Dragon Tales

"With our dragon friends, anything is great!".

-Jack and Joanna (catchphrase)

Dragon Tales is a children's Saturday morning Canadian/American series based off the books written by Sharon and Daniel Murphy. It originally premiered on PBS on September 10, 1994 and ended on March 8, 1997, with 104 episodes and three seasons.

The origin of Dragon Tales was created by the children's television graphic Michelle Kosinski when she was working in the Institute of Art building in Portland, Oregon. She had created the fictional world called Dragon Land, where the main characters, sister and brother Jack and Joanna, would visit every day to play with their dragon friends. Jack is 4, and Joanna is 6. They live in a house together in the real world with their parents, and whenever they want to go to Dragon Land, in their bedroom only, they have a magical bucket-like gemstone big enough to put their hands in, and they both say, "I wish, I wish, with all my heart, to fly with dragons in a land apart." At this time, colorful and magical dragons appear from their bedroom walls and spin around the two in a whimsical whirl, thus taking them to Dragon Land. Inside Dragon Land, Jack and Joanna have four colorful dragon friends named Otto, Cassie, Zack and Earl. Together, they all have great adventures together, discovering new things, and solving everyday problems. Whenever it is time to leave Dragon Land, both Jack and Joanna say, "I wish, I wish, to use this rhyme, to go back home, until next time." And then, magical swirls magically transfer the two back to their house, back in their bedroom. Outside of the United States, this show can be seen on Canadian channel TVO, and British channel Clan. In the United States, this was brodcasted on PBS as part of the Saturday Bunch programming block on September 10, 1994, and reruns then aired on their weekday block until early 2000. The last episode was aired on March 8, 1997. Fox Kids carried the show onto their Saturday morning block from 1997 to 1998. Reruns then aired on Discovery Kids as part of their Ready to Learn block from 2004 to 2006, then it moved on to The Hub (now Discovery Family) from 2006 to 2008. On Qubo, it was aired from January 18, 2010 to February 12, 2012, and on its own Saturday morning block in 2011 only.

Original run on Qubo: January 18, 2010 - Feburary 12, 2012

E/I: Yes

Status: No longer airing

Notes:

This was the only live action series to air on PBS.

A revamped series was aired on Netflix titled Dragon Tales: Back Again. It aired on April 14, 2017, and ended on September 29, 2017, with two seasons with thirteen episodes each.