PBS "The Game" kids' block interstitials 1 - ca. 1997

Promos, short films and interstitials from "The Game," PBS afternoon/evening children's programming aired on KERA around or after 1997. (Not to be confused with the film "The Game," which you should probably let the kids skip.) This batch is from before "Arthur" and the following show, "The Magic School Bus."
* Glitchy mystery ad at beginning of recording. (Possibly local ad for "The Game" block - I can make out some Bill Nye and maybe Wishbone.)
* "Wishbone" promo (You will have that one part of the theme song in your head for the rest of the day.)
* A Bite of "Newton's Apple" - A fairly interesting 3-minute segment from 1996 about bubble gum - what's in it, why regular gum just isn't the same, and the best way to blow the biggest bubbles. Includes 3M sponsor tag and KTCA (now TPT) production card at the end.
* "This Is PBS" network ID (The "grown-up" one.)
* Primestar sponsor tag for PBS' Ready to Learn service
* "The Game" intro (Starring various playing pieces: Colleen Collect, Gulp, Kline Westwood, Ms. B, .Fraid Knot and Gumball. Kind of bizarrely awesome.)
* "The Game" bumper with local station ID
* Local sponsor tags for "Arthur": JCPenney and Quaker Oats products at Tom Thumb
* "Arthur" sponsor tags, including short spots for Baby Gap (you really had to specify that the Gap owns Baby Gap?), Polaroid, and Libby's Juicy Juice.
* PBS kids' network ID (The brightly colored animated one, with the dog toting a balloon designating the previous show as "Educational/Informational" programming. I took out repeats of national sponsor messages before this and local ones after it.)
* A 30-second animation accompanying a poem about looking up at the moon and imagining someone else looking up at it and imagining you. Can anyone identify where the text is from?
* "The Game" station ID bumper
* Local "Magic School Bus" sponsor tag for The Science Place at Fair Park, now part of the Museum of Nature and Science.
* "The Magic School Bus" sponsor tags, including a spot for Microsoft Home (Whither Encarta?)

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[thomasisatwin]

i was saying, do you have a pbs storytime opening but only the funding of Helen and Peter Bing, CPB and Viewers like you, or a magic school bus opening funding that have only NSF, Carnegie Corporation of New york, and viewers like you!!!!?

[VCRchivist]

@thomasisatwin No, I don't. Sorry.

[withoutanygreen]

WHAT ABOUT PART THREE? Can you upload that?

[VCRchivist]

@withoutanygreen No, because it doesn't exist. I edited everything I have into these two parts. That's all there is, and there ain't no more.

[caramelldansenX65]

it used 2 say 1996. now it sez 1997.

[VCRchivist]

@caramelldansenX65 It's 1997 because the Primestar tag clearly shows a 1997 copyright date. I don't recall changing it, but if I did, it's because I spotted something that better dates the video. Usually it's stuff like new episodes, movie ads, news, etc., but obviously that's not much help with PBS Kids stuff!

I use "circa" in video titles if I couldn't pin down the date very well - as in this case - or if the tape's recording seems to be later than the ad started airing.

[agbrown83]

Does anybody have the newer intro to Newton's Apple of seasons 12 through 15 that plays the same music as the one in this video and could upload it? I've looked all over the internet for the newer Newton's Apple theme with that sounds more orchestrated and could not find it anywhere. All I could find was the older one that's synthesized and performed by the musical group Kraftwerk. If you can, thanks.

[NYIslander12]

That awkward moment when looking at the title makes you lose the game

[crissrudd4554]

Yep I remember those commercials!! Hooray for memories!!!!!!

[superdude2194]

you probbly dont have any more do you?

[rev115spikafrever]

WOW!! I just had a nostalgic attack! O_O

For years I vaguely remember some kind of board game that was shown between the PBS kids shows back then,but I couldn't find it...until now!!

Thanks to you VCRchivist!!!

[billboncasey]

That Voice Is Jane Read From Arthur!

[RetroVideoFan]

@ravengurl92 That one and the 1993 PBS Kids logo gave me nightmares as a kid too. Though in this case, the creepiness factor probably goes up because they used a noticeably different announcer than the rest of the credits.

[deetoxik]

Oh crap...the game :o

[billboncasey]

I Saw That Microsoft Commercial At Coolidge

[jfs1988]

KCET in Los Angeles also used to air this block.