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Outerscope I segment From a Pile of Planks; a history of the drum across cultures; a lesson about English words with origins in other languages; a story about Martin and his pet sn...

Outerscope I – Ready for Blast-Off Cynthia, who isn't sure that their spaceship is more than a game, suggests a fuel made from water, sugar, and yeast. All the kids finish off...

Outerscope I – Shooting Through Space The Outerscope I really flies into outer space. Willie seems to be steering it well, but the ship runs into problems. What Do You Want T...

Outerscope I – Crash Landing The kids have landed on a strange planet. With Outerscope I stuck, they follow a checkerboard-patterned path and find the planet populated with ho...

Outerscope I – The March to the Throne King Scrub and Queen Polish rule Saniland, the cleanest place in the universe. When they confront the kids, they automatically assume Ea...

Outerscope I – The Trail is Discovered Willie and Cynthia try to tell the truth about Earth to the Sanilanders. But their plea fails when ""dirt"" is discovered on the pathway...

Outerscope I – Betty Surprises Them All The Sanilanders are convinced the kids have committed a severe crime. But they are all surprised when Betty, Cynthia's cat, washes hers...

Outerscope I – Searching for Help The kids escape Saniland and steer Outerscope I to another world. This planet has a metal exterior, replete with complex machinery. What Do...

Outerscope I – A Staggering Shock The machines identify themselves as the Family Syncovek. They tell the kids they are on the planet Technovek, inhabited entirely by artificia...

Outerscope I – Mamavek Makes an Offer The machines of Technovek give directions to Earth as a gesture of gratitude to the kids. But Edgar, Cynthia, and Willie think it's a tri...

Outerscope I – The End of the Rainbow Edgar, Cynthia, and Willie decide to follow the directions from Technovek to Earth backwards. Only when Outerscope I lands on an outer-sp...

Outerscope I – The Secret The creatures from the rainbow want to be friendly to the kids, so much so that they are willing to share the secret of happiness. Willie, Eleanor, a...

Outerscope I – It's Show Time! The Tree Treats' ""happiness"" comes from seeing Yun Yuns do a minstrel-type stage act that is all anti-Yun Yuns. Back at Outerscope I, Cynthia...

Outerscope I – A Tale of Woe Edgar and Eleanor are ready to give raves about the Yun Yuns show, but Willie starts to feel sorry for the Yun Yuns. Two younger Tree Treats are s...

Outerscope I – Mirrors Don't Lie Cynthia thinks up a strategy to teach the Tree Treats a lesson. The plan is for the Tree Treats to mirror the Yun Yuns and vice-versa. What D...

Outerscope I –Playing the Game The Tree Treats perform a stage show belittling themselves. This gives the Yun Yuns the opportunity to boo the Tree Treats. Elderly Weepy Yun Y...

Outerscope I – Collision After leaving the rainbow, Outerscope I lands in a dark land. Eleanor walks out and finds a keyhole. Long Ago Picture collage documents the Chinese...

Outerscope I – Where is the Door? Eleanor finds the doorknob, and all the kids open the door. Inside, they encounter a room with doors on all sides. The furniture proves eve...

Outerscope I – The Doors Open The kids find unusual behavior from everyone behind the doors. It seems they act and talk opposite of what is Earth custom. Long Ago Charles E...

Outerscope I – Collecting Clues The kids continue to observe the behavior of the people within the doors. It's all backwards, especially their speech. Eleanor, Henry, Edgar,...

Outerscope I – Adding Up the Clues Willie nearly gets everyone into trouble by not communicating correctly with the people behind the doors. Long Ago A Japanese-American rem...

Outerscope I – The Vanishing Door The backward people agree to speak in line with the kids. With that hurdle cleared, one of the residents remembers an invisible door that co...

Outerscope I – Space Spin The kids point Outerscope I directly to their universe. But the ship wrecks on the surface of a patchwork land. They were pulled in from the breath...

Outerscope I – Caught with the Loot Hategut has taken Henry's glasses and the Outerscope I steering device. He leaves behind sacks of grain, evidence the Western-era inhabitan...

Outerscope I – Behind Bars Eleanor, Cynthia, and Henry regain consciousness in a jail. They learn that both the inhabitants of the planet, the Cobblites and the Grubbers, blam...

Outerscope I – Hategut Strikes Again After years of blaming each other for stealing things, the Grubbers have challenged the Cobblites to a showdown. But during the night, Cyn...

Outerscope I – The Showdown Cynthia, Eleanor, and Henry enter Hategut's hiding place to find all the things he stole from the Cobblites and Grubbers. They free Willie and Edga...

Outerscope I – Back at Hategut's Hole The Cobblites and Grubbers, realizing the truth, forgive their past indiscretions. Together with the kids, they come to reason with a wea...

Outerscope I – Jewels of the Sky Henry is at the controls of Outerscope I as all the kids want to see Earth. They encounter a cluster of windows and eerie music. One window c...

Outerscope I – Windows to the Past The kids sail through more flashbacks of Saniland, Technovek, and the rainbow world. What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Graphic arti...

Outerscope I – The Final Voyage The kids go through two more flashbacks, this time of Back-a-land and Ruris. After such a long journey, the kids realize how important it is to...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode Betty Surprises Them All: What makes people's hair the way it is? Long Ago Repeat of a sequence from the episode The...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode Shooting Through Space: Are people different colors, or really just different shades of the same color? This segment i...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode The Doors Open: What is prejudice? Storytelling Time Maria Tallchief, a famous Native American ballet dancer, tells...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode Mirrors Don't Lie: How do some people's skin tones, hair and eyes get to look the way they do? Storytelling Time Rep...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode Collision: Why can't everyone be the same? There is no getting around our differences. Long Ago Repeat of a sequenc...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode The March to the Throne: Can we guess what color the early humans were? Long Ago Repeat of a sequence from the episo...

Children's Questions Repeat of a sequence from the episode Caught with the Loot: Why don't people talk the same accent? Long Ago Repeat of a sequence from the episode Caught w...

Children's Questions: Minority Repeat of a sequence from the episode From a Pile of Planks: Do you feel left out because you're in a minority? Each of us is in a minority at one...