They started a campaign now to bring this show back as an online series. LeVar Burton set up a Kickstarter Fund to begin producing the show again and they reached the $1 million about halfway through the first day! There is also a smartphone app based on the series.

This show brings back so many Feelings. I remember watching it. The intro gives me flashbacks of my childhood. I had one a moment ago and it felt so good.

I am 34 and I spent many of my days watching this show and reading the recommended books. I adored it.

LeVar Burton made the show and the stories were awsome.

I sorta remember.

Talk about an original & great theme song.I remember in Kindergarten always getting SO happy when the teacher would play this show.I love it still & still sing it when my kids watch it.

I watched thsi eveyr day when i came hoem from school

My favorite is the Teamwork episode,I love the teamwork song!

Ah yes. I loved this show. I loved the classic intro and I remember being upset when they changed it.

reading rainbow 1983-1989 everything you know is wrong!

NeverMind785--

I'll clear this up for you: what I meant was that Rocky Mountain PBS and KBDI (the PBS network for Colorado) announced in a joint statement they released in November of 2007 that they would cease showing re-runs of "Reading Rainbow" during the daytime (mornings OR afternoons) after August 29, 2008, and would only show them from 2-3am, when hardly anyone watches TV.

This comes on every Sunday on PBS, what do you mean Eric?

I watched this in the school library quite a bit, myself when I was in the third, fourth, and fifth grade. I also remember watching it on a fairly regular basis at home until PBS stopped showing new episodes in 2006 and then ceased showing re-runs in August of 2008. Now the only place where you can find it is on the N (Nickelodeon's sister network).

i used to watch this shit when they played it at school for us when we went to the library

This has been on WVIZ at 1:30 in the afternoon for as long as I can remember.

This show made me love going to the library as a child. One of the best PBS shows...

I get teary- eyed just hearing the theme song! Must have been the reason I learned to love reading!.... Just seeing that animated butterfly with the rainbow really makes me nostalgic!

I watched Reading Rainbow at elementary school.

The show has been brought back.

THANKS FOR THE LITERACY LeVAR!!!

...Hated this show. :\ They always showed this to us when they got tired of teaching, in Elementary school, it was awful.

take a look it's in a book reading rain bow...
i can go any where
i can be any thing
wow i so wish this was still on the air i would sing the theme song all the time....

Man this was awesome!

They used to show us this in grade school all the time. I think it was also on PBS. I enjoyed this as it was a nice break from classwork! I can't belive it went off the air in 2005! I thought it was only on in the 80's! Who knew?

Hell, yeah! I remember this show! I remember watching it on PBS on days when I stayed home from school sick. 1983-2005? I didn't know it ran for that long!

They made a dumb new intro for this show

hey!! i remember this!! take a look, it's in a book, so many memories

After seeing a topic on this in the forums I tried to find it on here, and now that intro is flooding back to me! What memories...

Is there anyway that i can download this thing??? So that i can play it even when im offline?

i Love it!

We had to watch this thing all the time at school while we wer in the library at Morrison school!

lol, lemar was caught for possession of illegal drugs a while back. Ohh lemar you make us laugh with your silly drug problems.

the use to show this in grade school all the time, probably to keep us busy so teacher could have break time, but i liked it anyway

I can't belive nobody has made any posts in a long time. Come on people, don't act like you never watched this show when you were a little kid.

Man I am sooooooo glad that the old Reading Rainbow intro is on there. I didn't think I would see that intro again after finding out that there's a different intro.

i loved this show when i was a wee girl

I recently caught Reading Rainbow on television and they had changed the opening song. That version is not as good as they version here on RetroJunk.

Most buetiful intro I ever heard on PBS.

As a kid I watched this all the time. Infact if I had never seen this show, I probly would never have watched TNG. I was his biggest fan back in da day.

I remember the Star Trek: TNG episode, but Kevin Clash's appearance was a little more memorable for me. It was before he began working on Sesame Street as Elmo, so it featured all of his own puppets, which were featured on Captain Kangaroo at about that time. It was rather amusing to see a puppet he had created of LeVar-- he was behind a backdrop with the puppet claiming that he was the real LeVar Burton.

As with all shows continuing to air in reruns on PBS, my daughter is coming to know the shows on the station I loved as a kid.

When it comes to retarded show this is definetly one of them. I liked it when I was 2 but I have seen a few classroom videos when I was in 2nd grade i'm in 9th now. There are some preschool shows that i'll never out grow those ones are the old Blue's Clues, Rupert the Bear, Gullah Gullah Island and The Busy World of Richard Scarry this isn't one of them.

This is in my top 5 shows of the 80's! I love Reading Rainbow! Every time I hear the opening theme, its like I am in a trance...Awesome show!

my fav was the Star trek episode....didnt have any books....but it ROCKED!!!

I watched it when i was little because it had Jordy Laforge

I remember the theme song, but didn't care for the show. i guess because it wasn't fast paced enough for me But the song was one of my favorite themes for a show.

I loved this show. I remember the one where they were doing that "Teamwork" video, and the one where the music director was showing us his Fairlight synthesizer.

This show actually made me WANT to read a book....sometimes. Of course, when I'd actually start reading, my attention would naturally drift, but the show did serve its purpose. Great reminder. Definitely a show I'd want my kids to watch.

"You don't have to take my word for it" ....

I remember when he was in China (Or was it Chinatown?), and at the end he put on a dragon costume and said "I'll see you next time!" in Chinese. There was another episode that featured a man demonstrating what he can do with his synthesizer. The latter was one of my favorite episodes.

Loved this show!

Though, one time I did have a nightmare where I was climbing a 1,000 foot high-dive and LeVar Burton was above me. He then said his classic line, "See ya next time!" and kicked me off the very high ladder. :-D

Still, I miss this show.

I loved the theme song back in the day...very catchy

My sister, my boyfriend, and I (all of who gre up watching Reading Rainbow in school) watched this the other day and were shocked that LeVar was still on it and hadn't seemed to age too much.

This was a great educational show for young people. I used to watch it a lot. The changing of the opening theme was a discredit to the show.

I loved this! I watched way more than I ever did Sesame Street. I would always want to read the books that were premiered on the show.

I liked this intro too, compared to that icky 90s version.

My favorite episode was this one where Levar was in this hat shop and each hat transported him to a different location and activity. (Jockey's helmet put him a horse race, etc.)

well i guess it wasnt a pirate, more like a christopher columbus-esque explorer.. still creeped me out at age 5 for some reason.

god that intro was really trippy. i used to be scared of that pirate the little boy turns into that does the bow. it's really cool how everything just blends from reality to a cartoon though, really trippy. i love it.

but damn, that intro is trippy. not a good idea to smoke and then watch this lol

i rememebr watching tthese, im not sure if it was at achool though. i didint enjoy it too much i have to say.

I remember wanting to be on this show sooooooooooo freakin' much! LOL!

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way Big Thanks to Whoever Uploaded this Intro. because it is The Original Intro. The Intro that they play on KLRN or PBS These Days Sucks Ass. The Original Intro is Golden!

AHHHHHHHHH!!! I loved this show. Mainly the intro. OMG thanks so much whoever uploaded this one!! YAY!!

I remember watching this show in elementary school. In the classroom, and at home. i loved it