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The predictably precocious Curious George springs to life in this animated series based on Margret and H.A. Rey’s classic children’s books and narrated by actor William H. Macy. The first season finds George making a home for his homing pigeon friend, Compass; putting his newfound knowledge about the number zero to the test; and strapping on a pair of roller skates to help his friends Mr. and Mrs. Dulson sell more toys at their toy store.

Between the Lions is an American educational children’s television series designed to promote reading that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation, and puppetry. The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, and Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson, the distributor from seasons 1–10. The show won ten Daytime Emmy awards between 2001 and 2007. The show premiered on PBS Kids on April 3, 2000, taking over the schedule slot held by The Puzzle Place upon its debut, and ended on November 22, 2010. While not produced with Sesame Workshop’s involvement, it is created by alumni of the fellow PBS children’s show Sesame Street, which was produced by Sesame Workshop, and featured guest appearances from some of its characters. Furthermore, it is a companion piece to Sesame Street aimed at slightly older children.

On the show, a cast of seven kids known as Zoomers presented various activities such as games, plays, poems, recipes, jokes, movies and science experiments, all suggested by viewer contributions. The cast also had informal chats on subjects such as hospitals, school, family and prejudice, titled Zoomraps. Each episode ended with a choreographed song performed by the cast.

Wishbone is an American live-action children’s television series that aired from 1995 to 1997 and originally broadcast on PBS. It is about a Jack Russell Terrier dog named Wishbone who daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature.

Reading Rainbow is an American educational children’s television series designed to encourage a love of books and reading. The original series aired on PBS and PBS Kids from July 11, 1983 to November 10, 2006, with each episode based on a featured children’s book, which is discovered through a number of on-location segments or stories. Episodes also feature children recommending books to find at the local library. The public television series garnered over 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody Award and 26 Emmy Awards, ten as Outstanding Children’s Series. Sony Pictures’ child-oriented KidZuko brand revived the series on YouTube starting on October 4, 2025.

Cyberchase chronicles the adventures of three extraordinary kids, collectively called the CyberSquad: Matt, the leader Jackie the CyberSquad’s resident fashion guru, and Inez,with a lot of questions in her mind (and she hates being called Nezzie). At the beginning of the series, Matt, Jackie and Inez, through a set of extraordinary circumstances, get warped into “Cyberspace” via a library computer in the “Real World.” Now all three are involved in a power struggle between the beauteous and wise Motherboard, protectress of all Cyberspace, and the dastardly Hacker, who wishes to become its overlord. With the help of Dr. Marbles and Digit, Motherboard’s faithful aides, the kids must save the Internet from Hacker’s evil plans using logic and (The most hated subject in the entire history of education) mathematics instead of weapons and dramatics to defeat any obstacles in their way!

WordGirl is an American animated superhero children’s television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The series began as a series of shorts entitled The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl that premiered on PBS Kids Go! on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off into a thirty-minute episodic series that aired from September 3, 2007, to August 7, 2015. The series of shorts consisted of thirty episodes, with 128 episodes and a special in the full half-hour series. WordGirl creator Dorothea Gillim felt that most children’s animation “underestimated [children’s] sense of humor” and hoped to create a more intellectual show for young audiences.

Super Why! is an animated superhero preschool educational children’s television series created by Angela Santomero and developed by Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert for PBS Kids. Santomero and Alpert additionally serve as executive producers alongside Steven DeNure and Anne Loi. The series was produced by Santomero and Alpert’s New York City-based production company Out of the Blue Enterprises in co-production with DHX Media Toronto for the first and second seasons and DHX Media Halifax for the third season. Animation was by Toronto-based C.O.R.E. Toons, Gallus Entertainment and DHX Media. The opening and closing theme songs were written by composers and lyricists Steve D’Angelo and Terry Tompkins, with D’Angelo also providing lead vocals for both. The background score for seasons 2 and 3 was composed by Lorenzo Castelli and Jeff Morrow.

This show is about the life of a young bald boy named Caillou , his family and his friends. It is based on the books by Christine L’Heureux and Helene Despeteaux, which is highly popular in the Quebec area in Canada. There are actually two versions of the show. The first version premiered in late 1998, is only 5 minutes in length, consists of 65 episodes, and is fully animated. The plot line of this version is that a grandmother reads her grandchildren a Caillou book. While this version enjoys success in some countries outside the US, it was never formally aired in the US. The second version, which premiered in late 2000, has the show extended to 30 minutes, and has puppets, music and live action segments thrown in. The animation parts, however, are a mixture of the first version of the show with the “grandma reading to kids” part of the story lopped off and some new stories (however…

On a secret mission to France, Benjamin Franklin plays a sophisticated game of intrigue and seduction—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.