Stan, Patch and Little Red Tractor are joined by a host of colourful friends in this charmingly animated show based on the books of Colin Reeder with narration by Richard Briers and Brian Glover.
The Metric Marvels is a series of seven animated educational shorts featuring songs about meters, liters, Celsius, and grams, designed to teach American children how to use the metric system. They were produced by Newall & Yohe, the same advertising agency which produced ABC's popular Schoolhouse Rock! series, and first aired on the NBC television network in September 1978. Voices for the Metric Marvels shorts included Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Bob Kaliban, and Paul Winchell.
The events of the series deal with forcing the girl Majdala to marry seven, and how she lived with him throughout her life in oppression and domination, so she decided to escape from him, in order to secure her life and the lives of her young children, and to save their daughter from forcing her father to marry at a young age, and all the challenges and difficulties she is going through, from In order to help her children and secure their most basic rights.
With over 500,000 words you’d think the English language has a word for everything. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find it doesn’t. In a fun and fast-paced local series, indigenous Comedians and Language Warriors Bjorn Stewart and Katie Beckett introduce you to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words you never knew you needed.