The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
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Genre Animated series
Preschool
Musical
Educational
Comedy
Adventure
Based on The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Directed byTony Collingwood
Voices of Martin Short
Jacob Ewaniuk
Deandray Hamilton
Alexa Torrington
Halle Nunes
Robert Tinkler
Theme music composerDavid Schweitzer
Opening theme"The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!" sung by the cast
Ending theme"The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!" (instrumental)
ComposersDavid Schweitzer
Harold Beckett ("Traveling Song" only)
Country of originCanada
United Kingdom
United States [1]
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes80 (160 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersLisa Olfman
Joy Rosen
Tony Collingwood
ProducersJulie Stall
Helen Stroud
Running time30 minutes
Production company
Original release
Network Treehouse TV
Kids' CBC (Canada)
PBS Kids (United States)
ReleaseSeptember 6, 2010 (2010-09-06) 
October 14, 2018 (2018-10-14)
Related

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!is a Flash-animated musical preschool television series featuring Martin Short as the voice of The Cat in the Hat, that premiered on Treehouse TV in Canada on August 7, 2010, also airing on YTV in Canada on weekday mornings from 2012 to 2013, [2] and on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Preschool in the US on September 6, 2010. It also aired on CITV and Tiny Pop in the UK, and Disney Junior in India. [3] The show is based on Random House's Beginner Books franchise and The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, [4] itself based on the 1957 children's book The Cat in the Hat .

Contents

The show was produced by Portfolio Entertainment, Random House Children Entertainment, and Collingwood O'Hare Productions, in conjunction with KQED, PBS, Treehouse TV, and Kids' CBC. [5] The first season has 40 half-hour episodes and ended on September 17, 2012. [6]

In early 2012, the show was renewed a second season of 20 episodes, which premiered on September 10, 2012. In September 2015, the series was canceled after two seasons.

A year later, the show resumed production. In September 2016, the show was renewed nine months later for a third and final season with 20 episodes. The third season premiered on March 2, 2018. [7] In September 2018, the show was canceled again, ending after three seasons, and the series finale aired on October 14, 2018.

Premise

In the show, The Cat in the Hat leads neighbors Nick and Sally (and sometimes the Fish and Thing One and Thing Two) on a variety of adventures in his "Thinga-ma-jigger".

Researcher Natalie Jones stated that the "Thinga-ma-jigger" is a Seussian contraption that can sprout wings, fly, pontoons, booster rockets, change size and do just about anything else necessary to further the adventure (and accompanied by a rock tune composed by Harold Beckett under the title of "Traveling Song" that appears in each episode), being prompted by a question posed by either Nick or Sally at the beginning of each episode, [5] that in turn inevitably leads them around the world to make natural science discoveries. [6]

Like other PBS Kids-produced shows (such as Curious George and Sid the Science Kid ), the show focuses on introducing preschoolers to various science and learning concepts.

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1 40September 6, 2010 (2010-09-06)September 17, 2012 (2012-09-17)
2 20September 10, 2012 (2012-09-10)June 23, 2015 (2015-06-23)
3 20March 2, 2018 (2018-03-02)October 14, 2018 (2018-10-14)
Specials 5November 21, 2012 (2012-11-21)December 26, 2016 (2016-12-26)

Characters

Main

Supporting

Home media

NCircle Entertainment released DVDs from October 25, 2010 to June 27, 2016, each being in region 1, subtitled in English and Spanish, approximately 60 minutes (with the exception of a few, in Dolby Digital, in 5.1 surround and Dolby surround stereo in Spanish); each has the bonus segments from the show.

Awards

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