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TV Shows & Series: Best "explorer" TV Shows/Series


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Dora the Explorer(2000-2019)

3.1/5 (with 139 votes)

A young girl named Dora goes on adventures with her red boot-wearing monkey named Boots.

Directed by Gary Conrad

The Peter Potamus Show(1964-1966)

7min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The main segment featuring Peter Potamus and his diminutive sidekick So-So the monkey. Peter is big, purple, and friendly, dressed in a safari jacket and hat. Episodes generally consisted of Peter and So-So exploring the world in his hot air balloon, which was capable of time travel at the spin of a dial. When faced with a precarious situation, Peter uses his Hippo Hurricane Holler to blow away his opponents. The second segment, Breezly and Sneezly, featured a polar bear named Breezly Bruin and his friend Sneezly the Seal who used various schemes to break into an army camp in the frozen north, while trying to stay one step ahead of the camp's leader Colonel Fuzzby. The final segment, Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey, featured three dogs named Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey who work for the King, a short, complaining ruler who is often on the receiving end of their antics.

Directed by William Hanna

Sir Francis Drake(1961-1962)

30min per episode | Action & Adventure
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.

Directed by Clive Donner - With Terence Morgan

Marco Polo(2014-2016)

1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 225 votes)

An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a trusted companion to the Khan in his violent quest to become the Emperor of the World.

Marco Polo(1982-1983)

50min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.

Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space(2021)

45min per episode | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

From training to launch to landing, this all-access docuseries rides along with the Inspiration4 crew on the first all-civilian orbital space mission.

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery(1997)

2h per episode | Documentary, Western
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery – not just of the two Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark’s African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacajawea, who brought along her infant son. As important to the story as these many characters, however, was the spectacular land itself, and the promises it held.

Taina and the Amazon's Guardians(2018-)

11min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A brave, young adventurer explores the Amazon forest with her animal friends to protect its amazing wildlife and wonders.

Micro Ventures(1968)

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Micro Ventures is an educational animated series created by Hanna-Barbera Productions which originally aired as a 4-minute segment on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. It ran for only four episodes from November 9, 1968 to December 21, 1968 on NBC.

The True Adventures of Christopher Columbus(1992)

30min per episode | Drama, Comedy

A four-part drama exploring the myth of Columbus as heroic discoverer of the Americas.

Gil & Julie(1983)

4min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

Shows the daily life of Gil and Julia with their friends.