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The Magic School Bus is a Canada-U.S. animated series based on the book series of the same name by Joanna Cole. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and combining entertainment with an educational show, according to and an article in Animation World Magazine by Annemarie Moody incorporating an interview with Executive Producer Deborah Forte.[1] Broadcasting & Cable said the show was "among the highest-rated PBS shows for school-age children."[2]
[edit] Production and airingIn 1994, The Magic School Bus concept was made into an animated series of the same name by Ellipse (France), Nelvana (Canada), and Scholastic Studios (USA-Canada), which premiered on Saturday September 10, 1994. Forte says that adapting the books into an animated series was opportunity to help kids “learn about science in a fun way”.[3] Around that time, Forte had been hearing concern form parents and teachers about how to improve science education for girls and minorities.[3] Each episode of the show ran about 30 minutes. In the United States, the show originally aired on PBS, through South Carolina's SCETV network; it was the first fully animated series to be aired on PBS. The last episode was released on Saturday December 6, 1997, when the series was dropped to make room for more shows aimed at pre-schoolers. The Fox network also had the series on the schedule, after it acquired the rights from PBS, on Saturday October 10, 1998; it ran on that network until Saturday January 5, 2002. The Magic School Bus was also seen on TLC and Discovery Kids[3] in the U.S., TVOntario and the Knowledge in Canada and Pop and CITV in the United Kingdom, with no plans to make more episodes, on November 9, 2002. In 2005, Nelvana sold the show to Cartoon Network.[4] The series continued on these six stations until February 4, 2006. Today, re-runs of the series are shown on these stations. In Russia 2 First seasons animated series broadcast in RTR (Russian: РТР) from 1995 to march 29, 1996. Also, he was airing on TNT Teleset (Russian: ТНТ-Телесеть) with a Russian Dubbed from March 30 to August 23 2002. When The Magic School Bus is syndicated on commercial networks, the Producer Says segment at the end of each episode is cut out to make space for commercials. The Producer Says segments are only seen when the series is shown on non-commercial networks (eg. PBS and the Knowledge) and children's networks (commercial breaks are shorter). The show's theme song called "Ride on the Magic School Bus" was written by Peter Lurye and performed by rock 'n' roll legend Little Richard. The series was released on VHS by KidVision between Tuesday December 13, 1994 and Tuesday March 3, 1998 and by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment between Tuesday January 12, 1999 and Tuesday April 2, 2002, and on DVD by Warner Home Video between Tuesday May 9, 2006 and Tuesday August 4, 2009. Only the DVDs contain the funding credits. In the VHS and DVD releases, all the episodes are uncut with the Producer Says segments intact. [edit] ReceptionJason Fry, in a column for the online edition of the Wall Street Journal, expressed an overall appreciation for the show, but wrote that the episode The Magic School Bus Gets Programmed should have been about on the perils of internet searches and network concepts surfacing at the time, rather than an old-fashioned technology-run-amok story about the respective roles of programmer and machine (although he admitted that the episode was ten years old).[5] Tomlin won an Emmy for her role as Ms. Frizzle.[6] [edit] CharactersMain article: List of characters of The Magic School Bus (TV series) [edit] EpisodesSeason 1 (1994)[7]
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