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Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman

8.0 / 10

2006

5 seasons

100 episodes

KidsAnimation

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is a children's television series for children ages 6–12 on PBS during the PBS Kids Go! block of educational programming. It is a game show/reality show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010 on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. In June 2010, WGBH announced that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.

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Cast

Jim Conroy

Seasons

Ep 1
1.3-2-1 Blast Off!
29-05-200630m
While Ruff Ruffman scrambles to get ready for the first episode, Anna, Julia, and Khalil go on a hunt for all nine planets in a scale model of the Solar System scattered throughout...
Ep 2
2.Good Dancing and Bad Teeth
29-05-200630m
Ruff Ruffman sends Julia and Khalil to learn how to dance the waltz, while Anna and Brian investigate whether dog mouths are cleaner than human mouths. Noah and Taylor stay behind.
Ep 3
3.How To Get Out Your Inner Hip Hop
29-05-200630m
Anna learns hip hop dance, and Noah, Khalil, and Julia cook for zoo animals. Taylor and Brian stay behind.
Ep 4
4.Cats? I Thought You Said Kites!
TBA30m
Noah and Brian built a kite to deliver a dog biscuit, and Taylor and Anna attempt to teach cats to fetch. Julia and Khalil stay behind.
Ep 5
5.Ye Olde Colonial Episode
TBA30m
Ep 6
6.Saturday Night With A Slight Fever
TBA30m
Taylor, Brian, and Noah are required to make a music video with some easily-recognizable stars - their grandparents- while staying under a budget. Anna, Julia, and Khalil stay behi...
Ep 7
7.To Bee or Not to Bee
TBA30m
Ruff gets stuck in a bee costume when filming an advertisement for FETCH!. Brian and Khalil learn to be beekeepers, while Julia and Anna learn to windsurf. Taylor and Noah stay in...
Ep 8
8.B.L.T. For Breakfast?
TBA30m
Ruff must sell his new beverage. Brian braves a day as a short-order cook in a local diner, while Taylor, Khalil, and Noah design a new ice-cream flavor with ingredients that start...
Ep 9
9.The Mystery of the Missing Thing in the Haunted Castle
TBA30m
Ruff forces the kids to retrieve a lost invention in the castle of inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr.
Ep 10
10.This Old... Lemonade Stand
TBA30m
Ruff accidentally reduces the show's budget to 13¢. Norm Abram, one of the hosts of This Old House, another program on PBS, teaches Anna and Noah to build a lemonade stand. Anna an...
Ep 11
11.It's Raining Cats and Dogs
TBA30m
Ruff is confused when a weather forecast predicts clear skies, but there is thunder. Taylor learns to forecast the weather, conduct interviews, and give a live weather report in fr...
Ep 12
12.That Doesn't Float My Boat
TBA30m
Ruff Ruffman floods the doghouse when trying to relax. Julia, Anna, and Khalil build a boat out of recycled trash, test it out and race in it. Taylor, Noah, and Brian stay behind.
Ep 13
13.Send in the Clowns
TBA30m
It is revealed that Ruff wanted to be a clown, but was cheated out by Spot Spotnik (see character list). Julia, Taylor, Noah, and Anna build water balloon launchers for revenge. Br...
Ep 14
14.Grandma Ruffman's Recipe for Success
TBA30m
Under Grandma Ruffman's marketing advice, Khalil learns to be a stand-up comedian, and Taylor, Noah, and Brian cook Grandma Ruffman's recipes on a farm to learn about energy transf...
Ep 15
15.Tryin' Chef
TBA30m
Ruff is tired of his food. Taylor, Brian, Julia, and Khalil compete against each other as chefs - Iron Chef style to cook up new recipes for Ruff. Noah and Anna are left behind aga...
Ep 16
16.Don't Put the Kart Before the Sea Lion
TBA30m
Ruff is training for an interactive driving test monitored by the DMV, but crashes into a sea lion tank. Taylor trains sea lions; Julia helps in a pit crew for a junior go-karter....
Ep 17
17.Relaxin' with Ruff
TBA30m
Ruff decides to calm down from the stresses of running a show. The kids learn to relax with yoga and to calculate heart rate (pulses in 15 sec * 4). Next, they mathematically measu...
Ep 18
18.Scat Cat, Scat
TBA30m
A cat steals Ruff's kneeboard. Noah learns to kneeboard. The girls track down wild animals using various clues, especially scat. Khalil and Brian stay in the studio.
Ep 19
19.Ruff Ruffman Spaces Out
TBA30m
The FETCHers go to space camp when the FETCH satellite breaks down.
Ep 20
20.The Dogcathalon Finale
TBA30m
Three rounds of competition and one ultimate quiz will pit the FETCHers against each other. At last Anna was crowned FETCH! seasonal champion.

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