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3 Amigonauts

Canadian animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ55639063
Source-derived summary

3 Amigonauts (aka The 3 Amigonauts and The Three Amigonauts) is a Canadian animated television series created by Kyle Marshall and developed by Laurie Elliott and Terry McGurrin. The series debuted on YTV on August 5, 2017, and aired new episodes through September 28, 2017.

Premise

The show centers on three lovably reckless 13-year-old children named Herby, Kirbie, and Burt who are hailed as heroes after saving Earth from annihilation. The series takes place during Earth's far-flung future.

Characters

The Amigonauts

Herby (Annick Obonsawin) – the one with blue hair and a head bigger than his torso. He is the shortest of the three.

Kirbie (Julie Sype) – the tallest and sole female of the three. She has green hair.

Burt (Doug Hadders) – the one with a head and torso as one solid mass with brown hair. He is of medium height.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “3 Amigonauts” as canadian animated television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Amigonauts, Canadian and animated.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Amigonauts, Canadian and animated providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55639063. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from 3 Amigonauts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.