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7 unusual facts about Reading Rainbow


Anne Mazer

The Salamander Room was a 1993 ABC Children's Choice book and a Reading Rainbow Feature selection.

Crow Agency, Montana

The PBS series Reading Rainbow filmed its tenth episode "The Gift of the Sacred Dog" here on June 17, 1983.

Grambling's White Tiger

Harry Belafonte stars as Coach Eddie Robinson and LeVar Burton (already famous from Roots and later to be known for Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG) appears as Charles 'Tank' Smith, the first friend Jim Gregory makes on the team.

Marilyn Sadler

Marilyn's television credits also include two PBS Reading Rainbow programs featuring Alistair, an AListair program for the BBC, three ABC Weekend Specials featuring PJ Funnybunny and a show based on her children's book, Elizabeth and Larry for Showtime's Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories.

PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest

In 1995, the first competition was launched by the creators of Reading Rainbow children television program.

Vera Williams

Her best known work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television show Reading Rainbow.

Vern Oakley

Oakley received top honors at the International Film and Television Festival for his direction of the Emmy Award-winning children's television series Reading Rainbow.


Corinne Orr

She was the voice of Snuggle the Bear in Snuggle's fabric softener commercials and read Aliki Brandenberg's Mummies Made in Egypt for the PBS series Reading Rainbow.

WNED-TV

It produced several original programs that have been carried throughout the PBS network and its member stations such as the Mark Russell comedy specials and Reading Rainbow, produced in association with the Great Plains Network until early 2006.


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