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Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow
★ 8.4/10•1983•30m•TV-Y•Kids
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Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJun 6, 1983

Episodes

E130m

Tight Times

A young girl's father loses his job.

Jun 6, 1983

E230m

Miss Nelson Is Back

As part of his birthday celebration, LeVar gets made-up like a movie monster, and then gets involved in Harry Blackstone's magic act. Ruth Buzzi reads Miss Nelson Is Back, all about a group of rowdy students who try to take advantage of their teacher's absence when she's out sick one day, and how she gets revenge on them by pretending to be "the meanest teacher in the world, Viola Swamp."

Jun 7, 1983

E330m

Bea and Mr. Jones

LeVar is already worn out after working on several scenes all day long on the production of the series. He feels he needs to take on another identity, segueing into introducing the featured book, Bea and Mr. Jones. Madeline Kahn reads the book about a kindergarten student and her father who get so bored with their jobs that they decide to experiment by switching places for the day.

Jun 8, 1983

E430m

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Jun 9, 1983

E530m

Louis the Fish

Louis the Fish

Jun 10, 1983

E630m

Digging Up Dinosaurs

Technically not the first science-related show in its history, LeVar seeks a place where archaeologists retrieve dinosaur bones. At the end of the program, LeVar buries a time capsule, containing (among other things) a can of old Coke and his picture. Linda Gilman reads Digging Up Dinosaurs, a story about how paleontologists unearth dinosaurs skeletons and preserve them in museum exhibits.

Jun 13, 1983

E730m

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Jun 14, 1983

E830m

Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport

In the featured book, a young boy and his family move from New York City to the Southwest and he has many misconceptions about what his new home is like.

Jun 15, 1983

E930m

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Jun 16, 1983

E1030m

The Gift of the Sacred Dog

The first of many programs favoring Native Americans. In this instance, a Midwestern legend suggests how horses arrived to the tribe. Later in this episode is the song "Ancient Places, Sacred Lands" which lists several words originating from various locations of the United States and the tribal meaning of their names.

Jun 17, 1983

E1130m

Gregory, the Terrible Eater

Today's subject is goats and what they eat.

Jun 20, 1983

E1230m

Three by the Sea

Three by the Sea

Jun 21, 1983

E1330m

Arthur's Eyes

LaVar explores seeing and our other senses, as Bill Cosby tells the story of how the young aardvark, Arthur Read acquired his pair of glasses.

Jun 22, 1983

E1430m

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Jun 22, 1983

E1530m

Ty's One Man Band

LeVar is ready to find music everywhere, and he does. This show includes the animation Onomatopoeia. Lou Rawls reads the story of Ty's One-Man Band, about a man who teaches a boy how to make music using household items.

Jun 23, 1983

Actors

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

Self - Host

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