Reading Rainbow
TV-Y
8.4
1983
Kids
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.
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- Cast：
- LeVar Burton
Episode 15 : Ty's One Man Band
June. 23,1983
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.
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Episode 14 : The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
June. 22,1983
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
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Episode 13 : Arthur's Eyes
June. 22,1983
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.
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Episode 12 : Three by the Sea
June. 21,1983
Three by the Sea
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Episode 11 : Gregory, the Terrible Eater
June. 20,1983
Today's subject is goats and what they eat.
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Episode 10 : The Gift of the Sacred Dog
June. 17,1983
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.
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Episode 9 : Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
June. 16,1983
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
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Episode 8 : Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
June. 15,1983
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.
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Episode 7 : Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
June. 14,1983
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
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Episode 6 : Digging Up Dinosaurs
June. 13,1983
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.
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Episode 5 : Louis the Fish
June. 10,1983
Louis the Fish
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Episode 4 : Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
June. 09,1983
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
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Episode 2 : Miss Nelson Is Back
June. 07,1983
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."
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Episode 1 : Tight Times
June. 06,1983
A young girl's father loses his job.
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