"Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!"

Reading Rainbow

Name: Reading Rainbow
Genre: Kids
Released: 1983-06-06
Rating: 8.38
Cast: LeVar Burton

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Kids

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

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StatusEnded

First AiredJune 6, 1983

Last AiredNovember 10, 2006

Episode Runtime30dk

Seasons21

Episodes155

TypeScripted

Origin CountryUnited States

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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RCN Entertainment On-Screen Entertainment

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Last Episode

S21 E5 • 11/10/2006

Show Way

As LeVar helps his wife and daughter construct his family tree, Diahann Carroll narrates Show Way, in which the author chronicles her family back to her Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother, who was a slave in the South. Through traditions passed down to each generation, her family learned to sew "Show Way" quilts that were secretly maps designed to help slaves escape to the north to freedom, and how her relatives taught her to keep up with the love of quilting to retain family history.