Projects like “Plum Landing” which was focused on environmental science. Show to get upper elementary school students like tweens interested inĮngineering. I created the PeabodyĪnd Emmy award-winning show “Design Squad,” which was a reality competition Game shows like “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”. Itįocused on learning science by having hands-on experiences. ItĬreated a curriculum for preschoolers that was developmentally appropriate. Peep was one of the first animated shows. Shows like ZOOM were multidisciplinary, but it did have segments I mostly worked on STEM projectsīecause we get a lot of our funding from the National Science Foundation. I also worked on NOVA for a couple of years. While I worked at WGBH, I mostly worked in children’s media and You’ve worked at WGBH for about 30 years, tell Learn more about Scribbles and Ink here: When kids are ready for an adventure, they can go to a story room and click on a photographic object – an umbrella, balloon, planet, or box – for the integrated game and video experience that follows.
Produced by WGBH Kids for PBS KIDS, the Scribbles and Ink experience begins in the Scribbles & Ink studio, where animations of lead characters, Scribbles, and Ink, prompt kids to a free drawing experience.
Based on the popular books and characters by author/illustrator, Ethan Long, Scribble’s and Ink is a character-driven, original digital interactive series that allows kids to discover the utter joy of using paint, brush, crayon, and pencil to propel their way through an adventure. We’re going to be talking about Scribbles and Ink. Take, for example, the first episode from 1980 - when the group showed artists and science coming together to show how the program’s theme song was created.For Episode 9 of the STEAM Boston Podcast, we’re featuring WGBH’s Marisa Wolsky. But in reality, it did much more than teach physics with roller coasters, electricity by a visit to an electric company’s substation, or historic preservation through a trip inside the Statue of Liberty when she was being restored for her 1986 centennial.ģ-2-1 Contact also was a program that connected its young viewers with the everyday world around them and taught about social issues, animals, art, and much more. While Jones did the bulk of the narrative work, there were also several guest voice overs - including Mia Farrow (who narrated the “Beauty and the Beast” episode), Tammy Grimes (who told the story of “The Happy Circus”), and Regis Philbin (who voiced the Emperor in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”). Long Ago & Far Away stories were generally presented in stop-motion claymation, cel cartoons, and live action, and they were narrated by Jones. John Burstein (who dons a flesh-colored unitard with brightly-colored bones, muscles, and internal organs in their anatomically accurate sizes and positions), first appeared in the 1970s on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Captain Kangaroo.īurstein scored his own show in 1980, which aired repeat episodes for many seasons into the 1980s. If you were a kid and knew what an esophagus was before some of your young friends did, you probably grew up watching Slim Goodbody. Here are 15 old PBS kids shows that were cancelled many years ago but never lost their fan base: #1 – The Inside Story With Slim Goodbody (1980)
So, I decided to pay tribute to some of the classic PBS kids TV shows that no longer air.ĭid You Know?… PBS kids TV shows are designed to improve early reading, math, and social-emotional skills of children ages 2 to 11. I really miss many of these old PBS kids shows, and I’m sure you do too. Lots of the educational programming for kids that ran on PBS has (thankfully) ended up on YouTube. While the hands of time moved forward, many great PBS shows for kids hit the chopping block and now only live on in the memories of 20-, 30-, and 40-somethings. If you’ve seen another post of mine, 42 Classic Old School Sesame Street Videos, then you’ve probably guessed by now that I was a PBS kid! I personally enjoyed PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) children’s shows from the 1980s into the 1990s - though I recall some 1970s-vintage PBS kids TV shows that continued to air into the following decade.