The Write Channel (1978)

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[@StukInBuf]

*Palabra jot*! These words are forever etched into my memory.

[@tsitracommunications2884]

Cept it's no doubt Spanish for 'write words', but escriber is the right word for write so the correct phrase for 'write words' is 'palabra escriber', NOT 'palabra jot'

[@collegeman1988]

I used to skip school so that I could watch shows like this one. oh how I miss the days of instructional TV on PBS.

[@MsTexas73]

I miss those shows too. I didn't skip school, but I would catch them on vacations like summer and Christmas time, and if I was at home sick. There should be a cable channel that features all the classic instructional shows on PBS from the early 70s til the mid 90s.

[@collegeman1988]

MsTexas73 Yeah, but the problem is today public schools only teach to the standardized tests and any real learning that occurred on shows like these are irrelevant to the instructional plans of administrators that run (or ruin) the schools.

[@MsTexas73]

Sadly, that is pretty much truth. One of the reasons I decided to leave the classroom.

[@jeffreygriffin7248]

collegeman1988 palabra jot palabra jot! Lol

[@MsTexas73]

Stimulator7 Hi. 🙋🏽‍♀️ Soooo, since I last posted; I have returned to the classroom. My opinion is that, while the focus is still in testing; there are some teachers who really do their best to teach beyond the test. Through engaged learning, many skills ARE being taught. I have a friend who teaches Gr. 5. I LOVE her writing wall. It is a magnetic white board that she used to teach language and writing skills. By the end of the week, the board is filled with edits done by the students.

[@DrumandPianoDude]

Funny thing is, I learned more about writing from this show than I did in school. It taught me to avoid redundancy, and run-on sentences, conjunctions, and condensing the information in or to make it more readable. These basic principles put me ahead of the game in reports when I was in law enforcement, investigations/case work while in labor relations, and making notations as a mediator. Funny how this stuff sticks with you.

[@rpc2112]

This single TV show is responsible for my excellent writing skills! Bug made learning to edit fun and greatly improved my ability to write concisely. Now that I am in my master's program, writing concisely continues to afford me full credit on all research report assignments. They need to do a Where Are They Now show on Red and Bug!

[@TravisIllig]

I really wish they'd release these on DVD. Now that I have my own kid, I would love to share with her. I learned so much from RB Bug.

[@JoseHernandez-jh3mg]

This are great! I thought I was never going to see this show again the memories of those days is something very especia.

[@mooky9669]

I used to watch this as a kid on PBS. when they showed instructional programming during the day...thanks so much for this!! Memories!

[@blakarrot]

I remember this. I've been looking for this for decades. I've had palabra jot. Stuck in my head, too. And Pinwheel and Today's Special. I miss the eighties. Television is so NOT educational, these days. It's about naked chicks and fart jokes. Not saying that I don't like it but NOT all day and as my only option. Even the news managed to become a tabloid, sad... PALABRA JOT FOREVER!!!!

[@nathanbrandwein6149]

blakarrot I agree with you on everything! God bless daytime instructional PBS television. And I LOVED “Today’s Special”!

[@grohuskochris]

i grew up with this in edgemere elementary school in the 1980s. im 43 now and still remember it.

[@johnmiller5793]

"I remember this from the 1980'S i was in grade-school back then now i'm currently 45 years old & on social-security disability thank-you & god bless you rb-bug & red green wherever you are" 🇺🇸📺👫👫👫👫👫👫👫✏️🎬📹.

[@BenjaminBowling777]

That woman named Red Green is Beverly Todd who played Ms. Levias as the assistant principal in the 1989 movie 'Lean on me'

[@MsTexas73]

Benjamin Bowling Yep. She is my cousin through marriage. My great-aunt was married to Beverly’s 1st cousin. Beverly was actually at Thanksgiving a few years back.

[@guppypaul]

I have been looking for this show for a year. I couldn't remember the name of it though. Thank you so so much for posting this!! You definitely made my day :-)

[@ktay5881]

all I could remember was "palabra jot palabra jot"

[@nathanbrandwein6149]

Keron Taylor Me too!! Although I was spelling it “halabra” and not coming up with anything! So grateful to have found this.

[@inspiredlivingllc5588]

I wish we could buy or see the whole series online. It was such a great show and it helped me scaffold lessons for my students when I was teaching writing.

[@davida.p.9911]

Me and my brother used to imitate the mouth noises for the periods and words disappearing😄😄 We would laugh ourselves silly over it. I LOVED PBS back in the day. It was all educational during the day and really supplemented what we learned in the classroom. Cable TV and VCR's were in their infancy. They just don't make shows like this anymore. Kids today are really missing out. School should be about learning, not political indoctrination.

[@71nicolasa]

Wow!! Such memories. I was 8 years old when I started watching this show. Brings back lots of memories. Palabra jot, Palabra jot.

[@shanithree]

OMGoodness, what memories! I watched this in second or third grade at Byram attendance Center in Jackson, MS. We would send our stories in and The Club would send us pencils.

[@RedSiegfried]

I still think about this show all the time.

[@adventuresofsin]

Takes my back!!!!!! I thought I was the only one who remembers this!!!!!!!

[@phoenixman8569]

lordly lordly, I haven't seen this for forty years. It makes me feel old!!!!

[@Engelbird]

this is one i have never seen

[@xxxqwertxxx]

I watched this as a kid growing yup in Seattle

[@MrWolfTickets]

Me too in the eighties, but only on sick days right? It was basically a 5 hr block of 'instructional programming' every weekday on channel 9.

[@meercaz8245]

They aired this back in Upstate NY where I lived in Oneonta. I always wanted to be in the club

[@bgva82]

My teacher in Virginia Beach used to show this to us in the early-90s. The editing sound effects always cracked us up.

[@AnJah]

We watched this whole series in school, I think it was third grade. Seeing the TV wheeled in was always the best.

[@greywater3186]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I’ve been trying to remember the name of this show since at least 1988. What a relief. Years of google searches finally produced a result! I’m so relieved I could scream. 😃😃😃😃

[@adongancarz7361]

Oh man!!!! Used to love this show, watched in class (1st or 2nd grade???). Thanks for posting! Palabra Jot! haha

[@jessicajones8105]

We watched this at school. Wow..the memories

[@grohuskochris]

Its amazing how so early in my life like when i was 5 or 6 years old this took root and i still feel comforted by remembering this so clearly and strongly still, at 45 years old.

[@jeffreygriffin7248]

This is my childhood! Thank you so much for posting this! Please post more!

[@zazelby]

8:01 That got surprisingly dark surprisingly quickly. Anyway, I used to *love* these 15-minute educational shows. They were so fun and surreal, and this one was no exception. My favorite was one called Potpourri that I can't seem to find any trace of online.

[@bryanmarchese9827]

@ 13:29 he sure did bury a mysterious SACK...regardless of the bad joke I watched this when I was 4 years old in 78 and still remembered Palabra Jot. Memories n shit.

[@mferris77]

I'm 34 years old and haven't seen this since I was in 3rd grade. However that damn 'palabra jot' has stuck with me this entire time. I totally wanted to join that club when I was a kid.

[@Eric_In_SF]

Now you’re 46

[@april1969simnel]

"Write The Club, Drawer 1101, Jackson, Mississippi 39205" isn't quite as catchy as "Write ZOOM! Z-double-O-M, Box 350, Boston, Mass 0-2-1-3-4! Send it to ZOOM!" I was a skosh too old for this show, but I watched it anyway if I was home sick from school in 6th grade. They were all the kid equivalents of Bob Ross in 70s and 80s, especially John Robbins' shows.

[@meercaz8245]

Thank you

[@mrfrogbutt1]

I wish these shows were on dvd

[@donmccullen1973]

+mrfrogbutt1 I might have been but AIT seems to be defunked. ALso the price for the complete series was really pricey.

[@mrfrogbutt1]

Don McCullen I needs to be re released

[@donmccullen1973]

I don't see any In-School service programs being released to DVD.

[@mrfrogbutt1]

Don McCullen Its tragic, these shows are incredibly important for kids.

[@donmccullen1973]

Or if they were they are very expensive.

[@BeautifulMind504]

I loved this as a child...would look forward to watching this! Thanks for sharing.

[@RooseveltAliWashingtonX]

I used to be in The Club! Palabra jot, palabra jot! This is a great find. I used to love that sista!

[@palabrajot505]

I'd be lying if I said this program didn't have an influence on me.

[@StukInBuf]

I watched this on WYES in New Orleans back in the day; when we moved to Buffalo in early 1980, I don't recall WNED airing it.

[@bryanmarchese9827]

I'm from NOLA as well and watched this on WYES...good times. Back then we had what channels 6 8 4 and 12, eventually we got 38 and 26? That was some major channels back in 78'!

[@StukInBuf]

When my folks and I lived there in 1979, channel 38 wasn't there yet.

[@josymon]

PALABRA JOT PALABRA JOT

[@treadley]

I'm from a very small town in northeast Nebraska and vividly remember this. I wonder how far the broadcast was throughout America....

[@zazelby]

Ha, nice touch that I didn't notice at the time - there is no "Channel 85". At the time, UHF stations only went up to 83 (and generally channels 70-83 weren't used for regular TV stations, and eventually removed from consumer TVs in, appropriately enough, 1983) I wonder if there were any kids who would have watched WORD-TV if only their TV could get the mythical Channel 85?

[@DimeraFan28]

@tillig1, I have to agree with you, because i have two nieces, and they're 10 months old now, I hope when they get older, I'm going to introduce these old pbs shows like this one to them. so that they'll enjoy them, like i have before them.

[@joskie618]

i always wanted to write to palabra jot but never did. I still regret it to this day. i am 35 years old now.

[@bossmaine601]

I had a big crush on that lady as a child. Lol

[@kevinpayton2664]

She is beautiful.

[@huntonpeck]

This made journalism seem a lot simpler than it turns out to be. Palabra jot.

[@solesoledad100]

The best.

[@maziebunny2]

@joskie618 I regret it too. but this was one of the reasons why I love to write. this and The Electric Company. I'm 35, too and what's sad is they don't educational television as good and groovy as they did in the seventies and eighties.

[@saphopoem]

Thanks for these

[@shannonmakes9334]

my childhood nickname was palabra jot...

[@winstonturner3253]

Thank you for this!

[@haroldfridkis3536]

I remember this show. Best part was WORD's sign off.

[@tsitracommunications2884]

Egg City......Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik would feel right at home there

[@StukInBuf]

Kind of along the same lines as this program... back in 6th Grade, I once saw a PBS program from the early or mid 1970s; it had a yellow comma who sang and danced, and the lady voicing for the comma later spoke about the benefits of using commas. The "backstory" was a fictionalized newscast about state government leaders who were uneasy about some new proposal, and the "reporter" came to this portion... *"of the fifty five left the room."* That's right... the comma was left out between "fifty" and "five." If anyone has a copy of the program to which I'm referring, that would be great. Thanks.

[@ordosincorporated]

Wow 1978 I remember it in the early 80s but I only saw on bloody episode. The creepy one where all the kids spewed glue all over themselves.

[@moxie96]

Can you get Wordsmith by any chance? I really loved that show. The guy who hosted it made his own wikipedia page; look him up.

[@michaelbadger6645]

Used to watch this on WILL

[@nathanjohnson8861]

Get some more episodes please!!!!!

[@ericintohistory]

I finally found it

[@StukInBuf]

At 6:52 and 10:49, I've always thought the "news theme" at each point had an element of the WPVI(6) *Action News* theme.

[@ronsanford4793]

Whatever happened to that other Mississippi Public Broadcasting children's show called "The Magic Place"? I barely can find that on the internet.

[@joskie618]

I was thinking to do a 2011 TV version of the write channel. what do u think?

[@josymon]

PALABRA jot

[@servicelivesears2582]

Palabra Jot!!! Gangsta style

[@ryanadams420]

Can anybody find the pbs show strawberry lane?

[@elg7358]

My mom watched this

[@apl175]

What happens next is the Ernie comes by and puts a volume control knob from an old radio on Bert, and gets scolded for eating cookies in bed.

[@StukInBuf]

With the three story examples of kids stranded on a ferris wheel, the mayor being rushed to a hospital, and kids happening upon a suspicious package(only for one to lose her hat and the guy burying it finding it), I could piece together a *Write-Channel*-esque "news brief" for the 6:00 newscast(I'll use my hometown of Buffalo as an example of giving such a news brief)... === (background: people typing on their typewriters, or fielding calls, or other newsroom-type action) Good Afternoon, everyone, I'm Irv Weinstein, and these are some of the stories we're working on for *Eyewitness News* at 6... First: Buffalo Mayor Jimmy Griffin was taken to Buffalo General Hospital today after complaining of abdominal pains while at lunch with his staff; a bit later, he was rushed into surgery. We'll have an update on his condition. Also: Two Southtowns children tell of their harrowing ordeal of being stuck atop the ferris wheel at the Erie County Fair yesterday; we'll have their story for you. And: A 22-year-old Tonawanda man who was arrested for stalking a 9-year old apparently has more on his plate; he's also suspected in a recent bank robbery, and we'll have an update on that one. Plus, Rick Azar reports from Bills Training Camp at SUNY Fredonia, and Tom Jolls says we might be in for some stormy weather tomorrow. So join me, along with Don Postles and the rest of the news team, tonight at 6 for Channel 7's *Eyewitness News.* We hope you'll tune in. === I don't recall making a submission for "The Club," so I thought I'd call this "Submission Number 1." Feel free to critique..

[@StukInBuf]

The overeating mayor... "eyes bigger than stomach."

[@christopherjudge1138]

I take it WORD-TV, Channel 85, changed its format, as well as its called letters in 1984! That station is now WEAK-TV, now showing lame, cheesy shows, like the '90s He-Man, My Mother, The Car, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Supertrain and, of course, Storylords! Ex-reporter, Red Green, now retired, is an inebriated recluse. And as for R.B. Bug, he was exterminated by the Jackson Bug-Gone Extermination Co. in 1987!