Dragon Tales

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"I wish, I wish with all my heart, to fly with dragons in a land apart!"

―Max and Emmy wishing upon a dragon scale, transporting them to Dragon Land

Dragon Tales
Created by	Ron Rodecker Jim Coane
Starring	Andrea Libman Danny McKinnon Ty Olsson Chantal Strand Jason Micahs Kathleen Barr Eli Gabay
Seasons	3
Production company	Sesame Workshop Sony Pictures Television
Blocks aired on	Musical Mornings The Sunny Side Up Show The Let's Go Show The Sprout Sharing Show The Good Night Show Sprout Mornings
Run on Sprout	September 26, 2005 - August 30, 2010
See Also	Barney & Friends Sesame Street Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat Teletubbies

Dragon Tales is a American animated preschool fantasy adventure children's television series created by Jim Coane, the late Ron Rodecker, and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby, and Elana Lesser. The story focuses on the adventures of two normal children, Emmy and Max, and their dragon friends Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. Because both PBS and Sesame Workshop co-owned Sprout when the channel was launched, they aired a variety of shows from both their archive libraries on Sprout, including reruns of Dragon Tales.

Plot

"This animated fantasy adventure series features Emmy and Max, their bi-lingual neighbor Enrique, and the dragons they befriend in Dragon Land. The children and dragons help each other overcome obstacles and cope with fears through songs and games." (link)

For Parents

"Play a Spanish verb game! Introduce the words "¡Para!" ("Stop!"), ¡Corre! ("Run!"), ¡Baila! ("Dance!") and call them out to change your child's movement."

History on Sprout

The show was first shown on September 26th, 2005, along with several other shows, to celebrate the launch of the Sprout network. It aired at 7:30AM and 4PM, and at 6:30 and 8PM ET during The Good Night Show when Sprout launched, and later at 3:30PM ET when The Let's Go Show launched and at 9AM ET when The Sunny Side Up Show launched. The series also aired at 11:30AM ET on weekend mornings. In January, 2008, it was taken off of The Sunny Side Up Show and replaced by Fifi and the Flowertots. Additionally, it started to air at 9:37AM ET when The Let’s Go Show was moved to weekend mornings, while it continued to air at 3:30PM ET during The Sprout Sharing Show.

The series had a Sprout Diner snack, Dragon Tales' Tortilla Treat, which became unbranded once the show quit the network, and a Birthday Show activity, Dragon Tales' Egg-celent Dragon Craft.

It stopped airing on Sprout on August 30th, 2010, which was also the day it stopped airing on PBS stations, where it was replaced on their Preschool Block by The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That. After the show was pulled from Sprout, it was replaced by Monkey See Monkey Do, which had premiered earlier that month during Wiggly Waffle, on The Sharing Show and Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies and Angelina Ballerina on The Good Night Show. The former on the latter block was then replaced by Driver Dan's Story Train a few months later. It was additionally replaced by Chloe's Closet during The Let's Go Show, but it was only brief, as said block would dissolve only a few weeks after Dragon Tales was dropped from Sprout's lineup.

"Monday, August 30 will be Dragon Tales' last day on both Sprout and PBS Kids, as our licensing rights for this series have expired. Dragon Tales has been a very popular show on our channel over the years and we understand this change will be difficult for young viewers who are fans of the show. Dragon Tales is still available on DVD for those who wish to make the series a part of your pre-schooler's daily television viewing routine." (link)

Games

• Dragon Tales Dragon Badge

Characters

• Ord
• Zak and Wheezie
• Cassie
• Quetzal
• Max
• Emmy

Connections

• Brian Drummond voiced Mr. Murray and Jungle Jake.
• Susan Kim served as a writer for the series.

Notes

• A 1997 Variety article hints that the show was intended to be interactive, much like Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, and have a dragon character named Blaze as well as Max, who usually rode Ord.
• After the show ended, Ron Rodecker handed a drawing of his, depicting a boy and a dragon walking through a sunny valley, to a dying friend, who said he was fading into the picture.
• The show was going to air with a companion series for parents, "Show and Tell Me."
• When this show aired on Sprout, the fundings were featured at the beginning and at the end, similar to Sesame Workshop's other shows, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat and Sesame Street episodes such as 3806.
• Nina and her Sproutlet friends once did "Max and Emmy's School Stretch" on The Good Night Show. The segment aired in "School."
  • They also did Zak and Wheezie's Umbrella Stretch The segment aired in "Rainy Days."
    • Although the show stopped airing on Sprout in 2010, a video of the latter stretch remained up online for a while in 2013.
• On Sprout airings of the episode "Lights, Camera, Dragons," Max's line "Anything would be better than doing nothing on Emmy's stupid video!" was edited, hushing the word "stupid", because Sprout considers that to be close enough to a bad word.
• Visuals from "The Big Sleepover" appear in the show's Sprout Diner episode, a promo for Sprout's Special Valentine Delivery, and Max and Zak in Sprout's Snooze-a-Thon, and "To Kingdom Come" was used when Ord greets Nina and Star before the show starts.
• Before it shows the part where Max and Emmy go home in "A Liking to Biking," their wish to go home was removed, the screen faded to black and the credits began in the Sprout airings.
• Footage from the episode "Teamwork" was used in the 2006 Adam Sandler film Click.
• Dragon Tales was the first ever show to air on The Sunny Side Up Show, airing at 9AM ET, the day the block debuted.

Episodes

See Dragon Tales/List of Episodes

Gallery

See Dragon Tales/Gallery