What's The Big Idea? (non-existent pitch pilot of "Sid The Science Kid" PBS Kids CGI animated series; 2007)

The pilot's logo.

Status: Lost

Sid the Science Kid is a PBS Kids CGI animated series that ran from 2008-2013. The show revolves around a kid name Sid, who uses stand up comedy to answer science related questions that other kids ask with help from his teacher, family and his other classmates May, Gerald, and Gabriela. The series was also the second to animate using motion capture after Donkey Kong Country (1997).

Original Pilot

In 2007 a pilot was made when it was under the working title What's The Big Idea?. Like the final show, the pilot was animated using motion capture to simulate puppetry in real time. Sid's was also originally named Josh and had a much different design compared to the final show. Aside from a couple of screenshots of Sid's early design and the pilot's logo, no footage or any other information about the pilot is available as of 2021.

Gallery

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  Sid's (Josh) early design.

See Also

Bumpers

• PBS Kids (partially lost schedule bumpers and interstitial material of children's channel block; 1999-present)
• Bookworm Bunch (partially found interstitials from PBS Kids channel block; 2000-2001)
• Someday School (partially found PBS Kids channel block; 1998-2000)

PBS

• Reading Rainbow (found Johnny Kemp opening sequence for PBS children's television series; 1999)
• Storytime (found PBS children's reading series; 1992-1998)
• Zoom (partially found revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1999-2005)
• Zoom (partially found pilot of revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1997)
• Lamb Chop's Play-Along (partially lost PBS children's puppet series; 1992)
• The Puzzle Place (partially found PBS puppet series; 1994-1998)
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Mister Rogers Talks About Conflict" (found episode arc of PBS children's educational series; 1983)
• Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Auld Lang Gone" (non-existent episode of PBS children's game show; 1992)

PBS Kids

• Cyberchase: The Poddleville Case (found pilot of PBS Kids animated educational series; 1999)
• Dragon Tales "One Small Step for Cassie" and "Circle of Friends" (lost pilots of PBS Kids animated series; 1999)
• The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (partially lost PBS Kids "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" spin-off series; 1998-1999)
• Space Race (partially found PBS Kids web series; 2011)
• Kratts' Creatures (found PBS children's educational series; 1996)
• The Good Night Show with Nina & Star (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2006-2017)
• The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2005-2006)
• Preschool Musical... On a Stick (partially lost PBS Kids Sprout "High School Musical" parody; 2008)
• WordWorld (lost 2D/live-action test pilot of PBS Kids CGI animated educational series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
• Curious George (lost test pilot of PBS Kids animated series based on books; existence unconfirmed; 2004/2005)
• Nature Cat (lost pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; early 2010s)

External Links

• Sid the Science Kid Wiki page on the 2007 pilot.