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Ended
September 12, 1992
August 1, 1998
Educational
Lester tries to spruce up Beakman's lecture on seeds by adding clowns. Beakman explains how to build your very own bridge.
Beakman’s World was an educational children’s television show starring the eccentric scientist Professor Beakman (Paul Zaloom). Aided by a female assistant (Josie (Alanna Ubach, 1993-94); Liza (Eliza Schneider, 1994-95); Phoebe (Senta Moses, 1995-96)) and Lester the Rat (Mark Ritts), Beakman… More performed comical experiments and demonstrations to illustrate various scientific concepts, from density to electricity. At the beginning and end of the show, as well as before or after commercial breaks, the show featured short scenes portraying puppet penguins, Don (Bert Berdis) and Herb (Alan Barzman), at the North Pole watching Beakman’s World on television. Beakman’s World was a production of Columbia Tri-Star Television Distribution, Columbia Pictures Television. It premiered in September of 1992, on The Learning Channel (TLC) cable network and in national syndication (225 stations). On September 18, 1993 it moved from national syndication to CBS’ Saturday morning children’s lineup. The program was based upon the comic strip “You Can with Beakman and Jax,” created by Jok Church. The program was also nominated for numerous Daytime Emmy awards, and won three in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Live and Tape Sound Mixing and Sound Effects.
GREAT news for all Beakmaniacs out there!!! This is as of March 3, 2006 "Just thought I'd let you know that the prognosis looks very promising for a return of Beakman's World to domestic syndication this fall. Fox has committed its 36 owned and operated stations to it, covering about 46% of the… More country, and more stations have bought it, adding up to something like 70% coverage so far. They just need to get to about 75-80% coverage, and they'll proceed, which looks highly likely. So this is good news! Mark Ritts - (a.k.a. "Lester")
But why only season 1 and season 4? It would be really cool if the powers that be (Sony Entertainment?) would let the local affiliates play ALL the episodes. My local just started doing 1 & 4 again... Anyone else?
Who was your favorite female assistant? Lisa (but Lester was incomparable)
What a great way to get kids interested in science! Explosions, slime, dirt, what fun! hide show
This show was a lot of fun, as well as informative, exciting and dynamic! The interplay between Beakman and his sidekicks made the show funny, while teaching science to kids in a manner that they would enjoy. I particularly liked watching Beakman and Lester (the rat). Poor Lester was invariably wrong about just about everything and Beakman's instruction usually ended up with Lester embarrassed or covered in slime, gunk, or scratching his head in confusion. While not the first show to teach science to kids, this one was, in my opinion, by far and away the best one I've watched. Definitely worth seeing again.
For someone who grew up watching "Mr. Wizard" on PBS and got converted to the idea of a career in science, this show has all the appeal of watching chimpanzees throw (expletive deleted.) hide show
I despise this show. Compared to the classic teaching methods of Mr. Wizard, this show is little more than watching three brain-missing people on speed, teaching multiple concepts that have absolutely no connection with each other. While the frenetic pace of this show and the multiple appeals to bodily functions may make this program a hit with three-year-olds, it never had the power to pick a young viewer up and transport them into a world for weekly explorations of basic principles of science and make them feel that not only was learning was fun, but a lifetime of this stuff was also a good idea.
This program graphically shows the devastating impact of the years of Ronald Reagan and his train of Jesus Jumpers on basic scientific education. Turn off the TV and go read Isaac Asimov.
Ecucation made fun for kids and annoying to grown ups. hide show
There is not a whole lot i can remember about this show, let see: It aired on a channel from Peru that we had in our cable and always had this very funny, sort of cla animation in the north poloe doing something funny. After that, Beakman would answer questions from the people or something like that. Although the science experiments and the answers were the sould and essence of this show, what i really enjoyed was the interaction between the different characters, it was always very energetic and fun to watch. A very good show specially for kids.
One for the collection! Makes science fun and interesting! hide show
I used to record every episode every Sunday, knowing that I wanted my kids to watch Beakman. This show was fun, exciting, and interesting all at the same time! Much to my horror, I discovered that all but one tape had been re-used for some HBO movie or some other more important soap opera...
From the lab experiments that you could do at home (with adult supervision of course!) to Lester. This show stands the test of time. I for one am really happy that FOX has decided to re-air the show, and now I can capture it all on TiVo.
Get ready you Beak-maniacs! You have just crossed into BEAKMAN'S World!
Science Finally Made Interesting hide show
I loved this show for so many reasons. It made science interesting to me for the first time; it was fast, funny and furious and it had one of the cutest ingenues as an assistant. Alanna Ubach made this show for me with her funny one-liners and quips; when she got replaced, it almost killed me, but at least Beakman and Lester, the down-on-his-luck-actor-in-a rat-suit, got me through it. Where the static and sterile "Bill Nye"-guy may have bored me silly, Beakman and Lester kept my attention with humor and scientific sight gags. Their show had so many good things going for it; I just wish this show had been around in my youth, I could have been a better student than I originally was in school.
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