Blue's Clues
| Blue's Clues | |
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| Created by |
Traci Paige Johnson Todd Kessler Angela Santomero |
| Presented by |
Steve Burns (1996–2002) Donovan Patton (2002–2006) Kevin Duala (United Kingdom) Duarte Gomes (Portugal) |
| Opening theme | Blue's Clues Theme (1996-2002) It's Another Blue's Clues Day (2002-2004) |
| Ending theme | So Long Song (1996-2003) The Goodbye Song (2004) |
| Composer(s) | Nick Balaban Michael Rubin Bernard Devlin (associate composer) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 143 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Todd Kessler Traci Paige Johnson Angela Santomero |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Out of the Blue Enterprises Nick Jr. Productions Nick Digital |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nickelodeon |
| Original release | September 8, 1996 – August 6, 2006 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Blue's Room |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Blue's Clues is an American children's television series that premiered on Nickelodeon in 1996. Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their viewers learn. It was hosted originally by Steve Burns, who left in 2002 and was replaced by Donovan Patton. The show follows an animated blue-spotted dog named Blue as she leaves a treasure hunt for the host and the viewers. Blue's Clues became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was critical to Nickelodeon's growth. It has been called "one of the most successful, critically acclaimed, and ground-breaking preschool television series of all time." A spin-off called Blue's Room premiered in 2004.
The show's producers and creators presented material in a narrative format instead of the more traditional magazine format, used repetition to reinforce its curriculum, and structured every episode the same way. They used research about child development and young children's viewing habits that had been conducted in the thirty years since the debut of Sesame Street in the U.S. and revolutionized the genre by inviting their viewers' involvement. Research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show and was integrated into all aspects and stages of the creative process. Blue's Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers and resembles a storybook in its use of primary colors and its simple construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colors and textures. Its home-based setting is familiar to American children but has a look, unlike other children's TV shows. A live production of Blue's Clues, which used many of the production innovations developed by the show's creators, toured the U.S. starting in 1999. As of 2002, over 2 million people had attended over 1,000 performances.
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