- published: 11 Aug 2014
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Cro is an American animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993 as part of the Saturday morning line-up for fall 1993 on ABC. Cro lasted 1½ seasons and ran in reruns through summer 1995. The show had an educational theme (this before federal educational/informational mandates took effect in 1996), introducing basic concepts of physics, mechanical engineering, and technology. The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work; Macaulay is credited as writer on the show. The last new episode aired on October 22, 1994. The show was released on video (VHS) in a total of nine volumes.
Dr. C and Mike travel to the Arctic to study artifacts, and find a frozen woolly mammoth named Phil. They thaw it out, and are surprised to find that it can speak. Whenever a situation involves physics principles, Phil remembers when a similar situation occurred long ago in Woollyville with his fellow mammoths and his Cro-Magnon friend Cro who lives with a family of Neanderthals. Each episode runs through how the situation was resolved through simple engineering.
Actors: Flemming Nordkrog (composer), Arielle Sémenoff (actress), André Oumansky (actor), Nelly Kafsky (producer), Géraldine Pailhas (actress), Grégori Derangère (actor), Estelle Larrivaz (actress), Sarah Turoche (editor), Raphaëlle Isnard (miscellaneous crew), Nicolas Bridet (actor), Yannick Charles (miscellaneous crew), Virginia Anderson (actress), Angelo Cianci (director), Angelo Cianci (writer), Sophie Pincemaille (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,An old Saturday Morning cartoon with a little education. I claim no ownership of this show - only the videocassette that it's on.
Cro episode 16, episode 2 of season 2: "What That Smell?". Credits include voiceover promo.
Remember this show in the '90s that was all about Science in cartoon version? About the Cro-Magnon man who lived with Neanderthals and Mammoths. Well, this is the opening sequence for that. This is also uploaded at blastfromthepasttv.com.
Cro was an educational cartoon a while ago.
I claim no ownership of this. I need to organize my tapes - accidentally came across another episode of Cro that I forgot I had. Recorded in 1995 with commercials. This may be all I have but I have fooled myself before.
Shortly after Bobb and Steamer trap themselves on the opposite side of a canyon, a few of Woolyville’s residents band together to find an ingenious way to reach the other side to rescue them. Meanwhile in the present…err 1994, Phil helps Mike with his basketball skills with aid of a catapult. Thanks to Nanto for sharing these episodes from his VHS collection. Check out his YouTube channel (devoted to the 1970s PBS educational series Sesame Street and The Electric Company) here:https://www.youtube.com/user/NantoVision1 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infring...
Time to hop into the way-back machine and return to a much simpler time (…and I’m not talking about the 90’s). We’re going back to the ice age, back when man was in it’s infancy, science and technology had a long way to go and the world was inhabited by…talking mammoths? Cro was a rather odd and obscure series from the early 90’s that introduced young audiences to concepts of physics and mechanics. And I don’t know about you, but I certainly remember this show (or at least the reruns on Nickelodeon) from when I was still a little Penguinstein and still doing battle with my 4th grade teacher, lol. Thanks to Nanto for sharing these episodes from his VHS collection. Check out his YouTube channel (devoted to the 1970s PBS educational series Sesame Street and The Electric Company) here:https...
tonight I'll dream a girl called home
and wake up in tears
all on my own
with the sun coming up
and my head against stone
balcony dressed and drawn
tonight I'll Dream a room so far away
frost pale blue
the colour of a perfect day
and then screw up my face
in the mirror
as I wait for the others to call
but if I don't believe in magic
and I don't believe in blood
and I don't believe in miracles
and I don't believe in love
then how come I believe so soon
in a cherry tree girl
and a dust blue room?
tonight I'll dream an hour so long
shadow soft smiles
and everyone loves me
to open my eyes
in a drag myself face undone
hard back into the world
tonight I'll dream a dream I dream
without even trying I'm flying I scream
as I practice the move
I spit at my pillow stained face
and the others all come
but if I don't believe in magic
and I don't believe in blood
and I don't believe in miracles
and I don't believe in love
then how come I believe it seems
in a girl called home