Maggie and the Ferocious Beast

Maggie and the Ferocious Beast is a Canadian animated children's television series created by Michael and Betty Paraskevas. The program was based on the 1996 book The Ferocious Beast with the Polka-Dot Hide and its sequels, all of which were also written by the Paraskevases. The show began as a series of shorts aired on the Canadian channel Teletoon in 1998. The first full-length episode premiered onNick Jr. on August 26, 2000. The series ran for three seasons, airing its final episode on June 9, 2002.

Summary
A tomboyish young girl named Maggie creates her own map of an imaginary world known as "Nowhere Land" that, in reality, takes the characters nowhere. She imagines that characters Beast and Hamilton Hocks are her friends.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The characters are each distinct in their own ways, and it works pretty well.
 * 2) Wonderful theme song made by TTG Music Lab.
 * 3) Most of the episodes have a wonderful morals.
 * 4) Maggie is a very cute, tomboyish protagonist.
 * 5) The art style is pretty cute.
 * 6) Nowhere Land is pretty creative.
 * 7) The humor is witty and very good.
 * 8) The US/UK dub is pretty decent.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) There was a mediocre episode called "Guess Who’s Coming to Visit".

Reception
Maggie and the Ferocious Beast got a 6.6 on IMDB.