Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series for preschool-age children that is broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States. A pilot episode for this series aired in 1999. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. more...

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The show was created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. The series airs on Nick, as well as Noggin, the Nickelodeon-owned channel for preschoolers. The show had aired on CBS until September of 2006.

In the UK, the show airs on CITV and Nick Jr.

Dora the Explorer has been extremely successful commercially, generating over $3 billion in retail sales of associated products since 2000, including $1 billion in 2004 alone. . It's currently the most-watched pre-school show in US.

Characters

Dora

Seven-year-old Dora Marquez is voiced by Kathleen Herles in the original English version. Dora's name is taken from the Spanish word Exploradora, which means "female explorer." It is also said that her namesake is Dora Barlaz, a science teacher at New York City's Horace Mann School, who was the fiancée of the show's creator when he was designing it. They did not marry.

In every episode, Dora goes on a quest, usually to help someone in trouble or otherwise do a good deed for someone. Her quests often involve gathering key objects and/or surmounting obstacles, and are usually done in three stages. Dora has a knack for almost anything she tries, but is best at soccer, and is unable to ignore a friend in need. She is very close to her family, particularly her Abuela (grandmother), and is never seen without her flower bracelet given to her by her Abuela. She has a teddy bear she got on her first birthday, which she loves very much (like Boots does his stuffed dinosaur); she even went on an adventure just to find it when she lost it.

She can think of a way out of any trouble she or her friends come across.

Her love for exploring seems to run in the family. Her Abuela was an explorer just like Dora when she was her granddaughter's age, and Dora's mother is an archaeologist. Dora has been shown wanting to teach her baby brother and sister to explore when they're older.

Although she mainly uses English and Spanish, Dora is multilingual and has shown that she knows at least four other languages.

One of the main characteristics of the show is viewer interaction; Dora always asks the viewers at home to help her do things or to tell her things she needs to know. (There is no "fourth wall" in this series.)

Boots

Boots the Monkey is Dora's best friend on the show. He is voiced by Harrison Chad in the original English version. Boots is friendly and enthusiastic, and usually wears nothing but his beloved red boots, hence his name.

Boots is present with Dora on her adventures, and he helps Dora to solve clues and puzzles. He loves bananas. Boots' father, who is variously considered to be an engineer, an architect, or a contractor, is seen in one episode completing an amusement park and another completing a bridge. Boots loves his father, and in the same episode the two share a banana.

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