Paz (Ready Set Learn)
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Paz is an American
United States
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 television show produced by Telescreen BV, Egmont Imagination
Egmont Imagination
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, King Rollo Films
King Rollo
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, Open Mind Productions
Open Mind Productions
Open Mind Productions was founded in 1989 by Roland Tongue, who was previously a film editor at the BBC, and Chris Ellis, who was previously a teacher and script writer at Children's BBC. They have produced some 500 programmes for children and educational TV, including The Number Crew and...

, and Discovery Kids
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. The series runs as 80 eight-minute shows, each of which combines both a five-minute animation with live action before and after. The show integrates the live action with the animation so that the story flows and continues throughout. In the US it airs on Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids is an American website owned by Discovery Communications, Inc. created for children. Until October 10, 2010, it was an American digital cable specialty channel, owned by Discovery Communications with television programming for education of children. It was launched in October 1996...

 and on TLC on Ready Set Learn
Ready Set Learn
Ready, Set, Learn! was a preschool block that aired on TLC from October 14, 1996 to September 29, 2008, and Discovery Kids from October 1996 to October 8, 2010....

 between shows. The title theme was composed by Art Labriola and all the incidental music was written by Lester Barnes. This show is created by Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy
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. Children's TV producer Jonathan Meath
Jonathan Meath
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 supervised and produced numerous episodes of the show Paz the Penguin.

Paz is based on the books by Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy may refer to:*Mary Murphy , American actress*Mary Murphy , American choreographer*Mary Murphy , American politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives...

. The show focuses on a five-year-old penguin named Paz and his mother, Big Penguin. It first aired in 2003.

In Europe and many other countries, Paz runs only as a five-minute cartoon without the live action sections.

Episodes

  • The Big Box
  • The Big Egg
  • Big Top
  • Brave Old World
  • The Case of the Missing Voice
  • Food for Thought
  • Frisbee Dog
  • Here We Go!
  • Hopping Mad
  • I'm Not Tired
  • In the Dark
  • Kite Flight
  • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
  • Little Red Scooter
  • Memory Jewel
  • On Ice
  • One's Company
  • Our Fine Feathered Friend
  • Paz Gets a Job
  • Treasure Hunt
  • The Play's the Thing
  • The Right Movers
  • Seaworthy
  • See-Saw
  • Spiders
  • Spring Has Sprung
  • Too Little

Main characters

  • Paz (Tim Lagasse
    Tim Lagasse
    Timothy Lagasse is a puppeteer, puppet designer, and filmmaker. He earned his BFA from the University of Connecticut. Lagasse acts as a puppeteering consultant, and creates puppet films for stations like PBS, MTV, HBO, and Nickelodeon...

    )
  • Big Penguin
  • Pappy
  • Pig
  • Dog
  • Rabbit
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