Wonder Pets! | |
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Genre | Animated series |
Created by | Josh Selig |
Developed by | Josh Selig |
Directed by | Jennifer Oxley |
Voices of |
Sofie Zamchick Teala Dunn Danica Lee |
Theme music composer | Salim-Sulaiman |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 42 (list of episodes) |
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Producer(s) | Viacom Media Networks |
Running time | 22 minutes |
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Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
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Original network | |
First shown in | May 2, 2005 |
Original release | May 2, 2005 | – January 27, 2012
Wonder Pets | |
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Soundtrack album by Wonder Pets | |
Released | April 10th, 2007 |
Genre | Children's |
Label | Nick Records |
Publisher(s) | 2K Play |
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Publication date | October 27, 2008 (US) April 3, 2009 (AUS) |
Genre(s) | Adventure |
System(s) | Nintendo DS, Wii |
Players | 1 |
Age range | 3+ |
Website | Official website |
Wonder Pets! is an American animated children's television series. It debuted May 2, 2005, on the Nick Jr. block of the Nickelodeon cable television network and Noggin (now Nick Jr.) on August 31, 2005. It briefly aired on CBS as part of its Nick Jr. on CBS block until September 9, 2005. It won an Emmy Award in 2008–10 and 2012 for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition in the United States.
The Wonder Pets! television series was created by Josh Selig for Little Airplane Productions. The show was first seen as a short Nick Jr.'s film series called Linny the Guinea Pig, in which a guinea pig named Linny traveled into space and under the ocean. Ming-Ming Duckling and Turtle Tuck were created when the show was expanded and called The Super Singing Power Pets!. The title was later shortened to Wonder Pets. The show's main characters are three elementary school classroom pets — Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck, and Ming-Ming Duckling. They are presented as a trio of heroes who rescue baby animals as they demonstrate the benefits of teamwork.
The animation style used to create Wonder Pets! is called "photo-puppetry", and was created for the series to allow animators to manipulate photographs of real animals. It also uses drawn objects (not characters), so the total presentation could be considered animated mixed-media.