This one lowers your heart rate on purpose. Fifty-two episodes of a valley in China that no human has ever walked into, where the biggest event of the day is Tao Tao, Kiki the monkey, Puhu the squirrel and Poe the hare deciding where in the forest to play. There is no threat coming, no stakes being raised, no arc quietly building toward loss. The title tells you exactly what you're getting, a picture book of animal tales from around the world, and the show never once tries to be more than that. If you grew up with an animal storybook that got read to you enough times that the spine cracked, this is that feeling animated, and it works just as well at thirty as it did at five.

A young panda named Tao Tao lives in a Chinese valley that no human has ever set foot in. He spends whole days playing in the forest with his friends Kiki the monkey, Puhu the squirrel and Poe the hare. Whenever a quarrel breaks out among them, his mother Pandi-Panda settles things by telling them a story. The 1983 TV run mixes adventure, comedy and fantasy across 52 episodes.