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Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American series of three-minute animated educational musical shorts on ABC's Saturday morning schedule from 1973, created by ad executive David McCall with composer Bob Dorough, teaching multiplication, grammar, civics, science, and money; revived in the 1990s and streaming on Disney+.
Secret Squirrel
Secret Squirrel: Hanna-Barbera's 1965 spy-parody cartoon squirrel, Agent 000, voiced by Mel Blanc with sidekick Morocco Mole; NBC series 1965-1968, revived 1993 in 2 Stupid Dogs, source of CIA slang.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street is the American educational preschool TV series premiered in 1969 by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's Children's Television Workshop, known for its Muppets, research-verified school-readiness curriculum, international co-productions, and 2025 Netflix-PBS distribution deal.
Shape Island
Shape Island is a stop-motion animated Apple TV+ children's series (premiered January 20, 2023) based on Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen's Shapes picture book trilogy, following Square, Triangle, and Circle; season 2 premiered August 29, 2025.
Sherwood
Sherwood is a 2019 American animated science fiction series on YouTube Premium, a gender-flipped Robin Hood story set in flood-drowned 23rd-century London, starring Anya Chalotra and Joseph Fiennes.
Shimmer and Shine
Shimmer and Shine is a Nickelodeon animated preschool series (2015-2020) created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz about twin genies-in-training granting wishes for Leah; four seasons, 2D then CGI, set in Zahramay Falls.
Short Circuit (2020 TV series)
Short Circuit (Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Circuit Experimental Films) is a Disney+ anthology of animated shorts directed by studio staff; begun internally in 2016, it released 14 shorts January 24, 2020, five more August 4, 2021, and later films through 2026.
Sid the Science Kid
Sid the Science Kid is an American CGI-animated PBS KIDS preschool series (2008-2012) by The Jim Henson Company and KCET, teaching science readiness to ages 3-6 via the PrePS curriculum, inquiry skills, and its 60 episodes, movie, and merchandise.
Skillsville
Skillsville (formerly Mashopolis) is a Twin Cities PBS animated PBS KIDS series, premiered March 3, 2025, in which Cora, Dev, and Rae use avatars in a virtual city game to build executive function, self-regulation, and career skills for ages 4-8.
Snoopy in Space
Snoopy in Space (also Snoopy in Space: The Search for Life) is a WildBrain-produced Apple TV+ animated series of 24 shorts (2019, 2021) in which Snoopy trains as a NASA astronaut, tied to the 2018 NASA-Peanuts Space Act Agreement.
Sofia the First: Royal Magic
Sofia the First: Royal Magic is an American animated preschool series, a follow-up to Sofia the First, following Princess Sofia's magic studies at Charmswell School, premiering in 2026.
Space Ghost (TV series)
Space Ghost (TV series), also called Space Ghost and Dino Boy, a 1966-1968 Hanna-Barbera CBS Saturday-morning superhero cartoon created by Alex Toth, starring an interplanetary hero with teen sidekicks Jan, Jace, and Blip, later the basis of Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Space Racers
Space Racers is an American CGI-animated preschool TV series (2014–2018, three seasons) about spaceship cadets Eagle, Hawk, Robyn, Starling, and Raven at the Stardust Space Academy, produced with NASA scientific script approval.
SparkShorts
SparkShorts is Pixar Animation Studios' experimental short-film program, launched with Purl, Smash and Grab, and Kitbull in January 2019, giving staff six months and modest budgets to direct personal shorts on Disney+.
Special Agent Oso
Special Agent Oso, American computer-animated preschool series created by Ford Riley, aired on Playhouse Disney/Disney Channel 2009-2012, 2 seasons, 60 episodes; panda agent-in-training of U.N.I.Q.U.E. voiced by Sean Astin teaches tasks in three steps.
Spider-Man (1967 TV series)
Spider-Man (1967 TV series): the first animated Spider-Man adaptation, 52 episodes on ABC and in syndication, 1967-1970, made by Grantray-Lawrence and Krantz Films and famous for its theme song.
Spirit Riding Free
Spirit Riding Free is a DreamWorks/Netflix CGI animated series (2017, creator Aury Wallington) about Lucky Prescott, her mustang Spirit Jr., and friends Pru and Abigail in Miradero; inspired by the 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon, is an American animated series that premiered July 17, 1999, set in Bikini Bottom; it has run 17+ seasons, 339+ episodes, four films, and $16 billion in retail sales.
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone, also called The Tidal Zone, is Nickelodeon's first SpongeBob Universe crossover special, a Twilight Zone-style anthology premiering January 13, 2023, linking SpongeBob SquarePants, Kamp Koral, and The Patrick Star Show through GrandPat's dimension-hopping frame story.
Stillwater
Stillwater is an Apple TV+ animated children's series from Gaumont and Scholastic Entertainment, based on Jon J Muth's Zen Shorts books, following a wise panda who teaches siblings Karl, Addy, and Michael mindfulness; premiered December 4, 2020, five seasons, Peabody and Emmy winner.
StoryBots Super Songs
StoryBots Super Songs is a 2016 American animated Netflix children's series by JibJab Bros. Studios, a music-centric spin-off of Ask the StoryBots with one 5-episode season starring Beep, Bing, Bang, Boop, and Bo.
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 (Relatos del 85) is a Netflix animated spin-off set between Seasons 2 and 3, showrun by Eric Robles with the Duffer Brothers, premiering April 23, 2026, with a second season in September 2026.
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City is WildBrain's 2021 2D-animated reboot of the 1973 Strawberry Shortcake franchise, following Strawberry and her berry besties running food trucks in Big Apple City across three seasons.
Summer Camp Island
Summer Camp Island is a Cartoon Network animated series (2018-2023) created by Julia Pott about best friends Oscar and Hedgehog at a magical camp run by teen witches; 100 episodes, six seasons, Emmy and GLAAD-nominated, later removed from HBO Max.
Sun Chaser
Sun Chaser is a Philippine animated web series by Bernard Badion and Bobby Pontillas about teen Jordan Santos becoming the Spirit Guardian; pilot on YouTube June 2026, Annecy Animation du Monde 2025 winner.
Super Duper Bunny League
Super Duper Bunny League, based on Jamie Smart's Superhero Bunny League comics, is a Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. 2D animated series (2025) about six bunny superheroes of Important City created accidentally by Dr. Fuzzleglove; 26 episodes in two seasons, TV-Y, streams on Paramount+.
Super Friends
Super Friends (SuperFriends) is Hanna-Barbera's ABC Saturday morning animated adaptation of DC's Justice League of America, premiering September 8, 1973 and running through 1985 in 93 episodes across nine titled incarnations, from the nonviolent 1973 original with Wendy, Marvin, and Wonder Dog to the Legion of Doom era and the final Super Powers Team seasons.
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (SRMTHFG) is a 2004–2006 Jetix animated series created by Ciro Nieli, following teen Chiro and five robot monkeys defending Shuggazoom City against the Skeleton King, now on Disney+.
Super V
Super V is a 2019 Indian animated superhero series loosely based on cricketer Virat Kohli's teens, produced by Star India, Cornerstone Animation, and Baweja Movies, premiering on his birthday; 12 episodes, 70+ countries, 150 million viewers, one season.
Super Why!
Super Why! (SUPER WHY!) is a PBS KIDS animated preschool literacy series created by Angela Santomero, premiering September 3, 2007, running 103 episodes to 2016, and revived as Super Why's Comic Book Adventures.