Post by MantleM on Nov 23, 2022 17:43:58 GMT
Copying this from the "Lost media you've seen" thread so maybe it'll get some more attention.
Kids 4 Health (aka Kids for Health). It's a series of educational videos made by the state of Arkansas in the mid-90's that was shown to kids in elementary PE classes from that time period all the way into the mid-2010's. Wouldn't surprise me if they still showed these in schools today, but I can't find anything of it online. What I can find are multiple Reddit threads of people also trying to find info about this show. Some details I've gathered from them that I remember was:
• There was a CGI duck possibly named Sam that ended each episode saying "be smart and do your part."
• It took place in a fake summer camp. Very colorful, looked like something straight out of Big Comfy Couch.
• Every episode started with the kids doing a chant and a little routine that involved touching your toes, touching your shoulders, and wiggling. My PE coaches always made us do this alongside them.
• One episode was about smoking and showed an actual damaged lung.
• Another episode was about stranger danger and had the kids playing soccer. Pretty sure they were at a park, but that could be another episode I'm misremembering.
• One episode I seemingly am the only one to remember had a puppet monkey that talked with some lady in what looked like a theater.
• Most people that remember it from the 2000's watched it on VHS, whereas I remember us watching it on DVDs that had multiple episodes on each disc. VHS reports say they had full-fledged cover art whereas our DVDs were in Redbox cases.
Some leads I was able to find include 2 sites mentioning the program with a 1994 date:
• www.fayettevillehistory.com/main/page/6/
• www.wregional.com/main/history
And an article from 2006:
• arktimes.com/news/medical-community/2006/08/10/washington-regional-donates-to-kids-for-health
Kids 4 Health (aka Kids for Health). It's a series of educational videos made by the state of Arkansas in the mid-90's that was shown to kids in elementary PE classes from that time period all the way into the mid-2010's. Wouldn't surprise me if they still showed these in schools today, but I can't find anything of it online. What I can find are multiple Reddit threads of people also trying to find info about this show. Some details I've gathered from them that I remember was:
• There was a CGI duck possibly named Sam that ended each episode saying "be smart and do your part."
• It took place in a fake summer camp. Very colorful, looked like something straight out of Big Comfy Couch.
• Every episode started with the kids doing a chant and a little routine that involved touching your toes, touching your shoulders, and wiggling. My PE coaches always made us do this alongside them.
• One episode was about smoking and showed an actual damaged lung.
• Another episode was about stranger danger and had the kids playing soccer. Pretty sure they were at a park, but that could be another episode I'm misremembering.
• One episode I seemingly am the only one to remember had a puppet monkey that talked with some lady in what looked like a theater.
• Most people that remember it from the 2000's watched it on VHS, whereas I remember us watching it on DVDs that had multiple episodes on each disc. VHS reports say they had full-fledged cover art whereas our DVDs were in Redbox cases.
Some leads I was able to find include 2 sites mentioning the program with a 1994 date:
• www.fayettevillehistory.com/main/page/6/
• www.wregional.com/main/history
And an article from 2006:
• arktimes.com/news/medical-community/2006/08/10/washington-regional-donates-to-kids-for-health
