The Magic School Bus (TV Series)
1994 · Series · 30 min. · Canada
Like the books they are based on, The Magic School Bus features the exploits of Ms. Frizzle and her class of eight children (in the original books, the class population was of a more normal, larger size of nineteen) who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips into the solar system, under the Earth, into the human body, or to other such impossible locations. The books were written in the first person from the point of view of an unnamed student in "the Friz's" class. Since the Magic School Bus books present scientific facts in the form of stories in which fantastic things happen (for example, a bus turns into a spaceship, or children shrink to the size of blood cells), each book has a page at the end detailing in a humorous manner which parts of the book represented scientific fact and which were fanciful storytelling. In the books' television adaptation, this was replaced by the Producer Says segment at the end of each episode, in which the producer of the show (voiced by Malcolm-Jamal Warner of The Cosby Show fame) receives phone calls from kids complaining about how some things that happened on the show couldn't happen in real life.
Direction Jason Alexander · Bruce Degan · Charles E. Bastien · Larry Jacobs
Soundtrack Peter Lurye
Screenplay Jocelyn Stevenson · Brian Muehl · George Arthur Bloom · John May · Kristin Laskas Martin · Robert Schechter · Libby Hinson · Joanna Cole · Bruce Degan · Ronnie Krauss · Sean Kelly · Ellen Schecter · Alison Blank · Kermit Frazier · Jane Startz Productions · Doug Booth
Original title Scholastic's The Magic School Bus (TV Series)
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