Readalong was an educational, Canadian television program for young children, first produced in 1976 for TVOntario.
The program taught fundamentals of reading with the help of live child actors and puppets, including a comically dressed grandmother figure named Granny and anthropomorphic footwear: a brown, male boot and pink, female shoe named, appropriately, Boot and Pretty. Other characters were Mister Bones, the Explorer, House, and the Thing.
The Granny, Boot, and Pretty puppets are now housed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Noreen Young, who designed the puppets, also created puppets for other programs, including Under the Umbrella Tree. The characters were developed by Ken Sobol, who also wrote all the scripts for the series. The show's music was composed by Eric Robertson.
Quelli dell'Intervallo Cafè is an Italian television series, second spin-off of the best known Quelli dell'intervallo, original format of As The Bell Rings. The series is set in the Nico's uncle's cafe, Quelli dell'intervallo cafè, where Nico and Tinelli work after school. There often sings Jaky, Nico and Tinelli's schoolmate and an emerging popstar. He has a bodyguard, named Brusco Lino.
All the adventures of the boys are accompanied by the smell of croissants and the presence, not always welcome, of former teachers such as Professor Martinelli, horrible math teacher, who sometimes goes there to bring a bit of fear between her students.
All the Manzoni middle school's students are now gone to the high school and the only place where they can still be together is that cafe, very famous in the circle of guys. There are the always-brats Nico and Tinelli, who work there, but also characters as Mafalda, Secchia, Valentina, Rudy and other historical friends. In addiction to them there are new entries, su
All aboard for the adventures of Choo Choo Bob and his wacky friends as they visit railroads and museums all over the country, sing songs with each other or with guest musicians such as Ozomatli and Haley Bonar, and visit Tinyland, the small world located on Choo Choo Bob's train layout.
Lift Off was an Australian educational television series that was broadcast on ABC Television from 1992 until the series ended in 1995. Each episode featured a live action storyline about a group of young children, and the problems they encountered with growing up, their parents, and various other social issues. Episodes would also feature segments of short animation, puppetry and documentary segments, as well as various songs, stories, and word games. Aimed at 3 to 8 year olds based on the ideas of Harvard University development psychologist Howard Gardner. The series was linked with the school curricula through the Curriculum Corporation of Australia. The different episodes used stories and locations to explore subjects such as jealousy, loneliness and anger.
The story of the Lucky Squad, a group of three kids, Nino, Viola, and Lj-Wang together with their smart coach Lucky. Together they invent the sport Spike Ball.