The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles and Lancit Media in New York City.

The series follows a multi-ethnic group of children (puppets) from different parts of the United States who gather and socialize at a special kids' hangout area known as the Puzzle Place.

In each episode, the characters are confronted with an everyday conflict usually encountered in childhood years, such as making moral decisions, sharing, racism and sexism.

Gradually everyone takes to other suggested activities, leaving only Leon and Kiki still wanting to play with the model train.

Kiki dresses as a space alien, distressed that other kids at school laughed at her Hispanic accent.

Featured song: "Cha-Cha", performed by the kids A robot shows up at the Puzzle Place and befriends Leon, while insulting everyone else, in an attempt to sabotage everyone's friendship.

The kids hold a relay race, but Ben drops his baton, prompting the nickname "Butterfingers" from everyone else.

Eventually he makes contact with Native American Robby Romero and his band, Red Thunder, who reassure him.

Featured songs: "Born to Strum", "Stevie Wonder", and "Julio Iglesias", performed by Skye; "The Prayer Song", performed by Red Thunder Ben brings in an ant farm to show everyone, but Leon unwittingly wreaks havoc in an attempt to give the ants fresh air, and has to make some sacrifices to restore order to The Puzzle Place.

Skye finds a party box in the kitchen, but everyone else is too distracted watching TV to take interest.

Cute",[a] performed by Amy Hill/Penny Candy Leon wants to make a pizza for everyone, but he needs a creative solution to satisfy everyone's different topping preferences.

Kiki leads the kids in a makeshift band, but her authority seems to do more harm than good when she won't allow them to play their preferred instruments.

Featured song: "I Can Sing", performed by Kiki Leon learns a hard lesson in racism when he's barred from attending a friend's birthday party simply because he's African-American.

Nuzzle refuses to fetch a stick for Kiki because she didn't say "the magic word" (which Sizzle tries in vain to guess).

Ben is unwilling to wear his glasses for a group picture because of some teasing, but unwittingly wreaks havoc when he spends a day without them.

Featured song: "Friends", performed by the kids Ben attempts to change his "boring" hairstyle with disastrous results, before learning that his hair was fine the way it was.

When a storm hits the Puzzle Place, Leon is embarrassed to admit he is afraid of thunder and lightning.

Skye brings some special bread from his tribe to share with the kids but is troubled when Jody refuses to try any for eight days.

While nearly all the kids are sick with chickenpox, Skye finds a guitar and wants to play it, but he is slow to understand that he has to put time and effort into becoming good at it.

Jody does not appear in this episode, but, she does send the other kids an automatic popcorn snack, which, when heating up, makes Sizzle and Nuzzle curious.

Ben becomes discouraged when everyone but him has won a trophy for something, even though he does have an impressive skill that's worthy of a prize in and of itself, singlehandedly raising a pig.

Featured song: "We're All the Same", performed by the kids and Kyle Kiki becomes scared when her friends disappear after a failed magic act.

Featured song: "Just Call My Name", performed by Jody, Kiki, Kyle, Sizzle and Nuzzle Leon learns that playing Sherlock Holmes isn't enough to solve a mystery.

Featured song: "If I Were King", performed by Leon and the kids Kiki's cousin Maggie visits from Mexico.

Featured song: "Friendship Is a Garden", performed by Skye and Maggie Ben and Leon fight over who gets to lay the last piece of train track.

Featured song: "Lookin' at You" performed by an uncredited session singer The children think Ben's Norwegian dancing and traditional costumes are weird.

Jody and the kids learn that dealing with a difficult situation is easier when you're able to talk about your feelings, especially with issues like divorce and remarriage.

With the help of Skye's Uncle Victorio, a member of the Tribunal Council, they learn that the best way to solve a conflict is to make a rule that everyone agrees to follow.

When Julie sees that her excitement about playing in the wading pool is actually hurting people (and pets), she understands that it is important to be careful.

In the weeks after its debut, The Puzzle Place won a great deal of acclaim and "enjoyed an average audience-per-viewing second only to Barney and Friends among shows in the popular PBS daily children's block".