Kid’s Beat

Kid’s Beat was a series of one-minute televised news segments that summarized topic such as sports, education and current events for children and pre-teens. The segments were broadcast in the United States on TBS from 1983 until the mid-1990s, between weekday afternoon children’s animated cartoon programs. In 1997, Kid’s Beat was replaced by Feed Your Mind, a TBS produced children’s newsmagazine featuring stories reported by kids on a range of topics. Many were former hosts of Kid’s Beat.

Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors is a French/North American animated TV show which first aired on September 16, 1985. It was produced by DIC Entertainment (originally distributed for syndication by SFM Entertainment), and animated by Japanese animation studios Sunrise, Shaft, Studio Giants, Studio Look and Swan Production. The show, which spawned 65 thirty-minute episodes, was created to support Mattel’s Wheeled Warriors toy line. The show features an ongoing plot; however, like many shows made at the time, it does not have a series finale, and thus the plot was left unresolved.

The show featured two duelling forces. The “good guys” are humans, called the Lightning League. They drive white and silver vehicles with assorted weaponry, and are led by Jayce. The “bad guys” are organic green vegetable-based creatures called the Monster Minds, who tend to take the shape of black and green vehicles. They travel via large green organic vines which can grow in and across interstellar space, and sprout seeds that rapidly grow into further Monster Minds. They are led by Saw Boss. Click here to watch the intro »

1984 Louisiana World Exposition

The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was a World’s Fair held in New Orleans, United States. It was held 100 years after the city’s earlier World’s Fair, the World Cotton Centennial in 1884. It opened on Saturday, May 12, 1984 and ended on Sunday, November 11, 1984. It’s theme was “The World of Rivers—Fresh Waters as a Source of Life.”

Plagued with attendance problems, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition has the dubious distinction of being the only exposition to declare bankruptcy during its run. Many blamed the low attendance on the fact that it was staged just two years and two states from Knoxville’s 1982 World’s Fair, and also on the fact that it coincided with the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. There has not been a World’s Fair in the United States since.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (abbreviated to Whose Line? or WLIIA) is a short-form improvisational comedy TV show. Originally a British radio programme, it moved to television in 1988 as a series made for the UK’s Channel 4, for a 10 series run. Following the conclusion of the British run in 1998, ABC began airing a version with the same name for an American audience, which lasted ten seasons. Click here to watch the best of »