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Lyla in the Loop
S01 E01 Story A

Lyla in the Loop

Find Mom's Phone

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recommended age Unlock co-watching from 2

Lila and her family are on a camping trip when Mom's phone, holding all their hiking photos, goes missing. Lila leads Mom back along the trail, using landmarks they passed, rock towers, a eucalyptus tree, ribbons, a log bench and giant mushrooms, to retrace their steps. She finds the phone on the rock where the family had lunch, and they hurry back to camp before dark. The episode ends around a sunset campfire with the family singing a camping song.

Molly of Denali
S03 E08 Story A

Molly of Denali

Puppy Sitting

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recommended age Unlock co-watching from 2

Trini agrees to look after Tooey's puppy Key while Tooey's family travels to Japan for a wedding, working from a training checklist Tooey made. At first she spoils Key with cheese and pizza crust and skips his runs, then realises her mistake and trains him hard for several days to get back on track. When Tooey returns, Key responds to his commands and Trini has even taught her own puppy Four Spots a new trick. The episode ends with a live-action visit to the tundra near Nome, where Molly and local children learn about musk ox and their qiviut fur.

Fancy Nancy
S01 E09

Fancy Nancy

Nancy's Devine Sleepover

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recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

Nancy takes her little sister JoJo for a sleepover at the fancy Mrs. Devine's house and packs a survival kit to help JoJo feel brave. Once the lights go out, it is Nancy herself who cannot sleep because she misses her parents. With Mrs. Devine's kindness and a phone call home, Nancy learns that feeling homesick in a new place is normal. She decides to stay and the sleepover ends happily.

Fancy Nancy
S01 E08

Fancy Nancy

Nancy Makes Her Mark

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recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

In a suburban front yard, Nancy's dad surprises the family by filling a crack in the walkway with wet cement. Nancy decides to press handprints into it to become memorable like movie stars, then keeps adding footprints and glitter, spoiling the cement each time, with help from her friend Bree and little sister JoJo. When the dog runs through it and ruins everything, Nancy confesses to her dad, who calmly helps patch and redo the prints. Mom comes home to a fixed walkway with the family's prints, and Nancy realises you do not have to be perfect to be remembered.

The Magic School Bus
S01 E07

The Magic School Bus

All Dried Up

Balanced
recommended age Unlock co-watching from 2

Ms. Frizzle's class builds a desert diorama and Phoebe becomes convinced the desert animals need rescuing from heat, hunger and thirst. The magic school bus flies them into a real desert, where they watch a lizard, jackrabbit, tortoise and other animals cope with the harsh conditions on their own. A sudden rainstorm floods the land and, by morning, the desert blooms, showing how everything there is adapted to survive. The episode closes with a phone call in which a caller quizzes the bus about desert facts and asks after Phoebe.

Fancy Nancy
S01 E03

Fancy Nancy

Tea Party Trouble

Balanced
recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

Nancy hosts a fancy tea party in her front yard with her friend Bree and borrows Grandma's heirloom teapot after promising to be careful. Her charm falls in, her hand gets stuck, and the pot ends up broken, so she tries to hide it and glue it back together. Meanwhile Dad and toddler sister JoJo work to set up a new big-girl bed in the same house. Nancy finally tells her mom the truth, and Mom reassures her that accidents happen and shares her own story of chipping the same teapot as a child.

The Magic School Bus
S01 E05

The Magic School Bus

Hops Home

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Wanda brings her pet bullfrog Bella to the classroom, but Bella hops out an open window during class. Miss Frizzle turns the search into a field trip on the Magic School Bus, which shrinks and hops the students through a meadow, a tree, a fast stream and finally a beaver pond, testing each spot for the food, water, space and shelter a frog needs. Wanda finds Bella safe at the pond, where a heron and a new frog friend named Herman make it clear this is her real home. Wanda decides to leave Bella there and say goodbye, and the class returns to school.

Dino Ranch
S01 E07

Dino Ranch

The Long Way Home

Balanced
recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

Jon and his fellow Dino Ranchers gather bubble plums in the forest to cheer up Biscuit, an old ranch dinosaur who is feeling unwell. On the way home, Jon insists on a shortcut that leaves the group lost and chased by a hungry Spinosaurus named Thunderfoot. They realise a hole in Min's bag has been dropping plums along the path, and they let their dinosaurs follow the scent trail back out. The ranchers reach home safely, deliver the plums to Biscuit, and Jon decides to stick to trails he knows.

Arthur
S13 E03

Arthur

Silent Treatment

Balanced
recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

George, a quiet moose in the town of Elwood City, becomes convinced his friends never notice him, so he decides to stop talking until someone does. A dream in which his dummy Wally shows a world where George never existed helps him realise he does matter. His friends, who had been secretly planning a surprise party, reveal that he won the woodworking contest, and the group ends up playing hide-n-seek together. Real children then share their own funny misunderstandings.

Gigantosaurus
S01 E02

Gigantosaurus

The Lost Egg

Balanced
recommended age Unlock co-watching from 4

Four young dinosaur friends find a lost egg with no nest during a game of tag in the jungle. Instead of leaving it, they carry it carefully and spend the day asking every creature they meet whether the egg is theirs, meeting a mammal, other dinosaurs and even the towering Giganto along the way. The reluctant Rocky slowly grows attached to the egg and becomes its protector. In the end the egg hatches into Tiny's own baby cousin, and the friends take the little one home.

Dino Ranch
S01 E02

Dino Ranch

Min's Quest

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recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

Min and her family of Dino Ranchers find a baby dinosaur whose mother is sick after eating the wrong plant. Min works out that the cure is moon lilies, and the children ride off to find them, facing a tar pit, a thieving compy, and nightfall along the way. After several failed tries, Min realises the flowers glow in moonlight and the kids gather enough to heal the mother dinosaur. Ma tells them she is proud that they never gave up.

Dino Ranch
S01 E05

Dino Ranch

Jane's Perfect Present

Balanced
recommended age Unlock co-watching from 3

On a prehistoric western ranch, the Cassidy children build a shiny gemstone mobile as a surprise birthday gift for their mother, Ma. They hunt for the perfect gemstone with help from Teddy the pterodactyl, but a wild pterodactyl snatches the finished gift and flies off, and their rescue attempts fail. At the party the kids admit they lost the present and apologize, and Ma hugs them and explains that spending time together was all she ever wanted. The episode ends with the family singing and dancing at her birthday celebration.

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