Episode guide
Reading Rainbow: Season 1
15 episodes · premiered Jun 6, 1983
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- Episode 1: Tight Times Jun 6, 1983 · 30m A young girl's father loses his job.
- Episode 2: Miss Nelson Is Back Jun 7, 1983 · 30m 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 Buzzi reads Miss Nelson Is Back, all about a…
- Episode 3: Bea and Mr. Jones Jun 8, 1983 · 30m 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 identity, segueing into introducing the…
- Episode 4: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Jun 9, 1983 · 30m Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
- Episode 5: Louis the Fish Jun 10, 1983 · 30m Louis the Fish
- Episode 6: Digging Up Dinosaurs Jun 13, 1983 · 30m Technically not the first science-related show in its history, LeVar seeks a place where archaeologists retrieve dinosaur bones. At the end of the program, LeVar buries a time capsule…
- Episode 7: Liang and the Magic Paintbrush Jun 14, 1983 · 30m Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
- Episode 8: Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport Jun 15, 1983 · 30m 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 home is like.
- Episode 9: Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe Jun 16, 1983 · 30m Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
- Episode 10: The Gift of the Sacred Dog Jun 17, 1983 · 30m The first of many programs favoring Native Americans. In this instance, a Midwestern legend suggests how horses arrived to the tribe. Later in this episode is the song "Ancient Places…
- Episode 11: Gregory, the Terrible Eater Jun 20, 1983 · 30m Today's subject is goats and what they eat.
- Episode 12: Three by the Sea Jun 21, 1983 · 30m Three by the Sea
- Episode 13: Arthur's Eyes Jun 22, 1983 · 30m LaVar explores seeing and our other senses, as Bill Cosby tells the story of how the young aardvark, Arthur Read acquired his pair of glasses.
- Episode 14: The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash Jun 22, 1983 · 30m The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
- Episode 15: Ty's One Man Band Jun 23, 1983 · 30m 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-Man Band, about a man who teaches a boy how to…