Go, Diego, Go! is an American animated educational interactive children's television program that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 6, 2005 in the United States. Created and executive produced by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes, the series is a spin-off of Dora the Explorer and follows Dora's cousin Diego, an 8-year-old boy whose adventures frequently involve rescuing animals and protecting their environment.[1][2]
Series overview
editEpisodes
editSeason 1 (2005–2006)
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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1 | 1 | "Rescue of the Red-Eyed Tree Frogs" | George Chialtas, Sherie Pollack, and Henry Madden | Madellaine Paxson | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 6, 2005 | 101 |
Diego and Baby Jaguar have to rescue two red-eyed tree frogs floating down the river. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Diego Saves Mommy and Baby Sloth" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Nancy De Los Santos | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 7, 2005 | 102 |
Diego and a sloth, Sammy, try to save a mother sloth and her baby before a mudslide hits their tree. On the way they face several challenges. They must row across a rocky lake, tiptoe quietly past two harpy eagles, and find the right path to go down. They also have to find an animal that can help them climb a rocky mountain. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Chinta the Baby Chinchilla" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 8, 2005 | 103 |
When Diego learns of a little chinchilla who got lost from her family, he helps the chinchilla to find her way home to Chinchilla Mountain to be reunited with her family. Along their way, they face new challenges! Some of those include choosing the right path with the wrong path being filled with snakes, and finding a way up Chinchilla Mountain to get the little chinchilla back with her family. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Diego Saves Baby Humpback Whale" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, Sherie Pollack, and Kuni Tomita | Valerie Walsh and Chris Gifford | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 9, 2005 | 104 |
A baby Humpback whale is in trouble, he is stuck on a rocky island in the ocean! Diego wants to reach the island to save the whale and bring him back to his mommy. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Journey to Jaguar Mountain" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Chris Gifford | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 12, 2005 | 108 |
Baby Jaguar wants to impress his mommy by making it to the top of Jaguar Mountain all by himself. To do this, he must climb, reach and jump. Diego and Mama Jaguar follow Baby Jaguar as he climbs up Jaguar Mountain. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "Three Little Condors" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Chris Gifford | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 13, 2005 | 105 |
Diego and Alicia have been nursing three little baby condors, but now it is time for them to get their own home! The condors are thrilled that they are being adopted, and they get a new mami and papi. But there is a problem, condors cannot fly at night. So the condors and Diego must hurry and get them home before nightfall. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "Pepito's Penguin School" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Valerie Walsh | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 14, 2005 | 106 |
Diego and Alicia are far away from home for the first time ever! They are on a trip doing some research and animal help in Antarctica, and this trip proves to be a busy one! A little penguin and his name is Pepito the Emperor Penguin and he is lost and cannot find his way to his new school. Diego must help him find where his new school is, and how to get there. | |||||||
8 | 8 | "Rainforest Race" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Rosemary Contreras | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 15, 2005 | 109 |
An Armadillo wants to compete in the big Rainforest Race, but sadly, she cannot find a team to join. Diego decides that he will join her team, and together they participate in the games. | |||||||
9 | 9 | "The Mommy Macaw" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | September 16, 2005 | 107 |
A young Scarlet Macaw and his baby egg brother or sister have been found by Alicia. Their tucked safely into their nest, but their mommy is in big trouble! Diego goes on a search to find their mommy, then finds her stuck between two rocks and unable to get out on her own. After he rescues her, he has to find a way to treat her, so they can make their trip back to the nest and the baby macaw, so her little egg hatches. | |||||||
10 | 10 | "Linda the Llama Saves Carnival" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | October 10, 2005 | 110 |
Diego rescues Linda the Llama who is stuck in a mud puddle and is delivering two baskets where one is filled with fruit and another basket is filled with musical instruments that she had to take to the parade up on top of the mountain. | |||||||
11 | 11 | "A Booboo on the Pygmy marmoset" | Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Madden | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Anna Burns, Butch Datuin, Carol Datuin, Miyuki Hoshikawa, Kenji Ono, and Jose Silverio | January 23, 2006 | 112 |
Diego and Alicia must rescue a father and little pygmy marmoset from the prickly thorns. They need to cure the pygmy marmosets' booboos to make them feel better. | |||||||
12 | 12 | "A Blue Morpho Butterfly is Born!" | George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Madellaine Paxson | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Miyuki Hoshikawa, and Jose Silverio | January 25, 2006 | 113 |
Baby Jaguar growls too loud and accidentally frightens a new full-grown blue morpho butterfly away. Diego sets out to rescue the butterfly in a cold cave and bring him back home safely. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Cool Water for Ana the Anaconda" | George Chialtas, Henry Madden, and Sherie Pollack | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Anna Burns and Norma Klinger | January 26, 2006 | 114 |
Diego rescues Ana the Anaconda who got separated from her friends when the river has been dried out. Diego needs to bring Ana the Anaconda to the water where all of her friends are. | |||||||
14 | 14 | "Linda the Librarian" | George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Madden | Rosemary Contreras | Kuni Tomita (director) Anna Burns, Butch Datuin, Carol Datuin, Enrique May, Kenji Ono, and Jose Silverio | February 6, 2006 | 111 |
Linda the Llama is delivering all of the library books to a new library on top of the mountain. | |||||||
15 | 15 | "Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears" | Matt Engstrom, Henry Madden, and Allan Jacobsen | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Carol Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | February 20, 2006 | 115 |
Diego and Dora team up to help Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears by making a new home in the tallest trees in the cloud forest. | |||||||
16–17 | 16–17 | "Diego's Great Dinosaur Rescue" | George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Madden | Valerie Walsh | Kuni Tomita (director) Anna Burns, Butch Datuin, Carol Datuin, Enrico Santana, Jose Silverio, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | March 7, 2006 | 116–117 |
In this special two-part episode, a Maiasaura named Maia, a duck-billed dinosaur has lost her family in a big storm. It's up to Diego, Alicia, Dora, and Baby Jaguar to travel back in time to the time of dinosaurs to help Maia find her family. | |||||||
18 | 18 | "Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue" | George Chialtas | Valerie Walsh | Kuni Tomita (director) Butch Datuin, Miyuki Hoshikawa, and Enrique May | March 19, 2006 | 118 |
Diego and Dora team up as they rescue a Maned wolf pup who got separated from his mommy and brothers and sisters. | |||||||
19 | 19 | "Baby Jaguar to the Rescue" | Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Madden | Ligiah Villalobos | Kuni Tomita (director) Anna Burns, Miyuki Hoshikawa, and Norma Klinger | March 26, 2006 | 119 |
Baby Jaguar is going to be an official animal rescuer. But first, he needs to rescue three animals in trouble then he gets an official animal rescue patch. | |||||||
20 | 20 | "Diego Saves the Sea Turtles" | George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Madden | Chris Gifford | Kuni Tomita (director) The Answer Studio, Fumio Maezono, and Kuni Tomita | July 10, 2006 | 120 |
Tuga and the other leatherback sea turtles need to lay their eggs, but the beach is too dirty. So Diego, Alicia, and their parents clean up some garbage, then it's time for the turtles to lay their eggs. |
Season 2 (2006–2008)
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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21 | 1 | "Little Kinkajou is in Beehive Trouble" | George Chialtas | Ligiah Villalobos | Carol Datuin, Enrico Santana, Jose Silverio, and Kuni Tomita | October 4, 2006 | 203 |
Little Kinkajou got his head stuck in a beehive. Papa Kinkajou joins Diego in a mission to rescue Little Kinkajou before the bees return. | |||||||
22 | 2 | "Diego Saves Baby River Dolphin" | Matt Engstrom | Jorge Aguirre | Enrico Santana, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | October 2, 2006 | 201 |
Baby River Dolphin got stuck in a puddle after a rainstorm, but he must get back home because today is the day he'll turn pink, like a Big River Dolphin. | |||||||
23 | 3 | "Diego and Baby Humpback to the Rescue" | Matt Engstrom | Valerie Walsh | Anna Burns, Butch Datuin, Enrico Santana, and Jose Silverio | October 3, 2006 | 202 |
King Humpback Whale has his tail caught under a sunken ship. Diego and Baby Humpback set off on an ocean journey to rescue the King Humpback Whale. | |||||||
24 | 4 | "Macky the Macaroni Penguin" | George Chialtas | Ligiah Villalobos | Carol Datuin and Jose Silverio | October 5, 2006 | 204 |
Diego finds a lost newborn penguin and her name is Macky the Macaroni Penguin. Diego must take her back home to penguin island and meet Alicia there to see all the other baby penguins being born. | |||||||
25 | 5 | "The Iguana Sing Along" | Matt Engstrom | Rosemary Contreras | Enrico Santana and Ysty Veluz | October 17, 2006 | 205 |
The Iguana sing along is about to start, but one of the iguanas is missing. Diego races against the setting sun to get Iggy the Iguana back home in time for the sing along. | |||||||
26 | 6 | "Panchita the Prairie Dog Finds a New Prairie" | Matt Engstrom | Jorge Aguirre | Anna Burns and Butch Datuin | December 4, 2006 | 206 |
Diego and Alicia find Panchita, the Mexican prairie dog, who needs to find a nice prairie for her family. Later, Diego and Alicia head out with Panchita and her family. | |||||||
27 | 7 | "Diego Saves Christmas!" | George Chialtas | Chris Gifford | Carol Datuin and Jose Silverio | December 8, 2006 | 207 |
Diego is determined to save Christmas. He has to find a strong animal to pull Santa's sleigh out of a snowdrift. | |||||||
28 | 8 | "The Great Jaguar Rescue!" | Allan Jacobsen | Chris Gifford | Enrico Santana and Ysty Veluz | January 15, 2007 | 208 |
The Bobos have taken Baby Jaguar's growl away and locked it in a magic bottle. We have to catch them and get his growl back before the big jaguar party. | |||||||
29 | 9 | "Diego the Hero" | George Chialtas | Valerie Walsh | Enrico Santana and Ysty Veluz | February 5, 2007 | 209 |
Alicia is taking some sick and hurt penguins to the Snowy Rescue Center, when her boat gets stuck in the ice. Diego and Baby Jaguar set out to help Alicia rescue the penguins. | |||||||
30 | 10 | "Sammy's Valentine" | Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Enrico Santana, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | February 14, 2007 | 210 |
It is Valentine's Day and all of the Rainforest animals are trading valentines, but poor Sammy the Sloth is so slow. Diego and Sammy have to save Valentine's Day for Lulu the Sloth before the sun goes down. | |||||||
31 | 11 | "The Great Roadrunner Race" | Allan Jacobsen | Leyani Diaz | Anna Burns and Butch Datuin | March 5, 2007 | 211 |
Diego is at the desert visiting his friend Roady Roadrunner, who is about to compete in The Great Roadrunner Race. Roady is nervous because he has not done this before. | |||||||
32 | 12 | "The Tapir's Trip Home" | Matt Engstrom | Rosemary Contreras | Anna Burns and Butch Datuin | March 6, 2007 | 212 |
Diego must find Tapir a new home - a home that has grass for her to eat, water to swim in, and clouds to keep her nice and cool. | |||||||
33 | 13 | "Jorge the Little Hawk Learns to Migrate" | George Chialtas | Ligiah Villalobos | Carol Datuin and Jose Silverio | March 7, 2007 | 213 |
Jorge the Hawk is ready to migrate. We helped Diego and Alicia build a birdplane that has the same colored wings, beak, and tail feathers as Jorge's so he can follow the plane home to the warm forest. | |||||||
34 | 14 | "Giant Octopus to the Rescue!" | George Chialtas | Ligiah Villalobos | Anna Burns and Butch Datuin | March 8, 2007 | 214 |
Giant Octopus must help Diego rescue some ocean animals who are trapped near the underwater volcanoes. | |||||||
35 | 15 | "An Underwater Mystery" | Matt Engstrom | Valerie Walsh | Carol Datuin and Jose Silverio | June 26, 2007 | 215 |
Diego and Alicia must determine what kind of fish Lucy is so that they can return her to her home. | |||||||
36–37 | 16–17 | "Diego's Safari Rescue" | George Chialtas, Matt Engstrom, and Henry Lenardin-Madden | Ligiah Villalobos | Butch Datuin, Carol Datuin, Enrico Santana, Jose Silverio, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | October 8, 2007 | 216–217 |
Diego, Alicia and Baby Jaguar visit their friend Juma in East Africa; Juma tells a story about elephants. When a mean Magician, who used to be a mosquito, turned them into a giant rocks, so Diego, Alicia, Juma and Baby Jaguar must find Erin the Elephant and a hidden magic drum that can break the Magician's spell and help all the animals in Africa. | |||||||
38 | 18 | "Diego and Alicia Save the Otters!" | Matt Engstrom | Rosemary Contreras | Anna Burns and Butch Datuin | October 16, 2007 | 218 |
Diego and Alicia are playing hide-and-seek with Oscar and Oli the otters, when the Bobo Brothers make a wave that pushes Oli and Oscar down a river - in different directions. | |||||||
39 | 19 | "Alicia Saves the Crocodile" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Chris Gifford | Enrico Santana and Ysty Veluz | February 1, 2008 | 219 |
Kyra the Crocodile is lost in a dirty city pond. Alicia sets out on her Rescue Racer to rescue Kyra and bring her back home to her river. |
Season 3 (2008–2009)
editSerena Kerrigan replaces Constanza Sperakis as the voice of Alicia.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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40 | 1 | "Kicho's Magic Flute" | George Chialtas | Chris Gifford | Butch Datuin and Ysty Veluz | March 2, 2008 | 305 |
Diego is visiting Kicho, an indigenous boy from the Andes who is an expert in music and instruments. When Tranimal, a sneaky Magician, takes the magic flute, they and their friend, Falcon must get it back. | |||||||
41 | 2 | "Green Iguana Helps Abuelito Plant a New Strawberry Farm" | George Chialtas | Ligiah Villalobos | Carol Datuin and Curt Walstead | February 5, 2008 | 307 |
It's the growing season and it's time for Abuelito's Strawberry Festival, but when a strong Windy Wind blows all the strawberries away, Alicia must ask Diego for help. | |||||||
42 | 3 | "Rainforest Rhapsody" | Henry Lenardin-Madden | Henry Lenardin-Madden | Miyuki Hoshikawa and Henry Lenardin-Madden | March 3, 2008 | 301 |
Diego and the pair of singing Red-Eyed Tree Frogs are practicing for the Rainforest Recital. Alicia is getting the other animals ready for the concert, but a puma scares them away. | |||||||
43 | 4 | "Gorilla Fun" | George Chialtas | Kuni Tomita and Kevin Hopps | Butch Datuin, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | March 4, 2008 | 302 |
In Africa, Diego's friend Juma introduces him to a baby mountain gorilla. The baby gorilla can be the king at the gorilla king party for all of the mountain gorillas. | |||||||
44 | 5 | "Rhea is an Animal Rescuer" | George Chialtas | Luisa Dantas | Carol Datuin and Jose Silverio | March 7, 2008 | 220 |
Diego helps a Rhea - he can't fly, but that's okay because there's other things he can do - like running super fast. Diego invites him to be an animal rescuer! | |||||||
45–46 | 6–7 | "Tuga Helps the Moon" | Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Butch Datuin, Carol Datuin, Enrico Santana, Jose Silverio, Kuni Tomita, Arthur Valencia, Ysty Veluz, and Curt Walstead | August 18, 2008 | 303 |
Diego and Tuga help Luna put the pieces of the moon back together on her and help her get back into the night sky, so she can shine her light to lead the baby sea turtles to the ocean. | |||||||
47 | 8 | "Whistling Willie Finds a Friend" | George Chialtas | Valerie Walsh Valdes | Carol Datuin and Curt Walstead | April 21, 2008 | 304 |
When it's time for Willie, a Whistling duck to go home, Willie doesn't want to leave his friends, so Diego and Baby Jaguar take Willie home together. | |||||||
48 | 9 | "Super Flying Squirrel to the Rescue!" | George Chialtas | Jeff DeGrandis | Enrico Santana and Jose Silverio | April 28, 2008 | 308 |
Diego encounters a Flying Squirrel trying to save a little pygmy marmoset, but the marmoset is too heavy and Diego rescues the two by catching them both. | |||||||
49 | 10 | "Diego and Porcupine Save the Piñata!" | Henry Lenardin-Madden | Jorge Aguirre | Enrico Santana and Jose Silverio | May 2, 2008 | 306 |
Diego and Alicia are having a party for Porcupine's birthday, but the Bobos accidentally tie balloons on the pinata and send it floating in the air. | |||||||
50 | 11 | "It's a Bug's World!" | Allan Jacobsen | Ligiah Villalobos | Enrico Santana and Jose Silverio | May 12, 2008 | 312 |
Diego and Kicho use the magic flute to shrink themselves down to the size of an insect in order to enter the secret river. | |||||||
51 | 12 | "Save the Giant Tortoises" | Allan Jacobsen | Valerie Walsh Valdes | Allan Jacobsen and Arthur Valencia | June 3, 2008 | 310 |
Dora, Diego, and Louie, a lonely giant tortoise travel to the Lost Island in the Galápagos Islands, in search of Another giant tortoise. | |||||||
52 | 13 | "Alicia and Whitetail to the Rescue!" | Henry Lenardin-Madden | Rosemary Contreras | Butch Datuin, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | June 6, 2008 | 311 |
Alicia and a white-tailed deer named Whitetail must save a baby deer that got stuck in a bush from an upcoming rock slide. | |||||||
53 | 14 | "Manatee's Mermaid Rescue!" | Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Carol Datuin and Curt Walstead | June 20, 2008 | 316 |
Diego reads with Manatee his favorite mermaid story, and together the pair go on a storybook adventure to rescue the Mermaids and their underwater city. | |||||||
54 | 15 | "Freddie the Fruit Bat Saves Halloween!" | Henry Lenardin-Madden | Rosemary Contreras | Allan Jacobsen, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | October 27, 2008 | 313 |
Diego, Alicia and Freddie the Fruit Bat hear cries for help while they are setting up trick-or-treating booths for Halloween. | |||||||
55 | 16 | "Egyptian Camel Adventure" | George Chialtas | Ligiah Villalobos | Butch Datuin, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | November 21, 2008 | 314 |
Diego is visiting his new friend Medina in Egypt, but when the river dries out, they must find a way to fill it up for all the camels (and the other animals) to have enough water to drink. | |||||||
56 | 17 | "A New Flamingo Mommy" | Allan Jacobsen | Ligiah Villalobos | Enrico Santana and Jose Silverio | March 5, 2009 | 315 |
Today is the day that all the flamingo eggs will hatch, but there's either one or two rescues needed before Diego gets to welcome the new baby flamingoes. | |||||||
57 | 18 | "The Bobo's Mother's Day!" | George Chialtas | Valerie Walsh Valdes | Butch Datuin, Enrico Santana, Jose Silverio, Kuni Tomita, Arthur Valencia, Ysty Veluz, and Curt Walstead | May 9, 2009 | 317 |
It's Mother's Day in the rainforest, and everyone is celebrating except for the Bobos, who forgot! They and Diego lend a hand to make it the best Mother's Day ever. | |||||||
58–59 | 19–20 | "The Great Polar Bear Rescue" | Nancy Avery, George Chialtas, and Allan Jacobsen | Chris Gifford | Butch Datuin, Carol Datuin, Enrico Santana, Jose Silverio, Kuni Tomita, Arthur Valencia, Ysty Veluz, and Curt Walstead | September 18, 2009 | 318 |
Diego and Baby Jaguar are off to the Arctic to help a mother polar bear and find her babies. It's a big rescue, for sure, and even Alicia and Dora get involved. |
Season 4 (2009–2010)
editBrandon Zambrano replaces Jake T. Austin as the voice of Diego and Gabriela Aisenberg replaces Serena Kerrigan the voice of Alicia.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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60 | 1 | "Diego Reunites Hippo & Oxpecker" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Brian Bromberg | George Chialtas, Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Allan Jacobsen, and Ysty Veluz | September 28, 2009 | 401 |
In the grasslands of Africa, Diego was helping Hippopotamus relocate to Hippo Lake, after his old river habitat was being drained by a new neighboring town. Oxpecker, a friend of the Hippopotamus due to their symbiotic relationship (oxpeckers eat bugs off other animals' back to clean them), went to get some water plants from the old river to feed Hippopotamus, but fell in and was being sucked into the drainage pipe. After hearing the Oxpecker's call for help, and locating him via Click, Diego and Hippopotamus make their return journey back, through a field of tall grass (obscuring large rock obstacles, when they have to avoid with the assistance of a Giraffe giving directions) and across hot terrain (assisted by some elephants, who use water from their trunks to cool the overheating Hippopotamus). When they reach the old river, Hippopotamus scares away some crocodiles and rescues Oxpecker from the lake by blocking the drainage pipe with his body. | |||||||
61 | 2 | "Diego's Orangutan Rescue" | Henry Lenardin-Madden | Juan Carlos Perez | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin and Allan Jacobsen | September 29, 2009 | 402 |
In the rainforests of Borneo (Indonesia), Diego united Baby Orangutan, who he found while canoeing along the river, with Baby Orangutan's Mommy and sister in a fruit tree forest that his friend Burgin, a fellow animal rescuer, had been planting. When Baby Orangutan goes into the canoe and loses the oar, he floats out-of-control along with the river current. Diego uses Click to locate Baby Orangutan and work out where the river current is taking him. Diego and Big Sister Orangutan swing from branch-to-branch along the river, even through a swinging bamboo obstacle, to follow the canoe. During their travels, Diego has to rescue both Baby Orangutan (using a version of the "follow the leader" game, that Diego taught Baby Orangutan back at the fruit tree forest, to show Baby Orangutan how to duck under three naturally occurring river cave overpasses) and then Big Sister Orangutan (pulling her out of the river and then to shore, with a "zip cord" from Rescue Pack and then the assistance of an elephant). Finally, both Diego and Big Sister Orangutan swing over the river and pull Baby Orangutan out of the canoe, just before the canoe crashes on some giant rocks. Once again using the "follow the leader" game to get Baby Orangutan to raise his arms, thereby assisting in his own rescue. They all use the forest's vines to swing back to the fruit tree forest, where Baby Orangutan is united with his family and his favorite fruit. | |||||||
62 | 3 | "Where is Okapi's Brother?" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Jorge Aguirre | Enrico Vilbar Santana and Jose Silverio | September 30, 2009 | 403 |
In the rainforests of Central Africa, Diego and Alicia were playing "hide-and-seek" with the okapis amongst the trees. However, the lack of hiding spaces, due to logging, causes Okapi and his brother stray too far. Diego takes his Mobile Rescue Unit and follows the lost okapis' fresh footprints (sorting these out from other animals' footprints with his Field Journal) and tries to spot the okapis with his Spotting Scope (looking out for their stripes and long purple tongues). Diego initially finds Okapi hiding behind a rock, in part of the logged forest, but not his Brother. During the search for Okapi's brother, they rescue some animals, a Zebra (who is sinking into wet sand, using the Mobile Rescue Unit's crane) and a baby giraffe (whose head is stuck in a tree, using the Mobile Rescue Unit's pedal operated lift and Okapi's long purple tongue to pull away the branches), and follow the rumors from these rescued animals about Okapi's brother's location. Diego finds Okapi's brother behind a rock on a mountain (who they rescue from leopards, avoiding them using Okapi's acute hearing as a guide) and return both of them to their African rainforest home. | |||||||
63 | 4 | "Puffin Fish Adventure" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Carol Delmindo Datuin and Ysty Veluz | October 1, 2009 | 404 |
In Greenland, Diego was assisting a puffin (Puffy) babysit ten baby puffins. All of the baby puffins could neither fly, nor swim (due to having no swimming feathers yet), with Diego even having to teach the littlest one how to waddle. After using Click to find out where there were fish for the Baby Puffins to eat, i.e. Fish Canyon (where the parent puffins were hunting), and how to get there, they all set off there in Rescue Boat. While going past some giant waves, two of the puffin babies are almost eaten by a seagull when they fall into the water, but Diego frightens the seagull off by making an "Ar, ar!" puffin call and fishes them out of the water using Rescue Boat's ejectable life preserve. Upon hitting some impenetrable ice, they continue by foot over the ice, towards where the whales (which also eat fish) are conjugating (following Diego's Papi's advice by sending the biggest puffin, Puffy, to fly ahead to give directions). They get a lift the rest of the way to Fishy Canyon on a whale's back. When Puffy is attacked by an Orca while diving for fish, Diego uses the clapping sound made by the thrashing of his whale ride's tail to scare the orca away. After Diego calls all the puffin parents together to their babies (again using the puffin call), the Puffin parents decide that Fishy Canyon will be their new home. | |||||||
64 | 5 | "Diego and Dora Help Baby Monarch Get to the Festival" | Allan Jacobsen and Henry Lenardin-Madden | Luisa Dantas | Carol Datuin and Curt Walstead | November 25, 2009 | 309 |
Today is the day that all of the Monarch Butterflies are arrived to the warm forest at the Monarch Butterfly Festival so that everyone is ready for the festival to begin. But just then, Diego gets a called from his cousin Dora and telling him that a Baby Monarch won't come out of her cocoon. Diego and Dora have to help Baby Monarch get to the festival so that all of the Monarch Butterflies can start the festival. NOTE: This is the final episode where Kathleen Herles provides the voice of Dora in this series, as with being her last time performing the character entirely. | |||||||
65 | 6 | "Diego's Ringed Seal Rescue" | George Chialtas, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Lenardin-Madden | Rosemary Contreras | Enrico Vilbar Santana and Jose Silverio | February 19, 2010 | 406 |
In the Arctic, using their snowmobiles, Diego, Alicia, and Baby Jaguar visit a Rescue Center for ringed seals, needed for when the melting of the baby seals' snow caves leave them unprotected from the elements and polar bears. Upon hearing the distress calls of a baby ringed seal (Susie), and seeing (via Click) that this animal is being menaced by a polar bear as her snow cave melts, Diego transforms his convertible snow mobile into a jet ski to travel there. Upon arrival, Susie wiggles over some intervening sheet thin ice to Diego, a move preventing the polar bear from following. On their journey back, Diego looks after the baby seal, as they navigate on paths through the floating ice (especially when they have to avoid the polar bear again), as Susie searches for food and when they both travel through a snowstorm. Diego even teaches Susie basic seal movements, such as launching itself onto the ice from the water and even wiggling its nose. Close to the Rescue Center, Susie must again avoid the polar bear, the third time, this time by diving in and out of some holes in the ice made by some of the other Rescue Center ringed seal inhabitants. When the bear gets stuck in one of those holes, Diego suddenly rescues the polar bear as well with the use of a shovel to dig the animal out, warning the bear not to return due to the abundance of those holes in that area. Susie joins the safety of the Rescue Center and the other ringed seal inhabitants, thus completing Diego's mission. | |||||||
66 | 7 | "All Aboard the Giant Panda Express!" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Jorge Aguirre | Carol Delmindo Datuin and Ysty Veluz | March 15, 2010 | 405 |
In the mountains of China, Diego and Baby Jaguar were looking for Giant Pandas, when they heard a distress growling call coming from a hungry panda (Pan Pan), who was slipping off a precious in his attempts to reach the last piece of bamboo on the mountain. Diego rescues Pan Pan and resolved take him to Bamboo Mountain, where such food is plentiful. Via Diego's video watch, Yang, a fellow animal rescuer at Bamboo Mountain, informs Diego that some pandas, that went looking for bamboo, are also missing, including Pan Pan's grandfather (Grandpa Panda), Pan Pan's mother (Mommy Panda), Pan Pan's baby sister (Baby Panda), and the Panda Cub Twins. Diego and Pan Pan take a train (The Giant Panda Express) and retrieve them, locating them all with Diego's Panda Tracker and then his Spotting Scope (by looking for black and white fur). In the snow fields (first stop), they rescue Grandpa Panda (by waking him up just before a wind created rolling snow ball was going to hit him). In the tall trees (second stop), they meet Mommy Panda and rescue Baby Panda (caught up a tree that she was using as a vantage point to find bamboo, a tree too thin for the mother to climb, but which Diego can climb using his Sharp Panda Gloves). In the rock caves (third stop), they rescue the Panda Twins (from some clouded leopards, which Grandpa Panda scares away with his growls). Diego brings all these hungry Pandas, via the train, to their new home on Bamboo Mountain, thus completing his mission. | |||||||
67 | 8 | "Bengal Tiger Makes a Wish" | George Chialtas | Juan Carlos Perez | Jose Silverio, Kuni Tomita, and Ysty Veluz | March 16, 2010 | 407 |
In the forests of India, after a big rainstorm, Diego responds to the distress calls of a bengal tiger (Benji), who was caught in a wire, and rescues it. Diego pledges to help this lost tiger achieve his wish to get back to his mother at the magical Wishing Tree. Following Click's directions, they journey to the Wishing Tree, helping several animals along the way. Diego and Benji help some baby parrots, after Benji climbs their tree and removes some branches that have fallen over the baby parrots' nest (the rescued birds subsequently wish that the sun would shine, so that the flowers would open). After swimming across the wild and wavy river, Diego and Benji help a mother duck by scaring away two mugger crocodiles menacing her riverside nest with hatching duckling eggs (the mother duck subsequently wishes the river would calm down, so her babies could go swimming). At the Tiger Temple, they meet Shanti, a fellow animal rescuer, who has always had a wish to open a tiger reserve. They also assist a little tiger to find its way out of the temple, who wishes that there were more tigers to play with. Diego and Benji get to the Wishing Tree, where Benji's mother's wish to see Benji again is granted. Benji (whose original wish was the same as his mother's wish) is allowed to make an additional wish, and he wishes that the wishes made by all of their new friends that they made along their journey were granted. All the animals wishes start be realized, concluding with Shanti and Diego pledging, and then building, a tiger reserved at the Wishing Tree, to provide a safe place for all of the tigers to live. | |||||||
68 | 9 | "Leaping Lemurs" | George Chialtas | Jorge Aguirre | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Enrico Vilbar Santana, and Jose Silverio | March 17, 2010 | 408 |
On the island of Madagascar, Diego and Baby Jaguar are returning some native animals (using the Rescue Boat), that had been inappropriately taken away to be used as pets, when they notice that an unhappy sifaka lemur (Sara) cannot find her way back to her family, due to being away too long. Using Click to locate and give directions in order to get to the other sifaka lemurs. Diego and Baby Jaguar endeavor to reunite Sara with her family. They go past the Spiky Trees, where Sara (using her tough hands) and Diego (using his tough Lemur Gloves) climb a spiky tree to rescue a brown lemur whose tail is stuck on a breaking branches spiky thorns, thus allowing the brown lemur to return to his family. After helping Sara defend herself from a fossa (by hoping around it to make it too dizzy to attack), then they go past the Rocky Caves, where Diego helps a mouse lemur find his family within those dark caves (using his flash light to locate the lemur's mother by her shining yellow eyes). As they reunite each different species of lemur with their families, they gradually cheer Sara up. Finally, following directions from a group of ring-tailed lemurs, they go to the rainforest and deliver Sara back to her sifaka lemur family, catching up to them by bouncing from tree-to-tree (with Diego using a special bouncing boot feature on his boots to accompany Sara), making Sara super happy and completing Diego's mission. | |||||||
69 | 10 | "Diego Saves the Beavers" | Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Carol Delmindo Datuin and Enrico Vilbar Santana | March 18, 2010 | 409 |
In the mountains of Canada, Diego and Billy the Beaver are building a dam to save a chipmunks' home from an overflow due to some recent flood water (caused by the rapid melting of mountain snow). Alicia informs Diego (via his video watch) that Billy's family, who hadn't finished building their dam, were in the path of a oncoming giant river flood wave. Following Click's directions and using a Kayak, created by converting Diego's Rescue Pack, Diego accompanies Billy downstream, and ahead of the oncoming flood wave, avoiding obstacles such as rocks, floating logs, even the Bobo Brothers who were mischievously creating whirlpools. At the Water Slide section, Billy saves some frogs by rolling a log to block the approaching water from entering their pond inlet, and at the prickly branches section, Billy rescues a deer by chomping some of the branches entangling it. The mission is completed when Diego and Billy reach the dam of Billy's family and build it up sufficiently to survive the oncoming wave. Alicia arrives with other animals she has saved, who decide to permanently shelter at this dam where it is safe. | |||||||
70 | 11 | "Ocean Animal Rescuer" | Allan Jacobsen | Jorge Aguirre | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Jose Silverio, and Ysty Veluz | April 22, 2010 | 410 |
Off the coast of Mexico, Bottlenose (a Bottlenose Dolphin) tells Diego (in his Rescue Dinghy) of his dream to be an Animal Rescuer, like Diego and Baby Humpback (the humpback whale), ever since Diego and Baby Humpback both rescued Bottlenose (sinking when stuck in a net, but brought to the surface by Diego and Baby Humpback and then torn free). They remember back to the previous times that both Baby Humpback and Bottlenose used their fast swimming speed to save some baby sea turtles (when Bottlenose and Baby Humpback scared away some menacing sharks) and even Diego himself (when Bottlenose guided Diego and his Rescue Speedboat through the fog and between rocks to get back to his Papi, who had called Diego back home for dinner on his Video Watch). Alerted to an oil spill by Alicia, Diego and Bottlenose spot Baby Humpback (using Diego's Spotting Scope to locate the whale's blowhole spray) trying to warn the coastal animals about the approaching oil all by himself. Bottlenose and Diego (riding on his back) jump three intervening coral reefs to join Baby Humpback, where they combine their effort to splash their tails to ward of the oil, which has now encompassed them all, until Alicia arrives to suck the oil up with an her Oil Vacuum. Upon completing their mission to save Baby Humpback and clean up the oil, they recognize Bottlenose's skills as an Ocean Animal Rescuer. | |||||||
71 | 12 | "Welcome Home, Lion Cub" | George Chialtas, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Lenardin-Madden | Jorge Aguirre | George Chialtas, Carol Delmindo Datuin, Pete Mekis, Edemer Santos, and Ysty Veluz | June 18, 2010 | 411 |
In the grasslands of Tanzania (in East Africa), at an Africa Animal Rescue Center, Diego and Baby Jaguar help a Lion (Daddy Lion) escort his son (Lion Cub) back to their pride, where his mother, brother, sisters, and all his cousins, have organized a welcome back party. While Click is showing them the quickest way to get to the party, they discover that some of Lion Cub's family are in various forms of trouble along that route. At the river, Daddy Lion catches Baby Lion out of the river just before Baby Lion goes over a waterfall, when the tree branch the animal was hanging off breaks. Further on, Daddy Lion cuts Cousin Lion out of a net, that Diego has released from a tree, and then another net when Lion Cub gets caught in a similar net trap himself. The Lion Cub, after being realized, in turn cuts down a number of other unsprung net traps. Along the way the Lion Cub is mentored in various skills such as recognizing Lion tracks, creeping and crawling passed sleeping elephants, spotting Lions hiding in the grass (when they meet up with Sister Lion), and roaring loud (to divert a stampede of buffaloes). Upon completing the mission of safely escorting Lion Cub to his party, they realize that Lion Cub has become a lot like his father. | |||||||
72–73 | 13–14 | "Diego's International Rescue League" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Carol Delmindo Datuin, Gary Hartle, Pete Mekis, Enrico Vilbar Santana, Edemer Santos, Jose Silverio, and Ysty Veluz | September 24, 2010 | 412 |
Diego and his father (World Animal Rescuer) travel by helicopter to Rescue Island (a special island with different animal habitats from around the world) where Diego and his team (each experienced in different rescue environments: Juma - deserts and grasslands of Africa, Shanti - forests of India, Burgin - ocean waters around the world and rainforests of Borneo (Indonesia), and Yang - mountains of China) are to be tested in order to obtain their World Rescue Badges, thus each officially becoming World Animal Rescuers. The test involves rescuing five different mystery animals eggs, stored in special heated cases, which are hidden around Rescue Island. To start the race Diego's team works in relay to complete an initial traditional obstacle course (tire run - Juma, cargo net crawl - Burgin, balance beam - Yang, zip line - Shanti, and climbing wall - Diego), collecting the first egg upon completion, from which hatches a sulcata tortoise.
Having completed all five egg missions, returning just before the race deadline, Diego and his team each officially become World Animal Rescuers. NOTE: This is a double-length episode in two-parts and the thirteenth and fourteenth episode of the fourth season and the finale of the fourth season. |
Season 5 (2010–2011)
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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74 | 1 | "Diego Rescues Prince Vicuna" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Juan Carlos Perez | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Carol Delmindo Datuin, Gary Hartle, Enrico Vilbar Santana, Jose Silverio, and Ysty Veluz | November 5, 2010 | 501 |
75 | 2 | "Koala's Birthday Hug" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Rosemary Contreras | Enrico Vilbar Santana and Jose Silverio | February 7, 2011 | 502 |
76 | 3 | "To Babysit a Bobo" | George Chialtas | Brian Bromberg | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Carol Delmindo Datuin, Gary Hartle, Enrico Vilbar Santana, Jose Silverio, and Ysty Veluz | February 8, 2011 | 503 |
77 | 4 | "Pampas Cat and Friends Help the Rescue Center" | George Chialtas | Maria Escobedo | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Enrico Vilbar Santana, Edemer Santos, Jose Silverio, and Ysty Veluz | February 9, 2011 | 504 |
78 | 5 | "Cotton-Top Tamarin Cave Rescue" | George Chialtas, Allan Jacobsen, and Henry Lenardin-Madden | Maria Escobedo | Carol Delmindo Datuin, Gary Hartle, Enrico Vilbar Santana, Jose Silverio, and Ysty Veluz | February 10, 2011 | 505 |
79–80 | 6–7 | "Fiercest Animals!" | George Chialtas and Allan Jacobsen | Jorge Aguirre | Bismarck "Butch" Datuin, Carol Delmindo Datuin, Enrico Vilbar Santana, and Jose Silverio | September 16, 2011 | 506 |
While Diego and Alicia are giving a cable car guided tour of the Animal Rescue Center to Rosita and Martin, they spot a mother duck's missing duckling in a wounded crocodile's lake enclosure. Diego saves the duckling using Alicia's Lasso as a vine and Alicia then goes off to return the duckling to her mother in Rescue Lake. To dispel Rosita and Martin's misperception that fierce animals are mean, Diego takes the children on a tour of his password-protected (password: "Animales Feroces") Adventure Cave, where Diego has stored numerous mementos and digital images from his adventures with fierce animals, telling various stories of fierce animals that have kept their homes and families safe using their ferocity:
At the conclusion of Diego's telling of these five stories, Alicia brings Diego's attention to a distressed jaguar who is lost in the town. Travelling out in his Rescue Rover, Diego repairs the Big Jaguar's injury (extracting a nail from its foot) and then assists Big Jaguar to crawling out of the town, thereby avoiding scaring its human inhabitants. Diego takes the Rescue Rover back to the Adventure Cave, where Alicia, Rosita, and Martin have been watching the rescue on the monitor and have put up a new picture on one of the cave walls' screens featuring the Big Jaguar that Diego has just rescued. Note: This is a double-length episode in two-parts and the sixth and seventh episode of the fifth season and the finale of the fifth season. It also serves as the series finale. |
References
edit- ^ "Go Diego Go! - Nick Jr". Nick Jr. Channel. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
- ^ Jeanne Spreier (September 5, 2005). "Dora's cousin, Diego, takes stage on Tuesday". Knight Ridder. Retrieved April 14, 2014.