Series synopsis
Peep and the Big Wide World is a Canadian animation kids television series that premiered on Discovery Kids on April 12, 2004. It ended on October 14, 2011. It was created by Kaj Pindal. It stars Jamie Watson, Joan Cusack, Maxwell Uretsky and Amanda Soha.
Peep is a newly hatched chicken who goes on daily adventures with his friends Chirp the robin and Quack the duck. The pals live a large urban park they call "the big wide world" and is the setting for all their lessons. Peep learns specific science concepts on his travels, while the series also incorporates real kids playing and experimenting in their own big wide worlds.
Premise
Peep is a newly hatched chicken who goes on daily adventures with his friends Chirp the robin and Quack the duck. The pals live a large urban park they call "the big wide world" and is the setting for all their lessons. Peep learns specific science concepts on his travels, while the series also incorporates real kids playing and experimenting in their own big wide worlds.
Premise: Hatching new scientists every day!
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Jamie Watson as Quack (voice)
- Joan Cusack as Narrator (voice)
- Maxwell Uretsky as Peep (voice)
- Amanda Soha as Chirp (voice)
- Shawn Molko as Peep (voice)
- Scott Beaudin as Peep (voice)
Guest cast
- Diana Peressini as Bee (voice)
- Alex Hood as Tom (voice)
- David Huband as Blue Jay #1 (voice)
- Marium Carvell as Nellie (voice)
- Colin Fox as Newton (voice)
- Adrian Truss as Skunk (voice)
- Jeff Lumby as Raccoon (voice)
- Corinne Conley as Hoot (voice)
- Jayne Eastwood as Rabbit (voice)
- Peter Wildman as Squirrel (voice)
- Tessa Marshall as Beaver Boy (voice)
- Philip Williams as Beaver Dad (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 5 seasons with 120 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 52 | April 12, 2004 | September 22, 2004 |
| Season 2 | 26 | November 14, 2005 | September 29, 2006 |
| Season 3 | 20 | April 16, 2007 | September 14, 2007 |
| Season 4 | 12 | November 17, 2009 | November 24, 2009 |
| Season 5 | 10 | October 10, 2011 | October 14, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Duck's Tale After meeting a skunk for the very first time, Quack discovers a surprising flaw in duck design. |
April 12, 2004 |
| 2 |
Quack's Tracks On the first snowy day of winter, Peep loses Quack, learns about footprints, and builds a snow duck. |
April 13, 2004 |
| 3 |
Spring Thing It’s winter, it’s blah, and everything looks dead. Can Peep, Quack, and Chirp survive until spring? |
April 12, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Finders Keepers Quack finds a PERFECT slice of bread. Should he listen to his duck wisdom, which is telling him to save it for a rainy day? |
November 14, 2005 |
| 2 |
Quack Quiets the Universe Another sleepless night for Quack. Why can't everyone be QUIET and let a poor duck get some rest?! |
November 14, 2005 |
| 3 |
Peep's Moon Mission Peep, Quack and Chirp argue over whether the moon is perfectly round or more like a half-eaten peach. |
November 15, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Sounds of Silence Part 1 Quack is in a bit of a pickle; he's decided not to talk until Chirp begs him to. (That could take a longgggggggg time!) |
April 16, 2007 |
| 2 |
The Sounds of Silence Part 2 Now it's Chirp who's in a pickle. She's stranded in a puddle and only Quack can save her. |
April 16, 2007 |
| 3 |
The Tooth, The Tooth and Nothing But the Tooth Poor Beaver Boy. He's lost a tooth! (Can you still be a Beaver with only one tooth?) |
April 17, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
An Inconvenient Tooth Part 1 Beaver Boy needs some wood to gnaw. (He’s got growing teeth!) Problem is, he’s cutting down too many trees. The solution? Grow some new trees! |
November 17, 2009 |
| 2 |
An Inconvenient Tooth Part 2 Beaver Boy discovers that growing trees is hard. (Not to mention slowwwwww.) Can he find some other way to make his teeth happy? |
November 17, 2009 |
| 3 |
Trading Places Peep falls asleep one lazy afternoon and dreams that he’s a butterfly, Chirp’s a duck, Newton’s a squirrel and Quack’s a turtle. Guess who’s not happy with this arrangement? |
November 18, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Two's a Crowd Part 1 An exotic new bird arrives at Peep's can. She's green and red and yellow and has a pouf on her head! |
October 10, 2011 |
| 2 |
Two's a Crowd Part 2 Splendid Bird from Paradise (yes, that's what she's named herself), has a new home but it's not protected from the snow. |
October 10, 2011 |
| 3 |
The Road Not Taken Part 1 Peep is late arriving at Chirp's bush. Turns out he took a VERY long route to get there. |
October 11, 2011 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Discovery Kids |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 12, 2004 |
| Last aired | October 14, 2011 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 08:00:00 |