Pearlie is an animated comedy series based on the children's book series Pearlie the Park Fairy by Wendy Harmer.^[1] Pearlie is a co-production between Australian children's television producer Sticky Pictures and Canadian animation house Nelvana Limited. The series aired on Network Ten in Australia, YTV in Canada, Pop Girl in the United Kingdom, and Qubo in the United States. 26 episodes were produced.

Synopsis

Pearlie is a park fairy appointed by Fairy Headquarters to keep Jubilee Park in order.^[2] She is full of over-the-top plans for parties and events for the park and its residents, and as she puts it, "everything has to be perfect" for whatever it is she's planning. She is assisted by Jasper, an elf who prefers to not do any real work. There is also Opal, an outback fairy from Australia sent to learn the ropes of park management from Pearlie.

Pearlie's cousin Saphira is jealous of Pearlie's popularity in the fairy world and desperately wants her to be fired. With her assistant Ludwig, a common bat, Saphira sets out to spoil perky Pearlie's day any way she can. Pearlie remains oblivious, always thinking the best of her cousin, while Opal and Jasper are aware of Saphira's plans.

Characters

Fairies

• Pearlie is a park fairy who keeps Jubilee Park in sparkling order. Her eyes are green, she has freckles, and her hair is light blonde with light turquoise highlights. She is the titular protagonist of the series.
• Opal is an Australian Outback fairy sent to North America (possibly somewhere in Canada) by the Fairy Council to learn Advanced Potion Making. Opal does not use a wand, instead she has a magic lasso. Opal lives in a hollow log at the edge of the desert garden within the park.
• Saphira is Pearlie's vain, lazy, evil cousin and the main antagonist of the series. She calls herself the Queen of Darkness, as all she wears is sapphire blue and thinks she can overrule everyone else.
• Fern is a wood nymph, with red/orange hair, who is Jasper's crush in the series. She also shares Jasper's love for nature, having a fascination in particular with birds. She is kind, open minded with zen-like patience.
• Great Aunt Garnet is Pearlie's well-meaning but absent minded great aunt. Garnet runs a store packed full of potions and lotions that always work, just not like they are supposed to.
• Laverne is a fairy dressed in pink and green with green wings on her back. She is a seasonal fairy in charge of Spring and her magic wand is spring-themed.
• Oriana is a plus sized and sweet summer fairy. She wears a skirted bathing suit and carries summer things.
• Leif is an autumn fairy has a crush on Pearlie who likes him back. Saphira has a crush on Leif too, though he does not like her back at all for her negative and snide attitude.
• Noel is the winter fairy with a white mustache. He wears winter clothes that are mostly blue.
• Coral is Pearlie's mother and Saphira's aunt. She is Agate's younger sister. Coral is exactly like Pearlie: fun, sweet, thoughtful, kind but much more mature than her daughter which is to be expected because she is an older fairy with much life experience.
• Agate is Pearlie's aunt, Saphira's mother and Coral's big sister. She is best friends with her younger sister Coral. Agate loves her daughter Sapphire immensely but will not take any back sass or rudeness from her at all. She only appears in "Mother Magic".
• Twinkle-Twinkle is a vain fairy who is the best singing superstar in Jubilee Park. She does sing her songs. She sings, having a tape play the voice she once had.
• Astrid is a fairy with blue eyes and black hair. She works as the head of dream department wearing a black suit and skirt and carrying a red toolbox and an orange-redess ladybug phone. Her design is based on Pearlie creator Wendy Harmer.
• The Turquoise Fairy is a famous fairy author, of very few, but stern words. The Turquoise Fairy has turquoise eyes, hair and dress that match.
• Jingle is a Christmas fairy and is shown to be the smallest of the fairies. She is based on the Christmas Angel in the book series, made obvious when she flies to the top of the Christmas tree and poses as an angel.
• The Fairy Queen is inspired by Queen Elizabeth I. Her first name is Emerald.
• Finn is a tooth fairy that Pearlie and Saphira fall in love with.
• Prime Minister Puckle is the head of the Grand Fairy Federation, He is also very fond of taffy, "Prime Minister wants taffy". This character is a parody of Kevin Rudd.

Others

• Jasper is a garden elf with dreadlocks who likes to go barefoot while happily declaring himself "a barefoot toe wiggling elf".
• Sterling is a black-haired elf who is initially nice, but later on a sneaky criminal.
• Lüdwig is Saphira's servant bat and sidekick.
• Johann is Lüdwig's twin brother bat and he wants Lüdwig to have the freedom that he wants.
• Gobsmack is the Regional Elf Inspector and the representative of the headquarters in Jubilee Park.
• Gadzook is Gobsmack's boss and head goblin. He fires Gobsmack in one episode because he thought Pearlie had everything in the park under control and Gobsmack was not needed.
• Moe is a pixie with a black mustache and beard. His aliases are Monsieur Snip and Manuel. He is a criminal wanted for cutting the heads off flowers.
• Norville is a gnome that once filled in for Jasper while he was on a job swap. He appears in the episode "No Place Like Gnome".
• Sugar is a possum who plays the Bongo drums with Jasper and other possums. And she wonders if Jasper is ever wearing sandals or not. She married Brush in "Possumbillities".
• Scrag and Mr. Flea are "gangsta" rats who spend their days rooting in park garbage for treats. Though a pair of dirty and smelly nuisances, they are respectful towards Pearlie.
• Ned is Opal's pet from the outback, he is an orange frilled neck lizard. Lüdwig thought he was a dragon.
• Nancy is a centipede with a red body and a black Asian updo on her head. She works as Sapphire's massager.
• Splish is a water sprite and Pearlie's neighbor for a week. She lives at the beach. She only appears in one episode.
• Whizzer is a dragonfly who delivers objects around Jubilee Park for Great Aunt Garnet. He wears a mailman's hat.
• Crash is a very tough teal-colored fat dragonfly with a pink heart in an arrow tattoo on his arm. His name comes from the fact that he has been involved in many dangerous crashes.
• Buggy Holly and the Crickets are a famous rock band who comes to Jubilee Park to put on a rock concert. They are seen in the episode "Bongo Boy" performing in Jubilee Park at a rock concert.

Voice cast

• Marieve Herington - Pearlie
• Hélène Joy - Opal
• Nathan Stephenson - Jasper
• Michelle Monteith - Saphira
• Jonathan Wilson - Lüdwig
• Fiona Reid - Great Aunt Garnet
• David Berni - Gobsmack
• Christian Potenza - Scrag
• Neil Crone - Mr. Flea
• Stacey DePass - Fern

Episodes

Home media

Australian media distributor Madman Entertainment released five DVDs of Pearlie in 2010.