Groundling Marsh

Season 1

1997 · 13 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Fungus Amungus

   1 Sept 1997

   Mud/Slinger try to earn fame by making cookies out of fungus, but they don't leave any fungus at Mossy Meadow for the swarming crunchybugs.

2. 2

   2. The Featherbeam

   2 Sept 1997

   In need of a friend, Galileo decides he wants a pet. He thinks he has one when a featherbeam bird enters his life.

3. 3

   3. Big Dreams

   3 Sept 1997

   Galileo decides he needs to explore outside the marsh. He builds a boat, ready to take off for some adventure, but the adventure comes to him. A plant from a frozen climate floats by, and Galileo decides he will return it to its rightful place in the mountains. Eco tries to remind Galileo about Nature's way through a story about an unruly tribal leader.

4. 4

   4. Truth & Consequences

   4 Sept 1997

   Maggie decides to trick as many groundlings as she can, but some trust is lost, which proves costly.

5. 5

   5. Maggie's Quest

   5 Sept 1997

   Maggie craves attention. She declares to all that she will look for a flower known only in stories.

6. 6

   6. Night and Day

   8 Sept 1997

   Mud/Slinger comes down with a rare disorder and can't speak coherently. Hope for a cure may be thwarted unless Galileo and Maggie learn to cooperate.

7. 7

   7. Life Before Stacks

   9 Sept 1997

   Stacks is ashamed when confronted with the fact that he is a machine. Eco eases things by telling all the ground-lings how Stacks came to be.

8. 8

   8. Heat Wave

   10 Sept 1997

   How can the Groundlings find relief from the oppressive heat? Mud/Slinger try out a myriad of inventions, none of which work--until they hit upon a fancy fan. But it takes an isolated thunderstorm to remind Mud/Slinger that they don't need certain tools all the time.

9. 9

   9. Pot of Plenty

   11 Sept 1997

   After Eco accidentally breaks the Pot of Plenty prior to the annual harvest meal of gratitude, she and Galileo follow the legend of their grandcestors in an effort to create a replacement pot.

10. 10

    10. All for One

    12 Sept 1997

    Eco is intent on spending time by herself while all the other groundlings seek attention.

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    11. Flower Power

    15 Sept 1997

    Galileo chases Maggie out of the marsh on the grounds that she doesn't serve any useful purpose. But an invasion of fast-rising flowers threatens to drown out the marsh and everyone in it, and Maggie is the only groundling to evade a floral disaster.

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    12. Them Dingling Dozy Daisies

    16 Sept 1997

    Mud/Slinger's new invention to protect the groundlings from the drowsy effects of doy daisies leads to a potential explosion.

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    13. Sticks and Stacks

    17 Sept 1997

    Stacks feels left out because all the groundlings have been ignoring him. All that changes when Stacks suffers from amnesia, thinking he's a tree.