On This Day - The Backyardigans Premiered

 On this day, 16 YEARS AGO, The Backyardigans premiered on the Nickelodeon channels in the USA and on Treehouse TV in Canada. This series originally from the Great White North follows the adventures of five animal friends Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha and Austin (Zack Taylor Eiser, Reginald Davis, LeShawn Tinah Jefferies, Naelae Rae and Jonah Bobo respectively) as they use their backyard playground to go to various locations across the globe with each episode containing four songs of a different genre and being centered around a different international location.

The episode locations and genres for the songs featured on the episodes was different in every adventure. The show managed to feature like almost EVERY single location and music genre/style you can think of. A lau with Italian folk music, they've go it. A butterfly chase set to Giacchino Rossini from Baby Einstein, its in there. Wymoing cowboys polka, Arctic James Brown funk, Italian pizza college fight songs, Jamaican pirates, Gilbert and Sullivan jungle expeditions, they crammed it all in there!

The series originally ran for four seasons and 80 episodes between 2004 and 2010. However due to copyright reasons, Nick Jr. channel wasnt able to air the remaining episodes until 2013. There have been discussions and rumors on a debate of the show getting a reboot because of the success of the 2019 Blue's Clues one and allthough I think it would be cool, as of right now nothing has been confirmed.

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The Backyardigans is a Nelvana Limited Canada production for Nickelodeon USA.