Pbs Show facts
While investigating facts about Pbs Shows and Pbs Shows 2000s, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The 1990s PBS game show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" was created in response to a National Geographic survey stating that 1 in 4 Americans could not locate the Soviet Union or The Pacific Ocean
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The second longest running animated show in the US is the PBS show "Arthur", about Arthur the Aardvark
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what pbs shows are on hulu. Here are 50 of the best facts about Pbs Shows 2020 and Pbs Shows Tonight I managed to collect.
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Mr. Rogers' funeral was attended by 2,700 people which included TV show hosts, authors of children's books and the PBS president
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Fred Rogers is credited with the continued funding of PBS after he presented a passionate argument in front of the US Senate in May, 1969. This allowed healthy child development shows like 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood' to be fully funded, along with the rest of PBS programming.
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The writer and producer of the PBS show "Ghostwriter" had planned to reveal Ghostwriter to be a murdered runaway slave during the Civil War. He was killed by slave catchers and their dogs as he was teaching other runaway slaves how to read in the woods.
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The ghost on Ghostwriter (90's PBS kids show) was a runaway slave during the Civil War that was murdered in the woods after being tracked down by slave catchers and their dogs. He was teaching other runaway slaves to read.
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In 1969, Nixon wanted to slash the PBS budget in half, from $20 million to $10 million. Mr. Rogers himself went in front of the committee to talk about what his show accomplished. And ....in less than 5 minutes, the tide turned. Watch:
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PBS painter Bob Ross become a star in Japan after a dubbed version of his show started airing twice a day there. When he visited Japan he was mobbed with massive fans.
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The Oscar nominated documentary "Liberators" narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI's played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.
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Kevin Bacon is married to his distant cousin, Kyra Sedgwick. The couple apparently first found out while both were participating on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” back in 2012.
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Beloved Painter Bob Ross Never Got a Dime for His PBS Show "The Joy of Painting". He made his fortune was through his art corporation, which produced lots of how-to books, over 100 videotapes, Bob Ross-branded art materials, and a small army of around 150 art teachers around the world.
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The Theme song to the PBS show Arthur was written and performed by Ziggy Marley
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Larry Brantley, the voice of the Jack Russell Terrier on the PBS show Wishbone, got the gig after improvising for five minutes about the dog staring at a tennis ball: "I walked out of the audition saying, 'I can't believe I just did five minutes about a tennis ball.' And then I got the job."
The Ghost from PBS kids show Ghostwriter was a runaway slave during the Civil War who taught other slaves to read and write but was ultimately killed by slave catchers and their dogs. - source
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, internationally renowned sex therapist, made regular appearances on the PBS Kids show Between the Lions as Dr. Wordheimer in a parody segment of her sex therapy show. - source
Ben Affleck is related to slave owners. When Affleck appeared on the PBS show "Finding Your Roots" it was discovered that his family tree contained slave owners. Rather than acknowledge this during his episode he instead pressured producers to cut it. This was later made public in an email leak.
This makes his show the most widely viewed PBS program in history.
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He has presented shows on PBS and BBC on black holes, gravitational radiation, time travel and wormholes.
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Bob Ross's teacher was born in Prussia and served in the Wehrmacht during WWII. He had his own painting show on PBS called The Magic of Oil Painting from 1974 to 1982
The first TV show to use “open captions,” or captioning for the hearing-impaired available on all television sets, was The French Chef on PBS.
The Sandlot" ripped off its plot from the 80's PBS show "Mathnet"
The puppet Lamb Chop, from the PBS children's show in the 90's, is a three-star general.
Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, performed the theme song to the PBS animated show Arthur.
