Reading Rainbow Season 9

Right now you can watch Reading Rainbow Season 9 on — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. LeVar Burton's performance alone is worth the time investment. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Reading Rainbow Season 9 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Character-driven storytelling at its most effective — Reading Rainbow Season 9 earns every emotional beat it goes for. Season 9 of Reading Rainbow includes 10 episodes. It premiered in September 1991. This season stars LeVar Burton. LeVar Burton leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1991. The performances in Reading Rainbow Season 9 do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Drama fans who appreciate slow-burn storytelling will feel right at home with Reading Rainbow Season 9. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. LeVar Burton's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

🎬 Reading Rainbow Season 9 — Episode Guide

Alistair's Time Machine

1991-09-16

LeVar goes to a totally-fictitious spot to find inventors from all eras. True to form, these inventors come from the distant past, Reading Rainbow's near-present, and the future. Arnold Stang narrates Alistair's Time Machine, the story of a boy who invents a machine that takes him centuries back in ...

The Adventures of Taxi Dog

1991-09-17

LeVar is a taxi driver in New York for a day, but the focus of this show soon lands on the subject of a service dog as well as how dogs are such good pets to us. Vincent Gardenia reads the story of an adopted stray dog who helps his new owner, a cab driver, get better tips when he entertains the cus...

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

1991-09-18

LeVar's featured story is about a young Native American tribesman who finds his spiritual calling in life as a natural painter. His assignment is a special task that will influence him and his work have its memory last forever.

Galimoto

1991-09-19

Viewers learn the many uses for wire: from creating objects of wire art and transporting people on the longest tramway in the world, to playing an integral part in a circus act.

Fox on the Job

1991-09-20

There's a wide job market out there, but just what kind of job does a person want? In this program are both conventional and unconventional occupations to straddle the flow of the feature book.

Opt: An Illusionary Tale

1991-09-23

In this episode, all is not what it seems as LeVar demonstrates optical illusions from the book by Arline and Joseph Baum. He also shows how special effects are created for television; meets artist Christian Thee, who paints trompe l'oeil, or "trick-the-eye," paintings; and shows clips of kids creat...

Raccoons and Ripe Corn

1991-09-24

LeVar spends the day following around wildlife artist and children's book author Jim Arnofsky, who shows LeVar how he is inspired to create the stories by the signs of animals around the woods near his home. Julia Barr reads several of Arnofsky's books: Raccoons and Ripe Corn, about a family of racc...

The Lady with the Ship on her Head

1991-09-25

Turning even crazier, the show plays with our heads in more ways than one. LeVar is the "Head reporter" of a mock-news program called "HEADline News Report" and "reports" on a truly head-spinning array of all things ridiculous about the head. Included is a "Head-to-Head" interview with The Grateful ...

Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

1991-09-26

LeVar takes a train ride from California to Washington state. Along the way, we learn about trains and how the transcontinental railroad came to be. Brian Dennehy narrates the true story of how a young teen named Kate Shelley risked her life to save the engineers of a train that crashed into a river...

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Snowy Day: Stories and Poems

1991-09-27

LeVar travels to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is a perfect spot for a few poetry readings and winter observations. Some of which include sledding down hills, playing in the snow, building snow-people, and even meeting someone who races in the famous Iditarod.

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