Reading Rainbow

  • Premiered: Jun 1983
  • Episodes: 155
  • Followers: 8
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Daily at 14
  • Children Family

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Season 1
1x1
Tight Times
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 06, 1983
What can you do with very little money? That's what the featured book and LeVar must face. To set the tone for the entire series, LeVar shows a friend a wealth of fun at the local .. show full overview
1x2
Miss Nelson is Back
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 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 .. show full overview
1x3
Bea and Mr. Jones
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 08, 1983
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 .. show full overview
1x4
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
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Air date
Jun 09, 1983
This episode has no summary.
1x5
Louis the Fish
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 10, 1983
Starting at the New England Aquarium, LeVar gets into a lengthy observation of aquatic life. Vincent Gardenia reads the story of Louis the Fish, a fanciful tale of a man, forced to take .. show full overview
1x6
Digging Up Dinosaurs
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Air date
Jun 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, .. show full overview
1x7
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
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Air date
Jun 14, 1983
LeVar goes to Chinatown for a look at Chinese culture. In something completely different, a New York technology institute draws a traditional Chinese dragon boat.
1x8
Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 15, 1983
LeVar is out to disspell misconceptions of unknown things. When the boy in the feature book is convinced he'll find gila monsters when he arrives at an airport out in the West, this .. show full overview
1x9
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 16, 1983
LeVar takes a camping trip with some young friends. They make a photo album of their trip and some other kids share their photo albums they made to show what they did over the summer. .. show full overview
1x10
The Gift of the Sacred Dog
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 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, .. show full overview
1x11
Gregory, the Terrible Eater
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 20, 1983
Oh, there's something wrong here. Goats don't just eat everything, despite LeVar's visit to a suspect diner. And then there's that obligatory something completely different: a professional chef letting kids chip in on a meal fit for humans.
1x12
Three by the Sea
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 21, 1983
LeVar spends a day at the beach, where he notices that everyone is reading the book of the day, Three by the Sea. Improvisation Comedy Troupe members of Chicago City Limits read the .. show full overview
1x13
Arthur's Eyes
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 22, 1983
How do you see things? Different people see things in different ways. And the best way to see things is through caring and understanding.
1x14
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
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Air date
Jun 23, 1983
LeVar visits a pet store to discuss the featured book, and imagines that one of the pets from the store followed him home. It's a field day for the farm animals, and not a place for the .. show full overview
1x15 Season finale
Ty's One-Man Band
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 24, 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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