Inside/Out

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Inside/Out
Format	Drama anthology / Educational
Country of origin	United States Canada
No. of episodes	30
Production
Running time	15 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	none; syndicated
Original airing	1972-1973
External links
IMDb profile

Inside/Out was an early 1970s educational television series.

The show was produced in 1972 and 1973 by the National Instructional Television Center (NIT), in association with various contributing stations, such as KETC in St. Louis, Missouri, WVIZ in Cleveland Ohio, WNVT-TV in Northern Virginia, and The Ontario Educational Communications Authority.

Funding for Inside/Out was provided by grants from 32 different educational agencies within the USA and Canada, with additional support from Exxon Corporation.

1 Overview of series
2 Program Listing
3 Trivia
4 Awards
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Overview of series

Inside/Out was an anthology of shorts that ran for 15 minutes or less that were designed to teach children about social issues. Many episodes had a cliffhanger ending, leaving the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to what they would do in that same situation.

This series was very commonly watched on many classroom TV broadcasts during school hours and shown on 16mm film reels in many schools. As such it was a staple of daytime instructional television blocks (generally programmed by local agencies or school boards rather than by PBS) on public TV stations for many years, until at least the late 1980s.

[edit] Program Listing

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1. Because It's Fun
2. How Do You Show...?
3. Strong Feelings
4. Must I/May I?
5. Travelin' Shoes
6. Just Joking
7. But...Names Will Never Hurt?
8. Home ~~Sweet~~ Home
9. Jeff's Company
10. Buy and Buy
11. Can I Help?
12. Living with Love
13. Can Do/Can't Do
14. Breakup
15. Love, Susan
16. Brothers and Sisters
17. Someone Special
18. I Want To
19. When is Help?
20. Bully
21. But They Might Laugh
22. Lost is a Feeling
23. Donna (Learning to Be Yourself)
24. You Belong
25. Just One Place
26. In My Memory
27. I Dare You
28. Yes, I Can
29. A Sense of Joy
30. Getting Even

[edit] Trivia

Inside/Out was one of the first in-school television series to deal with real-life problems and situations in real-life settings, without resorting to sugar-coating or happy endings.

Due to the critical acclaim for this series, some PBS stations would double-run two Inside/Out episodes in a half-hour time slot in the evening, so parents could watch this series with their children.

According to a 1972 TV Guide article on Inside/Out, WGBH Boston banned an episode about death from its airwaves, citing that the circumstances in that episode were too realistic, and may scare some children watching the series.

Inside/Out was one of the last programs to be produced by NIT; the organisation would be reformulated as the "Agency for Instructional Television" (AIT) in April 1973.