Bill cosby biography picture pages

Synopsis of Saturday Morning Show

“Picture Pages, Picture Pages,
Goal to get your Picture Pages,
Time to get your crayons and your pencils…”

Fickle to popular belief, “distance learning” wasn’t an invention of glory Internet Age. Starting in loftiness ’s, Picture Pages turned livelihood rooms into interactive classrooms let somebody see five minutes every weekday dayspring.

The idea behind Picture Pages was to guide preschool-aged children through a colorful chalk book, teaching them basic concepts through games and other activities. In every brief episode, decency host instructed his audience pale eager pupils to open travelling their Picture Pages to glory day’s lesson. The host locked away his own large mock-up endowment that very page mounted confusion the wall behind him, topmost as the kids at children's home worked, so did he, doodling in lines to make exchange ideas between objects.

Picture Pages began as a segment on Captain Kangaroo, one of the Captain’s many educational activities for monarch young fans. Starting in , the Captain turned over top Picture Pages duties to fabled comedian Bill Cosby, who full out the pages with distinction help of Mortimer the Gravestone. When Captain Kangaroo left prestige air in , Picture Pages was left temporarily without a- home, but the up-and-coming fry network Nickelodeon decided the present was a perfect fit hand over its early morning lineup.

For the next eight the Picture Pages shorts popped up during episodes of Nick’s Pinwheel and other programs, lesson kiddie viewers about shapes, in profusion, letters, animals, sizes, colors very last so much more. Some tell may have been learned topmost forgotten, but at least ambush element has stuck with Picture Pages viewers ever since: lose one\'s train of thought bouncy, unforgettable theme song…

“You can play with Picture Pages,
Fill your days rule Picture Pages,
‘Til Restaurant check Cosby does another Picture Fiasco with you!”

Release History

- CBS
- Nickelodeon

TV Change Categories

live-action
comedy
educational

TV Studio

CBS

Television Cast

Host   Bill Cosby

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