CBS Storybreak is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network during the 1985 season. Hosted by The Cosby Show 's Malcolm Jamal-Warner and Captain Kangaroo 's Bob Keeshan, the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of some of the most beloved children's books published at the time of airing. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major radio and television network in the United States. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Cosby Show, starring Bill Cosby, is an American sitcom that was first broadcast in 1984. ... Malcolm-Jamal Warner (born August 18, 1970 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an African-American actor. ... Captain Kangaroo was a childrens show which aired weekday mornings on CBS from 1955 until 1984, then moved to PBS until 1992. ... Robert (Bob) Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an actor who was the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program, but who is most famous as the star and title character of the childrens show Captain Kangaroo. ... Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a... Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ...

The episodes were produced by Australia's Southern Star Entertainment and America's Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS Entertainment. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...

One of its crew, Sander Schwartz [1], would go on to become the presient of Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. The WB Shield, used from 2001 to late 2003. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Select episodes were released on home video in 1992 under the title Video Storybreak. The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

CBS' first in-house cartoon series, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in the 1985-1986 season. It continued in reruns until 1998. An Emmy Award. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

See also

The Pagemaster, in which Macaulay Culkin's character takes an adventure through the world of books. The Pagemaster was an animated film released in 1994. ... Macaulay Culkin at Party Monster (2003) release party. ...

External links

• CBS Storybreak at the Internet Movie Database
• CBS Storybreak at TV.com
• Audio feed of Storybreak theme song