''The Acme School of Stuff'' is a half-hour
Canadian children's television show
Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during the early evenin ...
which was broadcast on
TVOntario between 1 September 1988 and 1 December 1990. The Acme School of Stuff was hosted by its producer David Stringer. The show primarily consisted of theory of operation on a subject or certain item at the beginning, then a field trip to a plant in the middle and following another theory of operation on some other item or subject at the end.
Notable features included:
* A Rube Goldberg machine made from devices explained on the show, as an opening scene
* Technical facts presented in a way understandable to school age children in a conversational manner
* Breaking
the fourth wall
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by use of camera and lighting effects, and audible comments by the TV crew
Many of the episodes have been uploaded to YouTube under the acmeschool channel.
TVO original programming
1988 Canadian television series debuts
1990 Canadian television series endings
1980s Canadian children's television series
1990s Canadian children's television series
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