S01E01 Runaway O
Bear and Sheep snoop around a box delivered to Cat and break it! The letters B-O-X scatter, sending the WordFriends on a crazy chase to catch the runaway letter O before Cat wakes up. Build...
WordWorld
Overview
WordWorld is an Emmy Award-winning children's television series partially funded by the United States Department of Education as part of the Ready to Learn literacy initiative targeted to 3- to 7-year olds. The show airs in 10 languages and 90 countries, including in the United States. The television series, created by Don Moody and Jacqueline Moody, stars Dog and his WordFriends. In each episode, Dog and/or one of his friends embarks on a series of adventures where the only way to save the day is to build or un-build words. The show's novelty is that when a word is built correctly, it morphs into the thing it represents, which gives instant meaning to the word. WordWorld has been translated into popular mobile applications, Internet-based games, magnetic plush and other toys.
WordWorld currently airs in 90 countries and 10 languages. It premiered September 3, 2007 on PBS Kids and is currently in its third season, with 84 11-minute episodes. WordWorld currently broadcasts on PBS Kids it is produced for WTTW Chicago.
Episodes
S01E02 Happy Birthday Dog!
It’s Dog’s birthday! His friends are planning a surprise party for him, but they don’t have a cake! With a little help from Pig, Frog gathers the letters C-A-K-E…but can he get them to the...
S01E03 There's an Ant in Every Giant
Ant is tired of being the smallest WordFriend in WordWorld! He always has to avoid being stepped on, and playing basketball is a big challenge. Ant thinks he can solve his problem by adding a...
S01E04 Chef Sheep
During his "cooking show," Chef Pig gets a pot stuck on his face while eating ice cream out of it! Now there is no pot to cook in and no chef to do the cooking!...
S01E05 Rocket to the Moon
Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket he needs big, uppercase letters. But when he gets stranded on the moon with the Little Piggies, he learns that lowercase letters are just as...
S01E06 The Birds
Sheep, Bear and Frog go out bird watching and get more than they bargained for: They find an egg! Sheep does her zany best to care for the "energetic" egg until the baby bird is...
S01E07 Mystery of the Disappearing Pie
The pie Pig baked for Bear is missing! But have no fear…Detective Sheep is ready to help her WordFriends follow the letter clues and solve the mystery of the disappearing pie! Build a Word: BEAR
S01E08 Duck's Family Reunion
Because they have similar-sounding names, Duck mistakes a truck for a long-lost relative! His best friend Frog is a bit ruffled at the epidemic of silliness going around, but ends up saving the day for...
S01E09 Sh Sh Shark
Shark is misunderstood. Everyone is afraid of him and won’t even give him a chance to prove he’s friendly. Everyone but Duck, that is, who doesn’t know that the letters S and H together make...
S01E10 Dog Wants to Play Ball
Dog wants to play ball, but he’s having trouble communicating with his friends. Pig, Sheep and Frog each think Dog wants to do what they want to do. When Bear actually takes the time to...
S01E11 Pies, Pies, Pies!
When Pig promises to make a pie for everyone in WordWorld, he learns a hard lesson about keeping promises and sharing. Fortunately, Pig also learns about the letter S and how it can turn "pie"...
S01E12 Waterlogged
Frog and Pig’s friendship is put to the test when Frog moves in with Pig after his log sinks. After some silly mishaps, Pig and Frog finally come to an understanding – about how important...
S01E13 Dogs Camping Adventure
Dog is so excited! Pig and Frog are taking him on his first camping trip! While Pig and Frog are supposed to be the brave camping "experts," it is Dog who overcomes his fear and...
S01E14 V is for Vacation
The weather is turning colder, and Duck is ready for his yearly vacation (migration). He’s not sure, however, how to go. When Bird tells him he just needs to "find the 'V,'" Duck doesn’t realize...
S01E15 Snug as a Bug
Bug can’t sleep, and until he does, his favorite neighbor Frog can’t sleep either! Bug knows he has to be "snug as a bug in a..." but he can’t remember the rest of the rhyme....
S01E16 Nightlight
Bear won’t go to sleep. Try as her friends might to lull her off to sleep, Bear stubbornly refuses to turn off all her lights and go to bed. It’s not until they venture out...
S01E17 Duck's First Sleepover Party
Duck attends his first sleep-over party but he’s nervous about not sleeping in his nest for the first time. After a long night of fun games his friends calm his anxiety by building him a...
S01E18 One Hat Fits All
Sheep, while practicing her magic act, loses her magicians top hat (it's quite blustery in Word World today). The hat wends all around Word World, visiting Pig, Bear and Duck, breaking into its letters each...
S01E19 Dancing Dog
It’s the day of the Word World Concert and no one is more excited than Dog – he loves music. Unfortunately, he can’t play an instrument. With the help of his good friend Bear, Dog...
S01E20 Pig's Big Moonlight Feast
When Pig is too sick to cook the Moonlight Feast, his friends step in, but they find that if you don’t follow the recipe you may end up "in the soup." Build A Word: CAKE
S01E21 Boppin' with the Bug Band
Ant is having a band showcase on his radio show and while Bug, Fly and Bee have some really good music, they need a lot of help with their lyrics. Frog teaches the Bug Band...
S01E22 Shuffleword
When Pig and Ant get into an argument while playing Shuffleword, Pig storms off with the consonants and Ant storms off with the vowels but they soon realize that not only do they need each...
S01E23 W Drought
It’s a hot summer day and all the WordFriends are using water to stay cool. But all the letter Ws start to disappear, and you can’t have "water" without the letter W! Sheep leads the...
S01E24 Princess Sheep
Bear and Sheep want to play princess, but they only have one crown. Although Sheep promises to take turns wearing the crown and being princess, she gets royally carried away playing her role. It is...
S01E25 Radio Read-a-Thon
Duck asks Frog to read his favorite book on Ant’s radio station because he can’t read it himself. But when Frog’s tongue gets tangled in knots, Duck realizes that he doesn’t need to know how...
S01E26 Robots to the Rescue!
When Frog discovers that you can make a word "more than one" by adding the letter S to the end of it, he becomes a mad scientist of sorts, making more and more of everything!...
S01E27 Pl-Pl-Plane!
Frog and the Bug Band are headed to have some fun on the beach, but not everything goes as Frog had planned. Frog loses the letters “PL” from his plane and must search through the...
S01E28 Mail Mix Up
Duck offers to help Kangaroo deliver letters to his WordFriends, but he forgets Kangaroo’s instructions and delivers the wrong letters to everyone. Duck discovers that there sure are a lot of words that end with...
S01E29 Pig's Present
When a mysterious rocket lands in Word World, Duck pledges to help a robot track down a very important clock. He searches all over Word World, listening for the special sound that will lead the...
S01E30 Tick Tock Space Clock
When a mysterious rocket lands in Word World, Duck pledges to help a robot track down a very important clock. He searches all over Word World, listening for the special sound that will lead the...
S01E31 Castles in the Sea
While playing in the sand on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle! But why, oh why, does it disappear every night while Shark is sleeping? When the...
S01E32 Get Your Coat
Duck thinks Frog doesn’t want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog’s boat. But the real reason is that Frog doesn’t like the rain. Duck learns all about words that end with...
S01E33 Superhero Sheep
Sheep becomes Word World’s first superhero, saving the day with the letter "S"! Duck is eager to be her trusty sidekick, but Sheep repeatedly points out that "superheroes don't need help." But Sheep learns that...
S01E34 Pirate Ship
While playing on the beach, Sheep, Duck and Shark find a message in a bottle. It's one of several rhyming clues that will lead them to a special treasure! Like hearty pirates, the trio follows...
S01E35 Playing Spies
When Sheep and Duck think that Dog has a secret, they decide to play "spy" to figure out the mystery. As they secretly watch Dog, they discover he wants to build a word with the...
S01E36 Wee Little Whale
Sheep rescues a tiny whale who is stuck in some seaweed and brings her home to her haystack. They quickly become best of friends. But as Whale gets bigger and bigger, outgrowing Sheep’s tea cups,...
S01E37 The Race to Mystery Island
Pig and Frog are trying to out-do each other. Their competition results in a big race to Mystery Island. While each WordFriend builds himself several words to thwart his competitor along the way, Pig and...
S01E38 A Star Is Born
Duck gets a case of stage fright while singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" for all his WordFriends. Instead of singing the word "star," Duck freezes and blurts out the first thing he sees. With a...
S01E39 Back On Track
While looking through his telescope, Frog notices that Kangaroo’s mail train is headed straight for a broken track! He has to rely on BEAR and her tiny new tricycle to get him there to fix...
S01E40 The Rainbow Birthday Cake
It is Frog’s birthday, and Duck wants to make him a big, beautiful birthday cake frosted in the colors of the rainbow. Such a cake requires lots of cans of frosting, and Duck learns he...
S01E41 Bit By Bit
It is Monkey’s birthday, and a sick Frog entrusts Duck and Bug to take his present—a banana—to Monkey’s birthday party for him. In their enthusiasm to get to the party, Duck and Bug accidentally break...
S01E42 Ride 'em Cowbear
Pig, Dog and Duck are playing cowboys. Bear wants to join them, but gets frustrated when she learns she’s not very good at rope tricks. Dog went let her sulk, though, and after much practice...
S01E43 Play Ball
The WordFriends play an exciting game of baseball, but Robot has never played before. With some practice, and a lot of encouragement from his WordFriends, Robot learns the game and turns into a slugging machine!
S01E44 M is for Map
After a fun day of adventuring through the jungle, Sheep and Bear discover they are lost---and it’s almost dark! In their haste to get home before sunset, the WordFriends lose the letters to their map....
S01E45 Flying Ant
Duck encourages Shark, who is a great underwater dancer, to dance in his show. When Shark comes up on land to practice, he flops all over the stage like a…well, a fish out of water....
S01E46 The Dancing Duck Bonanza
Duck encourages Shark, who is a great underwater dancer, to dance in his show. When Shark comes up on land to practice, he flops all over the stage like a…well, a fish out of water....
S01E47 Lost Letter L
When Duck accidentally breaks the L off Frog's lamp, he decides not to tell Frog. Instead, he'll just fix it himself. Although Bug and Dog try to help, things spiral out of control, and soon...
S01E48 Catch That C
While Pig and Ant are making cookies, their bag of letter Cs gets away from them, sending the WordFriends on a wild goose chase all over WordWorld to catch that C! The bad news is...
S01E49 The Christmas Star
It’s the night before Christmas and Frog needs a star to hang on his Christmas tree. Duck thinks this will be the perfect present for Frog, and tries to lasso one out of the sky...
S01E50 A Christmas Present for Dog
It’s Christmas morning, and all the WordFriends are excited by the presents Santa has brought for them! Pig has a sled, Bear has a doll, and Ant has a cookie. But not all the letters...
S01E51 A Kooky Spooky Halloween
The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he’s a ghost!
S01E52 Sheep's Halloween Costume
It’s Halloween—Sheep’s favorite day of the year. Sheep likes nothing more than to dress up, so she always goes out of her way to make herself a special costume. But what will she do when...
Cast
Veronica Taylor
Marc Thompson
