Liberty's Kids | |
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Liberty's Kids title card
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Genre | Historical fiction |
Created by | Kevin O'Donnell Michael Maliani |
Developed by |
Andy Heyward Michael Maliani Kevin O'Donnell Robby London |
Written by | Doug McIntyre |
Directed by | Judy Reilly Marsha Goodman Einstein |
Voices of |
Kathleen Barr Reo Jones Chris Lundquist Kevin Williams Walter Cronkite |
Theme music composer | Matthew Gerrard |
Opening theme | "Through My Own Eyes" performed by Aaron Carter and Kayla Hinkle |
Ending theme | "Through My Own Eyes" performed by Aaron Carter and Kayla Hinkle |
Composer(s) | Stephen C. Marston Craig Marks |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Andy Heyward Michael Maliani Robby London |
Producer(s) | Kevin O'Donnell Kaaren Brown |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) |
DIC Entertainment Melusine Productions Hong Ying Universe Company, Ltd. |
Release | |
Original network | PBS (2002–2003) |
Original release | September 2, 2002 | – April 4, 2003
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Liberty's Kids is an animated educational historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS on their PBS Kids block from September 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, although some PBS stations continued to air reruns until August 2006. The show has since been syndicated by DiC to affiliates of smaller television networks such as The CW and MyNetworkTV and some independent stations so that those stations can fulfill FCC educational and informational requirements. Since September 16, 2006, the series aired on CBS's new block called KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS, then it was aired on KEWLopolis, which taking September 12, 2009. In 2008, it ran on The History Channel. The series aired on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and on CBS's Cookie Jar TV block from 2009 to 2013. In 2017, it played on the Starz Kids & Family channel.
The series was based on an idea by Kevin O'Donnell and developed for television by Kevin O'Donnell, Robby London, Mike Maliani, and Andy Heyward. It received two Daytime Emmy nominations, in 2003 and 2004, both for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program (Walter Cronkite, playing Benjamin Franklin). Its purpose is to teach its audience about the origins of the United States of America. Like the CBS cartoon mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown years before, Liberty's Kids tells of young people in dramas surrounding the major events in the Revolutionary War days.