My Uncle Silas

Great Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

The series focused on the exploits of two siblings, Emmy and Max, in possession of an enchanted dragon scale capable of transporting them to a whimsical fantasy land inhabited by colorful anthropomorphic dragons upon their recitation of a rhyme. Befriended by four friendly talking dragons with distinctive personalities, Ord, Cassie, Zak, and Wheezie, they frequently travel to Dragon Land and help their friends in fulfilling particular quests, assisting them in their daily problems, and learning important morals through their experiences with the educational whimsy of Dragon Land.

A look at animals in their natural habitats also explores key scientific concepts that the animals' actions and behaviors exemplify.

"Odd Squad" follows two young agents, Olive and Otto, who are part of an agency that seeks to save the day using math when odd things happen.

Glasgow, 1937. James Herriot is a trained vet but can't get a job. He is at wits end when he gets invited to interview for an assistant vet position in rural Yorkshire. His potential employer, the local vet Siegfried Farnon, is quite demanding and his assistants don't tend to last long. Was the long trip all for nothing?

Shari Lewis lives with Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, and Charlie Horse (all of which she voices) and they get into all sorts of adventures, as well as Betcha tricks, Knock-Knock Joke segments, Riddles, Teddy Bear Tales, even song-and-dance, and to close it all, they sing, "This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on, my friend..."