Overview

Total Episodes: 15

Season 1 Episode 1

Episode 1

Tight Times

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-06

A young girl's father loses his job.

Season 1 Episode 2

Episode 2

Miss Nelson Is Back

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-07

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 sh...
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Season 1 Episode 3

Episode 3

Bea and Mr. Jones

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-08

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 b...
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Season 1 Episode 4

Episode 4

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-09

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Season 1 Episode 5

Episode 5

Louis the Fish

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-10

Louis the Fish

Season 1 Episode 6

Episode 6

Digging Up Dinosaurs

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-13

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...
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Season 1 Episode 7

Episode 7

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-14

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Season 1 Episode 8

Episode 8

Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-15

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.

Season 1 Episode 9

Episode 9

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-16

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Season 1 Episode 10

Episode 10

The Gift of the Sacred Dog

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-17

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, Sacred Lands" which lists several words originating from various locations of the United States and the tribal mean...
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Season 1 Episode 11

Episode 11

Gregory, the Terrible Eater

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-20

Today's subject is goats and what they eat.

Season 1 Episode 12

Episode 12

Three by the Sea

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-21

Three by the Sea

Season 1 Episode 13

Episode 13

Arthur's Eyes

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-22

LaVar explores seeing and our other senses, as Bill Cosby tells the story of how the young aardvark, Arthur Read acquired his pair of glasses.

Season 1 Episode 14

Episode 14

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-22

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Season 1 Episode 15

Episode 15

Ty's One Man Band

Runtime: 30m
1983-06-23

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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