Product Details

• Actors: Noah Reid, Elizabeth Saunders, Leah Renee Cudmore, Richard Newman, Luca Perlman
• Writers: Dave Dias, Jennifer Pertsch
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Nickelodeon Network
• DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000WN0NM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,795 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Franklin - Eight Favorite Turtle Tales" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Join Franklin and his buddies as they go on an exciting camping trip, learn to ride a bike, discover The Tooth Fairy and go to school for the very first time! Each fantastic episode is a wonderful journey packed full of delightfully fun discoveries and valuable life lessons.

Franklin’s Birthday Party
Franklin throws a great party in his own neighborhood.

Franklin Goes to School
The first day of school has Franklin excited and nervous.

Franklin Rides a Bike
It’s an adventure when Franklin takes the training wheels off his bicycle.

Franklin’s Blanket
It’s Franklin’s first night away from home and his blanket is missing!

Franklin’s Camp Out
Franklin tackles new challenges without the help of mom and dad.

Franklin and The Tooth Fairy
Toothless, Franklin conspires to get a present from The Tooth Fairy.

Hurry Up Franklin
On the way to a birthday party, Franklin gets sidetracked.

Franklin Plays the Game
A soccer game shows Franklin how to be a team player.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Story Selection, But "Special Features" Are a Gyp, June 1, 2004

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George Buttner "Agent0042" (Dayton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Franklin - Eight Favorite Turtle Tales (DVD)

This first-ever DVD release of "Franklin" television stories includes a nice range of stories from the first through third seasons of the show. Included is the very first story, "Franklin Plays the Game," as well as other great stories like "Franklin's Camp Out" (in which Franklin learns about doing things for himself) and "Franklin's Birthday Party" (in which he and his Dad come up with a creative solution to entertain his extravagant birthday plans.)

There's nothing to complain about as far as the story selection goes, but the DVD also promises exciting special features. However, when I went to take a look at them, it turns out that these so-called special features are actually an exact duplicate of what was included on the "Back to School With Franklin" DVD, right down to the song from it. They're nice and all, but I've seen them before.

Also, each time you pop the DVD in, a promo track for other DVDs and such starts up. It does let you fast-forward it, but it won't let you skip it, which tends to grate a bit. On the positive side, the problem with the captions that existed on the "Back to School With Franklin" DVD has been fixed. On that DVD, the captions had a problem in which they tended to extend off the edge of the screen, and they were also riddled with punctuation errors. On this DVD, captions for longer lines are split into two rows, so that they don't extend off the screen. (Note that rather than the traditional caption format, these captions look more like subtitles, with larger text and no black background.)

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 3 year old loves this, December 10, 2004

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Carrie Kimbel (Huntsville, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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My 3 year old loves this video. It is eight episodes on one DVD - great!!! It is annoying how they won't let you skip through the previews and I have to get out the remote to fast forward through them. Other than that, I would highly recommend this video.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stories, February 9, 2007

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A. L. Fraser "a bookloving mommy" (Windsor, CO) - See all my reviews
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The Franklin stories are wonderful for 3-6-year-olds. I live in Switzerland, where we don't get shows like this very often, and I find the lessons heartwarming and valuable. Franklin's perspective is always realistic for a child, and more importantly, easy for kids to identify with. The Blanket episode perfectly fits my 3-year-old, and the story about learning to ride a bike actually inspired my cautious 5-year-old to go back out on his own bike and try again. I'm disappointed to see the low ratings based on such things as a possible defect in a particular DVD, rather than the content of the shows themselves. I highly recommend this DVD.