I Spy is a stop-motion television series that airs on the HBO Family digital

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 cable

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 television channel

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 in the United States

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 from April 2003 to January 2004, based on the popular children's book series

I Spy (book series)

I Spy is a children's book series with texts written by based on photographs by Walter Wick published by Scholastic Press. The books are named after the I spy guessing game....

 drawn and written by Jean Marzollo

Jean Marzollo

Jean Marzollo is a children's author and illustrator. Born in 1942, she has written over 130 books, including the best-selling award-winning I SPY series for children, written completely in rhythm and rhyme....

 and Walter Wick

Walter Wick

Walter Wick is an American artist and photographer best known for the elaborate images in two series of publications, the I Spy and the Can You See What I See? books, which were published by Scholastic Books....

. Produced by The Ink Tank

Asterisk animation

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 and Scholastic

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, the show lasted for 26 episodes.

Spyler

• voiced by Tara Jayne

Spyler is one of the main characters in the cartoon I Spy

I Spy (2003 TV series)

I Spy is a stop-motion television series that airs on the HBO Family digital cable television channel in the United States from April 2003 to January 2004, based on the popular children's book series drawn and written by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick...

. He is a plasticine

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 model, similar to Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations...

, with a tennis ball head and buttons for feet. Cece, Spyler's talking dog, is also made of plasticine. In every episode of I-Spy, Spyler and Cece find four items that are in every riddle the Duck gives, thus beginning to play the game I spy

I spy

I spy is a guessing game usually played in families with young children, partly to assist in both observation and in alphabet familiarity. I spy is often played as a car game....

. The items they find are used for a certain purpose, such as getting rid of Cece's hiccups in "I Spy a Tick-illy Hiccup", or building a robot in "I Spy a Runaway Robot". While playing I spy, when they find an item Spyler and Cece sing their "Found It" song. Sometimes, when they are carrying several large items like blankets, Spyler and Cece call for Wheeler, their red truck, to carry these items. Also, they eat pie. he is four years old. he later turns five. (in the Spyler and friends show)