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posted by chromas on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:46PM   Printer-friendly

Quality never goes out of style...The Curiosity Show, a 70s and 80s TV show from Oz that introduced kids to basic science, is enjoying a YouTube-based revival.

Thankfully, the creators got control of the content and have put their work up on YouTube.

The story at ABC.

Highly entertaining, and better yet, engaging curious young minds in the possibilities of the world around them. They even have some episodes in German, which I never knew. Generally aimed at the pre-high-school age, just using basic household props mainly. Puzzles, illusions, basic household chemistry and physics, etc.

Their YouTube channel is here if you've got some kids or are just curious yourself.

To kick off the discussion: what are some other similar shows that should be revived?


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:52PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:52PM (#753305)

    Clutch Cargo
    McGuyver
    The A Team

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:02PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:02PM (#753312)

    Dukes of Hazard for scientific study of female anatomy (although the mechanic from Knight Rider looked pretty good too) Also the girls on Threes Company.

    I would not recommend "The A Team" for either marksmanship training or OSHA workplace safety issues. Some of their welding was pretty questionable, technically speaking.

    Some of the attempts at being educational on Baywatch were pretty interesting viewing WRT marine biology study.

    The professor on Gilligans Island was inspirational although not terribly educational. I should make an arduino case out of a coconut shell in remembrance. I always enjoyed the attitude, F it if its impossible lets build this darn thing anyway, outta baling wire and duct tape and coconuts.

    A semi-serious example I'm not BSing about, would be "Junkyard wars" which is a USA import of something from the UK titled "scrapheap challenge"... The hosts costumes are cringy as is the over the top reality TV blather, but the core of the show was entertaining.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:17PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:17PM (#753324)

      Another serious example from the UK would be the Christmas Lectures [rigb.org]

      • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday October 25 2018, @09:02AM

        by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 25 2018, @09:02AM (#753578)

        Several are available to watch online through that website [rigb.org], stretching back to 1968.

        I watched the 1978 lectures a year or two ago, and enjoyed them. (That was the first time that the Royal Institution had done a Christmas Lecture on mathematics since their inauguration in 1825: many had said that pure maths couldn't be made interesting enough for such a public lecture.)

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:50PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:50PM (#753356)

    Oh how about "The Bill Cosby Show" for OBGYN medical studies? Oh wait, my bad, he was into anesthesiologist work instead.

  • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:17PM

    by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:17PM (#753680) Journal

    > The A Team

    I hum the A-team theme song every time I use a 4-way lug wrench to take off tires. That was a staple of their build-an-improvised-tank montage, and it stuck with me.