Professor Kitzel

The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel was an educational animated series that ran in the early 1970s produced by Shamus Culhane[1] for Krantz Films. The program combined film clips, animation, and commentary to teach the viewers about historic and cultural events. It was hosted by Professor Kitzel (voiced by Paul Soles), an eccentric scientist, with occasional appearances by his grandfather or his parrot.

The format of each short (5 minute) episode was generally an opening discussion by the professor introducing the subject. He would then take the viewer to his time machine, pull a lever and the first series of drawings and commentary related to the subject would begin. Halfway through the story, the professor would interrupt the commentary to make some humorous remark, before returning to the narrative with an invitation to "Let's see what happened next." Each episode concluded with some humorous closing sequence.

The series was offered in barter syndication by Bristol-Myers for their Pal Vitamins line from 1972 to 1976; after 1976, it was syndicated for cash by Worldvision Enterprises. [1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series by George W. Woolery, p.312-313; The Scarecrow Press, 1983

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