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Schoolhouse Rock!
1973 - 2009 7.5 (30 votes) 7 Seasons
Genres
Animation
Networks
ABC

Schoolhouse Rock!

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: George Newall, Radford Stone

Top Cast

Jack Sheldon
Jack Sheldon

Bob Dorough
Bob Dorough

Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens

Essra Mohawk
Essra Mohawk

Grady Tate
Grady Tate

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (1983)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Scooter Computer And Mr Chips
1983-11-26

The last of the original series were four segments about the then-novel personal computer technology. The shorts featured two characters by the name of Scooter Computer and Mister Chips, and so these were the only episodes in the series to feature any recurring characters.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 2: Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips- Think Computer!
1983-11-26

The last of the original series were four segments about the then-novel personal computer technology. The shorts featured two characters by the name of Scooter Computer and Mister Chips, and so these were the only episodes in the series to feature any recurring characters.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 3: Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips- Number Cruncher
1983-11-26

The last of the original series were four segments about the then-novel personal computer technology. The shorts featured two characters by the name of Scooter Computer and Mister Chips, and so these were the only episodes in the series to feature any recurring characters.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 4: Making of "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote To College"

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 5: "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote To College" In Surround

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 6: Emmy Awards Featurette

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 7: Nike Spot

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 8: Audio Commentary: Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 9: Audio Commentary: Great American Melting Pot

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 10: Audio Commentary: Telegraph Line

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 11: Audio Commentary: Figure Eight

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 12: Audio Commentary: Interplanet Janet

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 13: Audio Commentary: Conjunction Junction

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 14: Audio Commentary: I'm Just A Bill

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 15: Audio Commentary: The Preamble

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 16: Audio Commentary: Interjections

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 17: Audio Commentary: A Noun is a Person, Place or Things

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 18: Deluxx Folk Implosion: I'm Just a Bill

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 19: Better Than Ezra: Conjunction Junction

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 20: The Lemonheads: My Hero, Zero

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 21: Goodness: Electricity, Electricity

Runtime: 3 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1973)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Three Is a Magic Number
1973-01-06

A Magician digs deep into his top hat that proves there's a magic number.

Runtime: 4 min
Episode 2: My Hero, Zero
1973-01-20

When it comes to multiplications, zero is a real hero. It will always be an important number to the world.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 3: Elementary, My Dear
1973-01-27

Noah helps his son learn to multiply by "twos".

Runtime: 4 min
Episode 4: The Four-Legged Zoo
1973-01-27

A field trip to a zoo full of quadrupeds lets a group of students practice the 4 times table.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 5: Ready or Not, Here I Come
1973-02-03

Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty- ready or not here I come.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 6: I Got Six
1973-02-10

A boy's day in the city and out, overlapping with others' exploits, run through the 6 times table.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 7: Lucky Seven Sampson
1973-02-17

Lucy Seven Sampson is good luck for students when his romp through a store shows them how to multiply by seven.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 8: Figure Eight
1973-02-24

At school, a girl daydreams the 8 times multiplication table in the context of a skating pond.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 9: Naughty Number Nine
1973-03-03

An educational cat and mouse game that unfolds on AQ slapstick pool table.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 10: The Good Eleven
1973-03-10

A look at one of the easiest numbers to multiply with.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 11: Little Twelvetoes
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.

Runtime: 3 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1975)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: No More Kings
1975-09-27

The story of the American Independence movement.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 2: The Shot Heard Round the World
1975-10-11

Paul Revere's ride signals the start of the American Revolution, whose non-stop action is well known.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 3: The Preamble
1975-10-18

A song about the Constitution of the United States of America with a focus on its opening statement of principles.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 4: Sufferin' 'til Suffrage
1976-02-13

Here's how Mott and Howe and Anthony finally won the right to vote.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 5: I'm Just a Bill
1976-03-13

A bill explains how, if it actually happens, he would get through Congress to become a law.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 6: The Great American Melting Pot
1976-04-17

A look at the Democratic recipe that built America.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 7: Elbow Room
1976-05-01

The Schoolhouse Rock view of America's westward expansion.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 8: Fireworks
1976-05-22

A musical celebration of the Fourth of July.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 9: Mother Necessity
1976-07-03

A run-through of the needs that inspired some of America's most influential inventions.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 10: Three-Ring Government
1979-03-06

A kid who's into circuses finds it easy to remember how the branches of the United States government perform.

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 11: I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College
2002-08-27

No one gets to be President without graduating from the Electoral College!

Runtime: 3 min
Episode 12: Presidential Minute
2002-08-27

Learn about voting for President.

Runtime: 1 min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (2009)

No overview available.

12 episodes

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