Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and basic science concepts to preschoolers. The main characters include a yellow baby chick named Peep and his friends Quack, a teenaged blue drake, and Chirp, a baby red robin with pink eyelids. The current show, narrated by Joan Cusack is based on a National Film Board of Canada cartoon short of the same name, created in 1988 by Kaj Pindal and narrated by Peter Ustinov, and another short, "The Peep Show", from 1962. The original short comprised three 10-minute films featuring Peep, Quack, and Chirp as they meet a cat, a ladybug, a turtle and a frog who speaks from both sides of his mouth. The show is produced by WGBH in Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto, Canada. In the US, this show formerly aired on Discovery Kids as part of its commercial-free and sponsor-free "Ready, Set, Learn!" programming block. It now airs nationally in the United States on public television, distributed by American Public Television. In Canada, it airs on TVOntario. DVDs and books are also available for purchase. Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an education and outreach program. The principal investigator is Kate Taylor, also of the ZOOM block. The National Science Foundation is the only permanent sponsor of the show. Northrop Grumman, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Toyota funded the show for only season two. The Discovery Kids Foundation funded the show for only season one. In 1999, the show was produced by Clumsy PriStar Television. The VHS copies are produced from Clumsy Pristar's home viewings.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Spring Thing | 2004-04-12 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Springy Thingy | 2004-04-12 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | A Duck's Tale | 2004-04-13 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Quack's Tracks | 2004-04-13 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Quack And The Very Big Rock | 2004-04-14 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Shadow Play | 2004-04-14 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Current Events | 2004-04-15 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Quack Loses His Hat | 2004-04-15 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | Night Light | 2004-04-16 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Sounds Like... | 2004-04-16 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Windy Day | 2004-04-19 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Peep Feet | 2004-04-19 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | Newton's Big Adventure | 2004-04-20 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 14 | Peep Crosses The Road | 2004-04-20 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 15 | Stormy Weather | 2004-04-21 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 16 | Peep In Rabbitland | 2004-04-21 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 17 | Quack's Stuck Stick | 2004-04-22 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 18 | Peep's Can | 2004-04-22 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 19 | Under Duck | 2004-04-23 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 20 | All Fall Down | 2004-04-23 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 21 | The Perils of Peep And Chirp | 2004-04-26 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 22 | Hoop Tricks | 2004-04-26 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 23 | Save It For Later | 2004-04-27 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 24 | The Red Ballmoon | 2004-04-27 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 25 | Chirp Builds A Nest | 2004-04-28 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 26 | Stuck Duck | 2004-04-28 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 27 | The Real Decoy | 2004-04-29 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 28 | Peep's Lost Leaf | 2004-04-29 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 29 | Birds Of A Feather | 2004-04-30 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 30 | The Incredible Shrinking Duck | 2004-04-30 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 31 | Go West Young Peep | 2004-05-03 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 32 | A Delicate Balance | 2004-05-03 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 33 | The Fish Museum | 2004-05-04 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 34 | Peep's Night Out | 2004-05-04 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 35 | There's No Place Like Home | 2004-05-05 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 36 | Flipping Newton | 2004-05-05 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 37 | Chirp's Flight Program | 2004-05-06 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 38 | Mirror Mirror In The Dump | 2004-05-06 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 39 | Bridge The Gap | 2004-05-07 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 40 | Meeting Half-Way | 2004-05-07 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 41 | Peep Plants A Seed | 2004-05-10 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 42 | The Root Problem | 2004-05-10 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 43 | Hide And Go Peep | 2004-05-11 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 44 | A Peep Of A Different Color | 2004-05-11 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 45 | That's A Cat | 2004-05-12 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 46 | Faster Than A Duck | 2004-05-12 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 47 | Quack Hatches An Egg | 2004-05-13 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 48 | The Whatchamacallit | 2004-05-13 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 49 | Wandering Beaver | 2004-05-14 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 50 | Peep's New Friend | 2004-05-14 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 51 | The Trip To Green Island | 2004-05-17 | 10 min |
Season 1 | Episode 52 | Give Me A Call | 2004-05-17 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | Finders Keepers | 2005-11-14 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Quack Quiets the Universe | 2005-11-14 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Peep's Moon Mission | 2005-11-15 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Many Moons of Quack the Duck | 2005-11-15 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | The Mystery of the Thing That Went Away and Came Back | 2005-11-16 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | Peep's Color Quest | 2005-11-16 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Reflection Affection | 2005-11-17 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Peep Deep in the Big Muddy | 2005-11-17 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Snow Daze | 2005-11-18 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Peep Prints | 2005-11-18 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 11 | Dry Duck Part 1 | 2005-11-19 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 12 | Dry Duck Part 2 | 2005-11-19 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 13 | Count Them Out | 2005-12-15 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 14 | Flower Shower | 2005-12-15 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 15 | Quack Quack | 2006-09-18 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 16 | One Duck Too Many | 2006-09-18 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 17 | Chirp Sorts It Out (sort of) | 2006-09-25 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 18 | Hear, Here! | 2006-09-25 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 19 | Who Stole the Big Wide World | 2006-09-26 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 20 | M-U-D Spells Trouble | 2006-09-26 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 21 | Finding Time | 2006-09-27 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 22 | Smaller Than a Peep | 2006-09-27 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 23 | Stick With Me | 2006-09-28 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 24 | Tree Feller | 2006-09-28 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 25 | A Daring Duck | 2006-10-02 | 10 min |
Season 2 | Episode 26 | The Trouble With Bubbles | 2006-10-02 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Sounds of Silence Part 1 | 2007-04-16 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Sounds of Silence Part 2 | 2007-04-16 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 3 | The Tooth, the Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth | 2007-04-17 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 4 | The Winter of Quack's Discontent | 2007-04-17 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 5 | Nosing Around | 2007-04-18 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 6 | The Last Straw | 2007-04-18 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Disappearing Drink | 2007-04-19 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 8 | Door Tour | 2007-04-19 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 9 | In a Bind | 2007-04-20 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 10 | Star Light, Star Bright | 2007-04-20 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 11 | Big Bird | 2007-09-10 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 12 | Chirp Flies the Coop | 2007-09-10 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 13 | Bedtime Story | 2007-09-11 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 14 | The Deep Duck Woods | 2007-09-11 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 15 | I Spy a Spider | 2007-09-12 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 16 | Robin in the Bat Cave | 2007-09-12 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 17 | Marble Mover | 2007-09-13 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 18 | Fair Shares | 2007-09-13 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 19 | The Feats of Peep | 2007-09-14 | 10 min |
Season 3 | Episode 20 | Quack goes Nuts | 2007-09-14 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 1 | The Lurmies are Coming | 2010-02-02 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 2 | Quack's Square Deal | 2010-02-02 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 3 | An Inconvenient Tooth Part 1 | 2010-05-01 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 4 | An Inconvenient Tooth Part 2 | 2010-05-01 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 5 | Bringing Spring | 2010-05-13 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 6 | Quack's Pond Party | 2010-05-13 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 7 | You Can Count on Bunnies | 2010-01-08 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 8 | Falling Feathers | 2010-01-08 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 9 | Magic Duck Dancing | 2010-07-17 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 10 | Chirp Chirp Tweet Tweet Chirp | 2010-07-17 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 11 | Trading Places | 2010-06-26 | 10 min |
Season 4 | Episode 12 | House of Sand and Frog | 2010-06-26 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 1 | Two's a Crowd Part 1 | 2011-10-10 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 2 | Two's a Crowd Part 2 | 2011-10-10 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 3 | The Road Not Taken Part 1 | 2011-10-11 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 4 | The Road Not Taken Part 2 | 2011-10-11 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 5 | Soap Opera | 2011-10-12 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 6 | Diva Duck | 2011-10-12 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 7 | Quack and the Amazing Sandy Magic | 2011-10-13 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 8 | Duck Ball | 2011-10-13 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 9 | Things that Go Peep in the Night | 2011-10-14 | 10 min |
Season 5 | Episode 10 | Mud Muddle | 2011-10-14 | 10 min |
Writing | Peter K. Hirsch | Writer |
Writing | Kathy Waugh | Writer |
Writing | Joe Fallon | Writer |
Writing | Glen Berger | Writer |
Production | Geoff Adams | Producer |
Production | Melinda Toporoff | Producer |
Production | Kate Taylor | Executive Producer |
Production | Paul Higgins | Producer |
Production | Steve Jarosz | Producer |
Production | Jessica Hanlon | Executive Producer |
Production | Kaj Pindal | Producer |
Production | Vince Commisso | Producer |
Production | Marisa Wolsky | Producer |
Sound | Taj Mahal | Theme Song Performance |