Curious George (TV series)

Curious George
Created by Margret Rey (books)
H.A. Rey (books)
Based on Curious George
by Margret Rey
H.A. Rey
Developed by Joe Fallon
Directed by Scott Heming
Frank Marino
Cathy Malkasian
Starring Frank Welker
Jeff Bennett
Voices of Rob Paulsen
Jim Cummings
Debi Derryberry
Bill Chott
Lex Lang
Susan Silo
Kath Soucie
Narrated by William H. Macy (season 1)
Rino Romano
Opening theme "Like Curious George!" by Dr. John
Ending theme "Like Curious George!" (instrumental)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 9
No. of episodes 109 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Ron Howard
Brian Grazer
David Kirschner
Jon Shapiro
Editor(s) Kirk Demorest
Camera setup Jaclyn Brick
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Imagine Entertainment
Universal 1440 Entertainment
(Universal Studios Family Productions before 2013)
WGBH Boston
Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network PBS Kids
Picture format HDTV 1080i
SDTV 480i (seasons 1–4)
Original release September 4, 2006 (2006-09-04) β€“ April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01)
External links
Website pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/index.html

Curious George is an American animated television series based on the children's book series of the same name 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. As of April 2017, the show is broadcast on PBS Kids. It debuted in 2006 and began its ninth season on October 28, 2014, which ended on April 1, 2015.

Curious George is a production of Universal 1440 Entertainment (Universal Studios Family Productions before 2013[1]), Imagine Entertainment, and WGBH Boston,[2] and animated by Toon City.[3] Each episode has two short cartoons per half-hour episode and a live-action segment after each story. The pilot and the production began in 2005 and the copyrighted byline was created in July 2005.

The series illustrates and explains various concepts in math and science and each live-action segment shows schoolchildren engaging in experiments that teach the math or science concept featured in the previous cartoon.

Settings

Characters

Episodes

The setting for most episodes is either the city, where George lives in an apartment building with The Man in the Yellow Hat or the country, where they share a small house near a lake called Lake Wanasinklake. This allows George to mirror the experiences of kids who live in an urban environment and those who live on farms and in suburbs. A few episodes take place in alternate but familiar settings, like an airport or a train station.

Season Episodes Originally aired (U.S. dates)
First aired Last aired
1 30 September 4, 2006 February 23, 2007
2 20 September 3, 2007 April 22, 2008
3 11 September 1, 2008 April 22, 2009
4 9 September 8, 2009 June 14, 2010
5 10 September 6, 2010 May 6, 2011
6 10 September 3, 2011 April 20, 2012
7 6 December 3, 2012 April 24, 2013
8 6 February 10, 2014 May 21, 2014
9 6 October 28, 2014 April 1, 2015

Awards

Emmy Award

References

  1. ↑ "Curious George - Program Summary". PBS. Archived from the original on October 31, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Curious George - Program Summary". PBS. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Curious George - TV Credits". PBS. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
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