The Magic Door

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The Magic Door (also known as The Magic Door Television Theatre) was a Jewish educational television series aimed at providing kiruv (outreach) to Jewish children in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area. The show was produced by the Jewish Federation of Chicago and premiered January 1, 1962. The show ran weekly until January 1, 1982. It aired at 7:00 AM every Sunday morning on WBBM-TV.

The main characters of the series included "Tiny Tov" (a character "reduced" to appear as a kind of elf), and two hand puppets named "Scrunch" and "Judy". Tiny lived in a house that was made out of an acorn, the entrance was "The Magic Door".

Each week, Tiny Tov would travel back through time riding his Magic Feather. Each week he would educate Jewish children on Jewish history, sharing stories from Torah.

Every episode would include a brief Hebrew lesson, stepping through the Aleph-Bet (Hebrew alphabet).

Tiny Tov was played by Charles Gerber, who also created the song lyrics. Gerber currently resides in New York.

[edit] External links

• The Magic Door at the Internet Movie Database