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Zula Patrol

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In THE ZULA PATROL, a group of animated aliens travel the galaxies to learn new and exciting things about science and space exploration. The series, targeted to pre-kindergarteners through third-graders, delivers both astronomy-based science education (orbits, eclipses, moon phases, asteroids, comets, gravity), as well as character- building lessons. The Zula Patrol, stationed in the far reaches of outer space on the bright orange planet Zula. The group, always on the lookout for the villain Dark Truder & his toupee-wearing sidekick Traxie, includes: Bula, the fearless captain and intrepid explorer; his co-pilot Zeeter, a wild space jockey in her own right; Multo, an intergalactic absent-minded professor; Gorga, a loyal puppy-sized pet with amazing tranformative abilities, and Wizzy & Wigg, a cosmic pair of flying dictionaries. THE ZULA PATROL provides a dynamic, focused and fun learning experience for children, while encouraging them to think innovatively and approach problems evenhandedly.

Episodes:

• Chili Cook-Off/Treasure in the Clouds

  CHILI COOK-OFF: Multo's cooking up a pot of "Galactic Goo" for lunch. But when Bula unwittingly puts Multo's Goo in the freezer, The Zula Patrol finds themselves face to face with a "whirlgoo" of gigantic proportions. TREASURE IN THE CLOUDS: After hearing Multo tell a story about a Golden Cloud, Wizzy and Wigg set out to find it to give to Multo as a surprise present. Dark Truder overhears them and, unaware it's just a story, plots to find the Golden Cloud himself so he will be rich. Our heroes hike up Mount Zula, meeting many types of clouds along the way. When they reach the top, they actually see a golden cloud that Truder attempts to grab, but it turns out to be the Zula Space Patrol ship hidden in a cloud of astro-smoke. Dark Truder is foiled by his own greed, but Wizzy and Wigg discover that sometimes the key to happiness is making others happy.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 13th, 2024 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Star Crossed/Night of the Fweebs

  STAR CROSSED: After luring the Zula Patrol into deep space, Dark Truder steals all the constellations in the sky. He corrals them in a caravan of cages so the ZPers won't be able to "steer by the stars" and chart a course home. The quarrelling, star-crossed constellations have to learn to work together before the Zula Patrol can set them free - and make Truder see stars. NIGHT OF THE FWEEBS: It's the Night of the Fweeebs and the Zula Patrol gets a front row seat as these furry creatures migrate to the North Pole using Polaris, the North Star, as a guide. But chaos ensues when the Zula Patrol discover the North Star is missing, causing the Fweeebs stumble around in confusion, utterly lost! Our heroes must find and return Polaris to its rightful spot in the night sky or the Fweeebs are doomed!

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 20th, 2024 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Mutual Distraction/What Goes Up Must Come Down

  MUTUAL DISTRACTION: Dark Truder hides a magnet in a cloud to magnetize the Zula Patrol, rendering them ineffective, but it's Wizzy and Wigg who end up magnetized. The Zula Patrollers learn all about magnetism as they try to save the siblings - and themselves, when their ship becomes a giant refrigerator magnet. WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN: Explorers from the planet Polkadottia make an emergency landing on Zula and send cryptic visual messages for help to the Zula Patrol. Once our ZPers are able to decipher these messages and find the stranded Polkadottians, they are also able to figure out their problem: The visitors come from a smaller and less massive world than Zula, so they aren't used to the stronger gravitational pull and mass of the ZPers' planet. Our heroes tow the Polkadottians to Mercury - a planet that equals Polkadottia in mass and gravity. There, they help the visitors fix their ship so they can return home.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Dec 27th, 2024 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Dog Gone Gorga/The Milky Way Galaxy Games

  DOG GONE GORGA: Mistakenly thinking he's no longer wanted, Gorga leaves the Zula Patrol in search of a new home. In an effort to find him, the Zula Patrol searches The Solar System and all Nine Planets before ultimately rescuing him from the Intergalactic Pet Catcher. THE MILKY WAY GALAXY GAMES: The Zula Patrol is entrusted with a mission to deliver the torch to the Milky Way Galaxy Games in time for the opening ceremony. They overcome various obstacles including getting lost, a Black Hole, and most importantly, Zeeter's doubt for Multo's silly inventions, which proves in the end to be not so silly after all.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 3rd, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Matter, Matter Everywhere/Family Feud

  MATTER, MATTER EVERYWHERE: Inside a hollow meteorite, the ZPers find the treasure map of Long John Jupiter, notorious rhyming Space Pirate. Following the clues, they learn all about matter, and find a surprising treasure. FAMILY FEUD: Earth's water has disappeared! Part one of the molecular mystery is soon solved when Multo discovers that all of Earth's water molecules have separated into their individual atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen. When Bula and Zeeter shrink to atom-size they find the reason for the separation is a family feud. It's up to the Zula Patrol to get the feuding atoms together as molecules -- and get Earth back together -- before it's too late.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 10th, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Round and Round We Go/The Go'er-Slower Motion

  ROUND AND ROUND WE GO: Dark Truder comes up with a scheme to trap the Zula Patrol on a huge inflatable planet he has placed in orbit around the Sun. It is up to Zeeter, who is off taking part in an orbital space race around the planets of our Solar System, to come to their rescue. THE GO'ER-SLOWER MOTION: Dark Truder builds a Go'er-Slower Motion Machine, which puts The Zula Patrol in super slow motion. With The ZPers too slow to stop him, Truder easily turns the entire galaxy into one huge tribute to himself. However The ZPers are slow, but not out. When they discover that the Go'er-Slower Motion Machine is on Earth, they use their knowledge of the planets' revolution and rotation to meet up with the fast moving (to them) Earth. Then Multo reverses the machine so The Zula Patrol can move at super fast speed to undo the changes Truder made to the galaxy. But they're not sure anything can undo the memory of Truder's tacky Chuckle-World.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 17th, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Club Mars/The Outsider

  CLUB MARS: Dark Truder must get the Zula Patrol off Zula so he can drill for Zulanium under their headquarters. He tricks them into going to Earth for a vacation. However, when there are no vacancies on Earth, Truder decides to pass Mars off as Earth. But it's hard work making two very different planets appear similar -- and Traxie's no help. THE OUTSIDER: The other Planets hurt Pluto's feelings and he refuses to orbit. It's up to The Zula Patrol to bolster his spirits and get him to resume his interplanetary duty.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 24th, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• The In and Outs of Planets/Young at Heart

  THE INS AND OUTS OF PLANETS: Bula sends the Zula Patrol on a teamwork-building treasure hunt through the Solar System. Truder gets wind of the plan and tries to steal the treasure, but his harebrained scheme is no match for the ZP team. YOUNG AT HEART: When Dark Truder's latest scheme turns Bula, Multo and Gorga into toddlers, the rest of the Zula Patrol does double-duty. They must resort to babysitting, while searching the different planets of the Solar System for an age-appropriate cure.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Jan 31st, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• The Big Mess/Telescooped

  THE BIG MESSA sticky mess in Wizzy's & Wigg's room spawns a microscopic city. But when Wizzy's & Wigg's vacuuming threatens to destroy the micro-world, the other ZPers are ZAPPED into the tiny city by its resident microscopic Mad Scientist. TELESCOOPED: When all the telescopes on Zula begin disappearing, the Zula Patrol investigates and learns a lot about telescopes. They even shrink down to get inside one, just as it's stolen. The culprit: Dark Truder, who doesn't realize the tiny Zula Patrol are now trapped in his new 'asteroid headquarters.' They must escape to not only save themselves - but all the telescopes in the Solar System!

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 7th, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Show of Force/Adventures In Pet Sitting

  SHOW OF FORCE: The ZPers hold a race to see who can use clever variations of force to win. Hoping to buck astronomical villainous odds, Dark Truder also enters the race, intent on winning it on behalf of villains everywhere -- for as we've all seen, no bad guy ever wins a race - ever. Dark Truder, to his amazement, does win -- only to learn that the ZPers were more interested in having fun and learning about force, rather than achieving victory. Dark Truder is so angry he forfeits the race to our heroes -- setting a new record low for villains everywhere. ADVENTURES IN PET SITTING: While pet-sitting the Zlorgs' pet blob, Gloopy, the Zula Patrollers discover that Dark Truder is plotting to steal their entire Headquarters building and everything in it! With some help from Gloopy -- and two simple machines, the wheel-and-axle and the screw -- they manage to overcome the baddie and save their building. But first, Gorga must learn to deal with an attack of jealousy.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 14th, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Fly Us to the Moon/Castaway Asteroid

  FLY US TO THE MOON: Wizzy and Wigg want to go to the Moon to see the moon-ball championship game. But when their rocket-powered scooter breaks down, and the other ZPers are too busy to give them a ride, the industrious twins try to find a new way to go to space. Their failed attempts frustrate them, but amuse their not-so-friendly friend, Larvi. However it's the imperfect Larvi who inadvertently gives them the pieces needed to build a rocket - the only true way to get to space. CASTAWAY ASTEROID: After Gorga snorts up Wizzy's and Wigg's toy box full of toys, Multo proposes that they make a solar sail kite to play with instead, and teaches them all about solar sails. Then a Zula Patrol fan (Dark Truder in disguise) calls to compliment the ZP on their new billboard on a distant asteroid. Our heroes get suspicious -- the Zula Patrol doesn't advertise. When they fly up to the asteroid to investigate, they discover it's a trap! Pirate Truder and his robot crew steal their ship, and the Zula Patrollers are left stranded on the asteroid. But Wizzy and Wigg use their new knowledge of solar sails to come up with a solution -- a "lifeboat" using the shiny foil of the billboard as a solar sail.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 21st, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• Take Me to Your Ferret/Earth Hunt

  TAKE ME TO YOUR FERRET: The Zula Patrollers are forced to land on Earth after their ship's wiring develops problems. Stranded on Earth, they learn about the planet with the help of a new friend, a ferret named Buzzy. Buzzy was in training to run wires through shuttles for the space program, so he offers to help our heroes re-wire their ship. What follows is a romp in which our Zula Patrollers lead curious Earthling UFO seekers on a merry chase to avoid discovery, until their ship is repEPISODEed for take off. EARTH HUNT: Earth leaves its place in the solar system and the Zula Patrol races off to bring her back. When they find her, the little blue planet is cold, tired and still in no mood to return home, where she has been picked on by brother and sister planets. Our heroes nurse Earth back to health, and Wigg, who has learned his own lesson about his importance as a member of a team, ultimately convinces Earth she is an important part of the Solar System. The Zula Patrol ultimately takes her back for a happy homecoming.

  Next Airing:	Fri, Feb 28th, 2025 at 1:30 PM on UEN-TV
  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

• A Comet's Tale/This Looks Like A Job for the Zula Dudes

  A COMET'S TALE: When a comet passes near Zula, Zeeter decides she wants to race it. But when Zeeter, Wizzy and Wigg get too close, their Space Ship starts to freeze and they are forced to land on the comet. Bula, Multo, and Gorga's mission is to assist their Team in returning safely home to Zula. THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR THE ZULA DUDES: In his latest attempt to take over the Universe, Dark Truder empties out the Asteroid Belt, sending all the asteroids in the direction of Planet Zula. The ZP uses Multo's latest invention "The Multo-Grabber" to grab all the Asteroids and return them to their proper home.

  Length:	00:28:40
  Usage rights:	9/1/2014 to 4/1/2025

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