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.