Yes, it does bring memories back.. and YES, the stern introduction, the kids' profiles (and background noise of the playground), soft folksy music, and morphing graphics bring back such memories of simpler times. LOVE IT..
Now, this brings back the nice Spring days, back in 1976-78... watching this and Thinkabout on PBS Channel 2 Boston, every afternoon in 2nd grade on MET. Thanks, L2R... while these 70's and 80's educational shows are low budget, their memories that make you feel like a kid again, are priceless.
This intro and it's music was all that I remembered for nearly 40 years, and for the life of me I could not remember the name of the program. While growing up, whenever I would look at a beautiful sunset, the guitar sounds would play in my head. It's amazing how well my memory has held up all these years after not hearing it for so long.
Wow me too! I remember the music of this program but not the name and when I seen the sunset I heard the guitar melody in my head as well…now I see why it’s a “program” the theme has a hippie vibe too it.
Wow! This just totally knocked me a few centuries back into the early 80's! Yes, I was one of "those" to stayed home from school or sat in front of the old square TV on a half-day watching all of these old PBS shows and loved every second of it. :)
@@Milesco I remember this. I can also still whistle the "All About You" theme song. The woman had short hair and a skeleton next to her, and she told us about our bodies. I was born in 73. So it would be like 1976. Don't forget "ZOOM," not the app. It was a show. I was 3 went I sent in my first SASE. It meant a "Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope." They never mailed me back shit. Just saying.
@@ajaded1 : Born in '67 here. Yeah, I remember ZOOM! And that crazy Ubbi Dubbi language they had that I could never figure out. (And got a shout out on an episode of The King of Queens!) And the address for the show -- Box 350, Boston, Mass, 02134. Yup. A child of the 70s! 😄
That theme song bring rushing back memories of watching these back in the 70's. It's strange how such a simple theme song is so strongly emotionally evocative.
Completely agree. The music is actually quite good, sophisticated. And when I think back to the late 70's sitting in class watching this, it does evoke certain emotions. Ahhh, to be a kid again.
Wow, when I see and hear this, it brings me back to those days when I was a kid and at home watching PBS. It makes me feel sad to hear this for some reason. I guess it is a feeling of nostalgia.
I wonder if the composers/art directors who developed intros like these realize how many children's brains their work is permanently embedded in. I'll bet they forgot about this work as quickly as they produced it, moving on to the next commercial gig. If only they knew!
YES! My family lived in Oakland during the 70s, and if any of us kids were home sick from school, two things made it worth it: The Price is Right, and shows like this on KQED.
OMG. My fifth grade teacher used to show us this show regularly in class and we'd discuss it afterwards. The theme song has been in the recesses of my mind for 30 years!
I don't know why but I'm getting all emotional remembering this tv show. We watched it one year in grade school and it had a lasting impact on me. We would have group discussion afterwords & I got really tripped up by the troubling scenarios. Wish I could see a few episodes again.
Courtesy of the legendary Scanimate, the same early (analog) computer-animation device responsible for the graphics on "The Electric Company" and about 10 zillion TV station logos in the '70s.
Thanks for digging this out of the vault. I used to see this on weekday mornings on CBC in the early 80s. It always had an air of melancholy or angst, given the quandary the stories' protagonists faced. The bully episode was a standout. It's all sweet nostalgia now. EXXon Corporation must have slipped a little payola to the announcer for the emphasis on their name!
I like these b/c of the time period...child of the 70s here. Believe it or not, we watched Inside Out episodes in grade school for educational purposes. Watching the episodes again brings back memories. Thank-you to the person(s) who put them on youtube.
I miss my Youth and Innocence. This was on PBS. As a child, I just loved seeing other kids on tv. Kids learning on PBS shows made me want to learn. The Educational shows on PBS always had intros that I loved to hear,and that I could feel. The cool teachers during elementary school would show us educational films and tv shows. Sometimes the teacher had to get a tv from the librarian .The good old analog 📺 tv sets with one speaker. Once the teacher cuts the lights off sometimes we'd catch a nap. We'd also watch educational shows on reel to reel film projectors.
What a great flash back this video is ~ The warmth this gives off is immense ~ These were watched by me in elementary school in Miami in the 70's ~ Along with a movie called "The Red Balloon" ~
Thank you for uploading this. I just got transported in my mind to over 40 years ago to grade school. It is early-mid afternoon and the class and I could now relax and watch a show and not have to study or do work for 15 minutes. Just enjoy the moment and learn something through the show.
Make that "fondly remember", in spite of the creepiness of some of the episodes. All those old instructional shows give me a warm fuzzy feeling anymore--nostalgia, you understand.
this is nostalgic..and abit depressing. the more i look at these vids from my past the more i realize...i never really had a chance in my personal life.
Thanks for posting this...I had been looking around for it for a very long time...This show was great and I remember seeing it on our local PBS station well into my high school years (early-mid 90's)...good job!
They showed this show to us on closed curcuit TV's in Catholic school back in 75-76,,Man the memories it brings back,,,it's amazing, I was like 10 years old!
I love that so many of us remember these shows. From CA to Maine, Florida to the Dakotas, we all watched these shows from so long ago. And now, they're cherished. Oh, and Channel 28, KCET Los Angeles.
I’ve been reading the comments one after the other of people expressing exactly how I feel. I really enjoy sharing my memories with other people who have similar feelings. What I remember is growing up in the state of Hawaii as a little kid and watching this show. Sometimes for some strange reason on our PBS affiliate, I would watch it along with self incorporated, and all about you. We moved away from Hawaii a few years later, and I am currently living in Tennessee. When I see that opening music and those old episodes, I think about living in Hawaii
Yes...this show.... I never really seen any other episode besides the Bullying one that I can remember.... But... I always remembered the title and the theme song........ and years later here it is.......I remember sunny days and the rose bush swaying in the breeze outside of the window whenever I hear the song.... sweet sweet memories....Thank You 😊
I've got many Inside Out "episodes" on 16mm film that I acquired from a school district in Fairbanks, Alaska that liquidated their entire film library in the late '90's. I keep my projectors in good running condition so that I can view these from time to time. We watched these in school when i was in 2nd grade in Texas - that was in 1976. I remember the peculiar smell of the gym where we watched, as well as the frustration of the substitue teacher when she couldn't thread the projector...
Wow! This takes me back to 5th grade (1975-76). My math teacher, who was very progressive, would show these films about once a week. In the darkened classroom, my classmates and I watched very attentively. I remember many of these episodes, but my favorite was the one about this group of kids that would dare each other to take "big risks" by trespassing into construction sites, running across traffic, etc. I do remember, also, the episode about the little girl who thought her parents were going to get divorced: I wanted to rescue her.
+recondoc65 The director of the divorce episode was Carol Armstrong. Taught at Sheridan College 'Media Arts' in Oakville Ontario. Sadly died of cancer in 1990.
FidelCastro128 Thanks for this info. Although her life ended too soon, its great to know that Carol left behind wonderful achievements on film and this continues to influence students.
wow !! I remember watching this over 30 yrs ago on WDCN out of Nashville. Wasn't much else if you didn't have cable or a dish in the late 70's/80's and were stuck at home sick or a snow day.
let me join the chorus flashing back to a middle school classroom (5th grade), where the lights were turned down and a B & W TV on a large movable stand was wheeled out to view this program..
' "introspective", "thought-provoking", "soul searching", etc., early '70s folk guitar stuff that was so prevalent back then...' Very well put, Milesco, that's exactly the sentiment I was trying to express. I'll add the word "haunting" to the list. Very haunting.
There was another program that featured children's books. Each episcode featured a book. The host of the program's last name was Robbins, I think. At some point during the program he would draw a picture of a scene from the book and somone would narrate a part of the book. One of the programs was Read It/Wrote It? There was another program also. This stuff brings back so many memories.
I liked the logo. "Inside Out" was an instructional program that aired on public television during the 1970's. This program was aired on WILL Channel 12 in Urbana, Illinois. A Classic 6!!
a few years ago I think I had spoke to a woman at AIT and they told me that the value system has changed with people and that those shows probly would not GO today. I would like to make series shows just like that if I could get the time.. Thanks for sharing the intros, DAVE TENNHILLS PRODUCTIONS
Look up Rennard Cotton here on RU-vid, he has a good chunk of all our Educational Programs on his channel! Every so often copyright cops make him take them down, but he always gets 'em back up again!
My favorite episode is the one where the English speaking kid calls a French Canadian boy a "French frog," then proceeds to get himself lost in the French-speaking community of Montreal?, and he can't communicate with anyone because he's not fluent in French, and it's the insulted boy who comes to bail him out. I've not heard this theme since I was a kid...I loved these programs in school. The other episode I liked was about a bully who kept harassing someone, but met his downfall literally when the victim overturned the ladder, causing the bully to break his leg.
yeah i recall the metric system show cant remeber much off hand but iwas looking for it today, i also remember watching a show that was like social studies i remember learning about latitude and longitude and meridians and once they discussed an aboriginal tribe call the tumahara or something like that, i beleive the intro had a clip of a fishing boat hauling in a big metal basket, anyone remember that ? i was so happy to find this intro here, i only saw this if i was home sick , great shows
I agree with landraiderares ! Also, my 4th grade class would always say 'Exxon Corporation' in unison with the intro. We always thought that was Funny !
Oh yes, I remember Clyde, the safety frog very well. It was made by MS ETV. There are several clips from those shows on youtube, although I don't think there are any complete episodes. I'm still trying to find the intro to Pennywise, or better yet an episode of it. Surely someone in the youtube universe remembers it. There was an ice cream man who talked economics with the kids on the show. Penny was a reporter.
This music is awesome and has been stuck in my head since the first time I heard it on Mississippi ETV when I was growing up in the Delta. Thanks for posting it! Now if I can only find an episode or the intro to Pennywise and Trade-Offs, the economics educational shows from the 70s.
According to Wikipidia, NIT/Ait is now defunct. It says that "The archives of the AIT are now part of the collection of the Indiana University Libraries' Moving Image Archive."... so i did some searching and located this iucat.iu.edu/catalog/170993 .
big high5 to the uploader, this show was so thought provoking, really one of tv's finest, i only got to see a few episodes if i was home sick but they were burned into my mind, for real how many programs are out there today which depict the adversities of life, and try to get you to think about how you can handle it if you had to experience it, really thought provoking heavy stuff, $40 an episode eh, little steep but it maybe worth it, i remember the bully episode, cheers to you all
Hearing that music I remember everything that day in sixth grade. I can even smell the classroom I sat in, see the people that sat next to me. What we said, what we did, and what we were going to do at recess right after this program finished. That is a trip it's like your actually there until the music stops and I'm 56 and back here. One of the episodes I remember was this kid building his dog a dog house that i think falls apart and the other kids laughing at him. Don't remember the title of the episode I would like to see it again. That's probably my favorite episode. I remember the bully, I dare you, and just joking.
NIT, or AIT as it is called now, did a lot of great shows, not just Inside/Out. Some episodes were posted here on RU-vid but AIT called "copyright" and had them removed. AIT needs to post episodes on here THEMSELVES, and from the original masters so we can see them in all their glory.
Oh, this is amazing...ME THREE! And like creatornat, I thought it was just me. (And likewise, glad to see I wasn't alone!) The intro, especially, has a depressing, lonely feel to it.
Captain Quirk-The intro was lonely as hell. A lot of these shows like this had little music during it, and so, there was nothing counteracting the mood of every scene. Another 70's PBS show called,'Thinkabout'(also on RU-vid), had these kids getting into awful situations. Then, the viewer would be left hanging and the show would abruptly end, asking the viewers to come to a conclusion as to what to do about that story's ending. The director of these shows had no zeal, no charm, and there was very little that made for a feeling of hope. It always seemed bad to me, and a real sense of melancholy would come over me whenever I watched them!
i actually like the "cliffhangers" at the end of each episode, kinda like watching a kid's soap opera but with more educational value and less adult like stories, and yes melancholy, just like a tragic soap opera .. but please don't blame the directors, they wanted to teach the kids lessons on what the outcome should be after the "cliffhanger" ending .. unlike soap operas where some of the endings are even more melancholy, grim and disturbing
This tune is from a "library" music track of pre-packaged songs on records that TV studios and production companies would buy, but I think this riff reminds me of Nick Drake's instrumental "Bryter Layter" (from shortly before in 1970) - this guitar could be layered with his acoustic guitar and mixed with the orchestral arrangements of that song well.
They need to offer the show on DVD. This was a semi-staple of my childhood. I watched this mainly on KQED when I was home sick from school and they had the ITV block after Sesame Street.
Dang finally found it. Never knew what the show was called but I remembered the theme music. But there's this other one I remember but haven't seen it on youtube yet. I don't remember if it was it's own show or part of a show. But it was of a cartoon bee. And he would always say, "kalabracha, kalabracha" lol something like that.
THAT'S IT!!!! Thanks so much. I would like to see the intro to these again. I remember one particular book....I think the name was "A Taste Of Blueberries" or it might be Blackberries.
Class was always boring until the teacher dragged the tv out from the back room. Electric Company, Thinkabout, Big Blue Marble, Vegetable Soup or Iside Out. The theme songs were always great.😊
@marioD1965 I do have memories of the Closed Circuit TV's in the Classroom as my teacher used to show The Electric Company in first grade 1977-1978. I must say, I almost forgot about this program and it brings memories as I used to watch it before starting school in 1974-1975 before preschool and this would be on after the morning programs such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company etc. As I looked at other youtube clips this happened to be one of the related videos.
