Ah, Mr. Rogers and Captain Kangaroo, the Muppets and the Teletubbies. Where would modern American childhood be without these programs and many others? The past 50 years brought us a golden age of television for children and young people and our stories tried to cover the energy and originality of these programs.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Between-the-Lions.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/22/2000 Between the Lions Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. This year, graduates of Sesame Street were introduced to a new show designed specifically for them – it’s called Between the Lions. The show features – you guessed it – a family of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/American-High.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/6/2000 American High Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet, with a review of one of the latest reality-based shows – this one for teenagers. By now, you must have heard about the FOX network’s reality-TV series “American High” – you may have even […]
Here’s John Cech with some thoughts about the various media incarnations of Buster Brown.
That’s Bert from Sesame Street, played by Frank Oz, singing his signature song, “Doing the Pigeon,” just in time for his birthday today.
That music, from one of PBS’s longest-running and most popular series, “Mystery,” is accompanied by highly stylized drawings of fainting Edwardian dowagers and ingenues and their languid beaus, barely escaping the peculiar accidents occurring around them at their haunted garden party.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Storyteller.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/23/2000 The Storyteller Transcript If you thought there was a familiar look to last month’s television movie of the Arabian Nights, you’d be right. The dazzling special effects were the work of the Henson studios that were founded by the late Jim Henson and […]
What you’re hearing is a child making his first poems–squealing with delight at the sound of his own voice, rhyming sounds, endlessly repeating what he decides will be his choruses, singing his couplets with his whole little body.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Howdy-Doody.mp3 Author Elaine Needelman Air Date 12/27/1999 Howdy Doody Transcript Here’s Elaine Needelman who’s been watching the media for us. On December 27, 1947, the Howdy Doody Show premiered on NBC. Originally called Puppet Playhouse Presents, Howdy Doody was a show of firsts. It was the first children’s show on […]
There are few television shows that have been more important to more children than Sesame Street. Here is Elaine Needelman with some reflections about the program.
