Big Blue Marble - intro

[@troyroberson7457]

I'm 53 years old, and it makes me feel like I was back in the 70s when I grew up watching all of these shows at home and at school. It makes you want to cry and remember how innocent things were.

[@jayonez137]

Agreed buddy. Same age.

[@alvaro120869]

I am 49 years old. Brings tears to my eyes going back to my younger years with this beautiful TV series.

[@Smartboy8877]

I am fifty year old. I also have fond memories of this show.

[@joe-id5pb]

Dito.

[@mikemichaels-fh1oe]

I was in front of the TV when this came on . its really missed and kids wouldn't understand this show today . we didn't have all this tech crap that has taken over our kids today.

[@ardem6596]

My pen pal and I wrote each other for 36 years until I learned of her untimely death just last week. I am eternally grateful for this show and how richly it blessed my life!

[@Clock_70]

I know this is late....sorry for your loss.

[@nygelsylvester4634]

@@Clock_70 Allison died 7 years ago

[@Clock_70]

Oh...im sorry. Bless your heart.

[@hippojuice23]

Late too! So sorry!

[@FrenkMelk]

That's a really wonderful sentiment. Thanks for sharing

[@MsTexas73]

Sometimes when I'm watching these old intros I get a little sad...kids today just don't know what they missed. There was a lot wrong back in the 70s and 80s...but there was SOO much right about it...and our Educational programming was at it's BEST back then. I truly do miss it.

[@scd6969]

these days there's just too much of everything... it can be incredibly distracting for youngsters to really focus. they have become a scatter brain and attention deficit generation. You can't blame them though. Blame technology. It's just given us everything now now now. They will never know what it's like to not have a cell phone, to wake up to sunday morning cartoons, play like kids did, without computers or internet. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJrblYOkgauJf9E

[@speedformercy]

me too

[@DiffEQ]

You are simply romanticizing your childhood. The 60's and 70's were some of the most violent times in US history and there was the eminent threat of nuclear annihilation during the cold war. The word was NOT a better place then... you were a child and knew nothing of the adult world and its happenings.

[@MsTexas73]

@@DiffEQ My post has nothing to do with what was going on in the world at the time. I am very well aware of the times and what was happen then. My post is about educational programming, PERIOD. Please take your post somewhere else. Thanks.

[@DiffEQ]

@@MsTexas73 LOL "Take my post somewhere else"?? WTF are you babbling about? I responded to YOUR post HERE and if you don't like it then stop reading responses. You're too delicate for open discussion. Get a grip. There is FAR MORE educational programming today and the access is unrivaled. Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, etc. were dropped because viewers wanted more. Just like the Clever family was completely contrived and unrealistic, viewers saw the white-bread education programming to be lacking. So, NO! It was not the "BEST" and you, again, have only romanticized your childhood experiences. Calm down, lady; Didn't you learn to accept feedback from 1970's Sesame Street? SMH

[@ritszz1]

...no need to be afraid, our toubles start to fade as we get closer. I'm forever in awe of this line. The marble was very different then. It had people living real lives, sharing and telling real stories. The tune is unforgettable and the era undiminished by time. I get teary eyed every time I hear this beautiful song and the memories from that time.

[@DakotaCelt1]

I remember watching this show as a kid and it really instilled my love of different cultures and geography.

[@AshiraMalka]

Me, too! :-)

[@kidmack1121]

This and the precursor "The CBS Children's Film Festival" for me.

[@MoshikTLV]

Me too!

[@georgiachatzitheodoridou3806]

It's been such a long time ago! I remember I was watching this program on TV, I got so many penfriends from Europe and America. I used to write , send and get so many letters. It was fun!

[@thomasbelisle6093]

Me too. I always love the opening theme song. In a world now strife with conflict. Maybe it's message will help some of us remember certain things of our lives.

[@bethgraham7976]

I got my Pen Pal through Big Blue Marble 38 years ago... we're meeting on February 6, 2016 for the first time! Thank you Big Blue Marble and my 5th grade teacher, Ed Gordon!

[@stuft17]

I got my pen pal from BBM too about the same time, I think 1979, we met 10 years later, and hit it off instantly when she picked me up at the train station, and have been friends ever since. We've visited a few times but I haven't seen her in >20 years but plan to get together soon. I hope your meeting went as well as mine did! and I'm not on FB in case anyone is going to ask

[@sylviarippey6488]

How did the meeting up of your pen pal go?

[@THXx1138]

Wow!! How amazing and special is that!!! You are very fortunate!!

[@kidmack1121]

That's a wonderful story! Just wonderful.

[@lovingligonier1485]

I got a pen pal from them too!

[@Nettierei]

I got a pen pal from the Big Blue Marble when I was 8. She is still my BFF - 38 years later.

[@bethgraham7976]

+Annette Preston Me too, Annette! I'm meeting Sandi for the first time in 38 years next Saturday! (2/6/16) So exciting!

[@rayjr62]

Wow- That is impressive. I wish I could say the same. I did the pen pal thing with BBM back when I was 10 or so but the pen pal stopped responding.

[@marinnamokhtar5695]

Hi Annette!!! This almost made me cry... My first Big Blue Marble penpal was Annette too. Annette Dige, from Denmark. It was back in the late 70's. I was between 10 to 12 years old then. We became close contacts till my mid 20's. Been trying to find her on socmed, but no to avail...

[@LuckyGuu]

I got my first pen pal at 17 from Big Blue Marble and 42 years later I'm still writing letters. I'm in Delaware

[@LuckyGuu]

@@bethgraham7976 please tell me how the meeting went and have you called her lately?

[@belleisleguy]

It's funny... about a week ago this show came to my thoughts for no reason what-so-ever. I came to KZbin hoping beyond hope that I would be able to find this theme song. Just listening to it took me back to my childhood in the late 70's. I love how many of us gen x kids reminisce about this time in our lives. Life really was different then. We didn't have video games or all the tech that we do today. Thank you so much for posting this! "Closer... getting closer..."

[@StevenC32]

I remember watching this show as a kid, it showed me how wonderful the world could be if people tried. This song is so inspiring.

[@georgiachatzitheodoridou3806]

Indeed! I want to show this to my pupils. I've talked to then about it so many times. I love this song. Love and understanding is all children and everyone need in this world.

[@frankdenardo8684]

This is a reality TV show. No actors or actresses, but kids engaging in real world things.

[@veelalynne]

This intro makes me want to cry. I know that sounds silly but I love seeing the montage of different people from around the world.

[@arethawhite3712]

Amen to that comment my friend 👋😉, I agree 💯 percent with you this theme song is so beautiful ❤️👍. This was a favorite show of mine in the 70's😊!! Can't we all just get along? Duh 😒!!! That's what this song means. Take care of yourself and your family during this coronovirus pandemic 😷 ok. Much love from Bunn NC. 👋💖😊

[@veelalynne]

@@arethawhite3712 What a beautiful comment! Yes, you too take care! With love from Austin, TX!

[@arethawhite3712]

@@veelalynne Thank you for the sweet comment 😊👋💖, I really appreciate it!!! Yee-ha!! I couldn't resist that, by you being from Austin, TX Just having a little fun, that's all!!!! I'm from a little country town myself, and I have lived here just about all my life. But I am proud of my hometown 😁👍. Our town is growing by leaps and bounds!! Nice people, all races etc. My church is in walking distance from my house, I sing in the church choir something that I love to do!!!! I used to sing in chorus in high school, but since the coronovirus pandemic is all over the world, I have not been to church services since 😞. I really miss going to church. It won't be this way forever. Until then, take care of yourself please and be safe and blessed 😊🌹🌹🌹🌹💖.

[@lheim12]

Watching this show in the seventies while living in Washington, DC at the age of 10 was one of the reasons I would later become a Peace Corps volunteer serving in the Central African Republic. The theme makes me cry everytime I hear it because the child inside wishes for the unattainable: world peace.

[@THXx1138]

Take it up with the ruling class. They continue to manage to ruin everything.

[@TheBerkeleyBeauty]

Oh wow! Who remembers THIS amazing show?? I met the best pen pal through The Big Blue Marble! This theme song just took me back to Mrs, Burnette’s 4th grade class in 1977. I sure wish things were more like the way they were then, than the way they are now. 😔

[@jnjherrin]

Oh, how we need this sort of show again today! This song is embedded in my mind from Saturday mornings...and looking for common values and sharing mutual respect remain a part of who I am. Thank you, Big Blue Marble!

[@vernonwilliams8855]

Fourth five years later and this song still makes me cry.

[@Sebastianx007]

Such beautiful memories ... Just seeing and listening to the intro takes me way back when the world was so much a better place than it is now ....

[@DiffEQ]

You are simply romanticizing your childhood. The 60's and 70's were some of the most violent times in US history and there was the eminent threat of nuclear annihilation during the cold war. The word was NOT a better place then... you were a child and knew nothing of the adult world and its happenings.

[@disboygotdabeat]

When I was a preteen in the early 1970's this was my favorite show in the whole world. The theme song combined with the world culture photo montage really pulled at my heartstrings- I would choke-up everytime it came on- wishing the world were really a united human family.

[@charlessmith6164]

Beautiful song. I wish the old tv show was still on

[@msbossilly]

I watched this show when I was 12! I am still in touch with my pen pals from Big Blue Marble through Facebook now :)))

[@captainfantastic9158]

That's fantastic that you're still in touch with friends from childhood days, friends, I take it, you never even met! ("Pen-pals." Whoo. Those were the days.) The memories you guys must share, thinking about more innocent times through cool + wonderful shows like this. (And they sure don't make 'em like this anymore.) I'm really happy for you.

[@rayjr62]

Wow. That's an amazing story. I used to watch it when it first came out.

[@tjbeson]

I couldn't afford stamps :(

[@chowmarina008]

For fun

[@Saab64]

Somehow today i found the tv series which i got a pen pal from Australia back in 1977 when we were 13yo. We wrote to each other till an early 1990s. Back then internet wasnt in surface: looking back the series of big blue marble is reminiscent the old days. Missed the old days, old friends and famili es.

[@michaelmclaughlin261]

There's a ninja slicing onions somewhere in this room with me. ;)

[@MrHelmyabdullah]

My favourite tv programme back in the late 1978 when I was still seven . Why don't they make such a programme ever again ? We learn about the culture of every kid throughout the world . To understand and to respect and not to ignore and trample and forcing others to accept our values . Wish I can go back to the late '70s again and start all over again !

[@spacecat7247]

Used to watch this at school once a week in the afternoon. Was a good show. Today it came to mind for some reason.

[@timothycreamer8610]

Yeah we watched it at school and occasionally at home from the first episodes onward. Washington DC area broadcasting.

[@spacecat7247]

@@timothycreamer8610 cool. I was in ca.

[@kristinakorpi6979]

LOVED THIS SHOW!! The song is just GLORIOUS! I was 4 yrs. old when the show debuted, and this beautiful song touched me and stayed with me. I became a musician..playing the piano, trumpet, French horn. I am so grateful to those who influence us by sharing their talents. Always share your gifts with the world...you never know how you will touch and shape someone.

[@Clock_70]

Lol...i was 3

[@worldmaster2008]

I was 8 years old in 1974, I really enjoyed watching this nice show. I hope they bring this show back again.

[@laurieschipper9360]

My Greek penpal through this program just contacted me through Facebook yesterday!. We had lost touch after writing to each other between 1980-1992.

[@michaelregister271]

I had a pin pal in the 80's. Help me understand the differences between us. Need that back.

[@norfolkin]

I loved this show. I had a pen pal from the UK. We eventually met when we were both visiting in Israel. It was a fantastic idea that honestly should come back -- even if Pen Pals communicate digitally. I used to look forward to Emma's letters, postcards & pictures.

[@veelalynne]

I knew I wasn't crazy! Most people remember the other intro; this is the one I've always remembered. A beautiful song for a great show! Thanks for uploading!

[@karinammm1marinakorales]

I watched this show as a child in México back in the 70's!!! the spanish version! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dbnx1701]

I can't tell you how many Sunday mornings I spent in front of the tv with Big Blue Marble, Sport Billy, Star Trek the animated series and The Great Space Coaster. Ah the 80's.

[@StevenC32]

dbnx1701 It aired on Saturdays in Ohio.

[@mcmwaba7]

dbnx1701 sounds like what we did in 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲 in the 80s

[@armybeef68]

"No gnews is good gnews with Gary.... Gnu."

[@kachaso]

Matilda Lucas good old memories from Lusaka

[@godphoenix66x]

I loved The Great Space Coaster.

[@gwensciora8516]

my pen pal is in Kent and I hope to meet her this summer... as we corresponded since 1980!

[@ericworiax1277]

Wonderful! God's speed and peace!

[@rsophiav]

This was my absolute favorite show when I was a kid living in Berkeley, CA from 1975 to 1979 (preschool - 1st grade). This brings back such great memories. I bought the record on eBay!

[@joah07]

Wow. Big time nostalgia. Cheers to all of you of my generation who remember being fascinated by this program (or just the opening) as a kid!

[@abbeykroeter]

There is something touching about the very first voice you hear on this video, maybe its because I'm 42 now and when this show was starting everything so easily mesmerized me, and I noticed everything. Feeling obligated to go along with the world's ways of today, with seemingly infinite distractions, and the most trivial things of every individual posted on facebook, etc... we are brainwashed to glaze over everything and keep moving fast. Nothing soaks in.

[@bigcarguy69]

I loved htis show. I had a pen-pal from the UK at the time. Was about 1977. His name was Scott Reginald. We wrote back and forth for 2 years. Until the letters stopped. Well months went by and I got one in the mail. It was from his Mother. She explained how he loved the letters we sent each other, but he had died of Lukemia( forgive the spelling). Well I was so upset about it, I was only 10 at the time. I sent a card to his mom that my parents bought for me. Wow seems like yesterday !!

[@pittsburghcityofchampions1979]

We used to watch this once a week in my third grade classroom, ohh how I wish we could go back in time!! The 70' and 80's were truly magical. I offen wonder whatever happened to my old grade school friends, where ever you are?..I think of you all and hope life has been good ♡

[@DIAMONDGIRL57]

Love this show!!! Inspired me to travel around the world. “The world’s a big blue Marble!”

[@zoewebster5598]

Through this show I got to know my penpal, we have been in touch for 38 years, I went to meet Shelia in America and she came to visit me. Nowadays we email and skype but thanks for a wonderful friendship!

[@kellybishop7582]

My pen pal from New York and I were matched back in 1981...we still speak!

[@MrDriveIn]

It sure was a great time to be a kid. I was born in 1971 and it seems now to be a perfect year. Because I was able to grow up with all these great shows on Saturday morning etc. Loved land of the lost!

[@kath2ndrew]

These are the wonderful shows us kids watched and they sure bring back memories! Walt Disney was another one I absolutely loved, and they taught us so much, especially social skills! Wish there were better shows on tv today for our kids!

[@Boppinabe]

Back in the day when we were taught to get to know one another and become friends and move into the future in peace and brotherhood with charity to all, and malice toward none.

[@amirhassan01]

I had a penpal from Scotland. What a beautiful thought it was of the creators. Let us hope and pray that we will find the way. We are all but pieces of an amazing jigsaw puzzle called humanity.

[@peanutzpg]

Beautiful, wholesome children program. So glad I can re-live the magic listening to this again thanks to KZbin, still remember so well. It really brings back memories of the 70's when things and life were so much simpler and so much hope and aspirations for the future. It also started my interest in befriending pen-pals through another international organization. I think I wrote to two of them, one in Hong Kong another in France, but lost contact over the years.

[@carosalberto1880]

It was a wonderful TV program!!!! I was 4 year old and I remember this song, incredible, and at that time I did not speach and understand english , just spanish!!!!!!!!!! The music is excellent!!!!

[@wytewrabbit]

This theme song makes the hair on my arms stand up and my eyes tear up!!!…Takes me to a time where I was filled with hope ♥️

[@belleisleguy]

wytewrabbit Me too, Wytewrabbit. Me too.

[@FrederickDunn]

I'm so glad you posted this! Takes me right back to my childhood.... THANK YOU!

[@happyguy7005]

OMGoddess... this theme song just warped me to the 1970’s! Love

[@scottnat16]

This was my favorite show, So happy when I got a pen pal and happy to say that even after 30 years my pen pal and I still in touch. Even after a bunch of moves and now it is easier to keep in touch thru social media. One day we will meet for the first time.

[@NinjaMagoo]

I'm so glad I found this intro. Thank God for KZbin sometimes. Nobody I mention Big Blue Marble to, remembers it. I think that between this show, electric company, sesame Street, and the public school system in New England including so many refugees back in the '70s-'80s into our community, which helped me value America as "The Melting Pot". And the value of learning about a new culture, and being grateful for each other in our community, rather than judgemental and condemning of our differences and whatever is going on today. I really don't understand how we got here. It's amazing how innocent kids really are before the closed mindedness of adults influence them.

[@margo3883]

LOVED this program! My pen pal was from Denmark. I'm from Greece. We've been pen pals from 1982 and best and long time friends since 1985. In fact, we saw each other just this weekend . Flying 3,5 hrs for a short visit and cup of cofee. If that's not a friendship, then what ? Thank you Big Blue Marble !

[@cherylbrowning9194]

I used to love watching this show when I was a kid. Life was so much simpler then. I wish they had shows like this today......

[@chowmarina008]

Watching during the pandemic...never missed an episode of this. We would b outside riding our bikes on a saturday morning and as soon as we would here this song from someones tv we would drop our bikes and run inside and look at it. It was great fun.

[@wlhardy]

Loved this show in the 1970s, especially Dear Pen Pal, that was a very exotic & exciting thing to write a letter to someone thousands of miles away in a different country/culture & get a reply. I had Jane Shelbourn in England (can't remember where) & Neredia in Rio or Sao Paulo. Ii had dozens of others, too, from other organizations. Still write to Wendy in NZ after 35 years! Stamps were only 26 cents. The Internet has brought the world together but I miss the old letter-writing days!

[@Arsenick10]

This took me back to when I was a kid. A race to the TV to be the controller all Saturday morning. But before the cartoons began, Big Blue Marble reminded my sibs and I that learning never stops, and that school doesn't hold the only classrooms in life.

[@arethawhite3712]

I adored this show back in the day 😊 when I was a child.👍 I even have a cassette tape of myself singing this theme song, it's so beautiful ❤️ One of my favorite shows to watch!!! Peace out for now y'all 👋✌ and be blessed and safe ok 🙏. Much love from Bunn NC. 👋💖😊!!!!

[@cuddlebuttons]

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS!!!!!!! thank YOU! one of my most cherished child hood memories is watching and singing along to this with my little brother and sister!!! thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

[@itzpapalotl13]

This is truly lovely! I remembering getting up early on Saturday mornings to watch this, and loving seeing stories of other young people in other countries. As a result I travelled extensively and lived in other countries. Thanks so much!!

[@MichelleFazbear-tr5hi]

The memories that come with are beautiful. My life was simple and happy then. So many memories. Thank you for posting this. I am one of those sentimental type of people!

[@josephel4292]

As a young boy I watched this show every Saturday morning. I thought it was so interesting to learn about children from various parts of the world.

[@vongelse1]

loved this show, I had two pen pals...Memories

[@Pookatube]

This is one show that needs to be brought back for today's generation of kids!!!

[@brendadougherty3241]

I remember this show,I loved to sing as a child and even now.I remember being the youngest of 8 in my family and whatever my oldest siblings watched....I had to watch but the big blue marble was all mine,it was MY time to sit and watch,I loved that show so much as a child when the air was clean,the Minnesota lakes were blue and clean,and life wasnt so hectic.It made me appreciate our planet!!!! And I still do.

[@lizamohdali8788]

Beautiful memories.I got my first pen pal through this programme..when i was 12.....now i'm 47

[@bigdaddycue]

Thank you so much for the memories. This was such a great show to give examples of how much we really are all connected to each other.

[@Alexyudkin]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I looked so much for this, forgot its name. Was one of my top 10 childhood series! Thank you! Love you!!

[@jemote]

Thanks. I would always sing this to my daughters, and I could never find it. I used to watch this all the time.

[@jeffrp73]

Right on. Sometimes I miss my family's old tv that only received four channels. Thanks for bbm being on one of them.

[@polymarva]

Quiero llorar!!!! Por programas como este SOY LO QUE SOY!!!! Gracias mamá por inculcarme ver cosas como ESTAS que motivaron en mí el sentido de la búsqueda y la investigación de infinidad de temas...el hacer que mi mente se despertara y estar al tanto de TODO el gran mundo que existe! A veces tan lejos,otras tan cerca de tí!

[@debb7920]

I lived in ct and wrote in for a pen pal we wrote for many years she lived in hastings, mi. well we are finally going to met we reconnected in the spring and haven been emailing since we are going to be together on our bdays. hers is 11/28 and mine is 11/29 I so cannot wait we still have so much in common

[@sunnyblonde2118]

I remember watching this with my older siblings as they were into this program. I remember watching this before I went to PM Kindergarden in 1976-1977.

[@annmarieharry2319]

Omg I just sit this morning and this kids show just came right back in my head. My sister and I hustling to finish out chores to sit infront the television do we won't miss nothing from this programme. I always loved this I also had a pen pal. I remembered his name. Dario Dydren. I wonder where he is right now. Omg will never forget this or my pen pal.....

[@sterlinged]

This was my favorite show on Saturday afternoons back in the mid 70's while growing up in North Mississippi on CH.3/ CBS Memphis,TN. Haven't heard this song since I was around 11 or 12...... WOW!

[@krooza100]

Never had it in the UK. But my pen pal in LA tells me that is where he got my address from, so thought I would take a look on you tube. I sent off for a pen pal via a teenage magazine and was paired up with him. We are still in touch 34 years later! Much easier via the internet now, no more trips to the post office!

[@DavidIrbyUSAF]

I loved this show. Hearing the theme again made me cry.

[@MaidenAndromeda]

OH MY GOSH! I used to watch this when I was little, almost 30 years ago! Wow, what memories, it made me cry! Thanks for posting it!!!!

[@joe-id5pb]

God, I must say watching this brought tears to my eyes! I remember this program as a kid and it brought me back to a make simpler time. I really wish I could go back to that time.

[@Nemie125]

I used to love watching this show back in the seventies - this brings back such great memories. I just played it to my 9 year old daughter who was quite interested in it, although she said it looked "very old" lol!

[@susanmathew_]

I had 3 penpals. Vinita Nagarani frm US , Frekay Parker frm Ghana and Gloria Roa frm US. I still keep in touch with Vinita. I am frm Malaysia. I loved this programme.

[@taljune142010]

The music is so rich, one of the best intros ever. the harmony of the music with the sound of the space ship. And the singers harmony. That's the magic of the 70s.

[@carolee1970]

OMG...back in 1982 or 83 9when I was 13) I met a penpal from Indonesia on Big Blue Marble and lost touch with him a few years after that. Today, I received a Facebook friend request from him! Unbelievable huh? Im so excited to get to know him again.

[@rocketcab]

I was born in 1969 and grew up watching all of these PBS shows when I lived in Brooklyn. Thanks, "love2register2", for posting this intro. Incidentally, this is not the original opening for "Marble". The first-season-opener was even more down-beat than this was. Great memories, though !!!

[@timeindigenoustimeseeker7059]

I grew up ON this. And now NONE,understand what was being said???AMAZING

[@Calipeixegato]

Wow, I had forgotten all about this show, but when I saw it here, I could remember most of the words. Amazing how memories lie in the subconscious.

[@TheWalkersk592]

Thank you so much for posting this beautiful theme song. I shared it with my 10 year old this evening and he tried to hate it, but he couldn't help singing "Closer, getting closer..." :)

[@wanderlust98]

same here but because of the memories. remember watching it after school. : ) i'm now 43.

[@Sparxe]

We need shows like this today. I loved this show as a child. Now when you turn on children's programming, 9/10 it is a show without lessons, morals or anything of lasting value. Mindless entertainment. One of the many contributing factors to the state of society today. :P

[@SniffyPoo]

just watched this for the first time since the 70s. i think that growing up that show really impacted my image of what an ideal world should look like in a very positive forward-thinking way, so kudos to the show creators.

[@streakeagle]

I remember both versions of the intro song. But I like and remember the version in this video best. Thanks for posting it.

[@kingporter67]

When I lived in beloved, gorgeous and beautiful Levittown Long Island from January 3, 1974 thru July 3, 1984, the Big Blue Marble was the best ever education children television program and I watched all the episodes as well!

[@northcomet]

And we're still best friends, 25 years later! Bless this television program!

[@rosalys7766]

This was one of favorite shows as a kid. I had two penpals from Big Blue Marble and had such fun writing letters to them!

[@sarahmck13]

OMG! My husband and I haven't heard this song for probably about 30 years but we still knew all the words! WOW, what a blast. He remembers is being on a network station, not PBS. I don't remember anything except the theme song.

[@oneofakinddelta18]

Ha! My pen pal was in Philadelphia! This is when life was great for children.

[@xrayy7]

Such an inspiring theme and program of yesteryear. Circa the 70's... Much better back then..Thanks for the uploading and the comments in here from people whom remember when the world was a much nicer place.

[@StevenC32]

This was a great show, the theme song gives me hope on what the world could be, if we open our hearts.

[@Riognach911]

My kids were not allowed to watch much TV growing up, but Big Blue Marble was one of the programs that we not only permitted, but actively encouraged them to see.

[@skimmo40]

tnx for posting this beautiful moment, i used to watched it in my country, it was called LA GRAN CANICA AZUL, same thing in english, 30 years ago. i really thank you whoever you are.

[@drwhonovels]

As a kid I did not appreciate how awesome it is that, after spanning the globe, the video ends in on a winter night in NYC with the vocalist and two friends. Awesome editing, and for a kids' show!