Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures[1][2][3] (also called Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures[4][5] or Dream House Adventures and Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures: Go Team Roberts in its 4th and 5th season) is an animated television series by Mattel, the owner of Barbie, to compliment the Barbie: Dreamtopia series.[6]
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Also known as | Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures Dreamhouse Adventures Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures: Go Team Roberts (seasons 4 & 5) |
Directed by | Various |
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Opening theme | Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures Theme Song |
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Country of origin | Canada United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 22–23 minutes |
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Original network | Netflix |
Original release | May 3, 2018 – present |
Background
According to the corporation's chief content officer, (CCO), Catherine Balsam Schwaber,[7] the series was in response to kids wanting to know more about the iconic character and her sisters.
Broadcast
The show premiered May 3, 2018. The show is a Netflix original and the first 8 episodes were up there as of June 28.[8] The series began airing on YTV in Canada on June 22, 2018.[9] It premiered on POP in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2018. Season 2 premiered September 13, 2018. Season 3 premiered February 14, 2019. Season 4 premiered November 1, 2019. Season 5 premiered January 19, 2020.
Cast
- America Young as Barbie Roberts
- Elli Moore as the singing voice of Barbie
- Kirsten Day as Skipper Roberts, Barbie's oldest younger sister who is into music and DJing.
- Cassandra Lee Morris as Stacie Roberts, Barbie's second-oldest younger sister, who is a talented athlete.
- Cassidy Naber as Chelsea Roberts, Barbie's youngest sister, who is the more imaginative of the Roberts girls.
- Ritesh Rajan as Ken Carson, Barbie's best friend and the Roberts' next door neighbor since the family first moved to Malibu from Wisconsin 10 years prior.
- Desirae Whitfield as Nikki Watkins, Barbie's African-American best friend, who is into fashion.
- Cristina Milizia as Teresa Rivera, Barbie's Latina best friend, who is an aspiring singer and songwriter. She's also a straight-A student, and gymnast.
- Stephanie Sheh as Renee Chow, Barbie's Chinese-American best friend and a main character in the franchise since Spy Squad. She is Chinese-American, since her relatives live in China.
- Emma Galvin as Daisy Costopolis, Barbie's best friend who likes being a DJ and has pink hair.
- Lisa Fuson as Margaret Roberts, Barbie's mom, and Poppy Reardon, an antagonistic neighbor.
- Greg Chun as George Roberts, Barbie's dad.
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Whittaker Reardon, Poppy's husband.
- Eamon Brennan as Trevelian Finknoddle "Trey" Reardon, Poppy and Whittaker's only son.
Others
- Tara Sands as Dreamhouse Door
- Kirsten Day as Ben, Teresa's Phone, and Tammy Bounceaway, an Asian-American rival of Barbie.
- Benjamin Diskin as Greg
- Rhomeyn Johnson as Johnny Bee
- Cassidy Naber as Young Barbie and Honey, Chelsea's puppy. Honey is a girl puppy and she is sweet.
- Megan Jameson as Rookie, Stacie's puppy. He is a sporty boy puppy.
- AJ Hudson as DJ, Skipper's puppy. He is a boy puppy that likes music.
- Kaitlyn McCormick as Taffy, Barbie's puppy. Taffy is the youngest puppy.
- Charlie Diecker as Jonny
- Cristina Milizia as Baby Bonnie and Mew Mew
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Mr. Guerrero
- Ogie Banks as Ned and Ted Johnson, Trey's best friends. They are also known as The Dudes.
- Ben Pronsky as Henric Henricson, Rufus, and Narrator
- Nakia Burrise as Principal Miller
- Spike Spencer as Jonathan and Harry Havarti
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 8 | May 3, 2018 | May 3, 2018 | ||
2 | 9 | September 13, 2018 | September 13, 2018 | ||
3 | 9 | February 14, 2019 | February 14, 2019 | ||
4 | 13 | November 1, 2019 | November 1, 2019 | ||
5 | 13 | January 19, 2020 | April 12, 2020 | ||
Barbie Princess Adventure | September 1, 2020 |
Season 1 (2018)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "Welcome to the Dreamhouse!" | Conrad Helten | Story by : Nina Bargiel Teleplay by : Daniel Franklin | May 3, 2018 | |
Barbie's "Best Day Ever" starts out great... until the dreamhouse starts acting up. Could their new home be cursed? | ||||||
2 | 2 | "Clubhouse (Remix)" | Patrice Bérubé & Saul Blinkoff | Nina Bargiel & Grant Moran | May 3, 2018 | |
Barbie and her friends plan a Birthday surprise for Chelsea by giving her clubhouse a makeover. But their missions take a smelly detour. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Nobody's Cupcake" | Patrice Bérubé & Conrad Helten | Grant Moran | May 3, 2018 | |
Barbie puts her skills to the test when she competes on an extreme baking show against a reigning champ who loves to win and hates to lose. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "The Great Pioneer Adventure" | Conrad Helten | Jayne Hamil | May 3, 2018 | |
The Roberts clan gets back to basics when Dad challenges them to a weekend of pioneer living. And the catch? It's all happening in their own backyard. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Baby Sister Babysitter" | Patrice Bérubé | Cynthia True | May 3, 2018 | |
When Skipper snags her first babysitting job, an overprotective Barbie goes overboard trying to make sure everything runs smoothly. | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Road Trip!" | Conrad Helten | Andrew Nicholls & Darrell Vickers | May 3, 2018 | |
Barbie and her friends take a road trip to hear Daisy drop the beat at a major music festival. But Daisy seems to keep finding reasons to stall along the way. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Picture Perfect Cake" | Conrad Helten | Dana Starfield | May 3, 2018 | |
Skipper steps in to handle her parents' 20th anniversary party when Barbie gets a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to attend Robot Con. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "The Roof Fairy" | Patrice Bérubé | Dianne Dixon | May 3, 2018 | |
With their parents away for the night, Barbie, Skipper, and Stacie recruit Ken for an elaborate plan to bring Chelsea's imaginary "Roof Fairy" to life. |
Season 2 (2018)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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9 | 1 | "Balancing Act" | Conrad Helten | Margaret Dunlap | September 13, 2018 | |
Barbie doesn't really feel like doing her father-daughter tradition, so she passes it down to Chelsea. But is she really ready to let it go? | ||||||
10 | 2 | "Life Can Be a Dream" | Patrice Bérubé | Dianne Dixon | September 13, 2018 | |
Thinking about the future prompts Barbie to have a dream where anything's possible—and everything's really, really weird. | ||||||
11 | 3 | "Trey Is for Horses" | Conrad Helten | Robin J. Stein | September 13, 2018 | |
When Barbie discovers Duchess the horse is going to be sold, she and Stacie come up with a plan to keep her around. | ||||||
12 | 4 | "A Dreamhouse Puppy Tale" | Patrice Bérubé | Andrew Nicholls | September 13, 2018 | |
Instead of reading a book at bedtime, Chelsea tells her family about their puppies' secret—and surprisingly dangerous—lives. | ||||||
13 | 5 | "Time Will Tell" | Patrice Bérubé | Story by : Andrew Nicholls Teleplay by : Katiedid Langrock | September 13, 2018 | |
While trying out a new escape room with their friends, Barbie and Ken get separated from the group and wind up on an adventure of their own. | ||||||
14 | 6 | "Putts for Pups" | Conrad Helten | Julie Chambers & David Chambers | September 13, 2018 | |
Chelsea's campaign to raise money for puppy literacy continues with a miniature golf tournament that involves the whole neighborhood. | ||||||
15 | 7 | "Pied Pupper" | Patrice Bérubé | M.J. Offen | September 13, 2018 | |
From dancing to baking, the unstoppable Barbie Roberts can do anything ... except ask for help when she needs it most. | ||||||
16 | 8 | "A Day at the Beach" | Patrice Bérubé | Margaret Dunlap | September 13, 2018 | |
Fate turns the tide on Trey and Barbie when they compete for the best stop on the beach. Back at the Dreamhouse, Stacie tries to set a world record. | ||||||
17 | 9 | "A Delicate Situation" | Conrad Helten | Julie Chambers & David Chambers | September 13, 2018 | |
Renee's desperate to impress her relatives in China, but Barbie doesn't have the heart to tell her "talents" need an awful lot of work. |
Season 3 (2019)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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18 | 1 | "Virtually Famous" | Conrad Helten | Katiedid Langrock | February 14, 2019 | |
Barbie and her friends get swept up in the pursuit of internet popularity after a goofy vlog post unintentionally goes viral and they find being famous isn't as great as it seems. | ||||||
19 | 2 | "All Dogs Go to the Beach" | Patrice Bérubé | Robin J. Stein | February 14, 2019 | |
When dogs get banned from the beach, Barbie and Nikki decide to fight City Hall; victory looks certain until Poppy Reardon joins the race and fights anything but fair. | ||||||
20 | 3 | "The Ballad of Windy Willows" | Patrice Bérubé | Robin J. Stein | February 14, 2019 | |
Barbie and Daisy take a trip to Barbie's Wisconsin hometown, where it's up to Barbie to save her beloved Aunt Adele's struggling inn. | ||||||
21 | 4 | "Room Swap" | Patrice Bérubé | M.J. Offen | February 14, 2019 | |
When Stacie and Skipper get into a fight, Barbie offers to switch rooms with them; eventually, all of the Roberts sisters learn no roommate is perfect. | ||||||
22 | 5 | "Getaway and Got Away" | Conrad Helten & Cassi Simonds | M.J. Offen | February 14, 2019 | |
Instead of enjoying a relaxing spa weekend with their friends, Ken and Barbie end up trying to keep the owner's grandson out of trouble. | ||||||
23 | 6 | "Totally Spying" | Conrad Helten | Daniel Bryan Franklin | February 14, 2019 | |
Trey injures himself on the Roberts' property, so the family is extra nice to him. However, Barbie and her sisters fear Trey might be up to something. | ||||||
24 | 7 | "Barbie Roberts: Undercover Mermaid Part 1" | Michael Dowding | Jayne Hamil | February 14, 2019 | |
Barbie and her friends try to wow Nikki's fashion idol at a mermaid convention, but things take a fishy turn when Barbie's sisters become suspects in a mystery. | ||||||
25 | 8 | "Barbie Roberts: Undercover Mermaid Part 2" | Michael Dowding | Jayne Hamil | February 14, 2019 | |
With her sisters suspected in a string of thefts due to a misunderstanding, Barbie works to clear their names and find the real thief, as well as help Nikki impress her idol. | ||||||
26 | 9 | "A Dog's Day in Court" | Patrice Bérubé | Dianne Dixon | February 14, 2019 | |
The Roberts family could be evicted from their Dreamhouse unless Barbie can figure out who is behind Malibu's sudden flea infestation. |
Season 4 (2019)
From this season onwards, the series was subtitled as Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures: Go Team Roberts on Netflix. Available on Netflix.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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27 | 1 | "Magical Mermaid Mystery Part 1" | Patrice Bérubé & Larry Anderson | Arthur Brown & Douglas Sloan | November 1, 2019 | |
George decides to take the family on holiday to Costa Rica where he’ll be filming a whale documentary, while Barbie and friends land summer jobs at a water park in Malibu. When Barbie comes to know about the trip, she tries desperately to take a holiday from work to go with her family. Unfortunately, she is not able to pick up the courage in time to ask her super cool boss, Darcy. Meanwhile, Trey decides to throw a party at the Dreamhouse, while Barbie is at work. Everything goes haywire when the Roberts' pets are left alone at home. | ||||||
28 | 2 | "Magical Mermaid Mystery Part 2" | Patrice Bérubé & Conrad Helten | Arthur Brown & Douglas Sloan | November 1, 2019 | |
After her boss gets fired, Barbie gets promoted with new responsibilities. Unfortunately, she learns that one of those responsibilities is that she has to fire Ken. Meanwhile, Skipper and Stacie join Chelsea on a quest to find a missing mermaid, but end up getting lost. Trey digs a tunnel to the Dreamhouse and the Roberts' pets, having found a way out of their house, give Trey and his goons a good scare. Barbie, finding them hard to handle without keeping an eye on them, takes the naughty pups with her to work. | ||||||
29 | 3 | "Magical Mermaid Mystery Part 3" | Patrice Bérubé & Cassi Simonds | Daniel Bryan Franklin | November 1, 2019 | |
Barbie's friends struggle to adjust to her becoming their boss at Oceans Extreme. In Costa Rica, Stacie, Skipper and Chelsea close in on the missing mermaid. | ||||||
30 | 4 | "Magical Mermaid Mystery Part 4" | Patrice Bérubé | Story by : Eric Shaw Teleplay by : Ann Austen | November 1, 2019 | |
Barbie and her friends create a plan to stop smugglers and save a baby whale. As a reward, Barbie gets a ticket to Costa Rica, where she joins her family to see the whales arrive! | ||||||
31 | 5 | "Sister Class Act" | Larry Anderson | Arthur Brown & Douglas Sloan | November 1, 2019 | |
On her first day back at school, Barbie learns that Golden Beach High's newest student is none other than Tammy, her opponent from the baking competition show. | ||||||
32 | 6 | "Basket Case" | Cassi Simonds | Katiedid Langrock | November 1, 2019 | |
Barbie offers to help Renee build her school basketball team by trying out, but she soon realizes that she is not as great as she thought she would be. | ||||||
33 | 7 | "Barbie's Dance Dilemma" | Patrice Bérubé | Daniel Bryan Franklin | November 1, 2019 | |
Ken asks Barbie to help him invite Harriet to a school dance. Despite her mixed feelings, Barbie agrees to do it, because what are friends for? | ||||||
34 | 8 | "Working Mom" | Conrad Helten | Arthur Brown & Douglas Sloan | November 1, 2019 | |
When Margaret hesitates to take a promotion at her job, Barbie and her sisters work together to prove to their mother that they can handle extra responsibilities. | ||||||
35 | 9 | "Something Borrowed" | Larry Anderson | Daniel Bryan Franklin | November 1, 2019 | |
Skipper takes Barbie's jacket without permission and ends up misplacing it. The two sisters race around town trying to get the jacket back, but are always one step behind. | ||||||
36 | 10 | "The In Crowd" | Cassi Simonds | Robin J. Stein | November 1, 2019 | |
Barbie tries to help Skipper adjust to high school by inviting her to join their lunch table. When Skipper bonds with her friends, Barbie unexpectedly feels left out. | ||||||
37 | 11 | "Family of the Year" | Patrice Bérubé | M.J. Offen | November 1, 2019 | |
The Roberts family are driven to enter Malibu's annual Family of the Year contest, competing against the family that has won every year for the past decade, the Reardons. | ||||||
38 | 12 | "The Sportathon Part 1" | Conrad Helten | Douglas Sloan | November 1, 2019 | |
Barbie and Skipper decide to work together on their school community service project at the Water Park, but the two clash when Skipper doesn't put in an equal amount of effort. | ||||||
39 | 13 | "The Sportathon Part 2" | Larry Anderson | Douglas Sloan | November 1, 2019 | |
The Roberts host their neighbors at the Dreamhouse when an earthquake causes a power cut. Meanwhile, Barbie and Skipper decide to raise funds for the destroyed library. |
Season 5 (2020)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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40 | 1 | "Spirit Week" | Cassi Simonds | Daniel Bryan Franklin | January 19, 2020 | |
Barbie, Tammy and all of Golden Beach High team up to defeat their rivals, Empire Coast High -- which tests Tammy's loyalties due to them being her old school. | ||||||
41 | 2 | "Nothing to Fear" | Patrice Bérubé | Margaret Dunlap | January 26, 2020 | |
On Halloween, after watching a scary vampire movie, Chelsea and Stacie come to believe that Barbie and her friends are all vampires, when in fact they are trying to set up the Dreamhouse into a haunted house. | ||||||
42 | 3 | "Barbie, Brownies and Bears, Oh My!" | Conrad Helten | Arthur Brown | February 2, 2020 | |
When the Roberts go on their annual camping trip, Barbie makes brownies that no one can resist, but forbid anyone from eating them until the second night around the campfire, per family tradition. When someone eats the entire batch the night before though, the Roberts clan band together to figure out "whodunnit". | ||||||
43 | 4 | "Family Fun and Games" | Larry Anderson | Story by : Jaya Ramdath Teleplay by : Arthur Brown | February 9, 2020 | |
After the Roberts camper is totaled after rolling down a hill, to get the money to replace it, Barbie and her sisters sign up to compete in a game show that is infamous for tearing families down. | ||||||
44 | 5 | "Three Ring Dreamhouse" | Cassi Simonds | Margaret Dunlap | February 16, 2020 | |
Barbie feels horrible when outside commitments keep her from taking Chelsea to her first circus, so Barbie decides to make up for it by putting on a circus at the Dreamhouse. | ||||||
45 | 6 | "Dude Fight" | Patrice Bérubé & Larry Anderson | Daniel Bryan Franklin | February 23, 2020 | |
The Dudes & Trey get into a fight that results in the Dudes befriending Barbie instead. Without the Dudes, Trey finds a friend in Ken when they bond over a video game. | ||||||
46 | 7 | "The Copy Cat" | Conrad Helten | Robin J. Stein | March 1, 2020 | |
To gain more popularity in school, Tammy decides to imitate Barbie. When it goes too far, Barbie begins to feel deprived of her individuality. Meanwhile, Trey is struggling to find a gift for his mother. Also, Stacie and Chelsea agree to babysit a fashionable macaw, and end up losing him. The macaw lands up at the Reardons' home, and Trey's mother, mistaking it for Trey's gift, falls in love with him. How will the Roberts sisters get him back? | ||||||
47 | 8 | "Barbie's Day Off" | Larry Anderson | Arthur Brown | March 8, 2020 | |
Just before a chemistry project presentation, Barbie falls ill. However, she doesn't want to take a day off and tries to figure out some way to attend the presentation without letting her project partners down. Meanwhile, Trey fakes an illness to play hooky, but runs into trouble when the principal catches him out of school. | ||||||
48 | 9 | "The Curse of the Miner's Ghost" | Cassi Simonds & Larry Anderson | Daniel Bryan Franklin | March 15, 2020 | |
Aunt Adele's inn is haunted by a ghost of a miner. | ||||||
49 | 10 | "Chicken Masked Mystery on Ice" | Patrice Bérubé & Larry Anderson | Julie Chambers and David Chambers | March 22, 2020 | |
With a new ice rink in town, Barbie and her friends put on a show to promote it. However, Nikki gets hurt before the show, and their only choice for a replacement is a mysterious yet skillful chicken-masked ice skater. | ||||||
50 | 11 | "It Snows in Malibu" | Conrad Helten | Katiedid Langrock | March 29, 2020 | |
Barbie and friends take the camper out to spend some quality time together. | ||||||
51 | 12 | "Dreamhouse Holidays" | Larry Anderson | Story by : Douglas Sloan Teleplay by : Daniel Bryan Franklin | April 5, 2020 | |
It's Christmastime at the Roberts House, but not all is holly jolly -- Barbie and Ken can't find the perfect gift for each other for Christmas, Stacie and Skipper take drastic measures to get a good gift for each other, and the whole family has to prevent Chelsea from finding and opening the presents before Christmas morning. | ||||||
52 | 13 | "Close-Knit Friendship" | Cassi Simonds & Larry Anderson | Jaya Ramdath | April 12, 2020 | |
When Barbie, Teresa and Nikki are asked to write their school song, they learn a lesson in working out creative differences. |
Film (2020)
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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Barbie Princess Adventure | Conrad Helten | Ann Austen | September 1, 2020 |
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Elsewhere, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures is Barbie series developed for an older audience of 5 to 11 year olds. The new episodic show will chronicle the adventures of Barbie and her sisters, Chelsea, Stacie and Skipper.
- "Mattel Creations: New Content for MIP, Reups & Deals". Animation Magazine. October 14, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
Iconic fashion doll Barbie has lots to offer at MIP: Barbie Dreamtopia (52 x 11, preschool), Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures (26 x 22, comedy) and Barbie Dolphin Magic (60 min., adventure).
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SUN JUN 24
5:00pm to 5:30pm Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures Clubhouse (Remix)