The History of Arthur | PBS Rewind
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- We take a look at the history of our favorite aardvark and discuss his most memorable episodes
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Can you do the History of Dragon Tales please?
I think they've been doing reruns for quite awhile, at least since the pandemic started
Can you make more PBS Rewind Episodes?
@@bluescluesthewigglesyeserg5648 I think Defunctland already did an episode on that.
Future Installments of PBS videos I’d love to see:
Where In The World/In Time is Carmen Sandiego?
The Magic School Bus
Kratts’ Creatures
Wishbone
Ghostwriter
Square One TV
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Lamb Chop’s Play-Along
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Whoever the librarian was that suggested the Arthur books to be a TV show to the producer I just want to say thankyou!!! I enjoyed this show as a kid and as a adult ne er grew out of it!
It hits harder as an adult tbh!
So glad that someone finally made a documentary about Arthur. It is one of the most monumental children shows of all time and will live forever. It really is a shame there isn't more about this stuff and it's basically all compilation videos and "savage moments." Which is cool and all but it's just not this.
Thank You! :) We were surprised too that nobody else had made one yet. Yeah I know what you mean. There really should be more videos about PBS Kids shows.
Arthur should've ended before streaming now I'm doomed to live a brave new world!!!!!!!!
PBS kids oughta that arthur needs to end depending it lasts so my opinion it would've been easier to cancel the franchise before cable TV died!!!!!!!
@@pbsrewind What's next for this Series?
Well like a lot of shows, the reason we don't see much episodes on UA-cam is because of copyright. 10 years ago, there was hundreds of Arthur episodes on UA-cam, no ads, great audio, clear picture, and it was the full episodes too. Nowadays, you can still find some, but not all.
I’m glad grew up watching Arthur when I was younger along with other PBS Kids shows from the 90s, 2000s and Early 2010s
Same!!! :) So many great shows like Zoboomafoo, Dragon Tales, Clifford The Big Red Dog, Between The Lions amd more!
Why didn't Arthur get cancelled so that wouldn't run out of ideas eventually just to so it doesn't turn into adobe flash!?
@@pbsrewindThere's an episode called "Jenna's Bedtime Blues"
Arthur was an outstanding show. It never got the hype franchises like Rugrats or SpongeBob SquarePants got. But that worked in it's favor, as it was a slow burn, that flew under the radar. Arthur is one of those IPs that you don't realize just how successful it was until you see it's brag sheet on paper, and you're like "holy shit!" A book series, a cartoon series, movies, video games, toys, DVDs, etc. There's even Arthur cookies. Arthur cookies! It was (and still is) a media empire.
If Arthur didn't last for many years I wouldn't have to be addicted
I miss the 2000s Era
And to think the show came out the same day Hey Arnold! premiered on Nick too, and we see that Arthur managed to outlive that AND the 2017 Jungle Movie revival.
@@EvanMediaArchive its the longest running children's cartoon. It will soon be overtaken by the show Spongebob Squarepants. But Arthur has been around in book form for almost 50 years.
@@joeybaseball7352 in terms of episodes yeah i believe spongebob has overtaken arthur. but in terms of years airing new episodes? yeah give it a few years
As a 22 year old going to school to become a teacher, and growing up watching Arthur. I can’t wait to share the Arthur episodes with my students and my own children. I really miss Arthur.
Same same sameee!!
I remember watching Arthur on PBS Kids when I was a little kid. Such nostalgia memories!
Awww we'ee glad to hear that! Thank You for watching! :)
Arthur is for jerks!!!!!!!
@@gabriellitewski7988 not nice
@@gabriellitewski7988 No, DW is a jerk sometimes.
@@andykishore she is
This will forever be one of my favorite childhood shows. It's taught to have be creative, driven and open minded!
Hard to believe it’s been on 25 years, I remember in 1997 my 8th grade English and and homeroom teacher loved the show, so sometimes we’d watch episodes in class rather than book work.
But the first book I read was Arthur’s Eyes in the first grade in 1990 and that’s also the year I got my first glasses.
It's one of my favorites, I watch it every day on PBS, and it never goes away.
The entire PBS Kids Go block from the mid 2000’s is an entire gold mine of pbs shows
Arthur should've been cancelled before the next decade!!!!!!!
I didn't want arthur to continue get worse this is the reason arthur stinks!!!!!!!
@@gabriellitewski7988 relax no need to comment it 500 times to get your point across
That was the Teenage line up for PBS essentially @@Irenelovesnoodle
I’m gonna miss Arthur, I been watching it ever since I was little
I agree with you, because I'll miss it, too. Reruns are on Channel 192 PBS Kids Sprout.
same
Same here. I still remember watching Arthur every morning before school. I also had a few tapes of Arthur
@@JohnAckerman31 same
This show gives me elementary school after school vibes I would watch it a lot as a kid back in the day 😭 I sometimes still watch it as a university student 😭
Just think, if Marc Brown didn't let the merchandising happen the show may well have only lasted one season despite its success. It's just amazing that Arthur was able to last 25 continuous years and garner multiple generations of fans. It went out with a bang as well with the All Grown Up finale.
The show is almost as old as I am. I had the books and the plush doll.
Meh, the last after season 13th apart from some episodes the rest sucked
@@umberto7773i think it's the oppsite in my opinion, it's when they introduced ladonna, the switch to flash animation and they butchered the writing
This show will hold a special place in my heart.
Among my friends I'm known to go on long spiels about Arthur. It is my comfort show and can have it's childish moments but totally an enjoyable show for all
But Arthur can't be last for many years thus isn't right the show is a waste of time autistic people aging!!!!!!!!!!!
@@gabriellitewski7988 are you ok? You seem to be having a melt down all over these comments...
I still remember watching Arthur every morning before school. It was such an awesome show, and I even have some tapes of Arthur as well.
Arthur was a good show, I will never forget how it ended, and what it was.
I remember watching Arthur everyday after school before I did my homework and ate dinner it was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid
I love Arthur. Today I watch it with my little daughter and she absolutely loves it. If more shows were like this instead of the garbage that kids are being fed over the TV and internet.
Arthur is the best PBS Show along with Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers. Thanks for the video.
I agree! I’m liking this video so far - closest thing to a DefunctTV episode about Arthur!
Arthur gone but never forgotten.
This is a fantastic documentary, also the one dislike is from Mr. Ratburn because he's a tough teacher or binky. 🤣
Haha! XD Nah, its probably from DW.. She's probably mad mad we didn't name it "The History of Arthur and DW' and also we forgot to mention her snowball.
Arthur was my childhood favorite show of all-time. I miss Arthur already.
I remember when Mr. Rogers visited Marc Brown's house in a mid 90s episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. The kid who first voiced Arthur was there too. He looked younger than he was.
I may be old now, but Arthur still holds a special place in my heart from my childhood. Pretty sure I watched every episode as they aired from Season 1 until somewhere around Season 13. From there I caught the odd episode now and then until the switch to Flash animation and totally abandoned it--it just looked so much cheaper and was hard to watch. But I'll always consider those early seasons as some of the best kid's programming ever.
Thank you to everyone for watching! I hope you all enjoy!
It was wonderful. Winter 2022 can't get here soon enough
what a great cartoon arthur is.
Arthur was once my nostalgia, and it always will.
7:03 goes perfectly with the video!
Haha, thank you! :) I was trying my best to think of clips that matched the audio
Came here because the show finally ended its run recently.
SPOILER: The show ends with a grown up Arthur Read, now a author of a autobiographical graphic novel, previewing his book to his friends. First chapter actually explaining the very first episode. Meta but nice ending.
(The original voice actor came back to reprise his role as Arthur in the finale.) I use to watch this everyday as a kid. Even though I'll miss it, I'm glad it ended on a good note as it didn't overstay its welcome like what the Simpsons is doing.
EDIT: It is also so far the ONLY PBS KIDS show to have a conclusive ending. Most shows end abruptly because of having enough episode to have reruns last for years or low ratings.
Michael Yarmush never left. He voiced another character in the show, but returned to voice Arthur one last time
@@starshinestudiosofficial I see, that's pretty cool.
So nice that you guys could make a history on the show! I did not know a lot of this, especially about all the Arthur merch. Looks like I know what’s going on my Xmas list 🤫
Thank You! :) We were surpeised about the merch too! I think even the Microsoft Actimates Arthur toy deserves its own video!
@@pbsrewindThe show was also known for the episode about the Omble backpack
I miss my childhood shows, since I was little.
Stay tuned, we're going to try to bring them back! ;)
I wish Between the Lions would come back
@@terrenceharris-hughes4436 We do too! We're going to try to make that happen! :)
Arthur should've have lasted too long!!!!!!!!!
I want Arthur to end before children's cartoons died!!!!!!!!
My son is 7 and absolutely adores Arthur, it was my favorite as a child as well. We have been watching all the episodes on Amazon prime and it’s been such a fun and special time bonding over our favorite episodes and moments. ♥️
Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover of all time
Arthur: Hold my library card
Right?! Haha! Its incredible how many guest stars the show had! We even forgot to mention some like R. L . Stine and Jane Lynch!
@Will N Yeah because JACK BLACK
hahahah
So true
@@pbsrewindIn Season 7, there's an episode called "Jenna's Bedtime Blues"
A fine piece of work. If you're doing anymore of these PBS Rewind videos, feel free to get in touch. I am quite a fount of knowledge when it comes to many things PBS-related.
Thank You! We could actually use some help! Do you have an Instagram we could message you at?
I enjoyed watching this documentary! I thought it was really informative! Especially when it spoke about how Arthur went from being a book series to a successful tv show for many years! I’m glad I grew up on this PBS classic!
23:45 I’m kind of glad the show ended given the direction was going. Starting with the switch to flash-based animation, and some of the subject matter they covered I think I’m happy watching the OG seasons.
The best PBS Kids show of all time. That and WordGirl are tied for my favorite animated show on the channel and had such a big impact on me as a child.
PBS Rewind!? That needs to be a channel someday. So we can see what they aired in the past before right now.
PBS isn’t known for that kind of stuff like Nick & CN are and they also lose the broadcast rights to the show soon after it’s removed.
Whatever floats your boat.🤨
This made me tear up a lot!! 🥺🥺🥺 thank you for the best childhood ever!! ❤️
thanks for bringing this to us it was fun to watch
Awww thank you!!! It was fun to make! :)
But not for 25 years!!!!!!!😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨
This show will always have a place in my heart 💛🤎🤍 no other kids show has tackled life issues that children ages 4-10 would experience and I could say all school aged children like Arthur. All the original characters are memorable and so cute! I’m 32 going on 33 and I was in kindergarten when the show first aired. I was excited because Marc Brown’s books were the first books I read. I’m rewatching (binge watching) episodes now it’s so much nostalgia and brings me comfort. Marc Brown’s legacy will continue on with Arthur.
That ending remix was something I forgot was a thing. What a way to end it, thanks for reminding me it existed.
This Show will always be my favorite piece of Childhood Nostalgia
I love Arthur! IT is one of my favorite TV shows of my childhood!
I didn't want to grow up with Arthur
MY CHILDHOOD
So many good memories!!! :)
NO it's your manifest
@@pbsrewindWhat’s your favorite episode of Arthur
Out of all the Arthur episodes, I mainly like certain episodes from the Christmas special, season 6, the rock n roll special, season 7 to season 22 and season 25 too. Here is a list of them:
Arthur’s perfect Christmas
Season 6: Sue Ellen gets her goose cooked/best of the nest, the boy who cried comet/Arthur and los Vecinos, the boy with his head in the clouds/more, crushed, Arthur loses his marbles/Friday the 13th
Arthur it’s only rock n roll
Season 7: Muffy goes metropolitan, Elwood city turns 100, Jenna’s bedtime blues, April 9th
Season 8: Bitzi’s breakup, Arthur’s snow biz/bugged, Fernkenstein’s monster/DW dancing queen, Sue Ellen chickens out
Season 9: castles in the sky/tipping the scales, George blows his top, the law of the jungle gym, Buster’s green thumb, lights camera opera/all worked up, it came from beyond, DW beats all/Buster the myth maker, Binky goes nuts/breezy listening blues
Season 10: the squirrels/Fern and Persimmony Glitchet, desert island dish/the secret about secrets, DW bossy boots, operation DW, world girls, what’s cooking/Buster’s special delivery
Season 11: germophobia (sort of), Brain’s shocking secret, dancing fools, hic or treat/mr always right, big brother Binky
Season 12: is that kosher?, ungifted, war of the worms/I owe you one, DW’s furry freak out
Season 13: no acting please, the silent treatment/kung fool, the good the bad and the Binky, the great Macgrady, when Carl met George, paradise lost/the pride of Lakewood
Season 14: the agent of change, the play’s the thing, Muffy and the big bad blog, all the rage
Season 15: cents-less, Muffy’s classy classics club, Buster’s garden of grief/through the looking glasses, grandpa Dave’s memory album/Buster’s carpool catastrophe
Season 16: get smart/baby steps, the last tough customer/brain’s chess mess, on the Buster scale, fern and the case of the stolen story/sue ellen veggies out, the best day ever
Season 17: Molina’s mulligan/Buster bombs, framed, binky’s music madness/brain freeze
Season 18: the case of the girl with the long face/the substitute Arthur, Arthur calls it, whip mix blend/staycation, shelter from the storm
Season 19: Sue Ellen adds it up/wish you were here, Arthur’s toy trouble/spar for the course, Maria speaks/postcards from Binky, Mr ratburn’s secret identity, the last day
Season 20: fern’s flights of fancy/cereal, mutiny on the pitch, Ladonna’s like list
Season 21: Francine and the soccer spy/Sue Ellen and the last page, Muffy misses out/Arthur takes a stand, slink’s special talent/take a hike Molly
Season 22: mr Ratburn and the special someone/the feud, Muffy’s car campaign/truth or poll
Season 25: making conversation/a cloudy day, listen up, blabbermouth/all grown up
25 seasons is too much and cancelling the series before streaming would've been better than going overboard!!!!!!!!!
@@gabriellitewski7988 It wasn't cancelled. It ended 2 years ago with a series finale.
This will surely brighten up my day!
We hope you have a wonderful kind of day! :)
In between the first and second halves of each episode, the show has a segment called "A Word From Us Kids"
I loved watching Arthur, growing up in the 2000s and 2010s, the show was a highlight of my childhood, I mean I watch episodes of Arthur here on UA-cam, and I guess I subscribed to the channel and followed the show's IG and I hope that kids today will feel that feeling of Joy and Hope that we probably all felt while watching the show and I damn sure hope they appreciate it as much as we did.😃😃😃
This was amazing. I definitely want to see what other PBS shows you will cover.
8:27 the succeeding record, "Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix" is better than the first record. Mrs. Wha-cha-ma-call-it, a song off the second album, was mind blowing when I first heard it because it's basically a combination of Led Zeppelin, The Byrds, Weird AL, and Deep Purple.
Funfact: Various Arthur books had their illustrations redesigned so younger generations would recognize them more easily due to the population of the show. Books such as, "Arthur's Eyes", "Arthur's Valentine" "Arthur goes to camp", "Arthur's April Fool", And of course "Arthur's Halloween".
Arthur will always be the one and only legendary aardvark that's hit our bookstores/libraries and TVs. :)
It's the end of the series, but it's not the end of the fun.
As a '90s kid, "Arthur" was a huge part of my childhood. It's great to see it lasted so long, but it should keep going!
I am surprised that Arthur was still getting new releases into this year.
From all the times I've looked at the PBS station here in the last 5 years, nearly all shows I see are nothing I recognize. Only time I would catch Arthur was late at night on the kids channel.
Was very nostalgic to watch old reruns, and was happy to see a few years ago that the christmas special was still played.
I'll miss the show. But so happy that the UA-cam trend is going towards highlighting the amazingly humorous PBS kids cartoons like Arthur, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Martha Speaks, Word Girl, and hopefully others.
Currently, I work at a library and my mother sometimes teases me with the classic "Having fun isn't hard"
This is one of my feel-good shows, it never fails to make me laugh
Would love to see a documentary like this about "The Magic School Bus"
Agreed! Would love to see an episode about how it made the leap to television screens!
Really great overview of a show I still really love! ^v^ Also, I'm kinda surprised that you didn't mention the recent 1-hr special where Arthur and Buster have to deal with being separated in the 4th grade and DW and her friends experiencing Kindergarten. Other than that small oversight, this was a great vid, and I'm both excited and sad for the final Arthur season. Really hoping they create something truly special.
Yes we should have! The script and a lot of it was already completed when the special came out so that is why we didn't include it. But maybe we will come out with a video about the special and the rest of Season 25 later!
@@pbsrewindThere's an episode called "Arthur's Dummy Disaster"
Great job, loved the video.❤
We're really happy to hear that! Thank you for watching! :)
@@pbsrewindThe show has other characters such as Nadine, Fern, Prunella, Molly MacDonald, Emily, and Timmy and Tommy Tibble
DW played the Crazy Bus song a million times on the show
My local library has their theme in the kids section as Arthur. Definitely another example of how monumental this show is.
Happy 25th Anniversary to one of my favorite animated shows.
Yeah, but sooner or later, it'll be time to say good-bye to Arthur.
@@mikesmemoriesfromthepast89 Well I am preparing for it. Especially since the last season will air next year.
I wanted Arthur to end before television changed!!!!!!!!!
Popular programs aren't immortal, I wanted Arthur to end before children's cartoons died!!!!!!!!
Thank you for this documentary.
Wqtching this after watching the "All Grown Up" episode.
Arthur is my favorite anime
Great job!!! I love the video!!! 😍
Awww thank you!!! We really appreciate it! :)
I remember watching this show all the time when I was a little boy 👦 I grew up watching all these shows when I was little
The theme songs brings me back to the kindergarten days. I remember spring days in my trailer park, sun shining, birds chirping and my mom cooking me food while this played in the background
4:19 I’m glad they choose the normal small eyes like DW for episode 1
Omg! Is this actually the PBS Rewind I follow on TikTok? Hi hi hiiiiiiii!!!! Your content brings back so many great memories!!! :3
My personal favorite episode was of Arthur and DW throwing their granny a party after sensing she was lonely. The parents told them to invite granny's personal friends only, but Arthur invited his entire class; I found that absolutely hilarious looking back on it.
It was the episode "Grandma Thora Appreciation Day"
The sentence at 5:15 alone sums up why the show still holds up, because it does what a lot of educational shows don't: not talking down to their audience.
Arthur has become popular in 3 forms of satire,
Such as a robot chicken short , three adult Arthur videos by AOK and this is the most popular one- a vyond series called Arthur gets grounded
Fantastic documentary
Arthur is my second favorite cartoon of all time this show is easily pbs’s answer to the Simpsons (which is my favorite cartoon of all time)
As far as ranking is concerned Arthur is s tier alongside the Simpsons spongebob squarepants Ed edd and eddy nightmare Ned family guy South Park bobs burgers beavis and butthead king of the hill daria Futurama dilbert the critic Harvey beaks the grim adventures of billy and Mandy invader zim rick and morty and rockos modern life
PBG would love this
cause im from australia, the ABC would broadcast episode's of arthur and I instantly loved the show. I hope that someday I can show arthur and the gang to my future kids
I'm still reading Arthur books aloud to the children for "Storytime With Andrea" on Zoom, because they're beginning to 🤣 when I do the voices out loud.
My childhood show is coming to an end this year.
I have been waiting all day to get home and watch this!
Awww, we hope it was the worth the wait! Thank you for taking your time to watch it! :)
@@pbsrewindIn Elwood City Turns 100, one of the multiple challenges was the Frensky's garbage truck breaking down
I really love the history of Arthur maybe you should make other PBS Kids shows history videos like this
Never thought I’d find this after the final episode. I’m glad I did.
Also, in the episode April 9th, Muffy graciously offers Sue Ellen a new journal, with acid-free paper and a faux velvet cover, but Sue Ellen denies the gift. Muffy tries again with another personalized journal, bound with "genuine imitation suede" and its own pen. Sue Ellen accepts this one, and she continues using it as her new diary. And after the fire, Arthur and his classmates temporarily go to Mighty Mountain. And Binky pulls the fire alarm and triggers a false fire alert. And Binky does work with Mr. Frensky
Arthur is one of the two shows (along with Berenstain Bears) that I liked as a toddler, that I still would watch now as an adult. But Arthur remains my favorite and I like pretty much all the episodes, even from the latest seasons. I think it should come back with the kids all grown up, based on the last episode, and it could be geared more to adults who grew up with the show with adult topics, but remaining wholesome, being more like shows like Full House or Friends.
My mom and my 3 Aunts along with my grandma and grandpa love the show
So heartbroken this is coming to an end. This is my childhood and I’d often come back and revisit it for nostalgic comfort.
Arthur was one of those shows that parents encouraged their kids to watch
The end of an era!
That scene in "Bleep" always makes me laugh.
You created an excellent video! I was sad to see that you do not have more content.. but if you were going to talk about PBS, then Arthur is the only animation that should be used.
Going into the premiere of Season 3, Arthur was the #1 kids program on PBS, and #1 preschool-age program on TV.
Arthur will rank as among my top 10 childhood shows of all time. For PBS shows it comes in 4th behind the likes of Mister Rogers, ZOOM and Shining Time Station.
I'm excited to see how the final season of Arthur will go, I think there's some potential to make the series finale really great. We'll just have to wait and see... Great video 👍
We're really looking forward to it too!
And maybe we'll finally find out what happened to DW's snowball!
She still thinks that Arthur took it!
I want to go back to the 2000s, I don't want to live in the future!!!!!!!
I did watch Arthur sometimes growing up I and my siblings did too. We all were born in the 1990s.
I knew watching Arthur on PBS on KLRN-TV 9 cable 10 (the PBS affiliate in the San Antonio, TX, area (I lived at Fort Sam Houston)) on weekday afternoons during the time period when the program first came out in October 7, 1996. It was an weekday afternoon diversion.
I’m guessing it was the Mandela effect, but I always thought Buster leaving for a season happened way later than season 2, closer to when Postcards from Buster started airing
Season 3 featured the classic episode "DW All Fired Up"
I didn't think I was going to watch this because it was so long. But I'm glad I did.😀👍
here’s to the greatest show on the planet 🥂
Season 1 includes classics such as Arthur's Eyes/Francine's Bad Hair Day, Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn/Arthur's Spelling Trubble, DW's Imaginary Friend, Arthur's Birthday, and Arthur's Baby/DW's Baby
Why doesn't this channel have more subscribers?
Arthur's Perfect Christmas was released on home video on September 12, 2000, two weeks before Season 5 premiered
Season 5 premiered September 4, 2000, so the home video release was a week later.