Night, Knight (2001-05-02) — A famous marionette team is preparing to tell the story of Orlando Furioso and his battle to rescue Angelica from the curse of Fallerina. It's a story Leona knows by heart, and sh
• E24: The Chess Mess (2001-05-03) — It's Alice Day at the library, and everyone is very involved in a page from Through the Looking Glass. Theo, a former whiz at chess, accepts Click's challenge to play a few matche
• E25: Stop That Chicken! (2001-05-04) — Chicken Jane escapes from one of her books and ricochets around the library. Every so often, she writes her advice to characters in other books. GUIDING PRINCIPLE: Short o sound

Season 3

• E1: Hay Day (2002-09-16) — Can Lionel, Leona, and Gus help a girl named Fay turn hay into gold in just one day?
• E2: Pigs Aplenty (2002-09-23) — Theo and Cleo leave Marmy in charge of the cubs, and she throws a big pig party in the library. Uh-oh…
• E3: What Parakeets Need (2002-09-30) — Theo and Cleo give the cubs a pet parakeet, but will Sweety Tweety talk?
• E4: Too Cool (2002-10-07) — Lionel thinks the new kid at school, Derek Cheetah, is too cool to be on his baseball team. But what does Derek think? Guest Starring Mo Lewis of the New York Jets.
• E5: You Can't Catch Me! (2002-10-14) — Lionel gives Leona ""The Gingerbread Man"" book for her birthday. Will it spoil her party? Guest Starring Larry King and Susan Lucci.
• E6: Huff and Puff (2002-10-21) — Whatever happened to the three little pigs after the wolf received his just deserts? Leona and Lionel want to know, so they write their own sequels to the story! Guest Starring Ter
• E7: Out in Outer Space (2002-10-28) — Grandpa Lion visits the library to tell the cubs a true story about a friend who traveled out in outer space.
• E8: Help! (2002-11-04) — The search for a lost book helps Theo and Cleo teach the cubs about responsibility.
• E9: Two Coats, One Goat, and One Boat (2002-11-11) — Lionel's copy of a very rare Cliff Hanger book is missing! Did some bunny take it? Guest Starring Dan Elias, Melissa Etheridge, and Kelly Ripa.
• E10: Treats! (2002-11-18) — An advertising Dream Team – creators of the Lions' favorite ""Wheaty Meat Treats"" spot – is hired to create a commercial for the library. But it seems the team needs a little help

Season 4

• E1: Art Party (2003-09-15) — Can Lionel and Leona make sense of a mysterious painting?
• E2: Grow, Mane, Grow! (2003-09-16) — Lionel is still a growing cub, but he'll do anything to grow a grown-up mane like his dad's!
• E3: Three Goats, No Waiting (2003-09-17) — Lionel is ready to stage The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The trouble is finding someone inherently fierce enough to play the Troll.
• E4: Step by Step (2003-09-18) — Leona and Lionel have discovered what appears to be a treasure map and a set of directions that Barnaby B. Busterfield III left behind. It's off on a treasure hunt for the lions a
• E5: Dance in Smarty Pants (2003-09-19) — A new dance craze emerged from a fourth-rate act to capture everyone's attention. Ooh, ah, dance insmarty pants. Lionel, feisty as always, wants to show Theo and Cleo these new d

Season 5

• E1: Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!/The Three Little Pigs (2005-04-18) — Theo and Leona don pig snouts for another reading of Pigs Apelnty, Pigs Galore first read in the episode ""Pigs Aplenty."" Midway into the show, Lionel dons three pig snouts as he
• E2: The Carrot Seed/The Empty Pot (2005-04-25) — From their roof garden, Lionel and Theo marvel at a flower that gets at Theo's sinuses. Includes re-readings of stories first heard in the episodes
• E3: Wings/What's in the Box? (2005-05-02) — First up: Leona warns Lionel not to lean back on his chair, provoking a flashback reading of a Greek myth first read in Icarus's Wings (from Season 2). Then the library, seen from
• E4: A Shower of Stars/Two Moons and One Lagoon (2005-05-09) — It's nighttime at the library roof garden as Theo gives an energetic Leona a reread from the episode Shooting Stars. Then, under a full moon, Cleo gives Lionel and Leona a story fr
• E5: The Golden Meaty Awards (2005-05-16)
• E6: Click, Clack, Moo/The Little Red Hen (2005-05-23) — Built from material first seen in Clickety-clack, Clickety-clack! (from Season 2) and Help! (from Season 3).
• E7: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble/I Miss You, Stinky Face (2005-05-30)
• E8: A Tasty Piece of Cheese/The Lion and the Mouse (2005-06-06)
• E9: Earl's Too Cool/When I Was 5 (2005-06-13)
• E10: It's Red! It's Green! (2002-10-14)
• E11: I Don't Want a Birthday Party/Knuffle Bunny
• E12: Sylvester And the Magic Pebble: (2005-06-19)
• E13: I Miss You, Stinky Face: (2005-06-26)
• E14: A Tasty Piece of Cheese: (2005-07-03)
• E15: The Lion And the Mouse: (2005-07-10)
• E16: Earl's Too Cool: (2005-07-17)
• E17: When I Was 5: (2005-07-24)
• E18: It's Red! It's Green!: (2005-07-31)
• E19: Joseph Had A Little Overcoat: (2005-08-07)
• E20: The Coyote And the Rabbit: (2005-08-14)
• E21: The Gingerbread Man: (2005-08-21)

Season 6

• E1: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash – Knuffle Bunny (2006-04-17) — The cubs find unusual items on Mrs. McNosh's clothesline.
• E2: Sheep on a Ship – Mississippi Skip and His Pirate Ship (2006-04-24) — Slipping and sliding take place when sheep and pirates take

  to the high seas.

• E3: Yo! Yes? – Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal (2006-05-01) — Making a new friend can be as easy as saying "yes"; Leona m

  akes her brother happy with a music video with noisy construction vehicles.

• E4: I'll Fix Anthony – Jamaica Louise James (2006-05-08) — A big brother and jack-in-the-box need fixing; an artist ha

  s a plan to fix up a dreary subway station.

• E5: Pete's a Pizza – Pygmalion (2006-05-15) — A father turns his son into a pizza; hugs bring a statue to

  life.

• E6: Here Come The Aliens-Abiyoyo (2006-05-22) — Strange creatures lurk in outer space, but even stranger creatures dwell right here on earth.
• E7: King Midas – The Dirty Smelly King (2006-05-29) — King Midas gets what he wished for. King Chuck the Mucky Muck wishes he weren't so smelly.
• E8: Cheesybreadville & Stolen Smells (2006-06-05) — A kitchen disaster creates a new treat; a boy gets in troub

  le for smelling treats without paying for them.

• E9: The Coyote and the Rabbit & The Gingerbread Man (2006-06-12) — A clever rabbit tricks a hungry coyote; a fox tricks a ging

  erbread man.

• E10: The Goat in the Coat (2006-06-19)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Between the Lions have? 10 season(s) with 140 episodes.

Who created Between the Lions? Kathryn Mullen, Christopher Cerf, Michael K. Frith, Lou Berger, Norman Stiles.

Where can I watch Between the Lions? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.