Overview
Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.
Cast
- Vivien Endicott Douglas as Marnie McBride
- Simon Callow as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
- Rik Mayall as Edwin the Eagle (voice)
- Alan Cumming as Bruno the Bear (voice)
- Siobhan Redmond as Ailsa the Adder (voice)
- Jason Connery as Ross McBride
- Peter Mullan as Michael Scot
- David McKay as William McTaggart
- Bill Paterson as The Storyteller (voice)
- Gordon Tootoosis as Nathaniel Stone