The Backyardigans

The Backyardigans
Created by	Janice Burgess
Original work	The Backyardigans (TV Pilots)
Owner	Nickelodeon Group (ViacomCBS)
Years	1998 (pilots only) 2004-2013 (franchise only)
Print publications
Magazine(s)	Nick Jr. Family Magazine
Films and television
Television series	The Backyardigans (television series)
Television special(s)	The Backyardigans: Mission to Mars The Backyardigans: International Super Spy The Backyardigans: Tale of the Mighty Knights The Backyardigans: Robot Rampage
Games
Video game(s)	The Backyardigans: Mission to Mars The Backyardigans (2009)
Audio
Original music	Evan Lurie Douglas Wieselman
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)	The Backyardigans (fisher-Price) The Backyardigans Beanie Babies (Ty)
Official website
Website	Official website

This page is about the franchise. For the tv series adaption of the franchise, see The Backyardigans (television series).

The Backyardigans is a CGI-animated musical television franchise created by Janice Burgess only for the Nickelodeon Group. The's franchise' television adaption was written and recorded at Nickelodeon Animation Studio. The series' first previewed on the Canadian network Treehouse TV with the episode "Pirate Treasure" on September 11, 2004. Its official debut on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block followed on October 11, 2004. The fourth season wrapped production in 2010 and finished airing on Nick Jr. on July 12, 2013.

The series was based upon a live-action pilot called Me and My Friends, which was filmed in 1998 at Nickelodeon Studios Florida. During the course of the series, 80 episodes of The Backyardigans aired over 4 seasons. The episodes are listed below as ordered in the complete series collection on iTunes, DVD releases, and other digital services.

Television Media

TV Pilots

:Main article: The Backyardigans (TV Pilots)

Unlike any other nickelodeon tv pilots, the series has two pilots as the debut of the series:

First in September 1998, A live-action pilot with full-body puppets called "Me and My friends", filmed at Nickelodeon Studios Florida in 1998. In this pilot, Uniqua, Pablo, Tyrone, and Tasha sing songs and explore the backyard while marking their discoveries with colorful flags.

Now for the second and last in 2001, A computer-animated pilot called ""Nick Digital pilot" was created at Nick Digital. In this pilot, Uniqua, Pablo, and Tyrone dance in the backyard and come across a mud pit, which they imagine is quicksand.

TV Series

Main article: The Backyardigans (television series)

After finishing two pilots of the tv show, the team decided to start a role in 2004 as a full-planned CGI-animated musical TV series. After finishing two pilots of the tv show, the team decided to start a role in 2004 as a full-planned CGI-animated musical TV series. Lately in 2013, the series ended and concluded as a way finished airing on the Nick Jr. block for sure.

TV Specials

During the series' run, the three of the 46-minute-long television film specials appeared season-to-season year by year:

Title	Songs	Directed by	Written by	Original release
The Backyardigans: International Super Spy	"International Super Spy", "The Lady in Pink" (with Cyndi Lauper), "Good and Bad Don't Mix" and "A Recipe for Disaster".	Mike Shiell	Robert Scull	September 17, 2007
Pablo is a smooth international agent who is hired by Miss "T" (Tasha) to protect three containers from the evil Lady in Pink (Uniqua) and her sidekick, Henchman Tyrone. Austin is an undercover agent, who helps Pablo throughout his missions. The song "The Lady in Pink" features an elaborate 007-style music video and pop singer Cyndi Lauper. After Pablo manages to obtain the three secret containers, the Lady in Pink and Henchman Tyrone trick him into handing them over. However, they discover that the canisters contain the ingredients needed to make chocolate milk.
The Backyardigans: Tale of the Mighty Knights	"We're Knights (That's Right)", "A Challenge", "Goblin", "Tweedily-Dee", "Dragon Mountain", "I'm Not An Egg Anymore" (with Audioslave)	Dave Palmer	Adam Peltzman	January 14, 2008
Knights Uniqua and Tyrone are appointed to guard King Pablo’s egg. They chase it through the woods and meet the Grabbing Goblin (Austin), who attempts to steal the egg and add it to his collection of junk. This episode uses an alternate opening in the style of 1970s rock. Knight Uniqua, Sir Tyrone, and the Grabbing Goblin encounter the Flighty Fairy (Tasha) after losing King Pablo's egg. The egg, which has sprouted wings, leads them to the dreaded Dragon Mountain. The final song is performed by Audioslave.
The Backyardigans: Robot Rampage	"Robots Never Ever Break", "Robot on a Rampage", "Professor Bug", "Screw Loose", "I Get Whatever I Want", "Like a Robot" and "Give Me the Remote".	Dave Palmer	Janice Burgess	May 21, 2010
Austin and Robot Roscoe run a repair shop in the futuristic Mega City, where robots perform daily tasks and never break down. When the robots belonging to Uniqua, Tyrone, and Tasha malfunction, Austin and Roscoe must find out what is causing the problem. Professor Bug (Pablo) is revealed to be making all of the robots in Mega City malfunction so that he can take over. It is up to Austin, his repair skills, and the help of his friends to defeat the steampunk professor and fix the robots.

Personnel

The Backyardigans

• Jamia Simone Nash as Uniqua – vocals, percussion
• Sean Curley as Pablo – vocals
• Leon G. Thomas III as Tyrone – vocals
• Thomas Sharkey as Austin – vocals, percussion, keyboards
• Kristin Klabunde as Tasha – vocals, percussion
• Gabriella Malek as Jordan – vocals, percussion

Musicians

• Evan Lurie – music conductor
• Guy Walker, Dennis Gallo, Billy Chapman, Dean Parks, Tim Pierce, Dann Huff, Michael Thompson, Esbjörn Öhrwall, Ruben Ruiz – guitars
• John Robinson, Ricky Lawson, Jonathan Moffett, William "Bubba" Bryant, Steve Jordan, Russell Kunkel – drums
• Tommy Smith, David Foster, Dennis Gallo, Evan Lurie, John Barnes, Marc Shapiro, Ruben Ruiz, Mindi Abair, Paul Howards – keyboards
• David Hungate, Louis Vigilante, Nathan East, Leland Sklar, Terry Jackson, Taylor Hale, Thomas Lindberg – bass
• Paulinho da Costa, Bashiri Johnson, Anthony Lewis, Mindi Abair, Paul Howards, Taylor Ogdens – percussion
• Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Chris Botti, Lee Loughane – trumpets
• Lil' Joe, Bill Reichenbach Jr., James Pankow – trombone
• Douglas Wieselman, John Lurie, Kirk Sanborn, Ray Herrmann, Ian Anderson, Dave Koz, Mindi Abair, Paul Howards – woodwinds
• Don Brooks, Taylor Ogdens, Arnold Petre – harmonica
• The Bimbettes, The Muses, The Manhattan Transfer, Cole Caplan, Taylor Ogdens, Justin Evanston-Burton, Stuart Landrell, Kristen Bone, Kyle Fairlie, Vivien Endicott-Douglass, Leah Cudmore – backing vocals
• Cyndi Lauper – vocals on "The Lady in Pink"
• Alicia Keys – vocals and keyboards on "Almost Everything Is Boinga Here"
• Adam Pascal – lead vocals on "I'm Not an Egg Anymore"
• Tom Morello – guitar on "I'm Not an Egg Anymore"
• Tim Commerford – bass on "I'm Not an Egg Anymore"
• Brad Wilk – drums on "I'm Not an Egg Anymore"

Related media

Live events

The Backyardigans was adapted into several stage shows. These included 2008's "Tale of the Mighty Knights" and 2010's "Storytime Live!" (an event featuring other Nick Jr. characters from Dora the Explorer, Wonder Pets!, and Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, as well as hosts Moose and Zee). In Canada, separate live shows called "Quest for the Extra Ordinary Aliens" (2008) and "Sea Deep in Adventure" (2009) were created.

Merchandise

Activision released a The Backyardigans PC game, "Mission to Mars," in October 2006. Also, there are interactive Backyardigans games available for the LeapPad and VTech's V.Smile consoles. There is also a LeapFrogClickStart game titled "Number Pie Samurai," teaching children the necessary computer skills.

From 2005 to 2007, Kohl's had a section devoted to the series' merchandise, including a clothing line and toys exclusively in-store.

Over one hundred storybooks (both original stories and episode-based) were released throughout the series' run. Most of these were released in both Canada and the United States; however, a 2006 series of educational books were exclusively sold in Canada under the license of Treehouse TV.

Fisher-Price produced numerous plush toys and interactive character toys (mostly Uniqua, Pablo, and Tyrone). There are also Beanie Babies of all the main characters available.

External links

• The Backyardigans wiki

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Media Films: TV Shows: The Backyardigans Books: Albums: The Backyardigans • Eye Spy • Groove to the Music • Riding the Range • The Secret of Snow • Get On Your Feet • Horizontal and Vertical • Born to Play • The Campout • Surf's Up • Black or Blue? • Home • Beautiful Days • Eureka! • Scared of You • Your Majesty • Boom Boom Pop • Break Out! • Train Bandits • Whodunit? • Jewel of the Aisle • Picture Perfect • Chichen-Itza Pizza • Happy Love Day • Who Goes There? • Time Out • The Big Dipper Diner • The Mane Event • A Backyardigans Christmas • Secret Agents • Lookout! • What's Bugging You? • Dreams Come True • If We Bring Together • I'll Be Home For Christmas Singles: Other songs: Characters Current: Uniqua • Pablo • Tyrone • Austin • Jordan • Tasha Former: Special guests: Episodes Season One: Season Two: Season Three: Season Four: Songs Season One: "A Pirate Says Arr" • "A Scurvy Pirate" • "Treasure" • "Falling Off a Log" • "I'm Tarzan" • "Where in the World Do the Wormans Live?" • "Into the Thick of It!" • "It's Drizzling, It's Pouring" • "Yeti Stomp!" • "Keep On Snow Going" • "Row Your Boat" • "There's No Such Thing as a Yeti" • "I'm a Mountie" • "Ski Patrol to the Rescue" • "Snowball Duty" • "Who Could It Be?" • "Secret Agent" • "Sneaking and Hiding" • "The Treasures of Ancient Egypt" • "Laser Limbo Tango (Limbo Rock)" • "It's Great to Be a Ghost" • "What's So Scary 'Bout That?" • "Hide and Go Boo" • "When I'm Booin'" • "Riding the Range" • "There's an Echo in This Canyon" • "Texas, Here I Come" • "Buffalo Girls & Boys" • "I Love Being a Princess" • "Three Presents for the Sphinx" • "I Want My River Back" • "Please and Thank You" • "Queens are Never Wrong" • "A Message, A Message" • "P.U.! (Stinky Swamp Song)" • "The Ballad of the Brave Pink Knight (Hey, Uniqua)" • "If You Wanna Be a Viking" • "Extra, Extra Tough" • "Hold Tight" • "Rockabilly Lullaby (Hush Little Mermaid)" • "Castaways" • "Shy Guy" • "Hut by the Sea" • "Who's There?" • "Super Heroes vs. Super Villains" • "Key to the World" • "The Sea of Gobbly Goo" • "You and Me to the Rescue" • "Flying Rock Song" • "Questing, Questing" • "Shake Your Body" • "Trudge, Trudge, Trudge" • "Dancin' the Worman Polka" • "Got to Love the Clarinet" • "Feeding Time" • "Oh, My Sherman" • "Surf's Up (Ho Daddy)" • "Cruisin' the Dunes" • "Rad Moves" • "Mystery Lifeguard" • "Diggin' for Gold" • "Those Bones" • "Eureka!" • "One Good Turn Deserves Another" • "Racing Day" • "Go, Go, Go!" • "Snow is Cold, But I Am Cool" • "Austin's Lament" • "I'm a Soccer Monster" • "The Rules" • "Hide and Seek" • "Gotta Get The Job Done" • "Three Cheers for Ugh!" • "Drumming Song" • "Skate Ahead" • "The Hokey Pokey" • "Perfect Cup of Tea" • "Zip, Zip, Zip From Tree to Tree" • "The Grumpy Emperor" • "The Galloping Song" Season Two: "We're Going to Mars" • "Ready for Anything" • "Astronauts Never Give Up" • "Almost Everything Is Boinga" (featuring Alicia Keys) • "Samurai Pie" • "Do You Wanna Make Pies?" • "The Great Pie" • "Ninjas Like Pie Too" • "I Got a Secret" • "Scared of You" • "Hurry Home" • "Monster Dance Party" • "Aha!" • "Mysterious, Very Mysterious" • "Phantom Footsteps" • "Whodunit?" • "We Love a Luau" • "We'll Get You What You Want" • "Huka Pele" • "We're Glad" • "I Love Snow/We Love Snow" • "Fill It Up With Ice" • "Make the Ice" • "The Secret of Snow" • "The Totally Awesome Swamp Adventure" • "He's Green" • "The Customer Is Always Right" • "An Awesomely Bad Time" • "The Horse-Ridin' Cry" • "When I Win" • "Betcha I Can" • "Keep Goin' Along" • "We Are the Do-Gooders" • "I Never Fail to Deliver the Mail" • "Gotta Gas It Up" • "Special Delivery" • "International Super Spy" • "Lady in Pink" (with Cyndi Lauper) • "Good and Bad Don't Mix" • "A Recipe for Disaster" • "I Am the Sultan" • "Movers of Arabia" • "I Wish" • "The Genie Bottle" • "Can't Stop the Cops" • "Bad Bots" • "Steer, Baby, Steer" • "I Feel Good" • "Sinbad the Sailor" • "Siren Says" • "Gotta Dodge" • "Do It Myself" • "Best Clowns in Town" • "That's Not Funny" • "The Show Must Go On" • "At the Circus" • "Save the Day" • "I'll Catch a Whopper" • "Nothing Too Tough" • "Uh-Oh!" • "Into the Deep" • "Call of the Mermaid" • "Our Garden" • "You've Gotta Be Brave" • "W-I-O-Wa" • "Corn" • "News Flash" • "It's All News to Us" • "The Gilded Golden Butterfly" • "We're Tough" • "How Hard Can It Be?" • "The Butterfly Hunt" • "Nobody's Bigger Than a Giant" • "It's Hard to Be a Wizard" • "I Know a Spell" • "On Top of the World" Season Three: "Who Goes There?" • "Tired of Hanging Around" • "The Art is on the Loose" • "The Splatter Paint Flamenco" • "The Sheriff Makes It Right" • "Ping-Pong" • "I Must Be Ready" • "No One Gets to Play Today" • "Intergalactic 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a Good Time to Whistle" • "I Gotta Get to Work" • "We'll Work for Pancakes" • "Zoid-Zoid!" • "Oh, My!" • "Everything is Filthy in Filthingham" • "We Wish We Could Wash" • "Robin Hood the Clean" • "The Festival of Soap" • "Newspaper, Newspaper!" • "You're in Fairytale Village" • "Gotta Dash" • "Why Does Everyone Want to Eat Me?" • "To Pirate Camp!" • "You Gotta Have Pirattitude" • "Scalawag" • "Redboots" • "It's Great to Be a Musketeer" • "Number Three" • "We Don't Care for the Empress" • "In the Name of the Empress" • "The Masked Retriever" • "I Love the Library" • "I'm Going to Get That Book Back" • "A Happy Ending" Season Four: "I'm a Robot Repairman" • "Robot on a Rampage" • "I Am Professor Bug" • "Screw Loose" • "I Get Whatever I Want" • "Like a Robot" • "Give Me the Remote" • "Yes Sir, I Am the Engineer" • "We've Got to Catch That Train!" • "Don't Sleepwalk on the Train" • "It Was a Really Good Choo-Choo Ride" • "A Major Breakthrough" • "Mix It Up" • "Where'd It Go?" • "That Worman Must Shrink" • "Dragon Express" • "Fancy Flying" • "Dragon Jock" • "Woo-Hoo!" • "Things Are Always Rosy" • "Superhero Practice" • "Me and My Shadows" • "This Is My Song" • "The Boo Crew" • "Find Me" • "Catch That Boogeyman" • "Giant Shoes" • "Watch Her Fly" • "Follow the Feather" • "Things Could Always Be Worse" • "She Won't Fly" • "Break Out!" • "You Can't Get Out of Here" • "Dance for Your Life" • "The Chase Is On" • "Action Elves" • "Magic Sack" • "Snowball Fight" • "To Fill the Sack for Santa" • "Los Galacticos" • "We Love Goo" • "Pushing Every Button" • "Earth Es Muy Bueno" • "Socks, Wonderful Socks" • "That's My Job, That's My Job" • "A Life Without Socks Is Not a Life for Me" • "Gotta Get the Pencil" • "Today Could Be the Day" • "Where Is Meteor?" • "Don't Flip Out" • "The Meteor Watchers' Celebration" • "We Are Delivery Agents" • "Havin' an Elephant as a Pet" • "Elephant, Where Could You Be?" • "Right Where She Belongs" • "The Show-Off Showdown" • "Get a Little Better" • "I Found the Magic Skateboard" • "May the Best Dude Win" • "Acorns" • "The Crystal of Power" • "Hold My Hand" • "I'd Rather Be an Acorn" • "I'm a Tour Guide" • "I'm a Superhero" • "Superheroes for Goodness' Sake" • "Super Team Awesome!" • "The Big Dipper Diner" • "Two Eggs Moony-Side Up" • "Something Suspicious Going On" • "Stop That Alien!" • "The High Dive" • "The Sextuple Somersault Splash" • "Let's Go" • "You'd Make a Great Splashini" • "A Wonderful Day for Tea" • "We're Not Knights" • "We're Stuck in a Cave" • "Mini-Muffins For Major Heroes" • "The Star-Spangled Banner" Other songs: "I Want You Back" • "We've Got It Goin' On" • "Everything I Own" • "Get on Your Feet" • "The New Kid" • "Show and Tell" • "Desperate For a Dog" • "I'd Do Anything" • "How Does a Moment Last Forever" • "Shape of My Heart" • "I Drive Myself Crazy" • "Walking on the Moon" • "Tumble Bumble" • "Gonna Stay in the Bathtub ('Till the Soap Disappears)" • "Barking At the Moon" • "Early in the Morning" • "Without You" • "Sailing" • "Downtown Train" • "I Can't Hear My Parents Call" • "Bedtime Business" • "Smile" • "Take a Bow" • "Always in My Heart" (with Céline Dion) • "Lucky" • "Up the Stairs" • "Cover Yourselves with Soot" • "With A Wink and a Smile" • "You're a Star" • "Rush" • "At the End of the Day" Locations Objects Live Shows See Also

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