Cookie Jar Entertainment was a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1976 as Cinar. It started out as a film and television distribution company in New York, but in the 1980s, it moved to Montreal and would go on to make many children's shows, specifically animated cartoons.
After scandals involving its top executives (one of which being convicted of fraud and sentenced to 9 years in prison), including the revelation that the Robinson Sucroe series was stolen from The Adventures of Robinson Curiosité, a pitch made by Montreal artist Claude Robinson (with the lead even being based off his own bearded likeness, who was likely a self-insert in the original pitch) and a bunch of accounting issues, the studio was bought out by former Nelvana executive Michael Hirsch, relocated to Toronto, and re-branded as Cookie Jar Entertainment in 2004. In 2008, the company acquired DiC Entertainment. In 2012, the company was acquired by DHX Media.
The company ran the Cookie Jar TV Saturday Morning Cartoon block on CBS until 2013, when it was replaced by CBS Dream Team.
List of shows that Cinar/Cookie Jar has made:
- The English dub of Adventures of the Little Koala
- Albert the Fifth Musketeer
- Animal Crackers
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (co-production with Nickelodeon, Campfire Productions and YTV)
- Arthur (first 15 seasonsnote , seasons 16 to 19 were produced by 9 Story Entertainment, and seasons 20 onward are produced by Oasis Animation), and its spin-off, Postcards from Buster
- The Babaloos
- The Baskervilles
- Bizby
- Bonjour Timothy Bronco Teddy
- A Bunch of Munsch (a series of cartoons based on the works of Canadian children's book author Robert Munsch)
- The Busy World of Richard Scarry and Busytown Mysteries
- Caillou
- Chip and Charlie
- C.L.Y.D.E.
- The Country Mouseand City Mouse Adventures
- Creep School
- Dark Oracle (under Coliseum name)
- Debra!
- The Doodlebops
- Doraemon (1979 anime, 1980's English dub, as The Adventures of Albert and Sidney)
- Dr. Xargle
- Emily Of New Moon (co-production with WIC Entertainment and Salter Street Films)
- Favorite Songs
- Flight Squad
- Gerald McBoing-Boing (the 2005 relaunch)
- Happy Castle
- The Intrepids
- Ivanhoe: The King's Knight
- Johnny Test (seasons 2 to season 5 (6 was under the DHX Media label); season 1 was produced by Warner Bros.; season 2 went under Coliseum name)
- Journey to the West: Legends of the Monkey King
- Kung Fu Dino Posse
- Lassie (the 1997 relaunch)
- The Little Lulu Show (1995-99, with HBO, Family Channel and for season 3 TV-Loonland)
- Lucha Libre USA
- Madeline (the 1988-1992 specials, co-producers with DiC Entertainment)
- Magi-Nation
- Metajets (co-produced by Sunwoo Entertainment)
- A Miss Mallard Mystery
- Million Dollar Babies (TV mini-series, co-produced with CBS and the CBC)
- The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (co-production with Nickelodeon)
- Mona the Vampire
- Mudpit
- Mumble Bumble
- Night Hood
- Noonbory and the Super 7
- The Adventures of Paddington Bear
- Papa Beavers' Storytime
- Patrol 03
- Potatoes and Dragons
- The Real Story of...
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Robinson Sucroe (co-produced by BBC)
- Rumble and Growl
- Sci Squad
- Samurai Pizza Cats (English dub)
- Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (2002 revival)
- Space Cases
- The Smoggies
- Spider Riders (co-produced by Bee Train; went under Coliseum name)
- The Twins
- Ultraseven (1985 dub, co-produced w/ Turner Program Services, not broadcast until 1994 on TNT)
- Wimzie's House
- The Wombles
- The Legend of White Fang
- Who Gets the House?
- The Whole of the Moon
- Wisdom of the Gnomes (co-produced by BRB International and Miramax)
- Will and Dewitt
- The English dubs of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz anime adaptation
- The World of David the Gnome (co-produced by BRB International and Miramax)
- World of Quest
- Young Robin Hood (co-produced by Hanna-Barbera)
- Zoboomafoo
