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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...

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Note: This mark (#) means this program is not on air; not being shown regularly

A

  • Acme School of Stuff
    Acme School of Stuff
    The Acme School of Stuff is a half-hour Canadian children's television show which aired on TVOntario between September 1, 1988 and December 1, 1990. The Acme School of Stuff was hosted by its producer David Stringer...

  • Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
  • The Adventures of Paddington Bear
    The Adventures of Paddington Bear
    The Adventures of Paddington Bear was a Canadian/French animated childrens television series. It was based on the book Paddington Bear by Michael Bond and written by Bruce Robb. It was produced by Cinar and Protecrea. The show had 117 episodes....

  • Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim
  • The Agenda with Steve Paikin
    The Agenda
    The Agenda with Steve Paikin is the flagship current affairs program of TVOntario, Ontario’s public broadcaster. The show practises what anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin calls "long-form" journalism. Each hour-long program tackles no more than two topics, and often only one...

  • All About You
    All About You (TV series)
    All About You was an educational television series that was syndicated to numerous PBS stations during the early and mid-1970s, mainly as part of weekday in-school telecasts....

  • Almost Home
    Almost Home (Canadian TV series)
    Almost Home is an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1972 or 1973.-Episodes:...

  • Angelina Ballerina
    Angelina Ballerina
    Angelina Ballerina is a fictional mouse, created by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig, who is featured in a popular series of children's books...

  • Animal Alphabet
  • Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series
    Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series
    Anne: The Animated Series is a half-hour animated television show produced by Sullivan Entertainment and created by writer/director/producer Kevin Sullivan. The series was developed for PBS and each episode contained an educational aspect. An issue or problem was woven into each show for one or...

  • Antiques Roadshow
    Antiques Roadshow
    Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979...

  • Art Alive
  • Art Attack
    Art Attack
    Art Attack is a British children's television series revolving around art. The original series was one of ITV's longest running programmes, running from 1990 to 2007, and was presented throughout by Neil Buchanan. The brand new series launched on Disney Junior on June 6 2011 and is presented by...

  • Artscape
  • Arthur
  • All About You
    All About You (TV series)
    All About You was an educational television series that was syndicated to numerous PBS stations during the early and mid-1970s, mainly as part of weekday in-school telecasts....

  • Allan Gregg in Conversation with...
    Allan Gregg in Conversation with...
    Allan Gregg in Conversation with... is a Canadian television series on TVOntario, hosted by Allan Gregg who interviews various authors, artists and leading thinkers.-External links:*...


B

  • Babaloos
  • Babar
    Babar the Elephant
    Babar the Elephant is a French children's fictional character who first appeared in Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931 and enjoyed immediate success. An English language version, entitled The Story of Babar, appeared in 1933 in Britain and also in the United States. The book is based on...

  • Backyard Science
    Backyard Science
    Backyard Science is an Australian educational children's television show based on the Dorling Kindersley books. In this series, children experiment with everyday items in order to make something fun and practical and also provide scientific insights in a child's world.The show is co-hosted by Tarun...

  • Bananas in Pajamas
  • Barbapapa
    Barbapapa
    Barbapapa is both the title character, and name of the "species" of said character, of a series of children's books written in the 1970s by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who resided in Paris, France. The books were originally written in French , and were later translated into over 30 languages...

  • Bear in the Big Blue House
    Bear in the Big Blue House
    Bear in the Big Blue House is a television program for young children produced for the Playhouse Disney channel by Mitchell Kriegman and The Jim Henson Company. It first aired in 1997, and re-runs of the show continue to air on Playhouse Disney . It is produced by The Jim Henson Company and Shadow...

  • Belle and Sebastian
    Belle et Sébastien
    Belle et Sébastien is a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog, who live in a small French Alps Mountain village on the French side of the border between France and Italy...

  • Benjamin's Farm
  • The Big Bang
  • Big Ideas
    Big Ideas (TV series)
    Big Ideas is a Canadian television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario, on the air since 2001. The program showcases public intellectual culture. It was conceived by Wodek Szemberg who continues to serve as producer of the program. The show presents public lectures by acclaimed university...

  • Bill Nye the Science Guy
    Bill Nye the Science Guy
    Bill Nye the Science Guy is an educational television program that originally aired from September 10, 1993 to June 20, 1998, hosted by Bill Nye and produced by Buena Vista Television. The show aired on PBS Kids and was also syndicated to local stations, making it the second first-run television...

  • Bits and Bytes
    Bits and Bytes
    Bits and Bytes was the name for two Canadian television series, starring Billy Van, who teaches people the basics of how to use a computer. The first series debuted in 1983 and the second series, called Bits and Bytes 2, in 1991. The first series also included popular comedian Luba Goy as the...

  • Blue's Clues
    Blue's Clues
    Blue's Clues is an American children's television show airing on the Nickelodeon family of channels. The show premiered on September 8, 1996 and airs on Nick Jr. and other channels, although production of new episodes ceased by 2006. Versions of the show have been produced in other countries,...

  • The Bod Squad
  • The Body Works
    The Body Works
    The Body Works was a Canadian educational children's television series which was produced by TVOntario and Access. The show debuted in 1980 and consisted of 40 ten-minute episodes. The show taught exercise, health, and nutrition to children....

  • Boo!
  • Bob the Builder
    Bob the Builder
    Bob the Builder is a British children's animated television show created by Keith Chapman. In the original series Bob appears as a building contractor specialising in masonry in a stop motion animated programme with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang of...

  • Bookmice
  • BrainBounce!
    BrainBounce!
    BrainBounce! was produced by Megafun Productions and aired on TV Ontario from 2001-2004. It currently airs on Discovery Kids in the UK. The series was shot in Montreal and Toronto as a "piggyback" production: the original French version, Le Monde a la Loupe was shot at the same time in each...

  • Building Big
  • The Bush Baby
    The Bush Baby
    , shortened as The Bush Baby, is the title of a 1992 anime series consisting of 40, 25-minute episodes. It is based on the novel, The Bushbabies , by Canadian author William Stevenson....


C

  • Camberwick Green
    Camberwick Green
    Camberwick Green is a British children's television series, originally seen on BBC One, featuring stop-motion puppets. It was one of the first British television series to be filmed in colour.-Background:...

  • Canada: A People's History
    Canada: A People's History
    Canada: A People's History is a 17-episode, 32-hour documentary television series on the history of Canada. It first aired on CBC Television from October 2000 to November 2001. The production was an unusually large project for the national network, especially during budget cutbacks. The unexpected...

  • Canada: The Great Experiment
    Canada: The Great Experiment
    Canada: The Great Experiment was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1981-82. The series was narrated by Sir John A. Macdonald, played by veteran actor Colin Fox.-Episode list:13 or 14 episodes were produced...

  • Chances Are, The Science of Luck
  • Chorlton and the Wheelies
    Chorlton and the Wheelies
    Chorlton and the Wheelies was an animated children's television series that ran from September 1976 until June 1979 on British Television Channel...

  • Clifford the Big Red Dog
    Clifford the Big Red Dog
    Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American children's book series first published in 1963. Written by Norman Bridwell, the series helped establish Scholastic Books as a premier publishing company....

  • Communiqué Agenda
  • Corduroy Bear
  • Corneil and Bernie
    Corneil and Bernie
    Watch My Chops is an animated series about a intelligient talking dog, Corneil, and his "dog-sitter", Bernie Barges. The series was produced, written, and animated in France, and the English dubbing took place in London. The series was distributed by Millimages and aired in the United States on...

  • CUCUMBER
    Cucumber (TV series)
    Children's Underground Club of United Moose and Beaver for Enthusiastic Reporters or Cucumber, was a TV show produced by TVOntario in the 1970s, and repeated in the 1980s during TVOntario's daytime kids' programming....

  • The Country Mouse and City Mouse Adventures
  • The Corporation

D

  • Deaf Planet
  • Dear Aunt Agnes
    Dear Aunt Agnes
    Created in 1985, Dear Aunt Agnes was a children's show that aired on TV Ontario. The show debuted on Tuesday, Jan 7, 1986. The show's premise was that a divorced mother called her Aunt Agnes to come and take care of her children so that she could take a job in another country. Agnes Peabody was a...

  • Diplomatic Immunity with Steve Paikin
  • Dive, Olly, Dive
  • Doctor Snuggles
    Doctor Snuggles
    Doctor Snuggles is an animated television series created by Jeffrey O'Kelly about a friendly and optimistic inventor named Doctor Snuggles who has unusual adventures with his friends in a slightly psychedelic world...

  • Doctor Who
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

  • Dora the Explorer
    Dora the Explorer
    Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. It aired on CBS until...

  • Dying at Grace

E

  • Eddy and the Bear
  • The Edison Twins
    The Edison Twins
    The Edison Twins is a Canadian children's television program which aired on CBC Television from 1983 to 1986. The Disney Channel also picked up the rights in the mid-1980s...

  • The Electric Company
    The Electric Company
    The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977...

  • The Elephant Show
    The Elephant Show
    The Elephant Show is a Canadian children's television show from 1984 until 1988.-Summary and Highlights:...

  • Ellen's Acres
    Ellen's Acres
    Ellen's Acres is an American animated television series for preschool-age children, which exclusively premiered weekly on Cartoon Network Video and in the United Kingdom, the show airs on Cartoonito. Animation Collective produces the series...

  • Elliot Moose
    Elliot Moose (TV series)
    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....

  • Elliott Moose Animated Shorts
  • Eric's World
    Eric's World
    Eric's World was a children's sitcom, which aired on a number of Canadian networks in 1991–1996, and was produced by Cambium Productions, running for five seasons....

  • Eureka!
    Eureka! (TV series)
    Eureka! was a Canadian educational television series which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1980. The series was narrated by Billy Van, and featured a series of animated vignettes which taught physics lessons to children....

  • Eureeka's Castle
    Eureeka's Castle
    Eureeka's Castle is an American children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon from September 4, 1989 to June 30, 1995.-Synopsis:The show follows various puppet characters , including Eureeka, a sorceress in training. She and her friends live in a wind-up castle music box owned by a...


F

  • Fables of the Green Forest
    Fables of the Green Forest
    is an anime adaption based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W. Burgess which ran on the Japanese network Fuji TV from 7 January 1973–30 December 1973. It consists of 52 episodes and was created by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo .The series has been aired in many...

  • Film 101
  • Finger Tips
    Finger Tips
    Finger Tips is a television programme produced by RDF Media's Children's production division, The Foundation. It is made primarily for CITV and was first broadcast in 2001....

  • Fourth Reading
    Fourth Reading
    Fourth Reading was a weekly current events newsmagazine series in Canada, airing on TVOntario from 1992 to 2006. It was hosted by Steve Paikin...

  • Full Circle with Michael Palin
    Full Circle with Michael Palin
    Full Circle with Michael Palin is the title of a 1997 documentary television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Presented by Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, Full Circle was one of a series of programmes in which Palin made unusual and interesting trips.The series...


G

  • George Shrinks
    George Shrinks
    George Shrinks is a Canadian animated television series. It is based on the children's book by William Joyce, produced in China by Jade Animation and in Canada by Nelvana, in association with Public Broadcasting Service . It tells the story of a ten-year-old boy named George who, for unexplained...

  • Ghostwriter
    Ghostwriter (TV series)
    Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nelson and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995...

  • Globe Trekker
    Globe Trekker
    Globe Trekker is an adventure tourism television series produced by Pilot Productions. The British-based series was inspired by the Lonely Planet travelbooks and began airing in 1994...

  • Going Global
  • Gran
    Gran (TV series)
    Gran was a children's stop motion animation television series narrated by Patricia Hayes and directed by Ivor Wood. There were only two main characters, namely Gran and her grandson, Jim....

  • Grandpa's Garden
    Grandpa's Garden
    Grandpa's Garden is about four-year-old twins Gavin and Suzie, who are bursting with curiosity and brimming over with questions about everything they see, and Grandpa’s Garden is no exception. Grandpa is always there, answering their questions through songs and stories as they explore the world of...

  • Great Canadian Parks
  • Guess What
    Guess What
    Guess What is a Canadian game show that aired on the CTV Television Network from 1983 to 1987. It was originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir . It was a Glen-Warren Production for the CTV Television Network.Sidney M...


H

  • Half a Handy Hour
  • Harriet's Magic Hats
    Harriet's Magic Hats
    Harriet's Magic Hats was a TV series created by ACCESS TV, which aired on Alberta ACCESS TV and TVOntario from 1980 - 1986. The premise was an aunt named Harriet who had a trunk full of magic hats in her attic. Her young niece was transported to a place related to the hat she chose from the trunk...

  • Hattytown Tales
    Hattytown Tales
    Hattytown Tales was a 52-episode stop motion children's television series produced by FilmFair for Thames Television. It aired in the United Kingdom between 1969 and 1973. Creator and writer Keith Chatfield narrated the series, and Ivor Wood directed it...

  • He Knew He Was Right
    He Knew He Was Right (TV serial)
    He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the novel of the same name by Anthony Trollope. It was directed by Tom Vaughan.*Jenny Uglow consultant*Nigel Stafford-Clark producer-Cast:*Oliver Dimsdale - Louis Trevelyan...

  • Heads Up!
    Heads Up! (TV series)
    Heads Up! is an educational television show which is produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The host is Bob McDonald, who is better known as the host of the weekly radio show Quirks & Quarks.Heads Up! premiered on TVO on September 8, 2005....

  • Heartbeat
  • Hi-5
    Hi-5 (Australian Kids' Band)
    Hi-5 is an Australian children's musical group formed in 1998 which is associated with the children's television series of the same name.-Origins of the group:...

  • A History of Britain
  • Home Farm Twins
    Home Farm Twins
    Home Farm Twins is a series of children's books written by Jenny Oldfield. The books were later successfully adapted into a television series for the BBC, with Polly Duniam and Sophie Duniam cast as the twins...

  • The Hoobs
    The Hoobs
    The Hoobs is a BAFTA-winning children's television programme created and produced by The Jim Henson Company. It stars five creatures called Hoobs from the fictional Hoobland, and their interactions with Earth and the human race...

  • Human Edge
    Human Edge
    Human Edge is a Canadian television series, which airs weekly on TVOntario.The program presents documentary films on social issues. It is currently hosted by Ian Brown....


I

  • I Dare You
    I Dare You (TV series)
    I Dare You is a Canadian children's television series hosted by Daniel Cook. Cook dares viewers to participate in three physical exercises. At the end of the program all three movements are combined. The program aims to encourage physical activity, not simply passive viewing. Each episode ends with...

  • Imprint
    Imprint (TV series)
    Imprint was a Canadian television series that aired on TVOntario, BookTelevision, Knowledge and, for one season, on PBS.Inspired by Bernard Pivot's French literary programme Apostrophes, the series featured interviews with prize-winning authors and journalists, and examined the latest trends in...

  • Inquiring Minds
  • Into the Wild
    Into the Wild
    Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article on Christopher McCandless entitled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside...

  • It's a Living

J

  • Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
    Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
    Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks is a children's television series. The show is animated using computer-generated imagery and broadcast in the United States on PBS Kids from 2003–2008, currently WMBC, and Univision ; in Ireland on RTÉ Two, as part of The Den; in Australia on...

  • Jamie and the Magic Torch
    Jamie and the Magic Torch
    Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979. It was shown again in the 1980s to a new audience of children...

  • Jasper the Penguin
  • Jay Jay the Jet Plane
    Jay Jay the Jet Plane
    Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American CGI children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has about 60 episodes and it is aimed at ages 2-6. The characters are talking airplanes, a helicopter, some humans, and two talking ground vehicles...

  • Jeremy the Bear
  • Johnson and Friends
    Johnson and Friends
    Johnson and Friends is an Australian children’s television programme broadcast on ABC TV from 1991 to 1996. It was produced by Film Australia. Six seasons were made....

  • Join In!
    Join In!
    Join In! was a Canadian educational children's television show which aired on TVOntario between 1989 and 1995. It was created and produced by Jed MacKay, who also wrote all of the show's original songs. The first two seasons were directed by Doug Williams. The next four seasons were directed by...


K

  • Kidsbeat
    Kidsbeat
    Kidsbeat is a Canadian children's television news series that aired on the Global Television Network during the mid-1980s.Airing Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. , the program featured various news stories and specials focusing on issues that mattered to kids...

  • Kids Works
  • A Kind of Childhood
  • Kitty Cats
    Kitty Cats
    Kitty Cats was a Canadian children's television series that aired for several seasons between 1992 and 1997. The series originally was produced in French under the title, "Pacha et les chats"...

  • The Koala Brothers
    The Koala Brothers
    The Koala Brothers is an animated children's television show that features the adventures of two brothers, Frank and Buster, as they seek to help their neighbors in a sleepy town in the Australian Outback...

  • Kratts' Creatures
    Kratts' Creatures
    Kratts' Creatures is a children's television program on PBS. The show was hosted by the Kratt Brothers, Chris and Martin. It also featured Shannon Duff as Alison Baldwin and Ron Rubin as the voice of an animated anthropomorphic dinosaur. The show introduced its viewers to the world of animals. 50...


L

  • Landscape of Geometry
    Landscape of Geometry
    Landscape of Geometry was an educational television show that illustrated the principles and applications of geometry. The series was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1982–83 and was hosted by David Stringer.-Episode list:...

  • Lemur Street
    Lemur Street
    Lemur Street is a British television show produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that is based on the successful format of Meerkat Manor. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2007 on the UK Animal Planet network with Martin Shaw narrating.On 8...

  • The Life of Mammals
    The Life of Mammals
    The Life of Mammals is a nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 20 November 2002....

  • Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
  • Lilly
  • La Linea
    La Linea (TV series)
    La Linea is an Italian animated series created by the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli. The series consists of 90 episodes which are about 2–3 minutes long each which were produced originally broadcast in the Italian channel RAI between 1971 - 1986. Over the years the series aired in more than...

  • Little Bear
    Little Bear (TV series)
    Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was...

  • Little Ghosts
  • The Little Prince
    The Little Prince
    The Little Prince , first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ....

  • Little Robots
    Little Robots
    Little Robots is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV and Film Limited and broadcast on CBeebies . The fiction series was based on the eponymous book by Mike Brownlow, published by Ragged Bears Publishing...

  • Little Star

M

  • Magic Adventures of Mumfie
    Magic Adventures of Mumfie
    Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie is an animated made-for-television movie and television series created by Britt Allcroft and directed by John Laurence Collins. It is based on the Mumfie novels by Katherine Tozer, which were originally published in 1936. Mumfie is a 'nelifunt', a toy...

  • Magic Roundabout
    Magic Roundabout
    Magic Roundabout refers to:* The Magic Roundabout, a children's television series * The Magic Roundabout , a computer animated film , based on the series...

  • The Magic School Bus
    The Magic School Bus
    The Magic School Bus is a series of children's books about science written by author Joanna Cole. They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar...

  • Magic Shadows
    Magic Shadows
    Magic Shadows was a 30-min Canadian television series produced by the TVOntario public television network hosted by Elwy Yost that ran on weekday evenings in the 1970s and 1980s....

  • Maisy
  • Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
    Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
    Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is a 2006 animated television series. Set in the African savanna, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels around the world to film real wildlife footage and project them onto a screen of fireflies in front of almost the entire animal...

  • Martha Speaks
    Martha Speaks (TV series)
    Martha Speaks is an animated children's television sitcom based on the 1992 children's book of the same name by Susan Meddaugh about a talking dog named Martha , who is owned by ten-year-old Helen Lorraine...

  • Masterworks
  • Math Patrol
    Math Patrol
    Math Patrol was a children's educational television show produced by TVOntario in 1977 and aired by the public broadcaster in the late 1970s and the early 1980s....

  • Mathmakers
    Mathmakers
    Mathmakers was a Canadian educational children's television series produced in 1978 by the province of Ontario's public television network, TVOntario. The series starred Derek McGrath and Lyn Harvey....

  • Midsomer Murders
    Midsomer Murders
    Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...

  • Miffy and Friends
  • Mighty Machines
    Mighty Machines
    Mighty Machines is a Canadian children's television show about machines and how they work. It is currently airing on TVO, Treehouse TV and other channels in Canada, including Access in Alberta, the Saskatchewan Communications Network, and Knowledge in British Columbia. It also aired on Discovery...

  • The Miraculous Mellops (TV series)
    The Miraculous Mellops (TV series)
    The Miraculous Mellops was a sci-fi/comedy television series, created by Posie Graeme-Evans and produced by Film Australia & Millennium Pictures in association with the Network Ten...

  • Mister Rogers Neighborhood
  • Miss BG
    Miss BG
    Miss BG is a 3-D animated series based on the Gudule et les bébés French children's book series published by Hachette-Jeunesse, authored by Fanny Joly and illustrated by Roser Capdevila. It is a joint Canadian/French production and is distributed by Breakthrough Animation...

  • More to Life
    More to Life
    More to Life was a daily afternoon television show produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The show first premiered in 1997. The first host was Maureen Taylor...

  • Moving On

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  • National Geographic
  • The New Adventures of Madeline
    The New Adventures Of Madeline
    The New Adventures Of Madeline is the new series of Madeline also adapted to a television show. It shows the same characters from the old series of books. As always they are all created by Ludwig Bemelmans.-Characters:* Madeline: ....

  • New Tricks
  • New Zoo Revue
    New Zoo Revue
    New Zoo Revue is an American half-hour children's television show that ran in syndication from 1972-1977. Stations usually broadcast the program in the early or middle part of the morning hours, when many pre-schoolers were watching it as well as similar shows such as the franchised Romper Room and...

  • Noddy
  • North America: Growth of a Continent
    North America: Growth of a Continent
    North America: Growth of a Continent was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1980-81. The series was narrated by Gordon Pinsent.-Episodes:# "From the Beginning"# "Mapping the Land"# "Patterns and Climates"...

  • Not Another Science Show

P

  • Paddington Bear
    Paddington Bear
    Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He appeared on 13 October 1958 and was subsequently featured in several books, most recently in 2008, written by Michael Bond and first illustrated by Peggy Fortnum....

  • Parlez-moi
    Parlez-moi
    Parlez-moi was an educational television series which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1978 to 1980, with repeat broadcasts for several years afterwards...

  • Passe-Partout
    Passe-Partout
    Passe-Partout was a Quebec French language children's television program produced by Radio-Québec that was in production from 1977 to 1987. It aired on Radio-Québec, Radio-Canada and TVOntario, lasting on some networks until 1998...

  • Peep and the Big Wide World
    Peep and the Big Wide World
    Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and basic science concepts to preschoolers. The main characters include a baby chicken named Peep and his friends Quack, a blue duck, and Chirp, a red robin with purple eyelids...

  • Penny Crayon
    Penny Crayon
    Penny Crayon is a children's television series that was produced for the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1989. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 14 September 1989 to 1 October 1990 and was made by Maddocks Animation, which had previously produced Jimbo and the Jet Set and The Family-Ness.Penny...

  • Peppa Pig
    Peppa Pig
    Peppa Pig is a British animated television series created directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies and distributed by eOne Entertainment. To date, three series have been aired. It is shown in 180 territories.-Background:...

  • Person 2 Person with Paula Todd
  • Pingu
    Pingu
    Pingu is a British-Swiss stop-motion claymated television series created by Otmar Gutmann. The series was produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss television. The show is about a family of anthropomorphic penguins at the South Pole. The main character is the family's son and title...

  • Planet Parent
  • Polka Dot Door
    Polka Dot Door
    Polka Dot Door was a long-running children's television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1971 until 1993. The show, which aired Monday to Friday, was set in a large playhouse...

  • Polka Dot Shorts
    Polka Dot Shorts
    Polka Dot Shorts is a children's television show from TVOntario in Canada, but which has been broadcast around the world. It was created, produced and story edited by Jed MacKay, creator of TVO's successful show Join In!, and veteran children's TV writer/producer/composer...

  • Popular Mechanics for Kids
    Popular Mechanics for Kids
    Popular Mechanics for Kids was a Canadian children's television series based on Popular Mechanics magazine. It was notable for starting the careers of both Elisha Cuthbert and Jay Baruchel. The show's purpose was to teach children how things work...

  • Prisoners of Gravity
    Prisoners of Gravity
    Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books — and its relation to various thematic and social issues...


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  • Rainbow Fish
    Rainbow Fish
    The Rainbow Fish is an award-winning children's book drawn and written by Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. Alison James. The book is best known for its morals about the value of being an individual and for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish...

  • Reach for the Top
    Reach for the Top
    Reach for the Top is a Canadian game show in which teams of high school students participate in local, provincial and eventually national trivia tournaments...

  • Read All About It!
    Read All About It!
    Read All About It! was a Canadian educational television series produced from 1979 to 1983 by TVOntario that aired during the early to mid 1980s; It also aired in repeats in the 1990s. It starred David Craig Collard as Chris, Lydia Zajc as Lynne, Stacey Arnold as Samantha, and Sean Hewitt as...

  • Readalong
    Readalong
    Readalong was an educational, Canadian television program for young children, first produced in 1976 for TVOntario.The program taught fundamentals of reading with the help of live child actors and puppets, including a comically dressed grandmother figure named Granny and anthropomorphic footwear: a...

  • Reading Rangers
  • Reading Rap
  • Really Bend It Like Beckham
  • Report Canada
    Report Canada
    Hosted by Heather Conkie, this 1978 Canadian television children's program was modeled after a news program. Conkie sat at a desk in front of a big map of Canada, and provided historical, geographical, and social information about the country. The show also featured drawings or posters sent in by...

  • Romper Room
    Romper Room
    Romper Room is a children's television series that ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as at various times in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom...

  • Round the Twist
    Round the Twist
    Round the Twist is a Logie Award-winning Australian children's television series about three children and their widowed father who live in a lighthouse and become involved in many magical adventures....

  • The Royal
    The Royal
    The Royal is a British medical drama series produced by ITV. The show comprises one hour episodes which were normally first aired on ITV in the Sunday early evening slot....

  • Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic...
    Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic...
    Rupert Bear: Follow the Magic... is a children's television series based on the Mary Tourtel character, Rupert Bear. Aimed at pre-school children, the show is part animated, part computer-generated imagery. Rupert Bear still wears his trademark bright yellow plaid trousers and matching scarf, with...


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  • Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
    Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
    Sagwa is the name of a cat in the children's book Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by author Amy Tan. Sagwa's popularity with children prompted an educational animated series of the same name on PBS Kids, with production held by French animation studio CineGroupe and Sesame Street creator Sesame...

  • Saturday Night at the Movies
    Saturday Night at the Movies
    Saturday Night at the Movies is a weekly television series on TVOntario, the public educational television network in Ontario, Canada. The series presents classic movies, followed by interview and feature segments with directors, actors and other people involved in making the films presented...

  • The Science Alliance
  • The Secret Railroad
  • Sesame Street
    Sesame Street
    Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

  • Shaun the Sheep
    Shaun the Sheep
    Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion animated children's television series produced by Aardman Animations, and commissioned by the BBC and the WDR. It first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007...

  • Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
    Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
    Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings is a British children's animated television programme, featuring the adventures of a young child named Simon, who has a magic chalkboard...

  • Spellz
    Spellz
    Spellz is a magic series featuring famed magician Jay Sankey. Produced by GAPC Entertainment, the series is broadcast on TVO Kids.Bridget Hall plays "Bridget, the Amazing Kid Assistant", the only other recurring person on the series, beside Sankey....

  • Space Cases
    Space Cases
    Space Cases is a science fiction television series that aired on Nickelodeon for two seasons. Created by Peter David and Bill Mumy, it premiered on March 2, 1996, and was cancelled a year later. It aired for a time on Nickelodeon's Saturday night block of shows known as SNICK, and on Nickelodeon...

  • Spot the Dog
    Spot the Dog
    Spot the Dog is a series of children's books by Eric Hill, which were later made into a popular children's animation series, known as Spot, for BBC television by David McKee's King Rollo Films....

  • The Stables
    The Stables
    The Stables is a music venue situated in Wavendon, a small village on the south-east edge of Milton Keynes....

  • Studio 2
    Studio 2
    Studio 2 was a daily current affairs newsmagazine on TVOntario in Ontario, Canada. The show won several Gemini Awards, and was hosted by Steve Paikin and Paula Todd , and first aired in 1994. TVOntario announced the program's termination on June 29, 2006...

  • SWAP-TV
  • Sweatin' It
  • The Shuttle Years

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  • Téléfrançais
    Téléfrançais
    Téléfrançais was a French language children's television show, produced by TVOntario from 1984 until 1986. The series of 30 ten-minute episodes has become a popular teaching tool, and is used by many educators to teach French as a second language to elementary school children...

  • Teletubbies
    Teletubbies
    Teletubbies is a BBC children's television series targeted at pre-school viewers and produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. It was created by Ragdoll's creative director Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport, who wrote each of the show's 365 episodes. The programme's original narrator was...

  • This is Daniel Cook
    This is Daniel Cook
    This is Daniel Cook is a children's television series created by J.J. Johnson and Blair Powers and produced by Toronto's marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions in association with Treehouse TV and TVO, and is shown in Canada on Treehouse TV, TVOkids, Access, Knowledge Network, and SCN...

  • Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
    Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
    Thomas and Friends is a British children's television series, first broadcast on the ITV network in September 1984. Until 2003, it was named Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. This series was shot on 35mm film...

  • Tigga and Togga
  • Time Warp Trio
    Time Warp Trio
    The Time Warp Trio is a book series written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith and later by Adam McCauley, which chronicles the adventures of three boys - Joe, Sam, and Fred - who travel through time and space with the aid of the mysterious Book.The storyline has been adapted into an...

  • Timothy Goes to School
    Timothy Goes to School
    Timothy Goes to School is a cartoon series based on the books by Rosemary Wells.It features a young raccoon, Timothy, who attends a fictional primary school kindergarten. The series aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000 until 2004. It was later broadcast on Discovery...

  • Timothy Pilgrim
  • Today's Special
    Today's Special
    Today's Special is a Canadian children's television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1982 to 1987. It also ran on Nickelodeon and the Faith and Values Channel as well as many PBS stations throughout the United States. It was set in a department store, based on the flagship...

  • Tots TV
    Tots TV
    Tots TV is a television show, produced by Ragdoll Productions and Central . Tots TV was also broadcast in the USA on PBS from 3 January 1993 to 27 April 1998...

  • The Toy Castle
    The Toy Castle
    The Toy Castle is a children's television show that airs in Canada on Treehouse TV. It was produced from 2000-2003 by Sound Venture Productions. It was inspired by the Christmas movie The Tin Soldier. The stories are about a group of toys in a toy castle that magically come to life when the...

  • Tracey McBean
    Tracey McBean
    Tracey McBean is a series of children's books drawn and written by Mary Small and Arthur Filloy about Tracey McBean, a young Australian female inventor who was the protagonist and main character in the series...

  • Trial and Retribution
  • Tumbletown Tales
  • Tutenstein
    Tutenstein
    Tutenstein is an animated television series, produced by Porchlight Entertainment for Discovery Kids based on the comic by Jay Stephens which was published in Oni Press' JetCat Clubhouse. This cartoon also airs on Jetix in Europe and Maxi TV in Turkey. It began broadcasting on November 1, 2003...

  • TVOKids Crawlspace
  • TVOKidss Weekend Crawlspace

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  • Vegetable Soup
    Vegetable Soup
    Vegetable Soup is an American educational children's television program produced by the New York State Education Department that originally ran on PBS from September 22, 1975 to December 14, 1978.-Concept:...

  • The View from Here
    The View from Here (TV series)
    The View from Here is a Canadian television series, which airs on TVOntario. Hosted by Ian Brown, the program airs documentary films.The series is a frequent nominee for Best Documentary Series at the Gemini Awards, and won the award in 1999 and 2000....

  • Vision On
    Vision On
    Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for deaf children. It was conceived and developed by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling to replace a monthly series For the Deaf, a programme paced slowly enough for...

  • VOX

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  • Waste Not
  • Wicked Science
    Wicked Science
    Wicked Science is an Australian television series, which debuted on 2 July 2004. The series focuses on Toby and Elizabeth , two teenagers who are mysteriously turned into wizards of science...

  • Widget
    Widget (TV series)
    Widget, the World Watcher is an animated television series which debuted in syndication on September 29, 1990. The series ran for two seasons; in the first season , it aired once a week , and in the second season , the series expanded to 5 days a week .-Overview:The show focused on a , purple alien...

  • Wild by Nature
  • William Wish's Wellingtons
  • Willo the Wisp
    Willo the Wisp
    Willo the Wisp is a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981.-First series :In the first series, Kenneth Williams provided voices for all of the characters, which included these main characters:...

  • Wishbone
    Wishbone (TV series)
    Wishbone is a television show which aired from 1995 to 1998 and reruns from 1998 to 2001 in the United States featuring a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. The main character, the talking dog Wishbone, lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas...

  • Wombles
    WOMBLES
    The WOMBLES are a loosely aligned anarchist and anti-capitalist group based in London...

  • Wonder Pets
    Wonder Pets
    Wonder Pets is an American animated children's television series. It debuted on March 3, 2006, on the Nick Jr. block of the Nickelodeon cable television network and Noggin on the same day...

  • WordGirl
    WordGirl
    WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series for children aged 6-12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids...

  • WordWorld
    WordWorld
    WordWorld is a three-time Emmy Award-winning children's television series partially funded by the United States Department of Education as part of the Ready To Learn literacy initiative targeted to 3- to 7-year olds. The show airs in 10 languages and 90 countries, including in the United States....

  • World Religions
    World Religions (TV series)
    World Religions was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1973.-Episode list:The three episode names known are:# "Judaism"...

  • Write On
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