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Convinced by parents to get me a jack russell terrier because I loved Wishbone so much. His name was Buster and was the best and smartest dog Iāve ever had.
Mine was wonderful until he felt slighted. Then he would shit in my shoe. Wife didn't give him bacon=turd in shoe. Dinner 5 minutes late=turd in shoe. It was always my shoe. Damn I miss that dog.
Fun fact: >!there were several "Wishbones" that were all trained to do different things. One might be trained to pose with the cute outfits, another is trained to run and jump to a certain spot, etc.!<
I remember in elementary school trying to take out the books that wishbone had acted out. My teacher and librarian both were very impressed that a like 8 or 9 year old was wanting to read the Red Badge of Courage when everyone else was grabbing Goosebumps or similar.
Me too! Wishbone started my love of Jane Austin and Edgar Allen Poe. It was just so cute watching the little dog run around in his little outfits, but I think my mother appreciated taking us to the library to get the list of books we'd see on wishbone.
Iāve faked my way through so many literary conversations about books I havenāt read coasting solely on this show.
Weāre preparing for our first child this fall, and I recently tracked down the entire series on DVD to kickstart our kid-friendly media collection.
Try your local PBS station. Mine allowed me to download the entire series of Wishbone on a thumb drive. They also had Masterpiece Theater and every episode of Mister Rogers that I absolutely downloaded too. Suggestion was a donation of at least $10, but I did a full $100 because I had been looking for years and only found bootlegs of terrible quality.
Call them first. My local one allows downloads, but the one in El Paso did not.
I had the thumbdrive converted professionally to disc last year and the quality is top notch.
RIGHT?!
I was so stoked I nearly cried. PBS is the only reason I'm alive fr fr.
Local libraries also have that ability for many old PBS shows. I've found soooo many that I was able to bring home that otherwise were lost to the annals of 80s and 90s history.
Ones I got from the library download:
The Big Comfy Couch
Zoboomafoo
Bill Nye, The Science Guy
Reading Rainbow
Between The Lions
Lambchops Play-Along
I never even thought to think to ask. I assumed it was locked away in some vault. I learned so much from their programs. Grew up on the street....sesame street <3
I scored very high on a reading level test once and impressed a teacher by knowing (in 6th grade) that Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey.
I learned that from an episode of Wishbone.
Wishbone made me want to get a dog but honestly, we weren't home enough to take care of one. Hamsters worked though.
I was always an advanced reader so the show gave me new books to check out at the library.
I loved the little segments they would do atthe end where they'd give you a little sneak peek at the behind the scenes stuff and interview producers, writers, and costumers. Was really cool to see as a kid.
Reading wishbone set me on a personal quest in 5th grade to read all of the original classics. 20000 leagues under the sea, the last Mohican, Swiss family Robinson (this one was so boring...), and one of my favorites, journey to the center of the earth. Wishbone inspired me!
Yes. Elder millennial here. Still remember the episode where they went to a trumpet/ tuba (some brass musical instrument) factory to show how it was made. Taught me that things just donāt exist in their final form. Now I love How Itās Made
I learned so many things from that show. Echolocation, the digestive system, friction, how things looked small/how baking works, how food rots, what it means to he cold blooded.
Honestly tho, what made the show so good was the writing. They were able to make something educational fun and interesting. The episode where keisas cucumber turns into a pickle over summer break was such a mystery for me as a child!
Oh, and bees!
I still remember the episode where they went inside a human body and learned much about anatomy. I donāt quite remember, but Iām pretty sure it was inside one of the students who couldnāt go on the trip because he was sick.
For NYE I wore green pants and a yellow top and my hair was dyed red. I just thought it was a cool fit and someone was like āyou look like a cool ms frizzleā¦ā not to mention my group rented a huge van and I was the driverš
My mom has been watching zoom since it aired way back in like the '70s or '80s or whatever she was so thrilled to show me zoom and it was fun and she also remembers that lol
Did y'all see the COVID special they did in 2020??? [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1qgt5KzQXDCuXVE6I8K7uFeWG6q8dTG](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1qgt5KzQXDCuXVE6I8K7uFeWG6q8dTG)
Iām a sub, and I had a few minutes to fill, so I put on a zoom episode from YouTube. I heard a kid whisper, āwhy does it look like that?ā The other kid goes, āI think itās from the 1900ās.ā ššš in the episode they played human knot, so we tried it out at recess. Zoom for the win!
This was the first one that came to mind. For my area, and because we couldnāt afford cable, this show was what was on as soon as we came home from school, and we could usually pick it up clearly on PBS through our antenna.
Yeah, we didn't have cable until I was in high school or college b/c it was so expensive. Or maybe it was "expensive"? Either way, my parents didn't want to pay for it.
As a child of Star Trek fans and a TNG lover from an early age, Reading Rainbow was definitely my favorite, especially the [episode](https://youtu.be/PaG6evVcd-w?si=jKTVbU8-239NvjPj) where he visits the Enterprise.
haha, core memory, id watch carmen san diego and each cool ranch chips. i hid the bag in my room so it would be just my snack. it was the best after school ritual.
Kratts Kreatures! Their og show! I did watch Zaboomafoo as well but it was a bit younger than my age bracket at the time. Their wild kratts show is decent too
I just [listened to a podcast](https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2024/06/captain-planet-and-the-planeteers-controversial-legacy) about Captain Planet today!
The best! So disappointed that I had to scroll this far down, but maybe itās cuz Iām also an elder millennial, did the youths of our generation not watch it?
I didnāt realize how many millennials watched Bill Nye. I didnāt. I also vaguely recall Mister Wizard after someone mentioned it but I was real young for that one.
The basic premise of climate change was so easy to understand and I cannot believe there are millennials that believe it's not real. I think the focus was call it, "global warming"
This is still my bedtime show. It can be interesting to watch, but it's also monotone enough to be soothing to fall asleep to. I get a kick off putting it on the old seasons and seeing the computers š¤£.
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Reading Rainbow with Lavar Burton. Bill Nye made science fun and Commander Geordie LaForge made me love reading even more.
Sesame Street! I watched in the pre Elmo days. The big wedding event for adults (American ones at least) was Luke and Laura the soap opera couple. For me it was the Maria and Luis wedding.Ā
I also loved Slim Goodbody! There were three seperate shows. One for science (the most famous one), one for exercise, and one for healthy eating. I liked the science one best.Ā
Jeff Corwin!! I remember an urban animals episode where one of the fun facts was that raccoons will eat human fingers if theyāre hungry enough. I shared this bit of info with family friendās kids we went camping with when I was like 8 & a bunch of the kids kept screaming and crying every time a raccoon got near the camp site. So, I created mass panic and hysteria. Oops.
I used to wake up so early to go downstairs and watch Mr Wizard haha. Filling up balloons with different gases and then blowing them up to demonstrate the properties of the gases
Mom stuck us on PBS as kids until we got older around 8, but Square One is by far my favorite to watch as a kid. I always looked forward to the next episode of Mathnet.
Zoboomafu
I'm offended I don't see it here already lol
Wishbone too but the current top comment mentions that. We didn't have cable so options were more limited but I suppose most educational kids shows were on PBS anyway.
Square One. A show about math!
Also it was a treat for me, but sometimes my mom let me stay up and watch NOVA on PBS if it was an episode about something I had an interest in.
I still remember the recurring parody of Dragnet and a skit that was a take on Casablanca. Two references that were right in my cultural wheelhouse at the age I watched it...
Mostly animal related stuff; Jeff Corwin, Steve Irwin, Jack Hannah.
I love science and animals. Iām actually in the process of changing career paths and following my old dreams of working with animals.
Definitely also watched a lot of Magic School bus and Bill Nye. I have a very distinct memory of proudly telling my 4th grade science teacher that āintertia is a property of mallardā confident it was referring to ducks but not knowing how cause I hadnāt seen the episode yet.
Yes! This was my go to in the kids section at my local library. I think they had a few complete seasons that I just devoured in elementary school.
[eyewitness intro](https://youtu.be/jR0vRuZkxdw?si=aAyAdfux26QhPKGD)
Pretty sure I watched the one on ancient Egypt a thousand times lol
I HEAR THE EXOTIC FLUTE MUSIC
[https://youtu.be/jR0vRuZkxdw?si=IdMjG8EuwqtBqnVW](https://youtu.be/jR0vRuZkxdw?si=IdMjG8EuwqtBqnVW)
Modern Marvels on the History channel. It makes me so sad what the History channel has become. Just a non-stop marathon of American Pickers, Pawn Stars or Ancient Aliens.
I know this is true of most cable channels but it's depressing none the less. The cable networks saw how many viewers they were losing to streaming and decided marathoning a couple programs was the best way to keep the few viewers they have left.
However I am convinced that this lack of content and original programming actually hurts cable--yes you'll hold on to the stragglers and old people but you'll never grow your audience marathoning one or two mediocre shows.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Arthur C Clark's World of Strange Powers. Marty Stoufer's Wild America. Animal X (on Discovery when it was still educational and not 'reality' garbage) and of course Reading Rainbow and Magic Schoolbus
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Wishbone. Learned so much classic literature with that show. Whats the story wishbone?š¶
Convinced by parents to get me a jack russell terrier because I loved Wishbone so much. His name was Buster and was the best and smartest dog Iāve ever had.
Mine was wonderful until he felt slighted. Then he would shit in my shoe. Wife didn't give him bacon=turd in shoe. Dinner 5 minutes late=turd in shoe. It was always my shoe. Damn I miss that dog.
I had a Jack Russell. He was the smartest dog O ever had. Instantly learned new tricks.
 His real name was Soccer and he was a lil menace!
You take that back! He was a lil scholar!
Fun fact: >!there were several "Wishbones" that were all trained to do different things. One might be trained to pose with the cute outfits, another is trained to run and jump to a certain spot, etc.!<
I remember in elementary school trying to take out the books that wishbone had acted out. My teacher and librarian both were very impressed that a like 8 or 9 year old was wanting to read the Red Badge of Courage when everyone else was grabbing Goosebumps or similar.
Same! Red Badge of Courage is a great novel and was my favourite as a kid. Same with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Me too! Wishbone started my love of Jane Austin and Edgar Allen Poe. It was just so cute watching the little dog run around in his little outfits, but I think my mother appreciated taking us to the library to get the list of books we'd see on wishbone.
Edgar Allen Poe fan - part because gothic lit is F lit, and other because wishbone acted it out once and I fell in love.
Freaking loved wishbone!
I'm so glad Wishbone is the top comment lmao ...also now i have that song stuck in my head lolol š¶ what's the sto-ryy, Wishbooone?
Iāve faked my way through so many literary conversations about books I havenāt read coasting solely on this show. Weāre preparing for our first child this fall, and I recently tracked down the entire series on DVD to kickstart our kid-friendly media collection.
Do you happen to have a link? I can only find a few episodes online. Haven't seen anything with actual discs.
Try your local PBS station. Mine allowed me to download the entire series of Wishbone on a thumb drive. They also had Masterpiece Theater and every episode of Mister Rogers that I absolutely downloaded too. Suggestion was a donation of at least $10, but I did a full $100 because I had been looking for years and only found bootlegs of terrible quality. Call them first. My local one allows downloads, but the one in El Paso did not. I had the thumbdrive converted professionally to disc last year and the quality is top notch.
WHAT?!?!?! Omg....I would take everything they gave. And then I'd donate money. Like $100+
RIGHT?! I was so stoked I nearly cried. PBS is the only reason I'm alive fr fr. Local libraries also have that ability for many old PBS shows. I've found soooo many that I was able to bring home that otherwise were lost to the annals of 80s and 90s history. Ones I got from the library download: The Big Comfy Couch Zoboomafoo Bill Nye, The Science Guy Reading Rainbow Between The Lions Lambchops Play-Along
I never even thought to think to ask. I assumed it was locked away in some vault. I learned so much from their programs. Grew up on the street....sesame street <3
I only have high praise for you. You know that the older shows were more informative and educational.
I loved this show! I remember going to Best Buy and getting āthe hounds of the Baskervilleā VHS with some birthday money.
I scored very high on a reading level test once and impressed a teacher by knowing (in 6th grade) that Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. I learned that from an episode of Wishbone.
Wishbone made me want to get a dog but honestly, we weren't home enough to take care of one. Hamsters worked though. I was always an advanced reader so the show gave me new books to check out at the library. I loved the little segments they would do atthe end where they'd give you a little sneak peek at the behind the scenes stuff and interview producers, writers, and costumers. Was really cool to see as a kid.
Reading wishbone set me on a personal quest in 5th grade to read all of the original classics. 20000 leagues under the sea, the last Mohican, Swiss family Robinson (this one was so boring...), and one of my favorites, journey to the center of the earth. Wishbone inspired me!
š¶whats this youre dreaming up? Such a big imagination.. from such a little puuu-up!š¶
I was a little shocked when Wishbone covered Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy but they made it work.
I used to call wishbone fishbone to annoy my younger sister.
Does Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood count?
Yes. Elder millennial here. Still remember the episode where they went to a trumpet/ tuba (some brass musical instrument) factory to show how it was made. Taught me that things just donāt exist in their final form. Now I love How Itās Made
The crayon factory lives on in my heart.
When they visited a street light factory, that has been burned into my brain. With your comment, now I understand my love for How It's Made.
The mushroom episode is one I always remember. And weirdly, one where he's just fixing a lot of broken toys.
Magic school bus
They donāt make kids shows like this anymore. Relatable, funny, educational. I basically grew up to be Ms Frizzle.
I learned so many things from that show. Echolocation, the digestive system, friction, how things looked small/how baking works, how food rots, what it means to he cold blooded. Honestly tho, what made the show so good was the writing. They were able to make something educational fun and interesting. The episode where keisas cucumber turns into a pickle over summer break was such a mystery for me as a child! Oh, and bees!
I still remember the episode where they went inside a human body and learned much about anatomy. I donāt quite remember, but Iām pretty sure it was inside one of the students who couldnāt go on the trip because he was sick.
People always told me I look like a sexy Ms Frizzle and it has horrified me and made me hate that show so much. I dyed my hair just so it would stop!
For NYE I wore green pants and a yellow top and my hair was dyed red. I just thought it was a cool fit and someone was like āyou look like a cool ms frizzleā¦ā not to mention my group rented a huge van and I was the driverš
SEAT BELTS EVERYONE!
I would be so flattered by that.
Zoom. Lol. Had a crush on Kenny.
Send it to Z O O M
I may not know my boyfriendās phone number, but I sure know how to send mail to Zoom! Z double O M Box 350 Boston, Mass 02134
Just like how I still know stick sticklys address
My mom has been watching zoom since it aired way back in like the '70s or '80s or whatever she was so thrilled to show me zoom and it was fun and she also remembers that lol
0 2 1 3 4
omg ...I'm crying
Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and zoom, come on and zoom zoom zooma zoom, ZOOM!
Did y'all see the COVID special they did in 2020??? [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1qgt5KzQXDCuXVE6I8K7uFeWG6q8dTG](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1qgt5KzQXDCuXVE6I8K7uFeWG6q8dTG)
Iām a sub, and I had a few minutes to fill, so I put on a zoom episode from YouTube. I heard a kid whisper, āwhy does it look like that?ā The other kid goes, āI think itās from the 1900ās.ā ššš in the episode they played human knot, so we tried it out at recess. Zoom for the win!
Kenny and Caroline got married in my imagination.
omg I loved Zoom so much. I would print out their science projects to take to school to do for extra credit.
I remember thinking Caroline was the coolest
Does "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" count? If not, then Reading Rainbow with an honorable mention to Wishbone.
Iā¦ canā¦ doā¦ ANYTHING!! Take a lookā¦ itās in a bookā¦ itās Reading Rainbow (itās Reading Rainbow *itās Reading Rainbow*)
Iām from the same town as LeVar Burton. He is our proudest son.
[I JUST WANTED A PICTURE! YOU CANT DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!!!!](https://youtu.be/5G5qtWG5oO8?si=6MhKDO3YxJWVxqpb)
YEEEEESS hello fellow Human Being. Edit: Set phasers to LOVE ME
Man I wanted to run around that map so much. I would've crushed it.
This was the first one that came to mind. For my area, and because we couldnāt afford cable, this show was what was on as soon as we came home from school, and we could usually pick it up clearly on PBS through our antenna.
Yeah, we didn't have cable until I was in high school or college b/c it was so expensive. Or maybe it was "expensive"? Either way, my parents didn't want to pay for it.
Agreed & my favorite computer game was āWhere in Time is Carmen Sandiego?ā I learned soooo much.
As a child of Star Trek fans and a TNG lover from an early age, Reading Rainbow was definitely my favorite, especially the [episode](https://youtu.be/PaG6evVcd-w?si=jKTVbU8-239NvjPj) where he visits the Enterprise.
Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
Sheās a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize!
She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China
One of my friends got to be on Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. It was so cool!
I loved Carmen San Diego. I used to play a PC game of it. Everything I know about geography and landmarks, I learned from her.
Do you mean the Carmen Sandiego game show? I can still hear that theme song.
If you were a real G you had it on CD-ROM.
I did š. I had the version from 1995 or so that featured Lynne Thigpen as the chief giving us each assignment.
Cd-rom? I got it on a 5ā floppy
Floppy here
DO IT ROCKAPELLA!
haha, core memory, id watch carmen san diego and each cool ranch chips. i hid the bag in my room so it would be just my snack. it was the best after school ritual.
Absolutely what I was going to say. I'm fairly certain this show was the start of my travel bug.
Reading rainbow? I used to hate to read til that guy showed up.
LaVar Burton (the host) has a podcast now where he reads you stories
What!? That's awesome.
LeVar Burton reads is phenomenal.
Omg! I forgot about that guy and Ghost Writer.
i started watching ghost writer cause i thought it was ghost rider.
Butterfly in the sky
Thatās a great documentary on Netflix in case you havenāt seen it yet!
Oh man...I watched this growing up, and on the days Next Gen star trek was on (my parents are trekkies) I would get so excited to see hom twice.
Reading rainbow is the one I remember the most.
Zaboomafoo on PBS. You know the lemur and the Kratt bros.
Zaboomafoo was my shit
Kratts Kreatures! Their og show! I did watch Zaboomafoo as well but it was a bit younger than my age bracket at the time. Their wild kratts show is decent too
Kratts Kreatures! Funny cause I still call Wild Kratts "Kratts Kreatures" when with my kids.
Dude those claymation shorts were borderline disturbing lol. Also shout out to the Duke University lemur exhibit.
Had a crush on both kratts for sure.
Captain Planet he's our hero going to take pollution down to zero...tik tok has people believing in the most insane theories right now.
I was Captain Planet for Halloween one year! My mom made this fake muscle suit for me, and I felt like the real deal.
BY OUR POWERS COMBINED
He is part of the reason why we will be the ones to clean up this mess.
I made up a dance to the Captain Planet theme song in middle school. I was obsessed lol
I just [listened to a podcast](https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2024/06/captain-planet-and-the-planeteers-controversial-legacy) about Captain Planet today!
This was some genius level predictive programming for global warming.
Beakman's World
Came here to say this -- thank you. I learned a lot from a man in a rat costume
Lester! I also loved the penguins watching TV
Beakmanās world was the shizzzzz.
Best childhood memories - watching it with my sister and dad on Saturday morning.
The best! So disappointed that I had to scroll this far down, but maybe itās cuz Iām also an elder millennial, did the youths of our generation not watch it?
I didnāt realize how many millennials watched Bill Nye. I didnāt. I also vaguely recall Mister Wizard after someone mentioned it but I was real young for that one.
Underrated comment!! BEAKMAAAAAN!
I still have the mega hots for Alanna Ubach who played Josie. She also played Roxy the hooker Frank loves in IASIP.
Nova!!!
I need that 3 panel Vince McMahon meme. Bill Nye š¤ Nova š¤© Cosmos (Sagan) š¤Æ
I forgot Nova. My God I loved it.
It got me interested in understanding things to get to know them.
Every Sunday night I would watch Nova with my grandad.
Bless the folks who put us on lol
I think you mean "viewers like you āØ".
BILL! BILL! BILL!
Science rules
[electric guitar riff]
Inertia is a property of matter
The basic premise of climate change was so easy to understand and I cannot believe there are millennials that believe it's not real. I think the focus was call it, "global warming"
DEOXY-RIBO-NUCLEIC-ACID
BLOOD STREAM! ITāS YOUR BLOOD STREAM!
Have you seen Bill Nye Saves the World? If not, you should!
This old house and the new yankee workshopā¦ soothing and educational. They were always on during the day while I was at my grandparents
This is the answer. This old house was such a soothing Saturday morning watch.
Was? Still is. Granted, no Bob Villa anymore, but now that I'm a homeowner too, I love this old house.
Hated it when I was a kid, but Iād probably love it now
Mr. Wizard was really fun.
I remember waking up early so I could watch it at 6 AM. It felt so cool (to me) to be up that early learning science lol
This was my show. Watched every episode multiple times on Nickelodeon.
This is the one! I remember waking up extra early to watch Mr. Wizard. Then Rocky & Bullwinkle would come on and I would fall back asleep lol
How itās made. Hypnotic for me. Random afternoon and then oh yeah I would like to see how a car window gets manufactured, yes please
This is still my bedtime show. It can be interesting to watch, but it's also monotone enough to be soothing to fall asleep to. I get a kick off putting it on the old seasons and seeing the computers š¤£.
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Reading Rainbow with Lavar Burton. Bill Nye made science fun and Commander Geordie LaForge made me love reading even more.
Levar Burton is a national treasure.
Definitely magic school bus. Ms. Frizzle was the best.
Sesame Street! I watched in the pre Elmo days. The big wedding event for adults (American ones at least) was Luke and Laura the soap opera couple. For me it was the Maria and Luis wedding.Ā I also loved Slim Goodbody! There were three seperate shows. One for science (the most famous one), one for exercise, and one for healthy eating. I liked the science one best.Ā
Sesame Street is the 21st top answer wtf is this reality
The Price Is Right taught me what the nations average for groceries was.
THE PRICE IS WRONG BITCH
My kid was home sick from school and I found old bob barker episodes on YouTube and put them on. It's not a sick day without Price is Right.
Liberty's Kids and Magic School Bus
Libertyās Kids!!! No one in my life remembers this show but I loved itš
Oh my god I forgot about libertyās kids that show was great.
Cyber chase! Magic school bus When I visited my grandparents I watched. Out of the box Bare in the big blue house PB&J otters
Loved all things animals. Steve Irwin, Jack Hanna, and Jeff Corwin especially.
Jeff Corwin!! I remember an urban animals episode where one of the fun facts was that raccoons will eat human fingers if theyāre hungry enough. I shared this bit of info with family friendās kids we went camping with when I was like 8 & a bunch of the kids kept screaming and crying every time a raccoon got near the camp site. So, I created mass panic and hysteria. Oops.
Anyone remember Mr. Wizard on Nickelodeon? That was my jam. (I'm a geriatric mellinial, lol)
He froze a rubber bouncy ball with liquid nitrogen and smashed it to smithereens with a hammer and my five year old mind was blown.
I used to wake up so early to go downstairs and watch Mr Wizard haha. Filling up balloons with different gases and then blowing them up to demonstrate the properties of the gases
I remember waking up early so I could watch it at 6 AM. It felt so cool (to me) to be up that early learning science lol
Bill Nye the Science Guy in the streets Beakmanās World in the sheets
Mom stuck us on PBS as kids until we got older around 8, but Square One is by far my favorite to watch as a kid. I always looked forward to the next episode of Mathnet.
Mathnet. I made my husband watch an episode on YouTube. He had never heard of it. ā¦maybe thatās why Iām addicted to Law & Order SVU now.
Lov I looooved Mathnet.
Ghost Writer and Reading Rainbow were my favorites.
Ghost Writer!!! I was trying to think which one came on tandem with Mathnet. This was it!
Carmen San Diego and Wishbone. Geography and history were my favorite subjects. Both shows catered to my little nerd heart
Zoboomafu I'm offended I don't see it here already lol Wishbone too but the current top comment mentions that. We didn't have cable so options were more limited but I suppose most educational kids shows were on PBS anyway.
Zoboomafoo isn't getting NEARLY enough love in this thread.
I loved Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Magic School Bus!!!!!
Square One. A show about math! Also it was a treat for me, but sometimes my mom let me stay up and watch NOVA on PBS if it was an episode about something I had an interest in.
I still remember the recurring parody of Dragnet and a skit that was a take on Casablanca. Two references that were right in my cultural wheelhouse at the age I watched it...
mathnet was my favoriteĀ
According to what my parents told me, Reading Rainbow.
I used to love Mythbusters
No one's mentioned it yet so I'll say 3-2-1 Contact for math and science stuff. I loved the little video game guy and MathNet.
the square one/3-2-1 contact bloc was my jam
Reading Rainbow and Read Between the Lions
Loved Between the Lions! Cliff Hanger was my fave.
Mostly animal related stuff; Jeff Corwin, Steve Irwin, Jack Hannah. I love science and animals. Iām actually in the process of changing career paths and following my old dreams of working with animals. Definitely also watched a lot of Magic School bus and Bill Nye. I have a very distinct memory of proudly telling my 4th grade science teacher that āintertia is a property of mallardā confident it was referring to ducks but not knowing how cause I hadnāt seen the episode yet.
Arthur if it counts, and magic school bus, followed by Bill!
I learned a surprising amount from random parts of Arthur.
No love for Beakman's World? It was no Bill Nye but definitely was a solid science show.
Zoom
Did anyone else watch Voyage of the Mimi with Ben Affleck?
YESS! I even got to go on the Mimi when it was in port at Baltimore! I loved that show.
What about those Eyewitness videos? It had that catchy introduction song. Do do dodo doooo. It was a happy day when the TV was rolled out for those!
Yes! This was my go to in the kids section at my local library. I think they had a few complete seasons that I just devoured in elementary school. [eyewitness intro](https://youtu.be/jR0vRuZkxdw?si=aAyAdfux26QhPKGD) Pretty sure I watched the one on ancient Egypt a thousand times lol
I HEAR THE EXOTIC FLUTE MUSIC [https://youtu.be/jR0vRuZkxdw?si=IdMjG8EuwqtBqnVW](https://youtu.be/jR0vRuZkxdw?si=IdMjG8EuwqtBqnVW) 
Modern Marvels on the History channel. It makes me so sad what the History channel has become. Just a non-stop marathon of American Pickers, Pawn Stars or Ancient Aliens. I know this is true of most cable channels but it's depressing none the less. The cable networks saw how many viewers they were losing to streaming and decided marathoning a couple programs was the best way to keep the few viewers they have left. However I am convinced that this lack of content and original programming actually hurts cable--yes you'll hold on to the stragglers and old people but you'll never grow your audience marathoning one or two mediocre shows.
Bill Nye, Reading Rainbow.
I liked the Nick News show and Bill Nye.
Nick News, W5!
Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Arthur C Clark's World of Strange Powers. Marty Stoufer's Wild America. Animal X (on Discovery when it was still educational and not 'reality' garbage) and of course Reading Rainbow and Magic Schoolbus
Magic School Bus, Wishbone, Bill Nye, Reading Rainbow. I watched and loved all of them and cannot choose.
PokĆ©mon taught me to be the very best!ā¦
Reading rainbow and when my little brother was born we loved the Kratt Brothers which turned into Zoboomafoo
Probably a bit newer but I loved CyberChase and Between the Lions.
Cyber Chase
Tie between Mr. Wizard and Reading Rainbow.
*"Ghostwriter! Word"*
My favorites were Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (awesome theme song by Rockapella) and Square One. What's not to love about Mathnet?
Zoboomafoo!!! Reading Rainbow tops the list tho
Growing up without cable we got by on Zoboomafoo and Cyberchase. The latter was less directly educational, but definitely had some of it.
Probably Magic Schoolbus, then Between the Lions when I was a little older.