School House Rock

Filmstrips and 16mm films of Multiplication Rock, Grammar Rock, America Rock and Science Rock (hereafter The Big Four) were available to schools and libraries from Xerox Films. The film prints (and possibly the filmstrips) came with teachers' aides which included lyrics, questions for students and activities.

In 1987 The Big Four were released by Golden Book Video on four VHS tapes. Cloris Leachman and "a group of young friends" sang and danced to new between-segment songs not produced by the original team. The tapes were missing The Good Eleven, Little Twelvetoes, and Three-Ring Government and America Rock was renamed History Rock. The videos were re-released on VHS (Aug. 8, 1995) and laserdisc (Dec. 13, 1995) by Capital Cities/ABC Video Publishers, restoring the missing segments and removing Ms. Leachman and friends.

CD-ROMs and at least two music folios were released in 1996.

Released Apr. 9, 1996 School House Rock! Rocks featured new versions of SHR songs performed by contemporary rock stars.

School House Rock, the Box Set was released June 18, 1996 and featured 41 songs on 4 CDs. Disc 1 featured the stereo versions of Multiplication Rock plus a bonus track, My Hero, Zero by The Lemonheads. Discs 2-4 featured mono versions of the songs (probably directly from film) except The Preamble which is in stereo, and Verb which has an extremely small amount of separation. Episodes made in the 1990s were made in stereo and are presented in stereo in the box. The four discs were released separately, minus The Lemonheads track, on Apr. 1, 1997.

Another tribute album, School House Rocks the Vote was released Aug. 18, 1998. It featured various artists covering School House Rock songs. Among the artists were Grady Tate singing Messin' with My Bill of Rights!, I'm Just a Bill by Joan Osborne and South Park's Isaac Hayes, and The Campaign Trail by Bob Dorough.

A sampler CD, The Best of School House Rock was released Nov. 3, 1998, featuring songs by the original artists.

I Got Six was named Best Picture of 1973 by ASIF-East, a chapter of the International Animated Film Association. Multiplication Rock received honors from Action for Children's Television. Bob Dorough received an Grammy nomination in 1974 for the Multiplication Rock LP, probably for Best Recording for Children (the winner was Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too). Most impressive was SHR's 4 Emmys, beating out shows like Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

Each discipline has been given its own season. Years of first airing are listed below as original airdates are likely lost forever.
1973 Multiplication Rock (season 1)
(premiered 06-Jan-73)
1973-1977 Grammar Rock (season 2)
(premiered 08-Sep-73)
1975-1979 America Rock (season 3)
1978-1979 Science Rock (season 4)
(premiered 11-Mar-78)
1983-1984 Scooter Computer & Mr. Chips (season 5)
(premiered 08-Jan-83)
(last show 31-Aug-85)
1995-1996 Money Rock (season 6)

Years of first broadcast for each episode are given in the production code field.

Episodes:

Season 1:
1. My Hero, Zero
2. Elementary, My Dear
3. Three is a Magic Number
4. The Four-Legged Zoo
5. Ready or Not, Here I Come
6. I Got Six
7. Lucky Seven Sampson
8. Figure Eight
9. Naughty Number Nine
10. The Good Eleven
11. Little Twelvetoes

Season 2:
1. A Noun is a Person Place or Thing
2. Conjunction Junction
3. Interjections!
4. Verb: That's What's Happening
5. Lolly, Lolly Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here
6. Unpack Your Adjectives
7. Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla

Season 3:
2. No More Kings
3. The Shot Heard Round the World
4. The Preamble
5. Sufferin' Until Sufferage
6. Elbow Room
7. The Great American Melting Pot
8. Fireworks
9. Mother Necessity
10. Three-Ring Government

Season 4:
1. Interplanet Janet
2. A Victim of Gravity
3. The Energy Blues
4. Do the Circulation
5. Them Not-So-Dry Bones
6. Electricity, Electricity
7. Telegraph Line
8. The Body Machine
9. The Weather Show

Season 5:
1. Introduction
2. Software
3. Hardware
4. Number Cruncher

Season 6:
1. Grammar Rock. The Tale of Mr. Morton
2. Grammar Rock. Busy Prepositions
3. Money Rock. Dollars and Sense
4. Money Rock. Tax Man Max
5. Money Rock. Where the Money Goes
6. Money Rock. Tyrannosaurus Debt
7. Money Rock. Walin' on Wall Street
8. Money Rock. This for That
9. Money Rock. The Check's in the Mail
10. Money Rock. $7.50 Once a Week
11. I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College

Season 7:
1. I'm Just a Bill