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Puzzle Place
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded Lancit
and Community Television of Southern California awarded
Lancit and Community Television of Southern California
(“KCET”) $4.5 million grant, one of the
largest children’s television grants in CPB’s
history, to develop and produce The Puzzle Place,
designed to be the first new major daily preschool
series created for public television since the premier
of “Sesame Street”. The series premiered
on January 16, 1995 with an initial 40 episodes delivered
to PBS and since its debut, has regularly achieved
the second highest average daily ratings among daily
PBS children’s shows based on ratings in the
top 32 metered markets.
The series featured a cast of multi-ethnic “people
puppet’ characters who inhabit a make-believe
workshop and together must solve the many “puzzles”
of growing up. The show is intended to teach children
life skills, such as understanding other people, evaluating
choices and solving basic problems.
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