The Clyde Frog Show
The Clyde Frog Show | |
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Starring | Clyde Frog |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 28 |
Production | |
Running time | 3 to 6 minutes |
Production company | Mississippi Authority for Educational Television (MAETV) |
Original release | |
Network | PBS |
Release | March 13, 1973 February 25, 1974 | –
The Clyde Frog Show (stylized on-air as the CLYDE FROG show) is a television program for children in the 1970s. It was produced by the
Educational goals
The Mississippi Public Broadcasting School Resource Guide summarizes the goals of The Clyde Frog Show: "This series is designed to help elementary children understand and better cope with their own feelings and attitudes. Each program contains a dramatization of typical events in the life of a child followed by a talk show segment. All of the puppet characters in the stories appear in the talk show to discuss their feelings."
By grade level, the specific goals are: Kindergarten: Explain healthy ways in which feelings may be expressed. Define individual responsibility and its relationship to one's self, family and community. First grade: Identify factors that contribute to individuality. Identify the importance of expressing emotions in a healthy way. Define individual responsibility and its relationship to one's self, family, and community. Second grade: Explain the importance of positive interpersonal relationships.
Episodes
There are 28 episodes total, each 3 to 6 minutes long. The episodes, as grouped roughly by subject into 10 groups by MAETV, are:
- Big and Little – What Am I Good At? – Boys/Girls Are Supposed To...
- It Hurts to Be Left Out – What's So Funny? – Being Scared
- Clyde Stays Up Late – Dr. Frog's Birthday Present – Sincere Camera
- All by Myself – Keeping Up with Your Stuff – Cooperating
- Look What I Can Do! – Can't Do It Yet – Worrying
- Friends – Doing Things Right – Clyde's Dinner Party
- Making Decisions – Doing What You Think Is Right – Why Am I Punished?
- Suzy's Test – Max's Story – Mrs. Mulch's Story
- When Your Friend Moves Away – End-of-the-Year Blues – Clyde's Favorite Toy
- Putting It All Together
In popular culture
The character Clyde Frog has been featured in several episodes of South Park as a favorite stuffed toy of Eric Cartman, serving as a way to help Cartman get ideas on his own. The toy was "killed" in the 2011 episode "1%".[2]
Notes
- ^ Fine Arts Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 1% (Season 15, Episode 12)
References
- "MPB School Resource Guide" (PDF). MPBOnline.org. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-06-24.