List of programs broadcast by Discovery Family

This is a list of television programs broadcast by the U.S. cable television channel Discovery Family.

Current programming

An asterisk (*) indicates that the program had new episodes aired on Discovery Family.

Original programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic*	October 10, 2010	[a]
Pound Puppies
Transformers: Rescue Bots*	December 17, 2011
Littlest Pet Shop*	November 10, 2012

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
Cake Boss*	October 16, 2014	[a] [1]

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
The Adventures of Chuck and Friends	October 15, 2010	[a]

Acquired programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
Petronix Defenders	October 15, 2022

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
S.M.A.S.H.	February 18, 2023
Hanni and the Wild Woods	April 1, 2023

Programming from Hanna-Barbera

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
The Smurfs	August 7, 2023
Paddington Bear	October 7, 2023

Programming from Warner Bros. Animation

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
Baby Looney Tunes	May 1, 2023
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries	May 6, 2023
Looney Tunes	December 4, 2023

Programming from various WBD networks

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
Too Cute	August 18, 2014
Kids Baking Championship	December 4, 2018

Programming from Netflix

Title	Premiere date	Note(s)
Super Monsters	October 19, 2019	[2][3]

Former programming

This is a list of programs that have formerly aired on Discovery Kids (1996–2010), The Hub Network (2010–2014), and Discovery Family (2014–present).

Former programming by Discovery Kids

Original programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Kenny the Shark	November 1, 2003	February 19, 2005	2005–12; 2017–22	[b][c]
Tutenstein		October 11, 2008	2008–12	[b]
Time Warp Trio	July 9, 2005	July 15, 2006	2006–11
Growing Up Creepie	September 9, 2006	June 21, 2008	2008–11

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Jaws & Claws	1997	1998	1998–2008
The Adventures of A.R.K.	1998	2000	2000–03
Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld	1998		1998–2010
Mega Movie Magic	1998	2000	—
Real Kids, Real Adventures			2000–03
Outward Bound USA	September 30, 1999	January 5, 2003	2003–09
Sci Squad	1999		1999–2003
Sail Away	May 26, 2001	July 7, 2001	2001–05
Ultimate Guide to the Awesome	October 21, 2001	November 6, 2004	2004–09
Truth or Scare	October 27, 2001	January 4, 2003	2003–12	[b]
Prehistoric Planet	October 5, 2002	April 26, 2003	2003–10
Operation Junkyard		February 15, 2003	2003–09
Endurance		June 28, 2008	2008–13	[b]
Scout's Safari		February 7, 2004	2004–11
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High		January 28, 2006	2006–11
Zach's Ultimate Guide	2003		2003–08
Adventure Camp	May 17, 2003	June 14, 2008	2008–12	[b]
Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls		December 3, 2005	2005–11
Jeff Corwin Unleashed	September 13, 2003	January 24, 2004	2004–08
Skunked TV	July 24, 2004	August 1, 2004
Darcy's Wild Life	October 2, 2004	March 18, 2006	2006–10
Flight 29 Down	October 1, 2005	August 25, 2007	2007–11	[note 1] [b]
Bindi the Jungle Girl	June 9, 2007	December 20, 2008	2008–10
Dinosapien	July 7, 2007	August 11, 2007	2007–12	[b]

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Animal Jam	February 24, 2003	April 11, 2003	2003–07
Hi-5		October 6, 2006	2006–10
ToddWorld	November 8, 2004	June 10, 2008	2008
Hip Hop Harry	September 25, 2006	June 26, 2008	2008–10

Short-form programming

Title	Year(s) aired	Note(s)
Factoid	1997–2003
What An Animal!
Braintwister	1998–2003
Double Take
Laboratory
Ready Set Learn Short Stuff
Hugo Takes A D-Tour	1999–2003
Mister Chi Chi's Guide To The Universe	2000–03
Kenny the Shark	2001–04
The Paz Show	2003–10

Specials

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Saving a Species	2004	January 20, 2008
Byou	August 19, 2006	September 2, 2006
A Year on Earth	December 3, 2006	December 10, 2006

Acquired programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Tracey McBean	October 3, 2004	September 28, 2007
Grossology	January 13, 2007	June 26, 2011	[b]
The Future Is Wild	October 13, 2007	June 25, 2012

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Acorn the Nature Nut	1997	2004
Buck Staghorn's Animal Bites		2001
Mother Nature
No, Really!		1999
Pop-Sci
Wild Guess
Incredible Story Studios	1999	June 27, 2003
Lassie	2000	September 9, 2007
Popular Mechanics for Kids	January 1, 2001
Screech Owls	February 8, 2001	September 2, 2006
The Saddle Club	January 4, 2002	March 24, 2012	[b]
Mentors	June 7, 2002	September 3, 2006
Mystery Hunters	June 30, 2003	October 9, 2010
Timeblazers	October 4, 2004	June 24, 2011	[b]
Serious	January 2, 2006
Crash, Bang, Splat!	January 7, 2006	October 9, 2010

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Brum	February 24, 2003	December 31, 2006
The Save-Ums!		October 8, 2010	[note 2]
Peep and the Big Wide World	April 12, 2004	January 1, 2010	[note 3]
Balamory	September 5, 2005	September 22, 2006
Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks	September 25, 2006	October 9, 2010
Wilbur	April 16, 2007	June 25, 2012	[note 4][b]
Mister Maker	July 28, 2008	October 8, 2010

Programming from PBS Kids

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Pappyland	1998	February 21, 2003
The Magic School Bus	February 24, 2003	February 28, 2010
Timothy Goes to School	August 30, 2004	December 31, 2006

Programming from Animal Planet

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Animal Planet Zooventure	1997	July 2, 2005
Croc Files	January 1, 2001	June 23, 2008

Programming from TLC

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Chicken Minute	October 7, 1996	1998
Iris, The Happy Professor
Kitty Cats
Little Star
Bingo and Molly	1998	August 30, 2002
Salty's Lighthouse		February 21, 2003
Skinnamarink TV
Nini's Treehouse	September 25, 2000

Blocks

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Scary Saturday Night Sleepovers	September 29, 2001	January 7, 2006
Animal Afternoons	2002	2009
The Gaggle
Ready Set Learn	February 24, 2003	October 8, 2010
Real Toons	November 1, 2003	October 9, 2010
@DK	2006	October 10, 2010

Former programming by The Hub Network

An asterisk (*) indicates that the program had new episodes aired on Discovery Family.

Original programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Transformers: Prime	November 26, 2010	July 26, 2013	2013–23	[c]
G.I. Joe: Renegades		July 23, 2011	2011–15
Dan Vs.	January 1, 2011	March 9, 2013	2013–14
Secret Millionaires Club	October 23, 2011	October 12, 2014	—
Kaijudo	May 5, 2012	December 28, 2013	2013–14
Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch	October 12, 2013	June 7, 2014	2014–15; 2018	[c]

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Family Game Night*	October 10, 2010	November 9, 2014	2014–16	[c]
Pictureka!	October 11, 2010	January 17, 2011	2011–13; 2019–20
The Haunting Hour: The Series*	October 29, 2010	November 29, 2014	2016
Hubworld	November 5, 2010	October 29, 2011	—
The Game of Life	September 3, 2011	April 15, 2012	2012–14; 2018–19	[c]
Scrabble Showdown			2012–13; 2018–20
Majors & Minors	September 23, 2011	January 29, 2012	2012–13
Clue	November 14, 2011	November 17, 2011	2011–14
The Aquabats! Super Show!	March 3, 2012	January 18, 2014	2014
Spooksville	October 26, 2013	May 17, 2014
Kid President: Declaration of Awesome	June 21, 2014	August 9, 2014
Parents Just Don't Understand*	August 23, 2014	November 30, 2014	—	[c]

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot	June 2, 2012	December 8, 2012	2012–14

Specials

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Journey to Fearless	October 22, 2010	October 24, 2010	2010–11

Acquired programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
The Twisted Whiskers Show	October 10, 2010	February 28, 2014
Dennis and Gnasher		October 6, 2013
Cosmic Quantum Ray
Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures*		May 30, 2020	[c]
Deltora Quest		December 29, 2013
Men in Black: The Series	October 11, 2010	June 1, 2012
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?	October 16, 2010	September 2, 2012
SheZow	June 1, 2013	January 31, 2016	[note 5] [c]
Teenage Fairytale Dropouts	May 31, 2014	November 26, 2014	[c]

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Fraggle Rock	October 10, 2010	October 4, 2014
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show	October 11, 2010	September 13, 2013
Family Ties		September 26, 2014
The Wonder Years		August 31, 2012
Doogie Howser, M.D.		May 26, 2013
Happy Days		September 26, 2014
Laverne & Shirley		January 12, 2014
Batman		September 1, 2012
Goosebumps	September 6, 2011	October 5, 2014
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?	September 19, 2011	September 13, 2013
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	April 2, 2012	March 28, 2014
The Facts of Life		March 22, 2013
Mork & Mindy		January 12, 2014
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	June 3, 2012	May 25, 2014
ALF	June 4, 2012	October 12, 2014
Sliders	September 3, 2012	August 30, 2014
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation	January 12, 2013	December 28, 2013
Who's the Boss?	April 1, 2013	July 12, 2013
Wizards vs Aliens	May 27, 2013	June 15, 2013
Step by Step	October 7, 2013	October 12, 2014
Sister, Sister	March 3, 2014
Blossom	July 7, 2014	December 23, 2016	[note 6] [c]

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
The WotWots	October 11, 2010	December 29, 2013
In the Night Garden...		October 6, 2013
Animal Mechanicals		May 31, 2013
Maryoku Yummy		May 31, 2012

Programming from Cartoon Network

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Atomic Betty	October 10, 2010	December 29, 2013
The Super Hero Squad Show	January 30, 2012	January 29, 2015	[c]
Transformers: Animated	July 9, 2012	February 28, 2014

Programming from Warner Bros. Animation

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Batman Beyond	October 10, 2010	February 28, 2014
Batman: The Animated Series	September 6, 2011	November 29, 2013
Superman: The Animated Series	September 3, 2012	February 28, 2014
Animaniacs (1993)	November 4, 2012	October 10, 2014
Tiny Toon Adventures	July 1, 2013	June 27, 2015	[c]

Programming from Hasbro

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
The Transformers	October 11, 2010	January 28, 2022	[c]
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero		May 30, 2022
Jem and the Holograms	May 28, 2011	November 15, 2015
Conan the Adventurer	May 31, 2011	October 16, 2011
G.I. Joe: Sigma 6	July 9, 2012	February 28, 2014

Programming from Animal Planet

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Meerkat Manor	October 10, 2010	March 24, 2012
Bad Dog!	August 17, 2014	August 22, 2014	[4]
It's Me or the Dog
America's Cutest

Blocks

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Hub Family Movie	October 10, 2010	October 12, 2014
Hub Primetime	October 11, 2010
HubBub		September 2, 2011
Huboom!		May 31, 2013

Former programming by Discovery Family

Original programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Date(s) reran	Note(s)
Blazing Team: Masters of Yo Kwon Do	November 13, 2015	September 9, 2017	2017–22
Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own	April 14, 2018	January 26, 2019	2019–23
Hanazuki: Full of Treasures	December 1, 2018	May 4, 2019	2019–20
Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy	January 5, 2019	June 5, 2021	2021–23
My Little Pony: Pony Life	November 7, 2020	May 22, 2021		[5][6][7][8]

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Survival of the Weirdest	October 13, 2014	November 17, 2014
Buying the Galaxy	October 14, 2014	October 28, 2014
Extreme Engineering: Big Reveals		November 18, 2014
That's Superhuman!	October 22, 2014	November 19, 2014
Big, Bigger, Biggest: Supersized	October 28, 2014	November 18, 2014
How the Earth Got Its Shapes	November 24, 2014	January 4, 2015
Jesus: The Untold Story	December 26, 2014		[9]
Ancient Case Files	January 2, 2015	February 6, 2015
Explosive!	January 6, 2015	January 27, 2015
Hand Made History		February 24, 2015
Dinosaurs: The Untold Story	March 16, 2015	March 23, 2015	[10]
My Dog's Crazy Animal Friends	April 9, 2015	May 14, 2015
The World's Most Outrageous Pets		May 7, 2015
Weird, Wild and Deadly	April 15, 2015	May 20, 2015
American Family vs. Wild	June 3, 2015	July 8, 2015
From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni	August 6, 2015	August 27, 2015
Animals Lol	August 7, 2015	September 17, 2015
Surprising Lives of Billionaires	September 2, 2015	June 11, 2018
Babies Behaving Badly	September 4, 2015	November 27, 2015
Why We Do Stuff?		October 2, 2015	[11]
The Game Plane*	September 29, 2015	March 22, 2016
Beasts Behaving Badly	October 16, 2015	December 4, 2015
Lost & Found with Mike & Jesse	November 11, 2015	January 3, 2016
Secrets of America's Favorite Places	July 3, 2016	August 21, 2016	[12]
Reno, Set, Go!	June 19, 2017	November 13, 2017
Wild Days of Summer	June 3, 2018	June 24, 2018	[13]
Bake It Like Buddy	September 8, 2018	February 16, 2019

Short-form programming

Title	Year(s) aired	Note(s)
My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts	2017

Specials

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls	June 24, 2017	July 8, 2017

Acquired programming

Animated series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
The Jungle Book	July 11, 2015	March 25, 2018
The New Adventures of Peter Pan	June 5, 2016	November 5, 2017
Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood	July 3, 2016	March 3, 2019
Zak Storm	October 14, 2017	May 26, 2019
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures	November 16, 2019	August 27, 2023	[14][15]

Live-action series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin	December 8, 2014	July 5, 2015
Funniest Pets & People	January 8, 2015	March 31, 2017
Horrible Histories	April 10, 2015	May 1, 2015
Game of Homes	September 6, 2016	October 23, 2017	[16]
The Renovation King		October 25, 2016
The Incredible Food Race	September 7, 2016	October 12, 2016
The Dengineers	January 3, 2017	January 31, 2017
Post My Party
Undercover Boss	May 16, 2017	November 28, 2018
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition	April 26, 2020	September 25, 2022	[17]

Preschool series

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Holly Hobbie & Friends	September 12, 2015	March 4, 2016	[18]
Bubu and the Little Owls	February 17, 2019	December 26, 2020	[19]
Pirata & Capitano	June 16, 2019	May 31, 2022	[20]
The Polos	July 6, 2019	September 6, 2020	[21][22]

Programming from TLC

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Girl Starter	May 4, 2017	June 8, 2017

Programming from Netflix

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Luna Petunia	July 1, 2019	September 6, 2020	[23]
Popples
True and the Rainbow Kingdom	August 2, 2020	July 30, 2021
The Ponysitters Club	September 5, 2020	December 26, 2021	[24]

Blocks

Title	Premiere date	Finale date	Note(s)
Discovery Family Movies	October 13, 2014	November 16, 2019
Summer Splash	June 11, 2016	August 27, 2017
Sing-A-Long Sundays!	September 11, 2016	October 1, 2017
Frightober	October 3, 2016	October 31, 2016
My Little Pony Summer Karaoke!	June 16, 2018	September 1, 2018
Summer Surprises	July 6, 2018	August 31, 2018

Special programming

Title	Initial broadcast date	Notes
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls	September 1, 2013
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade	August 8, 2014	[25]
My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow		[26]
My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure		[27]
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks	October 17, 2014
My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas	December 13, 2014	[28]
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)	April 4, 2015
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games	September 26, 2015
Doki Rocks Rio	August 5, 2016	[29]
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legends of Everfree	October 1, 2016
The Making of My Little Pony: The Movie	September 30, 2017
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship	February 17, 2018
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rollercoaster of Friendship	July 6, 2018
My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever	October 27, 2018
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown	March 30, 2019
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip	June 29, 2019
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset's Backstage Pass	July 27, 2019
My Little Pony: A Decade of Pony	October 11, 2019
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped	November 2, 2019
Kong: King of the Apes	December 6, 2019	[30]
Tarzan and Jane: Genesis	December 13, 2019
Tarzan and Jane: Tale of Two Jungles	December 21, 2019

Notes

References