Peep and the Big Wide World

***Peep and the Big Wide World*** is an animated children's series created by Canadian animator Kaj Pindal. It was produced by WGBH Boston and 9 Story Media Group in association with TVOntario and Discovery Kids. It ran its first three seasons on TLC and Discovery Kids as a part of their Ready Set Learn! block from April 12, 2004 to September 14, 2007, until the network was relaunched as The Hub in 2010.

Afterwards, an additional two seasons were produced to revive the series and aired on PBS Kids from January 13, 2010 to October 14, 2011.

## Overview

The series follows the lives of Peep, Chirp and Quack, who investigate and explore the world around them. Each episode is limited to two nine-minute episodes; in-between are two-minute live-action segments with children exploring and demonstrating the same topic presented in the animated segments.

## Cast and characters

### Main

* Scott Beaudin as Peep, a male yellow chicken who is very curious, and the youngest bird in the group.
* Amanda Soha as Chirp, a female red robin who is also curious and frequently attempts to fly, with unsatisfying results. She does briefly fly in "A Daring Duck".
* Jamie Watson as Quack, a male blue-purple duckling who wears a sailor's hat. He is the oldest of the trio and often boasts about himself and ducks as a whole, and unwittingly makes many discoveries. The episode "An Inconveniencing Tooth, Part 1" reveals that he has a hoarding issue.
* Joan Cusack as The Narrator, who tells the episode's story. Although the characters rarely have any interaction with her, the birds did have a short one in "Dry Duck, Part 1" and in "Quack Quiets the Universe" she interacts very well with Quack.

### Minor

* Robert Tinkler as Ant, a worker ant who appears in some episodes
* Tessa Marshall as Beaver Boy, a young naïve male beaver who lives in a pond adjoining to Quack's. He has a desire to please his parents, which often results in him chewing down too many trees. He calls Quack "Sailor Boy", Peep "Yellow Guy", and Chirp "Red Round".
* Debra McGrath as Beaver Mom, Beaver Boy's workaholic mother.
* Philip Williams as Beaver Dad, Beaver Boy's businesslike father
* Catherine Disher as Dragonfly, a quiet dragonfly
* Fish: Cohabitants of Quack's pond
* Frog: a frog who lives in Quack's pond, and rarely talks
* Corrine Conley as Hoot, a menacing but kind purple female owl who lives in the Deep Dark Woods
* Marium Carvell as Nellie, a red female dog who acts as a seemingly maternal figure to the birds
* Colin Fox as Newton, an old, male green turtle who lives under an apple tree
* Megan Mullaly as Quack #2, an annoying pink female duck who has her own pond which the birds and Beaver Boy built for her
* Jayne Eastwood as Rabbit, an excitable but somewhat distracted rabbit
* Holly Hunter as Robin, an adult robin
* Adrian Truss as Skunk, a rather deadpan skunk who lives near Quack's pond
* Ron Rubin as Bat, a shy bat
* Kathleen Lasky as Squeak, an anxious, pink female mouse who lives under a brick and always worries about what could go wrong
* Alex Hood and Matthew Knight as Tom, a sly, male blue and black kitten who often tries to eat Peep, Chirp and Quack. He is the sole antagonist
* Jeff Lumby as Raccoon, a male raccoon
* David Hudson as Blue Jays, a pair of silly blue and white birds who love to cause trouble when they see stuff

## Episodes

Main article: *List of Peep and the Big Wide World episodes*

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### Awards and nominations

 2006
 2007
 2008

## External links

*Peep and the Big Wide World* official YouTube channel