Rainbow Fish (TV series)

Rainbow Fish is a children's animated television series adapted from the book of the same name. However, the television series doesn't follow the plot of the book; rather it takes the character and the setting and creates a new story with them. Due to the purposes of the show, some characters were added and others embellished. In the series, the place where the fish live is called Neptune Bay (after Neptune, the god of the sea); the fish attend "The School of Fish". The series has a shipwreck called "Shipwreck Park" (resembling the wreck of the RMS Titanic). Decode Entertainment and Sony Wonder produced the series in co-production with EM.TV & Merchandising AG.

The series originally aired for a single season of 52 episodes, from January 8 to December 24, 2000.

Characters
Rainbow Fish (also known as "Rainbow") (voiced by Rhys Huber) is a proud and feisty 9-year-old male fish with shiny scales who is the main character. He lives with his parents (Sol and Aqua) and 12-year-old sister ("Ruby") in a cave near Shipwreck Park.

Sea Filly the Seahorse (voiced by Chantal Strand) is a 9-year-old girl in the school of fish. She is a beautiful mermaid-seahorse hybrid, who is often seen reading books. She eventually becomes firm friends with Rainbow Fish and Blue. She is friendly and has orange hair.

Blue (voiced by Andrew Francis) is Rainbow Fish's best friend, a 9-year-old bluefish who is modest and contemplative. He has a baby sister named Turquoise. Blue is based on the small blue fish from the Rainbow Fish book series by Marcus Pfister.

Ruby (voiced by Chiara Zanni) is Rainbow Fish's ruby-coloured and bossy 12-year-old sister. She is arrogant and self-centered. Although Ruby means well, she regularly gets Rainbow Fish into trouble, only because she occasionally gets jealous, although she actually loves him, just like Aqua and Sol.

Aqua (voiced by Ellen Kennedy) is an aqua-coloured fish who is Rainbow's mother, while Sol (voiced by John Payne) is purple who is Rainbow's father. They help their daughter and son whatever way they can and will always provide them with great courage.

Principal Gefilte (voiced by French Tickner) is the proud Principal of the School of Fish who is strict about behavior.

Mrs Chips (voiced by Ellen Kennedy) is the only teacher of the school of fish who teaches art, history, mathematics, science, and literature.

Wanda the Octopus (voiced by Kathleen Barr) is the owner of Neptune Bay's fast food restaurant who is very wise. When Rainbow Fish and his friends are feeling down, she will always give them some good advice. She is based on the Wise Octopus from the original book.

Chomper (voiced by Christopher Gray) and Stingo (voiced by Bill Switzer) are two bullies of the school of fish. While they do not really commit acts of physical violence, they can bully and tease Rainbow Fish and his friends. Chomper is a shark while Stingo is a stingray.

Sherman Shrimp (voiced by Alex Doduk) is the smallest student of the school of fish; to him, everything looks big.

Sir Sword (voiced by Colin Murdock) is a local swordfish, upper-class, and a bit of a busybody. He is sometimes grumpy and sometimes civil, though he always seems to think he is better than everyone else.

Broadcast
Internationally, the series aired on Rai 3 in Italy, on TVE2 and Cartoon Network in Spain, on ARD in Germany, on MTV3 in Finland, on HBO Family in the United States, on Tiny Pop in the UK and on Disney Channel in Australia.