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American educational television program
Animated intro, featuring a caricature of
Bill Cosby
.
Picture Pages
is a 1978?1984 American educational
television
program aimed at
preschool
children, presented by
Bill Cosby
?teaching lessons on basic
arithmetic
,
geometry
, word association and drawing through a series of interactive lessons that used a workbook that viewers would follow along with the lesson.
[1]
Picture Pages
was created by Julius Oleinick and started on a local
Pittsburgh
children's show in 1974 with the
Picture Pages
puzzle booklets given away at a
supermarket
chain. It debuted as a national segment of the
Captain Kangaroo
show in 1978 (then directed by
Jimmy Hirschfeld
[2]
), in which Captain Kangaroo would do the lessons on his "magic drawing board".
Bill Cosby
took over hosting the segments in 1980, presenting the lessons with a marker named "Mortimer Ichabod Marker" (M.I. for short), which was topped with a cartoon figure that played musical notes whenever he drew with it.
[3]
When the
Captain Kangaroo
show left
CBS
in 1984, the Cosby-era
Picture Pages
series was rerun as an
interstitial program
on
Nickelodeon
from 1984 to 1993.
The show also aired in Canada on the
YTV
cable network.
References
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- ^
Woolery, George W. (1985).
Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series
. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 393?394.
ISBN
0-8108-1651-2
.
- ^
"Jimmy Hirschfeld"
. Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
. Retrieved
May 23,
2018
.
- ^
"Archived copy"
. Archived from
the original
on 2005-12-26
. Retrieved
2005-12-20
.
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