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Danny Phantom

Danny Phantom: Nickelodeon animated superhero series created by Butch Hartman, 2004–2007, 53 episodes, 3 seasons. Teen Danny Fenton becomes half-ghost in his parents' portal accident; voiced by David Kaufman; streams on Paramount+.

Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck is an American animated series produced by Disney Television Animation in 1991, following suburban citizen Drake Mallard as he fights crime in the fictional city of St. Canard.

Dave the Barbarian

Dave the Barbarian is a Disney Channel animated comedy created by Doug Langdale, premiering January 23, 2004. It follows cowardly, gourmet-cooking barbarian Dave, sisters Candy and Fang, and Udrogoth's odd foes, with meta humor and narrator Jeff Bennett.

Davey and Goliath

Davey and Goliath: Lutheran-funded stop-motion clay-animated children's series by Gumby creators Art and Ruth Clokey, 65 episodes and six specials, 1961-1975, distributed free to nearly 200 TV markets.

Deer Squad (无敌鹿战队)

Deer Squad (无敌鹿战队, Wudi Lu Zhandui) is a Chinese-British 3D preschool animated series by iQIYI with Nickelodeon supervision, premiered July 15, 2020; first Chinese original animation on Nickelodeon, aired in 160+ countries in 30+ languages.

Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter's Laboratory is a 1996–2003 Cartoon Network animated series created by Genndy Tartakovsky, the first Cartoon Cartoon, about boy genius Dexter, sister Dee Dee, and rival Mandark, with Dial M for Monkey and Justice Friends segments.

Dino Ranch: Island Explorers

Dino Ranch: Island Explorers is a 52x11' 3D animated preschool spin-off of Dino Ranch, created by Matthew Fernandes, following the Cassidy family and Uncle Jack on Dino Island; it debuted on CBC in November 2025 and Amazon Kids+ in April 2026.

Dinosaur Train

Dinosaur Train is a PBS KIDS CGI-animated preschool series created by Craig Bartlett, produced by The Jim Henson Company, premiering September 2009, featuring Buddy the T. rex and his adoptive Pteranodon family.

Doc McStuffins

Doc McStuffins is a Disney Junior animated preschool series (2012–2020) created by Chris Nee and produced by Brown Bag Films, about Dottie "Doc" McStuffins, a six-year-old African American girl who heals toys in her backyard toy clinic; it won a Peabody and NAACP Image Awards and was the first preschool show with an animated African American female lead.

Donkey Kong Country (TV series)

Donkey Kong Country (TV series): French-Canadian CGI cartoon (1996-2000) by Medialab and Nelvana based on the Rare SNES game; 40 episodes, motion-capture "performance animation," starring Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and King K. Rool on Kongo Bongo Island.

Dora (TV series)

Dora (2024) is a Nickelodeon CG-animated preschool series on Paramount+, rebooting Dora the Explorer (2000-2019). Created by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes; premiered April 12, 2024; renewed through season 6.

Dora and Friends: Into the City!

Dora and Friends: Into the City! is Nickelodeon's 2014 animated sequel to Dora the Explorer, aging Dora to 10 in the city of Playa Verde with friends Kate, Naiya, Emma, Alana, and Pablo; created by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes, two seasons plus rainforest reunion specials.

Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer (Dora, la exploradora) is a Nickelodeon animated interactive preschool series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner, premiering August 14, 2000. The first Latina lead of a major cartoon series, bilingual Dora Márquez reached 150+ countries in 32 languages, won a 2003 Peabody, and spawned films and a 2024 reboot.

Doug (TV series)

Doug (Nickelodeon 1991–1994; Disney's Doug on ABC 1996–1999), also Brand Spanking New Doug, is a Jim Jinkins-created Nicktoon about anxious kid Doug Funnie of Bluffington, with Quailman fantasies, made by Jumbo Pictures, later bought by Disney.

Doug Unplugs

Doug Unplugs is a DreamWorks Animation preschool series on Apple TV+ (2020-2022), based on Dan Yaccarino's 2013 picture book Doug Unplugged, about a six-year-old robot who explores the human world with his friend Emma.

Dragon Striker

Dragon Striker is a 2026 animated sports fantasy series by La Chouette Compagnie and Disney Television Animation, created by Sylvain Dos Santos and Charles Lefebvre. Farm boy Key may be the legendary Dragon Striker at the magical soccer school Kal Asterock; 11 episodes premiered June 9, 2026, with season 2 due early 2027.

Dragon Tales

Dragon Tales is a PBS animated preschool series (1999-2005, 94 episodes) created by Ron Rodecker and produced by Sesame Workshop and Columbia TriStar, following Emmy and Max in Dragon Land with dragons Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal.

Dream Productions

Dream Productions is a four-episode Pixar mockumentary series on Disney+, premiered December 11, 2024, set between Inside Out and Inside Out 2, following dream director Paula Persimmon (Paula Pell) and daydream director Xeni (Richard Ayoade) inside Riley's mind.

Dug Days

Dug Days is a Disney+ series of Pixar shorts spun off from Up (2009), written and directed by Bob Peterson, voice of Dug. Five shorts premiered September 1, 2021; Carl's Date closed the series in 2023.

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Ed, Edd n Eddy is a Canadian-American animated series created by Danny Antonucci for Cartoon Network (1999-2009, ending with Big Picture Show). Three boys scam neighborhood kids for jawbreaker money; the last major series to use painted cel animation.

El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera

El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is a Nickelodeon Flash-animated series created by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, premiered March 3, 2007, about a 13-year-old torn between superhero father White Pantera and villain grandfather Puma Loco; Annie and Emmy-winning.

Ella the Elephant

Ella the Elephant is a Canadian animated preschool TV series (2013–2014) based on the Ella books by Carmela and Steven D'Amico, produced by DHX Media with TVO Kids and FremantleMedia; it follows Ella and friends Frankie, Tiki, and Belinda on Elephant Island with a magic red hat.

Everything's Rosie (TV series)

Everything's Rosie: British CGI preschool series created by Vickie Corner (V&S Entertainment), debuting on CBeebies 3 May 2010; rag doll Rosie, Raggles, and friends; 4 seasons, 105 episodes, aired in 170+ countries, dubbed into 27 languages.

Evil Con Carne

Evil Con Carne (Cartoon Network, 2003-2004) is a Maxwell Atoms animated series spun off from Grim & Evil, following brain-and-stomach villain Hector Con Carne on Boskov the bear plotting world domination with Ghastly and Skarr.

Extreme Ghostbusters

Extreme Ghostbusters: 1997 American animated series, sequel to The Real Ghostbusters, produced by Adelaide Productions and Columbia TriStar Television, one syndicated season of 40 episodes airing September 1 to December 8, 1997, starring Egon Spengler mentoring four student ghost hunters.

Fanboy & Chum Chum

Fanboy & Chum Chum is a Nickelodeon CG animated comedy created by Eric Robles from a Random! Cartoons short, running two seasons and 52 episodes from 2009 to 2014, starring David Hornsby and Nika Futterman as superhero-obsessed kids in Galaxy Hills.

Fillmore!

Fillmore! (Disney's Fillmore!), Disney animated police-procedural parody created by Scott M. Gimple, airing 2002–2004 on ABC Kids: 26 episodes following reformed delinquent Cornelius Fillmore of X Middle School's Safety Patrol, voiced by Orlando Brown.

Fireman Sam

Fireman Sam, also known as Sam Tân, is a British animated children's series about a fireman in the fictional Welsh village of Pontypandy, first broadcast in 1987.

Fish Hooks

Fish Hooks is a Disney Channel animated series created by Noah Z. Jones, running 2010–2014 in three seasons, about fish tweens Bea, Milo, and Oscar at Freshwater High School in Bud's Pet Shop, voiced by Chelsea Kane, Kyle Massey, and Justin Roiland.

Flower Pot Men

Flower Pot Men, also The Flowerpot Men, a 1952 BBC Watch with Mother puppet series created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird, featuring Bill, Ben, Little Weed, the Oddle Poddle gibberish language, and a 2001 Cosgrove Hall remake titled Bill and Ben.