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''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,〔( Curiosity Shop: Princess Of Pure Delight )〕 etc. ==Talent== The executive producer was legendary animator Chuck Jones, who contributed two new animated characters to the show: * Professor S. I. Trivia, a bespectacled "bookworm," lived in a dictionary and was always on hand to supply a definition to a word the children didn't know. * Monsieur Cou Cou was a French-accented bird, whose catchphrase was, "That's right!" He always tried to catch Prof. Trivia with a nosedive before the worm invariably dodged the bird just in time, repeatedly causing him to ram into the dictionary and get his beak stuck in it. Noted screenwriter Irving Phillips provided some scripts and animation art for the show,〔Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/01/local/me-45133〕 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.〔(Curiosity Shop ) at the Internet Movie Database〕 Henry Mancini composed the theme music of the program and its animated title sequence.〔(Curiosity Shop Introduction )〕 Dean Elliott wrote other music for the show.〔(Curiosity Shop ) at the Internet Movie Database〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Curiosity Shop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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