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Reading Rainbow

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  • 1983-2006
  • 21 Seasons
  • PBS
  • Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
  • TV-Y
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LeVar Burton introduces an appropriate subject for each episode to go with the featured children's book that is read in its entirety. This is followed by suggestions of other books for further reading.

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Cast & Crew See All

LeVar Burton
Self - Host
Stephen Horelick
Self - Music Director
Lee Murphy
Announcer

Season 21 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Biggest Test in the Universe

Mon, Nov 6, 200628 mins

In addition to discussing accomplishing difficult tasks, LeVar profiles the New York children's theater group Tada, as they prepare auditions for their newest show. Richard Gere reads The Biggest Test in the Universe, a story about a grade school class having anxiety over an annual aptitude test.

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Awards

  • 1986 - Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming - nominated
  • 1987 - Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming - nominated
  • 1987 - Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Videotape Editing - nominated
  • 1989 - Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series - nominated

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LeVar Burton Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Revive Reading Rainbow

LeVar Burton has launched a Kickstarter campaign to make Reading Rainbow a web series. "Ever since Reading Rainbow began in 1983, I have dedicated myself to fostering a love of reading in children, just as my mother did for me," Burton writes on the website. "Over the past year, I have watched Kickstarter bring communities together to support artists and inventors. Again and again, I have been inspired by watching like-minded people team up to accomplish impossible dreams, and to change the world. Now, I am hoping you will join me on my mission: to bring Reading Rainbow back for every child, everywhere."

Wed, May 28, 2014
LeVar Burton Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Revive Reading Rainbow

Exclusive Sneak Peek: Star Trek: The Next Generation's Second Season Finally Hits Blu-ray

Strap in for some new-old voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Another 22 episodes will be in your orbit when the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation reenters the stratosphere on Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday. And, hey, it's only been 22 years since the season's finale and 15 years since it was released on VHS! That's like nothing in light years, right? Someone should go ask Data (Brent Spiner). Let's just call this set his showpiece. The most exciting entry (of many) in this set's special features is an extended version of the episode "The Measure of Man," in which Data must prove to a Starfleet court (with the help of Patrick Stewart's loyal, fatherly Captain Picard as his "lawyer") that he's a sentient being in order to prevent some corporate-paid mad-as-heck scientist from cracking open his head in order to study his positronic brain. This isn't just a longer episode — some scenes are shot entirely differently than in the broadcast version. Some you've never seen before. (You purists also get the original version and a hybrid copy with more extra material.)

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