Time-traveling action, adventure and learning will be served up in heaping helpings as Discovery Kids presents a marathon of Time Warp Trio episodes on Saturday, July 15. Beginning at 4 p.m., the special presentation will include brand-new installments of the animated series, which is based on the popular book series of the same name by author Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs) and illustrator by Lane Smith.
In the series, 10-year-old city kids Joe, Sam and Fred get their hands on a magic book that has the power to send them anywhere in time or space. Through their adventures, they battle gladiators and march into battle with samurai when they’re not visiting historical figures such as Napoleon, Genghis Khan and Thomas Edison. Each episode is created in consultation with historians to provide historical lessons while entertaining young viewers with high adventure.
In the seven new episodes slated to premiere during the marathon, the gang visit the Stone Age, come face-to-face with Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and her fearsome creation, meet up with Machiavelli in 1503 Renaissance Italy, join Robert F. Scott’s historic expedition to the South Pole, overhear an urgent radio transmission from aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, take on Suleiman the Magnificent and his 16th century Ottoman Empire and pay a visit to Lady Agnes Randolph in 14th century Scotland.
Time Warp Trio is produced for Discovery Kids by WGBH in association with Soup2Nuts. WGBH’s Carol Greenwald serves as exec producer, along with Martha Ripp and Jim Rapsas. Marjorie Kaplan is the exec in charge of production. Major funding was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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