Corduroy is a 1997 animated TV series based on Don Freeman

Don Freeman

Don Freeman was a painter, printmaker, cartoonist, children's book author, and illustrator.-Early life:Freeman was born in San Diego, California, attended high school in Missouri, attended Principia College and later moved to New York City, where he studied etching at the Art Students League with...

's 1968 children's book Corduroy

Corduroy (book)

Corduroy is a 1968 book written by Don Freeman, and published by Viking Press. It tells the story of a teddy bear named Corduroy, who is bought in a department store by a girl named Lisa. Don Freeman wrote a sequel, A Pocket for Corduroy in 1978....

. The show was shown on PBS Kids

PBS Kids

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' Bookworm Bunch

PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch

PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch was a three-hour block of shows on PBS, produced by Canada's Nelvana animation studio.The block was typically shown on Saturday or Sunday mornings, depending on local station preference and scheduling. The various shows in Bookworm Bunch are based on then-popular children's...

 until it was cancelled along with Elliot Moose

Elliot Moose

Elliot Moose is a Canadian children's live-action and animated series which was aired on TVOntario in Canada and PBS in the United States as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch until it was cancelled....

. The show was set in New York City

New York City

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. It was directed by Louis Piche and Larry Jacobs. In Canada

Canada

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, the show was shown on Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that was launched on October 17, 1997. Its name comes from YTV's old children's programming block, The Treehouse...

 as well as TVOntario

TVOntario

TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...

, but has since been removed from these station's schedules as well.
In the UK it is currently being shown on Tiny Pop.

Networks it airs on

Canada

TVOntario

TVOntario

TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...

Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that was launched on October 17, 1997. Its name comes from YTV's old children's programming block, The Treehouse...

USA

PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch

PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch

PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch was a three-hour block of shows on PBS, produced by Canada's Nelvana animation studio.The block was typically shown on Saturday or Sunday mornings, depending on local station preference and scheduling. The various shows in Bookworm Bunch are based on then-popular children's...

 (September 30, 2000–September 29, 2001)

UK

Tiny Pop

Tiny Pop

Tiny Pop is a free-to-air television channel in the UK. It is owned by CSC Media Group, and launched on 24 July 2004, and broadcasts cartoons and pop music videos for pre-schoolers.Its sister channel is Pop which was launched on 29 May 2003...

 (2004-2009)
KidsCo

KidsCo

KidsCo is an international children's entertainment brand founded by Canadian broadcaster Corus Entertainment's Nelvana Enterprises, American-based producer DIC Entertainment, and European broadcaster Sparrowhawk Media Group in April 2007. By the end of 2007, Sparrowhawk was purchased by media...

 (2011-)

Characters

• Corduroy - Lisa's stuffed bear (Corduroy's personality is similar to a 4 year old child)
• Lisa - Corduroy's Owner
• Pandro - Janitor
  Janitor
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   and Repair man
  Man
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• Rosetta the Mouse
  Mouse
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• Buckaroo - the Horse
  Horse
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• Moppy (Real name- Marty) - Lisa's friend
• Mrs Chao - Lisa's Chinese
  Chinese people
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   neighbour
• Mom - Lisa's Mother
• Pinocchio - a character from Disney's 1940 film (Pinocchio
  Pinocchio (1940 film)
  Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by...
  
  ).

Episodes

• Lost and Found
• Going Up
• Good Night, Corduroy
• Soap Flakes
• Ice Dream
• Special Delivery
• Clean Up
• Music Lesson
• Ship's Ahoy
• Help Wanted
• Flight of Fancy
• 1 + 1 = 2
• Cute as a Button (remember they did got the button out of the storm drain and they did put the button back on Corduroy Bear's overalls and Corduroy does have two buttons on his overalls this year and forever.)
• Sleep Tight
• Tooth Ache
• Mop Top
• Art Smart
• A Hot Day in the City
• Yours, Mine and Ours
• Say Cheese
• Once, Twice, Ice
• Sticks and Stones
• Super Duper Market
• Party Plans
• Finders Keepers
• Between the Covers

more episodes coming soon