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Monday February 19th brings several new episodes across several networks.

Disney

Season 5 of The Wiggles begins at 7:00am with the season premiere. “Rainy Day” – Jeff and Greg embark on an arts and crafts project in which they piece together paintings to create a story during a rainy day. Then, during a new segment, Dorothy’s dancing alphabet, Anthony highlights the letter “A” and does the apple dance. Viewers are also introduced to the Mariachi Wiggles who sing “Fruit Salad” in Spanish.

Right after there will be a new episode of Higglytown Heroes featuring a farm veterinarian (or as my daughter says peterinarian).

Nick Jr.

At 11:00am The Wonder Pets will take on the Big Bad Wolf in The Wonder Pets Save the Three Little Pigs. In “Save the Three Little Pigs,” the Wonder Pets get a call from the Three Little Pigs who are distressed because the Big Bad Wolf wants to eat them. Linny, Tuck and Ming-Ming fly into a puppet theatre and find the first pig building a straw house which he hopes will protect him. The Big Bad Wolf is denied by the hair of the pig’s chinny-chin-chin, so he huffs, puffs and blows the house down. Just as the Wolf is about to have his lunch, the Wonder Pets swoop in and rescue the pig. The trio comes upon the second pig and questions his house of wooden sticks, just as the Wolf blows it down. But the Wonder Pets swoop in and save the pigs just in time. They have high hopes for the third pig, but he’s building his house out of flowers! While Tuck suggests making the last house out of bricks, the Wolf decides he wants the pesky Wonder Pets instead. Linny, Tuck and Ming-Ming run into the brick house which triumphantly remains standing, after the Wolf’s last attempt. The Wolf finally gives up on the Three Little Pigs and the Wonder Pets, and goes off to pursue Little Red Riding Hood.

PBS Kids

And there will be 2 new episodes of Curious George on PBS Kids (check local listings for show times) as part of a President’s Day George-to-George feature. The first episode features Housebound where George breaks his leg at the museum and George Rides a Bike. In the second episode George decides he wants to be an acrobat in Unbalanced and he tries to survive cold weather in Curious George vs. the Winter.

There will be new George’s on all week.

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Season 5 of The Wiggles is set to premiere on February 19th on the Disney Channel.

The season was shot prior to Yellow Wiggle Greg Page leaving the group, so the 4 original Wiggles remain intact for this slate of episodes.

The 26 episode season has a couple of new elements:

The episodes feature original, upbeat songs and the discovery of different cultures and languages through the new animated “Mariachi Wiggles” and “Mandarin Wiggles” showcasing popular Wiggles songs performed in Spanish and Mandarin. Also new is “Dorothy’s Dancing Alphabet” which introduces kids to the letter of the day.

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The season will debut at 7:00am on February 19th. A new episode will be aired each day through February 23rd at the same time.

The Wiggles, Playhouse Disney

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There will be 3 new episodes of popular Nick Jr. shows airing on Valentines day.

In Go, Diego, Go! “Sammy’s Valentine” Diego helps Sammy the Sloth deliver a valentine to Lulu the sloth.

Tasha, Pablo, and Uniqua are bikers who help mailman Tyrone recover a mailbag full of Valentine’s Day cards in The Backyardigans “Special Delivery”.

And in sticking with the delivery theme, on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! “Mr. Valentine” Widget, Walden, and Wubbzy help the sick mailman deliver Valentine cards.

Go Diego Go will air at 9:30, The Backyardigans at 10:30, and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! at 1:30, all on February 14th.

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PBS will debut the second season of Franny’s Feet on February 3rd. The new season will contain 13 episodes. Check local listings for premiere times.

Link:Second Season of Franny’s Feet Debuts February 3 on PBS Kids
Show Link: Franny’s Feet at PBS Kids

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The second season of Little Einsteins will premiere January 13th at 8:00am on the Disney Channel with 2 new episodes.

The first episode, Quincy & the Magic Instruments finds Quincy practicing his instruments in his room, when he discovers a mysterious box containing four magical instruments. When he goes to show them to his friends, he discovers that the other Little Einsteins are marooned on the Arabian Sea with Rocket, whose anchor is hopelessly stuck at the bottom. The episode features the music of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” and art work by Gustave Courbet.

In the second episode,Brothers & Sisters to the Rescue, Annie and Leo suddenly get drawn into the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. The Little Einsteins must find the gingerbread house by following Hansel and Gretel’s music note trail through the Black Forest in Germany. The episode features Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5″ and German folk art.

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Johnny and the Sprites, which has been airing as an interstitial for a little over a year will have it’s first full episode air. The series will premiere on Saturday, January 13th at 10:00am on the Disney Channel. It will be a full block of premieres on Playhouse Disney that day with 2 new episodes of Little Einsteins, 2 new episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and a new episode of Handy Manny. The full block will air between 8:00am and 11:00am.

In series premiere - Turbo Car Johnny – Johnny gets carried away playing a video game but ultimately figures out that it is a lot more fun playing outside with your friends. The second part of the episode is Antenna Dilema. A painting of Ginger makes her feel uncomfortable about her curly antennae until Johnny helps her realize that it is okay to be different.

More new episodes will premeiere on January 14th, 20th, and 27th - all at 10:00am.

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There’s lots of Go Diego Go news from Nick Jr. First, the station announced that production is beginning on a 3rd season of the show. The new season will have 20 episodes including 2 hour long specials.

A new episode, titled Great Jaguar Rescue will premiere Monday, January 15 at 9:30am with a repeat showing at 11:30am. The premiere of the show will also mark the release of the DVD by the same name featuring that episode and 3 others.

And for even more Great Jaguar Rescue stuff, beginning January 5th there will be a new Go Diego Go game on NickJr.com.

All of this is leading up to the launch of Go, Diego, Go Live! The Great Jaguar Rescue . The national tour kicks off February 1st in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The long awaited second season of Jack’s Big Music Show will premeire January 6th on Noggin. The second season contains 13 episodes, thus doubling the show’s library. The show has been airing the same set of episodes for over a year now, so fresh episodes will be greatly appreciated by parents and kids.

Guest stars in the second season include Jon Stewart & Cheryl Hines. The shows will feature a whole host of musical acts including more Laurie Berkner. In addition, Steve Burns (you know Steve from Blue’s Clues) and his band make ann appearance.

I’ve seen the premiere episode, Snow Day, and I’ll have a review up prior to the 6th.

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There will be 4 new Christmas specials debuting on Fridays in November on Nick Jr. The special episodes of Go Diego Go, LazyTown, The Wonder Pets, and The Backyardigans will premeire on December 8th and December 15th.

Friday, December 8 at 12:00 p.m. Go, Diego, Go!/ “Diego Saves Christmas”

Santa’s sleigh is stuck under a snow hill, and Diego must find Linda the Llama, who can pull heavy things. The pair tiptoes up the mountain singing the “jalen” song. Santa sprinkles ‘Magic Christmas Sparkles’ on Linda so she can fly with the reindeer and help him deliver all the Christmas presents.

Friday, December 8 at 12:30 p.m. — The Wonder Pets/”Save the Reindeer”

The Wonder Pets head to the North Pole on Christmas Eve to rescue Santa’s Baby Reindeer, who is stuck on cracking ice. After saving her with a net made from Ming-Ming’s sweater, they learn that she ran away because she didn’t know if she had what it takes to be one of Santa’s squad. With the Wonder Pets’ encouragement, Baby Reindeer finally takes her place among the grownups.

Friday, December 15 at 12:00 p.m. — The Backyardigans/”The Secret of Snow”

Uniqua travels way up North to learn the secret of snow from Ice Lady Tasha. Cowboy Pablo and Tarzan Tyrone befriend her en route. With the help of the Ice Lady’s assistant, Austin, they defeat every obstacle. But when Tasha discovers Austin has betrayed her, will she reveal the secret?

Friday, December 15 at 12:30 p.m. – LazyTown/”The LazyTown Snow Monster”

Robbie Rotten poses as a scary snow monster to frighten the LazyTown kids, but they have some tricks up their sleeve. In the end he flees, and failing to read the signs near the frozen lake, falls into the icy waters. In the spirit of the season it’s up to Sportacus to rescue Rotten.

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On Sunday December 19th Nickelodeon will premiere a new hour long episode of Dora the Explorer. The episode titled, Dora’s World Adventure, features Dora and Swiper going on an adventure around the world.

The premise of the episode is that Dora is preparing to celebrate Friendship Day. Only Swiper admits to swiping all the friendship bracelets from France, Tanzania, Russia, and China. Swiper and Dora set off to return the friendship bracelets to their rightful owners.

In France kids will visit the Eiffel Tower and learn how to say Bonjour while using shape clues to return the bracelets. They then journey to Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania before heading to heading to The Winter Palace in Russia and the Great Wall in China.

Along the way kids will learn to say hello in the native language and have to be on the lookout for different thieving animals in each locale.

It’s pretty much what you expect from a typical episode of Dora, with emphasis on shapes, counting, and colors. There are new songs at each country and my daughter is a huge fan of the Friendship Song.

Kids can play along at NickJr.com and the episode is also available on DVD. In addition to the DVD their is a companion CD that includes tracks from the episode as well as songs from Ziggy Marley and Aaron Neville.

The eipsode will premiere at 8:00pm on November 19th on Nickelodeon.

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