Reading Rainbow — Season 6
Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!
About this season
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
Episodes (10)
1. The Bionic Bunny Show
Aired 15 August 1988 • 30 min
In both the featured story and on the set of the show "Star Trek: the Next Generation" (which LeVar also stars on) we learn how TV shows are made and how actors in costumes and special effects can make imaginary things seem real.
2. Bugs
Aired 16 August 1988 • 30 min
With microorganisms under his belt, LeVar now goes on the lookout for insects.
3. The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner
Aired 17 August 1988 • 30 min
LeVar tries to have lunch at a diner, but soon finds himself thrust into work. For some reason, he just doesn't understand luncheonette lingo.
4. Brush
Aired 18 August 1988 • 30 min
Can inanimate things come to life, as the feature book suggests? LeVar finds out for himself in a factory where all the goods for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are stored.
5. The Purple Coat
Aired 19 August 1988 • 30 min
In New York again, LeVar goes to get a tailor-made jacket. In between comes a visit to the Fashion Institute of Technology.
6. Barn Dance!
Aired 27 August 1988 • 30 min
LeVar is in Tennessee where he is going to a barn dance. Along the way, he meets the band who will be playing their Bluegrass music and meets a man who makes his own fiddles. At the barn, LeVar also learns a few dance steps for the big night Roy Clark narrates Barn Dance!, a story about a hoedown that is unlike any other.
7. Duncan and Dolores
Aired 28 August 1988 • 30 min
There's more to the cat than meets the eye. It culminates with one of the stars of what was then believed to be Broadway's permanence: CATS. Jane Curtain narrates the featured book about a girl who wants a cat. In the story, Duncan and Dolores learn how to be themselves and earn each other's friendship.
8. Knots on a Counting Rope
Aired 29 August 1988
What's a handicap to a determined individual? With LeVar camping out by himself, the show banks itself on a news anchor who had been born with deformed hands and feet. The featured story, Knots on a Counting Rope, tells about how a boy who is blind faces his own fears.
9. Mummies Made in Egypt
Aired 30 August 1988 • 30 min
A camel is out of place in Boston, but LeVar rides one in preparation for a show that takes a close look at mummies. Corrine Orr narrates "Mummies Made in Egypt", a book that gives all the facts about what mummies are, how the ancient Egyptians were mummified, and what they resembled three thousand years ago.
10. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Aired 31 August 1988 • 30 min
LeVar celebrates the culture of Africa in New York City's Central Park where he learns how African drums are made. Phylicia Rashid narrates Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, an African tale about a villager who has two beautiful daughters with completely different personalities. Mufaro presents his daughters to the king who is looking for a wife.