Educational shorts originally produced for television and broadcast from 1973 to 1996. Various performers.
Contents:
; The tale of Mr. Morton. Unpack your adjectives ; Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here ; Conjunction junction ; Interjections! ; Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla ; Verb : that's what's happening ; A noun is a person, place or thing ; Busy propositions ; The tale of Mr. Morton. ; The weather song. The body machine ; Do the circulation ; Electricity, electricity ; The energy blues ; Interplanet Janet ; Telegraph line ; Them not-so-dry bones ; A victim of gravity ; The weather song. ; The check's in the mail . Dollars and sense ; Seven-fifty once a week ; Where the money goes ; Tax man Max ; Walkin' on Wall Street ; This for that ; Tyrannosaurus debt ; The check's in the mail . ; Little twelvetoes. My hero, zero ; Elementary, my dear ; Three is a magic number ; The four-legged zoo ; Ready or not, here I come ; I got six ; Lucky seven Sampson ; Figure eight ; Naughty number nine ; The good eleven ; Little twelvetoes. ; I'm gonna send your vote to college. No more Kings ; Fireworks ; The shot heard 'round the world ; The Preamble ; Elbow room ; The great American melting pot ; Mother necessity ; Sufferin' till suffrage ; I'm just a bill ; Three-ring government ; I'm gonna send your vote to college. Disc 2. Long lost song, "The weather show" ; Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips 3-song set ; Behind the scenes of the new song with Michael Eisner ; Top 20 countdown ; "Earn your diploma" trivia game ; Arrange-a-song puzzles ; 4 music videos by contemporary artists ; Emmy awards featurette ; Nike commercial of "Three is a magic number" ; Audio commentaries.
Summary:
Collection of animated, musical shorts on the topics of science, multiplication, money, American history and politics, and English grammar.
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