The Jumping Ground (season 1)

The first season of The Jumping Ground, an New Zealand animated television science fiction comedy series, originally aired in New Zealand on TVNZ 2  between January 28 and April 29, 1998. The season was headed by the series creators Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon, who served as executive producers along with co-executive producer Mic Graves. Produced by New Zealand production company Codename 62 Productions in collaboration with Aliance Atlantis Communications, The narrative revolves around four children - PuffPuff Humbert, Rob Broflovski, Lance Patrick, and Zowie Hosker in the fictional Ohio city of Pencaster.
The first season was a ratings success for Showtime. The Nielsen ratings rose from 1.3 to 6.4 from the first to the tenth episode. Several episodes received award nominations, including for a 1998 Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)" and a GLAAD Award in the "Outstanding TV – Individual Episode" category for the episode "Thor's Hammer". During the season, The Jumping won a CableACE Award for "Best Animated Series".
The show was a financial success for both TV3 and Showtime. Despite this, critics gave the season mixed reviews. Parents Television Council rated it so offensive that it "shouldn't have been made": "it doesn't just push the envelope; it knocks it off the table", while another critic thought of it as "coming pretty damn close" to being a "perfect" television series season.
==Episodes==
No. inseries	No. inseason	Title 	Directed by 	Written by 	Original air date
1 	1 	"Rob Gets an Anal Probe" 	Lee Eisenhower 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon 	January 28, 1998
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2 	2 	"Weight Gain 9000" 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon 	February 4, 1998
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3 	3 	"Mt. Conoret" 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon 	February 11, 1998
4 	4 	"Cold Lazarus" 	Lee Eisenhower 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon 	February 18, 1998
5 	5 	"Thor's Hammer" 	Lee Eisenhower 	Lee Eisenhower, Conrad Vernon and Danny Cannon	February 25, 1998
6 	6 	"The Torment of Tantalus" 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Jonathan Littman 	March 4, 1998
7 	7 	"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig"	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Conrad Vernon 	March 11, 1998
8 	8 	"Damien" 	Brad Turner 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon 	March 18, 1998
9 	9 	"The Bitix" 	Lee Eisenhower 	Jonathan Littman 	March 25, 1998
10 	10 	"Split Decision" 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon	Katharyn Michaelian Powers 	April 8, 1998
11 	11 	"Politics" 	Jonathan Littman 	Conrad Vernon 	April 15, 1998
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12 	12 	"Mecha-Streisand" 	Lee Eisenhower 	Lee Eisenhower 	April 22, 1998
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13 	13 	"Within the Serpent's Grasp" 	David Warry-Smith 	Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon 	April 29, 1998
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==Development==
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==Reception==
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==Media release==
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