High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Katie and Orbie is an animated television series aimed at preschoolers, originally broadcast in Canada in 1994 by Family Channel and later aired in the United States on PBS from 1995–1997 and on Disney Channel from 1997–2000. In Canada, the series still airs on Family and Disney Junior (formerly called Playhouse Disney). The show has also aired in several countries around the world.