Guess with Jess

Guess with Jess
Genre	Children's Animation Educational
Based on	Jess the Cat from Postman Pat by John Cunliffe
Written by	Tim Hastings Lane Leuras Gene Grillo
Directed by	Mike Shiell
Creative director	Donald Anderson
Voices of	Charlie George Morwenna Banks Jo Wyatt Bailey Pepper Beth Chalmers Daniel Anthony Kyle Stanger Sian Taylor
Theme music composer	Jonathan Evans
Opening theme	"Guess With Jess"
Ending theme	Various
Composer	Julian Nott
Country of origin	United Kingdom Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producers	Mandy Kamester Doug Murphy Chris Rose Scott Dyer Jane Smith Heather McGillivray
Producers	Ceri Barnes Annika Bluhm Tracey Dodokin Jocelyn Hamilton
Editor	Alan Simpson
Running time	10 minutes
Production companies	Entertainment Rights (Earlier Season 1 episodes) Classic Media (Later Season 1 episodes and Season 2) Nelvana[a]
Original release
Network	CBeebies (United Kingdom) Treehouse TV (Canada)
Release	9 November 2009 (2009-11-09) – 7 March 2010 (2010-03-07)
Related
Postman Pat

Guess with Jess is an interactive animated children's television series featuring Jess the Cat from the television series Postman Pat.^[1] The show follows Jess' adventures with his friends on Greendale Farm in Greendale, England, and how they always try to solve each other's problems with a Big Question, which is answered by "asking, testing, find a way". Jess and his friends search for the answers to science and nature-based questions, allowing children to learn about the world around them. 52 episodes were produced.

Unlike his appearance in Postman Pat, Jess in this series has the ability to talk to his friends on the farm.

New episodes of the series originally aired on the DreamWorks Channel in Thailand until 2020.^[2]

Characters

• Jess (voiced by Charlie George) is the protagonist and host of the series. He is a young, curious black and white cat with green eyes, from the CBeebies series Postman Pat.
• Willow (voiced by Morwenna Banks) is a skewbald horse wearing a sunhat. The largest of all the characters, she acts as a wise mother figure to Jess. Willow shares the stable with the puppies, Joey and Jinx.
• Mimi (voiced by Jo Wyatt) is a pink rabbit and Jess' best friend who lives in a hutch around the farmyard garden. Mimi has an affinity with arts and crafts and she enjoys making anything colourful or unique.
• Baa (voiced by Bailey Pepper) is a sheep with a blue beanie and a blue and white scarf. He always hangs out with Billie, who both live up in buttercup meadow. Baa tends to be afraid of more things than the others and particularly hates getting wet because the water stays in his wool a long time, making him cold and miserable and also makes his wool heavy.
• Billie (voiced by Beth Chalmers) is a field mouse. She is often seen with Baa and rides around on his hat, since Baa can get places faster than she can. She carries a magnifying glass and a set of binoculars so she can investigate the "big question" further.
• Horace (voiced by Daniel Anthony) is a frog who wears large glasses and lives at the pond. He loves making music and instruments out of natural found objects.
• Joey (voiced by Kyle Stanger) and Jinx (voiced by Sian Taylor) are two twin puppy siblings. Joey (the boy) wears a blue collar with a bone shaped dog tag and Jinx (the girl) wears a pink collar with a flower shaped dog tag and a flower in her hair. They both love to run about the farm, rolling about in the mud and jumping over puddles.
• A host of minor characters – such as Sammy Snail, Brown Bird, Kevin the fish, etc.

Episodes

Season 1

1. How Can We Make a Boat?
2. How Can We All Keep Warm?
3. What's Happened To Chloe The Caterpillar?
4. When Will My Coloured Stripes Come Back?
5. Who Did I Hear In The Big Hollow Log?
6. Who Wants To Live In Baa's Meadow?
7. What Can We Do With Mimi's Rubbish?
8. Why Are The Ants Visiting Mimi?
9. Why Do Spiders Build Webs?
10. How Can We Bring The Outside Inside?
11. What's My Favourite Thing About Spring?
12. How Can I Hide Without Being Found?
13. Why Do Bees Make Honey?
14. When Will The Owl Go Hooooo!?
15. Where's My Puddle Gone?
16. Why Has My Shadow Gone Away?
17. When Will The Water Come Back?
18. How Can We Paint The Lilly Pad Green?
19. Where's My Feather Gone?
20. Where Have All The Stars Gone?
21. How Can We Make Music For Mimi?
22. How Can We Find Sammy Snail?
23. Why Won't My Kite Fly?
24. How Did A Dandelion Seed Get Into Mimi's Garden?
25. What's The Grumbly Rumbly Noise?
26. When Will The Snow Come?

Season 2

1. What Do We Need To Grow Beans?
2. Why Is Hedgehog Curled Up?
3. How Can We Make The Most Beautiful Garden Ever?
4. Why Are There Little Hills In The Orchard?
5. Why Are There So Many Ladybirds?
6. How Can I Stop Little Bird Eating The Seeds?
7. How Can I Go Up And Down On The See-Saw?
8. What Can I Do With My Nature Collection?
9. How Can I Make My Peach Soft?
10. How Can We Help Billy Stay Warm?
11. How Can We Hide To Watch Butterflies?
12. How Can I Go Faster Than Joey And Jinx?
13. What Shall We Have For Our Harvest Breakfast?
14. What Hat Should Mimi Wear?
15. What's Happened To My Little Tree?
16. How Can We All Keep Cool?
17. What's The Funny Little Creature In The Pond?
18. How Can We Keep Dry For Horace's Concert?
19. How Can I Cheer Up Kevin?
20. How Can We Decorate The Christmas Tree?
21. How Can I Make The Trolley Go Faster?
22. How Can We Mend Baa's Trough?
23. What's That Green Hairy Stuff?
24. How Can I Find My Friends?
25. Why Are Acorns Buried Under The Tree?
26. How Can I Sound Like Brown Bird?

Development

The series was first commissioned on 21 March 2006, for a 2008 delivery.^[3]

References

Notes

1. As Refrain Productions for Season 1, and Guess with Jess Limited for Season 2

Sources

1. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 142. ISBN 9781476672939.
2. Frater, Patrick (28 July 2015). "DreamWorks Animation Launches TV Channel in Thailand". Variety. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
3. "BBC Commissions 'Guess with Jess' from ER". Archived from the original on 15 May 2006.

External links

• Guess with Jess at BBC Online
• Guess with Jess at IMDb