Nicole Demerse Shelley Hoffman Louise Moon Cathy Moss Susin Nielsen Robert Pincombe Betty Quan John Slama Steve Westren Lienne Sawatsky Dan Williams Karen Moonah Katherine Sandford
July 8, 2003 (2003-07-08) – October 31, 2010 (2010-10-31)
Franny's Feet (French:Franny et les chaussures magiques) is a Canadiananimated children's television series created by writer Cathy Moss and partnerSusin Nielsen. The series was produced byDecode Entertainment, with the participation ofFamily Channel, in association withChannel Five Broadcasting Limited (seasons 1–2), with animation production byC.O.R.E. Toons. The series follows the adventures of Frances "Franny" Fantootsie (aname combination of "fantasy" and "tootsie") as she tries on a new shoe and travels to different countries.[citation needed]
Franny's Feet aired onFamily Channel from July 8, 2003 to October 31, 2010.[2][3] It also aired onPBS Kids in the US and onFive in the UK. A total of 52 episodes were produced across three seasons.
Franny Fantootsie is a 5-year-old girl who visits her Grandpa every day at his shoe repair shop inVancouver,British Columbia,Canada. At the beginning of each episode, Franny either talks with her Grandpa about certain things or encounters a problem while playing or doing an activity, until a customer comes. When this happens, Franny will say "A customer!" excitedly.
The customer presents shoes needing to be repaired to Grandpa, who then gives them to Franny to place inside the shoe repair box. Franny then goes to the shoe repair box, and instead of putting the shoes in the box, she puts them down next to her feet and says, "Where will my feet take me today?". Franny then tries on the shoes and they take her to a different magical place in each episode such as a Native American magic world inWyoming, a sunny beach inJamaica, a high mountain inChina, theGreat Barrier Reef off the coast ofAustralia, and so on. Franny then meets a different kind of person or animal, depending on the location, that she befriends and solves a certain problem for.
At the end of each adventure, after Franny solves the problem in a magical place and returns to the repair shop, she places the shoes in the repair box and receives a special treasure hidden in one of the shoes she wore during her trip and adds it to her shoebox filled with her other treasures. She then tells her Grandpa about her adventure and then solves her previous problem based on how she solved her friend's problem during her adventure. Every episode ends with Franny saying, "Where will my feet take me tomorrow?".
The series first aired onFamily Channel and later Family Jr. (formerly Playhouse Disney) in Canada on July 8, 2003 and concluded on October 31, 2010.[2][3] Repeats were shown on Family Jr. in the mid-2010s.
In 2006, it aired onPBS Kids until early 2010. In 2008, it aired on the now-defunctSprout in the US (co-funded byNYC stationWNET, also a co-producer).[7]
It formerly aired on the now-defunct Light TV in 2016 until 2019.
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