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Wimzie's House is a half-hour Canadian preschool television program produced in Montreal which ran as La Maison de Ouimzie on Télévision de Radio-Canada in the morning and Radio-Québec in late afternoons starting September 4, 1995, and in English on CBC Television starting October 21, 1996 and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from October 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001. Reruns of the show aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV, in syndication as part of the Cookie Jar Kids Network block, and on Light TV which is currently airing as of December 22, 2016. The series was produced by Cinar, with the PBS telecasts presented by Maryland Public Television from 1997 to 2002. The show's puppetry is in the style of Sesame Street, which led to some legal troubles with The Jim Henson Company, in 1999. There were two FMV PC games based on the series.
Original Release
09/27/1995 on A&E
US Release
09/27/1995
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sonja Ball | Wimzie |
Liz MacRae | Bo |
Holly Gauthier-Frankel | Loulou |
Bruce Dinsmore | Horace |
Jennifer Seguin | Graziella |
Thor Bishopric | Jonas |
Tyrone Benskin | Rousso |
Jane Woods | Yaya |
Richard M Dumont | Additional Voices |
Lewis Macleod | Rousso / Hushabye (voice) |
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Directors
Claude Boucher, Hélène Girard, Richard Lahaie, Rachel Verdon, Peter Svatek
Writers
John Boni, James Schmerer, Julie Strassman-Cohn, Simon Muntner, Terry Saltsman, Bob Stutt, Rick Adamson, Gary Belkin, Durnford King, Jill Golick, Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht, Don Arioli, Ann Elder, Shelly Goldstein, Carole Bruce Mendelsohn, Ken Steele, Arnold Kane, Glenn Rabney, Howard Wiseman, Vince Grittani, Sean Kelly, Tom Szollosi, Jon Kalina, Nancy Trites-Botkin, Bob Claster, Jaron Summers, Nick Meglin, Bruce A. Taylor
Cast
Name | Character |
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Sonja Ball | Wimzie |
Liz MacRae | Bo |
Holly Gauthier-Frankel | Loulou |
Bruce Dinsmore | Horace |
Jennifer Seguin | Graziella |
Thor Bishopric | Jonas |
Tyrone Benskin | Rousso |
Jane Woods | Yaya |
Richard M Dumont | Additional Voices |
Lewis Macleod | Rousso / Hushabye (voice) |
Bob Golding | Horace |
Kate Harbour | Graziella (voice) |
Shelley Longworth | Loulou / Bo |
Tamsin Heatley | Yaya (voice) |
James J. Kroupa | Jonas (assistant) |
Sophie Aldred | Wimzie (voice) |
Wayne Forester | Jonas |
Aidan Cook | Jonas (voice) |
Emma Weaver | Wimzie (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Micheline Charest | Executive Producer |
Ronald A. Weinberg | Executive Producer |
Patricia Lavoie | Producer |
Rachel Verdon | Producer |
Carmen Bourassa | Producer |
Jean-Pierre Lussier | Producer |