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Maggie and the Ferocious Beast is the early-2000s Canadian preschool animated series adapted from Michael Paraskevas and Betty Paraskevas' picture-book series, in which the imaginative young Maggie travels into Nowhere Land, a stylized make-believe place where she plays with her best friend the Ferocious Beast, a striped, surprisingly-gentle giant, and Hamilton, a sweater-wearing pig. The show ran across Nickelodeon and Teletoon from 2000 into 2002, with 22 episodes that pair gentle preschool plotting with the source-book's specific stylized hand-drawn-watercolor look.

What stands out is the show's commitment to its specific make-believe-world premise. Each episode treats Nowhere Land as a real, populated imaginative space, the writing leans into the kind of practical-friendship plotting that the youngest preschoolers respond to, and the supporting cast of Nowhere Land residents carries distinct personalities through the run. The animation has the soft, watercolor-leaning look that draws directly from the source picture-book illustrations.

It belongs to a specific early-2000s wave of literary-derived cross-broadcaster preschool animation, the same family of carefully-produced book-extension shows that traveled across Nickelodeon and Teletoon during that period. For households whose preschool memory includes Maggie and her Nowhere Land friends, this collection captures the version that built the memory.

Highlights in the set include "My One And Only Box," "The Lemonade Stand," "Pack Up Your Troubles," "Hamilton The Ham," "This Little Pig," "Sun Spots," "Three Little Ghosts," "Mr. Shivers," "The Really Big Show," "The Big Cheese," "Desert Treasure," "The Missing Sweater," and "Little Pig Lost," episodes that capture both the show's quietest character moments and its biggest Nowhere Land setpieces. This 2-DVD collection gathers 22 episodes from the run, a representative archival home for Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.

Creators: Betty Paraskevas, Michael Paraskevas
Stars: Kristen Bone, John McGrath, Tamara Bernier.
More Information: IMDB, Wikipedia.

22 Total Episodes on 2 DVDs:
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 1 My One And Only Box Spot The Spot Recipe For Trouble
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 2 The Lemonade Stand Walk The Walk What's In A Laugh
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 3 Pack Up Your Troubles Rub A Dub Dub The Big Carrot
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 4 Out Of Water Beast Rain, Rain, Come And Stay! Hamilton The Ham
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 5 This Little Pig Hide And Go Beast One, Two, Three
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 6 What's In The Bag- Beastly Picture The Push-Me Popper
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 7 Sun Spots Say Cheese Sailing Away
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 8 Hamilton's Pet Slooow Motion The Big Duck
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 9 Flim-Flam-A Fiddle A Beastly Garden Spring Cleaning
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 10 Three Little Ghosts The King Of Nowhere Land The Big Scare
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 11 Mr. Shivers Nap Time Up, Up, And Away
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 12 Louder! Louder! Once Upon A Time Maggie The Mommy
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 1 Episode 13 Hamilton's Box Car Happy Birthday To All Of Us The Really Big Show
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 1 Hamilton Blows His Horn
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 2 The Big Cheese
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 3 Roll Over Archie
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 4 Desert Treasure
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 5 Morning In Nowhere Land
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 6 The Missing Sweater
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 7 Just A Little Off The Top
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 8 Little Pig Lost
Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Season 2 Episode 9 The Cecil Bunions Detective Agency

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