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Plot Summary:
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. The show had an educational theme in accordance with FCC-mandated educational/instructional requirements, introducing basic concepts of physics, mechanical engineering, and technology. The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work; Macaulay is credited as writer on the show. The last new episode aired on October 22, 1994. The show was released on video in a total of nine volumes.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: educational, edutainment
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The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series spin-off of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran for 16 half-hour episodes from September 11, 1971, to September 2, 1972, and four 8-minute episodes from September 9, 1972, to September 1, 1973, on CBS.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: prehistoric
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Project G.e.e.K.e.R. (1996)
Plot Summary:
Project G.eeK.eR. is an animated television series that premiered on CBS on September 14, 1996. It was created by Douglas TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim, with original music by Shawn Patterson. TenNapel and Taylor also collaborated on the video games The Neverhood, Boombots and Skullmonkeys, and in 2005, re-united for the Nickelodeon cartoon Catscratch. Despite good ratings, the show was pulled fairly early on in its life when CBS made a major rescheduling change to meet the three hours of educational TV required by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: futuristic
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Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (2002)
Plot Summary:
Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network from 2002 to 2003. The show centers on Robot Jones, a robotic teenager attending a suburban middle school. The show is the 12th series to fall under the Cartoon Cartoons label.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980)
Plot Summary:
The Flintstone Comedy Show is a 90-minute Saturday morning animated series revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired from November 22, 1980 to September 11, 1982 on NBC. Outside North America, the show was released under title of Flintstone Frolics. The show contained six segments: The Flintstone Family Adventures, Bedrock Cops, Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm, Captain Caveman, Dino and Cavemouse, and The Frankenstones.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: prehistoric
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Widget, the World Watcher (1990)
Plot Summary:
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. The show featured environmentalist themes and was recognized by the National Education Association as recommended viewing for children.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Jungle Cubs (1996)
Plot Summary:
Disney's Jungle Cubs is an animated series produced by Disney for ABC in 1996. It was based on their 1967 feature film The Jungle Book, but set in the youth of the animal characters. The show was a hit, running for two seasons in syndication before moving its re-runs to the Disney Channel. The show was broadcast on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001. The show did air in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America until it was removed. The show's theme song is a hip-hop version of the classic song, "The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. After a ten-year absence in the United States, reruns of the show began airing on Disney Junior since March 23, 2012, and are broadcast every day at 5:00AM ET.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Teacher's Pet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Teacher's Pet is an American Disney animated television series about a 9 year old boy and his dog who dresses up as a boy. Created by Gary Baseman, Bill Steinkellner and Cheri Steinkellner and directed by Timothy Björklund, it was broadcast on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC and later Toon Disney. The show ran from 2000 to 2002. The show was influenced by Gary Baseman's dog, Hubcaps. He would wonder what the dog would do while he was gone. He made this show in honor of him, with Spot portraying Hubcaps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: nostalgic
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Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Plot Summary:
Valley of the Dinosaurs is an animated television series from the Australian studios of Hanna-Barbera that ran for 16 half-hour installments on CBS Saturday Morning from September 7, 1974 to September 4, 1976. Reruns are currently airing on the Boomerang network.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Adventure, Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Ben 10 (2016)
Plot Summary:
With the fifth offshoot of the "Ben 10" franchise, the animated series returns to its roots and its original name, bringing teenager Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson, his cousin Gwen and Grandpa Max back to life on a new summer vacation journey. As in the original, the stories in the remake of the series also spin around an alien wristwatch called "Omnitrix," with the help of Ben can turn into ten different friendly aliens, which come up with different supernatural powers. He fights enemy aliens and experiences with grandfather and cousin the most exciting vacation imaginable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: anime, cult classic
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Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998)
Plot Summary:
Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain is the retooling of the American animated television series Pinky and the Brain, with the title characters being joined by Elmyra Duff from their other show Tiny Toon Adventures. The show is executive produced by Steven Spielberg and the series was produced by Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Animation, and aired from 1998 to 1999 on The WB Television Network, running for 13 episodes. This series was also Steven Spielberg's last collaborative effort with Warner Bros. Animation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Squirrel Boy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Squirrel Boy is an American animated television series produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The series, created and executive-produced by Everett Peck, who also the creator of the more adult-humored Duckman, ran from May 27, 2006 until September 27, 2007 on Cartoon Network, with a total of 52 eleven-minute episodes. It also aired on Cartoon Network Australia in Australia and Teletoon in Canada and also in some parts of Africa. The series has no home video release, and is only available on iTunes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, exciting, offbeat, parody, children's program, nostalgic
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The Flintstone Kids (1986)
Plot Summary:
The Flintstone Kids is a 30-minute animated television series spin-off of The Flintstones which followed the adventures of Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty as children with their pet Dino. The theme song to Flintstone Kids bears a big resemblance to that of Brass Bonanza.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: prehistoric
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Dawn of the Croods (2015)
Plot Summary:
The world's first family is back for more laughs as they discover sports, sleepovers and other wonders in a world of exotic creatures and adventures. This 2D animated cartoon is based on the 3D animated feature film, "The Croods".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, entertaining, exciting, stylized, prehistoric
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Bonkers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bonkers is an animated American television series that aired from September 4, 1993 to August 24, 1995 in first-run syndication. The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of The Disney Afternoon. The show was last seen on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in late 2004.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: slapstick, offbeat, humorous, surreal, not serious, slapstick comedy, 2d animation
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Taz-Mania (1991)
Plot Summary:
Taz-Mania is an American cartoon sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox and in Canada on Baton Broadcast System. The show follows the adventures of the classic Looney Tunes character, Taz in the fictional land of Tazmania. Similar to other Warner Brothers cartoons of its time, such as Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania frequently broke the fourth wall, and often made jokes showing that Taz could actually speak perfectly normal when he wanted to. The intro indicates that, in this rendering of Tasmania, "the sky's always yellow, rain or shine". The title song is performed by Jess Harnell and Jim Cummings.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, anime, feel good, humorous, satirical, colorful, sentimental, cult classic, light, colourful
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Curious George (2006)
Plot Summary:
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 show is currently broadcast on PBS Kids. 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: educational, sincere, humorous, witty, feel good, clever, semi serious, slapstick, 2d animation, learning
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Nature Cat (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nature Cat can’t wait to get outside for a day of backyard nature excursions and bravery! But there’s one problem; he’s still a house cat with no real instincts for nature. That doesn’t stop this passionate and curious feline, who loves learning and experiencing all he can about nature.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: educational, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Peppa Pig (2004)
Plot Summary:
Peppa Pig is an energetic piggy who lives with Mummy, Daddy, and little brother George. She loves to jump in mud puddles and make loud snorting noises.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, colorful, semi serious, educational, captivating, 2d animation, colourful
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CatDog (1998)
Plot Summary:
CatDog is an American animated television series created for Nickelodeon by Peter Hannan. The series depicts the life of conjoined brothers, with one half being a cat and the other a dog. Nickelodeon produced the series from Burbank, California. The first episode aired on April 4, 1998, before the show officially premiered in October. The episode "Fetch" was also shown in theaters with The Rugrats Movie. Toward the end of the series run, a made-for-TV film was released, titled CatDog: The Great Parent Mystery. Reruns were played on Nicktoons until 2011 and later aired on TeenNick as part of The '90s Are All That block. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Peter Hannan Productions and has been released on DVD.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, colorful, touching, dark comedy, retro, semi serious, sitcom, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Marsupilami (1993)
Plot Summary:
Marsupilami is an animated series that first appeared on television in Raw Toonage in 1992, and was then spun off into his own eponymous show on the CBS television network for the 1993–1994 season.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, slapstick, nostalgic
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Earthworm Jim (1995)
Plot Summary:
Earthworm Jim is an American and British animated television series based on the video game with the same name which appeared on Kids' WB! for two seasons from September 9, 1995 through December 13, 1996. The series follows the adventures of an earthworm named Jim, who is turned into a superhero by a robotic super suit.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, humorous, not serious, spoof, parody
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Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and encountering a host of colorful new characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, 3d animation, computer animated, light, colorful, fairy tale, slasher, prehistoric, entertaining
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Zoboomafoo (1999)
Plot Summary:
Zoboomafoo is an American children's television series that aired from January 25, 1999, to April 28, 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. A creation of the Kratt Brothers, it features a talking Coquerel's Sifaka, a type of lemur, named Zoboomafoo, or Zoboo for short, and a collection of repeat animal guests. Every episode begins with the Kratt brothers in "Animal Junction", a peculiar place in which the rules of nature change and wild animals come to visit and play. After January 16, 2004, the show was pulled from its weekday airing on most PBS stations, though some continue to air the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: educational, humorous, semi serious
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Goof Troop (1992)
Plot Summary:
Disney's Goof Troop is an Animated Comedy television series from The Walt Disney Company featuring Goofy as a father figure and bonding with his son Max, and Pete, as his neighbor. Created by Peter Montgomery, the main series of 65 episodes ran in syndication from 1992 to 1993 on The Disney Afternoon, while an additional thirteen episodes ran on Saturday mornings on ABC. One Christmas special was also produced, which ran in syndication.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, South Korea, Australia, France, Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, retro, anime, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, cult classic, 2d animation
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Dexter's Laboratory (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dexter's Laboratory is an American comic science fiction animated children's television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network. The series follows Dexter, a boy-genius with a secret laboratory filled with his collection of inventions. He constantly battles his sister Dee Dee, who always gains access despite his best efforts to keep her out, as well as his arch-rival and neighbor, Mandark. The series' first two seasons contain additional segments: Dial M for Monkey, which focuses on Dexter's pet lab monkey-turned-superhero, and The Justice Friends, about a trio of superheroes who share an apartment. Tartakovsky first pitched the series to Hanna-Barbera's animated shorts showcase World Premiere Toons, basing it on student films he produced while attending the California Institute of the Arts. Four shorts were created and broadcast on Cartoon Network in 1995 and 1996 before viewer approval ratings convinced the network to order a 13-episode first season, which premiered on April 28, 1996. By 1999, 52 episodes and a television movie had been produced, and Tartakovsky then left the series to begin work on his other projects, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars. In 2001, the network revived the series under a different production team at Cartoon Network Studios, and after 26 more episodes, the series ended on November 20, 2003.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: not serious, exciting, humorous, witty, anime, intellectual, retro, adult animation, parody, absurd
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Go, Diego, Go! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Go, Diego, Go! is a children's television series created by Chris Gifferd and Valerie Walsh, and is a spin-off of Dora the Explorer. The show premiered on September 6, 2005 and ended on September 16, 2011 on Nickelodeon. It also aired as part of the Nick Jr. on CBS block from September 17, 2005 to September 9, 2006. On December 20, 2006, Nick Jr. announced that it had ordered twenty new episodes that were in production. Since April 2008, the show has been dubbed into Spanish and airs in the United States on Univision as part of their Planeta U block.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, educational
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Timon & Pumbaa (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, often simply referred to as Timon & Pumbaa, is an animated comedy television series made by the Walt Disney Company. It centers on Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog from the Disney film franchise The Lion King, without most of the other characters in the franchise. The show ran for three seasons from September 16, 1995 to September 24th, 1999.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, South Korea, Philippines, Australia, Taiwan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, anime, colorful, cult classic, slapstick, semi serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
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The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
Plot Summary:
The fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum brothers Crash & Eddie as they head off on a new adventure into Buck's home: The Dinosaur World.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: 3d animation, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, saga, computer animated, funny, feel good
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The Penguins of Madagascar (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico; the lemurs King Julien, Maurice, and Mort; and Mason and Phil the chimpanzees. Characters new to the series include Marlene the otter and a zookeeper named Alice. It is the first Nicktoon produced with DreamWorks Animation. A pilot episode, "Gone in a Flash", aired as part of "Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend" on November 29, 2008, and The Penguins of Madagascar became a regular series on March 28, 2009. The series premiere drew 6.1 million viewers, setting a new record as the most-watched premiere. Although the series occasionally alludes to the rest of the franchise, The Penguins of Madagascar does not take place at a precise time within it. McGrath, who is also the co-creator of the film characters, has said that the series takes place "not specifically before or after the movie, I just wanted them all back at the zoo. I think of it as taking place in a parallel universe.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, light, 3d animation, anime, relaxing, slapstick, computer animated, fun
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Ice Age (2002)
Plot Summary:
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 508000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, road movie, touching, humorous, funny, computer animated, entertaining, hilarious, 3d animation, sentimental