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Reading Rainbow

Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!

Kids

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

Jun 6, 198321 seasons155 episodesEndedEN

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LeVar Burton

Self - Host

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Seasons

Season 1

15 episodes

Premiered Jun 6, 1983

Season 2

5 episodes

Premiered Jan 1, 1984

Season 3

5 episodes

Premiered Jul 1, 1985

Season 4

10 episodes

Premiered Jun 23, 1986

Season 5

10 episodes

Premiered Jun 22, 1987

Season 6

10 episodes

Premiered Aug 15, 1988

Season 7

10 episodes

Premiered Jul 3, 1989

Season 8

5 episodes

Premiered Sep 10, 1990

Season 9

10 episodes

Premiered Sep 16, 1991

Season 10

10 episodes

Premiered Oct 5, 1992

Season 11

10 episodes

Premiered Oct 11, 1993

Season 12

10 episodes

Premiered Oct 3, 1994

Season 13

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 2, 1995

Season 14

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 8, 1995

Season 15

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 7, 1996

Season 16

5 episodes

Premiered Apr 7, 1997

Season 17

5 episodes

Premiered Oct 5, 1998

Season 18

6 episodes

Premiered Oct 23, 2000

Season 19

4 episodes

Premiered Sep 2, 2002

Season 20

5 episodes

Premiered Dec 15, 2004

Season 21

5 episodes

Premiered Nov 6, 2006

Episodes

1–6 of 15

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Ep 1

Tight Times

Jun 6, 1983

30m

A young girl's father loses his job.

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Ep 2

Miss Nelson Is Back

Jun 7, 1983

30m

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 she gets revenge on them by pretending to be "the meanest teacher in the world, Viola Swamp."

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Ep 3

Bea and Mr. Jones

Jun 8, 1983

30m

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 bored with their jobs that they decide to experiment by switching places for the day.

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Ep 4

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Jun 9, 1983

30m

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

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Ep 5

Louis the Fish

Louis the Fish

Digging Up Dinosaurs

Jun 13, 1983

30m

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 about how paleontologists unearth dinosaurs skeletons and preserve them in museum exhibits.

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