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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Just a Stone's Throw Away | 1993-09-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | No Time for Steamer | 1993-09-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Destroy All Buckies | 1993-10-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | It's Snow Problem | 1993-10-10 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Let Me Help | 1993-10-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Legend of Big Thing | 1993-10-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | A Bridge Too Short | 1993-11-13 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Pakka's Cool Invention | 1993-11-06 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Here's Looking at You, Cro | 1993-11-13 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | No Way Up | 1993-11-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Adventures in Miscommunications | 1993-11-27 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Escape from Mung Island | 1993-12-04 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Pulley for You | 1993-12-11 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Things That Eat Mung in the Night | 1993-12-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Meal Like a Pig | 1994-09-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | What's That Smell | 1994-09-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Play It Again, Cro... Not! | 1994-10-01 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Lever in a Million Years | 1994-10-08 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Turn Up the Heat | 1994-10-15 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | They Move Mammoths, Don't They? | 1994-10-22 | 30 min |
