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The Sooty Show(1955-1992)

15min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.

Sesame Street(1969-)

TV-Y
| 54min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 111 votes)

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

Tales from the Crypt(1989-1996)

NR
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 408 votes)

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

The Muppet Show(1976-1981)

TV-G
| 26min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 131 votes)

Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.

Greg the Bunny(2002-2006)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy wrote and co-produced the Fox show. The show was spun off from The Greg the Bunny Show, a series of short segments that aired on the Independent Film Channel, which were based on the Public-access television cable TV show Junktape. A show spin-off, called Warren the Ape, premiered on June 14, 2010 on MTV.

Puppets Who Kill(2002-2006)

30min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.

Rainbow(1972-1992)

20min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories. Join George, Bungle, Zippy, and all their friends at the Rainbow House, always an exciting place to be.

Directed by Jackie Cooper - With Stanley Bates, Rod Burton, David Cook, Matthew Corbett, Geoffrey Hayes, Ronnie Le Drew, ...

Basil Brush Show(2002-2007)

NR
| 25min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

The Basil Brush Show was a British children's television sitcom series, starring the glove puppet fox, Basil Brush. It was produced for six series by The Foundation, airing on CBBC from 4 October 2002 to 21 December 2007. The show is a spin-off from the original 1960's/1970's BBC television series, but without any of the original cast.

Directed by David McKay - With Michael Byers

The Chica Show(2013-2014)

TV-Y
| 11min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family

The Chica Show is an American animated television series based on the puppetry segments of The Sunny Side Up Show on PBS Kids Sprout, which features the chicken puppet character Chica in full episodic and animated adventures rather than the traditional continuity of Sunny Side Up. The program premiered on November 24, 2012, with a preview episode airing on October 31, 2012. The program began to air as part of the NBC Kids block on Comcast sister network NBC in February 2013, and is fully compliant with E/I regulations. A second season started on July 29, 2013.

Mystery Science Theater 3000(2017-2018)

TV-14
| 1h 30min per episode | Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)

The cult hit returns! Captured by mad scientists, new host Jonah survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.

Bodger and Badger(1989-1999)

NR
| 15min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.

With Andy Cunningham, Jane Bassett

Andy's Wild Adventures(2012-)

TV-Y
| 14min per episode | Kids & Family

Children's nature series. Andy Day embarks on wild adventures with his puppet friend Kip the cat. Their adventures take them all around the world in search of weird and wonderful animals.

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H.R. Pufnstuf(1969-1970)

NR
| 30min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet program. The seventeen episodes were originally broadcast from September 6, 1969 to December 27, 1969. The broadcasts were successful enough that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule until August 1972. The show was shot in Paramount Studios and its opening was shot in Big Bear Lake, California. Reruns of the show aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 2, 1972 to September 8, 1973 and on Sunday mornings in some markets from September 16, 1973 to September 8, 1974. It was syndicated by itself from 1974 to 1978 and in a package with six other Kroft series under the banner Kroft Superstars from 1978 to 1985. In 2004 and 2007, H.R. Pufnstuf was ranked #22 and #27 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.

The Jim Henson Hour(1989-1993)

1h per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy
4.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The Jim Henson Hour was developed as a showcase for the Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. This hour-long anthology series was hosted by Jim Henson and generally included two segments. The first segment,"Muppetelevision," included comedy skits starring the Muppets, as well as frequent guest appearances by popular entertainers. The second segment often featured rebroadcasts of original, Henson-created productions, such as episodes from Jim Henson's "The StoryTeller" anthology series.

The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon(1993)

TV-Y
| 29min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The story follows Dudley, a dragon who recently woke up from centuries of hibernation and his new ten-year-old friends Matt and Sally. The two kids would guide Dudley around the modern world and the trio would learn about environmentalism, friendship and pro-social values.

Directed by Allan Novak, E. Jane Thompson, Darrell Wasyk, Andrew Ainsworth, Jesse Collins - With Daniel DeSanto, Graham Greene, Asia Vieira

Eureeka's Castle(2024-)

22min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Eureeka's Castle is an American children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon from September 4, 1989 to June 30, 1995.

Julie's Greenroom(2017-)

3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Ms. Julie teaches performing arts workshops with the help of her assistant Gus at their Wellspring Center for the Performing Arts.

Fluffy Marky(2016-2020)

Mark and his Trio of Terror have perfected a reign of terror at school until the day he wakes up to find himself transformed into a puppet. Now harmless and suffering from the shock of his transformation, he must confront his former victims who want revenge, as well as the members of the Trio of Terror, who want to take his place. From now on, Mark must learn to survive as Fluffy Marky.

SpongeBob As Told By(2020)

The cast of SpongeBob is asked to tell the story of iconic episodes as best as they can. SpongeBob cast members recount episodes and clips from the original show, and IRL Puppet reenactments embrace all of the nautical nonsense SpongeBob has to offer!

Thunderbirds(1965-1966)

3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Thunderbirds is a 1960s British science-fiction television series which was produced using a mixed method of marionette puppetry and scale-model special effects termed "Supermarionation". The series is set in the 21st century and follows the exploits of International Rescue, a secret organization formed to save people in mortal danger with the help of technologically advanced land, sea, air and space vehicles and equipment, launched from a hidden base on Tracy Island in the South Pacific Ocean.

Puppet History(2020-)

30min per episode | Comedy
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

"The Professor," an expert accredited by Puppet U, hosts a ruthless competition for the title of History Master, quizzing contestants on subjects from history.

The Puzzle Place(1995)

29min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles, California and Lancit Media in New York City, New York. It premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service on January 16, 1995, and ran for about four years, airing its final episode on December 4, 1998. Reruns were continued until March 31, 2000. The show followed a multi-ethnic group of kids from different parts of the United States who hung out at "the Puzzle Place", which is a teen hangout themed around jigsaw puzzle pieces. In each episode the characters were confronted with an everyday conflict usually encountered in childhood and even early teenagerdom, such as making moral decisions, sharing, racism, sexism, etc.

Interster(1982-1986)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A South African Supermarionation children's television show about an undercover planetary defence agency operating from Cape Town under the guise of an interstellar shipping company. The show mirrored the real world political issues of international isolation facing Apartheid South Africa with the Earth being depicted as a galactic pariah of the "Interplanetary League" due to its cold war with the planet "Krokon". The villain in the series was depicted by Prince Karnati or his evil henchmen.

Spitting Image(1984-)

30min per episode | Comedy

Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.

Bo Bear(2017-2019)

5min per episode | Kids & Family, Drama

Children face a new situations that could sound difficult or challenging but with the help of Bo Bear, it becomes a life learning lesson! The puppet will guide them in their daily adventures with a lot of imagination, fantasy, kindliness and above all complicity. Each child becomes the heroes of its own life!

Sooty(2011-2018)

11min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

The fifth incarnation of 'The Sooty Show' sees Richard, Sooty, Sweep and Soo start a new job as handymen at a seaside holiday park.

With Sooty

Cousin Skeeter(1998-2001)

TV-Y
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

With the help of his strange cousin Skeeter, Bobby learns life lessons and tackles the ups and downs of growing up.

Pryor's Place(1984)

25min per episode | Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Pryor's Place is an American children's television series that aired on CBS. The live-action series starred comedian Richard Pryor as himself.

Atomic Puppet(2016-2017)

TV-Y7
| 15min per episode | Animation, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Superhero Captain Atomic suffers a setback as he is shaking hands with Joey, a 12-year-old fan, when his disgruntled sidekick transforms him into a powerless puppet. The suddenly not-so-super superhero quickly realizes that the only way he can regain his former powers is to team up with the boy -- which is a dream come true for Joey but not so much for Captain Atomic. Together, the two form an unlikely and awkward partnership that allows them to become the city's newest superhero duo--known as Atomic Puppet.

The Shiny Show(2002)

22min per episode | Kids & Family
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Shiny Show is a pre-school children's quiz show, broadcast by CBeebies. Each show featured a quiz with six questions, based around different subjects, and featured three star characters: Tigs the Tiger, Mukka the Monkey and Dogsby the Dog.

With Sue Monroe
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