The Backyardigans is a Children's TV series, created by Janice Burgess and animated using Computer-generated imagery, showed on Nick Jr.. Debuting in 2004 it currently has 20 episodes.

The Stories

The show is focused on five friends, who play together every afternoon on their backyard. Using their imagination, they "transform" the backyard into completely different worlds, where they have many adventures. Such adventures range from finding the secret of river Nile to discovering uncharted lands as Vikings. The show is a musical, and each episode has about four or five songs, some of them being parodies of well known traditional tunes. A different genre is featured in every episode, ranging from R&B and Jazz to Tango and Reggae.

Characters

• Pablo (Mike D. Crowell), an 11 year old blue penguin;
• Uniqua (P'Ashe "Uniqua" Jones), an 8 year old girl who's the only kid of her species in the world;
• Tasha (Mallory J. Boyce, though sometimes this character is voiced by Ciara E. Perez), the 14 year old yellow hippo;
• Austin (Trevor Bouchonville), the 5 year old kangaroo;
• Tyrone (Reginald Davis Jr) , the moose.

Episodes

Pirate Treasure

• Songs:
  • A Pirate Says ARRR
  • Scurvy Pirate (tune: What do you do with a Drunken Sailor)
  • Treasure
  • Falling Off a Log

Catchprase: Arr!

Genre: Reggae

The Heart of the Jungle

• Songs:
  • I'm Tarzan
  • Hey Sherman
  • Into the Thick of It
  • Drizzling (tune: I'm Called Little Buttercup)

Catchphrase: Tarzan Yell

Genre: Gilbert & Sullivan Opretta

The Yeti

• Songs:
  • Yeti Stomp
  • Keep On
  • Row your Boat
  • No Such Thing

Catchphrase: Stomp, stomp, stomp

Genre: R&B

The Snow Fort

• Songs:
  • Mounties on Duty tune, She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes
  • Ski Patrol
  • Snowball Duty
  • Who Could it Be?

Catchphrases: Mounties on duty & Ski patrol to the rescue

Genre: Country

Secret Mission

• Songs:
  • Secret Agent
  • Sneakin' Around
  • Na Na Na Na Na, Ancient Egypt
  • Limbo Tango (tune Limbo Rock)

Catchphrase: Doodoodoo

Genre: A sneaky tango

It's Great to Be a Ghost

• Songs:
  • How to be a Ghost
  • What's So Scary
  • Hide and Go Boo
  • I'm Deciding

Catchphrase: Boo

Genre: Cab Calloway jazz

Ridin' The Range

• Songs:
  • Ridin' the Range
  • Echo
  • Texas Here We Come
  • Buffalo Gals

Catchphrase: YAHOO!!!!

Genre: Hip Hop

Viking Voyage

• Songs:
  • Viking Song
  • Mermaid Song, tune The Yellow Rose of Texas
  • Hold Tight
  • Mermaid Lullaby

Catchphrase: YAH!!!

Genre: Rockabilly

The Quest for the Flying Rock

• Songs:
  • The Flying Rock Song tune: Hail, hail the gang's all here
  • Questing Questing
  • Shake Your Body
  • Trudge Trudge

Catchphrase: Float, flutter. fly

Genre: Disco

Surf's Up

• Songs:
  • Surf's Up(Ho Daddy)
  • The Rad Rad Rad Rad Moves
  • Dune Buggy
  • Mystery Lifeguard, tune (Guantanamera)

Catchphrase: Hodaddy!!!!

Genre: Afro-pop

Superheroes VS Supervillains

• Songs:
  • Superheroes, Supervillians
  • Key To The World (tune Three Blind Mice)
  • The Ooey Gooey River
  • It's You and Me To The Rescue

Catchphrases: Wahahaha!! & To the rescue!!!

Genre: Mexican Salsa

Monster Detectives

Detective Tasha and Uniqua travel to the castle of the soccer monster (Pablo) to retrieve her soccer ball.

• Songs:
  • The Rules Song
  • I am The Soccer Monster
  • Hide and Seek
  • Get the Job Done

Genre: Beach boys style

Eureka!

• Songs:
  • Those Bones (tune: Dry Bones )
  • The Prospecter Song
  • Eureka
  • The Helping Song

Genre: African township jive

Castaways

• Songs:
  • Castaways
  • Who's There
  • Shy Guy
  • Hut By The Sea (tune :By the Beautiful Sea )

Catchphrase: Ahoy there

Genre: Bossa Nova and other Brazil genres

High Tea

Austin wants to climb mountains, Pablo wants to race, Uniqua wants to tell jokes. They let Tasha decide what they will do. Tasha wants to have a tea party. But to have a tea party, you need the *perfect* cup of tea...

• Songs:
  • Zip Zip Zip From Tree To Tree

Genre: Irish

Polka Palace Party

• Songs:
  • Feedin' Time
  • Gotta Love the Clarinet
  • Worman Polka
  • River Raft Song, which is sung to the song Oh my darling clementine

Catchprase: Yip yip yip

Genre: Polka, naturally

Cave People

• Songs;
  • The Hokey Pokey
  • Drumming Song
  • Skate Ahead
  • 3 Cheers for UGH!!!(also the catchphrase)

Genre: Calypso