I wish I could get a full length copy of the music used in this opening sequence! Love it! I have a few of these on video, but no credit is provided about the music used.
I love that so many of us remember these shows. From CA to Maine, Florida to the Dakotas, we all watched these shows from so long ago. And now, they're cherished. Oh, and Channel 28, KCET Los Angeles.
I liked the logo. "Inside Out" was an instructional program that aired on public television during the 1970's. This program was aired on WILL Channel 12 in Urbana, Illinois. A Classic 6!!
this is nostalgic..and abit depressing. the more i look at these vids from my past the more i realize...i never really had a chance in my personal life.
Wow, when I see and hear this, it brings me back to those days when I was a kid and at home watching PBS. It makes me feel sad to hear this for some reason. I guess it is a feeling of nostalgia.
I used to take shows like this for granted when I was a kid in the 80's. Many years later, these are now cherished childhood memories. Thanks youtube!!
I loved this intro music & I can hardly believe I'm hearing it again,just as I remember ! I only saw this show at school , maybe in 5th or 6th grade,1974 or 75.
I agree with landraiderares ! Also, my 4th grade class would always say 'Exxon Corporation' in unison with the intro. We always thought that was Funny !
wow !! I remember watching this over 30 yrs ago on WDCN out of Nashville. Wasn't much else if you didn't have cable or a dish in the late 70's/80's and were stuck at home sick or a snow day.
What a great flash back this video is ~ The warmth this gives off is immense ~ These were watched by me in elementary school in Miami in the 70's ~ Along with a movie called "The Red Balloon" ~
Just getting to experience seeing and hearing this on you tube is so meaningful to me. It gives me a warm, toasty feeling about my past. I know it wasn't as great as I remembered it to be, but you just had to be there.
@mtganimemiikefan Google "agency for instructional television. AIT's website has some series available. Be careful though There was a virus lurking around there a few weeks back.
I used to see these on WKNO back n the 80's. the last one I remember was anout the little boy who wanted to help and do everything. I think it was called "yes I can". That was back in June 1986. I haven't seen any of these since. There were a lot of oother neat programs that rean on PBS like the " the science corner" and the show about the professor with the bicycle who always wore a lab coat and a sherlock holmes cap. I cannot remember what that one was called.
big high5 to the uploader, this show was so thought provoking, really one of tv's finest, i only got to see a few episodes if i was home sick but they were burned into my mind, for real how many programs are out there today which depict the adversities of life, and try to get you to think about how you can handle it if you had to experience it, really thought provoking heavy stuff, $40 an episode eh, little steep but it maybe worth it, i remember the bully episode, cheers to you all
You mean they actually showed these classroom programs during the summer in your area? Once summer began in my region, these programs were off until September. I'd watch them all year if possible.
Great upload- thanks- been looking for this song for over 10 years! Does anyone know what the actual name of the song written for this intro is and the write &/or musicians that performed it? Also nasa had this similar song if not the same edited into 1 of their promo films back in the 70s.
I watched this as a kid. Later on, I taught myself to play the guitar riff on my acoustic. Always found that music soothing. It now reminds me of "Have You Ever Seen the Rain", lol.
Wow! It's been at least 25 years since I've seen this intro, maybe more-- and I can still remember every note of the theme song. Thanks so much for upping this!
Thanks for digging this out of the vault. I used to see this on weekday mornings on CBC in the early 80s. It always had an air of melancholy or angst, given the quandary the stories' protagonists faced. The bully episode was a standout. It's all sweet nostalgia now.
EXXon Corporation must have slipped a little payola to the announcer for the emphasis on their name!
Holy smokes!! I haven't seen this since elementary school. When we would stay inside for recess, they would show us these. Does any remember the "Just Joking" episode?
Loved that I could find this here. Too bad you can't post episodes. I remember the one about the girl whose parents are getting a divorce - or she thinks they are; it was kind of vague, and a little spooky. And one about kids who plant an urban garden which gets trashed by other kids. Kind of a bummer. Heavy handed by today's standards but back then you felt for the kids who planted it.
let me join the chorus flashing back to a middle school classroom (5th grade), where the lights were turned down and a B & W TV on a large movable stand was wheeled out to view this program..
My 3rd grade teacher used to pull out the old classroom TV and make us watch this every so often. Had forgotten what the little tune sounded like at the intro. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for posting this...I had been looking around for it for a very long time...This show was great and I remember seeing it on our local PBS station well into my high school years (early-mid 90's)...good job!
Hey, I love this show. I remember this very well back in the 1980's when they use to show it on pbs. Does anyone have self incorporated intro? I love that intro to that show. If anyone have it post it or leave a link to my email.
Amen to that micmac99. If someone at AIT could dust off the original master tapes and make a high quality transfer to DVD I think that a whole generation of kids (and adults) would thouroughly enjoy these wonderful episodes.
Yes they would but, they probly won't be airing these particular series style shows due to the Value System has changed considerably in the last 35 years.
And thats what AIT told me a few years ago..
I, for one would like to see them again.
There is a person here on YouTube that says he has them on 16mm film and I would like to borrow them so that I could "telecine transfer"
them to video. I'll keep ya updated if I get them..
NIT, or AIT as it is called now, did a lot of great shows, not just Inside/Out. Some episodes were posted here on YouTube but AIT called "copyright" and had them removed. AIT needs to post episodes on here THEMSELVES, and from the original masters so we can see them in all their glory.
Wow... amazing. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that really enjoyed this show. Reading several other posts here almost sounds like what I've felt for nearly 30 years! Yes, the show was quite haunting moogyboy6. The morals of the stories, if you will, always delt with fairness, tolerance and kindness. When I would watch Inside Out I felt like I was witnessing a replay of the days events unfolding in my life as a kid growing up in early to mid 70's Orlando, FL. And that musical intro. Love it!
Does anyone remember an educational program call "The Metric System?" (I think) It taught metric measurements and I vaguely remember they had their own version of Ernie and Bert. If anyone can help..please do. Thank you.
yeah i recall the metric system show cant remeber much off hand but iwas looking for it today, i also remember watching a show that was like social studies i remember learning about latitude and longitude and meridians and once they discussed an aboriginal tribe call the tumahara or something like that, i beleive the intro had a clip of a fishing boat hauling in a big metal basket, anyone remember that ? i was so happy to find this intro here, i only saw this if i was home sick , great shows
I've got many Inside Out "episodes" on 16mm film that I acquired from a school district in Fairbanks, Alaska that liquidated their entire film library in the late '90's. I keep my projectors in good running condition so that I can view these from time to time.
We watched these in school when i was in 2nd grade in Texas - that was in 1976. I remember the peculiar smell of the gym where we watched, as well as the frustration of the substitue teacher when she couldn't thread the projector...
I've had this song stuck in my head for about 25 years now...
by the looks of it there are more people on here that remember this show but don't remember what actually went on..I concur.
I am thinking that this was for the hardcore fans of PBS, or for those like me that had nothing else to watch because we lived out in the middle of nowhere and had no clue what The Cartoon Express was.....LOL
until that FOX affiliate showed up and started brainwashing us all! :P
I don't know why but I'm getting all emotional remembering this tv show. We watched it one year in grade school and it had a lasting impact on me. We would have group discussion afterwords & I got really tripped up by the troubling scenarios. Wish I could see a few episodes again.
There was another program that featured children's books. Each episcode featured a book. The host of the program's last name was Robbins, I think. At some point during the program he would draw a picture of a scene from the book and somone would narrate a part of the book. One of the programs was Read It/Wrote It? There was another program also. This stuff brings back so many memories.
THAT'S IT!!!! Thanks so much. I would like to see the intro to these again. I remember one particular book....I think the name was "A Taste Of Blueberries" or it might be Blackberries.
They showed this show to us on closed curcuit TV's in Catholic school back in 75-76,,Man the memories it brings back,,,it's amazing, I was like 10 years old!
@marioD1965 I do have memories of the Closed Circuit TV's in the Classroom as my teacher used to show The Electric Company in first grade 1977-1978. I must say, I almost forgot about this program and it brings memories as I used to watch it before starting school in 1974-1975 before preschool and this would be on after the morning programs such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company etc. As I looked at other youtube clips this happened to be one of the related videos.
I wonder if the composers/art directors who developed intros like these realize how many children's brains their work is permanently embedded in. I'll bet they forgot about this work as quickly as they produced it, moving on to the next commercial gig. If only they knew!
a few years ago I think I had spoke to a woman at AIT and they told me that the value system has changed with people and that those shows probly would not GO today.
I would like to make series shows just like that if I could get the time..
and YES, the stern introduction, the kids' profiles (and background noise of the playground), soft folksy music, and morphing graphics bring back such memories of simpler times. LOVE IT..
My first post tanked on me, so here goes again...I am choked up with nostalgic joy that someone has archived the theme to this show - it brings back tons of memories of simpler times as a gradeschooler. The stern NIT intro, the wistful kids' profiles (and the happy noise of the park in the background), the morphing graphics and folksy theme music...it's a lost bit of television artistry. Sigh...
I'm speechless with delight and overwhelmed with nostalgia. Clips like this from my childhood education...I thought they had disappeared forever. The stern introduction, the kids' profiles (and background noise of the playground), soft folksy music, and morphing graphics bring back such memories of simpler times...wow. Thank you, whoever you are, for preserving this!
I remember there was an episode about different strong emotions that was very strange and frightening...there was one part where a man kept repeating "Confuuuusion!" while they flashed pictures of doorways opening onto different scenes. Something like that.
I think I also recall an episode on peer pressure and money management where one kid tries insanely hard to convince his friend to chip in to buy "the greatest toy ever", which was a crazy prop made up of $6Mil Man doll heads and other bits and pieces of toys on a rotating mechanical turntable...I swear I didn't hallucinate it...
@landraiderares I remember that one ! At the beginning of it was a commercial for that toy ,with cool music & a voice-over & visuals that hyped it, & when the kids finally got it, they discovered that it was totally useless .
OK, I found Inside/out....LOL. Anyone remember Finding Our Way or Wordsmith? A friend of mine plays guitar, I am going to send him this and see if he can play it.
Hey thanks for posting the intro to inside out I've been looking for it for the longest. Now do anybody have self incorporated intro. I love these intros and the shows as well.if anybody have a clip can they post it
Dang finally found it. Never knew what the show was called but I remembered the theme music. But there's this other one I remember but haven't seen it on youtube yet. I don't remember if it was it's own show or part of a show. But it was of a cartoon bee. And he would always say, "kalabracha, kalabracha" lol something like that.
Yerizzo, I think you are talking about an old PBS show called ghostwriter where they would solve mysteries and write about it. It was some sort of an insect saying "palabrajot"
okay, I found it. It's not Ghostwriter, it's a show called The Write Channel. And it's some clay animated bookworm character that says palabra jot, palabra jot. But where am I getting this image of a drawn animated bee that flew around. The Electric Comapny? Or maybe it was just some intermission thingy...hmm.
I remember "Footsteps"! If I am not mistaken, there were actual foot prints in the sand shown in the opening of the program- or maybe I am confusing it with another show.
Man, does that take me back! Yeah....further to what moogyboy6 said -- the theme music is that classic "introspective", "thought-provoking", "soul searching", etc., early '70s folk guitar stuff that was so prevalent back then. Reminiscient of James Taylor (e.g., "Fire & Rain"), parts of "Closer to Home (I'm Your Captain)" by Grand Funk Railroad, and especially "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin.
Another GenXer here who semi-fondly remembers watching this show in school (it aired for years and years during the daytime on our local PBS station). Some episodes were quite disturbing, as I remember; "I Dare You" sticks out in particular.
As for the intro: very simple yet poetic in a way that children's show intros aren't anymore. The theme music is classic '70s imo--excellent.
There were several episodes of the show on YouTube a while back--did they get taken down?
Make that "fondly remember", in spite of the creepiness of some of the episodes. All those old instructional shows give me a warm fuzzy feeling anymore--nostalgia, you understand.
The episodes were removed from youtube due to a complaint by AIT. Ticked me off. AIT overs all episodes of "Inside Out" on VHS for $40. Too much for a 15-minute program on an outdated format, in my opinion.
They need to offer the show on DVD. This was a semi-staple of my childhood. I watched this mainly on KQED when I was home sick from school and they had the ITV block after Sesame Street.
OMG. My fifth grade teacher used to show us this show regularly in class and we'd discuss it afterwards. The theme song has been in the recesses of my mind for 30 years!
Courtesy of the legendary Scanimate, the same early (analog) computer-animation device responsible for the graphics on "The Electric Company" and about 10 zillion TV station logos in the '70s.
We used to have these movies shown to us on a movie projector at school! Love it!
Rdhk99 4 days ago
I wish I could get a full length copy of the music used in this opening sequence! Love it! I have a few of these on video, but no credit is provided about the music used.
Ramoneoh 1 month ago
Living it up, KQED Style!
seymoreskinner3 2 months ago
As a kid I used loved the guitar in this. These days I still play it on my acoustics!
An utterly early-70s sound and feel.
MadHighway 2 months ago
I remember this as an 11 year old watching these films in Elementary school.
RobertoLopezstudyis 3 months ago
I love that so many of us remember these shows. From CA to Maine, Florida to the Dakotas, we all watched these shows from so long ago. And now, they're cherished. Oh, and Channel 28, KCET Los Angeles.
satyricon451 3 months ago
I liked the logo. "Inside Out" was an instructional program that aired on public television during the 1970's. This program was aired on WILL Channel 12 in Urbana, Illinois. A Classic 6!!
Green18600 3 months ago
The voice and birds you hear in this vid are most likely dead... think about it... great times gone, but not forgotten!
Gorilla6569 5 months ago
The logo at the beginning, was that the old AIT logo?
edt558 5 months ago
I knew this show existed! I remember watching it early in the mornings.
About 7 years later and I still remember it the theme song.
ilovefall08 6 months ago
one of the greatest tv shows ever created, upload every episode now! =D
aachelabelaaron 7 months ago
this is nostalgic..and abit depressing. the more i look at these vids from my past the more i realize...i never really had a chance in my personal life.
DerekBayRoberts1 7 months ago
Thanks for the rush of memories!
stephenvic 9 months ago
word, landraiderares..
witchman67 9 months ago
I LOVED this show. We watched all the time in elementary school.
donnyp1966 11 months ago
Wow, when I see and hear this, it brings me back to those days when I was a kid and at home watching PBS. It makes me feel sad to hear this for some reason. I guess it is a feeling of nostalgia.
pianodjr 11 months ago 2
I remember an episode called yes I can. A boy deemed too young to go camping is given a chance (and 3 matches) to go solo.
Eltamir 1 year ago
One of my favs as a kid- edutainment!
IceManLikeGervin 1 year ago
I won an Emmy for this show!
directfitz 1 year ago 2
I would watch this when Mom quit watching Days of our Lives when I was about 4 or 5
MrJacMac1986 1 year ago
Gosh I'm surprised I could find this on here. There were a couple other shows on PBS at that time but I couldn't find them on You Tube yet.
jityr2 1 year ago
I used to take shows like this for granted when I was a kid in the 80's. Many years later, these are now cherished childhood memories. Thanks youtube!!
86celtics 1 year ago
I loved this intro music & I can hardly believe I'm hearing it again,just as I remember ! I only saw this show at school , maybe in 5th or 6th grade,1974 or 75.
flytotherainbow61 1 year ago
That NIT logo was absurd. I remember it from PBS in the 70's and 80's.
thatmuse76 1 year ago
@thatmuse76 it used to give me the creeps, to tell you the truth.
dwalex97209 1 year ago
thank you so much for posting this
kirk92270 1 year ago 2
Oh wow, I remember this, this takes me way back. The 1970s ruled!
Delisle4 1 year ago 2
I agree with landraiderares ! Also, my 4th grade class would always say 'Exxon Corporation' in unison with the intro. We always thought that was Funny !
JohnnyCharger1968 1 year ago 3
Thanks for the memories. I remember watching this intro in grade school and at home.
Auhana50 1 year ago 2
wow !! I remember watching this over 30 yrs ago on WDCN out of Nashville. Wasn't much else if you didn't have cable or a dish in the late 70's/80's and were stuck at home sick or a snow day.
bustyrandit 1 year ago
this was like twilight zone for kids at school lol! yea waz up on the dvd's on this i remeber the one when the kid jumped in front of the v w bus
theENGLISHconection 1 year ago
What a great flash back this video is ~ The warmth this gives off is immense ~ These were watched by me in elementary school in Miami in the 70's ~ Along with a movie called "The Red Balloon" ~
ParrisVstefanow 2 years ago 2
Me too.
There were some pretty heavy moments on this show, especially if you were in the earlier grades.
witchman67 2 years ago
We used to watch Inside Out in class in grade school. Good suff!
Chawman 2 years ago
Thank you so much for uploading this. Been looking for it forever. So many great memories!
chrisheff 2 years ago 4
Just getting to experience seeing and hearing this on you tube is so meaningful to me. It gives me a warm, toasty feeling about my past. I know it wasn't as great as I remembered it to be, but you just had to be there.
allyinzer90 2 years ago
Hi, I put some episodes up
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JimAsian1 2 years ago
man i wish i could get some of this stuff on dvd
mtganimemiikefan 2 years ago
@mtganimemiikefan Google "agency for instructional television. AIT's website has some series available. Be careful though There was a virus lurking around there a few weeks back.
asn413 2 years ago
I mostly remember the one where the teenage boy went so far as to fantasize about being dead so that a certain girl would feel bad about it.
Eddie62070 2 years ago
@Eddie62070 ya cause he had a thing for his teacher of somthing?
jerryjuicebag 2 years ago
I know KETC channel 9 in St. Louis produced a few epsiodes of this.
bradhig 2 years ago
I finally found it! Thanks so much for uploading this! As a child I watched Inside/Out on IPTV (Idaho Public Television).
nathanielscott 2 years ago
Wow, this stuff was great.
brian112470 2 years ago
I used to see these on WKNO back n the 80's. the last one I remember was anout the little boy who wanted to help and do everything. I think it was called "yes I can". That was back in June 1986. I haven't seen any of these since. There were a lot of oother neat programs that rean on PBS like the " the science corner" and the show about the professor with the bicycle who always wore a lab coat and a sherlock holmes cap. I cannot remember what that one was called.
brian112470 2 years ago
big high5 to the uploader, this show was so thought provoking, really one of tv's finest, i only got to see a few episodes if i was home sick but they were burned into my mind, for real how many programs are out there today which depict the adversities of life, and try to get you to think about how you can handle it if you had to experience it, really thought provoking heavy stuff, $40 an episode eh, little steep but it maybe worth it, i remember the bully episode, cheers to you all
portableversion 2 years ago
chicago catholic grade school, circa 1977.
crowamonghens 2 years ago
oh yeah and that show thinkabout. once that theme song comes to mind it's kind of hard to get out of your head. :)
katmusic2006 2 years ago
i remember when i was a kid mississippi etv used to broadcast this to death during daytime in the summer.
katmusic2006 2 years ago
You mean they actually showed these classroom programs during the summer in your area? Once summer began in my region, these programs were off until September. I'd watch them all year if possible.
mikecleona 2 years ago
Great upload- thanks- been looking for this song for over 10 years! Does anyone know what the actual name of the song written for this intro is and the write &/or musicians that performed it? Also nasa had this similar song if not the same edited into 1 of their promo films back in the 70s.
paramt 2 years ago 3
What a flashback!
Alexltavares 2 years ago
This was a really good show, and pretty heavy for 6 year olds.
witchman67 2 years ago
I wonder what those 3 kids at the very opening are doing now?
treadley 2 years ago 2
I watched this as a kid. Later on, I taught myself to play the guitar riff on my acoustic. Always found that music soothing. It now reminds me of "Have You Ever Seen the Rain", lol.
El135o 2 years ago
Man, what memories. Thanks for sharing this.
NubianEagle 2 years ago 14
Boards of Canada were influenced by such adverts as these..ah the memories :)
purplemelt 2 years ago
Used to watch this in Ft. Knox, grade school from K-2nd grade, 1974-1977! WOW!
amaroq69 2 years ago
Wow! It's been at least 25 years since I've seen this intro, maybe more-- and I can still remember every note of the theme song. Thanks so much for upping this!
wheeljak 2 years ago 2
Thanks for digging this out of the vault. I used to see this on weekday mornings on CBC in the early 80s. It always had an air of melancholy or angst, given the quandary the stories' protagonists faced. The bully episode was a standout. It's all sweet nostalgia now.
EXXon Corporation must have slipped a little payola to the announcer for the emphasis on their name!
Phazers 2 years ago 2
Holy smokes!! I haven't seen this since elementary school. When we would stay inside for recess, they would show us these. Does any remember the "Just Joking" episode?
chocoolattae 2 years ago
I do! OMG I can still remember the song!! That was my fav
sirReginaldFartsalot 2 years ago
Loved that I could find this here. Too bad you can't post episodes. I remember the one about the girl whose parents are getting a divorce - or she thinks they are; it was kind of vague, and a little spooky. And one about kids who plant an urban garden which gets trashed by other kids. Kind of a bummer. Heavy handed by today's standards but back then you felt for the kids who planted it.
Maceojazz 2 years ago
I used to love this show and watch when I was home sick from school.
basenji11 2 years ago 4
omg! So did I! I actually WANTED to stay home so I could watch Sesame Street and these other PBS shows all day long! haha
ja912171 2 years ago 19
We used to watch this every Friday in 6th grade. Thanx for posting!
imthedorf1964 2 years ago 2
let me join the chorus flashing back to a middle school classroom (5th grade), where the lights were turned down and a B & W TV on a large movable stand was wheeled out to view this program..
joebradio 2 years ago 3
My 3rd grade teacher used to pull out the old classroom TV and make us watch this every so often. Had forgotten what the little tune sounded like at the intro. Thanks for the memories.
mrsjordanjr 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting this...I had been looking around for it for a very long time...This show was great and I remember seeing it on our local PBS station well into my high school years (early-mid 90's)...good job!
appysouth 2 years ago
great show!!!!!!!!
adric137 2 years ago
Hey, I love this show. I remember this very well back in the 1980's when they use to show it on pbs. Does anyone have self incorporated intro? I love that intro to that show. If anyone have it post it or leave a link to my email.
horne24 2 years ago
Amen to that micmac99. If someone at AIT could dust off the original master tapes and make a high quality transfer to DVD I think that a whole generation of kids (and adults) would thouroughly enjoy these wonderful episodes.
mattfirebird 2 years ago 3
Yes they would but, they probly won't be airing these particular series style shows due to the Value System has changed considerably in the last 35 years.
And thats what AIT told me a few years ago..
I, for one would like to see them again.
There is a person here on YouTube that says he has them on 16mm film and I would like to borrow them so that I could "telecine transfer"
them to video. I'll keep ya updated if I get them..
TennHills Productions
xrayy7 2 years ago 3
I for one would like to see these again too..
xrayy7 2 years ago 3
NIT, or AIT as it is called now, did a lot of great shows, not just Inside/Out. Some episodes were posted here on YouTube but AIT called "copyright" and had them removed. AIT needs to post episodes on here THEMSELVES, and from the original masters so we can see them in all their glory.
micmac99 2 years ago 2
Wow... amazing. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that really enjoyed this show. Reading several other posts here almost sounds like what I've felt for nearly 30 years! Yes, the show was quite haunting moogyboy6. The morals of the stories, if you will, always delt with fairness, tolerance and kindness. When I would watch Inside Out I felt like I was witnessing a replay of the days events unfolding in my life as a kid growing up in early to mid 70's Orlando, FL. And that musical intro. Love it!
mattfirebird 2 years ago 4
Brings back memories from when I was home sick during elementary school and my mom would only let me watch PBS.
takman17 2 years ago 2
I remember this!
portbalto 2 years ago 2
Does anyone remember an educational program call "The Metric System?" (I think) It taught metric measurements and I vaguely remember they had their own version of Ernie and Bert. If anyone can help..please do. Thank you.
33chiliken 2 years ago
yeah i recall the metric system show cant remeber much off hand but iwas looking for it today, i also remember watching a show that was like social studies i remember learning about latitude and longitude and meridians and once they discussed an aboriginal tribe call the tumahara or something like that, i beleive the intro had a clip of a fishing boat hauling in a big metal basket, anyone remember that ? i was so happy to find this intro here, i only saw this if i was home sick , great shows
portableversion 2 years ago
I've got many Inside Out "episodes" on 16mm film that I acquired from a school district in Fairbanks, Alaska that liquidated their entire film library in the late '90's. I keep my projectors in good running condition so that I can view these from time to time.
We watched these in school when i was in 2nd grade in Texas - that was in 1976. I remember the peculiar smell of the gym where we watched, as well as the frustration of the substitue teacher when she couldn't thread the projector...
gmorg1969 2 years ago
I've had this song stuck in my head for about 25 years now...
by the looks of it there are more people on here that remember this show but don't remember what actually went on..I concur.
I am thinking that this was for the hardcore fans of PBS, or for those like me that had nothing else to watch because we lived out in the middle of nowhere and had no clue what The Cartoon Express was.....LOL
until that FOX affiliate showed up and started brainwashing us all! :P
clearlyme 2 years ago
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GreenBayLA 2 years ago
I don't know why but I'm getting all emotional remembering this tv show. We watched it one year in grade school and it had a lasting impact on me. We would have group discussion afterwords & I got really tripped up by the troubling scenarios. Wish I could see a few episodes again.
GreenBayLA 2 years ago
There was another program that featured children's books. Each episcode featured a book. The host of the program's last name was Robbins, I think. At some point during the program he would draw a picture of a scene from the book and somone would narrate a part of the book. One of the programs was Read It/Wrote It? There was another program also. This stuff brings back so many memories.
33chiliken 2 years ago
It was John Robbins. REad It was one show he did and the other was Cover to Cover.
Davidt33 2 years ago
THAT'S IT!!!! Thanks so much. I would like to see the intro to these again. I remember one particular book....I think the name was "A Taste Of Blueberries" or it might be Blackberries.
33chiliken 2 years ago
-on one of the 5 available channels at the time.
5th grade.- just seemed so freewheeling and scandalous that they would actually turn on a television during school.
Films? Coronet films? Ok, because they were usually B&W and thus, institutional.
Thanks for posting it- my old man was 39 when I saw this- I sure miss him.
8laneblacktop 2 years ago
They showed this show to us on closed curcuit TV's in Catholic school back in 75-76,,Man the memories it brings back,,,it's amazing, I was like 10 years old!
marioD1965 2 years ago
@marioD1965 I do have memories of the Closed Circuit TV's in the Classroom as my teacher used to show The Electric Company in first grade 1977-1978. I must say, I almost forgot about this program and it brings memories as I used to watch it before starting school in 1974-1975 before preschool and this would be on after the morning programs such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company etc. As I looked at other youtube clips this happened to be one of the related videos.
sunnyblonde2118 1 year ago
Listen to that beautiful guitar work... an auditory time machine~
mrwrister 3 years ago
I wonder if the composers/art directors who developed intros like these realize how many children's brains their work is permanently embedded in. I'll bet they forgot about this work as quickly as they produced it, moving on to the next commercial gig. If only they knew!
deyoungparker 3 years ago 4
TV was kool then
i remeber watching that show when i was sick at home.
doctalee 3 years ago
LOL thats exactly what I am home doing now at 38 years old. Sniff. Life was so simple back then.
gjpanz 2 years ago
a few years ago I think I had spoke to a woman at AIT and they told me that the value system has changed with people and that those shows probly would not GO today.
I would like to make series shows just like that if I could get the time..
Thanks for sharing the intros,
DAVE
TENNHILLS PRODUCTIONS
xrayy7 3 years ago
Yes, it does bring memories back..
and YES, the stern introduction, the kids' profiles (and background noise of the playground), soft folksy music, and morphing graphics bring back such memories of simpler times. LOVE IT..
xrayy7 3 years ago 2
My first post tanked on me, so here goes again...I am choked up with nostalgic joy that someone has archived the theme to this show - it brings back tons of memories of simpler times as a gradeschooler. The stern NIT intro, the wistful kids' profiles (and the happy noise of the park in the background), the morphing graphics and folksy theme music...it's a lost bit of television artistry. Sigh...
landraiderares 3 years ago 4
I totally agree.....i get a fuzzy lightheaded feeling listening to this...brings back so much feeling from my early childhood.
leela1970 2 years ago 3
I'm speechless with delight and overwhelmed with nostalgia. Clips like this from my childhood education...I thought they had disappeared forever. The stern introduction, the kids' profiles (and background noise of the playground), soft folksy music, and morphing graphics bring back such memories of simpler times...wow. Thank you, whoever you are, for preserving this!
landraiderares 3 years ago 22
you're very welcome. It did set a certain tone for the series, didn't it?
love2register2 3 years ago 9
I second that. I almost felt sort of lightheaded for a minute...it was such an intense flood of memories/nostalgia.
deyoungparker 3 years ago 2
Now that takes me back 30+ years to elementary school!
videoguy271 3 years ago 2
I remember there was an episode about different strong emotions that was very strange and frightening...there was one part where a man kept repeating "Confuuuusion!" while they flashed pictures of doorways opening onto different scenes. Something like that.
flagsnroses 3 years ago
I remember that episode, too!
I think I also recall an episode on peer pressure and money management where one kid tries insanely hard to convince his friend to chip in to buy "the greatest toy ever", which was a crazy prop made up of $6Mil Man doll heads and other bits and pieces of toys on a rotating mechanical turntable...I swear I didn't hallucinate it...
landraiderares 3 years ago
@landraiderares I remember that one ! At the beginning of it was a commercial for that toy ,with cool music & a voice-over & visuals that hyped it, & when the kids finally got it, they discovered that it was totally useless .
flytotherainbow61 1 year ago
OK, I found Inside/out....LOL. Anyone remember Finding Our Way or Wordsmith? A friend of mine plays guitar, I am going to send him this and see if he can play it.
werewolfantipaladin 3 years ago
Hey thanks for posting the intro to inside out I've been looking for it for the longest. Now do anybody have self incorporated intro. I love these intros and the shows as well.if anybody have a clip can they post it
horne24 3 years ago
Hi, does anyone have a website or know where to find these episodes?
Thanks.
jkygogo 3 years ago
AIT website classics section. They're expensive...
kingalow1 3 years ago
dang 40 bucks an episode on VHS
Yerizzo 3 years ago
Wow, another one of my favorite instructional tv shows I grew up on in the 80's!.
With this, It Figures and Thinkabout, you couldn't go wrong!
cocobliss30 3 years ago
Dang finally found it. Never knew what the show was called but I remembered the theme music. But there's this other one I remember but haven't seen it on youtube yet. I don't remember if it was it's own show or part of a show. But it was of a cartoon bee. And he would always say, "kalabracha, kalabracha" lol something like that.
Yerizzo 3 years ago
Yerizzo, I think you are talking about an old PBS show called ghostwriter where they would solve mysteries and write about it. It was some sort of an insect saying "palabrajot"
clouser1 3 years ago
okay, I found it. It's not Ghostwriter, it's a show called The Write Channel. And it's some clay animated bookworm character that says palabra jot, palabra jot. But where am I getting this image of a drawn animated bee that flew around. The Electric Comapny? Or maybe it was just some intermission thingy...hmm.
Yerizzo 3 years ago
Does anyone remember a show called "footsteps"? I think it was geared for parents raising children.
33chiliken 3 years ago
I remember "Footsteps"! If I am not mistaken, there were actual foot prints in the sand shown in the opening of the program- or maybe I am confusing it with another show.
JJColb 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, it was a baby foot being footprinted. I'm not sure.
33chiliken 2 years ago
You're thinking about Footsteps.
Davidt33 2 years ago
Man, does that take me back! Yeah....further to what moogyboy6 said -- the theme music is that classic "introspective", "thought-provoking", "soul searching", etc., early '70s folk guitar stuff that was so prevalent back then. Reminiscient of James Taylor (e.g., "Fire & Rain"), parts of "Closer to Home (I'm Your Captain)" by Grand Funk Railroad, and especially "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin.
Milesco 3 years ago 3
' "introspective", "thought-provoking", "soul searching", etc., early '70s folk guitar stuff that was so prevalent back then...'
Very well put, Milesco, that's exactly the sentiment I was trying to express. I'll add the word "haunting" to the list. Very haunting.
moogyboy6 2 years ago 4
I would love to get the sheet music to that tune or at least the name of the song(sigh) memories
radiobarret 2 years ago 2
Thanks, moogy! And yes, "haunting" is a very good word for it, too. (Maybe that's where the "creepiness" comes from!) :-)
Milesco 2 years ago
That brought back some vivid childhood memories. It would be great to see the full episodes, again.
NEPats79 3 years ago 5
a full episode is in order!
judacia 3 years ago 3
Another GenXer here who semi-fondly remembers watching this show in school (it aired for years and years during the daytime on our local PBS station). Some episodes were quite disturbing, as I remember; "I Dare You" sticks out in particular.
As for the intro: very simple yet poetic in a way that children's show intros aren't anymore. The theme music is classic '70s imo--excellent.
There were several episodes of the show on YouTube a while back--did they get taken down?
moogyboy6 3 years ago 4
Make that "fondly remember", in spite of the creepiness of some of the episodes. All those old instructional shows give me a warm fuzzy feeling anymore--nostalgia, you understand.
moogyboy6 3 years ago 4
I agree. This show scared me as a kid.
ericmaine 3 years ago
The episodes were removed from youtube due to a complaint by AIT. Ticked me off. AIT overs all episodes of "Inside Out" on VHS for $40. Too much for a 15-minute program on an outdated format, in my opinion.
mikecleona 3 years ago 4
They need to offer the show on DVD. This was a semi-staple of my childhood. I watched this mainly on KQED when I was home sick from school and they had the ITV block after Sesame Street.
micmac99 2 years ago 5
These were shown to us on 16mm in the seventies. After recess and lunch...of course!!
homerekker 3 years ago 4
Oh my. We watched these on 16mm projector after recess.
homerekker 3 years ago 4
I would love to have the videos for my kids!
tominsocal 3 years ago 3
whoa -total flashback!
shawshawshaw 3 years ago 4
OMG. My fifth grade teacher used to show us this show regularly in class and we'd discuss it afterwards. The theme song has been in the recesses of my mind for 30 years!
greenmachinepr 3 years ago 2
I've never even heard of this show. The '70s graphics are way cool, though! ;)
70s80s 3 years ago 2
Courtesy of the legendary Scanimate, the same early (analog) computer-animation device responsible for the graphics on "The Electric Company" and about 10 zillion TV station logos in the '70s.
moogyboy6 3 years ago 4