When Jim tries to get a blue lunar sapphire for Eco inside a cave, a gigantic blue sapphire rolls by and blocks the cave entrance, which is too big and heavy for them to push away using their muscles.

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Moonbubbles and Bellyburps

The Chime Flowers

When Rover and T.E.D get all twitchy and an oversized beanstalk grows out of control, there's a mystery to be solved and adventure to be had. Jim and the Moona Luna team zoom into action as they try to uncover the cause of all the confusion. Could Eco's runaway vines be the solution they need?

Meteor Mystery

When Jim is placing a new satellite dish in an area, he gets distracted by the glare of the satellite dish and accidentally drops Rover's ball in a dust puddle. He tries to get the ball but falls in the puddle himself. He gets stuck and is unable to get out and he can't call his friends for help because the dust has clogged his communicator.

That Sinking Feeling

Eco is distraught when some critter sneaks into his garden for a taste of moon melon rinds and blue moon banana peels. With some investigating, Jim and his friends find the culprit to be an adorable lunar worm with an appetite for compost.

Pest Problem

When all the lights in Moona Luna run out of batteries, Jim and his friends go to Crystal Cave to get crystals to replace the lights. But the crystals wont light up when they get to Moona Luna.

The Secret of Crystal Cave

Some strange disappearances have Jim and the rest of his gang playing detective as they try to discover who stole their equipment, Gnordegrin the garden gnome and even tried to kidnap T.E.D!

The Moon Thief

When the monthly supply pod that's scheduled to arrive is nowhere to be found, Jim and his friends try to look for it.

That's Odd, Where's the Pod?

When T.E.D's bungled attempt to drive the Lunar Crawler leaves them trapped inside a cave, it's up to Jim, Rover and Ripple to find themselves a means of escape. Putting their heads together, the team comes up with a solution that acknowledges the gravity of the situation.

Up, Up, and Away (almost)

Jim and his friends hunt for the source of a whistling sound in the Ecodome.

The Whistling Craters

When Rover goes missing, Jim and T.E.D are hot on his trail and find not only the robo-pup but a fabulous lunar playground. The problem is navigator T.E.D can't remember the way home.

Wrong Way, TED

When Rover tries to jump over a lunar clam plant, the plant snatches his tail plug, causing Rover to lose his battery power. Meanwhile, when T.E.D gets sprayed by the lunar vehicle washer, his joints start squeaking.

Running on Empty

While Eco is on vacation, Jim and his friends do the work in the Ecodome for him. Meanwhile, Ripple has prepared a robot called the Gardenbot for a surprise for Eco when he gets back to Moona Luna. Lazily, T.E.D cons Ripple into turning on the Gardenbot so it can do the work for them, but when the Gardenbot crashes into a rock, it starts doing the opposite; it starts pulling out other plants.

Jim Gets Mucky

Jim and his friends have a lot of chores to do that day, but after collecting some flowers and smelling them, they suddenly forget which chores they're supposed to do.

Forget Me Nots

When the supply pod arrives in Moona Lunar, Jim and his friends discover that nothing's in there, so Jim reprograms the supply pod so it would go back to Earth. When they return to Moona Luna, they discover that Rover is still trapped inside the supply pod, so the heroes have to go back and rescue Rover before the supply pod blasts off. However, the Lunar Hopper is the only vehicle that isn't broken. It soon develops a flat tire, making it nearly impossible to get there in time to save Rover.

Recipe for Rover

Ripple has installed a voice control unit for the Lunar Crawler, but when T.E.D touches the voice unit, he becomes a voice recorder which makes him annoyed. When Jim climbs down to explore the cliffs, he is unable to get back up because the Crawler only responds to Jim's voice and he's too far away to be heard. So T.E.D tries to rescue Jim by playing back Jim's commands using his newly-found voice recorder unit.

Voice Recorder TED

When Jim discovers an area of slippery lunar moss that's perfect for skating, he gets his friends to come over and try to skate on there. When T.E.D reluctantly tries to skate, he accidentally slips and gets stuck between two rocks, and is unable to break loose.

Real Slick, TED

After Eco tells everyone a story about a space pirate, the story appears to be becoming real when strange buzzing noises are heard every night. It becomes even more mysterious the next day, when everybody's chores are already done, and nobody claims that they did the chores.

The Space Pirate

When Jim tries to get Eco a Purple Plutonian Pansy, he accidentally falls in a green puddle. When he gets out of the puddle, the goop becomes solid and Jim is stuck in there. So his friends have to figure out how to turn the goop into a liquid again so Jim can break free.

Puddle Predicament

When Ripple has gone missing, Jim searches for Ripple and finds out that Ripple is in a chime flower field, in which when anyone hears the music, they fall asleep. So Jim has to find a way to rescue Ripple without hearing the chime flower music.

The lunar worm is sick and has the stomach burps, so Jim and his friends search for Moonbubbles for the lunar worm, which is the only cure for its stomach burps. But the Moonbubbles are invisible, so Jim always squashes the Moonbubbles when he tries to pick them.

Ripple has invented a lunar teleporter machine, but the teleporter machine mixes up anything that's put inside there, so when Rover and T.E.D have a fight, they accidentally get into the machine and Rover now has T.E.D's body and T.E.D has Rover's body. T.E.D is the only one who knows how to fix the machine, but he has Rover's body, and is unable to operate it.

The Big Switcheroo

When T.E.D accidentally breaks Ripple's keyboard instrument, Jim and his friends try to search for new musical instruments for Ripple. They've found four objects that have instrumental sounds, but none of the objects can make music themselves.

A Little Moon Music

When Rover has dug up a Lunarsaurus bone, T.E.D becomes afraid that a Lunarsaurus will look for the bone, despite everyone assuring him that Lunarsauruses are extinct. The bone, which is seemingly useless, proves to be useful when a leg of the Control Tower is broken, and the bone is the perfect replacement leg.

Rover's Big Dig

When Ripple sneezes uncontrollably whenever Rover is around her, it's suspected that Ripple has developed an allergy to Rover, but it turns out that Ripple is just allergic to Rover's new robot polish.

The Big Sneeze Mystery

Eco doesn't want to feed the animals manually, so Ripple builds a remote control for Eco's feeder. But the remote control doesn't work for Eco's feeder. Instead, it causes other trouble, when the lights in Jim's house began flicking on and off for no reason, the music in the Eco Dome suddenly turns on, and then, while T.E.D's polishing Jim's Scrambler, the Scrambler blasts off itself, carrying T.E.D. Jim tries to rescue T.E.D using his Lunar Lifter, but just as he's about to catch T.E.D, the Lifter gets out of control.

Jim and T.E.D's Wild Ride

It's Lunar Winter, so Jim and his friends bring crystals from Crystal Cave back to Moona Luna for warmth. Then, a Fluffy arrives, so they decide to keep it as a pet. However, the Fluffies start reproducing uncontrollably and there's no more space, so they have to make the Fluffies leave. When they discover that the Fluffies are attracted to the crystals, they try to bring the Fluffies to Crystal Cave.

Too Many Fluffies

Jim and his friends are flying kites, but when T.E.D tries to fly a kite, the wind blows him off the ground, and he gets stuck on a tall ridge. Jim has a ladder but he's unable to reach T.E.D because the wind's blowing the ladder, making it unsafe to climb.

Cosmic Kite

When Jim and T.E.D are taking place of a satellite dish, T.E.D finds a critter inside a crater so he decides to take the critter home. But the critter starts eating everything on sight. Another problem happens when the satellite dish stopped working because the vines next to the satellite dish have grown out of control and tangled the satellite dish.

Crater Critter

Eco has knitted Daisy a sweater, but since the sweater is to small for her, it's given to Rover instead. The sweater is proven to be useful when Jim and his friends explore a big cave and end up getting lost, when Rover uses the string of the sweater to mark their path.

Lost and Found Friends

When the ground starts shaking, Jim and his friends go to see the reason and it turns out that some space junk have fallen and they've covered the lunar playground. So they remove the space junk, and build another playground using the materials.

Space Junk

When Jim explores the Lunar Fissure by scanning the fissure using Ripple's multi-tool, he accidentally drops the multi-tool inside. The fissure is very narrow, so none of the vehicles can fit inside it, but then Ripple realizes that her moon blast-off board is small enough to fit.

Ripple's Moon Blast-Off Board

The supply pod has lost control and is going to have a crash landing, so Jim and his friends have to find things that would cushion the impact of the supply pod's landing before it lands and breaks.

Force Field Trampoline

When a star has fallen from the sky, Jim and his friends try to send the star back into the sky, but they are unable to launch the star high enough.

The Fallen Star

When Jim teaches TED how to bowl, he starts to get obsessed with bowling. He reluctantly goes with Jim and his friends for a treasure search, but the cave with the treasure is blocked by large rocks. It turns out bowling is the solution to the answer when they notice a large boulder on a slope, which could be pushed to knock away the large rocks.

Big Bowling Bash

When Ripple invents a robot, called Scooperbot, which collects metal things, the robot takes away T.E.D's voice chip and hides away, so Jim and his friends have to find Scooperbot and try to get T.E.D's voice chip back from Scooperbot.

Scooperbot Hide'n'Seek

When Jim and T.E.D have to put a signal light on a slope, T.E.D volunteers to do it by controlling the Lunar Crawler. But T.E.D accidentally breaks the emergency brake and the Crawler starts going backwards towards Stinky Lake. So Jim must figure out a way to stop the Crawler from going further.

Ripple's Web Sprayer

After a meteor shower hits the moon, Jim and T.E.D go to stack the meteors up, but T.E.D is frightened because the stacked meteors look like monsters. Meanwhile, a lunar gopher has entered the Eco Dome and he starts pulling out Eco's plants just for fun. Annoyed, Eco tries to get Jim to help, but none of the suggestions are working because the gopher is fast and able to jump over fences.

Moon Mischief

When Jim is asked to measure the lengths of lunar craters, Ripple gives Jim heating gloves to wear because the crater area is very cold. When problems happen when after Jim measures the craters, everything Jim touches and starts malfunctioning, including Ripple's multi-tool, Rover and then T.E.D.

Short Circuit Gloves

When Jim and his friends are exploring, a lunar loon takes away the Scrambler's chain, and the Scrambler's unable to fly without the chain. The lunar loon refuses to give it back, so they have to make the lunar loon open its mouth and drop the chain.

I'm Like a Bird

When Jim finds floating lunar lily pads, he brings them home to show to his friends. When Jim finds out Eco isn't there, they realize that when Eco's collecting mushrooms, he accidentally parked the Hopper into a lunar mud puddle, and the vehicle is sinking, so Jim and his friends must figure out how to get the Hopper out of the puddle.

Lunar Lily Pads

After Jim and his friends visit the Topsy-Turvy zone, Jim mysteriously starts doing things backwards, such as driving and walking backwards, uprooting plants, bringing in the garbage, having breakfast at dinnertime, and sleeping in the daytime. So everyone tries to figure out what did Jim do to make him start doing things backward.

The Topsy Turvy Zone

After a meteor shower, Jim and his friends find Colby the Collector stuck under a meteor, with his body parts disassembled. So they try to get his pieces reassembled, but the pieces don't seem to fit each other.

Robo Puzzle

The garbage pipeline seems to be broken when all the garbage has been coming on the sides of Stinky Lake instead of in the Recycler. So Jim has to dive into Stinky Lake to check out the reason. At first, Jim is hesitant because the lake is stinky and looks dangerous, but then realizes that it's beautiful down there and there's no danger.

Lunar Litter Bugs

When Jim and his friends are discovering new places, T.E.D finds an interesting rock and takes it with him. Then, he suddenly starts a rhyming trait and rhymes every sentence, but once they get back home, T.E.D stops rhyming and everyone else seems to start rhyming.

Rhyme Me a River

When Jim and Ripple bring home a Shrinkberry plant for Eco, T.E.D accidentally touches the juice of a berry of the plant and shrinks, becoming tiny. So Jim and his friends have to find something that would make T.E.D big again.

Incredibly Shrinking TED

The supply pod has lost control and has landed on a ledge under the Lunar Cliffs. Someone has to push the key to get the supply pod back up, but no one can reach the button using their hands while driving a vehicle.

Rover's Rocket Roamer

When Jim and T.E.D are collecting lunar seeds for Eco, T.E.D loses his balance while carrying a heavy seed so trips over Jim, making Jim, T.E.D and Rover all fall into a deep ravine. They're unable to get out because it's too steep to climb up and all the vehicles are too big to get into the ravine and rescue them.

TED and the Beanstalk

Mysterious things start happening in Moona Luna when Eco's Hopper's wheels have come off for no reason, Ripple's tools start moving by themselves and T.E.D's had suddenly getting turned backwards. The pranksters turn out to be moon pixies, which are tiny creatures that live in Orbit Orchids.

Moon Pixies

When Jim and his friends are watching a comet flyover, a part of the comet crashes in the moon, which hits T.E.D in the head. After the hit, T.E.D loses his memory because the impact made the memory chip bounce out of his head so they find that the memory chip is stuck inside a rock, but the rock's opening is too small for anybody's hands to reach it.

Lunar Attraction

When Jim discovers two different types of lunar fruit, he brings them home. After finding out that the fruits are safe to eat, they eat the fruit, but afterwards, Jim starts floating and Eco feels heavy and is unable to move.

The Floating Fruit

It's a rootin' tootin' time at the Moona Luna corral as T.E.D goes to the West and somehow manages to save the day and Delores with his lassoing skills.

Cowboy TED

Happy birthday Jim! It's a fun-filled mission for Jim as he travels around the moon looking for clues that lead to a big surprise.

A Surprise for Jim

Lunar Jim is an animated preschool-oriented stop-motion television show produced in Canada by Halifax Film and Alliance Atlantis, and aired in the USA as well on Discovery Channel and V-Me from 2005-2012. The show is based on an original concept created by Alexander Bar. Season 1 was Executive Produced by Jeff Rosen. It was script-edited in Season one by Peter Sauder. Season two was helmed by award-winning veteran producer/writer Jed MacKay. Ben Zelkowizc provided the voice of Jim.

Jim and his team; Rover the Robot Dog, Ripple the Super Space Mechanic, Eco the Farmer, and TED, the Technical Equipment Device, live on Blue Moon L22, the second-to-last moon on the edge of the Milky Way. Focusing on exploration and inquiry, Lunar Jim intends to promote such life skills as problem-solving, persistence, creativity, and cooperation, with an emphasis on "pre-science skills". His rallying cry is "Let's get lunar!"

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