Storytime (found PBS children's reading series; 1992-1998)

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Status: Partially Found

Storytime also known as Kino's Storytime is a PBS series that aired from October 11th 1992 until April 3rd, 1998 it was made by the Los Angeles, California PBS Station KCET the same station who made The Puzzle Place two years later.

The show has a similar feel to that of the 1983 to 2006 PBS series Reading Rainbow as it centers on reading children's books sold in real life only this show features a puppet character named Kino (performed by the late Mark Ritts) and two human characters Kino interacts with being Lucy (played by Anne Betancourt) and Mara (played by Marabina Jaimes) also like Reading Rainbow it also features a few celebrity guest readers like Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Wilford Brimley and many others.

The Wikipedia page says there's 3 seasons and 81 episodes made but there is no known proof if that is true or not the page itself is also false on how episodes were aired as the episode with Patricia Richardson and Kellie Williams is listed to have aired three days in a row in separate sections when the show itself airs 30 minutes per episode.

It is also said that there were 10 VHS tapes released from Strand Home Video and Video Treasures but only three are known to exist.

Videos

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 |description2 =Partial clip of Tim Allen reading The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
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 |description3 =Clip of Dave Coulier reading The Story of the Gingerbread Man
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 |description4 =Clip of John Goodman reading Little Polar Bear
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 |description5 =Clip of John Goodman reading Rose Meets Mr. Wintergarten
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 |description6 =Clip of Mara reading Anna and the Little Green Dragon
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 |description7 =Clip of Zachary Ty Bryan reading Monster Mama
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 |description8 =Clip of Shari Belafonte reading The Magic House
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 |description9 =Clip of Tatyana Ali reading Three Wishes
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 |description10 =Clip of Mark Ritts (Kino's Puppeteer) reading My Little Red Car

External Links

https://www.kcet.org/kcet-50th-anniversary/october-1992-storytime-kcets-first-major-childrens-series-debuts

Known Full Episode Upload List

Episode	Status	Books Read
Kellie Williams and Patricia Richardson	Found	Owl Babies, Two of Everything and A Mother for Choco
Mario Lopez and Cindy Williams	Found	Froggy Gets Dressed, Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour and Daley B