A children's television program that ran for only five seasons in the U.S. 20 years ago has gone on to enthrall kids around the world in reruns. The show was Beakman's World and its star was a wacky ...

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Call it a crash course in the real world's workings. Lancaster is now part of "Beakman's World," the hit '90s kids' show - still airing in syndication - that made science hip. For the next three ...

Beakman's World is an educational children's television show. The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip You Can with Beakman and Jax created by Jok Church. The ...

In his years inhabiting TV’s madcap “Beakman’s World,” Paul Zaloom learned that lesson early and often. Take Zaloom’s favorite “BW” episode — one that had his loony scientist character don a moon suit ...

Mark Ritts, who played Lester the lab rat on the wacky children’s science series “Beakman’s World” and operated and voiced the puppet co-host Kino on the PBS children’s show “Storytime,” has died. He ...

Would you like to take a seat in Charles Darwin's living room? Or check out a neon hot dog? Or take a tour inside the human body? You can do all that and more in Beakman's World On Tour, a traveling ...

Character actor and puppeteer Mark Ritts has lost his battle with kidney cancer at the age of 63. Ritts, best known as the costumed Lester the Rat in cult show Beakman's World, died today at his home ...

The children's TV show ran for just five years in the U.S. in the 1990s. But it's still hugely popular in Latin America, and a stage version of... Remember 'Beakman's World'? The Wacky Scientist Is ...

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