


STAINES DOWN DRAINS BLOBERT SERIES
The series also has a strong theme of balance underpinning the stories. Screenshots from the show The Loud House, episode 'Runaway McBride'. A second series of 13 episodes is being produced and due for completion at the end of 2010, each 11-minutes long. Clyde McBride, Zach Gurdle & Lincoln Loud in Swimming Trunks. The series was premiered on the Seven Network in October 2006 and broadcast in New Zealand on TV2 beginning on 28 February 2007. In a typical Gross touch, environmental messages are constantly embedded and reinforced through the stories, in this case, the consequences of allowing toxic waste into the drains. Staines Down Drains is an Australia/New Zealand co-produced children's television series created by Jim Mora. There is also a strong focus on relationships and personal growth, as seen in this story. It plays around with kids’ natural curiosity and fear of the mysterious and unknown. This is a terrific, edgy and refreshing production. This is episode two of the first series of Staines Down Drains, a 2D animated Australian-New Zealand co-production from Yoram Gross’s Australian animation studio Flying Bark Productions and New Zealand producer Flux Animation. Reluctant hero Stanley saves the day, but he also unexpectedly makes some new friends after all, the Drainlanders. Down in the drains, Mary Jane gets into trouble when she goes adventuring by herself, and Dr Drain tries to destroy the toxic waste 'Cleansing Sea’ forever. Unfortunately this doesn’t go to plan after a run-in with the local gang the Lupin Lupes, and the humiliation of his mother’s indestructible porridge sandwich. In this story, Stanley has his first day at a new school, where he hopes to make new friends. There they find friends like Vegety Bill the tough, mutant carrot, and a villain, Dr Drain, the gas-masked megalomaniac. Slipping down a plughole portal and shrinking as they go, germ-phobic Stanley Staines and his adventurous sister Mary Jane have discovered a yucky, germy and weirdly wonderful world in the drains below their home. 26 episodes x 30 minutes Series synopsis:
