The Big Blue Marble

What happened to this kind of programming? I loved this show as a child! If you happened to be a kid, stuck at home with a cold, and all the cartoons went off about 9am (pre-cable, pre-cartoon network) you could always flip to PBS and find shows like this one. The Big Blue Marble was an excellent educational program filled with stories about children all over the world. There was also the occasional serial that was so interesting that you hoped to be able to stay home the next day to see how it turned out (pre-vcr). It would be so delightful if PBS could run some of these old programs. Good entertainment and learning is never outdated. I'm sure that children could get as much from this show today as we did years ago.