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Cyberchase is a children's television show, produced by WNET New York, the flagship station of PBS, and Nelvana. This show premiered January 2002, however, the episode "The Poddleville Case" was shown in 2000 on WNET. This show is for children ages 7 to 11.
The show stars three earth kids, who are named Matt, Jackie, and Inez, and a bird-like robot creature called Digit. The three kids and Digit go on adventures to stop the evil deeds of Hacker and his two robot henchmen, Buzz and Delete. It takes place in Cyberspace, with planetlike bodies called Cybersites. Some are based on real-world places, such as Egypt, the old American West, and ancient Greece. The guardian of all Cyberspace is Motherboard, and her repairman is Dr. Marbles.
The story starts when Hacker infects Motherboard with a computer virus. At a library on Earth, while looking at a library computer, Matt, Jackie and Inez get sucked into a portal to Cyberspace. Their first adventure involves going to a island to rescue Dr. Marbles; in follow-up adventures, they strive to defeat Hacker in his evil plans, which alternate from those focusing on ruining Motherboard to those on a smaller scale in which he tries to take over a certain Cybersite.
Each CyberChase episode is followed by "Cyberchase for Real", a live-action educational supplement linking concepts learned in the show to real life experiences. The actors are in their twenties, but act in a manner similar to the children in the target audience, providing a source of amusement for anyone above that target age. This last section may be omitted from broadcasts in some regions (certainly in Australia), probably for time concerns.
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