Dora Visits Cousin Diego's Animal Rescue Center on A New Episode of the #1 Preschool Series, Go, Diego, Go!

Dora Visits Cousin Diego's Animal Rescue Center on A New Episode of the #1 Preschool Series, Go, Diego, Go!

President's Day, Monday, February 20 on Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. Presents 'Ready, Set, Rescue!' -- A Five-Hour President's Day Marathon of Go, Diego, Go! Episodes on Monday, February 20

(*Tape and art available upon request)

NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Diego and Dora team up to help bring two lost little bears back home on a new episode of Nick Jr.'s hit preschool series Go, Diego, Go!, entitled "Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears." The new episode will premiere on Nick Jr. on Presidents Day, Monday, February 20 at 1:30 p.m. (ET/PT), during "Ready, Set, Rescue!" a five-hour marathon of Go, Diego, Go! episodes (9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., ET/PT). The marathon will also encore on Friday, February 24 from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

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On "Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears," Dora finds two lost little spectacled bears Chito and Rita, in the rainforest, and brings them to her cousin Diego's Animal Rescue Center for help. Diego checks his field journal and discovers that spectacled bears live in tree nests in the cloud forest. Dora and Diego set off to take the bears back home and build them a new tree nest. The journey takes them out of the rainforest, as the duo go zip cording across a big cliff to the cloud forest where they climb a tree and together help Chito and Rita build a new home.

Go, Diego, Go!, the #1 preschool show on commercial television, airs at 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. (ET/PT) weekdays on Nick Jr. and weekends on CBS (check local listings). In each episode, Diego (Jake T. Szymanski) receives a call for help at his Animal Rescue Center in the rainforest. With help from his friends, high-tech gadgets and viewers at home, Diego identifies and locates the animal in trouble and the adventure begins. Diego is joined by his 11-year-old sister Alicia (Constanza Sperakis), a computer whiz who is also bilingual and easily switches between speaking English and Spanish. Baby Jaguar is the animal closest to Diego's heart, and his youthful eagerness sometimes puts him in precarious situations. Other characters include Click (Rosie Perez), a high-tech camera with a knack for locating lost animals; Rescue Pack, a messenger bag that can transform into any form of transportation that Diego needs, like a boat, snowboard or parasail; and the Bobo Brothers, a mischievous pair of spider monkeys. Diego's cousin Dora also makes guest appearances in the series.

Nick Jr.'s President's Day marathon will run as follows (all times ET/PT):

-- 9:00 a.m. - "Diego Saves the Mommy and Baby Sloth" - Sammy the Sloth
visits Diego at the Animal Rescue Center when a call for help comes in.
A mud slide is heading towards Mommy and Baby Sloth's tree! Sammy joins
Diego on a rescue mission as they tiptoe slowly past the harpy eagles
and sing "sube" to help Linda the Llama climb up a mountain. Using his
Spotting Scope, Diego finds Mommy and Baby Sloth at the bottom of the
mud slide. With Sammy on his back, Diego rides his mud board down the
slide and helps them get to a safe tree.

-- 9:30 a.m. - "Rainforest Race" - Animals from all over have come to
compete in the rainforest race. There's a puma team, a howler monkey
team, a spectacled bear team and a little Armadillo who wants to race
but has no team. Diego and the viewers join Armadillo's team and set
off to win by dodging falling nuts from the Shaky Nut Trees, and rolling
down the Muddy Mud Hill. At the last Big Mountain obstacle, Armadillo
takes the lead as she digs a tunnel and we sing the "excava" song. Will
they win the race?!

-- 10:00 a.m. - "Chinta The Baby Chinchilla" - Chinta the Baby Chinchilla
is hanging on a tree branch over a river - and chinchillas don't swim!
Diego transforms Rescue Pack into a hang-glider and catches her before
she falls in the water. Now Diego has to get Chinta back to her family
on Chinchilla Mountain. First they jump through the cactus field to get
away from a puma, then find their way through a dark cave by using
Chinta's sharp hearing, and finally hop up Chinchilla Mountain singing
the "brinca" song.

-- 10:30 a.m. - "Journey to Jaguar Mountain" -Baby Jaguar wants to impress
his Mommy and climb to the top of Jaguar Mountain, but only BIG jaguars
have ever made it to the very top! Baby Jaguar thinks he can do it and
asks Diego to meet him there with his mom. In order for Baby Jaguar to
get to the top of the mountain he must climb, reach and jump, jump,
jump! As Diego and Mommy Jaguar head to Jaguar Mountain, we learn lots
of cool facts about jaguars!

-- 11:00 a.m. - "The Mommy Macaw" - Alicia has found a scarlet macaw nest
with a little macaw, a baby egg but no Mommy Macaw! Diego sets out to
find the mom and bring her back to her nest before her baby egg is born.
After rescuing Mommy Macaw from a clay lick, Diego bandages her injured
wing and takes her back to her nest. Along the way, they search for
food for the babies, stop the Bobos from eating all the bananas, and
sing the "vuela" song to help Mommy fly up to her nest.

-- 11:30 a.m. - "Rescue of the Red-Eyed Tree Frogs!" - Two little red-eyed
tree frogs have fallen in the river and are heading for a waterfall.
With Baby Jaguar by his side, Diego heads out to save the tree frogs,
first jumping past the Cha-Cha Coconut Trees, and using his suction-cup
sticky gloves to climb up a pyramid. Diego reaches the tree frogs and
catches them just before they head over the waterfall. Diego returns
them to the rainforest where Alicia has found a new home with red-eyed
tree frog friends.

-- 12:00 p.m. - "Diego Saves Baby Humpback Whale" - A baby humpback whale
is beached on a rocky island and can't get back into the ocean! Diego
sets off to save the whale, and he runs through a rainforest obstacle
course, and swims with Tuga the Leatherback Sea Turtle past jellyfish
and sharks. Diego shows the other humpback whales how to make huge
waves that lift the baby beached whale into the ocean and back to her
mommy!

-- 12:30 p.m. - "Pepito's Penguin School" -Diego and Alicia study penguins
on Antarctica and Alicia takes off in her yellow submarine to lead them
to their new schools. Diego hears a call for help from Pepito, a little
penguin chick who got left behind and the two embark on an Antarctic
adventure to find Pepito's school. Along the way they meet chinstrap
penguins and play "Simon Says" and join the Adelie penguins in a music
class. When Pepito swims across an icy lake and finds his penguin
school, he also learns he's an Emperor Penguin!

-- 1:00 p.m. - "Three Little Condors" -Diego and Alicia have found a Mommy
and Daddy Condor for three little condors at the Animal Rescue Center.
But condors don't fly at night so they must hurry and find their new
Mommy and Daddy before the sun goes down! Diego and Alicia head out
with the three little baby condors. Along the way, they have to get
past the Bobo Brothers and find a golden butterfly that will lead them
up to Condor Cliff. But we better hurry. The sun is going down!

-- 1:30 p.m. - "Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears" (*PREMIERE) - See
description above.

Go Diego Go! was created and is executive produced by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh, the same team behind the phenomenal hit show Dora the Explorer. Dora's groundbreaking multicultural success has been evidenced by numerous awards including the Peabody, ALMA, Imagen and several Daytime Emmy nominations. Dora the Explorer is currently seen in more than 74 countries in 15 languages.

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