Vegetable Soup (TV series)

Vegetable Soup
Genre Children's television series
Written by Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Terence Taylor
John L. Figueroa
Carolyn Miller
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
Brumsic Brandon, Jr.
Lou Potter
Joan Griffiths
Lucille Clifton
Directed by George Bowers
Luis Soto
Al Brodax
Douglas Cheek
Frank S. Abbott
Ivan Cury
Starring Gordon Smith
Carla Pinza
Gary Goodrow
Kingman Hui
Voices of James Earl Jones
Bette Midler
Opening theme Vegetable Soup
Composer(s) Bob Sakayama
Country of origin  United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 50
Production
Executive producer(s) Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Producer(s) Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Al Brodax
George Bowers
William Hetzer
Editor(s) Paul Evans
Joe Staton
Running time 30 mins
Production company(s) New York State Education Department, Bureau of Mass Communications
Distributor PBS
Release
Original release September 22, 1975 – December 14, 1978

Vegetable Soup is an American educational children's television program produced by the New York State Education Department that originally ran on PBS from September 22, 1975 to December 14, 1978. (NBC concurrently broadcast the series on Sunday mornings, with at least some affiliates showing it along with NBC's regular Saturday morning cartoon lineup; this was a rare instance of a television program seen on both commercial and public television at the same time).

Concept

The purpose of the program was to be a television series for children to help counter the negative, destructive effects of racial prejudice and racial isolation and to reinforce and dramatize the positive, life-enhancing value of human diversity in entertaining and affective presentations that children could understand and relate to. Vegetable Soup used an interdisciplinary approach to entertain and educate elementary age children in the value of human diversity.[1]

Regular segments

Characters

Animations

Animated segments on the show were created by Jim Simon's Wantu Studios. the musical opening plus 13 Woody the Spoon cooking spots for which Bette Midler did all the voice tracks, and also 48 thirty-second breaks.[2]

See also

References

  1. "ERIC - Vegetable Soup: Parent-Teacher Guide., 1975". Eric.ed.gov. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  2. "Michael Sporn Animation – Splog » Jim Simon – 1975". Michaelspornanimation.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
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