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Reading Rainbow

Genre: Family
Countries: ,
Release Date: March 18, 1983
Year: 1983
Runtime:30 mins
IMDb Rating:

Watch Reading Rainbow online — it may be available on legal streaming platforms such as YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, and others.

Levar Burton introduces young viewers to illustrated readings of children's literature and explores their related subjects.

   

Reading Rainbow Seasons/Episodes

► Season 1 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Tight Times - 1983-06-06
Episode 2 Miss Nelson is Back - 1983-06-07
Episode 3 Bea and Mr. Jones - 1983-06-08
Episode 4 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - 1983-06-09
Episode 5 Louis the Fish - 1983-06-10
Episode 6 Digging Up Dinosaurs - 1983-06-13
Episode 7 Liang and the Magic Paintbrush - 1983-06-14
Episode 8 Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport - 1983-06-15
Episode 9 Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe - 1983-06-16
Episode 10 The Gift of the Sacred Dog - 1983-06-17
Episode 11 Gregory, the Terrible Eater - 1983-06-20
Episode 12 Three by the Sea - 1983-06-21
Episode 13 Arthur's Eyes - 1983-06-22
Episode 14 The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash - 1983-06-23
Episode 15 Ty's One Man Band - 1983-06-24

► Season 2 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Hot-Air Henry - 1984-09-03
Episode 2 Simon's Book - 1984-09-04
Episode 3 Ox-Cart Man - 1984-09-05
Episode 4 Mystery on the Docks - 1984-09-06
Episode 5 A Chair For My Mother - 1984-09-07

► Season 3 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Paul Bunyan - 1985-07-01
Episode 2 The Patchwork Quilt - 1985-07-02
Episode 3 Hill of Fire - 1985-07-03
Episode 4 The Tortoise and the Hare - 1985-07-04
Episode 5 Perfect the Pig - 1985-07-05
Episode 7 Alistair in Outer Space
Episode 8 Feelings
Episode 9 Watch the Stars Come Out
Episode 10 Mama Don't Allow

► Season 4 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Animal Cafe - 1986-06-23
Episode 2 Alistair in Outer Space - 1986-06-24
Episode 3 Feelings - 1986-06-25
Episode 4 Watch the Stars Come Out - 1986-06-26
Episode 5 Mama Don't Allow - 1986-06-30
Episode 6 The Life Cycle of the Honeybee
Episode 7 The Milk Makers - 1986-07-01
Episode 8 Imogene's Antlers - 1986-07-02
Episode 9 Germs Make Me Sick! - 1986-07-03
Episode 10 Abiyoyo - 1986-07-04
Episode 11 A Three Hat Day
Episode 12 Rumpelstiltskin
Episode 13 Best Friends - 1970-01-01
Episode 14 Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
Episode 15 My Little Island

► Season 5 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Life Cycle of the Honeybee - 1987-06-22
Episode 2 Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie - 1987-06-23
Episode 3 Chickens Aren't the Only Ones - 1987-06-24
Episode 4 The Paper Crane - 1987-06-25
Episode 5 The Runaway Duck - 1987-06-28
Episode 6 A Three Hat Day - 1987-06-29
Episode 7 Rumpelstiltskin - 1987-06-30
Episode 8 Best Friends - 1987-07-01
Episode 9 Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - 1987-07-02
Episode 10 My Little Island - 1987-07-03

► Season 6 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Bionic Bunny Show - 1988-08-15
Episode 2 Bugs - 1988-08-16
Episode 3 The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner - 1988-08-17
Episode 4 Brush - 1988-08-18
Episode 5 The Purple Coat - 1988-08-19
Episode 6 Barn Dance! - 1989-08-27
Episode 7 Duncan and Dolores - 1989-08-28
Episode 8 Knots on a Counting Rope - 1989-08-29
Episode 9 Mummies Made in Egypt - 1989-08-30
Episode 10 Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - 1989-08-31

► Season 7 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story - 1989-07-03
Episode 2 Stay Away from the Junkyard! - 1989-07-04
Episode 3 Little Nino's Pizzeria - 1989-07-05
Episode 4 Ludlow Laughs - 1989-07-06
Episode 5 Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo - 1989-07-07
Episode 6 Dive to the Coral Reefs - 1990-03-26
Episode 7 Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus
Episode 8 Tooth-Gnasher Superflash - 1990-03-28
Episode 9 Bored–Nothing to Do! - 1990-03-29
Episode 10 Sports Pages - 1990-03-30

► Season 8 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth - 1990-09-10
Episode 2 Jack, the Seal and the Sea
Episode 3 The Bicycle Man
Episode 4 Florence and Eric Take the Cake
Episode 5 Sunken Treasure

► Season 9 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Alistair's Time Machine
Episode 2 The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Episode 3 The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
Episode 4 Galimoto
Episode 5 Fox on the Job
Episode 6 Opt: An Illusionary Tale
Episode 7 Raccoons and Ripe Corn
Episode 8 The Lady with the Ship on Her Head
Episode 9 Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
Episode 10 Snowy Day: Stories and Poems

► Season 10 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Tar Beach
Episode 2 The Wall
Episode 3 Sam the Sea Cow
Episode 4 Rechenka's Eggs
Episode 5 Sophie and Lou
Episode 6 Come a Tide
Episode 7 The Piggy in the Puddle
Episode 8 Seashore Surprises
Episode 9 Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies
Episode 10 Berlioz the Bear

► Season 11 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Amazing Grace
Episode 2 The Furry News
Episode 3 Mrs. Katz and Tush
Episode 4 The Salamander Room
Episode 5 Silent Lotus
Episode 6 Follow the Drinking Gourd
Episode 7 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Episode 8 Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
Episode 9 And Still the Turtle Watched
Episode 10 June 29, 1999

► Season 12 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Nosey Mrs. Rat
Episode 2 Borreguita and the Coyote
Episode 3 Summer
Episode 4 Once There Was a Tree
Episode 5 Appelemondo's Dreams
Episode 6 The Lotus Seed
Episode 7 Hail to Mail
Episode 8 Stellaluna
Episode 9 My Shadow
Episode 10 Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

► Season 13 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Wonderful Towers of Watts
Episode 2 Martha Speaks
Episode 3 Alejandro's Gift
Episode 4 The Sign Painter's Dream
Episode 5 Archibald Frisby

► Season 14 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Fly Away Home
Episode 2 Uncle Jed's Barber Shop
Episode 3 How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Episode 4 Owen
Episode 5 How Many is a Million?

► Season 15 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Always My Dad
Episode 2 Bread is for Eating
Episode 3 Hotel Animal
Episode 4 Someplace Else
Episode 5 Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

► Season 16 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 On the Day You Were Born
Episode 2 Hip Cat
Episode 3 Regina's Big Mistake
Episode 4 Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message
Episode 5 The Carousel

► Season 17 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Math Curse
Episode 2 My Life with the Wave
Episode 3 Saturday Sancocho
Episode 4 When Aunt Lena Did the Rhumba
Episode 5 Worksong

► Season 18 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
Episode 2 Pet Stories You Don't Have to Walk
Episode 3 Lemonade for Sale
Episode 4 The Secret Shortcut
Episode 5 My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States
Episode 6 Badger's Parting Gifts

► Season 19 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Tin Forest
Episode 2 Max
Episode 3 Enemy Pie
Episode 4 Our Big Home: An Earth Poem