Favorite "educational" show as a kid? (2 Viewers)

[soupcan dan]

Zoom-----to this day i can still make a paper balloon.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

mr whoopee on tennessee tuxedo always gave a great science lesson. i can still make an awesome paper balloon that i learned on Zoom.

clearly this balloon make quite an impact
can you find a vid of it?

 

[Madmarsha]

Professor Kool's Fun Skool on WMAR in Baltimore.

 

[Madmarsha]

never saw that but for it’s time, it was a really innovative game for PC. Actually teaching kids to enjoy looking in encyclopedias. Ironically they were learning all about encyclopedias on a machine that would make them extinct but I digress

I LOVED our encyclopedias. I think the same thing that lead me to just grab one and plop on the bed to read about whatever I was looking up is the same thing that leads me to go deep dive after deep dive on the internets.

 

[Ken-Bob]

Any Baton Rougean's here?

Buckskin Bill

 

[Dallas_Saint73]

Does He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe count? There was always like a moral woven into every single episode which they touched upon at the end of each show.

And G.I. Joe. "Knowing is half the battle".

 

[GrandAdmiral]

As long as no one here mentions that damn purple dinosaur, we're on good terms...

 

[Sailorsaint]

Captain Kangaroo and Electric Company for me....Later with my baby twins it was Blues Clues and The Wiggles, the purple dinosaur was not allowed in our home!

 

[CoolBrees]

I sucked at Carmen San Diego as a kid. My dad was too cheap to buy new encyclopedias so we had the ones from his childhood…… the early 50’s.

Let’s just say the world geography sections weren’t exactly accurate.

Oh and thanks to Anchorman I can’t see the name without thinking of Where in the World is Carmen Whale Vagina?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Gilligan's Island. The Professor could take bamboo and fix a transistor radio.

And yet couldn’t fix the hole in the boat

 

[Yatman]

1. the captain
2. mr rogers
3. star trek tos

 

[faceman]

NOVA on WYES .

 

[tomwaits]

Professor Kool's Fun Skool on WMAR in Baltimore.

Did they teach how to hide your murder victims in the walls of abandoned houses?

 

[tomwaits]

There was an old Nickelodeon show called Pinwheel that seemed to be about 3 hours long and had "muppets" and other weird stuff going on. Anyone remember that one?

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

The Joy of Painting

(was probably more of a “tweener” than a kid, but Bob Ross was legendary)