Phil LaFrance (Director)

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Works

We Lost Our Human

There's been a glitch — all the humans are gone! Can you help pampered pet siblings Pud and Ham journey to the center of the universe to fix it?

Release Date2023-03-21

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count8

Crash Canyon

Crash Canyon is a Canadian animated series. It tells the story of the community living at the bottom of a canyon. The Wendell family is looking for an original holiday by caravan but their trip ends sooner than expected at the bottom of a canyon in Alberta, Canada. Canyon walls are too high to climb and there is no way out. Soon they find out there is a whole community of 25 survivors from previous crashes down there. Dollars are not accepted and they use golf tees as a currency.

Release Date2011-09-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count8

Peep and the Big Wide World

Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and basic science concepts to preschoolers. The main characters include a yellow baby chick named Peep and his friends Quack, a teenaged blue drake, and Chirp, a baby red robin with pink eyelids. The current show, narrated by Joan Cusack is based on a National Film Board of Canada cartoon short of the same name, created in 1988 by Kaj Pindal and narrated by Peter Ustinov, and another short, "The Peep Show", from 1962. The original short comprised three 10-minute films featuring Peep, Quack, and Chirp as they meet a cat, a ladybug, a turtle and a frog who speaks from both sides of his mouth. The show is produced by WGBH in Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto, Canada. In the US, this show formerly aired on Discovery Kids as part of its commercial-free and sponsor-free "Ready, Set, Learn!" programming block. It now airs nationally in the United States on public television, distributed by American Public Television. In Canada, it airs on TVOntario. DVDs and books are also available for purchase. Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an education and outreach program. The principal investigator is Kate Taylor, also of the ZOOM block. The National Science Foundation is the only permanent sponsor of the show. Northrop Grumman, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Toyota funded the show for only season two. The Discovery Kids Foundation funded the show for only season one. In 1999, the show was produced by Clumsy PriStar Television. The VHS copies are produced from Clumsy Pristar's home viewings.

Release Date2004-04-12

DepartmentWriting

JobStoryboard

Episode Count3

Vote Count12

Numb Chucks

Before one night changed their lives, woodchuck brothers Dilweed and Fungus never saw themselves as heroes. But during a late-night-TV infomercial, they ordered a Woodchuck Morris kung-fu video. Now, they have made it their mission to become just as awesome as their kung-fu mentor. Misguided but with good intentions, the brothers become obsessed with using their newfound skills to protect the citizens in their town of Ding-a-Ling Springs. Dilweed and Fungus take on a never-ending quest to fight off danger with Morris' guidance.

Release Date2014-01-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

The Great Northern Candy Drop

The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.

Release Date2017-12-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Bagel And Becky Show

The Bagel And Becky Show

The Bagel and Becky Show (also known as Dave Cooper's The Bagel and Becky Show or simply Bagel and Becky) is an animated television series created by Dave Cooper (co-creator of Nickelodeon's Pig Goat Banana Cricket) and produced by Radical Sheep Productions for Teletoon. The series is distributed by BBC Worldwide. It debuted on Teletoon+ in Poland on November 14, 2016. The Bagel and Becky Show is about siblings Bagel the dog and Becky the cat as they explore Awkward Falls after having one of Mom's pancake breakfasts. With their friend Percy, they go on many adventures.

Release Date2016-11-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count52

The Snow Ball

A troublemaking boy causes havoc to a winter wonderland.

Release Date2021-10-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1