Pretty nice and idealistic about people being harmonius and everyone caring for one another. But its wishful thinking. Here is a challenge for you liberal hippies - watch the video foe the song "Born" by the band Nevermore and see if you can see the contrast.
I am one of those people who kept in contact with my Big Blue Marble pen pal for years. We are now Facebook friends. It's been more than 30 years since our 1st letter as girls. Great memories.
thank u for posting this! this certainly brings back memories of the early 80s when i watched this and sent out pen pal letters because of this programme..am one of those who still keeps in touch with my pen pal until this very day!
My favourite tv programme back in the late 1978 when I was still seven . Why don't they make such a programme ever again ? We learn about the culture of every kid throughout the world . To understand and to respect and not to ignore and trample and forcing others to accept our values . Wish I can go back to the late '70s again and start all over again !
When I was a preteen in the early 1970's this was my favorite show in the whole world. The theme song combined with the world culture photo montage really pulled at my heartstrings- I would choke-up everytime it came on- wishing the world were really a united human family.
i remember this show it came on WBFF TV Mon -Fri during the early 70's don't know about the 80's much . Plus i never watch the show and what's is wrong for exposing today's generation to this?
How about that? This show was the exact opposite of shows like Jersey Shore. Watching BBM you learned a lot. Watching Jersey Shore you learned nothing. BBM had real people with real lives. Jersey Shore is about overpaid idiots with no lives. BBM was about other cultures. Jersey Shore is a cultural disgrace. BBM was made for children. Jersey Shore was made by people who had the minds of children.
I agree they really need to bring this how back. I remember having 2 penpals and really appreciating the world and other cultures etc... Fantastic show!
I'm from Malaysia and watched this show when I was a kid. I actually wrote to the show and got myself a penpal from California. Regretfully and sadly, we stopped writing after a few years. I wonder how he is doing now.
OMG...back in 1982 or 83 9when I was 13) I met a penpal from Indonesia on Big Blue Marble and lost touch with him a few years after that. Today, I received a Facebook friend request from him! Unbelievable huh? Im so excited to get to know him again.
I loved the "Dear Pen Pal" segment. I remember feeling so excited receiving mail from across the globe - Norway, U.S and Hong Kong. I was in Malaysia then.
Thanks for sharing this. Brings back fond memories.
What could be better than being a kid & watching PBS back in the late 70's? I used to watch this as a kid (along with Sesame St., Electric Co. ,etc) I also miss Saturday morning cartoons. Oh, & TV sign offs. Just as Cartoon Network killed Sat. am toons, infomercials killed the TV sign off.
This took me back to when I was a kid. A race to the TV to be the controller all Saturday morning. But before the cartoons began, Big Blue Marble reminded my sibs and I that learning never stops, and that school doesn't hold the only classrooms in life.
I remember watching this on Sunday mornings. It was the only kids show on, and I was usually sitting at a relative's house in my itchy church clothes because my parents liked to go visiting.
It's funny... about a week ago this show came to my thoughts for no reason what-so-ever. I came to YouTube hoping beyond hope that I would be able to find this theme song. Just listening to it took me back to my childhood in the late 70's. I love how many of us gen x kids reminisce about this time in our lives. Life really was different then. We didn't have video games or all the tech that we do today.
There is something touching about the very first voice you hear on this video, maybe its because I'm 42 now and when this show was starting everything so easily mesmerized me, and I noticed everything. Feeling obligated to go along with the world's ways of today, with seemingly infinite distractions, and the most trivial things of every individual posted on facebook, etc... we are brainwashed to glaze over everything and keep moving fast. Nothing soaks in.
I remember watching this with my older siblings as they were into this program. I remember watching this before I went to PM Kindergarden in 1976-1977.
@MrPetenice09 i agree there. i am also one who prefer seeing the 1974-77 episodes (with the original opening) and contents (4-5 segments plus the skits between the segments) i wonder what skits from the 1974-77 series people remember
...no need to be afraid, our toubles start to fade as we get closer.
I'm forever in awe of this line. The marble was very different then. It had people living real lives, sharing and telling real stories. The tune is unforgettable and the era undiminished by time. I get teary eyed every time I hear this beautiful song and the memories from that time.
@ritszz1 Someone uploaded the original opening to this show and it is very good quality. Look up Big Blue Marble series open montage. I was looking for this opening for a long time and finally someone put up a great clear video. Check it out.
Why can't shows like this be released on DVD? Prolly think that no one would buy them. I'd rather watch shows like this than most of what's on tv now.
I watched this in the 70's and had a friend from Norway. I've recently found her again on the web. It's been 30 years since we first began writing! It' great to connect again. This video has very special memories for me (and for her.)
@Sirromdzen I agree with you. Let's hope they don't dumb it down like they did with updates of our favorite classic children's shows, i.e. the 1996 version of "Captain Kangaroo- not good. Or the current "Electric Company". It's nothing like the original with Morgan Freeman and Bill Cosby.
This show was man's attempt to remake man in his image! Who said humanism wasn't a religion? One of the many reasons our society has decayed further and further into statist welfarism!
Absolutely brilliant. I watched this when I was a youngster in Rhodesia and loved the show. Takes me back into a really happy time in my life where things were simple and ucomplicated. Wish I could go back to it. Thanks for posting it. Great memories.
I watched this from about ages 5 (when it began) to 10, back when I was dumb enough to believe that the human race actually stood a chance of getting together and surviving. Ah, well. I thank you for that brief trip into my idealistic past.
The memories that come with are beautiful. My life was simple and happy then. So many memories. Thank you for posting this. I am one of those sentimental type of people!
They aired this for a short while back in 1973-4 and my sis' and I loved it. But I think this version is a later one. I think there is an earlier version to this theme. It was a little simpler and did not include this 'closer, closer' bit.
Thank you so much for posting this beautiful theme song. I shared it with my 10 year old this evening and he tried to hate it, but he couldn't help singing "Closer, getting closer..." :)
i NEVER missed the show. those days no mobiles, no internet. Life was somewhat adventurous differently. After watching, kids would meet and share and chat about the same programme they had watched. Some places were far from the post office and stamps were sometimes expensive to buy, so better used the aerogramme. All these made life memorable. I was 15 then. Had 4 penpals, 3 from US, 1 form France. 2 still in touch, 2 passed away.
Sometimes when I'm watching these old intros I get a little sad...kids today just don't know what they missed. There was a lot wrong back in the 70s and 80s...but there was SOO much right about it...and our Educational programming was at it's BEST back then. I truly do miss it.
I used to love watching this show back in the seventies - this brings back such great memories. I just played it to my 9 year old daughter who was quite interested in it, although she said it looked "very old" lol!
Yep. This was 'required viewing' in my 70's childhood.
Of course, what sold us kids was the prospect that there'd be SPACE BATTLES and WOOKIES in orbit among all those celestial bodies.
Ah well - although there weren't, we still found the pic and concept of the earth as this big ol' ball kind of appealing. And of course that's led to harmony and brotherhood everywhere.
Thank you for posting this! I'm one of the pen pal people; she and I have been pen pals since 1978. She is coming to visit later this month for the second time, and though we no longer snail-mail, email, the phone, and facebook keep us in touch. Thank you for the memories!
Never had it in the UK. But my pen pal in LA tells me that is where he got my address from, so thought I would take a look on you tube. I sent off for a pen pal via a teenage magazine and was paired up with him. We are still in touch 34 years later! Much easier via the internet now, no more trips to the post office!
Wow! Today, while training for sports, for some reason my mind flashed back to some memories when I was 5, in 1974. I remembered The Big Blue Marble. I remember the other into though where there is a voice that says The Big Blue Marble. Thanks for posting!
@emilygold84 I remember that line too -- in fact, it's the only thing I remember about the theme: "... the Big Blue Marble... in spaaaaaaace." Thanks for remembering what I thought only I did.
@Pookatube I AGREE the kids should be watching more of these types of shows instead of the crude stuff they sometimes have on cartoon network and those other channels
Pardon my manners but HELL, YEAH! Of course kids today should be watching this. It wasn't meant for just one generation of children to watch, but ALL generations. (I hate it when people put warning labels on old children's programs, saying they 'may not be suitable for today's children.' What a crock!) The focus of this show was on geography from children's points-of-view.
To me as a child then, that was more enthralling than any long drawn-out, lecture-ridden National Geographic special.
I remember viewing this programwhen growing up in the 70's. The local PBS station broadcasted this program on weekday afternoons along with other educational programs. This show along with my World and National Geographic magazines helped me to travel to distant countries and experience different cultures while remaining at home. Thank you for this post.
Funny, when I watched this, I too recalled having had a pen pal! Mine lived in Rialto, California. At the time I was growing up in Albany, NY so Rialto sounded quite exotic!
@JCSJS I loved this show as well. You saw real kids, unscripted and NO actors and actresses. These were kids who showed how they lived in there native countries and what tey do and there aspirations in later life.
I have a lady penpal in Ukraine and Rialto is in San Bernardino County between Fontana and Colton. I traveled to Arizona and have passed by this city often.
We need more programs like Big Blue Marble, ZOOM, and Electric Company from my childhood. As a mom, I find the program offerings of today lacking in substance.
I'd really like to share this with some friends and students who are Deaf. I understand that there's now a way to close caption videos posted on YouTube, but it seems you have to be the original poster. Please, please caption this great memory of ours! Great stuff. Great memories.
I'm sorry, don't have the time to caption even if I wanted to superimpose text on the video (I'd rather not). Of course if you want to repost this video for the purpose of having a caption version, that's your call.
I can't listen to this theme without getting tears in my eyes. When this program was on the air, the world was so different.
If the children of today, could see this type of programming, they would feel that they too are part of this planet and that people around you are different but the human experience is the same for all. So nice to know there are bits of my childhood memories around.
I remember this program and did get misty listening to the theme song. I totally agree ... program of this sort would help with a host of diversity issues related to cultural understanding, or the lack thereof.
Embracing other cultures is essential to World Citizenship. I watched this show back and the 70s and it gave me a great appreciation of other cultures. The world does need this now, that is one reason why so many embrace President Obama, because he embodies many of the things that this show was all about.
I used to love this show. I even had a pen pal from Malta through them. We kept in touch through about 9th grade. I wonder what's she's up to these days... Great memories, thanks for the post.
I loved this show. I actually had a pen pal through them in Malta and we kept in touch through about 9th grade. I often wonder how/where she is now...
I have no idea why this show is not on DVD. I would love to get it for my young son to look at. Even thou he might not enjoy it so much because of the type of shows that are on now. This will be considered a tame show. The little mini series that came on some epiosodes were very good. This show is available on VHS but it is too expensive. $25 per tape !!! With 2 episodes per tape. I forgot what web site I saw it on.
When I hear this song, I think of how I actually used to enjoy getting up before 7 on Saturday morning, and I could even do it without an alarm clock! I didn't like the show, though; even though I was a little kid, this show was still way too touchy-feely for me. The theme song is burned in my head, though. Would you happen to have the closing theme too?
does anyone recall a childrens show from the 70's about a lady who always had a green parrot on her shoulder named Aurora? She would teach children about nature and do crafts with them. It always started out with the woman and the kids walking through a feild going to her cabin. The parrot was always on her shoulder and she would feed him sunflower seeds. If anyone recalls this show and recalls the name please let me know. I was around 9 when it was on in the 70's thanks
I loved htis show. I had a pen-pal from the UK at the time. Was about 1977. His name was Scott Reginald. We wrote back and forth for 2 years. Until the letters stopped. Well months went by and I got one in the mail. It was from his Mother. She explained how he loved the letters we sent each other, but he had died of Lukemia( forgive the spelling). Well I was so upset about it, I was only 10 at the time. I sent a card to his mom that my parents bought for me. Wow seems like yesterday !!
I dreamed about a BBM DVD Box set. Could this be possible? In Spanish or English...I don't care. I just want to see this again so badly. So many memories. Who can make this dream happen. Not even on youtube we can see a single episode..Is there any hope to see this on the future???
I'm with 8forestreet!! When I talk about old TV shows I watched as a kid, I would always bring up Big Blue Marble and no one new what I was talking about! I loved this theme song! I remember getting up at 7:00am on sunday morning to watch this. Thanks for posting it! It back some nice childhood memories!
Yes, I agree. This is not the theme I remember. There was another. It actually had the words "big blue marble" in it. The show was great for kids of all ages. I remember it more from the 70's.
Beautiful, wholesome children program. So glad I can re-live the magic listening to this again thanks to YouTube, still remember so well. It really brings back memories of the 70's when things and life were so much simpler and so much hope and aspirations for the future. It also started my interest in befriending pen-pals through another international organization. I think I wrote to two of them, one in Hong Kong another in France, but lost contact over the years.
Loved this show in the 1970s, especially Dear Pen Pal, that was a very exotic & exciting thing to write a letter to someone thousands of miles away in a different country/culture & get a reply. I had Jane Shelbourn in England (can't remember where) & Neredia in Rio or Sao Paulo. Ii had dozens of others, too, from other organizations. Still write to Wendy in NZ after 35 years! Stamps were only 26 cents. The Internet has brought the world together but I miss the old letter-writing days!
WOW - i remember this show - way way waaay back..... i used to watch it on oour first coloour tv - a HUGE floor model - had a knob you pulled out to turn on & you had to turn this dial to get the 20 channels we had
you used to be able to write in for a PenPal at the end of each show i think - i used to exchange letters with a girl in Texas -
Ahhhhhhhh,the nostalgia,the great feeling that this song envokes are wonderful.I remember running to the tv to watch this,just to hear the theme song, when I was young,and it was so beautiful.Such a short song,but had lasting memories.Wow,thank God for Youtube:D
I wasn't HUGE fan of the show, but on pre-cable Sunday mornings, it was the only thing on. So, I was stuck with it. I would have rather watched the Three Stooges, but this wasn't too bad.
I must be really old because I only remember the earlier version of the theme song that ended with, "...the big blue marble in spaaaace." Loved this show.
Sorry folks;I hated this show with a passion!Of course,I din't like any of these "live action" shows back when I was young;all I wanted were cartoons only;not to be educated!I will admit however that the theme music is cool.
Ha....Nostalgia....I really loved it when I was little . Thanks for the post and Shallom from Israel -at the time it was black and white (No one had colour TV)
I had a pen pal, too. Wrote in expecting someone from Uganda, or Indonesia, or something interesting and exotic. Instead, I got someone from Florida, my mom's home state. Wrote a few letters and gave up in disgust.
the end credits are funny too because they had all these different people trying to sing the verses of this song in sequences and some of the people they used were singing off beat and different harmonies.
Pretty nice and idealistic about people being harmonius and everyone caring for one another. But its wishful thinking. Here is a challenge for you liberal hippies - watch the video foe the song "Born" by the band Nevermore and see if you can see the contrast.
RenHoek20886 3 days ago
ahhh the hopeful simple 70s...no me-friends upods, themspace,,,,uhh gotta go...somethang in mhy eye or something..........
lsdmadman 4 days ago
I remember as a kid when shows like this came out, pushing aside the awesome superhero cartoons I loved. I hated this namby-pamby BS!!!
65kowalski 1 week ago
I remember this program. Didnt they have a creepy show about a girl who was a ghost i think..
Hontzer916 4 weeks ago
I am one of those people who kept in contact with my Big Blue Marble pen pal for years. We are now Facebook friends. It's been more than 30 years since our 1st letter as girls. Great memories.
keelscanada 2 months ago 2
@keelscanada I had a pen pal, but we lost each other as we grew up. I tried looking for her years later, but no luck
evanvorous 4 hours ago
thank u for posting this! this certainly brings back memories of the early 80s when i watched this and sent out pen pal letters because of this programme..am one of those who still keeps in touch with my pen pal until this very day!
hakimamir 2 months ago
My favourite tv programme back in the late 1978 when I was still seven . Why don't they make such a programme ever again ? We learn about the culture of every kid throughout the world . To understand and to respect and not to ignore and trample and forcing others to accept our values . Wish I can go back to the late '70s again and start all over again !
MrHelmyabdullah 2 months ago
@strident212
I liked it too!
Smartboy8877 2 months ago
When I was a preteen in the early 1970's this was my favorite show in the whole world. The theme song combined with the world culture photo montage really pulled at my heartstrings- I would choke-up everytime it came on- wishing the world were really a united human family.
disboygotdabeat 3 months ago 2
I used to watch these television programs. Wish they were brougth back today.
RAINBOWLIZY333 3 months ago
i remember this show it came on WBFF TV Mon -Fri during the early 70's don't know about the 80's much . Plus i never watch the show and what's is wrong for exposing today's generation to this?
meterman432110 3 months ago
Now THAT is what I call kids' TV! Beats any of the forgettable stuff they're dishing out today.
rcasha 4 months ago 7
Wow! Talk about a memory sandwich served between two slices of nostalgia, with a side of age and a pickle!
marginallymental 5 months ago
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marginallymental 5 months ago
Diversity!!!
daeviant 5 months ago
How about that? This show was the exact opposite of shows like Jersey Shore. Watching BBM you learned a lot. Watching Jersey Shore you learned nothing. BBM had real people with real lives. Jersey Shore is about overpaid idiots with no lives. BBM was about other cultures. Jersey Shore is a cultural disgrace. BBM was made for children. Jersey Shore was made by people who had the minds of children.
kirkrules66 6 months ago 3
I agree they really need to bring this how back. I remember having 2 penpals and really appreciating the world and other cultures etc... Fantastic show!
mommasoto 6 months ago 2
I'm from Malaysia and watched this show when I was a kid. I actually wrote to the show and got myself a penpal from California. Regretfully and sadly, we stopped writing after a few years. I wonder how he is doing now.
sleekk 6 months ago
I used to watch this as a kid. I got pen-pals from all over the world from this show. So much fun!
lovesvivienleigh 7 months ago
Somehow I remember this show coming on Saturday afternoons, would I be right?
notfragile33 7 months ago
OMG...back in 1982 or 83 9when I was 13) I met a penpal from Indonesia on Big Blue Marble and lost touch with him a few years after that. Today, I received a Facebook friend request from him! Unbelievable huh? Im so excited to get to know him again.
carolee1970 7 months ago
As a kid, I had a crush on the gal who sings lead on this song. She also was in the "Witch's Sister" miniseries that was featured on this show.
lurch321 8 months ago
They had a monthly magazine as well if I remember correctly.
texasghost 8 months ago
I loved watching this show in Greece when I was a kid.
Who were the losers who disliked? Poor miserable people.
paulineprojectlove 8 months ago
I loved the "Dear Pen Pal" segment. I remember feeling so excited receiving mail from across the globe - Norway, U.S and Hong Kong. I was in Malaysia then.
Thanks for sharing this. Brings back fond memories.
bernjase 8 months ago
What could be better than being a kid & watching PBS back in the late 70's? I used to watch this as a kid (along with Sesame St., Electric Co. ,etc) I also miss Saturday morning cartoons. Oh, & TV sign offs. Just as Cartoon Network killed Sat. am toons, infomercials killed the TV sign off.
gjc82071 9 months ago
This took me back to when I was a kid. A race to the TV to be the controller all Saturday morning. But before the cartoons began, Big Blue Marble reminded my sibs and I that learning never stops, and that school doesn't hold the only classrooms in life.
Arsenick10 9 months ago
I was 8 years old in 1974, I really enjoyed watching this nice show. I hope they bring this show back again.
worldmaster2008 9 months ago
this program was good is it our planet is a big blue marble, although today everybody we are witness with the global warming....thanks for the video
tauro30041976 9 months ago
I remember watching this on Sunday mornings. It was the only kids show on, and I was usually sitting at a relative's house in my itchy church clothes because my parents liked to go visiting.
HitlerOnTheRoof 9 months ago
This used to come on Saturdays.
ConwayTruckload 10 months ago
It's funny... about a week ago this show came to my thoughts for no reason what-so-ever. I came to YouTube hoping beyond hope that I would be able to find this theme song. Just listening to it took me back to my childhood in the late 70's. I love how many of us gen x kids reminisce about this time in our lives. Life really was different then. We didn't have video games or all the tech that we do today.
Thank you so much for posting this!
"Closer... getting closer..."
belleisleguy 10 months ago
There is something touching about the very first voice you hear on this video, maybe its because I'm 42 now and when this show was starting everything so easily mesmerized me, and I noticed everything. Feeling obligated to go along with the world's ways of today, with seemingly infinite distractions, and the most trivial things of every individual posted on facebook, etc... we are brainwashed to glaze over everything and keep moving fast. Nothing soaks in.
abbeykroeter 11 months ago
Gosh, this was 1980! I feel so old knowing this!
HeartBDoctor 11 months ago
I remember watching this with my older siblings as they were into this program. I remember watching this before I went to PM Kindergarden in 1976-1977.
sunnyblonde2118 11 months ago
@gtyme125.....I agree 1000 percent......very good point....now a days TV is an idiot box....what a shame....smh
MrPetenice09 11 months ago 3
@MrPetenice09 i agree there. i am also one who prefer seeing the 1974-77 episodes (with the original opening) and contents (4-5 segments plus the skits between the segments) i wonder what skits from the 1974-77 series people remember
cwf1701 8 months ago
...no need to be afraid, our toubles start to fade as we get closer.
I'm forever in awe of this line. The marble was very different then. It had people living real lives, sharing and telling real stories. The tune is unforgettable and the era undiminished by time. I get teary eyed every time I hear this beautiful song and the memories from that time.
ritszz1 11 months ago 4
@ritszz1 Someone uploaded the original opening to this show and it is very good quality. Look up Big Blue Marble series open montage. I was looking for this opening for a long time and finally someone put up a great clear video. Check it out.
logan1966 8 months ago
Why can't shows like this be released on DVD? Prolly think that no one would buy them. I'd rather watch shows like this than most of what's on tv now.
snoopygirl68 1 year ago 2
Thanks for sharing! They don't make them like that anymore!
fultonrecepcion 1 year ago 2
The one thing I still remember from "the Big Blue Marble" is that "Tivoli" Gardens in Copenhagen, spells "I Lov It" backwards.... :-)
shmuli9 1 year ago
Back when TV tried to teach something....Now TV is a Wasteland.
gtyme125 1 year ago 4
@gtyme125 Hey, don't hate on Dora. She teaches me Spanish.
RSAxeBodySpray 8 months ago
The days when TV actually tried to Teach you something....
TV is Officially an an Idiot Box...
gtyme125 1 year ago 3
I watched this in the 70's and had a friend from Norway. I've recently found her again on the web. It's been 30 years since we first began writing! It' great to connect again. This video has very special memories for me (and for her.)
hunnybunch16 1 year ago 5
This is one show that needs to come back on TV.
Sirromdzen 1 year ago 2
@Sirromdzen I agree with you. Let's hope they don't dumb it down like they did with updates of our favorite classic children's shows, i.e. the 1996 version of "Captain Kangaroo- not good. Or the current "Electric Company". It's nothing like the original with Morgan Freeman and Bill Cosby.
dwalex97209 1 year ago
I havent heard or seen this since I was a kid - thank you so much for posting it
joelmember 1 year ago 4
This show was man's attempt to remake man in his image! Who said humanism wasn't a religion? One of the many reasons our society has decayed further and further into statist welfarism!
The time is now for Christian Reconstruction!
robcorral777 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant. I watched this when I was a youngster in Rhodesia and loved the show. Takes me back into a really happy time in my life where things were simple and ucomplicated. Wish I could go back to it. Thanks for posting it. Great memories.
Flatdog163 1 year ago
A great show that I watched as a kid. It is too bad that most kid shows today really don't compare to the older ones.
wildstar43 1 year ago
This made me smile from ear to ear. Oh... when life was easy and seemingly sensible.
THANK YOU for taking me back to a great time in my life.
stephbdance 1 year ago 10
I watched this from about ages 5 (when it began) to 10, back when I was dumb enough to believe that the human race actually stood a chance of getting together and surviving. Ah, well. I thank you for that brief trip into my idealistic past.
sickphil71 1 year ago
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY AND FUCKING HAPPY this wants to make me just open all our U.S borders
stalag58 1 year ago
I watched this show as a child and had a pen pal from Australia that I got from the show.
bbutz65 1 year ago 2
it almost sounds like "have you seen my childhood" by michael
ericmusiconline 1 year ago
I'm getting chills just watching this again after all these years....what's happend to kids tv and tv in general??
dh1173 1 year ago 2
one of the few shows on PBS I loved as a kid. But they kept moving the time slot and I kept missing it
thesagebrushkid 1 year ago
The memories that come with are beautiful. My life was simple and happy then. So many memories. Thank you for posting this. I am one of those sentimental type of people!
happycat2010 1 year ago 2
and people wonder why kids in the 80's loved 60's pop culture
shinybald36 1 year ago
They aired this for a short while back in 1973-4 and my sis' and I loved it. But I think this version is a later one. I think there is an earlier version to this theme. It was a little simpler and did not include this 'closer, closer' bit.
bremneshatten 1 year ago 2
Thank you so much for posting this beautiful theme song. I shared it with my 10 year old this evening and he tried to hate it, but he couldn't help singing "Closer, getting closer..." :)
k592walker 1 year ago 2
This show was awesome! I used to love the cooking segment they would do for kids.
SerjHasEmerged 1 year ago
i NEVER missed the show. those days no mobiles, no internet. Life was somewhat adventurous differently. After watching, kids would meet and share and chat about the same programme they had watched. Some places were far from the post office and stamps were sometimes expensive to buy, so better used the aerogramme. All these made life memorable. I was 15 then. Had 4 penpals, 3 from US, 1 form France. 2 still in touch, 2 passed away.
peacebeuponyou70 1 year ago
Sometimes when I'm watching these old intros I get a little sad...kids today just don't know what they missed. There was a lot wrong back in the 70s and 80s...but there was SOO much right about it...and our Educational programming was at it's BEST back then. I truly do miss it.
MsTexas73 1 year ago
I used to love watching this show back in the seventies - this brings back such great memories. I just played it to my 9 year old daughter who was quite interested in it, although she said it looked "very old" lol!
Nemie125 1 year ago
I had a Big Blue Marble pen pal from Trinidad but she never wrote me back :-(
karaloyal 1 year ago
Almost sure, though, there was a later version of the theme with '...that big blue marble in space' --- no?
YearOfCam 1 year ago
Yep. This was 'required viewing' in my 70's childhood.
Of course, what sold us kids was the prospect that there'd be SPACE BATTLES and WOOKIES in orbit among all those celestial bodies.
Ah well - although there weren't, we still found the pic and concept of the earth as this big ol' ball kind of appealing. And of course that's led to harmony and brotherhood everywhere.
YearOfCam 1 year ago
Met my pen-pals tru this show...have 3 from USA.. recently met 1 tru Facebook. ;-)
dzrina 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this! I'm one of the pen pal people; she and I have been pen pals since 1978. She is coming to visit later this month for the second time, and though we no longer snail-mail, email, the phone, and facebook keep us in touch. Thank you for the memories!
trishbeez 1 year ago
Never had it in the UK. But my pen pal in LA tells me that is where he got my address from, so thought I would take a look on you tube. I sent off for a pen pal via a teenage magazine and was paired up with him. We are still in touch 34 years later! Much easier via the internet now, no more trips to the post office!
krooza100 1 year ago
Great show...
witchman67 1 year ago
Wow! Today, while training for sports, for some reason my mind flashed back to some memories when I was 5, in 1974. I remembered The Big Blue Marble. I remember the other into though where there is a voice that says The Big Blue Marble. Thanks for posting!
emilygold84 1 year ago 17
@emilygold84 I remember that line too -- in fact, it's the only thing I remember about the theme: "... the Big Blue Marble... in spaaaaaaace." Thanks for remembering what I thought only I did.
g6c 1 year ago
This is one show that needs to be brought back for today's generation of kids!!!
Pookatube 1 year ago 38
@Pookatube This WAS Reality TV back in the day. I do have lady penpals in the former Soviet Union.
frankd1965 1 year ago
@Pookatube I AGREE the kids should be watching more of these types of shows instead of the crude stuff they sometimes have on cartoon network and those other channels
happycat2010 1 year ago
@Pookatube yeah todays programing sucks
MsDeandrea 1 year ago
I use to watch that show in the West Indies. I had about 3 penpals. That bring back memories.
apachee002 2 years ago
Pardon my manners but HELL, YEAH! Of course kids today should be watching this. It wasn't meant for just one generation of children to watch, but ALL generations. (I hate it when people put warning labels on old children's programs, saying they 'may not be suitable for today's children.' What a crock!) The focus of this show was on geography from children's points-of-view.
To me as a child then, that was more enthralling than any long drawn-out, lecture-ridden National Geographic special.
JKSpiero 2 years ago 4
Love that TV show... It brings me great memories... Thanks
Personajes100 2 years ago 2
I watched this show as a child in México back in the 70's!!! the spanish version! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
karinammm1 2 years ago
this has the 70's written all over it
coalcracker92 2 years ago 2
it does.....but still hope.
rugged66 2 years ago
I remember viewing this programwhen growing up in the 70's. The local PBS station broadcasted this program on weekday afternoons along with other educational programs. This show along with my World and National Geographic magazines helped me to travel to distant countries and experience different cultures while remaining at home. Thank you for this post.
levontostig13 2 years ago 4
Man, this show classic!!! Does anybody have the skit: Opps, I Made A Mistake?
Kemet09 2 years ago
Cool memories. I had two pen pals that I got from writing in to Big Blue Marble. The one I wrote the most was from Pamplona Spain. ah, memories....
jerenindc 2 years ago
Funny, when I watched this, I too recalled having had a pen pal! Mine lived in Rialto, California. At the time I was growing up in Albany, NY so Rialto sounded quite exotic!
JCSJS 2 years ago
@JCSJS I loved this show as well. You saw real kids, unscripted and NO actors and actresses. These were kids who showed how they lived in there native countries and what tey do and there aspirations in later life.
I have a lady penpal in Ukraine and Rialto is in San Bernardino County between Fontana and Colton. I traveled to Arizona and have passed by this city often.
frankd1965 1 year ago
Chills, I still get chills listening to this.
myobfool 2 years ago
We need more programs like Big Blue Marble, ZOOM, and Electric Company from my childhood. As a mom, I find the program offerings of today lacking in substance.
paulinanoel 2 years ago
I remember that I watched this show as a child. I remember the theme song but not this intro....
dbastard1977 2 years ago
If anyone knows where I can find some episodes, please let me know.
Thanks! :o)
snowmountain2007 2 years ago
I did love this program, when I was a child I used to see, but in México it was called La Canica Azul, do you have the spanish version of this theme?
hrodberth1 2 years ago
I'd really like to share this with some friends and students who are Deaf. I understand that there's now a way to close caption videos posted on YouTube, but it seems you have to be the original poster. Please, please caption this great memory of ours! Great stuff. Great memories.
opatientone 2 years ago
I'm sorry, don't have the time to caption even if I wanted to superimpose text on the video (I'd rather not). Of course if you want to repost this video for the purpose of having a caption version, that's your call.
love2register2 2 years ago
this is why we call them the good old days
funkskull 2 years ago 3
Boy this brings back some memories Thanks!!!!
timewalker73 2 years ago 2
My childhood. I am a man but this touched a sensitive part of myself left untouched for years. Thankyou for the post.
Emperialking 2 years ago
I can't listen to this theme without getting tears in my eyes. When this program was on the air, the world was so different.
If the children of today, could see this type of programming, they would feel that they too are part of this planet and that people around you are different but the human experience is the same for all. So nice to know there are bits of my childhood memories around.
wingedsniper 2 years ago
I remember this program and did get misty listening to the theme song. I totally agree ... program of this sort would help with a host of diversity issues related to cultural understanding, or the lack thereof.
paulinanoel 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
This is what the world needs now! Badly!
Jude107c 2 years ago 3
Indeed.
Embracing other cultures is essential to World Citizenship. I watched this show back and the 70s and it gave me a great appreciation of other cultures. The world does need this now, that is one reason why so many embrace President Obama, because he embodies many of the things that this show was all about.
StevenC32 2 years ago
I used to love this show. I even had a pen pal from Malta through them. We kept in touch through about 9th grade. I wonder what's she's up to these days... Great memories, thanks for the post.
Qyuti3 2 years ago 3
I loved this show. I actually had a pen pal through them in Malta and we kept in touch through about 9th grade. I often wonder how/where she is now...
Qyuti3 2 years ago 2
i worked on this show...can't believe it is here! does bring back some wild memories!
jambaby1234 2 years ago 3
Any idea why it's not out on DVD?
clemdane 2 years ago
I have no idea why this show is not on DVD. I would love to get it for my young son to look at. Even thou he might not enjoy it so much because of the type of shows that are on now. This will be considered a tame show. The little mini series that came on some epiosodes were very good. This show is available on VHS but it is too expensive. $25 per tape !!! With 2 episodes per tape. I forgot what web site I saw it on.
logan1966 2 years ago
Thanks for posting! This show brings back many wonderful memories of my childhood.
777robcorral 2 years ago 3
When I hear this song, I think of how I actually used to enjoy getting up before 7 on Saturday morning, and I could even do it without an alarm clock! I didn't like the show, though; even though I was a little kid, this show was still way too touchy-feely for me. The theme song is burned in my head, though. Would you happen to have the closing theme too?
wheeljak 2 years ago
I used to love this show. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed the pen pal segment and I recall having several penpals. Oh, memories.
Darkdesertmoon1 2 years ago 2
does anyone recall a childrens show from the 70's about a lady who always had a green parrot on her shoulder named Aurora? She would teach children about nature and do crafts with them. It always started out with the woman and the kids walking through a feild going to her cabin. The parrot was always on her shoulder and she would feed him sunflower seeds. If anyone recalls this show and recalls the name please let me know. I was around 9 when it was on in the 70's thanks
bigcarguy69 2 years ago
I loved htis show. I had a pen-pal from the UK at the time. Was about 1977. His name was Scott Reginald. We wrote back and forth for 2 years. Until the letters stopped. Well months went by and I got one in the mail. It was from his Mother. She explained how he loved the letters we sent each other, but he had died of Lukemia( forgive the spelling). Well I was so upset about it, I was only 10 at the time. I sent a card to his mom that my parents bought for me. Wow seems like yesterday !!
bigcarguy69 2 years ago
Ah, memories...
ricaard 2 years ago
the world's a big blue marble when it's seen from way out there.......
MrKittenkaboodle 2 years ago
OMG.. how I DESPISED this show-- LOL
onelasssttime 2 years ago
If somebody wants to sell you a DVD Box Set with all Big Blue Marble Episodes...Will you buy them? Reply
lopezmiguelo 2 years ago 2
YES!!!!!
holajay 2 years ago
Yes
Featherlake 2 years ago
If it's legit, sure. My kid would love it.
jericho4004 2 years ago
Fuck yeah!
Jude107c 2 years ago
Gosh... memories! It would be great to see and hear the original version as well if someone has it. The lyrics are on the Facebook group.
Hmm.. like others here I also had a couple of pen pals from the US then, wonder where they are now?
sirhc60 2 years ago
Does ANYONE out there remember a television show called 'Lets Be Friends'?
From what I can remember, they were 5 minute shows (and at least shown in Chicago) that were made in 1970 (MCMLXX).
It was kind of like 'Big Blue Marble', just condensed and focused on kids in the United States.
The kid at the beginning of the show wouls say: "I'm Bill from Boston, Massachusette...Let's be friends''.
Then the kid would tell you about their life in that city.
PLEASE say SOMEONE remebers it
neoconsnightmare3 2 years ago 2
I do. Saw it when I was a kid.
BronkoScunkadelik 2 years ago 2
I dreamed about a BBM DVD Box set. Could this be possible? In Spanish or English...I don't care. I just want to see this again so badly. So many memories. Who can make this dream happen. Not even on youtube we can see a single episode..Is there any hope to see this on the future???
lopezmiguelo 2 years ago
I'm with 8forestreet!! When I talk about old TV shows I watched as a kid, I would always bring up Big Blue Marble and no one new what I was talking about! I loved this theme song! I remember getting up at 7:00am on sunday morning to watch this. Thanks for posting it! It back some nice childhood memories!
Paris1832 2 years ago
I do remember this, but as soon as it would come on, me and my brother would be like psh! TURN!
xD! lol
bendertl31 2 years ago
i've been looking for this song since i was a kid (back in the 80's) wow, thanks for posting !!
TomatoMultiMedia 2 years ago
I was beginning to think that I had made the whole thing up as nobody else seems to remember it!
I had a pen pal in America called Kris Mowry - wonder where she is now?
8forestreet 2 years ago
Boy, I really wish someone would upload the original theme. It was unforgettable.
jetuber 2 years ago
This is it.
sivvybee 2 years ago
Yes, I agree. This is not the theme I remember. There was another. It actually had the words "big blue marble" in it. The show was great for kids of all ages. I remember it more from the 70's.
tjohn123 2 years ago
That's the upload I'm waiting for. I wanna hear it just one time to prove another version exists. I don't remember this version.
powerman2g 2 years ago
I wonder what became of the people , singing at the end of the song, what are they doing with their lives like now ?.
sinewave100 2 years ago 2
yeah i remember crushing on the girl singing. i was 5. wonder what she's up to.
columbokicksass 2 years ago
xD!!
bendertl31 2 years ago
I loved this show but it came on so early I could never make it up in time to catch the whole thing.
625switch 2 years ago
Wow I remember this I miss that show Big Blue Marble ...ahh... the memories ... gawd i feel old... thank u for posting
ricofrito 2 years ago 3
Beautiful, wholesome children program. So glad I can re-live the magic listening to this again thanks to YouTube, still remember so well. It really brings back memories of the 70's when things and life were so much simpler and so much hope and aspirations for the future. It also started my interest in befriending pen-pals through another international organization. I think I wrote to two of them, one in Hong Kong another in France, but lost contact over the years.
peanutzpg 2 years ago 2
I loved the show too! I had a pen pal from Australia ... just beautiful.
imanitolliver 2 years ago
Loved this show in the 1970s, especially Dear Pen Pal, that was a very exotic & exciting thing to write a letter to someone thousands of miles away in a different country/culture & get a reply. I had Jane Shelbourn in England (can't remember where) & Neredia in Rio or Sao Paulo. Ii had dozens of others, too, from other organizations. Still write to Wendy in NZ after 35 years! Stamps were only 26 cents. The Internet has brought the world together but I miss the old letter-writing days!
wlhardy 2 years ago
WOW - i remember this show - way way waaay back..... i used to watch it on oour first coloour tv - a HUGE floor model - had a knob you pulled out to turn on & you had to turn this dial to get the 20 channels we had
you used to be able to write in for a PenPal at the end of each show i think - i used to exchange letters with a girl in Texas -
hope things are going well for you Christie ;-)
PetLadybug 2 years ago
I so loved this program--- !!!
ananda133 2 years ago
my heart aches everytime i watch this. i wish i was seven again! beautiful memories!
faicita 2 years ago
i know that feelin
drmorb 2 years ago
Ahhhhhhhh,the nostalgia,the great feeling that this song envokes are wonderful.I remember running to the tv to watch this,just to hear the theme song, when I was young,and it was so beautiful.Such a short song,but had lasting memories.Wow,thank God for Youtube:D
Tgyrl66 2 years ago
Sweet, Sweet Childhood Memories. If I could turn back time at least for a few precious moments.
ElGuapo71 2 years ago
Didn't they also have serialized dramas during one segment?
JDW15217 2 years ago
Ah, nostalgia. I remember this show and song.
lijana 2 years ago
Hijole! QUe padre!!! Hasta que encuentro algo sobre "La canica azul" así pasaba en el canal 13 de México ¿Alguien tendrá la versión en español?
faba12 2 years ago
does anyone know who wrote the song?
mister270 2 years ago
I loved this show we I was a wee tyke.
JackFlanders 2 years ago
Thank you so much for the memories. This was such a great show to give examples of how much we really are all connected to each other.
bigdaddycue 2 years ago 3
"la tierra es una esfera si de la luna la ves, es una esfera azul de belleza sin igual"
yosoylaura 2 years ago
Me too i had a pen pal friend from london and i thought she was such a cool person but unfortantly we lost contact.
hersheydiva824 2 years ago
WOW nice memories!! I remember watching this after school. I really liked it. Very nice. Thank you for the memories.
happycat2010 2 years ago 2
I wasn't HUGE fan of the show, but on pre-cable Sunday mornings, it was the only thing on. So, I was stuck with it. I would have rather watched the Three Stooges, but this wasn't too bad.
acefrehley2001 2 years ago 2
wowowow...that brought back memories from secondary school. I hardly missed an episode. It used to air every Friday at 6pm....excellent
caulerpa1 2 years ago
We used to watch this in my 3rd grade class. It was cool, because we didn't have to do work.
imbluz 2 years ago
I must be really old because I only remember the earlier version of the theme song that ended with, "...the big blue marble in spaaaace." Loved this show.
clemdane 2 years ago
Sorry folks;I hated this show with a passion!Of course,I din't like any of these "live action" shows back when I was young;all I wanted were cartoons only;not to be educated!I will admit however that the theme music is cool.
RodThorn 2 years ago
Oh my God. I can't believe I'm hearing/seeing this again...25 years at least.
When I was 10 I wanted to get "closer" to that girl in the white hat at the end.
deyoungparker 2 years ago
I am an American living and working in Korea.
This show was a big part of my growing up, and part of my inspiration for wanting to travel the world and meet different people.
thank you so much for posting!!
baronlex 2 years ago 2
Ha....Nostalgia....I really loved it when I was little . Thanks for the post and Shallom from Israel -at the time it was black and white (No one had colour TV)
NiraRuth37 2 years ago
WOW, They really need to bring this show back. I had a pen pal from this show. I wrote in to "Dear Pen Pal." What memories.
singchef 2 years ago 2
I had a pen pal, too. Wrote in expecting someone from Uganda, or Indonesia, or something interesting and exotic. Instead, I got someone from Florida, my mom's home state. Wrote a few letters and gave up in disgust.
Cool enough show, though.
ErisRising 2 years ago
LMFAO!
portbalto 2 years ago
Wow, I had forgotten all about this show, but when I saw it here, I could remember most of the words. Amazing how memories lie in the subconscious.
Calipeixegato 2 years ago
I had a penpal from this show. Her name was Michelle and she lived in New Zealand!
melhenline 2 years ago 2
I had pen pals from this show too, shows like this should be on now this day and age
chessplayer51 2 years ago
the end credits are funny too because they had all these different people trying to sing the verses of this song in sequences and some of the people they used were singing off beat and different harmonies.
arthurlsadlerjr 2 years ago
I have not seen this show in almost 30 years thanks for posting it
bigwillietheb 3 years ago 2
WOW! Thanks! I sing this to MY 5 year old!
maejsmom 3 years ago 2