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Arthur season 8

Season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The eighth season of the television series Arthur was originally broadcast on PBS Kids in the United States from September 15 to December 26, 2003, and contains 10 episodes. It is the last season featuring the voice talents of Mark Rendall, Patricia Rodriguez, and Aaron Grunfield as Arthur Read, Sue Ellen Armstrong, and Tommy Tibble, respectively. Additionally, Evan Smirnow, Alexina Cowan, and Sally Taylor-Isherwood each take over the roles of George Lundgren, Catherine Frensky, and Emily Leduc from Mitchell Rothpan, Patricia Rodriguez, and Vanessa Lengies. It is also the final season before CINAR, the original production company behind Arthur, underwent a rebranding to become Cookie Jar Entertainment in the following year.

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The public source identifies “Arthur season 8” as season of television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arthur, season and Season.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arthur, season and Season providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Arthur season 8” 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.