List of programs broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service
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Public Broadcasting Service
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(PBS) stations and other public television entities.

Current programs

  • American Experience
    American Experience
    American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service Public television stations in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history...

    (1988–present)
  • American Masters
    American Masters
    American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on the artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City...

  • 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...

  • Ask This Old House (2002–present)
  • Austin City Limits
  • Baking With Julia
    Baking With Julia
    Baking With Julia is an American television cooking program produced by Julia Child and the name of the book which accompanied the series. Each episode featured one pastry chef or baker who demonstrates professional techniques that can be performed in a home kitchen...

  • Bill Moyers Journal
  • Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions
    Art Wolfe
    Art Wolfe is an American photographer, television host, conservationist, photography teacher and artist. He is most notably known for his color photographs of wildlife, nature and cultures.- Image manipulation :...

  • Charlie Rose
  • Ciao Italia
  • Design e2
    Design e2
    e2 is an eighteen part documentary-style PBS television series investigating sustainable living and green design from New York City to rural Mexico. It was narrated by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman...

  • Everyday Food
    Everyday Food
    Everyday Food from the test kitchens of Martha Stewart Living is digest size cooking magazine and PBS public television program published and produced by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia . Both feature quick and easy recipes targeted at supermarket shoppers and the everyday cook. The first issue of...

  • Frontline
  • GED Connection
    GED Connection
    GED Connection is a television program on PBS that provides instruction on how to pass the General Educational Development test. It is part of an instructional course that also includes workbooks and practice tests...

  • Great Performances
    Great Performances
    Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service public television since 1972...

  • History Detectives
    History Detectives
    History Detectives is a documentary television series on PBS. A group of researchers help people to seek answers to various historical questions they have, usually centering around a family heirloom, an old house or other historic object or structure...

  • Hometime (1986–present)
  • Independent Lens
    Independent Lens
    Airing weekly on PBS through ITVS, the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens introduces new drama and documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of Independent Lens have been presented by hosts Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence Howard, Maggie...

  • Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
  • Live from Lincoln Center
    Live from Lincoln Center
    Live From Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with Thirteen/WNET in New York City....

  • Masterpiece
  • The McLaughlin Group
    The McLaughlin Group
    The McLaughlin Group is a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, where a group of five pundits discuss current political issues in a round table format. It has been broadcast since 1982, and is currently sponsored by MetLife...

  • MotorWeek
    MotorWeek
    MotorWeek is an American automotive television series. The program premiered in 1981 and is hosted by auto expertJohn H. Davis, who is also the series’ creator and executive producer...

  • Nature
    Nature (TV series)
    Nature is a wildlife television program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. It has been distributed to United States public television stations by the PBS television service since its debut on October 10, 1982. Some episodes may appear in syndication on many PBS member stations around the U.S. and...

  • Nightly Business Report
    Nightly Business Report
    Nightly Business Report is a Business news television magazine broadcast live Monday to Friday evenings on most public television stations in the United States. Every weeknight, Nightly Business Report distills the essence of what matters in the business world, and provides analysis and reflection...

  • Nova
    NOVA (TV series)
    Nova is a popular science television series from the U.S. produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries...

    (1974–present)
  • NOVA scienceNOW
    NOVA scienceNOW
    NOVA scienceNOW is a newsmagazine version of the long running and venerable PBS science program Nova. Premiering on January 25, 2005, the series was originally hosted by Robert Krulwich, who described it as an experiment in coverage of "breaking science, science that's right out of the lab, science...

  • NOW
  • P.O.V.
    P.O.V.
    POV is a Public Broadcasting Service Public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is a cinema term for "point of view"....

  • PBS NewsHour (previously known as The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)
  • A Place of Our Own
    A Place of Our Own
    A Place of Our Own is a daily program about child care that airs on Public Broadcasting Service , produced in Los Angeles by KCET. It was hosted by Debi Gutierrez and has been recently hosted by Elizabeth Sanchez. The Spanish-language version is Los Niños en Su Casa , seen on PBS and on the...

  • Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
    Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
    Religion & Ethics Newsweekly is an American weekly television news-magazine program which airs on PBS-History and content:Premièring in 1997, it is the only television program devoted entirely to the news of religion and spirituality, along with major ethical issues...

  • Rick Steves' Europe
  • Rough Cut (Replaced reruns of The New Yankee Workshop in 2010)
  • Secrets of the Dead
    Secrets of the Dead
    Secrets of the Dead is a PBS television series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. The show generally follows an investigator or team of investigators exploring what modern science can tell us about some of the great mysteries of history...

  • Soundstage
    Soundstage (TV program)
    Soundstage is an American live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and HD Ready. The original series aired for 13 seasons between 1974 and 1985; a new series of seasons began in 2003, with the latest running through summer 2009, each presented in high definition with surround...

  • The Tavis Smiley Show
    The Tavis Smiley Show
    The Tavis Smiley Show is an American public broadcasting radio talk show. A television show, simply titled Tavis Smiley, is a late night television program on Public Broadcasting Service . Both shows feature Tavis Smiley as host....

  • This Old House
    This Old House
    This Old House is an American home improvement magazine and television series aired on the American television station Public Broadcasting Service which follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.-Overview:...

    (1979–present)
  • The Victory Garden
  • Washington Week
    Washington Week
    Washington Week is a public affairs program on PBS. Unlike panel discussion shows that focus on debate as a means of discussing topics, the program follows a path of moderation and discussion...

  • Wide Angle
    Wide Angle (TV series)
    Wide Angle is an American documentary television series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for broadcast on PBS and for worldwide distribution. The weekly one-hour series covers international current affairs and is presently hosted by veteran journalist Aaron Brown...

  • The Woodwright's Shop
    The Woodwright's Shop
    The Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS, with thirty-two 13-episode seasons filmed. Since its debut in 1979, the show has aired over 400 episodes...


PBS Kids
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States founded in 1993. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial. It is aimed at children ages 2 to 10...

  • Arthur
    Arthur (TV series)
    Arthur is an American/Canadian animated educational television series for children, created by Cookie Jar Group and WGBH for the Public Broadcasting Service...

  • Barney & Friends
    Barney & Friends
    Barney and Friends, also referred to by HiT Entertainment as Barney the Friendly Dinosaur, is an independent children's television show produced in the United States, aimed at children from ages 1-8...

  • Caillou
    Caillou
    Caillou is a Canadian children's television show based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version began with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story about the book...

  • The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
    The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
    The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! is an American/Canadian/British animated television series that premiered August 7, 2010 on Treehouse TV in Canada, on September 6, 2010 on PBS Kids in the US and also in the UK on CITV and Cartoonito...

  • Clifford the Big Red Dog
  • Curious George
    Curious George (TV series)
    Curious George is an animated television series based on the Curious George children's book series, which features Jeff Bennett as the voice of The Man with the Yellow Hat. Frank Welker, who voiced George in the 2006 feature film, returns here as the voice of Curious George. The stories of Season...

  • Cyberchase
    Cyberchase
    Cyberchase is an American educational television series for children age 6-12, that teaches children discrete mathematics. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. Seasons one through five were produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana...

  • Dinosaur Train
    Dinosaur Train
    Dinosaur Train is an American animated series created by Craig Bartlett. The series features a curious young T. rex named Buddy who, together with his adopted Pteranodon family, takes the Dinosaur Train to meet, explore, and have adventures with all kinds of dinosaurs.It was the second show by The...

  • The Electric Company
    The Electric Company (2009 TV series)
    The Electric Company is an American children's educational series for young children aged 4–8 on PBS, derived from the 1971 series. The series premiered as a four-episode mini-marathon on PBS on January 19, 2009, then became a weekly series with an episode shown each Friday. On September 7, 2009,...

  • LazyTown
    LazyTown
    LazyTown is a children's television program that was produced in Iceland with a cast and crew from Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was created by Magnús Scheving, a gymnastics champion and CEO of LazyTown Entertainment, who also stars in the show...

  • 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...

  • Maya & Miguel
    Maya & Miguel
    Maya & Miguel is a children's television animated series for children aged 6-12 produced by Scholastic Studios. It appears on PBS as part of the PBS Kids GO! lineup and on the CBBC channel in the UK...

  • Pocoyo
    Pocoyo
    Pocoyo is a Spanish pre-school animated television series created by Guillermo García Carsí, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla, and is a co-production between Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment, Cosgrove-Hall Films and Granada International. Two series have been produced, each consisting of 52...

  • SciGirls
  • 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...

  • Sid the Science Kid
    Sid the Science Kid
    Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour PBS Kids series that debuted on September 1, 2008. The computer generated show is produced by Jim Henson Productions and then-PBS member KCET in Los Angeles, California using the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio...

  • Super Why!
    Super Why!
    Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through its Decode Entertainment division. The show...

  • Thomas & Friends
  • Wild Animal Baby Explorers
    Wild Animal Baby Explorers
    Wild Animal Baby Explorers is a television show designed to introduce preschoolers to the world of animals and help them develop important observation, problem-solving and listening skills. The series combines 3D animated characters and wildlife footage to introduce animal facts and nurture young...

  • 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...


Former programs

Some of these programs still air on stations, often using older copies. List does not include programming made for in-school use.

PBS

  • A.M. Weather
    A.M. Weather
    A.M. Weather was a 15-minute daily program featuring detailed forecasts presented by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologists. The show aired fifteen minutes before or after the hour from Maryland Public Television and was broadcast on PBS affiliates throughout the United...

  • American Playhouse
    American Playhouse
    American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.It premiered on January 12, 1982 with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart...

  • America's Ballroom Challenge
    America's Ballroom Challenge
    America's Ballroom Challenge is a competitive ballroom dance television series airing on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States since 2006.It is part of the annual Ohio Star Ball, a festival of DanceSport in Columbus, Ohio....

  • Art of the Western World
  • A Biography of America
  • Carrier
    Carrier (documentary)
    Carrier is an Emmy Award-winning 10-hour documentary television series about a six-month deployment of a United States Navy aircraft carrier in 2005 from the United States to the Middle East and back...

  • Celtic Woman
    Celtic Woman
    Celtic Woman is an all-female musical ensemble conceived and assembled by Sharon Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show Riverdance...

    (various filmed concerts)
  • Celtic Thunder
    Celtic Thunder
    Celtic Thunder is a singing group composed of male soloists who perform both solo and ensemble numbers. Celtic Thunder debuted in August 2007 at The Helix in Dublin, Ireland...

    (various filmed concerts)
  • Childhood
  • Columbus and the Age of Discovery
  • Connect With English
    Connect With English
    Connect With English is an educational dramatized television series that was recorded in 1997 by the Annenberg/CPB Project and WGBH Boston for students of people learning English...

  • The Constitution: That Delicate Balance
  • Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David...

  • The Creation of the Universe
    The Creation of the Universe
    The Creation of the Universe is Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio's first album. Metal Machine Trio is Lou Reed's band that was formed in 2008 with Ulrich Krieger and Sarth Calhoun to play music inspired by Reed's 1975 album Metal Machine Music. The first concerts of the group were on October 2 and 3,...

  • design: e2
    Design e2
    e2 is an eighteen part documentary-style PBS television series investigating sustainable living and green design from New York City to rural Mexico. It was narrated by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman...

  • Destinos
    Destinos
    Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish, also known simply as Destinos, is an educational television program created by Bill VanPatten, who was, at the time, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The show, designed to introduce viewers...

  • Discover The World of Science
  • Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition
  • Ethics in America
    Ethics in America
    Ethics in America was a ten-part television series in which panels of leading politicians, lawyers, journalists, doctors, business people, and philosophers discussed the ethical issues of hypothetical scenarios in politics, the media, medicine, law, and other areas. The panels were moderated by law...

  • Everyday Food
    Everyday Food
    Everyday Food from the test kitchens of Martha Stewart Living is digest size cooking magazine and PBS public television program published and produced by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia . Both feature quick and easy recipes targeted at supermarket shoppers and the everyday cook. The first issue of...

  • Evening at Pops
    Evening at Pops
    Evening at Pops is one of the longest running programs on PBS. The program was a public television version of a variety show, hosted by a world-renowned orchestra, the Boston Pops...

  • Feeling Good
  • Firing Line
    Firing Line
    Firing Line was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. Its 1,504 episodes over 33 years made Firing Line the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host...

  • Fokus Deutsch
    Fokus Deutsch
    Fokus Deutsch is a German-language course developed by Robert "Bob" Di Donato, Professor of German at the Miami University in Ohio. It was produced by WGBH Boston, Inter Nationes, and the Goethe-Institut in 1999. It was funded by Annenberg/CPB, and has been aired frequently on PBS since then...

  • Free to Choose
    Free to Choose
    Free to Choose is a book and a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D...

  • The French Chef
    The French Chef
    The French Chef is an influential television cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH Public television in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on television...

  • The Frugal Gourmet
  • French in Action
    French in Action
    French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series....

  • The Health Quarterly
  • The Infinite Voyage
  • It's Strictly Business
  • The Joy of Painting
    The Joy of Painting
    The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers basic techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Bob Ross could complete a painting in half an hour, the intent of the show was not to teach viewers speed painting. Rather, he intended for...

  • Literary Visions
  • Matinee at the Bijou
    Matinee at the Bijou
    Matinee at the Bijou was a television series that premiered nationally on PBS in 1980. It recreated the American moviegoing experiences of the 1930s and '40s, with trailers, a cartoon, one or more selected short subjects, a cliff-hanging serial chapter “to be continued,” and a tightly edited...

  • Meeting of Minds
    Meeting of Minds
    Meeting of Minds is a television series, created by Steve Allen, which aired on PBS from 1977 to 1981.The show featured guests who played significant roles in world history...

  • The Mechanical Universe
    The Mechanical Universe
    The Mechanical Universe... And Beyond, is a 52-part telecourse filmed at the California Institute of Technology, and produced by Caltech and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications . The series introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics...

  • Mystery!
    Mystery!
    Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH...

  • The New Yankee Workshop
    The New Yankee Workshop
    The New Yankee Workshop was a woodworking program produced by WGBH Boston, which aired on PBS. Created in 1989 by Russell Morash, the program was hosted by Norm Abram, a regular fixture on Morash's This Old House...

    (1989–2009, continued to air reruns in 2010 before being replaced by Rough Cut)
  • Once Upon A Classic
    Once Upon a Classic
    Once Upon a Classic was an American television program hosted by Bill Bixby, at the time of The Incredible Hulk fame. The program aired on PBS from 1976 to 1980 as a production of WQED in Pittsburgh....

  • Over Easy
  • Race to Save the Planet
  • Roadtrip Nation
    Roadtrip Nation
    Roadtrip Nation began in 2001 as an idea Mike , Nathan, Brian and Amanda, four friends fresh out of college, formed when they were not sure what to do with their lives...

  • P. Allen Smith's Garden Home
  • Talking with David Frost
  • The Pallisers
    The Pallisers
    The Pallisers is a 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels.-Cast :*Anthony Ainley: Rev. Emilius*Terence Alexander: Lord George*Anthony Andrews: Lord Silverbridge*Sarah Badel: Lizzie Eustace...

  • The Romagnolis' Table
  • Taking the Lead: The Management Revolution
  • Tony Brown's Journal
    Tony Brown's Journal
    Tony Brown's Journal is a PBS American talk show hosted by conservative journalist Tony Brown.-Overview:Television talk show series featuring interviews with contemporary newsmakers of special interest to the African American community....

  • Say Brother
  • Sneak Previews
    Sneak Previews
    Sneak Previews was an American film review show, running for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service . It was created by WTTW, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois. It premiered on September 4, 1975 as a monthly local-only show called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, and was renamed in...

  • Trying Times
  • Voices & Visions
  • A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers
  • Wall $treet Week
    Wall $treet Week
    Wall $treet Week was an investment news and information TV program that was broadcast weekly each Friday on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It had a host and guest experts participating in discussions on the stock market and focuses on forecasts...

  • The Western Tradition
  • WIRED Science
    WIRED Science
    Wired Science is a weekly high-definition television program that covers modern scientific and technological topics. In January 2007 PBS aired pilot episodes for three different science programs, including Wired Science. Using Nielsen ratings, CPB-sponsored research and public feedback, PBS...

  • WonderWorks
    WonderWorks
    WonderWorks was a project jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and PBS that made short, made for TV movies out of acclaimed children's books...

  • The World of Chemistry
    The World of Chemistry
    The World of Chemistry is a television series on introductory chemistry hosted by Nobel prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann. The series consists of 26 half-hour video programs, along with coordinated books, which explore various topics in chemistry through experiments conducted by Stevens Point...


PBS Kids

  • Adventures from the Book of Virtues
    Adventures from the Book of Virtues
    Adventures from the Book of Virtues is an animated television series which originally aired on PBS Kids in the United States for three seasons, beginning in 1996 and ending in 2000. There was a two-year gap in between the second and third seasons. In 2008 the series aired twice daily on qubo...

  • Cro
    Cro
    Cro is an American animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993 as part of the Saturday morning line-up for fall 1993 on ABC. Cro did not do well with the viewers...

  • Corduroy
    Corduroy (TV series)
    Corduroy is a 1997 animated TV series based on Don Freeman's 1968 children's book Corduroy. The show was shown on PBS Kids' Bookworm Bunch until it was cancelled along with Elliot Moose. The show was set in New York City. It was directed by Louis Piche and Larry Jacobs...

  • Dragon Tales
    Dragon Tales
    Dragon Tales is an American animated pre-school children's television series chronicling the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy and their dragon friends Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Liberty's Kids
    Liberty's Kids
    Liberty's Kids is an animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS Kids from Septemer 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, although PBS continued to air reruns until August 2004...

  • Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse
    Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse
    Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse is a Canadian animated television show produced by Nelvana. It tells the stories of a young horse named Marvin who is part of a carnival. Among the Executive Producers are Michael Paraskevas and Betty Paraskevas, creators of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast who also...

  • Noddy
  • 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...

  • The Smurfs
    The Smurfs
    The Smurfs is a comic and television franchise centred on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo on October 23, 1958...

  • Seven Little Monsters
    Seven Little Monsters
    Seven Little Monsters is a children's television program produced by Suzhou Hong Yang Cartoon Co. Ltd. for Nelvana, and is about a family of seven monsters and their mother. The series is created by Maurice Sendak, and directed by Neil Affleck, Lynn Reist, and Glen Sylvester. Each monster is named...

  • 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...

  • Theodore Tugboat
    Theodore Tugboat
    Theodore Tugboat is a Canadian children's television series about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends. The show was produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by the CBC , and the now defunct Cochran Entertainment, and was filmed on a model set using radio...

  • 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...

  • Wimzie's House
    Wimzie's House
    Wimzie's House is a Canadian children's television program which ran on YTV from 1995 to 1996, and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service from October 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001. The show has also aired at least as early as 1995 and through the late-1990s on CBC Television, and on...

  • Zoom
    Zoom
    Zoom is an onomatopoeiac sound that indicates swiftness.Zoom may also refer to:-Technology:* Zoom lens, a lens assembly allowing for adjustable focal length* Digital zoom, an electronic emulation of focal length change...

  • Zoboomafoo
    Zoboomafoo
    Zoboomafoo is an American children's television series that aired from January 25, 1998, to April 21, 2001, and is still shown today in syndication depending on the area, and it is regularly shown on PBS Kids Sprout. A total of 65 episodes were aired...


Children's programs predating PBS Kids

  • 3-2-1 Contact
    3-2-1 Contact
    3-2-1 Contact is an American science educational television show that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, and an adjoining children's magazine. The show, a production of the Children's Television Workshop, teaches scientific principles and their applications. Dr. Edward G...

  • The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
    The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
    The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon is a children's television series which aired in Canada on YTV and the United States on public television stations, through Tampa, Florida PBS member station WEDU. The show ran for four seasons from 1993 to 1997. It was a live-action show incorporating actors,...

  • 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...

  • The Big Comfy Couch
    The Big Comfy Couch
    The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian children's television series about Loonette the Clown and her doll Molly, who solve everyday problems on their "Big Comfy Couch". It aired from 1992 until early 2006. Re-runs of the show are still being aired on Treehouse TV. It was produced by Cheryl Wagner and...

  • 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...

  • Boohbah
    Boohbah
    Boohbah is a 2003 children's television series produced by Ragdoll Productions and aimed at children between three and five years old. It premiered in 2003 on GMTV and CITV in the United Kingdom, in the United States on PBS and PBS Kids Sprout. It was created by Anne Wood with scripts by Alan Dapre...

  • Captain Kangaroo
    Captain Kangaroo
    Captain Kangaroo is a 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 children's television program of its day...

  • Charlie Horse Music Pizza
    Charlie Horse Music Pizza
    Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January to May 1998. Re-runs aired until late 1999. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play Along, and features the original cast from that show, including host Shari Lewis.The show...

  • The Electric Company
  • Gerbert
    Gerbert (TV series)
    Gerbert is a Christian-based children's television series, the namesake of which is a puppet reflecting moral positivity. The series was produced by Emmy award-winning producer David Freyss....

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    The Huggabug Club
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    In the Mix (TV series)
    In the Mix is an award-winning television program for teenagers that has been airing on PBS since 1992.-Format and themes:In the Mix is a news magazine program geared toward a teenage audience. Each half-hour episode typically includes several segments devoted to serious issues facing youth,...

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    It's a Big Big World
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    Katie and Orbie
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    Kidsongs
    Kidsongs is an American award-winning children's media franchise which includes Kidsongs Music Video Stories on DVD and video, The Kidsongs TV Show, CDs of favorite children’s songs, song books, sheet music, toys and an ecommerce website...

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    Kino's Storytime
    Kino's Storytime, also known as Storytime, is a children's reading television series aired on Public Broadcasting Service Public television from May 1, 1994 to September 1, 1997. The series was produced by KCET in Los Angeles, California. Kino's Storytime was available on VHS from Strand Home...

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    Lamb Chop's Play-Along
    Lamb Chop's Play-Along is a children's television series that was shown on PBS in the United States from 1992 until 1997, as well as on YTV in Canada. It was created and hosted by puppeteer Shari Lewis, and featured her puppet character Lamb Chop. Appropriately, Lamb Chop was a sheep; other...

  • Long Ago & Far Away
    Long Ago and Far Away (TV Series)
    Long Ago and Far Away is a TV series that aired on PBS Television from 1989 to 1993. It was created by WGBH, a public television broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts...

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    Mark Kistler's Imagination Station
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  • Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
    Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
    Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, also known as Mister Rogers, is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages, 2-5, but has been stated by Public Broadcasting Service as "appropriate for all ages"...

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    Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales
    Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales was a spin-off series of Shining Time Station. The plotlines, secondary to the five stories told by George Carlin in each episode, focused solely on Mr. Conductor; no other characters from Shining Time Station appear...

  • Newton's Apple
    Newton's Apple
    Newton's Apple is an educational television program distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran for fifteen seasons from 1983 to 1998. Targeted at younger viewers, it was highly regarded...

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    Pappyland
    Pappyland is an award-winning live action children's television show originally written by Jon Nappa. More than 65 episodes were written by award-winning children's writer, Benette Whitmore. It was originally broadcast on TLC from September 30, 1996 to December 1999. Then, after cancellation, aired...

  • 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...

  • Powerhouse
    Powerhouse (TV series)
    Powerhouse is a United States television series produced by the Educational Film Center at Northern Virginia ETV and aired on PBS for 16 episodes in 1982. It billed itself as "a 16-part series for young people and their families," with the target audience being primarily preteens and teenagers, and...

  • The Puzzle Place
    The Puzzle Place
    The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles, California and Lancit Media in New York City, New York...

  • Reading Rainbow
    Reading Rainbow
    Reading Rainbow is an American children's television series aired by PBS from June 6, 1983 until November 10, 2006 that encouraged reading among children. The award-winning public television series garnered over 200 broadcast awards, including scores of Emmy Awards, many for "Outstanding Children's...

  • SeeMore's Playhouse
    SeeMore's Playhouse
    SeeMore's Playhouse, is an American children's television series using puppets to teach children about health and safety concepts. It was originally released as home video releases...

  • Shining Time Station
    Shining Time Station
    Shining Time Station is an American children's television series co-created by Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company and Quality Family Entertainment in New York for New York City PBS Station WNET, and was filmed first in New York and then in Toronto...

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    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...

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    Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (TV series)
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    Zoobilee Zoo
    Zoobilee Zoo is an Emmy Award-winning children's television program featuring costumed performers dressed as animal characters. It originally aired from 1986–1987, then in syndication until 2001 on several television channels including commercial network television stations, public television...

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