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Children's television series are television programmes designed for, and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school. The purpose of the shows is mainly to entertain and sometimes to...
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Animaniacs

Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American animated series, distributed by Warner Bros. and produced by Amblin Entertainment. The cartoon was the second animated series produced by the collaboration of...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 13, 1993

Air date of final episode:

  • Nov 14, 1998

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Number of seasons:

  • 5

Number of episodes:

  • 99

AlfTales

ALF Tales is an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series ALF: The Animated Series. The show had characters from that series play various...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 10, 1988

Air date of final episode:

  • Dec 9, 1989

Number of seasons:

  • 2

Number of episodes:

  • 21

Bagpuss

Bagpuss is a popular 1974 UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The title character is "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Although only 13 episodes of...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1974

Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray. The series is set in the late 19th Century Western town of Four Feather Falls, Kansas and features the adventures of its...

Air date of first episode:

  • Feb 25, 1960

Air date of final episode:

  • Nov 17, 1960

Original episode running time:

  • 13 min (7.8 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 39

Gumby

Gumby is a green clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a 233-episode series of American television which spanned over a 35-year period. He was animated using stop motion clay animation. Gumby's principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking pony...

Mickey Mouse Club

The Mickey Mouse Club is a long-running American variety television show that began in 1955, produced by Walt Disney Productions and televised by the American Broadcasting Company, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of teenage performers....

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 3, 1955

Number of episodes:

  • 360

Press Gang

Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993. It was produced by Richmond Film & Television for Central, and screened on the ITV network in its...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 16, 1989

Air date of final episode:

  • May 21, 1993

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Number of episodes:

  • 43

The Ren and Stimpy Show

The Ren and Stimpy Show is an American/Canadian animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. The series concerns the adventures of the titular characters: Ren Höek, a psychotic "asthma-hound" chihuahua, and Stimpson J....

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  • Aug 11, 1991

Air date of final episode:

  • Nov 14, 1996

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 6

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Star Trek: The Animated Series (also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek) is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s. The...

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  • Sep 8, 1973

Air date of final episode:

  • Oct 12, 1974

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 22

Teletubbies

Teletubbies is a BBC BAFTA-winning children's television series, primarily aimed at pre-school viewers, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. It was created by Anne Wood CBE, Ragdoll's creative director, and Andrew Davenport, who wrote...

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  • Mar 31, 1997

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 5, 2001

Original episode running time:

  • 25 min (15 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 365

The Flowerpot Men

The Flower Pot Men was a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, that first ran in the 1950s and 1960s and was then revived in the 2000s. Originally, the programme was part of a BBC children's television series titled Watch with...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1952

The Clangers

Clangers is an iconic British stop motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small grey planet in dark space. They speak in whistles, and eat green soup harvested by...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 16, 1969

Air date of final episode:

  • Oct 10, 1974

The Muppet Show

The Muppet Show was a television program featuring a cast of Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street. The show stars Kermit the Frog as a showrunner who tries to keep control of the antics of the other Muppet...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 5, 1976

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 15, 1981

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 5

Number of episodes:

  • 120

Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 10, 1969

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Number of seasons:

  • 40

Number of episodes:

  • 4,109

Miffy

Miffy is a small female rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. Her original Dutch name is Nijntje [nɛɪ̯ncǝ] which stems from a toddler's pronunciation of the word "konijntje" meaning "little rabbit". The...

Paddington Bear

Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He first 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. The polite...

Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from 1955 until 1984. After a year of absence, in 1986 it moved to public television when the American Program Service (now...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 3, 1955

Air date of final episode:

  • Dec 8, 1984

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

You Can't Do That on Television

You Can't Do That on Television ( a.k.a. YCDTOTV) is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981. It primarily featured early-teenage actors in a sketch comedy format in which they...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Feb 3, 1979

Air date of final episode:

  • May 25, 1990

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 10

Number of episodes:

  • 143

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was a popular Australian television series for children produced from 1966 to 1968, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, in the (fictional) Waratah National Park, near Sydney, New South...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1968

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 30, 1970

Original episode running time:

  • 25 min (15 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 3

Number of episodes:

  • 91

The Electric Company

The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 25, 1971

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 15, 1977

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Number of seasons:

  • 6

Number of episodes:

  • 780

The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout (known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) was a children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot. Some five hundred five-minute-long episodes were made and were originally broadcast between...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 18, 1965

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 1977

Original episode running time:

  • 5 min (3 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 441

Lizzie McGuire

Lizzie McGuire is a Disney Channel Original Series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2001 till 2004. Its target demographic was preteens and adolescents. The TV show was created by Terri Minsky. The show's creatively offbeat, mixed media format...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 12, 2001

Air date of final episode:

  • Feb 14, 2004

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 2

Number of episodes:

  • 65

Thundarr the Barbarian

Thundarr the Barbarian is a Saturday morning animated television series, created by Joe Ruby and produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. It lasted 2 seasons, 1980-81 and 1981-1982. Action figures of the three main characters were released by Toynami in...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 4, 1980

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 18, 1982

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Fraggle Rock

Fraggle Rock is a children's television series with a total of 4 seasons and 96 episodes. The series originally ran from January 10, 1983 to March 30, 1987 on HBO in the United States, CBC Television in Canada, TV2 in New Zealand and TVS in the UK....

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 10, 1983

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 30, 1987

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 5

Knightmare

Knightmare was an innovative and popular UK television programme for children, produced by Broadsword Productions for Anglia Television and was broadcast on ITV from 7 September 1987 to 11 November 1994. The show is most noted for its advanced use...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 7, 1987

Air date of final episode:

  • Nov 11, 1994

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 112

Kids Incorporated

Kids Incorporated (also known as Kids Inc.) is an American children's television program that was produced from 1984 to 1993. It was largely a youth oriented sitcom with musical performances as an integral part of the plot and show. The series...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 7, 1984

Air date of final episode:

  • Feb 9, 1994

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Number of episodes:

  • 150

Arthur

Arthur is an American-Canadian educational television series for children, that airs on PBS in the United States; Radio-Canada, Knowledge and TVOKids in Canada; ABC2 in Australia and BBC One/ CBBC in the UK. It is aired internationally in 82...

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Number of seasons:

  • 12

Number of episodes:

  • 150

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Mister Rogers is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Feb 19, 1968

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 895

Postman Pat

Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale ...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 16, 1981

Original episode running time:

  • 15 min (9 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 8

Number of episodes:

  • 116

Mary-Kate And Ashley In Action

Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! was an animated television series by DiC Entertainment, featuring the voices and likeness of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It is also a series of books that spun-off, from the show. The show premiered in Fall 2001 on...

Air date of first episode:

  • 2001

The Wombles

The Wombles are pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Wombles were created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a...

All That

All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC. Early episodes were...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Apr 16, 1994

Air date of final episode:

  • Oct 22, 2005

Number of seasons:

  • 10

Number of episodes:

  • 181

Battle of the Planets

Battle of the Planets (1978) is the American dub of the 1972 television anime known as Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman. Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment....

Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 1, 1978

Air date of final episode:

  • Aug 1, 1985

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 85

Braceface

Braceface is a Canadian animated series that aired on Teletoon in Canada, and on Disney Channel and ABC Family in the United States. It is produced by American actress Alicia Silverstone, and made by the Canadian company Nelvana. The show, set in...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jun 2, 2001

Air date of final episode:

  • Aug 27, 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 4

VeggieTales

VeggieTales is a series of English language children's computer animated films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables. Developed by Big Idea, the films convey moral themes based on Christianity, often compatible with Judaism, spliced with satirical...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1993

Number of episodes:

  • 37

Even Stevens

Even Stevens was an American comedy television series that aired on Disney Channel. The show follows the life of the Stevens Family, who live in suburban Sacramento, California, often focusing on the clashing personalities of its two younger...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jun 17, 2000

Air date of final episode:

  • Feb 19, 2003

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Number of seasons:

  • 3

Number of episodes:

  • 66

Sesame Park

Sesame Park was a Canadian version of Sesame Street. In its first format, it was referred to as Canadian Sesame Street and was a re-edited version of the American series; it adopted a new format and the Sesame Park title in 1996. In 1972, the bulk...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1996

Air date of final episode:

  • 2002

The Famous Jett Jackson

The Famous Jett Jackson was a joint Canadian and American Disney Channel Original Series coming of age television series for children ages 12–16 about a boy named Jett Jackson (Lee Thompson Young) who plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV...

Air date of first episode:

  • Oct 25, 1998

Air date of final episode:

  • Jun 22, 2001

Number of episodes:

  • 65

Kim Possible

Kim Possible is an American animated television series about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted atmosphere and often...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jun 7, 2002

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 7, 2007

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 4

Number of episodes:

  • 87

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to simply as Captain Scarlet, is a British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions Television company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. It was...

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  • Sep 29, 1967

Air date of final episode:

  • May 14, 1968

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Number of episodes:

  • 32

Maid Marian and her Merry Men

Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a UK children's television series created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC One and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a partially...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Nov 16, 1989

Air date of final episode:

  • Feb 16, 1994

Original episode running time:

  • 25 min (15 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 26

Land of the Lost

Land of the Lost (1974–1976) is a children's television series co-created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. During its original run, it was broadcast on the NBC television network. It has since become a cult classic and is now available on DVD....

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 7, 1983

Air date of final episode:

  • Dec 4, 1989

Original episode running time:

  • 22 min (13 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 43

The Famous Five

The Famous Five is the name of a series of children's novels written by British author Enid Blyton. The first book, Five on a Treasure Island, was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures of a group of young children — Julian, Dick, Anne...

Power Rangers

Power Rangers is an American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes. First produced by Saban Entertainment and later by BVS Entertainment, the premise for...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Aug 28, 1993

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 16

Noggin the Nog

Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character appearing in his own TV series and series of illustrated books, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a 'cult classic' from the golden age of British...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1959

Horrid Henry

Horrid Henry is a fictional character created by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross. The first Horrid Henry book was written and published in 1994 by Orion Books and as of the end of 2009, there have been eighteen titles published, as well...

Saturday morning cartoon

A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the 1990s. In the United States, the generally...

Spynet

Spynet is a CBC Television children's show, which features Sam, played by Kim Schraner, as a spy operative for a fictional Canadian spy agency, the National Espionage Task-Force (NET). It started as an ultra-low budget segment, of short length, but...

Tiswas

Tiswas was a Saturday morning children's British TV show which ran from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV Network Limited. It was created by ATV continuity announcer Peter Tomlinson (later to become a regular...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 5, 1974

Air date of final episode:

  • Apr 3, 1982

Number of episodes:

  • 302

Rugrats

Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on Sunday August 11, 1991 and aired its last episode on Tuesday June 8, 2004. The show centers around...

Air date of first episode:

  • Aug 11, 1991

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 9, 2005

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 12

Number of episodes:

  • 172

Schoolhouse Rock!

Schoolhouse Rock! is an American series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history,...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1973

Air date of final episode:

  • 2001

Original episode running time:

  • 3 min (1.8 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 52

H.R. Pufnstuf

H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet, program. There were seventeen episodes of the show originally broadcast from 6 September...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 6, 1969

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 4, 1971

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 17

Lamb Chop's Play-Along

Lamb Chop's Play-Along is a children's television show filmed in Beverly Hills, California and Vancouver that was shown on PBS in the United States from 1992 to 1997, as well as on YTV in Canada. 200 episodes of the show were produced. It was...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1992

Air date of final episode:

  • Jan 1, 1997

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 17

Kimba the White Lion

Jungle Emperor (ジャングル大帝, Janguru Taitei), known in the United States as Kimba the White Lion, is a Japanese anime series from the 1960s. Created by Osamu Tezuka and based on his manga of the same title which began publication in 1950, it was the...

Air date of first episode:

  • 1965

Banana Splits

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television program that featured both live action and animated segments. The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 7, 1968

Air date of final episode:

  • Sep 5, 1970

Original episode running time:

  • 60 min (36 hs )

Number of seasons:

  • 2

Number of episodes:

  • 31

Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is a 1992 independent children's television show produced in the United States aimed at very young children ages 1–5. The series features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys learning...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Apr 6, 1992

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Zoobilee Zoo

Zoobilee Zoo is a 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...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 22, 1986

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 27, 1987

Original episode running time:

  • 30 min (18 hs )

Number of episodes:

  • 65

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an American animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company, and inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The series first aired from 1988 to 1991 on ABC. Reruns continued to air on ABC...

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Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 10, 1988

Air date of final episode:

  • Oct 7, 1991

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Camberwick Green

Camberwick Green (1966) is a British children's television series, originally seen on BBC One, featuring stop-motion puppets. It was one of the first TV series to be filmed in Technicolor. The series was written and produced by Gordon Murray and...

Air date of first episode:

  • Jan 3, 1966

Air date of final episode:

  • Mar 28, 1966

Original episode running time:

Number of seasons:

  • 1

Number of episodes:

  • 13

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 Season 7, which premiered in 2003, it was named Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. This series was shot on 35mm film. The...

Air date of first episode:

  • Sep 4, 1984

Number of episodes:

  • 322
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