Polly Pocket (TV series)
Polly Pocket | |
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Based on | Polly Pocket |
Written by |
Shea Fontana Elise Allen Mark Purdy Stu Reid Jacquie Walters Taylor Cox |
Story by |
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Directed by |
Jon Izen Brent Bouchard |
Voices of |
Emily Tennant Shannon Chan-Kent Kazumi Evans Patricia Drake Rhona Rees Ellen Kennedy Ian Hanlin Maryke Hendrikse David A. Kaye Vincent Tong Kathleen Barr Tabitha St. Germain |
Composer(s) | Mike Shields |
Country of origin |
Canada United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 19 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Christopher Keenan Josh Scherba Kirsten Newlands |
Producer(s) |
Ashley Koons Lesley Crawford |
Editor(s) |
Shannon Archibald Isaac Strozberg Jessica Burton |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Mattel DHX Studios Vancouver (animation) |
Distributor |
Mattel DHX Media |
Release | |
Original network |
Family Junior Family Channel (Canada) Pop (UK) Canal J (France) Pop (Italy) Super RTL (Germany) |
Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
Original release | July 8, 2018 – present |
External links | |
Official website |
Polly Pocket is an animated television series produced for Family Channel by Mattel, with DHX Media animating the series.[1][2] The series, based on the doll of the same name, will feature a young girl called Polly who has a magical locket that allows her and her friends to shrink down to a tiny size.
Fifty-two 11-minute segments totaling twenty-six half-hour episodes were made, as well as ten 2-minute shorts. The series premiered on Family Channel in July 8, 2018. All Polly Pocket new episode videos websites earlier before TV show aired, the TV guide schedule appeared on July 26, 2018 in Family Channel, and the Family Channel schedule is scheduled to appear on August 4, 2018.[3]
Characters
Main
- Polly Pocket (voiced by Emily Tennant) - An 11-year-old kid genius with a thirst for adventure, and wants to help people. She inherits her locket from her grandmother Penelope Pocket.
- Lila Draper (voiced by Shannon Chan-Kent) - Polly's fashion savvy friend who often exclaims using fashion terms and pieces. She loves fashion, and finds that shrinking can be chic. It is hinted at the end of episode 11 that she might be developing feelings for Nicholas Wells despite their initial dislike of each other.
- Shani (voiced by Kazumi Evans) - A science fiction nerd who formerly had stage fright, Shani serves as the peacekeeper and brains of the group. Her favorite show is "Y-Girls" and she is a follower of Nicholas' vlog.
- Geni (voiced by Ellen Kennedy) - An A.I. program created by Polly to interact with her tech.
Recurring
- Penelope Pocket (voiced by Ellen Kennedy) - Polly's grandma and the previous bearer of the Pocket Locket.
- Pierce Pocket (voiced by David A. Kaye) - Polly's 16-year-old brother. It is revealed he does karate in episode 6, and that he works for store owner Cupcake as delivery boy-turned-assistant manager in episode 10.
- Peaches Pocket (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse) - Polly's pet dog. Note: Maryke Hendrikse also voices Polly's mom, Mrs. Pocket.
- Paxton Pocket (voiced by Ian Hanlin) - Polly's baby brother and the only one of Polly's relatives, other than Grandma Penelope, that knows Polly's secret. Note: Ian Hanlin also voices Polly's father, Mr. Pocket.
- Nicholas Wells (voiced by Vincent Tong) - A boy in Polly's class who attempts to investigate the paranormal. In the mid-season finale, he discovers the girls' secret, but in episode 11, he becomes the posse's fourth member when he helps them thwart Griselle's plot to be mayor and take over the town and promising to keep the girls' secret safe.
- Melody (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse) - A teenage pop singer who becomes the girls' ally in episode 2 when she is rescued by Polly via her locket.
- Peanut (voiced by Ian Hanlin) - A restaurant owner who is known for making cupcakes. Pierce Pocket works for him as his delivery boy, and later assistant manager in episode 11.
- Tanisha (voiced by Kathleen Barr) - Shani's older cousin.
- Melissa Militant (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) - A strict girl scout troop leader who does things in a military boot camp fashion.
Villains
- Griselle Grande (voiced by Patricia Drake) - A 60s something person, she was Penelope Pocket's college roommate who discovered the Pocket Locket's abilities and tried to take it from her, but lost it after the two went their separate ways. She spent years using her science to replicate its powers but failed, until the day when she discovered Polly Pocket wore it and had its powers. She and Gwen now try to take the locket to conquer Littleton by shrinking its citizens and trapping them in a model city called "Grandeville". She gets arrested at the end of episode 13, after her plan to become mayor, steal Polly's locket, and shrink the city while encasing Littleton in an energy bubble failed and Nicholas helped Lila and Shani expose Griselle's secret plans to the world.
- Gwen Grande (voiced by Rhona Rees) - Griselle Grande's dim-witted granddaughter and Polly's rival inside and outside of school. In episode 7, "Con Job", she actually helps the girls escape to avoid Griselle ruining their one day off from Pocket-hunting.
Episodes
No. | Title [4][5] | Directed by | Written by | Storyboards by | Original air date [4][5] | Prod. code |
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1 2 | "Tiny Power: Part 1"[lower-alpha 1] "Tiny Power: Part 2"[lower-alpha 2] | Jon Izen and Brent Bouchard | Shea Fontana | Krista-Marie Porter and Sam To Desirae Salmark and Sidne Marat | July 1, 2018[nb 1][6] July 8, 2018 | 101-102 |
11-year-old kid genius Polly Pocket volunteers to fix her grandma Penelope's locket during her visit, but discovers it's a magical artifact that allows its user to shrink herself down to pocket size and then grow back up, as well as any person or object she touches. After sharing this secret with her best friends, fashion-savvy Lila Draper and the cautious and shy sci-fi geek Shani, they try to get tickets for a concert by teen pop star Melody. However, they run afoul of Gwen Grande, and her clothing store owning grandmother Griselle. After a small accident, Gwen discovers the locket's secret when Polly unshrinks in secret, and Penelope tells the story of the locket, its users, as well as her past with Griselle. While Penelope mentors Polly and her friends, Griselle resumes her decades-old plot of stealing the locket's power for herself to shrink the people of Littleton. In part 2, after having a miniature pool party wearing one-piece swimsuits used by dolls, Polly, Lila, and Shani get their hands on the last few tickets to Melody's concert cruise. However, Melody and Polly get captured by the Grandes, forcing Shani to sing onstage and conquer her stage fright, while Polly loses the locket to Griselle and flies through the ship's air vents to get it back. The Grandes manage to shrink everyone, but Polly's posse convinces the audience that it's really special effects. After apprehending the Grandes, Polly channels the full power of the locket through her to restore everyone to normal. In the end, the locket chooses Polly to be its new bearer because of her ability to channel its power and because of her spirit and intuition. Note: the activation phrase changes from "Pocket Time" to "Tiny Power" following the final scene. | ||||||
3 | "Bumpy Ride" | Jon Izen | Shea Fontana | Dave Wiebe and Sam To | August 5, 2018 | 103 |
After doing some experiments with Polly's gadgets, secret lab and car, the girls plan to ride the Whopper Whirler- a new roller coaster at Littleton's amusement park. However, unlike Polly's brother Pierce, the girls get booted for being too small to ride. So Polly uses Geni and her 3D printer to create a model of the roller coaster to ride on until 7 trips cause it to break. Realizing that a part of the real coaster is weak, the girls race against time to warn the employees at the park before Pierce and his friends fall and crash. In the B-story, Griselle and Gwen disguise themselves as park vendors to snatch Polly's locket. | ||||||
4 | "Doggone Disaster" | Brent Bouchard | Shea Fontana | Sidne Marat and Desirae Salmark | August 5, 2018 | 104 |
Lila starts a dog-walking service but finds herself in trouble, so she asks Polly and Shani for help. However, Paxton and Polly are being watched by the stern, stick-in-the-mud Mrs. Mense, so Polly has to sneak out. But when one of the dogs runs off, and the Grandes interfere, the Pocket Posse must get the dog back before it ruins a dinner date for Polly's parents. | ||||||
5 | "Super Tiny Fly" | Jon Izen | Elise Allen | Hailey Kathler and James Borne | August 8, 2018[lower-alpha 3] August 10, 2018 | 105 |
When the girls find and nurse a baby bird back to help, Polly wants to keep it, but Shani convinces her to help it get home. However, Gwen captures all four of them and they must break out of her cage before Griselle finds them. In the end, Polly learns that if you love something, you must sometimes set it free. | ||||||
6 | "Mommy, I Shrunk the Kid"[lower-alpha 4] | Brent Bouchard | Elise Allen | John Young and Melissa Allen | August 9, 2018[lower-alpha 5] August 12, 2018 | 106 |
Wanting to prove herself capable of being home alone, and getting a new mood ring, Polly volunteers to babysit her younger brother Paxton while her parents attend a karate demo that Pierce is featured in. However, after shrinking Paxton down with them, the girls end up chasing him as he runs off to play. Meanwhile, Paxton's teddy bear "Boo-Boo" is misplaced, and causes Paxton to be upset. | ||||||
7 | "Sugar Rush" | Brent Bouchard | Elise Allen | Hailey Kathler and James Borne | August 17, 2018 | 107 |
While helping Pierce's boss, Peanut, make dozens of cupcakes for delivery, Polly falls asleep, being exhausted by her massive to-do list for using her locket's powers to help the people of Littleton, and loses her locket in a cupcake Pierce is delivering. Now stuck at doll-size, the girls fly around town in the quad-copter to get the locket back before Griselle uses it to shrink Pierce during his delivery to her apartment. | ||||||
8 | "Mission Ring: Impossible" | Jon Izen | Mark Purdy and Stu Reid | James Borne, Jason Armstrong, and Krista-Marie Porter | August 10, 2018[lower-alpha 6] August 19, 2018 | 108 |
The Pockets head for the beach to celebrate the anniversary of the parents' marriage, but Mr. Pocket misplaces the ring, forcing Polly (the ring bearer) to try to find it. With help from Shani and Lila, Polly shrinks down in her new sub and finds it, only for Griselle to snatch the ring and hold it for ransom, in exchange for Polly's locket. However, the girls get the ring back and watch in awe as Mr. Pocket reveals his surprise to Mrs. Pocket. Note: Lila dons the same swimsuit from the season 1 trailer for the series, and wears it for the last 16 minutes of the episode (a tankini with polka dots on her briefs, and a fluffy green top). | ||||||
9 | "The Badgering" | Jon Izen | Elise Allen | John Young and Melissa Allen | August 19, 2018 | 109 |
While at girl scouts camp in the hopes of promoting to a higher rank, the girls find Lila incapable of certain outdoor skills, and that a ghost named the Pearl Lady supposedly haunts the grounds. However, a disguised Griselle and Gwen snatch the locket, trapping the girls at doll-size, and the girls apply Lila's fashion savvy skills to track them down. Along the way, the girls discover that Shani's older cousin, Tanisha, was going to use the Pearl Lady ghost as a prank. And in the end, all three girls get their badges. | ||||||
10 | "Night to Remember: Part 1" | Brent Bouchard | Shea Fontana | Gloria Jenkins and Raven Molisee | August 25, 2018 | 111 |
Polly, Lila and Shani are on the planning committee for the school's fall formal dance, but get stuck with Nicholas Wells as their partner. Meanwhile, Griselle disguises herself as a southern belle candidate for the town's new mayor, and tricks the girls into setting up their dance at city hall in return for helping "Bonnie Bain" win the election. But things get worse when Nicholas gets a blurred image of the girls and their Pocket Racer in the underground tunnels, and plans to expose them on the night of the dance during a live webcast of his vlog. Note: This is actually part 1 of the 2-part mid-season finale in chronological order. | ||||||
11 | "Night to Remember: Part 2" | Jon Izen | Shea Fontana | Rick Hoberg and Sam To | August 26, 2018 | 112 |
Polly, Lila and Shani don their dresses for the school's fall formal dance, but end up getting knocked out by Griselle, who reveals her masquerade from the last episode and snatches Polly's locket. Trapped in a small recreation model of her house, and with the Grandes holding Lila, Shani and the locket hostage, Polly calls Nicholas for help, exposing her secret and helping him sneak into city hall to rescue the girls and the locket. But with an energy dome surrounding the town, Nicholas uses his live webcast to help a freed Shani and Lila expose Griselle's deception to the townspeople while Polly exerts herself to shut down the field generator. In the end, Griselle is arrested for her recent criminal activities by the police, and the girls induct Nicholas as the fourth member of their Posse, spending the rest of the fall formal in Polly's miniature dance hall with working disco ball included. Note: This is actually part 2 of the 2-part mid-season finale in chronological order. Nicholas joins the main cast as of this episode as the fourth member, and first boy, in the Pocket Posse. | ||||||
12 | "The Con Job" | Brent Bouchard | Jacquie Walters and Taylor Cox | Dave Wiebe and Sam To | August 13, 2018[lower-alpha 7] August 26, 2018 | 110[lower-alpha 8] |
After finishing their costumes for a contest at the Fall 2018 comic convention, based on Shani's favorite Sci-Fi series, "Y-Girls", the girls discover that the actress who plays Captain Rocco has been abducted. After a few misadventures, they discover that an actress, Barb Payne, was in the deleted scene of an episode and claims she was robbed of her glory and A-list acting. So now, Shani must lead the girls in an attempt to rescue her "Captain" before Barb blasts her off on a rocket and fries everyone at the con. In the B-story, the Grandes have a day off from Pocket-hunting, but when Gwen finds the girls, she helps them escape so that Griselle won't ruin things for her. IN the end, the girls win the costume contest via email entry, and Griselle finds out Gwen's deception. | ||||||
13 | "Club Flub" | Jon Izen | Mark Purdy and Stu Reid | Desirae Salmark and Sidne Marat | August 15, 2018[lower-alpha 9] September 2, 2018 | 113 |
When Nicholas' paranormal investigation club gets more attention than their Animal Club, the girls use their animal-charming skills to bring real wild animals in to stir up a crowd. However, when Griselle, disguised as a gorilla, makes a scene, the animals go berserk and a moose runs off with Polly's locket. Note: this is episode 9 in both chronological and production order. | ||||||
14 | "Swimsational" | Brent Bouchard | Barb Haynes | Desirae Salmark and Sidne Marat | September 9, 2018 | 114 |
In the summer following Griselle's incarceration and Nicholas joining their group, the girls decide to throw a pool party for the depressed kids in Littleton, using a miniature pool designed by Polly, a martian space theme, Shani's singing, and a tent to masquerade their shrinking. However, Polly has two commitments: a dive at the end of her party, in addition to modeling Lila's new line of swimwear, and helping her Dad impress a client for remodeling the city convention center. In the end, after multiple running attempts between both parties (family dinner and pool party), Polly realizes that family is more important than looking cool, and aborts her high-dive attempt, carefully escorting the pool party attendees out and passing her model off as her dad's after accidentally wrecking the original model. The client is impressed, and Mr. Pocket makes quite an impression. Note: In the first half of the episode, Polly is seen wearing the purple and pink striped one-piece from the season 1 trailer, but without her pink T-shirt on top, and Lila and Shani both wear their swimsuits from that trailer's ending shot (Lila's being the same used in "Mission: Ring-Possible", and Shani wearing a blue one-piece with straps and a tiny light blue UFO saucer on her chest). Polly later wears a pink dress, and a green one-piece with bikini skirt that inflates as part of Lila's fashion-functional swimsuit line). | ||||||
15 | "Pocket Poltergeist" | Brent Bouchard | Jacquie Walters and Tayler Cox | Jeff Bittle and Melissa Allen | September 16, 2018 | 115 |
When Pierce's racket interferes with the Posse's attempts at making a movie for a contest to win a new camera, Polly, Lila, Shani and Nicholas fake a ghost attack, which prompts Pierce to call in a paranormal investigator named Paranormal Patty, whose tech picks up on the locket's mystical energy. But when Pierce learns Patty intends to destroy the house to protect the neighborhood, he and Polly team up to fake getting rid of the ghost (portrayed by Shani) to save their home before their parents find out about the trouble Pierce caused. | ||||||
16 | "Short Cuts" | Jon Izen | Robin Stein | Luke Gustafson and Megan Willis | September 23, 2018 | 116 |
When a misunderstanding leaves Shani to believe Polly's using her locket's magic to win the school science fair, she throws her own model rocket into the trash. This prompts Polly and Lila to go into the trash room after it. However, they are slightly delayed when Gwen and Griselle - who has just finished her community service punishment from "A Night to Remember Part 2"- have come back to school in order to steal the locket. After Polly clears things up with Shani, Shani realizes her error, and the three girls team up to escape the Grandes, and rebuild Shani's rocket for the school science fair. However, to stall for time, Lila humiliates herself in front of head judge Mrs. Vasquez, while singing and rapping to her bunny, Bonita, to try to hop through her built maze. Meanwhile, Polly upgrades Shani's rocket with an AI named Neal that helps her to thwart the Grandes when they lurk nearby, and impress both the judges and Polly's mom. That said, Shani and Polly share the first place trophy, and Polly's mom wants them to help her with her next work design project. | ||||||
17 | "Snowball Effect" | Brent Bouchard | Mark Purdy and Stu Reid | Gemma Findlay and Sam To | September 30, 2018 | 117 |
During Spring Break, the girls split up: Shani goes to Hawaii with her folks, Lila stays at home, and Polly joins her Grandma Penelope and the Pocket Clan at the Rocky Tonky Mountains for the Cold Fest competition. There, Polly learns about Grandma's past as a winter athlete and epic fail while racing a teenage Griselle Grande. In the present, the Grandes try to snatch the locket by forcing Polly to crash, but fail during all three rounds. Eventually, Gwen slips her tongue, and the Pockets learn not only about their plan, but that Griselle sabotaged Grandma's sled when they were young. Having recorded the confession on camera, the Grandes are disqualified and the Pockets' vacay can resume. Note: In the third segment of the episode, Shani is seen wearing her blue one-piece with straps and a tiny light blue UFO saucer on her chest from the season 1 trailer, and the "Swimsational" episode while at the beach and surfing. | ||||||
18 | "A Little Fright" | Jon Izen | Robin Stein | TBA | October 7, 2018 | 118 |
In the first Halloween episode, (which actually takes place before "Pocket Poltergeist"), Polly, Lila, and Shani have a plan to experience the best Halloween ever and give some of that joy to the depressed senior citizens at Blue Hair Manor, since their Nurse Thorn won't let them do anything exciting. After dressing themselves up as a witch, Cleopatra, and a super heroine named Positive Ion Girl respectively, the girls go trick or treating, only to be given immaterial objects by a grouchy old man. Not wanting to let the seniors down, the girls quickly embark on a hayride, only to run into Griselle and Gwen. The two trap the shrunken girls in a crypt following a Scooby-Doo styled chase through a haunted maze, and hold them hostage. Using Lila's skills to make a fake amulet to surrender to Griselle, the girls escape to Blue hair Manor with the real locket while Nicholas, in ghost-hunting gear, apprehends the Grandes. After throwing a small Halloween party, which Nurse Thorn later decides to join, the girls' plan succeeds. In the B-story, Shani's belief in the supernatural gets the best of her when a mysterious black cat keeps following the girls wherever they go and even helps them escape from the cemetery. During the party, Shani begins to suspect old Mrs. Johnson of being an animal shape shifter when she wears the same necklace as the cat and even has the same glowing green eye colour and compliments that the Halloween party is "Purr-fect!" | ||||||
19 | "Socially Awkward" | Jon Izen | Mark Purdy & Stu Reid | TBA | October 14, 2018 | 119 |
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20 | "Brotherly Love"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | October 21, 2018 | 120 |
21 | "A Yacht of Problems"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | October 28, 2018 | 121 |
22 | "Tiny Escape"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | November 4, 2018 | 122 |
23 | "Spa Daze"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | November 11, 2018 | 123 |
24 | "Gwen the Great"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | November 18, 2018 | 124 |
25 | "Unlocketing the Past: Part 1"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | November 24, 2018 | 125 |
26 | "Unlocketing the Past: Part 2"[5] | TBA | TBA | TBA | November 25, 2018 | 126 |
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- ↑ MediaDHX aired this episode July 1, 2018.
Notes
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 4, 2018 in Canada
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 5, 2018 in Canada
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 8, 2018 in Canada
- ↑ This episode title unknown name as: Mummy I Shrunk the Kid
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 9, 2018 in Canada
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 10, 2018 in Canada
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 13, 2018 in Canada
- ↑ This episode was number: 111 for Zap2it
- ↑ Family Channel aired on August 15, 2018 in Canada
j. ^ ^ This episode title unknown as: Tiny Power: Parts 1 and 2 |
References
- ↑ "Polly Pocket". DHX Media.
- ↑ "Must-See Toons at MIPTV". Animation Magazine. April 1, 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ "Polly Pocket". Family Channel.
- 1 2 "Polly Pocket – Episode Guide". Zap2It. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Polly Pocket. Affiliate/Zap2it.
- ↑ Polly Pocket - Media DHX. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
External links
- Polly Pocket on IMDb