Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1985, and was later revived with both old and new episodes airing from 1993 to 1999. Additional episodes were produced as recently as 2009 for direct-to-video release.
Seasons
1. Three Is a Magic Number
Air Date: 1973-01-06
A Magician digs deep into his top hat that proves there's a magic number.
2. My Hero, Zero
Air Date: 1973-01-20
When it comes to multiplications, zero is a real hero. It will always be an important number to the world.
3. Elementary, My Dear
Air Date: 1973-01-27
Noah helps his son learn to multiply by "twos".
4. The Four-Legged Zoo
Air Date: 1973-01-27
A field trip to a zoo full of quadrupeds lets a group of students practice the 4 times table.
5. Ready or Not, Here I Come
Air Date: 1973-02-03
Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty- ready or not here I come.
6. I Got Six
Air Date: 1973-02-10
A boy's day in the city and out, overlapping with others' exploits, run through the 6 times table.
7. Lucky Seven Sampson
Air Date: 1973-02-17
Lucy Seven Sampson is good luck for students when his romp through a store shows them how to multiply by seven.
8. Figure Eight
Air Date: 1973-02-24
At school, a girl daydreams the 8 times multiplication table in the context of a skating pond.
9. Naughty Number Nine
Air Date: 1973-03-03
An educational cat and mouse game that unfolds on AQ slapstick pool table.
10. The Good Eleven
Air Date: 1973-03-10
A look at one of the easiest numbers to multiply with.
11. Little Twelvetoes
Air Date: 1973-03-17
A six-fingered and -toed alien opens the question for a farm boy whether their condition would make multiplying by twelve as natural as by ten.
1. A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing
Air Date: 1973-09-15
Many experiences are recounted, introducing characters, locations, and items in vivid detail.
2. Verb: That's What's Happening
Air Date: 1973-09-22
Learn that Verbs are what's happening!
3. Conjunction Junction
Air Date: 1973-09-29
A train yard engineer helps us understand conjunctions.
4. Interjections!
Air Date: 1974-01-05
Reginald, Geraldine, and Franklin show us the power of interjections. "Darn, that's the end."
5. Unpack Your Adjectives
Air Date: 1974-02-02
A young girl comes home from camping and is asked to describe her adventures.
6. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!
Air Date: 1974-03-02
A family business advertises adverbs.
7. Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
Air Date: 1976-03-06
A group of good friends and their unusual pets are able to identify each other simply with pronouns.
8. Busy Prepositions
Air Date: 1993-09-11
Busy ants teach us about prepositions.
9. The Tale of Mr. Morton
Air Date: 1993-09-11
The story of a shy man trying to win the affections of a woman named Rose.
1. No More Kings
Air Date: 1975-09-27
The story of the American Independence movement.
2. The Shot Heard Round the World
Air Date: 1975-10-11
Paul Revere's ride signals the start of the American Revolution, whose non-stop action is well known.
3. The Preamble
Air Date: 1975-10-18
A song about the Constitution of the United States of America with a focus on its opening statement of principles.
4. Sufferin' 'til Suffrage
Air Date: 1976-02-13
Here's how Mott and Howe and Anthony finally won the right to vote.
5. I'm Just a Bill
Air Date: 1976-03-13
A bill explains how, if it actually happens, he would get through Congress to become a law.
6. The Great American Melting Pot
Air Date: 1976-04-17
A look at the Democratic recipe that built America.
7. Elbow Room
Air Date: 1976-05-01
The Schoolhouse Rock view of America's westward expansion.
8. Fireworks
Air Date: 1976-05-22
A musical celebration of the Fourth of July.
9. Mother Necessity
Air Date: 1976-07-03
A run-through of the needs that inspired some of America's most influential inventions.
10. Three-Ring Government
Air Date: 1979-03-06
A kid who's into circuses finds it easy to remember how the branches of the United States government perform.
11. I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College
Air Date: 2002-08-27
No one gets to be President without graduating from the Electoral College!
12. Presidential Minute
Air Date: 2002-08-27
Learn about voting for President.
1. A Victim of Gravity
Air Date: 1978-09-16
The Tokens harmonize Newton's theory that gravity keeps things down.
2. Interplanet Janet
Air Date: 1978-11-18
A solar system tour of the planets.
3. The Body Machine
Air Date: 1979-01-06
A trip that makes understanding the digestive system easy to swallow.
4. Do the Circulation
Air Date: 1979-03-10
An energetic, enthusiastic look at the cardiovascular system.
5. The Energy Blues
Air Date: 1979-03-27
Thirty years later, the world is still singing the "Energy Blues."
6. Them Not-So-Dry Bones
Air Date: 1979-05-05
A look at what skeletons are really like and do.
7. Electricity, Electricity
Air Date: 1979-05-19
A dazzling look at how electricity works.
8. Telegraph Line
Air Date: 1979-06-30
Your nervous system sends that urgent message to your brain.
9. The Greatest Show on Earth (aka The Weather Show)
Air Date: 1979-07-07
Learn about weather and how it is created.
1. Introduction - Scooter Computer And Mr Chips
Air Date: 1985-01-01
Meet Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips as they learn and talk about computers and how they work.
2. Hardware
Air Date: 1985-01-01
Scooter Computer And Mr Chips - "Some People Assume..." is the phrase Mr. Chips uses to explain the computer is nothing more than physical parts.
3. Software
Air Date: 1985-01-01
Scooter Computer And Mr Chips - Mr. Chips describes how coding turns languages into computer instruction.
4. Number Cruncher
Air Date: 1985-01-01
Scooter Computer And Mr Chips - Mr. Chips helps Scooter with his baseball game by crunching his numeric stats.
1. Dollars And Sense
Air Date: 1994-09-10
Becky Sue needs a loan to buy a new guitar.
2. Tax Man Max
Air Date: 1995-06-26
A vaudeville explanation of how taxes work and what they do.
3. Where The Money Goes
Air Date: 1995-07-13
A father explains to his son why certain things have to be considered when it comes to money before things like a school band trip can receive funds.
4. Making $7.50 Once a Week
Air Date: 1995-10-23
A boy learns, through trial and error, how to make his finances last.
5. Tyrannosaurus Debt
Air Date: 1996-01-21
A monster called the national debt gobbles up huge piles of dollars.
6. This For That
Air Date: 1996-05-06
It is a musical story about the beginnings of money, from the early stages before it existed to the standards of today.
7. Walkin' On Wall Street
Air Date: 1996-09-12
A pidgeon explains how and why stocks change on Wall Street and the best way to make a good investment.
8. The Check's In The Mail
Air Date: 1996-11-22
The story of how checks work in society, from the point of sale through the banking process.
1. Report from the North Pole
Air Date: 2009-10-04
Three polar bears explain how what's going on with the environment is effecting their home.
2. The Little Things We Do
Air Date: 2009-11-24
Several years after his last appearance, Mr. Morton encourages his family to perform some very basic deeds which will have a monumentally positive impact on the Earth.
3. The Trash Can Band
Air Date: 2009-12-17
Items that can be recycled press for just this to be done with them.
4. You Oughta Be Savin' Water
Air Date: 2009-09-23
Learn about Water Conservation
5. The Rainforest
Air Date: 2009-08-13
Learn about the different levels of the rainforest and the animals that live there.
6. Save the Ocean
Air Date: 2009-07-10
Make a commotion and save the ocean.
7. FatCat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song
Air Date: 2009-06-23
What happens when waste goes down the river?
8. A Tiny Urban Zoo
Air Date: 2009-05-18
How to make your own tiny urban zoo.
9. Solar Power to the People
Air Date: 2009-03-12
Interplanet Janet returns to explain the power of the sun.
10. Windy and the Windmills
Air Date: 2009-04-10
Prevent pollution by using power of the wind.
11. Don't be a carbon Sasquatch
Air Date: 2009-02-08
What you do equals a carbon footprint.
12. The 3 Rs
Air Date: 2009-01-01
Mitchel Musso rocks to reduce, reuse and recycle.
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Rating
7.5/10
Release Date
1973-01-06
Episodes
65 (7 seasons)
Status
Ended
