Peep and the Big Wide World Coloring Pictures

Peep and the Big Wide World

Also known as	Peep
Genre	Educational Children's television series Comedy
Created by	Kaj Pindal^[1] ^[2]
Directed by	Rick Marshall
Voices of	Scott Beaudin (1-3) Shawn Molko (4) Maxwell Uretsky (5) Jamie Watson Amanda Soha
Narrated by	Joan Cusack
Theme music composer	Steve D'Angelo Terry Tompkins
Opening theme	"Peep and the Big Wide World" performed by Taj Mahal
Ending theme	"Peep and the Big Wide World" (instrumental)
Country of origin	Canada United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	60 (240 segments)
Production
Executive producer	Kate Taylor
Producers	Vince Commisso Marisa Wolsky
Running time	22–25 minutes
Production companies	WGBH Boston 9 Story Entertainment TVOntario Discovery Kids Eggbox LLC National Film Board of Canada
Distributor	Alliance Atlantis (seasons 1-3) American Public Television (seasons 4-5)
Release
Original network	TVOKids (Canada) TLC (2004–2008) and Discovery Kids (2004–2010) (Seasons 1-3) (U.S.) PBS Kids (Seasons 4 and 5) (U.S.)
Picture format	NTSC
Audio format	Dolby Surround
Original release	Original series: April 12, 2004 (2004-04-12) – September 14, 2007 (2007-09-14) Revival series: January 31, 2010 (2010-01-31) – October 14, 2011 (2011-10-14)
External links
Website

Peep and the Big Wide World ( PATBWW ) is an animated children's television series created by Canadian animator Kaj Pindal. It revolves around the lives of Peep, Chirp, and Quack, as viewers discover, investigate, and explore the world around them.^[3]

The show was based on the 1988 short film Peep and the Big Wide World (of the same name) produced by the National Film Board of Canada, which itself is based on the 1962 short film The Peep Show,^[4] also produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The series premiered on April 12, 2004, on Discovery Kids and on TLC as part of their Ready Set Learn children's block, and on the same day on TVOKids and PBS Kids. It was produced by WGBH Boston (through its kids division WGBH Kids) and 9 Story Media Group (formerly 9 Story Entertainment), in association with TVOntario and Discovery Kids and is distributed by Alliance Atlantis (through AAC Kids).

Carriage on the Discovery children's networks ended on October 10, 2010 with the discontinuation of Ready Set Learn and the replacement of Discovery Kids with The Hub, and now, Discovery Family. Since 2004, it continues to be offered to public television stations via independent public television distributor American Public Television to the present day. Since January 1, 2018, the series (alongside Pocoyo, which is seen after the program) is distributed by both PBS Kids and APT. Throughout its run, it has been underwritten by the National Science Foundation, with Northrop Grumman underwriting season four in 2010.

Each episode consists of two 9-minute stories, which are animated segments, and two 2-minute live action segments, in which children explore and demonstrate the same topic presented in the animated segment.

Overview

Viewers follow Peep, Chirp, and Quack as they investigate and explore the world around them. Following the 9-minute animated segment, there is a 2-minute live-action segment with children exploring and demonstrating the same topic presented in the animated segment. Animation consists of bright colors and simple shapes.

Episodes

Season 1 (2004)

Episode №		Segment names		Original airdate
Total	Season	First segment	Second segment	Original airdate
1	1	Spring Thing	Springy Thingy	12 Apr 2004
2	2	A Duck's Tale	Quack's Tracks	13 Apr 2004
3	3	Quack and the Very Big Rock	Shadow Play	14 Apr 2004
4	4	Current Events	Quack Loses His Hat	15 Apr 2004
5	5	Night Light	Sounds Like...	16 Apr 2004
6	6	The Windy Day	Peep Feet	19 Apr 2004
7	7	Newton's Big Adventure	Peep Crosses the Road	20 Apr 2004
8	8	Stormy Weather	Peep in Rabbitland	21 Apr 2004
9	9	Quack's Stuck Stick	Peep's Can	22 Apr 2004
10	10	Under Duck	All Fall Down	23 Apr 2004
11	11	The Perils of Peep and Chirp	Hoop Tricks	26 Apr 2004
12	12	Save It For Later	The Red Ballmoon	27 Apr 2004
13	13	Chirp Builds a Nest	Stuck Duck	28 Apr 2004
14	14	The Real Decoy	Peep's Lost Leaf	29 Apr 2004
15	15	Birds of a Feather	The Incredible Shrinking Duck	30 Apr 2004
16	16	Go West Young Peep	A Delicate Balance	3 May 2004
17	17	The Fish Museum	Peep's Night Out	4 May 2004
18	18	There's No Place Like Home	Flipping Newton	5 May 2004
19	19	Chirp's Flight Program	Mirror Mirror in the Dump	6 May 2004
20	20	Bridge the Gap	Meeting Half-Way	7 May 2004
21	21	Peep Plants a Seed	The Root Problem	10 May 2004
22	22	Hide and Go Peep	A Peep of a Different Color	11 May 2004
23	23	That's a Cat	Faster than a Duck	12 May 2004
24	24	Quack Hatches an Egg	The Whatchamacallit	13 May 2004
25	25	Wandering Beaver	Peep's New Friend	14 May 2004
26	26	The Trip to Green Island	Give Me a Call	17 May 2004

Season 2 (2005-2006)

Episode №		Segment names		Original airdate
Total	Season	First segment	Second segment	Original airdate
27	1	Finders Keepers	Quack Quiets the Universe	2 May 2005
28	2	Peep's Moon Mission	The Many Moons of Quack the Duck	3 May 2005
29	3	The Mystery of the Thing That Went and Came Back	Peep's Color Quest	4 May 2005
30	4	Reflection Affection	Peep Deep in the Big Muddy	5 May 2005
31	5	Chirp Sorts it Out (Sort Of)	Hear Here!	6 May 2005
32	6	Dry Duck		9 May 2005
33	7	Snow Daze	Flower Shower	10 May 2005
34	8	Who Stole the Big Wide World?	M-U-D Spells Trouble	11 May 2005
35	9	Finding Time	Smaller than a Peep	12 May 2005
36	10	Quack Quack	One Duck Too Many	13 May 2005
37	11	Count Them Out	Peep Prints	25 Sep 2006
38	12	Stick With Me	Tree Feller	26 Sep 2006
39	13	A Daring Duck	The Trouble With Bubbles	27 Sep 2006

Season 3 (2007)

Episode №		Segment names		Original airdate
Total	Season	First segment	Second segment	Original airdate
40	1	The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth	The Winter of Quack's Discontent	16 Apr 2007
41	2	Nosing Around	The Last Straw	17 Apr 2007
42	3	The Disappearing Drink	Door Tour	18 Apr 2007
43	4	In a Bind	Star Light, Star Bright	19 Apr 2007
44	5	Bedtime Story	The Deep Duck Woods	20 Apr 2007
45	6	I Spy a Spider	Robin in the Bat Cave	10 Sep 2007
46	7	Marble Mover	Fair Shares	11 Sep 2007
47	8	The Feats of Peep	Quack Goes Nuts	12 Sep 2007
48	9	The Sounds of Silence		13 Sep 2007
49	10	Big Bird	Chirp Flies the Coop	14 Sep 2007

Season 4 (2010)

Episode №		Segment names		Original airdate
Total	Season	First segment	Second segment	Original airdate
50	1	The Lurmies are Coming	Quack's Square Deal	31 Jan 2010
51	2	An Inconvenient Tooth		1 May 2010
52	3	Bringing Spring	Quack's Pond Party	13 May 2010
53	4	You Can Count on Bunnies	Falling Feathers	8 Jun 2010
54	5	Trading Places	The House of Sand and Frog	26 Jun 2010
55	6	Magic Duck Dancing	Chirp Chirp Tweet Tweet Chirp	17 Jul 2010

Season 5 (2011)

Episode №		Segment names		Original airdate
Total	Season	First segment	Second segment	Original airdate
56	1	Two's a Crowd		10 Oct 2011
57	2	The Road Not Taken		11 Oct 2011
58	3	Soap Opera	Diva Duck	12 Oct 2011
59	4	Quack and the Amazing Sandy Magic	Duckball	13 Oct 2011
60	5	Things That Go Peep in the Night	Mud Muddle	14 Oct 2011

Characters

Main

Peep (Voiced by Scott Beaudin ^[5] in the first 3 seasons, Shawn Molko in Season 4 and Maxwell Uretsky in Season 5): A male, yellow chicken who is very curious. He is the youngest bird of the group. The show's title is derived from his name. Peep is female in the original short film.
Chirp (Voiced by Amanda Soha): A female, red robin who is also curious, and attempts frequently to fly, with unsatisfying results, until "A Daring Duck", when she flies from the ground. In "Big Bird" she meets a real robin for the first time. She is Peep and Quack's friend. Chirp is male in the original short film.
Quack (Voiced by Jamie Watson): A male, blue-purple duckling who wears a white sailor's hat. He is older than Peep and Chirp, as they are still chicks. He frequently boasts about himself and ducks as a whole, and unwittingly makes many discoveries. Quack is purple in the original short film and is now referred to as blue, but is still quite indigo. He also seems to have a hoarding issue, as evidenced in the episode "An Inconvenient Tooth, Part 1."
The Narrator (Voiced by Joan Cusack): The Narrator tells the episode's story, although the characters rarely have any interaction with her. In the episodes "Dry Duck, Part 1" the birds did have a short interaction with her and in "Quack Quiets the Universe" she and Quack interact as well.

Minor

Ant (Voiced by Robert Tinkler): A busy male ant who appears in some episodes.
Beaver Boy (Voiced by Tessa Marshall): A young naïve male beaver who lives in an adjoining pond to Quack's. He appears in several episodes. His desire to please his mom and dad often results in him chewing down too many trees. He often calls Quack "Blue Sailor" Peep "Yellow Guy" and Chirp "Red Round".
Beaver Mom: (Voiced by Debra McGrath) Beaver Boy's workaholic mother.
Beaver Dad (Voiced by Phillip Williams): Beaver Boy's businesslike father.
Dragonfly (Voiced by Catherine Disher): A quiet dragonfly.
Fish: Cohabitants of Quack's pond.
Frog: A frog who lives in Quack's pond. He rarely talks.
Hoot (Voiced by Corinne Conley): A menacing, but kind purple female owl who lives in the Deep Dark Woods.
Nellie (Voiced by Marium Carvell): A red female dog who acts as a seemingly maternal figure for the birds.
Newton (Voiced by Colin Fox): An old, male, dark-green turtle who lives under an apple tree.
Quack #2 (Voiced by Megan Mullally): An annoying pink female duck who has her own pond, built by Quack, Peep, Chirp, Beaver Boy and his parents.
Rabbit (Voiced by Jayne Eastwood): An excitable and somewhat distracted rabbit.
Robin (Voiced by Holly Hunter): An adult robin.
Skunk (Voiced by Adrian Truss): A rather deadpan skunk who lives near Quack's pond.
Bat (Voiced by Ron Rubin): A shy bat.
Squeak (Voiced by Kathleen Laskey): An anxious pink, female mouse who lives under a brick and always worries about what could go wrong.
Tom (Voiced by Alex Hood and Matthew Knight): A sly, male blue & black kitten who often tries to eat Peep, Chirp, and Quack. He is the sole antagonist.
Raccoon (Voiced by Jeff Lumby): A gobbo, male brown & black racoon who often tries to wear his sun glasses in A Peep of a Different Color
Blue Jays(Voiced by David Hudson): silly, blue and white birds who love to cause trouble when they see stuff

Music composition

Music for Peep and the Big Wide World is composed by Terry Tompkins and Steve D'Angelo, from Eggplant. The opening theme is performed by Taj Mahal.^[6]

Broadcast

United States

The series ran the first three seasons on TLC and Discovery Kids as part of the Ready Set Learn block from April 12, 2004 to September 14, 2007 and reran the episodes until October 8, 2010 when Discovery Kids discontinued the block to make way for the new network to launch known as The Hub on October 10. The last two seasons ran on PBS Kids under the APT brand from January 31, 2010 to October 14, 2011, making the total of 60 episodes (120 segments). During the existence of Ready Set Learn, the series was also acquired to selected PBS member stations with only episodes from season one. After the discontinuation of Ready Set Learn, PBS stations started to pick up the remaining episodes from seasons two and three by early 2011.

On January 1, 2018, Peep and the Big Wide World was picked up on the 24-hour PBS Kids channel, marking the first time to air the series for PBS member stations, which never acquired the series since its original run in 2004.

Media

Home video

WGBH Boston Video released the episodes of the first season on DVD and VHS in 2005. The 2005 DVD releases each contained six segments of the specified subject; Peep Explores, Peep Finds, Peep Floats, Peep's New Friends, Chirp Flies, and Quack Knows It All. The 2007 DVD release, Peep Figures It Out contained six segments as usual, plus two bonus segments. In 2011, PBS Kids Video released two DVDs; Seasons of Adventure, and Star Light, Star Bright, which contains episodes from seasons two and three respectively. In 2012, PBS Kids Video released two more DVDs; Finders Keepers and Bringing Spring. In 2014, PBS Kids Video released two more DVDs; Diva Duck, and Peep Discovers (which was once available as a limited release to retail stores). As of 2020, all of these DVDs are now out of print and very hard to find, but commonly found at public libraries. In Canada, Entertainment One released three DVDs in both English and French languages; Stick With Me, Peep's Moon Mission, and Flower Shower.

References

^ "Peep and the Big Wide World". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^ Lerner, Loren Ruth (1997). Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature, Volume 1. University of Toronto Press. p. 218. ISBN0802029884.
^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 447–448. ISBN978-1538103739.
^ "The Peep Show". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
^ "Peep and the Big Wide World Credits 2004". 4 November 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ Opening video, with lyrics and credits on official page

External links

Official website
Peep and the Big Wide World (Current series) at IMDb
Peep and the Big Wide World (1988) at IMDb
Kaj Pindal at IMDb
WGBH
9 Story Entertainment
National Science Foundation grant information
Watch the original Peep and the Big Wide World at NFB.ca
Read Goodman Research Group's executive summary of the Peep website evaluation
Watch some of the harder to find episodes of Peep and the Big Wide World on Emmaton Entertainment®.
Watch the ONLY remaining copy of I Spy A Spider here

Peep and the Big Wide World Coloring Pictures

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_and_the_Big_Wide_World