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| Arthur | |
| A CBBC Show | |
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| Genre | Cartoon |
| Country of origin | Canada USA |
| No. of Series | 24 |
| No. of Episodes | 249 |
| Run Time | 20–29 minutes |
| Network | PBS (US) CBBC (UK) |
| Duration | |
Arthur is a Canadian-American animated educational children's television program. It is based on a book series of the same name, created by Marc Brown in 1976. Brown himself, as well as some of his family, has been heavily involved in the show's production. The TV series debuted on October 7, 1996 on PBS, making it the longest-running animated children's television series as of 2022.
Arthur was the second longest-running American animated series after The Simpsons until 2023, when it was surpassed by South Park.
Plot[]
Arthur Read, the series' titular character, is an eight-year-old brown aardvark who lives in the fictional town of Elwood City. He is a third-grade student at Lakewood Elementary School. Arthur's family includes two home-working parents, his father David (a chef) and his mother Jane (an accountant), his two younger sisters, Dora Winifred (D.W.), who is in preschool, and Kate, who is still an infant, and his dog Pal. Arthur also has several friends who come from various ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, and he also occasionally meets with members of his extended family as well.
CBBC[]
Arthur made its debut on Tuesday the 8th April 1997[1] as part of the Children's BBC segment (Abbreviated as CBBC) on BBC One. In the early 2000's, the BBC made a dedicated CBBC channel where Arthur would air in conjunction with the segment on BBC One, lasting until the end of the Digital Switchover. After this, the show aired exclusively on the CBBC Channel where it remained.
For years, the show has maintained a consistent 07:00 slot on the network. This didn't prevent the show from rerunning at later times; on some days 2 episodes could be scheduled in a single day, sometimes even twice in a row.
The final airing of Arthur on CBBC was on October 31, 2022. It continues to be available on iPlayer for the time being.
Both Arthur and What's New, Scooby-Doo? have been the longest running US cartoons on CBBC with What's New, Scooby-Doo? airing on the network from 2003-2015 (with reruns later airing on CITV) and Arthur airing on the network from 1997-2022 (Before becoming exclusive to BBC iPlayer from late 2022 onwards).