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Reading Rainbow

Season 1 1983
TV-Y

  • 1983-06-06T18:30:00Z on PBS
  • 30m
  • 7h 30m (15 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Children
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.

15 episodes

Series Premiere

1983-06-06T18:30:00Z

1x01 Tight Times

Series Premiere

1x01 Tight Times

  • 1983-06-06T18:30:00Z30m

A young girl's father loses his job.

1983-06-07T18:30:00Z

1x02 Miss Nelson Is Back

1x02 Miss Nelson Is Back

  • 1983-06-07T18:30:00Z30m

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."

1983-06-08T18:30:00Z

1x03 Bea and Mr. Jones

1x03 Bea and Mr. Jones

  • 1983-06-08T18:30:00Z30m

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.

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

1983-06-10T18:30:00Z

1x05 Louis the Fish

1x05 Louis the Fish

  • 1983-06-10T18:30:00Z30m

Louis the Fish

1983-06-13T18:30:00Z

1x06 Digging Up Dinosaurs

1x06 Digging Up Dinosaurs

  • 1983-06-13T18:30:00Z30m

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.

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

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.

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

1x10 The Gift of the Sacred Dog

  • 1983-06-17T18:30:00Z30m

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.

Today's subject is goats and what they eat.

1983-06-21T18:30:00Z

1x12 Three by the Sea

1x12 Three by the Sea

  • 1983-06-21T18:30:00Z30m

Three by the Sea

1983-06-22T18:30:00Z

1x13 Arthur's Eyes

1x13 Arthur's Eyes

  • 1983-06-22T18:30:00Z30m

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.

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Season Finale

1983-06-23T18:30:00Z

1x15 Ty's One Man Band

Season Finale

1x15 Ty's One Man Band

  • 1983-06-23T18:30:00Z30m

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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