Reading Rainbow - Season 9

Reading Rainbow - Season 9

Season 9

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DatesSept. 16, 1991 - Sept. 27, 1991
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Episodes

Alistair's Time Machine
Season 9Episode 130 min

Alistair's Time Machine

LeVar goes to a totally-fictitious spot to find inventors from all eras. True to form, these inventors come from the distant past, Reading Rainbow's near-present, and the future. Arnold Stang narrates Alistair's Time Machine, the story of a boy who invents a machine that takes him centuries back in time.
Sept. 16, 1991
The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Season 9Episode 230 min

The Adventures of Taxi Dog

LeVar is a taxi driver in New York for a day, but the focus of this show soon lands on the subject of a service dog as well as how dogs are such good pets to us. Vincent Gardenia reads the story of an adopted stray dog who helps his new owner, a cab driver, get better tips when he entertains the customers on rides.
Sept. 17, 1991
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
Season 9Episode 330 min

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

LeVar's featured story is about a young Native American tribesman who finds his spiritual calling in life as a natural painter. His assignment is a special task that will influence him and his work have its memory last forever.
Sept. 18, 1991
Galimoto
Season 9Episode 430 min

Galimoto

Viewers learn the many uses for wire: from creating objects of wire art and transporting people on the longest tramway in the world, to playing an integral part in a circus act.
Sept. 19, 1991
Fox on the Job
Season 9Episode 530 min

Fox on the Job

There's a wide job market out there, but just what kind of job does a person want? In this program are both conventional and unconventional occupations to straddle the flow of the feature book.
Sept. 20, 1991
Opt: An Illusionary Tale
Season 9Episode 630 min

Opt: An Illusionary Tale

In this episode, all is not what it seems as LeVar demonstrates optical illusions from the book by Arline and Joseph Baum. He also shows how special effects are created for television; meets artist Christian Thee, who paints trompe l'oeil, or "trick-the-eye," paintings; and shows clips of kids creating their own optical illusions as well as camouflage tricks that animals use to deceive predators.
Sept. 23, 1991
Raccoons and Ripe Corn
Season 9Episode 730 min

Raccoons and Ripe Corn

LeVar spends the day following around wildlife artist and children's book author Jim Arnofsky, who shows LeVar how he is inspired to create the stories by the signs of animals around the woods near his home. Julia Barr reads several of Arnofsky's books: Raccoons and Ripe Corn, about a family of raccoons that feast on a nearby corn crop; Come Out, Muskrats!, about some shy muskrats hiding in their pond home; and Deer at the Brook, about a family of deer taking a drink at the stream.
Sept. 24, 1991
The Lady with the Ship on Her Head
Season 9Episode 830 min

The Lady with the Ship on Her Head

Turning even crazier, the show plays with our heads in more ways than one. LeVar is the "Head reporter" of a mock-news program called "HEADline News Report" and "reports" on a truly head-spinning array of all things ridiculous about the head. Included is a "Head-to-Head" interview with The Grateful Head, a fictitious musical group of singing heads...no necks, just heads. They sing a song called, "I Ain't Got No Body." Marilyn Pasekoff reads the featured story of a vain French woman, trying to win a fancy hat contest, unwittingly has a miniature sailing ship land on her head, and wins the contest when the judges mistake the boat for her head ornament.
Sept. 25, 1991
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
Season 9Episode 930 min

Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

LeVar takes a train ride from California to Washington state. Along the way, we learn about trains and how the transcontinental railroad came to be. Brian Dennehy narrates the true story of how a young teen named Kate Shelley risked her life to save the engineers of a train that crashed into a river when the bridge near her home collapsed, and how she had to get word to the nearest station to alert them to stop the express train.
Sept. 26, 1991
Snowy Day: Stories and Poems
Season 9Episode 1030 min

Snowy Day: Stories and Poems

LeVar travels to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is a perfect spot for a few poetry readings and winter observations. Some of which include sledding down hills, playing in the snow, building snow-people, and even meeting someone who races in the famous Iditarod.
Sept. 27, 1991

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