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Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Season 1
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Title: Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman

Overview: Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, sometimes shortened as Fetch!, is a children's television series for children ages 6–12 on PBS during the PBS Kids Go! block of educational programming. It is a game show/reality show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May 29, 2006 to November 4, 2010 on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. In June 2010, WGBH announced that the series would end due to lack of funding. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.

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Average Vote: 7.8 (10 votes)

Cast

  • Ruff Ruffman: Jim Conroy
  • Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - 3-2-1 Blast Off! (Season 1 - Episode 1)

    While Ruff Ruffman scrambles to get ready for the first episode, Anna, Julia, and Khalil go on a hunt for all nine planets in a scale model of the Solar System scattered throughout the "lovely city of Boston". Taylor, Noah, and Brian stay in Studio G (Ruff's garage).

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Good Dancing and Bad Teeth (Season 1 - Episode 2)

    Ruff Ruffman sends Julia and Khalil to learn how to dance the waltz, while Anna and Brian investigate whether dog mouths are cleaner than human mouths. Noah and Taylor stay behind.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - How To Get Out Your Inner Hip Hop (Season 1 - Episode 3)

    Anna learns hip hop dance, and Noah, Khalil, and Julia cook for zoo animals. Taylor and Brian stay behind.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Cats? I Thought You Said Kites! (Season 1 - Episode 4)

    Noah and Brian built a kite to deliver a dog biscuit, and Taylor and Anna attempt to teach cats to fetch. Julia and Khalil stay behind.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Ye Olde Colonial Episode (Season 1 - Episode 5)

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Saturday Night With A Slight Fever (Season 1 - Episode 6)

    Taylor, Brian, and Noah are required to make a music video with some easily-recognizable stars - their grandparents- while staying under a budget. Anna, Julia, and Khalil stay behind at Studio G.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - To Bee or Not to Bee (Season 1 - Episode 7)

    Ruff gets stuck in a bee costume when filming an advertisement for FETCH!. Brian and Khalil learn to be beekeepers, while Julia and Anna learn to windsurf. Taylor and Noah stay in Studio G.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - B.L.T. For Breakfast? (Season 1 - Episode 8)

    Ruff must sell his new beverage. Brian braves a day as a short-order cook in a local diner, while Taylor, Khalil, and Noah design a new ice-cream flavor with ingredients that start with the letters B, L, and T. Anna and Julia stay at the Studio.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - The Mystery of the Missing Thing in the Haunted Castle (Season 1 - Episode 9)

    Ruff forces the kids to retrieve a lost invention in the castle of inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - This Old... Lemonade Stand (Season 1 - Episode 10)

    Ruff accidentally reduces the show's budget to 13¢. Norm Abram, one of the hosts of This Old House, another program on PBS, teaches Anna and Noah to build a lemonade stand. Anna and Noah must also test thermal insulation to sell lemonade as a fundraiser. Meanwhile, the rest stay in Studio G and help bail Ruff out with his financial problems.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - It's Raining Cats and Dogs (Season 1 - Episode 11)

    Ruff is confused when a weather forecast predicts clear skies, but there is thunder. Taylor learns to forecast the weather, conduct interviews, and give a live weather report in front of a greenscreen. The boys paint a mural in Jamaica Plain for the mayor of Boston. Julia and Anna stay at Studio G once more.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - That Doesn't Float My Boat (Season 1 - Episode 12)

    Ruff Ruffman floods the doghouse when trying to relax. Julia, Anna, and Khalil build a boat out of recycled trash, test it out and race in it. Taylor, Noah, and Brian stay behind.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Send in the Clowns (Season 1 - Episode 13)

    It is revealed that Ruff wanted to be a clown, but was cheated out by Spot Spotnik (see character list). Julia, Taylor, Noah, and Anna build water balloon launchers for revenge. Brian spends the day with Circus Smirkus and learns how to be a clown. Khalil stays behind, alone.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Grandma Ruffman's Recipe for Success (Season 1 - Episode 14)

    Under Grandma Ruffman's marketing advice, Khalil learns to be a stand-up comedian, and Taylor, Noah, and Brian cook Grandma Ruffman's recipes on a farm to learn about energy transfers in a New England food chain. Julia and Anna stay at Studio G.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Tryin' Chef (Season 1 - Episode 15)

    Ruff is tired of his food. Taylor, Brian, Julia, and Khalil compete against each other as chefs - Iron Chef style to cook up new recipes for Ruff. Noah and Anna are left behind again, but help bail Ruff out.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Don't Put the Kart Before the Sea Lion (Season 1 - Episode 16)

    Ruff is training for an interactive driving test monitored by the DMV, but crashes into a sea lion tank. Taylor trains sea lions; Julia helps in a pit crew for a junior go-karter. Anna, Khalil, Noah, and Brian stay behind.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Relaxin' with Ruff (Season 1 - Episode 17)

    Ruff decides to calm down from the stresses of running a show. The kids learn to relax with yoga and to calculate heart rate (pulses in 15 sec * 4). Next, they mathematically measure their "fear factor" at Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park in New Hampshire.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Scat Cat, Scat (Season 1 - Episode 18)

    A cat steals Ruff's kneeboard. Noah learns to kneeboard. The girls track down wild animals using various clues, especially scat. Khalil and Brian stay in the studio.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - Ruff Ruffman Spaces Out (Season 1 - Episode 19)

    The FETCHers go to space camp when the FETCH satellite breaks down.

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - The Dogcathalon Finale (Season 1 - Episode 20)

    Three rounds of competition and one ultimate quiz will pit the FETCHers against each other. At last Anna was crowned FETCH! seasonal champion.

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