What Was Your Favorite Educational TV Show?

55 Comments

TwanaH 5 years 46 weeks

There was a show called Ghostwriter. That was preety damn cool

katiecake 5 years 47 weeks

How about The Magic Garden?

carrieplh 5 years 47 weeks

Great Space Coaster

CaterpillarGirl 5 years 48 weeks

Mine was.....SLIM GOODBODY.The dude had a white mans afro and wore a body suit that showed all his innards. He talked about nutrition, exercise, how your body works......i loved it. But now i am showing my age.

txhottie 5 years 48 weeks

Man, that was hard! 3-2-1 contact, Reading Rainbow, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Square One, Mr. Wizard!! They were all my favorite. I was such a geek!

wiggy 5 years 48 weeks

It was hard to choose just one!

yiddidea 5 years 48 weeks

Love them ALL, but Sesame Street had to be number 1.

kiddylnd 5 years 48 weeks

This is great...you can kind of gauge how old everyone is by the answer they give! I was always all about the 3-2-1 Contact. I was actually just schooling my 9 year old on that and Square One this weekend. Not to pass on either of those two GEMS, but why leave out my boy Ben and the Voyage of the Mimi?! (Hey - who knows which show the Palindrome song is from? Is that Square one? The one that goes "It goes frontwards, it goes backwards, it's a...Palindrome!" I can't remember where that's from for the life of me!)

crispet1 5 years 48 weeks

Reading Rainbow!

smackthepony 5 years 49 weeks

What about the Magic Schoolbus!? I loved that show, even though I'm in Oz!

designergirl 5 years 49 weeks

Reading Rainbow! I loved that show. I too also spent countless hours playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? I always hated Magic School Bus. though.

beautiful disaster 5 years 49 weeks

THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS!

bigestivediscuit 5 years 49 weeks

Um, how can I pick ONE?!?!?! I loved Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Bill Nye, and Carmen Sandiego ... PBS had THE best shows for kids back in the day!

Hope 5 years 49 weeks

Sesame Street for me!

BonjourChaton 5 years 49 weeks

Oh my God definitely Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow (I can still remember the song from it-butterflies in the sky...I'm a dork), Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (I remember that song too with the a capella group)and Mr. Wizard (RIP Mr. Wizard).

Fab_Kitty 5 years 49 weeks

What an awesome poll, Buzz. I loved lots of the shows you named, but ultimately I voted "other" because my favorite was Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Every now and then when I need a reminder of what my priorities ought to be, I'll watch a youtube clip of his show (or his AMAZING testimony before Congress on the importance of children's educational t.v.). To this day, he remains one of my heroes.

christinafry 5 years 49 weeks

This IS a great poll! Oh my gosh, I couldn't pick just one! I loved School House Rock and 3-2-1 Contact so much! Does anyone remember that show Pinwheel? The theme song was like "Pinwheel pinwheel spinning around, look at my pinwheel and see what I've found..." The theme song is the only thing I REALLY remember about the show (and ONE episode of a muppet-like worm singing the rain rain go away song, which is a really random and specific memory). Anywho, just wondering if anyone remembers it. I think the shows you pick kind of show the age generation everyone is in, because I don't remember some of the shows! :/

JennaV 5 years 49 weeks

Mr Wizard's World and also a show called Braingames that came on HBO in the early 80's.

bostongirl88 5 years 49 weeks

the magic bus!!

rainonme224 5 years 49 weeks

I voted for Carmen Sandiego but I also loved Sesame Street and Bill Nye.

mabess 5 years 49 weeks

i LOVED reading rainbow! "take a look, it's in a book" but i never really got into sesame street. i just remember thinking "these puppets are silly!" i think it was all of big bird's whining.

lady-T 5 years 49 weeks

seaseme street- ive got all the books!! and even got stuffed Burt and Ernie

z0mbieFck 5 years 49 weeks

i personally didn't pick any of them, i liked WISHBONE, once i saw the book they were re-creating with Wishbone [the dog] as a character, I ran out and checked the book out from the library.

awa78 5 years 49 weeks

Square One TV!!!! I loved that show. Mathnet was awesome. I also had total love for 3-2-1 Contact and who didn't love Reading Rainbow.