ABSTRACT
The history of children’s television—and educational television—in the United States extends nearly as far back as the history of the medium itself. Informative and prosocial series such as The Quiz Kids, Juvenile Jury, and Mr. I Magination made their debuts as early as the late 1940s, and other series followed in their footsteps throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1951, for example, the broadcast networks were already airing 27 hours of family-friendly children’s programming every week (Steyer, 2002).
