Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1985, and was later revived with both old and new episodes airing from 1993 to 1999. Additional episodes were produced as recently as 2009 for direct-to-video release.
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Best Episodes of Schoolhouse Rock!
Unpack Your Adjectives
S2 Ep5
8.7
2nd Feb 1974
A young girl comes home from camping and is asked to describe her adventures.
Ready or Not, Here I Come
S1 Ep5
8.6
3rd Feb 1973
Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty- ready or not here I come.
The Great American Melting Pot
S3 Ep6
8.6
17th Apr 1976
A look at the Democratic recipe that built America.
Interjections!
S2 Ep4
8.6
5th Jan 1974
Reginald, Geraldine, and Franklin show us the power of interjections. "Darn, that's the end."
Sufferin' 'til Suffrage
S3 Ep4
8.5
13th Feb 1976
Here's how Mott and Howe and Anthony finally won the right to vote.
I'm Just a Bill
S3 Ep5
8.5
13th Mar 1976
A bill explains how, if it actually happens, he would get through Congress to become a law.
The Preamble
S3 Ep3
8.3
18th Oct 1975
A song about the Constitution of the United States of America with a focus on its opening statement of principles.
Conjunction Junction
S2 Ep3
8.3
29th Sep 1973
A train yard engineer helps us understand conjunctions.
Elementary, My Dear
S1 Ep3
8.3
27th Jan 1973
Noah helps his son learn to multiply by "twos".
The Shot Heard Round the World
S3 Ep2
8.2
11th Oct 1975
Paul Revere's ride signals the start of the American Revolution, whose non-stop action is well known.
Little Twelvetoes
S1 Ep11
8.2
17th Mar 1973
A six-fingered and -toed alien opens the question for a farm boy whether their condition would make multiplying by twelve as natural as by ten.
Verb: That's What's Happening
S2 Ep2
8.1
22nd Sep 1973
Learn that Verbs are what's happening!
Elbow Room
S3 Ep7
8.0
1st May 1976
The Schoolhouse Rock view of America's westward expansion.
No More Kings
S3 Ep1
7.9
27th Sep 1975
The story of the American Independence movement.
A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing
S2 Ep1
7.9
15th Sep 1973
Many experiences are recounted, introducing characters, locations, and items in vivid detail.
Mother Necessity
S3 Ep9
7.9
3rd Jul 1976
A run-through of the needs that inspired some of America's most influential inventions.
Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
S2 Ep7
7.8
6th Mar 1976
A group of good friends and their unusual pets are able to identify each other simply with pronouns.
The Four-Legged Zoo
S1 Ep4
7.8
27th Jan 1973
A field trip to a zoo full of quadrupeds lets a group of students practice the 4 times table.
Three-Ring Government
S3 Ep10
7.8
6th Mar 1979
A kid who's into circuses finds it easy to remember how the branches of the United States government perform.
Naughty Number Nine
S1 Ep9
7.7
3rd Mar 1973
An educational cat and mouse game that unfolds on AQ slapstick pool table.
Worst Episodes of Schoolhouse Rock!
Tyrannosaurus Debt
S6 Ep5
5.0
21st Jan 1996
A monster called the national debt gobbles up huge piles of dollars.
This For That
S6 Ep6
5.0
6th May 1996
It is a musical story about the beginnings of money, from the early stages before it existed to the standards of today.
The Little Things We Do
S7 Ep2
5.0
24th Nov 2009
Several years after his last appearance, Mr. Morton encourages his family to perform some very basic deeds which will have a monumentally positive impact on the Earth.
You Oughta Be Savin' Water
S7 Ep4
5.0
23rd Sep 2009
Learn about Water Conservation
The Rainforest
S7 Ep5
5.0
13th Aug 2009
Learn about the different levels of the rainforest and the animals that live there.
Save the Ocean
S7 Ep6
5.0
10th Jul 2009
Make a commotion and save the ocean.
Solar Power to the People
S7 Ep9
5.0
12th Mar 2009
Interplanet Janet returns to explain the power of the sun.
Windy and the Windmills
S7 Ep10
5.0
10th Apr 2009
Prevent pollution by using power of the wind.
The 3 Rs
S7 Ep12
5.0
1st Jan 2009
Mitchel Musso rocks to reduce, reuse and recycle.
The Body Machine
S4 Ep3
5.5
6th Jan 1979
A trip that makes understanding the digestive system easy to swallow.
The Energy Blues
S4 Ep5
5.5
27th Mar 1979
Thirty years later, the world is still singing the "Energy Blues."
Introduction - Scooter Computer And Mr Chips
S5 Ep1
5.5
1st Jan 1985
Meet Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips as they learn and talk about computers and how they work.
FatCat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song
S7 Ep7
5.5
23rd Jun 2009
What happens when waste goes down the river?
A Tiny Urban Zoo
S7 Ep8
5.5
18th May 2009
How to make your own tiny urban zoo.
Software
S5 Ep3
5.7
1st Jan 1985
Scooter Computer And Mr Chips - Mr. Chips describes how coding turns languages into computer instruction.
Lucky Seven Sampson
S1 Ep7
6.0
17th Feb 1973
Lucy Seven Sampson is good luck for students when his romp through a store shows them how to multiply by seven.
Presidential Minute
S3 Ep12
6.0
27th Aug 2002
Learn about voting for President.
Interplanet Janet
S4 Ep2
6.0
18th Nov 1978
A solar system tour of the planets.
Don't be a carbon Sasquatch
S7 Ep11
6.0
8th Feb 2009
What you do equals a carbon footprint.
Hardware
S5 Ep2
6.3
1st Jan 1985
Scooter Computer And Mr Chips - "Some People Assume..." is the phrase Mr. Chips uses to explain the computer is nothing more than physical parts.
Schoolhouse Rock! Episode Guide
Three Is a Magic Number
S1 Ep1
7.4
6th Jan 1973
A Magician digs deep into his top hat that proves there's a magic number.
My Hero, Zero
S1 Ep2
7.3
20th Jan 1973
When it comes to multiplications, zero is a real hero. It will always be an important number to the world.
Elementary, My Dear
S1 Ep3
8.3
27th Jan 1973
Noah helps his son learn to multiply by "twos".
The Four-Legged Zoo
S1 Ep4
7.8
27th Jan 1973
A field trip to a zoo full of quadrupeds lets a group of students practice the 4 times table.
Ready or Not, Here I Come
S1 Ep5
8.6
3rd Feb 1973
Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty- ready or not here I come.
I Got Six
S1 Ep6
6.9
10th Feb 1973
A boy's day in the city and out, overlapping with others' exploits, run through the 6 times table.
Lucky Seven Sampson
S1 Ep7
6.0
17th Feb 1973
Lucy Seven Sampson is good luck for students when his romp through a store shows them how to multiply by seven.
Figure Eight
S1 Ep8
7.4
24th Feb 1973
At school, a girl daydreams the 8 times multiplication table in the context of a skating pond.
Naughty Number Nine
S1 Ep9
7.7
3rd Mar 1973
An educational cat and mouse game that unfolds on AQ slapstick pool table.
The Good Eleven
S1 Ep10
7.5
10th Mar 1973
A look at one of the easiest numbers to multiply with.
Little Twelvetoes
S1 Ep11
8.2
17th Mar 1973
A six-fingered and -toed alien opens the question for a farm boy whether their condition would make multiplying by twelve as natural as by ten.
