7.8 /10 1 Votes
7.5/10 TV First episode date 22 September 1975 Network PBS Number of episodes 50 | 7.9/10 IMDb Opening theme Vegetable Soup Final episode date 14 December 1978 Number of seasons 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Yanna Kroyt BrandtTerence TaylorJohn L. FigueroaCarolyn MillerJesús Papoleto MeléndezBrumsic Brandon, Jr.Lou PotterJoan GriffithsLucille Clifton Directed by George BowersLuis SotoAl BrodaxDouglas CheekFrank S. AbbottIvan Cury Starring Gordon SmithCarla PinzaGary GoodrowKingman Hui Voices of James Earl JonesBette Midler Cast Similar Danny, The Simpsons, Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair, Diva Las Vegas, The Tonight Show Sta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.)
Contents
Vegetable soup theme
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.
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.