List of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum episodes
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum is an animated children's television series that premiered on November 11, 2019, on PBS Kids.[1] The series is produced by 9 Story Media Group. It is based on the children's book series written by Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos, named Ordinary People Change the World.[2] The series involves Xavier Riddle with his sister Yadina, and their friends Brad and Berby, at the Secret Museum, and help from historical heroes, who are depicted in the series as children.[3]
Series overview
[edit]| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 37 | November 11, 2019 | January 31, 2022 | |
| 2 | TBA | January 15, 2024 | TBA | |
Each episode of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum runs for half an hour. They consist of two 11-minute stories based on famous historical heroes around the world in the past.[4] However, airings on streaming services such as Globoplay in Brazil split the episodes into segments, with each 11-minute story isolated. There may be an interstitial segment between the two main stories, in which Berby, and either Xavier, Yadina, Brad, or Dr. Zoom, are shown doing something fun together.
Episodes
[edit]Season 1 (2019-2022)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "I Am Johann Sebastian Bach / I Am Marie Curie" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Cory Bobiak Written by : Amy Brown Storyboarded by : Firas Momani | November 11, 2019 | 101 |
| 2 | 2 | "I Am Mary Shelley / I Am Harry Houdini" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Meghan Read Storyboarded by : Craig Taillefer Written by : Desmond Sargeant Storyboarded by : Hong Qi | November 12, 2019 | 118 |
| 3 | 3 | "I Am George Washington / I Am Susan B. Anthony" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Cory Bobiak Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Firas Momani | November 13, 2019 | 116 |
| 4 | 4 | "I Am Isaac Newton / I Am Golda Meir" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Amy Brown Storyboarded by : Alex Greychuck Written by : Amy Brown Storyboarded by : Lisa Kathofer | November 18, 2019 | 103 |
| 5 | 5 | "I Am Winston Churchill / I Am Cleopatra" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Jiro C. Okada Storyboarded by : Alex Greychuck Written by : Lakna Edilima Storyboarded by : Firas Momani | November 19, 2019 | 107 |
| 6 | 6 | "I Am Catherine the Great / I Am Tomioka Tessai" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Jiro C. Okada Storyboarded by : Sean Janisse Written by : Meghan Read Storyboarded by : Stephanie Ramone | November 20, 2019 | 108 |
| 7 | 7 | "We Are the Wright Brothers / We Are the Brontë Sisters" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Desmond Sargeant Storyboarded by : Lisa Kathofer Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Sean Janisse | November 27, 2019 | 111 |
| 8 | 8 | "I Am Mark Twain / I Am Abigail Adams" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Charles Johnston Storyboarded by : Stephanie Ramone Written by : Charles Johnston Storyboarded by : Tom Cho | November 27, 2019 | 112 |
| 9 | 9 | "I Am Julia Child / I Am Neil Armstrong" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Lisa Kathofer Written by : Jiro C. Okada Storyboarded by : Sean Janisse | November 27, 2019 | 113 |
| 10 | 10 | "I Am Helen Keller / I Am Alexander Graham Bell" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Meghan Read Storyboarded by : Alex Greychuck Written by : Lakna Edilima Storyboarded by : Firas Momani | December 2, 2019 | 103 |
| 11 | 11 | "I Am Florence Nightingale / I Am George Washington Carver" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Charles Johnston Storyboarded by : Sean Janisse Written by : Jiro C. Okada Storyboarded by : Craig Taillefer | December 9, 2019 | 102 |
| 12 | 12 | "I Am Leonardo da Vinci / I Am Amelia Earhart" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Charles Johnston Storyboarded by : Alex Greychuck Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Firas Momani | December 16, 2019 | 105 |
| 13 | 13 | "I Am Zora Neale Hurston / I Am Charles Dickens" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Charles Johnston Storyboarded by : Sean Janisse Written by : Jennifer Daley Storyboarded by : Stephanie Ramone | December 23, 2019 | 116 |
| 14 | 14 | "I Am Jackie Robinson / I Am Anna Pavlova" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Desmond Sargeant
Written by : Amy Brown | January 20, 2020 | 114 |
| 15 | 15 | "I Am Mary Leakey / I Am Alexander Hamilton" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Lakna Edilima
Written by : Lakna Edilima | January 21, 2020 | 115 |
| 16 | 16 | "I Am Theodore Roosevelt / I Am Eleanor Roosevelt" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Amy Brown
Written by : Jennifer Daley | January 22, 2020 | 116 |
| 17 | 17 | "I Am Lou Gehrig / I Am Marie Owens" | Cory Bobiak | Written By : Lakna Edilima
Written By : Jennifer Daley | January 23, 2020 | 117 |
| 18 | 18 | "I Am Nikola Tesla / I Am Nellie Bly" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Meghan Read | August 3, 2020 | 119 |
| 19 | 19 | "I Am Maya Angelou / I Am Frederick Douglass" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Desmond Sargeant
Written by : Lakna Edilima | August 4, 2020 | 120 |
| 20 | 20 | "I Am Louis Pasteur / I Am Rachel Carson" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Charles Johnston
Written by : Amy Brown | August 5, 2020 | 121 |
| 21 | 21 | "I Am Kate Warne / I Am Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Meghan Read + Jen Daley
Written by : Jen Daley | August 6, 2020 | 122 |
| 22 | 22 | "I Am Cesar Chavez / I Am Dolores Huerta[5]" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : M.R Horhager
Lakna Edilima Storyboarded by : Meghan Read | October 5, 2020 | 121 |
| 23 | 23 | "I Am Confucius / I Am Sacagawea" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Charles Johnston
Lakna Edilima | October 6, 2020 | 125 |
| 24 | 24 | "I Am Mary Anning / I Am Charlie Chaplin" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Amy Brown
Written by : Charles Johnston | October 7, 2020 | 124 |
| 25 | 25 | "I Am Billie Jean King / I Am Arthur Ashe" | Logan McNeil | Written by : Jennifer Daley
Written by : Deamond Sargeant | October 8, 2020 | 128 |
| 26 | 26 | "I Am Rosa Parks / I Am Thurgood Marshall" | Cory Bobiak | Written by : Desmond Sargeant
Written By : Charles Johnston | October 9, 2020 | 126 |
| 27 | 27 | "I Am Harriet Tubman" | Cory Bobiak | Written By : Meghan Read and Desmond Sargeant | October 12, 2020 | 127 |
| 28 | 28 | "I Am Wilma Rudolph / I Am Jonas Salk" | Cory Bobiak | Written By : Amy Brown
Written By : Meghan Read | February 1, 2021 | 124 |
| 29 | 29 | "I Am Jesse Owens / I Am Ella Fitzgerald" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Desmond Sargeant
Written By : Charles Johnston | February 2, 2021 | 135 |
| 30 | 30 | "I Am James Naismith / I Am Temple Grandin" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Desmond Sargeant
Written By : Charles Johnston | April 5, 2021 | 129 |
| 31 | 31 | "I Am Albert Einstein / I Am Carol Burnett" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Meghan Read
Written By : Jennifer Daley | April 6, 2021 | 130 |
| 32 | 32 | "I Am Abraham Lincoln / I Am Jane Jacobs" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Meghan Read
Written By : Amy Brown | April 7, 2021 | 131 |
| 33 | 33 | "I Am Sir Edmund Hillary / I Am Celia Cruz" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Charles Johnston
Written By : Lakna Edilima | April 8, 2021 | 132 |
| 34 | 34 | "I Am Jigonsaseh / I Am Sacagawea" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Millie Knapp
Written By : Lakna Edilima | November 1, 2021 | 136 |
| 35 | 35 | "I Am Ibn Battuta / I Am Beulah Louise Henry" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Gillian Muller
Written By : Amy Brown | November 2, 2021 | 134 |
| 36 | 36 | "I Am Rukmini Devi / I Am Bob Ross" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Lakna Edilima
Written By : Meghan Read | January 14, 2022 | 133 |
| 37 | 37 | "I Am Fred Rogers" | Logan McNeil | Written By : Meghan Read | January 31, 2022 | 137 |
Season 2 (2024)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 1 | "I Am Michelangelo / I Am Dorothy Levitt" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 15, 2024 | 201 |
| 39 | 2 | "I Am Bessie Coleman / I Am King Sejong the Great" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 16, 2024 | 202 |
| 40 | 3 | "I Am Eugenie Clark / I Am Benjamin Banneker" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 17, 2024 | 203 |
| 41 | 4 | "I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 18, 2024 | 204 |
| 42 | 5 | "I Am Grandmaster Flash / I Am Mary Seacole" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 19, 2024 | 205 |
| 43 | 6 | "I Am Hedy Lamarr / I Am Archimedes" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 22, 2024 | 206 |
| 44 | 7 | "I Am James Braidwood / I Am Queen Liliʻuokalani" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 23, 2024 | 207 |
| 45 | 8 | "I Am Alvin Ailey / I Am Lucy Maud Montgomery" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 24, 2024 | 208 |
| 46 | 9 | "I Am Zelia Nuttall / I Am Jules Léotard" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 25, 2024 | 209 |
| 47 | 10 | "I Am Louis Braille / I Am Zaha Hadid" | Logan McNeil | Unknown | January 26, 2024 | 210 |
| 48 | 11 | "I Am Jim Thorpe / I Am Norval Morrisseau" | Unknown | Unknown | July 15, 2024 | 211 |
| 49 | 12 | "I Am Roberto Clemente / I Am Kristi Yamaguchi" | Unknown | Unknown | July 16, 2024 | 212 |
| 50 | 13 | "I Am Madam C.J. Walker / I Am Edwin Binney" | Unknown | Unknown | July 17, 2024 | 213 |
| 51 | 14 | "I Am William Shakespeare / I Am Katherine Johnson" | Unknown | Unknown | September 9, 2024 | 214 |
| 52 | 15 | "I Am Bruce Lee / I Am Sonia Manzano" | Unknown | Unknown | September 10, 2024 | 217 |
| 53 | 16 | "We Are Siegel and Shuster / I Am Edmonia Lewis" | TBA | TBA | October 14, 2024 | 216 |
| 54 | 17 | "I Am David Suzuki / I Am Esther Martinez" | TBA | TBA | October 15, 2024 | 218 |
| 55 | 18 | "I Am Gwen Ifill / I Am Matthew Henson" | TBA | TBA | December 9, 2024 | 215 |
| 56 | 19 | "I Am Kofi Annan / We are William and Caroline Herschel" | TBA | TBA | December 10, 2024 | 219 |
Shorts (2022)
[edit]| No. | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Puzzled" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
|
Brad revisits Marie Curie. Virtue: Perseverance | ||||
| 2 | "Happy Birthday" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
|
Yadina revisits Confucius. Virtue: Compassion | ||||
| 3 | "Fair and Square" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
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Xavier revisits Abraham Lincoln. Virtue: Honesty | ||||
| 4 | "Stand Up" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
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Yadina and Brad revisit Harriet Tubman. Virtue: Courage | ||||
| 5 | "Shell Shocked" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
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Xavier revisits George Washington Carver. Virtue: Responsibility | ||||
| 6 | "The Duet" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
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Yadina revisits Abigail Adams. Virtue: Gratitude | ||||
| 7 | "Dreidel" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
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Xavier and Yadina revisit Frederick Douglass. Virtue: Curiosity | ||||
| 8 | "Play Ball" | Unknown | July 11, 2022 | |
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Xavier, Yadina, and Brad revisit Sacagawea. Virtue: Creativity | ||||
Specials
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code [b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Movie: I Am Madam President" | Unknown | Unknown | March 16, 2020 | TBA |
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Yadina, who dreams of becoming president one day, realizes all the presidents were men. She questions if she can still be president, even though it is something no girl has done yet. The trio visit the Secret Museum, where a five-part star is shown to them. They travel to different periods in time, where they meet women who are attempting to do something that has never been done before. Yadina learns from them what is needed to do something that has never been done before, as she attempts to complete the star. She meets Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Amelia Earhart, Junko Tabei, Sally Ride and herself as an adult. Amelia Earhart is the only historical figure to be featured in both the movie and an episode. | |||||
Reference
[edit]- ^ "PBS KIDS Announces New Series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, Premiering November 11, 2019". PBS. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Brad Meltzer on Finding Heroes for "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum"". TV Shows. November 15, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ Columnist, Francine Brokaw Community. "'Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum' premieres on PBS Kids". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 2020-01-11. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "This Adorable PBS Show Will Teach Your Kids About Golda Meir". Kveller. 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ "Program > KET". KET. 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
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