Stella and Sam

What I like best about Stella and Sam is that the relationships between Stella, Sam and their friends are perpetually innocent, loving and imaginative. I am not used to seeing a sister and brother have such an unremittingly constructive relationship – no put-downs, no fighting, no impatience – as they run around playing in some idyllic (likely Canadian) landscape full of harmless animals and farms. (I wonder where the parents are, though.) And it is actually plausible to a degree. We've shown it to our 5 year-old daughter and her 2 year-old brother in the hope that this show will help them and us to see how they can grow up in a little happier way. Although, maybe we should get a dog and move to the countryside!

The title song, which is also used for incidental themes during the episodes, is catchy and is a perfect fit for the show.

This might be my favourite children's TV cartoon series along with Harold and the Purple Crayon.

I am pleasantly surprised that a show with so many companies and government agencies getting their share of credits in it (as is so often the case with Canadian productions) turned out so well. I don't know if any of the people involved in its making has had or will have much of a career, but I hope that they all do.