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Reading Rainbow

Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!

Kids
1983
21 Seasons
155 Episodes
EN
Ended
TV-Y

About

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.

Cast

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

as Self - Host

Episodes

Season 1

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E1

Tight Times

Jun 6, 198330m

A young girl's father loses his job.

E2

Miss Nelson Is Back

Jun 7, 198330m

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."

E3

Bea and Mr. Jones

Jun 8, 198330m

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.

E4

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Jun 9, 198330m

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

E5

Louis the Fish

Jun 10, 198330m

Louis the Fish

E6

Digging Up Dinosaurs

Jun 13, 198330m

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.

E7

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Jun 14, 198330m

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

E8

Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport

Jun 15, 198330m

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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