Wonder Pets!

*Wonder Pets!*
Wonder Pets!
Also known as	Wonder Pets: In The City (season 4)
Genre	Animated series; Preschool; Adventure; Educational; Musical;
Created by	Josh Selig
Written by	Billy Aronson; Billy Lopez; Chris Nee; Sascha Paladino; Adam Peltzman; Josh Selig; Melinda Richards; Jennifer Oxley;
Directed by	Jennifer Oxley
Voices of	Sofie Zamchick; Teala Dunn; Danica Lee; Victoria Scola-Giampapa; Christopher Sean Cooper Jr.; Vanessa Huszár;
Theme music composer	Larry Hochman
Opening theme	"The Wonder Pets!"
Ending theme	"The Wonder Pets!" (instrumental)
Composers	Larry Hochman; Jeffrey Lesser; Billy Lopez; Bobby Lopez;
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	Shorts: 2; Full-length episodes: 75; (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Josh Selig
Producer	Tone Thyne
Editors	Romeo Alaeff; Susie Herang
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Little Airplane Productions (seasons 1–3); Snowflake Films NYC (season 4); Kavaleer Productions (season 4); Nickelodeon Animation Studio; (credited as Nick Jr. Productions for seasons 1–2)
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon (2006–2011); Nick Jr. Channel (2009–2016);
Release	March 3, 2006 –; October 17, 2016
Network	Apple TV+
Release	December 13, 2024 –; present

Wonder Pets! is an American animated musical children's television series produced by Little Airplane Productions. The series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck, and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to help animals in need. Most of the characters' dialogue is sung in the style of a sung-through musical. Each episode is set to original music by a 10-member live orchestra.

Josh Selig and Jennifer Oxley developed the idea for Wonder Pets! while working on their previous show, Oobi. The series started out with two animated shorts called "Linny the Guinea Pig", which acted as pilot episodes. To animate them, Oxley created a style of animation called "photo-puppetry" that uses photos of real objects and moves them using Adobe After Effects. The shorts featured Linny going on adventures set to classical music. In 2003, Little Airplane screened the shorts at the wrap party for Oobi's second season. The shorts caught the attention of Nickelodeon, who picked up the shorts to air in between shows on the Nick Jr. block.

The two original shorts were aired throughout 2003 and 2004. For the full-length series, the characters of Tuck and Ming-Ming were added to form a team of hero pets. Tuck was created using photos of Jennifer Oxley's own pet turtle (a red-eared slider). The first long-form episode debuted on March 3, 2006, as part of the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon. On that same day, the series started airing on Noggin as well. It ran for three seasons and 62 episodes. The final episode aired on October 17, 2016. The first two seasons and majority of season 3 aired on Nickelodeon, while the last 9 episodes only aired on the separate Nick Jr. Channel.

A reboot series titled Wonder Pets: In The City, was released on Apple TV+ on December 13, 2024. The series, produced without the involvement of Selig or Little Airplane (due to the latter being shut down by parent company Studio 100 in 2023), centers on a new team of Wonder Pets and takes place in New York City. Much like the original series, the revival is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio.