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  • The Berenstain Bears (1985 TV series)
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  • It aired on the United States from September 14, 1985 until March 7, 1987 on CBS with over 52 11-minute episodes in 26 half-hour shows produced. Each show consisted of two episodes, the first being an adaptation of one of the books, the second being an original story. The series was nominated in 1987 for a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming; it was also nominated that year for a Humanitas Prize in the category of Non-Prime Time Children's Animated Show.
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Editor1
  • Robert Ciagilia
Editor1
  • Robert Ciagilia
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Executive Producer
Audio format
  • Stereo
Runtime
  • 1320.0
Status
  • Ended
Producer
  • Buzz Potamkin
Channel
Country
Genre
Caption
  • The main shot from the opening, showing all four main characters.
Language
  • English
show name
  • The Berenstain Bears Show
LineColor
  • 0
  • D1E231
Preceded By
  • The Berenstain Bears Play Ball
Title
  • Ring the Bell
  • King For a Day
  • The Cat's Meow
  • Blaze a Trail*
  • Bust a Ghost
  • Forget their Manners*
  • Get Stage Fright*
  • Get in a Fight*
  • Go Bonkers over Honkers
  • Go Fly a Kite*
  • In the Dark*
  • Learn About Strangers*
  • Life with Papa
  • No Girls Allowed*
  • Save the Bees
  • Save the Farm
  • Shoot the Rapids*
  • The Bigpaw Problem
  • The Condemned Backscratcher
  • The Coughing Catfish*
  • The Crystal Ball Caper
  • The Dancing Bees
  • The Disappearing Honey*
  • The Fly Away Pizza
  • The Forbidden Cave
  • The Giant Bat Cave
  • The Great Grizzly Comet
  • The Great Honey Pipeline
  • The Hot Air Election
  • The Ice Monster
  • The Knight to Remember*
  • The Messy Room*
  • The Missing Dinosaur Bone*
  • The Missing Pumpkin
  • The Mystery Mansion
  • The Neighborly Skunk*
  • The Not So Buried Treasure*
  • The Raid on Fort Grizzly
  • The Soccer Star*
  • The Spookiest Pumpkin
  • The Spooky Old Mansion
  • The Substitute Teacher
  • The Sun-Fire Bait
  • The Superduper Bowl
  • The Terrible Termite
  • The Trojan Pumpkin
  • The Trouble with Friends*
  • The Truth*
  • The Wicked Weasel Spell
  • The Wild Wild Honey*
  • To the Rescue*
  • Too Much Birthday*
Company
Aux
  • Rowby Goren
  • Stan and Jan Berenstain
Num episodes
  • 26
OriginalAirDate
  • 1985-09-14
  • 1985-09-21
  • 1985-09-28
  • 1985-10-05
  • 1985-10-12
  • 1985-10-19
  • 1985-10-26
  • 1985-11-02
  • 1985-11-09
  • 1985-11-16
  • 1985-11-23
  • 1985-11-30
  • 1985-12-07
  • 1985-12-14
  • 1986-01-18
  • 1986-01-25
  • 1986-02-01
  • 1986-02-08
  • 1986-02-15
  • 1986-02-22
  • 1986-05-13
  • 1986-05-20
  • 1986-05-27
  • 1986-06-03
  • 1986-09-13
  • 1986-09-20
  • 1986-09-27
  • 1986-10-04
  • 1986-10-11
  • 1986-10-18
  • 1986-10-25
  • 1986-11-01
  • 1986-11-15
  • 1986-11-22
  • 1986-11-29
  • 1986-12-06
  • 1986-12-13
  • 1986-12-20
  • 1986-12-27
  • 1987-01-03
  • 1987-01-10
  • 1987-01-17
  • 1987-01-24
  • 1987-01-31
  • 1987-02-07
  • 1987-02-14
  • 1987-02-21
  • 1987-02-28
  • 1987-03-07
  • Npvember 8, 1986
First Aired
  • 1985-09-14
EpisodeNumber
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
num seasons
  • 2
ShortSummary
  • Raffish Ralph seizes an opportunity to trade Bigpaw some pet geese for a gold rock. After the geese cause trouble and good help, Bigpaw shortly has to return them to their mother.
  • The ice carnival is starting soon. Suddenly Raffish Ralph spots an ice monster. The ice monster is revealed to be a sleepwalking Bigpaw, who decides to skip his hibernation and join in the fun.
  • In the Bearsonian Institute dinosaur exhibit, the skeleton is missing a right thigh bone. Sister, Brother, Cousin Freddy and Snuff are on the case with Papa's not so helpful assistance. Snuff turned out to be the thief to get a lick at the bone.
  • Raffish Ralph is planning to wreck Giant Bat Cave to build an amusement park, but the cubs, with the help of a smart bat, are able to scare him away with the usage of a giant, fake bat.
  • Arch Weasel is planning to buy Farmer Ben's farm to make it his new headquarters, but he refuses to sell.
  • Brother reads a scary book to Sister. Sister gets the creeps in bed. Mama tries to help leaving the light on for Sister, which causes inconvenience for Brother. Papa shows Sister how to overcome her fear in the attic.
  • Papa is ambitious to win a pumpkin carving contest and Brother and Sister are also joining in. Papa is extremely secretive with his own pumpkin and guards it closely. Papa then has nightmares and he chooses to miss out on the contest.
  • Brother and Sister Bear are going to baby-sit Honey Bear's cat, Puff, while she's away on a trip with her family. Puff's unique meow leads the Berenstain Bears on quest to figure out why it is the cat meows.
  • Papa buys from Raffish Ralph "The Secret of the Dancing Bees" book and dons on a bee costume in hopes of extracting Queen Nectar's honey. His plan works and humours the bees but when Ralph tries it, the bees are not impressed.
  • Papa gets a magic pumpkin seed that grows into a mutant pumpkin.
  • The whole Bear family is terrified of a spooky mansion down the road, but then Mama encourages them to face their fears.
  • Brother, Sister and Freddy have a hunch the weasels are up to something. Sure enough Weasel McGreed intends to hypnotise Bigpaw to turn against Bear Country, but Brother, Sister and Freddy thwart their plan.
  • A skunk moves in next door to the Bear family.
  • A superhighway threatens a Bear Country landmark.
  • Papa is not in a good mood this morning. The next day, Brother is in a rotten mood with Sister and they both refuse to play with each other and bicker. The fight intensifies until Mama shows them the pointlessness of quarrelling.
  • Bigpaw is captured and exhibited.
  • Brother Bear tries out for the soccer team.
  • Brother and Sister want to enter the Kite Contest.
  • Papa enters a pizza-twirling competition, but his pizza flies away.
  • Raffish Ralph has a football scheme that involves holding a Superduper Bowl.
  • Papa interferes with the cubs' scouting efforts.
  • Papa is determined to catch Old Jake the catfish.
  • Papa steals some of Queen Nectar's honey.
  • Bigpaw comes to Beartown, but his uncontrollable strength causes major tremors. Raffish Ralph is on the verge of getting rid of Bigpaw, so Weasel McGreed can trigger the biggest earthquake in Bear Country, but Bigpaw repels the quake in Beartown.
  • The Great Grizzly Comet is passing. Some aliens arrive with a warning that the comet is on a collision course with Bear Country. The whole scenario is actually a big hoax managed by Raffish Ralph to swindle the bears out of their homes, so Bigpaw drives them away.
  • During their outdoor playtime, Sister is in the habit of talking to people she doesn't know. Papa's warnings about stranger danger scare her, but Mama coaxes her that this isn't all true.
  • The Bear Scouts are trapped in Forbidden Cave.
  • The Bear Scouts have ghost troubles.
  • The bears find a treasure map.
  • The cubs find a cursed suit of armor.
  • The cubs investigate a mysterious mansion.
  • Sister wants some friends her age just like Brother. Just then, the Bruin family move in next door and Sister befriends Lizzy. Lizzy's bossy behaviour soon makes the two of them split, but they quickly get together since there are more things they can't do by themselves.
  • Raffish Ralph meets the Terrible Termite and decides to use him to start an insurance business, but Sister and Brother discover his swindle and the termite refuses to further serve Ralph.
  • Mama gets the cubs to give their bedroom a complete cleanup within 15 minutes. Failing to do so, she tries to throw away their toy collection, but Papa comes up with a better solution.
  • Sister's sixth birthday is coming up. The preparations for the party are bigger than Mama expected, including ponies and a merry-go-round Papa hired. The party is pretty distressing for Sister, but by the end of the party she sees the advantage of growing up.
  • The Bear Scouts try to earn their whitewater merit badges.
  • With Papa's honey supply missing, Brother, Sister, Cousin Freddy and his dog Snuff do detective work, while Papa does his ineffective searching. It turns out Papa took and ate the honey in his sleep.
  • While viewing family memories, Sister gets angry that Brother outdid her. But today, Sister turns the tide on her fellows. In response, they exclude her from their clubhouse, so Papa decides to start a new clubhouse for celebration.
  • Jake the giant Catfish, among other animals are affected by garbage dumping in the lake. Brother and Sister get help from Professor Actual Factual to scan the extensive garbage pollution. Their solution is to use a sunken pirate ship as an attraction to fund cleanup projects.
  • Farmer Ben's prize pumpkin goes missing, so the cubs decide to search for it.
  • The Bear Scouts Brother, Sister, and Cousin Freddy try to earn their merit badges. Papa tries to help, but his reckless and clumsy antics make him the one in need of rescuing. Still, the scouts earn their badges eventually.
  • Weasel McGreed creates a new flower which traps bees to cut off Bear Country's honey supply. Raffish Ralph tricks Mama into planting the flowers. Brother and Sister catch wind of the plot and a meeting to save the bees ensues. Only a skunk's stink gas can wilt the flowers.
  • After being pushed around at Cousin Freddy's party by Too Tall, Brother and Sister develop their own bad habits. Mama puts some discipline on the family to improve their manners, which are put to practice even outside the house.
  • Raffish Ralph and Weasel McGreed plan to steal from the Fort Grizzly treasury.
  • Mama entrusts Papa to look after the cubs and the house while she goes to visit Cousin Min. Brother and Sister do their best to keep Papa out of trouble, but he manages to make a combined mess in the house, but Mr. Skunk comes to help out and tidy up before Mama comes back.
  • Brother has quite a passion for soccer and won't join in other activities with Sister. When they begin to fight, they accidentally break Mama's favorite lamp. They tell fibs about how it broke, but Mama tells them that the truth has great value.
  • The Bear family are entering contests at the fair. When faced by Too Tall Grizzly, Brother's quarrel leads Papa into a challenge against Two-Ton. Meanwhile, Queen Nectar has a vendetta against Papa for honey theft, but they unwittingly help Papa win the strength competition.
  • The cubs are afraid of a substitute teacher, but they learn to like her.
  • Raffish Ralph convinces Papa to run for public office, sparking a fiery election.
  • Gran's future-predicting crystal ball goes missing.
  • Sister is going to take part in the school play, Grizzlystiltskin, but she is nervous about being the main role especially on stage. With a little encouragement from Mama, she overcomes her problems and performs well.
  • After some convincing from Brother and Sister, Papa promises not to go after Wild Wild Honey anymore. But when Queen Nectar's honey supply goes missing, the Bear Detectives find Papa broke his word, so they recover the honey and give Papa a lesson he'll never forget.
Last Aired
  • 1987-03-07
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Followed By
  • The Berenstain Bears
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  • It aired on the United States from September 14, 1985 until March 7, 1987 on CBS with over 52 11-minute episodes in 26 half-hour shows produced. Each show consisted of two episodes, the first being an adaptation of one of the books, the second being an original story. The series was nominated in 1987 for a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming; it was also nominated that year for a Humanitas Prize in the category of Non-Prime Time Children's Animated Show. Reruns aired briefly on TLC's Ready Set Learn block from September 28 to November 13, 1998 when a contract dispute forced TLC to pull the show off the schedule. During the early 2000s, reruns were later seen as part of a kids' programming block from DiC Entertainment on the now-defunct UPN, but the episodes were edited and time-compressed by DiC.
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