The following is a list of episodes from the Schoolhouse Rock! series.[1][2][3]
Contents |
| Season | № of episodes |
Premiered: | Ended: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplication Rock | 11 | 1973 | 1973 | |
| Grammar Rock | 7 | 1973 | 1977 | |
| America Rock | 10 | 1975 | 1979 | |
| Science Rock | 9 | 1978 | 1979 | |
| Computer Rock | 4 | 1982 | 1984 | |
| Grammar Rock Continued | 2 | 1993 | 1993 | |
| Money Rock | 8 | 1994 | 1996 | |
| Direct to video | 3 | 2002 | 2009 | |
| № | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Three Is a Magic Number" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | January 6, 1973 |
| The pilot episode of the series, it teaches about the number 3. This song was voted the 7th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "My Hero, Zero" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | January 13, 1973 |
| It teaches about the digit 0, portrayed as a superhero (later redesigned as "Schoolhouse Rocky," the franchise mascot), as well as multiplication by powers of 10. This song was voted the 11th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Elementary, My Dear" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | January 20, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 2 in the context of the story of Noah's Ark. This song was voted the 17th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Four-Legged Zoo" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | January 27, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 4. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Ready or Not, Here I Come" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | February 3, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 5 through a game of hide and seek, in which the seeker counts by fives. This song was voted the 16th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "I Got Six" | Grady Tate | Bob Dorough | February 10, 1973 |
| This is the first to feature a black person as the main character of the series. It teaches about the multiplication of 6. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Lucky Seven Sampson" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | February 17, 1973 |
| Sampson is a lucky rabbit with the number 7 stamped on his foot. It teaches about the multiplication of 7. | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Figure Eight" | Blossom Dearie | Bob Dorough | February 24, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 8. This song was voted the 12th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "Naughty Number Nine" | Grady Tate | Bob Dorough | March 3, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 9. The song describes a large anthropomorphic feline pool huslter (possibly inspired by Minnesota Fats). Despite the blatant tobacco-smoking reference in which "Number Nine" puffs a cigar, the song never received any censorship or removal from rerun rotation and continued to air, with no known complaints, well after the depiction of smoking in children's television was banned. This song was voted the 21st best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "Good Eleven" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | March 10, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 11. | |||||
| 11 | 11 | "Little Twelve Toes" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | March 10, 1973 |
| It teaches about the multiplication of 12 and briefly discusses the still-uncommon duodecimal system. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 | "A Noun Is A Person, Place Or Thing" | Lynn Ahrens | Lynn Ahrens | September 22, 1973 |
| This was the first song that Lynn did for the series. It teaches about nouns. This song was voted the 9th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 13 | 2 | "Verb: That's What's Happening" | Zachary Sanders | Bob Dorough | October 13, 1973 |
| A song of the same topic was proposed by Dave Frishberg, but denied. The song, a parody of Shaft and other blaxploitation films and songs, teaches about verbs. This song was voted the 24th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 14 | 3 | "Conjunction Junction" | Terry Morel, Jack Sheldon |
Bob Dorough | November 17, 1973 |
| This song marked Sheldon's debut in the series. This song, sung from the perspective of a railroad engineer who hooks boxcars together with conjunctions, teaches about conjunctions. This song was voted the best song on the 30th anniversary edition. This song was also sung on the Glee episode "The Substitute." | |||||
| 15 | 4 | "Interjections!" | Essra Mohawk | Lynn Ahrens | February 23, 1974 |
| This song teaches about interjections, introducing three stories in which interjections are used: an ill child reacting to a shot of medication, a woman rejecting a suitor's advances, and a group of irate fans shouting non-obscene words in response to an interception at a football game. This song was voted the 5th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 16 | 5 | "Unpack Your Adjectives" | Blossom Dearie | George Newall | March 9, 1974 |
| This song teaches about adjectives. This song was voted the 14th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 17 | 6 | "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | April 13, 1974 |
| This song teaches about adverbs, and is sung from the perspective of a family business that sells adverbs. This song was voted the 3rd best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 18 | 7 | "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" | Jack Sheldon | Bob Dorough, Kathy Mandry |
April 27, 1976 |
| This song teaches about pronouns and is performed by a man with a long name (Albert Andreas Armadillo) who catches animals, alongside his friends Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, and Rafaela Gabriela Sarsaparilla. This song was voted the 15th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | "No More Kings" | Lynn Ahrens | Lynn Ahrens | September 20, 1975 |
| This song teaches about the pilgrims settling in America up to the Boston Tea Party (excluding the Boston Massacre). This song was voted the 13th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 20 | 2 | "Fireworks" | Grady Tate | Lynn Ahrens | July 3, 1976 |
| This song teaches about The Declaration of Independence. | |||||
| 21 | 3 | "The Shot Heard Round The World" | Bob Dorough | Bob Dorough | October 18, 1975 |
| This song teaches about the American Revolution. This song was voted the 10th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 22 | 4 | "The Preamble" | Lynn Ahrens | Lynn Ahrens | November 1, 1975 |
| This song teaches about the opening to the United States Constitution, with its preamble set to music. When writing this song, they had to remove a small section of the preamble to make the song rhyme. This song was voted the 6th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 23 | 5 | "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" | Essra Mohawk | Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe |
February 21, 1976 |
| This song teaches about the steps women took to get their right to vote. | |||||
| 24 | 6 | "I'm Just A Bill" | Jack Sheldon, John Sheldon |
Dave Frishberg | March 27, 1976 |
| This song teaches about the steps a bill takes to get made into a law. This song was voted the 2nd best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 25 | 7 | "The Great American Melting Pot" | Lori Lieberman | Lynn Ahrens | May 1, 1976 |
| This song teaches about Immigration in America. This song was voted the 19th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 26 | 8 | "Elbow Room" | Sue Manchester | Lynn Ahrens | May 22, 1976 |
| This song teaches about Westward Expansion, or moving south and west from the 13 original colonies. This song was voted the 25th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 27 | 9 | "Mother Necessity" | Bob Dorough, Blossom Dearie, Essra Mohawk, Jack Sheldon |
Bob Dorough | July 10, 1976 |
| This song teaches about the great American inventions, all depicted as being created as a result of a need for the inventors' mothers. This song was voted the 20th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 28 | 10 | "Three Ring Government" | Lynn Ahrens | Bob Dorough | February 3, 1979 |
| Debuted during season 4. This song teaches about the branches of the United States Government, using a three-ring circus as a model. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 1 | "A Victim Of Gravity" | The Tokens | Lynn Ahrens | September 16, 1978 |
| This song teaches about the universal law of gravity and is performed by the Tokens in the style of 1950s doo-wop (an era made popular at the time by films such as Grease and TV series such as Happy Days). | |||||
| 30 | 2 | "Inter-planet Janet" | Lynn Ahrens | Lynn Ahrens | November 18, 1978 |
| This song teaches about our solar system. Like the later Computer Rock series, Inter-planet Janet has since become outdated, due to Pluto being included as the farthest planet from the sun, though its placement in the song could allow for it to be easily be edited out without any inconsistencies. (Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune between 1979 and 1999; it was subsequently reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, long after the series left television.) This song was voted the 8th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 31 | 3 | "The Body Machine" | Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon |
Lynn Ahrens | January 13, 1979 |
| This song teaches about our bodies needs. | |||||
| 32 | 4 | "Do The Circulation" | Oshie Armstead, Mary Sue Barry, Maeretha Stewart |
Lynn Ahrens | March 10, 1979 |
| This song teaches about our bodies circulatory system. | |||||
| 33 | 5 | "The Energy Blues" | Jack Sheldon | George Newall | March 27, 1979 |
| This song teaches about the history of energy production and consumption in the world, and raises concerns about future energy crises. | |||||
| 34 | 6 | "Them Not So Dry Bones" | Jack Sheldon | George Newall | May 5, 1979 |
| This song teaches about the human skeleton. This song was voted the 23rd best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 35 | 7 | "Electricity, Electricity" | Zachary Sanders | Bob Dorough | May 19, 1979 |
| This song teaches about the use of electricity. This song was voted the 4th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 36 | 8 | "Telegraph Line" | Jaime Aff, Christine Langner |
Lynn Ahrens | June 30, 1979 |
| This song teaches about the human nervous system, portrayed as a deliverer of telegrams to people who either hurt themselves or, in one case, get stage fright. This song was voted the 22nd best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 37 | 9 | "The Weather Show" | Bob Kaliban | Lynn Ahrens | July 14, 1979 |
| This song teaches about weather. This song ran into controversy with its original name The Greatest Show on Earth because that name was trademarked by the circus Ringling Bros. - Barnum and Bailey, and as such, the show was pulled from rotation, not airing during the 1990s revival and being declared a "lost episode" on the DVD release. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 1 | "Introduction" | Darrell Stern, Bob Kaliban |
Bob Dorough, Lynn Ahrens, Tom Yohe |
1982 |
| This song teaches about the computer, introducing the recurring characters Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips. This is the last Schoolhouse Rock to be put on DVD. (Disc 2 of the 30th year anniversary) | |||||
| 39 | 2 | "Software & Hardware" | Darrell Stern, Bob Kaliban |
Lynn Ahrens | 1982 |
| This song teaches about your computer's software and hardware. | |||||
| 40 | 3 | "Think Computer" | Darrell Stern, Bob Kaliban |
Dave Frishberg | 1983 |
| This song teaches about thinking about computers. | |||||
| 41 | 4 | "Number Cruncher" | Darrell Stern, Bob Kaliban |
Dave Frishberg | 1984 |
| This song teaches about how a computer does math. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 8 | "Busy Prepositions" | Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon |
Bob Dorough | 1993 |
| This song teaches about prepositions. | |||||
| 43 | 9 | "The Tale Of Mr. Morton" | Jack Sheldon | Lynn Ahrens | 1993 |
| This song teaches about subjects and predicates, discussing the various activities of the titular character, who is courting his neighbor. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 1 | "Dollars And Sense" | Bob Dorough, Val Hawk |
Dave Frishberg | 1994 |
| This song teaches about how your money that you deposit in a bank earns interest or the money you borrow gains interest. The song is performed as a country music song, a genre that was enjoying a popular renaissance at the time. This song was voted the 18th best song on the 30th anniversary edition. | |||||
| 45 | 2 | "Tax Man Max" | Patrick Quinn | Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty |
1995 |
| This song teaches about taxes. It is preformed at Broadway. | |||||
| 46 | 3 | "$7.50 Once A Week" | Dave Frishberg | Dave Frishberg | 1995 |
| This song teaches about budgeting your money. This song teaches about the expenses people encounter and ways to save money, by showing how a kid with a $7.50 allowance spent all of it far quicker than he wanted to (and, as it turned out, could have). | |||||
| 47 | 4 | "Where The Money Goes" | Jack Sheldon | Rich Mendoza | 1995 |
| A father explains to his son the numerous expenses a family incurs. | |||||
| 48 | 5 | "Tyrannosaurus Debt" | Bob Dorough, Bob Kaliban |
Tom Yohe | 1996 |
| The song is a discussion of the continuous increases in the United States national debt, which is portrayed as a Tyrannosaurus rex. | |||||
| 49 | 6 | "Walkin' On Wall Street" | Dave Frishberg | Dave Frishberg | 1996 |
| This song teaches about Wall Street and stocks, as sung by a pigeon who also happens to be a savvy investor in the stock market. | |||||
| 50 | 7 | "This For That" | Bob Dorough | George Newall | 1996 |
| This song teaches about the history of barter and trading as well as the evolution of the money supply throughout history. | |||||
| 51 | 8 | "The Check's In The Mail" | Luther Rix | Bob Dorough | 1996 |
| This song teaches about the process a check goes through. | |||||
| No | Ep | Title | Sung by: | Written by: | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 1 | "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote To College" | Jack Sheldon | Bob Dorough, George Newall |
2002 |
| This song teaches about electoral college. | |||||
| 53 | 2 | "Presidential Minute" | -- | -- | 2008 |
| Debuted in 2008. | |||||
| 54 | 3 | "Schoolhouse Rock!: Earth" | Various performers | Various performers | 2009 |
| This is a spin-off series of several episodes (including Interplanet Janet and The Tale of Mr. Morton), all of which were devoted to environmentalism, and released on a stand-alone DVD. The DVD also includes Season 4's "The Energy Blues."[2][3] | |||||