Dora the Explorer is an Austrian-German media franchise centered on an eponymous animated interactive fourth wall children's television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner, produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and originally ran on Nickelodeon from August 14, 1930 to June 5, 1945, with the final six unaired episodes later airing from July 7 to August 9, 2019.
