| Vegetable Soup | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Children's television series |
| Written by | Yanna Kroyt Brandt Terence Taylor John L. Figueroa Carolyn Miller Jesus Papoleto Melendez Brumsic Brandon, Jr. Lou Potter Joan Griffiths Lucille Clifton |
| Directed by | George Bowers Luis Soto Al Brodax Douglas Cheek Frank S. Abbott Ivan Cury |
| Starring | Gordon Smith Carla Pinza Gary Goodrow Kingman Hui |
| Voices of | James Earl Jones Bette Midler |
| Opening theme | Vegetable Soup |
| Composer(s) | Bob Sakayama |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 50 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Yanna Kroyt Brandt |
| Producer(s) | Yanna Kroyt Brandt Al Brodax George Bowers William Hetzer |
| Editor(s) | Paul Evans Joe Staton |
| Running time | 30 mins |
| Production company(s) | New York State Department of Education The Bureau of Mass Communications |
| Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | PBS |
| Original run | September 22, 1975 – December 14, 1978 |
Vegetable Soup is an American educational children's television program produced by the New York State Education Department that originally ran on PBS from September 22, 1975 to December 14, 1978.
Contents |
The purpose of the program was to be a television series for children to help counter the negative, destructive effects of racial prejudice and racial isolation and to reinforce and dramatize the positive, life-enhancing value of human diversity in entertaining and affective presentations that children could understand and relate to. Vegetable Soup used an interdisciplinary approach to entertain and educate elementary age children in the value of human diversity. [1]
Animated segments on the show were created by Jim Simon's Wantu Studios. the musical opening plus 13 Woody the Spoon cooking spots for which Bette Midler did all the voice tracks, and also 48 thirty-second breaks.[2]