Today's Special (1981)
- Genre
- kids, family
- Country
- Canada
- Length
- 7 seasons, 121 episodes
- Rating
- 8.2 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The show is set in a department store after hours. The characters include a mannequin who comes to life and a mouse. They learn about things like numbers and words through songs and simple adventures.
whimsicalgentleeducationalcheerfullow-keyplayfulnostalgiccozy
What happens
Today's Special is a Canadian children's television program produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario, originally broadcasting 120 episodes from 1981 to 1987. Much of the series was set in a department store, based on Simpson's then-flagship location in Toronto. Some store sequences were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store after hours. The show ran on TVOntario in Canada as well as Nickelodeon in the United States. Reruns of the series continued into 2000 on such outlets as PBS stations (most of which stopped airing it by the mid-1990s) and the former Faith & Values Channel in the United States and on Treehouse TV in Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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