Curiosity Shop

Curiosity Shop
Created by	Chuck Jones
Directed by	Alan Zaslove
Starring	John Levin, Kerry McLane, Pamelyn Ferdin, Jerelyn Fields, Barbara Minkus
Composer(s)	Jimmie Haskell Dean Elliot Henry Mancini ("The Groon")
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	31
Production
Running time	60 minutes per episode
Release
Original network	ABC (1971)

Curiosity Shop is an American children's educational television program produced by ABC-TV in 1971, capitalizing on the success of Sesame Street.

Sponsored by the Kellogg's cereal company, Curiosity Shop was broadcast Saturday mornings from September 11, 1971, to January 6, 1973. The program featured three inquisitive children (two boys and a girl) who each week visited a shop populated with various puppets and gadgets, discovering interesting things about science, nature and history. Each hour-long show covered a specific theme: clothing, music, dance, weather, the five senses, space, time, rules, flight, dolls, etc.

The executive producer was legendary animator Chuck Jones, who contributed two new animated characters to the show:

Noted screenwriter Irving Phillips provided some scripts and animation art for the show, including an animation of his long-running syndicated comic strip "The Strange World of Mr. Mum." Animations of Mell Lazarus's comic strip Miss Peach, Johnny Hart's comic strip The Wizard Of Id, Virgil Partch's cartoon Big George! and Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace were also presented on the show. Abraham "Abe" Levitow, late of Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Local 839, animated most of these short segments. Ray Bradbury is also credited as a writer for the show.

Henry Mancini composed the theme music of the program and its animated title sequence.Dean Elliott wrote other music for the show.

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