LeVar Burton, actor and host of Reading Rainbow, b. 1957. LeVar and I are about the same age. We really enjoy Reading Rainbow around here. I have many of the old episodes on video tape, and I use them to supplement my curriculum. I wish I had an index to all the episodes and their subjects so that I could pull out the right one at the right time. For instance, we’ll be studying the transcontinental railroad in history soon, and I know there’s an episode of Reading Rainbow about that event. Many of the others are just as educational.
I also wish I could find a list of all the titles of the American Experience TV show also on PBS. I tried to find such a list on the internet once, but I could only find partial lists, even at the PBS website.