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{{Short description|Television series}}
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{{Infobox television
| image                = Little Lulu Show.jpg
| image_alt            =
| caption              = 
| genre                = [[Comedy]]
| creator              = 
| based_on             = {{based_on|''[[Little Lulu]]''|[[Marge (cartoonist)|Marjorie Henderson Buell]]}}
| director             = {{Plainlist|
* Greg Bailey
* Louis Piché
* Nick Rijgersberg
}}
| starring             = [[Tracey Ullman]] (season 1)<br>Jane Woods (seasons 2–3)
| voices               = 
| theme_music_composer = {{plainlist|
* [[Buddy Kaye]]
* [[Sidney Lippman]]
* [[Fred Wise (songwriter)|Fred Wise]]
}}
| opentheme            = "Little Lulu"
| endtheme             = 
| composer             = [[Jeff Fisher (composer)|Jeff Fisher]]
| country              = {{Plainlist|
* United States
* Canada
* Germany (season 3)
}}
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 3
| num_episodes         = 52 (156 segments)
| list_episodes        = List of The Little Lulu Show episodes
| executive_producer   = {{Plainlist|
* [[Micheline Charest]]
* Nancy Steingard
* [[Ronald A. Weinberg]]
* Peter Völkle (season 3)
}}
| producer             = {{Plainlist|
* Ronald A. Weinberg
* Cassandra Schafhausen
* Lesley Taylor
}}
| runtime              = 22 minutes (7 minutes per segment)
| company              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Cookie Jar Group|CINAR Corporation]]{{efn|Known as CINAR Films for the first two seasons. Animation outsourced to [[Wang Film Productions]] (seasons 1–2) and [[AKOM]] (season 3).}}
* [[Golden Book Video|Western Publishing/Golden Books Family Entertainment]]
* [[TV-Loonland AG|TMO-Loonland Film GmbH]] (season 3)
}}
| network              = [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] (Canada, seasons 1–2)<br>[[Family Channel (Canadian TV channel)|Family Channel]] (Canada, season 3)<br>[[HBO]] (United States, seasons 1–2)<br>[[HBO|HBO Family]] (United States, season 3)
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1995|10|22}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1999|2|21}} 
}}
'''''The Little Lulu Show''''' is an animated series based on [[Marge (cartoonist)|Marjorie Henderson Buell]]'s comic book character ''[[Little Lulu]]''.<ref name=Perlmutter>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |pages=364–365}}</ref> The series first aired in 1995 and ended in 1999.

The series was produced by the [[Cookie Jar Group|CINAR Corporation]], in association with [[Golden Book Video|Western Publishing Company, Inc./Golden Books Family Entertainment]], alongside [[HBO]], Beta Film and the [[CTV Television Network|CTV Television Network Ltd.]] for the first two seasons, with the participation of The Cable Production Fund (Season 2) and the [[Family Channel (Canadian TV network)|Family Channel]] (Season 3). For the third season, [[TV-Loonland AG|TMO-Loonland Film]] co-produced the series with CINAR.

==Plot==

Quick-witted Lulu can outsmart boys, bullies and even grownups! Whether she is catching frogs for a local restaurant, [[treasure hunting]] or tracking down a thief, Little Lulu always has an ace up her sleeve. Together with her best friend Tubby, pint-sized Alvin, buck-toothed Annie, smooth Willie and the rest of the neighborhood gang, Lulu always finds herself in the middle of an adventure.

The series focuses on the life and adventures of Lulu Moppet (voiced by [[Tracey Ullman]] and later Jane Woods) and Tubby Tompkins.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=507–508}}</ref> Between stories called ''LuluToon'', they featured stand-up comedy that Lulu hosted and a series of musical shorts called ''Lulu-Bite'' is also shown. Each episode contains 3 sketches with the different stories, interspersed with a "stand up-comedy" presented by Lulu and 2 short 30-second introductions without speech, based on the last comic stories (with only 3 scenes).

Each storyline featured in the LuluToons is used from [[Little Lulu#History|comic book releases]] (including John Stanley ones), with minor alterations.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028145206/http://www.comicreaders.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1275|url=http://www.comicreaders.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1275|title=Everybody's Favorite Juvenile Feminist|website=comicreaders.com|archive-date=2006-10-28|access-date=2019-10-25}}</ref>

The series is different from ''[[Little Lulu and Her Little Friends]]'', a Japanese anime featuring the same characters made in 1976 and aired internationally in 1978.

==Broadcast==
The series was aired on HBO and HBO Family in the United States and CTV in Canada. The series continued to air on [[Family Channel (Canadian TV network)|Family Channel]], [[Teletoon Retro]] (English and French), [[VRAK.TV]], and [[TeleNiños]] (Spanish dub only). In foreign countries, the series is also aired on the Australian [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] (part of ABC for Kids), [[Rai 2]], [[E-Junior]], [[Cartoon Network (Latin American TV channel)|Cartoon Network]] and [[TV Globo]].

==Characters==
{{Main|List of Little Lulu characters}}

==Episodes==
{{Main|List of The Little Lulu Show episodes}}
{{:List of The Little Lulu Show episodes}}

==Voice cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Characters
! Voice actors
|-
| "Little" Lulu Moppet 
| [[Tracey Ullman]] (Season 1)<br>Jane Woods (Seasons 2–3)
|-
| Thomas "Tubby" Tompkins
| [[Bruce Dinsmore]]
|-
| Annie Inch 
| Michael Caloz (Seasons 1–2)<br>[[Vanessa Lengies]] (Season 3)
|-
| Iggy Inch 
| Dawn Ford
|- 
| Willie Wilkins 
| Andrew Henry (Seasons 1–2)<br>Ricky Mabe (Season 3)
|-
| Eddie Stimson
| [[Justin Bradley]] (Seasons 1-2)<br>[[Michael Yarmush]] (Season 3)
|-
| Wilbur Van Snobbe
| [[Jacob Tierney]]
|-
| Gloria Goode Darling
| Angelina Boivin
|-
| Alvin Jones 
| [[Ajay Fry]] (Seasons 1–2)<br>Jonathan Koensgen (Season 3)
|-
| Mrs. Martha Moppet 
| [[Pauline Little]]
|-
| Mr. George Moppet 
| Gary Jewell
|-
| Mrs. Ellie Tompkins 
| [[Susan Glover]]
|-
| Mr. Jim Tompkins 
| rowspan="2"| [[Terrence Scammell (Canadian actor)|Terrence Scammell]]
|-
| Officer McNabb 
|-
| Margie
| colspan="3" | Angelina Boivin
|-
| Jeannie and Joannie 
| rowspan="2"| Danielle Desormeaux
|-
| Janie
|-
| Miss Feeny 
| [[Ellen David]]
|-
| Butch, the Lead West Side Boy
| [[Michael Yarmush]]
|-
|}

==References==
<references/>
{{notelist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=242213}}

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