Nature Cat (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; early 2010s)
Prototype logos for the series which the third one was allegedly used for the pilot.
Status: Lost
Nature Cat is an educational animated series that been airing on PBS Kids since 2015. The series takes place in Chicago, Illinois with a house cat name Fred who, when his owner leaves for work, changes into Nature Cat and explores the great outdoors from his backyard with his friends while helping kids develop a better understanding of nature.
Pilot
In 2009 Spiffy Pictures originally pitch the show to PBS with various hand drawn sketches,[1] when the network approved, they then created a pilot to help get the show greenlit. The pilot was allegedly made sometime in the early 2010s and shown to a test audience of preschoolers.
No footage from the pilot had resurfaced, the only concrete evidences of it's existence comes from a WTTW article mentioning the pilot that feature Nature Cat and two other characters Hal and Ronald along with two images taken from said pilot.[2] While some production art taken from an issue of Animation Magazine had surfaced, no other information on this pilot is available as of 2021.
Gallery
Images
Image from the pilot (1/2).
Image from the pilot (2/2).
Production Art/Sketches
One of the sketches that was made to pitch the show.
See Also
Bumpers
- PBS Kids (partially lost schedule bumpers and interstitial material of children's channel block; 1999-present)
- Bookworm Bunch (partially found interstitials from PBS Kids channel block; 2000-2001)
- Someday School (partially found PBS Kids channel block; 1998-2000)
PBS
- Reading Rainbow (found Johnny Kemp opening sequence for PBS children's television series; 1999)
- Storytime (found PBS children's reading series; 1992-1998)
- Zoom (partially found revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1999-2005)
- Zoom (partially found pilot of revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1997)
- Lamb Chop's Play-Along (partially lost PBS children's puppet series; 1992)
- The Puzzle Place (partially found PBS puppet series; 1994-1998)
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Mister Rogers Talks About Conflict" (found episode arc of PBS children's educational series; 1983)
- Christmastime with Mister Rogers (lost holiday TV special; 1977)
- Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Auld Lang Gone" (non-existent episode of PBS children's game show; 1992)
PBS Kids
- Cyberchase: The Poddleville Case (found pilot of PBS Kids animated educational series; 1999)
- Dragon Tales "One Small Step for Cassie" and "Circle of Friends" (lost pilots of PBS Kids animated series; 1999)
- The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (partially lost PBS Kids "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" spin-off series; 1998-1999)
- Space Race (partially found PBS Kids web series; 2011)
- Kratts' Creatures (found PBS children's educational series; 1996)
- The Good Night Show with Nina & Star (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2006-2017)
- The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2005-2006)
- Preschool Musical... On a Stick (partially lost PBS Kids Sprout "High School Musical" parody; 2008)
- WordWorld (lost 2D/live-action test pilot of PBS Kids CGI animated educational series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
- Curious George (lost test pilot of PBS Kids animated series based on books; existence unconfirmed; 2004/2005)
- What's The Big Idea? (lost original pilot of "Sid The Science Kid" PBS Kids CGI animated series; 2007)
External Links
References
- ↑ Chicago Tribune article on Nature Cat and it's development. Retrieved 07 Dec '21
- ↑ WTTW article that mentions the show's pilot. Retrieved 07 Dec '21