Movies and TV shows like Reading Rainbow

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Reading Rainbow (1983)
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Reading Rainbow (1983)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Reading Rainbow was an American children's television series that aired on PBS from June 6, 1983, until November 10, 2006, that encouraged reading by children. The public television series garnered over 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody Award and 26 Emmy Awards, 11 of which were in the "Outstanding Children's Series" category. The series was created under the leadership of Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, at Lancit Media Productions in New York. The concept of a reading series for children originated with Twila Liggett, Ph.D., and Paul Schupbach, of the Great Plains National Instructional Television Library at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; and Tony Buttino, of WNED-TV Buffalo, New York. The original team included Lynne Brenner Ganek, Ellen Schecter, and host LeVar Burton. Each episode centered on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which was explored through a number of segments or stories. The show also recommended books for kids to look for when they went to the library. It is the third-longest running children's series in PBS history, after Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street. It was also one of the first PBS shows to be broadcast in stereo.
Style: educational
Audience: kids
Plot: book, educational program, literature, critic, intelligence, little girl, little boy, youth, community, celebrity guests, reading a book, family
Time: 1900s
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, educational and feel good films and TV series with plots about friendship, friends, youth, surrealism, imaginary, escapades and best friend mostly in Family, Animation and Comedy genres. Some movies like Reading Rainbow: This Is Daniel Cook (2004), Jackanory (1965), Popples (1986), Wish Kid (1991), Arthur (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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This Is Daniel Cook (2004)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 6 min.
TV show
Story: This is Daniel Cook is a children's television series created by J.J. Johnson and Blair Powers and produced by Toronto's marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions in association with Treehouse TV and TVO, and is shown in Canada on Treehouse ...
Style: educational, semi serious, explanatory, funny, captivating ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: teaching the ways of the world, boy, little boy, child's point of view, spoiled brat, youth, elementary school, firefighter, redhead, crafts and hobbies
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Jackanory (1965)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap-o'-Rushes read by Lee ...
Style: anthology, anime, children's story
Audience: kids
Plot: bird, drawing, storytelling, surrealism, british, book
Place: england
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Popples (1986)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Popples was a Saturday morning cartoon, based on the Popples toys, that aired in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The pilot was a live-action Shelley Duvall special, in which they were puppets and marionettes; after this was well-received, it ...
Style: children's program
Audience: kids
Plot: children, girl, little girl, friendship, magic, little boy, boy, brother sister relationship, surrealism
Time: 80s
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Wish Kid (1991)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Wish Kid starring Macaulay Culkin is an animated television series that originally aired on Saturday mornings from September 14, 1991, through July 1992 on NBC, although a few repeats aired from 1998, through 2002 on Toon Disney after that. Produced ...
Style: children's program
Audience: kids
Plot: desire, neighbor, misadventure, best friend, bully, bullying, wish fulfillment, little boy, father son relationship, magic, brother sister relationship
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Arthur (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The show revolves around the lives of 8-year-old Arthur Read, an anthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other.
Style: educational, humorous, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: parents and children, family relations, friendship, best friend, family values, school, childhood, youth, mother daughter relationship, little girl, brother sister relationship, mischievous children ...
Time: 1900s
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Chloe's Closet (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Ireland, France
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: An animated children's program about a little girl, her security blanket, and the adventures she has wile playing dress up in her closet.
Style: computer animated, feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: friendship, imaginary, friends, imaginary kingdom, little boy, fantasy world, female protagonist, toy comes to life, magic, little girl, animal, child ...
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The Berenstain Bears (1985)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Berenstain Bears is an Australian-American co-produced animated television series based on Stan and Jan Berenstain's Berenstain Bears children's book series, produced by DIC Entertainment, Hanna-Barbera and Southern Star ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, educational, 2d animation
Audience: kids, preschool
Plot: cartoon bear, bear, animal life, family relations, disorder, friends, youth, imaginary, mischievous children, babies and infants, village, family life ...
Time: 1900s
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Super Why! (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through ...
Style: educational, fairy tale, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: team, clue, book, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, imaginary, superhero, friendship, ethnicity, heroes, princess, pig ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Dora the Explorer (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dora the Explorer is an American educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including ...
Style: humorous, educational, entertaining, anime, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot: little girl, monkey, friendship, best friend, friends, young heroes, adventurer, pets, imaginary, girl heroine, travel, journey ...
Place: latin america
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28%
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The Wuzzles (1985)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Disney's The Wuzzles is an animated television series created for Saturday morning television, and was first broadcast on September 14, 1985 on CBS. An idea of Michael Eisner for his new Disney television animation studio. The premise is that ...
Audience: kids
Plot: narration, voice over narration, misadventure, island, joke, friend, friendship, hybrid animal, morality, pun
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28%
Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Growing up can be confusing! When Zach and Annie face difficulties in their lives, they go to special place called Plato’s Peak. There, Plato—a talking buffalo!—and his friends are always willing to lend a helping hand.
Style: educational, humorous, clever, offbeat, serious ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing, preschool
Plot: dignity, best friend, religion, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, imaginary, young boy, greek mythology, native american, rocky mountains, anthropomorphic animal, bible story ...
Time: 1900s
Place: california
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28%
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Taffy (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK
TV show
Story: The series follows a grey raccoon, Scraggs, who gets adopted by Mrs. Muchmore after thinking he is a cat named Taffy. Her main pet, a blue dobermann named Bentley, is determined to reveal Taffy's secret to Mrs. Muchmore that he really is a ...
Audience: kids
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27%
Caillou's New Adventures (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Caillou is an educational Canadian children's television series, based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. During the first season, many of the stories in the animated version began with a ...
Style: light, humorous, colorful, educational, anime ...
Audience: kids, preschool
Plot: little boy, parents and children, family life, friendship, friends, siblings relations, grownups, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, family relations, robin hood, tantrum ...
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27%
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (1987)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters star in adaptations of various fairy tales from all over the world.
Style: anime, fairy tale
Audience: kids
Plot: family relations, cat, cartoon cat, surrealism
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Franklin (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Canada, USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Franklin is an Canadian educational animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois. The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle. It was produced by PolyGram ...
Style: fairy tale, retro, educational, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: young heroes, turtle, best friend, family relations, animal life, friends, friendship, parents and children, heroes, youth, escapades, cartoon skunk ...
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26%
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Zoboomafoo (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Zoboomafoo is an American children's television series that aired from January 25, 1999, to April 28, 2001, and is still shown today in syndication depending on the area, and it is regularly shown on PBS Kids Sprout. A total of 65 episodes were ...
Style: educational, semi serious, humorous
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
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26%
Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998)
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain is the retooling of the American animated television series Pinky and the Brain, with the title characters being joined by Elmyra Duff from their other show Tiny Toon Adventures. The show is ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cartoon mouse, crossover, talking animal, mouse, anthropomorphic mouse, little girl, genius, house, megalomaniac, anthropomorphic animal, dimwit, world domination
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Noddy (1998)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After years of sailing the sea, Noah Tomten, a retired sea captain, owns an antique toy store called Notions Oddities Doodads and Delights of Yesterday, a variety of toys, from a weasel living inside of a jack in the box to a dog pretending to be a ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: young heroes, small business, heroes, best friend, friends, imaginary, escapades, toy comes to life, getting along
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25%
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Stickin' Around (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Created by Robin Steele and Brianne Leary, Stickin' Around is a Canadian animated children's television series from Nelvana, which originally aired on YTV in Canada and on ABC in Australia. In Latin America, it was broadcast by Nickelodeon ...
Audience: kids
Plot: young boy, young girl, bully, imagination, best friend, friend, surrealism, dream
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25%
Mad Jack the Pirate (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mad Jack the Pirate is a short lived 1990s cartoon. The show was created by Bill Kopp and was directed by Jeff DeGrandis. On American television, the show was broadcast on Fox Kids. The concept is of the adventures of the rather unsuccessful and ...
Style: retro, 2d animation
Audience: kids
Plot: pirate, male protagonist, anthropomorphic animal, dimwit, sidekick, human animal relationship, cowardice, rat
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25%
The Magic School Bus (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.
Style: fairy tale, sentimental, retro, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family friendly, family outing, preschool
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Time: 1900s
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24%
Messy goes to OKIDO (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 11 min.
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Story: OKIDO is a comedy adventure, science-educational series following a curious, adventure seeking and unruly monster called Messy as he finds the answers to everything a 3-5 year old child wants to know. Why do things fall down and not up? Where do ...
Style: educational, entertaining, thought provoking, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: research, science, educational program, friends, anthropomorphism, scientific research, technology, friendship, teamwork, scientific expedition
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24%
Gerald McBoing Boing (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Gerald McBoing-Boing is an original Canadian-American 2D animated children's television series based on the original cartoon. It premiered on Cartoon Network on August 22, 2005, as part of their Tickle-U programming block, and on Teletoon in ...
Style: feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
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24%
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Postcards from Buster (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: Postcards from Buster centers on Buster traveling to various places around North America, usually in the United States but also in the Caribbean, Canada – and other places – with his father, who is a pilot for a group of musicians. In each ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
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24%
Harold and the Purple Crayon (2001)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Harold is an adorably curious four year old with his purple crayon, who has the power to create a world of his own simply by drawing it. Harold wants to go for a walk in the moonlight, but there is no moon, so he draws one. He has nowhere to walk, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sweet
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: imagination, little boy, imaginary, young heroes, family relations, figment, drawing, night, youth, supernatural, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality ...
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23%
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Dragon (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story: Dragon is a French-Canadian stop-motion children's television program which is based on the books by best-selling children's author Dav Pilkey. The show first aired in Canada in 2004 and continues to air on Treehouse TV and on Qubo in the ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, educational, satirical, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: creature, satire, prehistoric creature, friendship, book, dragon
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Löwenzahn (1981)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: West Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Peter Lustig lives in a imaginative converted caravan. From there he goes on a journey of discovery, explaining to his young spectators the connections between nature, environment and technology.
Style: educational, explanatory, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place: germany
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23%
Martha Speaks (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Philippines
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Martha, a beloved family dog, is accidentally fed alphabet soup — this gives her the power of speech and the chance to speak her mind to anyone that will listen.
Style: educational, sincere, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids, toddlers
Plot: friendship, pets, friends, miraculous event, youth, talking dog, teaching the ways of the world, imaginary, dog, female protagonist, child protagonist, english accent
Time: 21st century
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Project G.e.e.K.e.R. (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Project G.eeK.eR. is an animated television series that premiered on CBS on September 14, 1996. It was created by Douglas TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim, with original music by Shawn Patterson. TenNapel and Taylor also collaborated on the video ...
Style: futuristic
Audience: kids
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Time: future
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23%
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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