The Dutch female ecologist and herpetologist Sterrin Smalbrugge teaches children everything they need to know about reptiles. What types of reptiles are there, what do they eat and where are the animals found? The program challenges children to explore nature for themselves, where there is so much to discover.
A young man named Ken Matthews hitchhikes from Manitoba back to his home town of Cornwall, Ontario. Each episode details the interesting people he meets along the way.
Galloping Galaxies! is a British children's television series set on a spaceship that was shown on the BBC from October 1985 and ran for ten episodes. It was created by Bob Block, also the creator of Rentaghost. It featured Kenneth Williams as the voice of the ship's computer SID, in one of his final roles.
Livewire is a kids' talk show on the U.S. television cable network, Nickelodeon which began in September 1980 and ended in 1985. Livewire was a talk show for kids of all ages, and the show's main focus discussed true current events and stories during those times. The show was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York through Reeves Teletape Studios of Sesame Street fame. Livewire was filmed 'live on tape' with a participating audience of about 20-30 teenagers and was hosted initially by Mark Cordray, but Fred Newman eventually replaced Cordray as host. The show was a CableACE Award winner, the first Nickelodeon talk show to achieve that feat. Livewire was the #1 rated show on Nickelodeon in 1982, and never went below #7 in the ratings during the 5 year span of the show.
The show was most famously known for giving relatively unknown bands and singers their first television appearance. Bands and celebrities who got their start on Livewire and those who had made an appearance on Livewire included:
⁕Bow Wow Wow