8.8 /10
An animated medley of music, art, and dance ingeniously designed to introduce young children to masterpieces of these arts. This creative kaleidoscope of color, motion and music features a diapered baby 'conductor' who leads an all-animal orchestra through short musical pieces, played before a rapt animal audience.
Average Episode Run Time: 25` . MMPA: TV-Y . 2005 - 2017
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 5
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8.6 /10
CBS Children's Film Festival is a television series of live action films from several countries that were made for children. Originally a sporadic series airing on Saturday mornings, Sunday afternoons, or weekday afternoons during the summer from 1967, it became a regularly scheduled program in 1971 on the CBS Saturday morning lineup, running one hour with some films apparently edited down to fit the time slot. The program was hosted by 1950s television act Kukla, Fran and Ollie, aka puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and actress Fran Allison. Kukla, Fran and Ollie were dropped from the series in 1977 and the program was renamed CBS Saturday Film Festival. In 1978 CBS canceled the show in favor of the youth targeted magazine 30 Minutes which was modeled after its adult sister show 60 Minutes. CBS canceled 30 Minutes in 1982 and brought back Saturday Film Festival which ran for two seasons until CBS cancelled it for good in 1984. Perhaps the most famous "episode" of the series was the 1960 British film Hand in Hand, the story of a deep friendship between two elementary school students, one a Roman Catholic boy and the other a Jewish girl. In addition to many American and British films, the series also featured motion pictures from Russia, France, Bulgaria, Japan, Sweden, Italy, China, Australia, South Africa, and Czechoslovakia as well as several other countries.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1967 - 1978
Total Seasons: 4 . Total Episodes: 25
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8.5 /10
Based on the award-winning educational apps, the StoryBots are curious little creatures who live in the world beneath our screens and go on fun adventures to help answer kids' questions, like how night happens or why we need to brush our teeth.
Average Episode Run Time: 26` . MMPA: TV-Y . 2016 - 2019
Total Seasons: 4 . Total Episodes: 23
Director: Kevin Smith , Evan Spiridellis , Gregg Spiridellis
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Stars: Judy Greer , Fred Tatasciore , Jeff Gill , Gregg Spiridellis , Evan Spiridellis , Erin Fitzgerald
8.4 /10
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
Average Episode Run Time: 29` . MMPA: TV-Y . 1983 - 2006
Total Seasons: 21 . Total Episodes: 167
Director: Cecily Truett Lancit , Larry Lancit
Producer:
Stars: LeVar Burton , Reggie Alvin Green
8.4 /10
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1954 - 1990
Total Seasons: 34 . Total Episodes: 770
Director: Norman Foster , Fred R. Krug , Wolfgang Reitherman
Producer: Hugh Attwooll , Phil Savenick , Ron Miller
Stars: John Anderson , Gary Owens , Brian Keith , Dick Van Patten , Eddy Waller , Kathryn Beaumont
8.4 /10
Kelly Quinn and her two BFF's, Darbie and Hannah, stumble upon her grandmother's mysterious cookbook in the attic and discover some far from ordinary recipes. When the Shut'em Up Shortcake silences Kelly's pesky little brother and the Healing Hazelnut Tart heals Darbie's ankle, the girls discover they have the power of magic. A single-camera live-action pilot based on the popular book.
Average Episode Run Time: 27` . MMPA: TV-Y7 . 2015 - 2019
Total Seasons: 4 . Total Episodes: 51
Director: Adam Weissman , Abby Donnelly , Aubrey K. Miller
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Stars: Olivia Sanabia , Abby Donnelly , Aubrey K. Miller , Dee Wallace , Amy Hill , Catia Ojeda
8.4 /10
Fourteen-year-old Fi Phillips investigates the paranormal while touring the country in a bus with her widowed rock-star mom and her skeptical brother, Jack. At the beginning of Season 3, Fi passed the job of case cracker to a songbird named Annie
Average Episode Run Time: 24` . MMPA: . 1999 - 2001
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 65
Director: Michael Kennedy , Michael Ray Rhodes , Francis Damberger
Producer: Henry Winkler
Stars: Cara DeLizia , Mackenzie Phillips , Alexz Johnson , Patrick Levis , Eric Lively , Erik von Detten
8.4 /10
Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories was a children's television show hosted by Mother Goose, who tells her three goslings the stories behind well-known nursery rhymes.
Average Episode Run Time: 25` . MMPA: TV-Y . 1990 - 1992
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 39
Director: Brian Henson , Jim Henson
Producer:
Stars: Angie Passmore , Mike Quinn , Mak Wilson , Karen Prell
8.3 /10
Ms. Julie teaches performing arts workshops with the help of her assistant Gus at their Wellspring Center for the Performing Arts.
Average Episode Run Time: 28` . MMPA: . 2017
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 13
Director: Emma Walton Hamilton , Julie Andrews , Judy Rothman Rofé
Producer: Emma Walton Hamilton , Julie Andrews , Steve Sauer
Stars: Julie Andrews , Giullian Yao Gioiello , Frankie Cordero , Jennifer Barnhart , Tyler Bunch , Stephanie D'Abruzzo
8.3 /10
The Great American Dream Machine was a weekly satirical variety television series, produced in New York City by WNET and broadcast on PBS from 1971 to 1973. The program was hosted by humorist and commentator Marshall Efron. The show centered around skits and satirical political commentary. The hour and a half long show usually contained at least seven different current event topics. In the second season, the show was trimmed down to an hour. Other notable cast members included Chevy Chase. Contributors included Albert Brooks and Andy Rooney. Some of the skits would later be revamped for the movie The Groove Tube. There were also occasional short films presented on the show, most of them "experimental" or documentaries about artistic endeavours. Some of these were subtitled.
Average Episode Run Time: 51` . MMPA: TV-Y / TV-14 . 1971 - 1972
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 34
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Stars: Albert Brooks , Chevy Chase , Henry Winkler , Penny Marshall , Linda Lavin , Charles Grodin
8.2 /10
The Scooby Doo Show premiered on ABC in September 1976 as part of The Scooby-Doo-Dynomutt Hour, in which new episodes of Scooby Doo shared an hour with a superhero dog named Dynomutt. It was a revamped version of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? which started on CBS in 1969.
Average Episode Run Time: 25` . MMPA: . 1976 - 1978
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 40
Director: Ken Spears , Joe Ruby
Producer: William Hanna , Joseph Barbera
Stars: Heather North , Don Messick , Casey Kasem , Frank Welker , Pat Stevens , Daws Butler
8.2 /10
The series follows a University day at the fictional Burke Hill University located in Warrington, Cheshire, where the new socially awkward adults try to fin in, but with boys and incompetent teachers, that proves difficult. Still So Awkward is the first spin-off show of "So Awkward"
Average Episode Run Time: 28` . MMPA: . 2021
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 1
Director: Julie Bower
Producer: Joanna Blake
Stars: Maxim Ays , Indigo Griffiths , Ellie Clayton , Esmonde Cole , Arian Nik , Ali Kahn
8.2 /10
Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.
Average Episode Run Time: 28` . MMPA: TV-Y7 . 1995 - 1998
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 53
Director: Rick Duffield
Producer: Mo Rocca , Betty A. Buckley
Stars: Larry Brantley , Mary Chris Wall , Christie Abbott , Adam Springfield , Julio Cedillo , Shelley Duvall
8.2 /10
Bill Nye the Science Guy is an educational television program that originally aired from September 10, 1993 to June 20, 1998, hosted by William "Bill" Nye and produced by Buena Vista Television. The show aired on PBS Kids and was also syndicated to local stations. Each of the 100 episodes aims to teach a specific topic in science to a preteen audience. The show is frequently used in schools as an education medium, and it still airs on some PBS stations for this reason. Created by comedian Ross Shafer and based on sketches on KING-TV's sketch program Almost Live!, Bill Nye the Science Guy was produced by Disney Educational Productions and KCTS-TV of Seattle. Bill Nye the Science Guy won nineteen Emmy Awards during its run.
Average Episode Run Time: 26` . MMPA: TV-Y . 1993 - 1998
Total Seasons: 5 . Total Episodes: 100
Director: Bill Nye
Producer: Elizabeth Brock , Jamie Hammond , Erren Gottlieb
Stars: Bill Nye , Rachel Glenn , Jennifer Lin , Amy Broder , Ethan Ferkiss , Richard Karn
8.1 /10
In this reboot of the '80s series, a magic sword transforms an orphan girl into warrior She-Ra, who unites a rebellion to fight against evil.
Average Episode Run Time: 24` . MMPA: TV-Y7 . 2018 - 2020
Total Seasons: 5 . Total Episodes: 52
Director: Adam Henry , Christina "Kiki" Manrique , David Dwooman Woo
Producer: Chuck Austen , David Wong , ND Stevenson
Stars: Aimee Carrero , Karen Fukuhara , AJ Michalka , Marcus Scribner , Reshma Shetty , Lorraine Toussaint
8.1 /10
From germs and emotions to social media and more, it's the science of your world explained in a way that's refreshingly relatable.
Average Episode Run Time: 24` . MMPA: TV-Y7 . 2018
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 13
Director: Adam 'Tex' Davis , Jerry Kolber
Producer:
Stars: Alie Ward , Ben Seidman , Sahana Srinivasan
8 /10
Captain Kangaroo was an American children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day. In 1986, the American Program Service integrated some newly produced segments into reruns of past episodes, distributing the newer version of the series until 1993. The show was conceived and the title character played by Bob Keeshan, who based the show on "the warm relationship between grandparents and children." Keeshan had portrayed the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show when it aired on NBC. Captain Kangaroo had a loose structure, built around life in the "Treasure House" where the Captain would tell stories, meet guests, and indulge in silly stunts with regular characters, both humans and puppets. The show was telecast live to the East Coast and the Midwest for its first four years and broadcast on kinescope for the West Coast, as Keeshan would not perform the show live three times a day, and was in black-and-white until 1966. The May 17, 1971 episode saw two major changes on the show: The Treasure House was renovated and renamed "The Captain's Place" and the Captain replaced his navy blue coat with a red coat. In September 1981, CBS shortened the hour-long show to a half-hour, briefly retitled it Wake Up with the Captain, and moved it to an earlier time slot; it was later moved to weekends in September 1982, and returned to an hour-long format. It was canceled by CBS at the end of 1984.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1955 - 1981
Total Seasons: 7 . Total Episodes: 11
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Producer: Ruth Manecke , Bob Keeshan , Jim Hirschfeld
Stars: Bob Keeshan
8 /10
Today's Special was a Canadian children's television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1981 to 1987. It also ran on Nickelodeon and the Faith and Values Channel/Odyssey as well as many PBS stations throughout the United States. It was set in a department store, based on the flagship location of the now defunct Simpson's in Toronto. Many sequences for it were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store after hours.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1982
Total Seasons: 7 . Total Episodes: 121
Director: Clive VanderBurgh
Producer:
Stars: Jeff Hyslop , Nina Keogh , Nerene Virgin , Nikki Tilroe , Bob Dermer
7.9 /10
When their animal friends need help, brother-and-sister team Toby and Teri use the clues and follow the facts to solve mysteries in their own backyard.
Average Episode Run Time: 24` . MMPA: . 2018
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 20
Director: BJ Lee
Producer:
Stars: Philece Sampler , Marc Diraison , Tony Oliver , Abby Trott
7.9 /10
Meet Peg, a curious and spunky preschooler, and her feline companion, Cat, who will rely on math "to tackle social and relationship issues and everyday problems like cleaning up a messy bedroom," Rotenberg says. Some of their dilemmas may be zany — like how to get 100 chickens back into their coop or how to feed a horde of hungry pirates with just one banana — but it's all solvable via mathematics and a zippy song.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: TV-Y . 2013 - 2018
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 127
Director: Billy Aronson , Jennifer Oxley
Producer:
Stars: Hayley Faith Negrin , Dwayne Hill , Christian Distefano , Thamela Mpumlwana
