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| Inside/Out | |
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| No. of episodes | 30 |
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| Running time | 15 Minutes |
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| Network | PBS |
| Release | January 31, 1972 (1972-01-31) – December 21, 1973 (1973-12-21) |
Inside/Out is an Americaneducational television series that aired from January 31, 1972, to December 21, 1973, onPBS.
The show was produced from 1972 to 1973 by theNational Instructional Television Center (NIT), in association with various contributing stations, such asKETC inSt. Louis, Missouri,WVIZ inCleveland Ohio,WNVT-TV in NorthernVirginia, andThe Ontario Educational Communications Authority. It was one of the last programs to be produced by NIT; the organisation would be reformulated as theAgency for Instructional Television (AIT) in April 1973.
Funding forInside/Out was provided by grants from 32 different educational agencies within the United States and Canada, with additional support fromExxon Corporation.
The series' uncredited theme music is an excerpt from "Ripple" by composer Simon Haseley and performed by "The London Studio Group", sourced from theDe Wolfeproduction music library.
Inside/Out was ananthology series of 15-minute shorts that were designed to teach children about social issues. Instead of resorting to happy endings, as many shows of this kind had done,Inside/Out typically hadcliffhanger endings, leaving the viewers to draw their own conclusions as to what they would do in similar situations.
Due to the critical acclaim for this series, some PBS stations would double-run twoInside/Out episodes in a half-hour time slot in the evening so that parents could watch this series with their children.
This series was commonly watched on classroom TV broadcasts during school hours as well as on16mm film reels. It was a staple of daytimeinstructional television blocks (generally programmed by local agencies or school boards rather than byPBS) onpublic TV stations for many years, until at least the late 1980s.
Inside/Out was the first in a series of similarly produced instructional programs made by AIT. Others that followed that used the similar formula includedBread and Butterflies (1974),Self Incorporated (1975),Trade-Offs (a program on economic theory, 1978),Thinkabout (a series on creativity, 1979),On The Level (1980) andGive & Take (a series about the economy in general and a sequel series toTrade-Offs, 1982). All of the series, includingInside/Out, were produced for only one season, but were frequently rerun on television and shown in schools for several years afterward, as the topics presented kept its currency.
In 1974,Bantam Books' young readers' Pathfinder series, in their Canadian branch, publishedStories from Inside/Out by children's writer and screenwriterKen Sobol, which adapted several of the series scripts to prose, and included discussion questions.
In 1996, AIT produced an updated version of the series,Looking from the Inside/Out.[1]
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According to an article in the October 28, 1972 issue ofTV Guide,WGBH Boston banned an episode about death from its airwaves (In My Memory), citing that the circumstances in the episode were too realistic and might scare some children.
The series won the 1974Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Instructional Children's Programming'.[2]
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