George Newall, who was an advertising agency creative director in the early 1970s when he helped create what would become one of TV’s most beloved and educational children’s titles with Schoolhouse ...

Any TV-watching child of the 70s can probably tell you which superheroes appeared on the Super Friends, the Saturday morning cartoon franchise show that featured everyone from Superman and Wonder ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WGN Radio’s Dave Plier celebrates five ...

The educational snippets are the ultimate font of Gen X nostalgia. But what is it we’re nostalgic for? By James Poniewozik When I was in second grade, my teacher held a contest: The first students to ...

From the first notes of the intro (As your body grows bigger/Your mind must flower/It’s great to learn/’Cause knowledge is power!) children of the ‘70s and ‘80s and beyond will recognize the ...

George Newall, the co-creator of the educational musical cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock,” has died. He was 88. Newall’s wife, Lisa Maxwell, told the New York Times he died of cardiopulmonary arrest ...

George Newall, the last surviving original creator of ABC-TV’s “Schoolhouse Rock” cartoon, died Nov. 30 in a hospital near his Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., home. He was 88. According to The New York ...

The animated educational ABC series ran from 1973 to 2002, teaching kids about science, math and grammar George Newall, co-creator of Schoolhouse Rock!, has died. He was 88. News of Newall's death was ...