Reading Rainbow - Season 1

Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1983
Average Rating: ⭐ 8.341 (44 votes)
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Tight Times
Season 1 - Episode 1
A young girl's father loses his job.

Miss Nelson Is Back
Season 1 - Episode 2
As part of his birthday celebration, LeVar gets made-up like a movie monster, and then gets involved in Harry Blackstone's magic act. Ruth B...

Bea and Mr. Jones
Season 1 - Episode 3
LeVar is already worn out after working on several scenes all day long on the production of the series. He feels he needs to take on another...

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Season 1 - Episode 4
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Louis the Fish
Season 1 - Episode 5
Louis the Fish

Digging Up Dinosaurs
Season 1 - Episode 6
Technically not the first science-related show in its history, LeVar seeks a place where archaeologists retrieve dinosaur bones. At the end ...

Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
Season 1 - Episode 7
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush

Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Season 1 - Episode 8
In the featured book, a young boy and his family move from New York City to the Southwest and he has many misconceptions about what his new ...

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Season 1 - Episode 9
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

The Gift of the Sacred Dog
Season 1 - Episode 10
The first of many programs favoring Native Americans. In this instance, a Midwestern legend suggests how horses arrived to the tribe. Later ...

Gregory, the Terrible Eater
Season 1 - Episode 11
Today's subject is goats and what they eat.

Three by the Sea
Season 1 - Episode 12
Three by the Sea

Arthur's Eyes
Season 1 - Episode 13
LaVar explores seeing and our other senses, as Bill Cosby tells the story of how the young aardvark, Arthur Read acquired his pair of glasse...

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Season 1 - Episode 14
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Ty's One Man Band
Season 1 - Episode 15
LeVar is ready to find music everywhere, and he does. This show includes the animation Onomatopoeia. Lou Rawls reads the story of Ty's One-M...