Yik Yak’s No-See-Um Ray has turned Eco’s apple tree and Daisy invisible. Its antidote, thePeekaboo Ray, has fallen somewhere on Moona Luna. It’s found in the nest of a protective LunarLoon. T.E.D. has to turn himself invisible to retrieve the Peekaboo Ray, and thus return Daisy andEco’s apple tree to visibility.

The No-See-Um Ray

Bill Kopp

Jo Vannicola

Rob Paulsen

Rob Tinkler

Ian James Corlett

Michael Cera

The Homeless Crab

The Lunar Leaper

Rover’s dog tag falls off while he’s testing Ripple’s Space Springers, and he loses his sense ofdirection. He’s discovered high up on a column in Crazy Column Cave. Jim uses the SpaceSpringers to jump up to Rover and rescue him.

Tag the Dog

T.E.D. is extremely disappointed when the Super Space Circus has to cancel their visit to MoonaLuna at the last minute. The day is saved when each of the others transforms a work activity into acircus act.

Homemade Circus

A blade on the fan of the Ecodome heater has broken, and it’s getting dangerously cold for theplants. Luckily, a replacement fan blade is scheduled to arrive on the Supply Pod.

T.E.D.’s Big Bang Boomerang

T.E.D. has trouble figuring out how to use Ripple’s new magnetizer – magnetizing himself insteadof other objects. But when Rover gets marooned on the thin ice of Glassy Lake, it’s a magnetizedT.E.D. who is lowered down to Rover to lift him off the ice and save the day.

Magnetic Personality

The base is in need of powerstones that Ripple has discovered buried under the lunar surface. Theonly problem is that the surface is too hard for shovels, drills, or the Earth Eater to break through.

Moon Mole Madness

When T.E.D. inadvertently sticks himself to Delores with Eco’s sticky tree tar, his hand pops freewhen it comes in contact with Ripple’s frozen lunarberry treats. Who knew lunarberries had thatkind of property?

Ted & The Stick-um Plant

The Fluffies are on their annual march, and nothing can stop their forward progress as they headfor the lunarberry fields. When Pixel reveals that they’re marching straight toward a deep canyon,something that can function as a bridge has to be found quickly. T.E.D. ends up being the bridge,and the Fluffies cross safely.

March of the Fluffies

Jim, T.E.D. and Rover investigate a strange glow in a cave. Its lunar laser flies, who becomeattracted to T.E.D. when he inadvertently gets some of their goopy food on him.

Lunar Laser Flies

Yik Yak has arrived to share a treat from his home planet with the Moona Luna gang – Poppin’Pancakes. These special pancakes start as a small ball of dough, then pop and expand to 100 times itssize. But before anyone can chow down, Jim has to go to on a mission.

Poppin’ Pancakes

Skye is preparing a class assignment on night and day. When Ripple announces a distant solar panelis malfunctioning, Jim, T.E.D. and Skye go out to fix it.

Night Light

Jim, Skye and T.E.D. have discovered some colourful small plants on a fruitless mission to locatesome moon clover for Daisy. Jim gives one little plant to Eco, Skye gives one to Ripple, and Jimsaves one for his house. To his dismay, he and Eco discover that the plant is called a Moonshroom,and it grows very quickly once a year

Moonshrooms

It’s a very hot day on Moona Luna. Eco has found a lunar grove where it’s nice and shady. But whenthe gang arrives, all the leaves from the moon trees are gone! It’s too hot to stay outside, so back tothe Ecodome they go – only to discover that leaves are missing from Eco’s apple trees. There’s a leafthief on Moona Luna!

Leaf Thief

Jim and Skye search out the source of some mysterious large balloon-shaped orbs that seem to berising from Bottomless Crevasse. Skye disobeys Jim’s warning about getting too close to the edge ofthe crevasse, and they both slide to the bottom.

Let’s Get Balloonar!

Yik Yak is enchanted by the sound of air escaping from tires – it reminds him of music back on hishome planet. As the gang heads out to clear some meteorites from a Supply Cave opening, Yik Yakslows their departure by deflating one of the Hopper’s tires so the escaping air can accompany hissong of farewell

Tight Squeeze

Eco is going to bake some Popper berry pie, so Jim, Skye, Rover and T.E.D. set out to pick some.The only problem is that the berries pop when they’re touched. How can they be picked?

Popper Berries

After much discussion, our team puts bright blue landing lights instead of red ones on the Moonport.But spaceships stop landing at the Moonport. Rover notices that the spaceships are landing in anotherspot.

Moonport Blues

T.E.D. discovers a creature called a Dansilla, which only communicates through dance movements.While trying to teach it the Lunar Twist – his favourite dance – T.E.D. gets his leg trapped in a lunarrock pile. It’s up to the Dansilla to try and communicate to the Moona Luna gang that T.E.D. is introuble and needs their help.

The Lunar Twist

A satellite dish is broken and needs to be replaced. When Jim and the gang arrive to replace it,they’re bombarded with thistles by nearby plants.

A Prickly Problem

Skye has made a new substance – called Clomp – in her lab at the Lunar Academy. It starts off soft,but hardens quite quickly – perfect for making moulds and sculptures. When a gear breaks on thebase’s water pump, a perfect replacement needs to be found quickly!

Copy That, Jim!

Jim and Ripple have ordered a surprise for Eco – a “Choo Choo” plant. But when Zippity delivers it,there appears to have been something else in the cargo bay – a voracious Space Chompster!

The Space Chompster

The gang receives an SOS from a stricken spaceship. They manage to bring it in to the Moonport byremote control, but discover there’s no one on board. A search turns up an escape pod fired from theship, but with only a wilted plant inside. Where is the astronaut?

The Missing Astronaut

Comet Atchou - a rare comet - passes over Moona Luna, sprinkling everyone with its sparkly dust. Alittle while later Jim, Ripple and Eco unaccountably freeze, statue-like, while Rover, T.E.D. andSkye – who has a bad cold – are unaffected.

Comet Atchou

Zippity has left a rare Jupiterbug with the gang for safekeeping while he makes a special delivery forEco. When T.E.D. unwittingly lets the bug out of its terrarium, the race to find it is on – made moredifficult by the bug’s chameleon-like ability to change colour.

Where’s Jupiterbug?

A spheroid-shaped UFO has appeared on Moona Luna. The gang takes it back to the base, anddiscovers it’s an egg. They try to hatch it by various means, but are unsuccessful until they return itto where they found it – the place where the conditions were perfect in the first place.

Hatching A Plan

A Lunar Leaper has leapt onto Moona Luna and threatens the base with its reverberating jumps. Allattempts to tire it out fail, until Jim remembers the soothing music he uses to lull himself to sleep.

Jim and the gang try to find a new home for a little Lunar Crab, who has outgrown its old one.They try various possibilities – a box, a flowerpot, a moon melon rind – but finally discover that ahollow rock Jim and Rover found is perfect for the little crab

Skye needs to get a photo of the elusive Bouncing Buzzpip for a project at the Lunar Academy.Many people have tried, but the Buzzpip will never stay still long enough.

The Bouncing Buzzpip

Zippity has brought T.E.D. a new pet. Everyone else thinks it’s just a rock, but T.E.D. insists it’s avery special rock, named Jeffrey. He teaches it tricks, takes it for walks, lets it have a nap, andfinds other moon rock friends for it.

T.E.D.’s Pet

While T.E.D. and Yik Yak are fooling around out at Crater Corner, Yik Yak gets firmly stuck in acrater. All attempts to free him fail, until Eco realizes he can use the pent up gas from his barrel ofFizzyberry juice to blow Yik Yak out of his trap in the crater.

Yik Yak in the Crater

T.E.D. creates havoc when he reverses the motor on Ripple’s vacuum cleaner and blows Zippityright up his conveyor belt into his Mail Rocket. But when Rover is trapped in a Supply Cave by arockslide, all attempts to free him fail until T.E.D. realizes the motor on the Sampler can bereversed.

Wind Power

After rescuing Yik Yak – who has gotten himself stuck in a plant – by using some Yik Yak SlikSlak, (a lubricant from Yik Yak’s planet), Jim learns the Yik Yak handshake – high five, low five,palm tickle. Yik Yak has the opportunity to help Eco and Ripple with his Slik Slak – and teachthem his handshake, too. When Jim, Eco and Ripple come down with Lunar Legs – an ailmentwhich causes their legs to move crazily for a while - no one can figure out how they got it.

Lunar Legs

Jim discovers an ancient treasure map hidden by Moonbeard, an ancient Space Pirate. It promises atreasure of “Ruby, sapphire, emerald, gold”. The gang has to decipher three clues to find thetreasure – which turns out to be the root-ball of a tree. They plant it, and a Rainbow Tree sprouts,revealing branches of "ruby, sapphire, emerald, and gold".

Moonbeard’s Treasure

T.E.D. disobeys Ripple’s wishes and tries out her new invention, a rocket pack. There’s only oneproblem – he doesn’t know how to land! Both Jim and Skye try to rescue him – unsuccessfully.Ripple’s Space Pillow Foam – invented to protect Delores’ eggs from breaking – is hastily spreadover the Moonport just as T.E.D.’s fuel runs out above them.

Rocket Pack T.E.D.

T.E.D. loves practicing on his new skateboard. The only problem? He keeps getting in everyoneelse’s way! But when the Scrambler breaks down on a mission to get some Cosmic Cactus juicefor Zippity to take on an emergency run to another base, it’s T.E.D. who saves the day.

Skater T.E.D.

The Moona Luna gang is going to perform a live music piece for an intergalactic broadcast. ButT.E.D. doesn’t have an instrument! He and Jim set off to find one.

Space Symphony

T.E.D. klongs his head on Zippity’s mail hatch door as he rushes to get his latest copy of hisfavorite comic “Rocket Robot”. His circuits get scrambled and he thinks he’s Rocket Robot.

A Major Problem

Ripple is accidentally duplicated by a space copier. Confronted by two Ripples, the gang has tofigure out which one is genuine? Luckily, a “likes and dislikes” quiz T.E.D. gave everyone at thestart of the show provides the clue to revealing the real Ripple.

The Real Ripple

Eco and Skye, and then Jim, get stuck to a fruit while trying to pick it. Ripple comes to the rescue,but its Rover who notices birds can land on and take off from the fruit with no problem – afterthey’ve landed on a nearby bush. Closer examination reveals pollen on the bush’s flowers, whichnegates the stickiness on the fruit.

A Sticky Situation

A baby bird’s loud squawks are disturbing everyone and making work impossible. Attempts tocalm it down are all unsuccessful, unless T.E.D. is present. The problem is the baby bird keepspecking at the coloured wristband T.E.D. is wearing to remind him of the chores he has to do.Eventually they realize that the colour of T.E.D.’s wristband reminds the baby of its mother’sfeathers.

The Squawker

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!"

The No-See-Um Ray

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