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.
Producer: George Newall, Radford Stone
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21 episodes
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 minThe 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 minThe 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 minNo overview available.
11 episodes
A Magician digs deep into his top hat that proves there's a magic number.
Runtime: 4 minWhen it comes to multiplications, zero is a real hero. It will always be an important number to the world.
Runtime: 3 minNoah helps his son learn to multiply by "twos".
Runtime: 4 minA field trip to a zoo full of quadrupeds lets a group of students practice the 4 times table.
Runtime: 3 minFive, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty- ready or not here I come.
Runtime: 3 minA boy's day in the city and out, overlapping with others' exploits, run through the 6 times table.
Runtime: 3 minLucy Seven Sampson is good luck for students when his romp through a store shows them how to multiply by seven.
Runtime: 3 minAt school, a girl daydreams the 8 times multiplication table in the context of a skating pond.
Runtime: 3 minAn educational cat and mouse game that unfolds on AQ slapstick pool table.
Runtime: 3 minA look at one of the easiest numbers to multiply with.
Runtime: 3 minA 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 minNo overview available.
9 episodes
Many experiences are recounted, introducing characters, locations, and items in vivid detail.
Runtime: 3 minLearn that Verbs are what's happening!
Runtime: 4 minA train yard engineer helps us understand conjunctions.
Runtime: 4 minReginald, Geraldine, and Franklin show us the power of interjections. "Darn, that's the end."
Runtime: 4 minA young girl comes home from camping and is asked to describe her adventures.
Runtime: 3 minA family business advertises adverbs.
Runtime: 3 minA group of good friends and their unusual pets are able to identify each other simply with pronouns.
Runtime: 3 minBusy ants teach us about prepositions.
Runtime: 3 minThe story of a shy man trying to win the affections of a woman named Rose.
Runtime: 3 minNo overview available.
12 episodes
The story of the American Independence movement.
Runtime: 3 minPaul Revere's ride signals the start of the American Revolution, whose non-stop action is well known.
Runtime: 3 minA song about the Constitution of the United States of America with a focus on its opening statement of principles.
Runtime: 3 minHere's how Mott and Howe and Anthony finally won the right to vote.
Runtime: 3 minA bill explains how, if it actually happens, he would get through Congress to become a law.
Runtime: 3 minA look at the Democratic recipe that built America.
Runtime: 3 minThe Schoolhouse Rock view of America's westward expansion.
Runtime: 3 minA musical celebration of the Fourth of July.
Runtime: 3 minA run-through of the needs that inspired some of America's most influential inventions.
Runtime: 3 minA kid who's into circuses finds it easy to remember how the branches of the United States government perform.
Runtime: 3 minNo one gets to be President without graduating from the Electoral College!
Runtime: 3 minLearn about voting for President.
Runtime: 1 minNo overview available.
9 episodes
The Tokens harmonize Newton's theory that gravity keeps things down.
Runtime: 3 minA solar system tour of the planets.
Runtime: 3 minA trip that makes understanding the digestive system easy to swallow.
Runtime: 3 minAn energetic, enthusiastic look at the cardiovascular system.
Runtime: 3 minThirty years later, the world is still singing the "Energy Blues."
Runtime: 3 minA look at what skeletons are really like and do.
Runtime: 3 minA dazzling look at how electricity works.
Runtime: 3 minYour nervous system sends that urgent message to your brain.
Runtime: 3 minLearn about weather and how it is created.
Runtime: 3 minNo overview available.
4 episodes
Meet Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips as they learn and talk about computers and how they work.
Runtime: 3 minScooter Computer And Mr Chips - "Some People Assume..." is the phrase Mr. Chips uses to explain the computer is nothing more than physical parts.
Runtime: 3 minScooter Computer And Mr Chips - Mr. Chips describes how coding turns languages into computer instruction.
Runtime: 3 minScooter Computer And Mr Chips - Mr. Chips helps Scooter with his baseball game by crunching his numeric stats.
Runtime: 3 minNo overview available.
8 episodes
Becky Sue needs a loan to buy a new guitar.
Runtime: 3 minA vaudeville explanation of how taxes work and what they do.
Runtime: 3 minA father explains to his son why certain things have to be considered when it comes to money before things like a school band trip can receive funds.
Runtime: 3 minA boy learns, through trial and error, how to make his finances last.
Runtime: 3 minA monster called the national debt gobbles up huge piles of dollars.
Runtime: 3 minIt is a musical story about the beginnings of money, from the early stages before it existed to the standards of today.
Runtime: 3 minA pidgeon explains how and why stocks change on Wall Street and the best way to make a good investment.
Runtime: 3 minThe story of how checks work in society, from the point of sale through the banking process.
Runtime: 3 minNo overview available.
12 episodes
Three polar bears explain how what's going on with the environment is effecting their home.
Runtime: 3 minSeveral years after his last appearance, Mr. Morton encourages his family to perform some very basic deeds which will have a monumentally positive impact on the Earth.
Runtime: 3 minItems that can be recycled press for just this to be done with them.
Runtime: 3 minLearn about Water Conservation
Runtime: 3 minLearn about the different levels of the rainforest and the animals that live there.
Runtime: 3 minMake a commotion and save the ocean.
Runtime: 3 minWhat happens when waste goes down the river?
Runtime: 3 minHow to make your own tiny urban zoo.
Runtime: 3 minInterplanet Janet returns to explain the power of the sun.
Runtime: 3 minPrevent pollution by using power of the wind.
Runtime: 3 minWhat you do equals a carbon footprint.
Runtime: 3 minMitchel Musso rocks to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Runtime: 3 min