Big Blue Marble was a half-hour children's television series that ran from 1974-1983 in syndication. Distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen-pal club that encouraged inter-cultural communication. The show was a very early example of gentle multiculturalism.
There was a weekly segment in which a singing globe invited viewers to write letters to the show, often requests for pen pals (the predecessor of the mod...
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Big Blue Marble was a half-hour children's television series that ran from 1974-1983 in syndication. Distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen-pal club that encouraged inter-cultural communication. The show was a very early example of gentle multiculturalism.
There was a weekly segment in which a singing globe invited viewers to write letters to the show, often requests for pen pals (the predecessor of the modern-day e-mail). The address to send the letters was in Santa Barbara, California.
Production personnel included creators Ken Snyder, Harry Fownes, and Robert Garret, producer Rick Berman (later of Star Trek fame), writers Lynn Rogoff and Robert Wiemer, and directors Joseph Consentino and Peter Hammer.
Each of the first 78 half hour episodes produced during the original three years of production contained cartoon shorts and other animated pieces. These animation sequences were created by Ron Campbell Films, Inc., executive produced and...
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