Items18The creator’s order
  1. 1Bluey (2018)Bluey (2018) 9.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 1, 2018The show that made a generation of parents feel seen. Bluey and Bingo invent games, and Bandit and Chilli play along with the tired, slightly ragged commitment every adult watching will recognize. The jokes about parenting are aimed squarely over the kids' heads, while the children just see a dog…0
  2. 2Hey Duggee (2014)Hey Duggee (2014) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Dec 17, 2014A big, kindly dog runs a clubhouse where the Squirrels earn a badge each episode, and Alexander Armstrong's deadpan narration turns every outing into a small comedy. The songs are catchy without being maddening, the design is crisp and graphic, and the gags move fast enough that adults keep…0
  3. 3Puffin Rock (2015)Puffin Rock (2015) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 12, 2015The closest thing to a nature documentary a toddler will sit through. Oona the puffling explores her island with her baby brother Baba, and Chris O'Dowd narrates with a soft Irish lilt and a wry aside or two for the adults. The animals are drawn to look and move like real wildlife rather than…0
  4. 4Sarah & Duck (2013)Sarah & Duck (2013) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Feb 18, 2013A girl in a green hat and her slightly unhinged duck spend their days on very small adventures: a picnic, a puddle, a visit to Scarf Lady. Nothing much happens, and that is exactly the charm. Roger Allam's narrator chats with Sarah, offers the odd suggestion and often just watches her work things…0
  5. 5Kiri and Lou (2019)Kiri and Lou (2019) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Mar 18, 2019A furious little dinosaur and her patient, gentle friend sort through big feelings in a handmade world of clay creatures and cut-paper forest. Kiri explodes, Lou calms things down, and the five-minute episodes resolve a tantrum faster than most real ones. Parents tend to fall for it because of who…0
  6. 6Trash Truck (2020)Trash Truck (2020) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 10, 2020A six-year-old named Hank and his best friend, a giant garbage truck, putter around the neighborhood with their animal pals. Creator Max Keane based it on his own toddler's obsession with garbage trucks, and his father Glen Keane, the veteran Disney animator, voices both Trash Truck and…0
  7. 7Pingu (1986)Pingu (1986) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired May 28, 1986The original 1986 series, a Swiss clay-animated penguin and his family who speak only in a babbling nonsense language. Because there are no words to translate, it works in any household and any country, and the physical comedy is pure silent-film slapstick that adults laugh at as readily as…0
  8. 8Clangers (2015)Clangers (2015) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jun 15, 2015The 2015 revival of the knitted, whistling space creatures Michael Palin took over narration from the late Oliver Postgate, the original creator and narrator, and Postgate's son Daniel executive produced. The result keeps the original's tender, slightly melancholy strangeness: the Clangers putter…0
  9. 9Charlie and Lola (2005)Charlie and Lola (2005) 6.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 7, 2005A patient older brother talks his stubborn, imaginative little sister around, usually by meeting her logic on its own terms. Adapted from Lauren Child's picture books, including I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, it keeps their collage look, so it feels like watching a scrapbook come to…0
  10. 10Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (2012)Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (2012) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 3, 2012The first series inspired by Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, following a four-year-old tiger cub through ordinary days. Each story builds around a short strategy song for a real situation, such as calming down when angry or trying something new, and those little tunes are the reason parents keep it in…0