Wally Amos Doris Biscoe Charlotte Scot Les Raebel Sylvia Glover Jim Johnson
Theme music composer
Dennis Carnevale
Composer
Dennis Carnevale
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
30
Production
Production locations
Detroit, Michigan; Kentucky
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time
30 minutes
Production company
KET / WXYZ-TV
Original release
Network
PBS / syndicated
Release
August 31, 1987 (1987-08-31)
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Learn To Read is an adult educational TV series that consists of 30 programs, hosted by entrepreneur and literacy advocate Wally Amos. Co-instructors include Doris Biscoe (who was an anchorwoman for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan) and Charlotte Scot. Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce)[a] guest-starred on the first episode. This was based on 27 million Americans having almost no reading skills. On Friday, there is a review of the week. The final program reviews the entire series.
In every episode (excluding programs 1, 5, 10, 15 and 30) a "Getting Along" segment is used, with either Sylvia Glover or Jim Johnson (both formerly of WXYZ's Good Afternoon Detroit) as instructors.
Aside, there's Les the Letter Man and Nancy the Word Woman. Finally, there is Billy Green, referred to as the "Book Guy", telling viewers to get their workbook.
Learn to Read was produced by Kentucky Educational Television in association with WXYZ-TV (the copyright is owned by both KET and E.W. Scripps, then Scripps Howard Broadcasting), funded by the Kmart Corporation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and donors to PBS. The program was produced at WXYZ's studios in Southfield, Michigan, with additional production done by KET in Kentucky.
The program was televised on many PBS member stations, as well as syndicated to commercial stations.[2] The program was also seen locally on WXYZ-TV, generally weekday mornings at 5AM.[3]
^Radio-Info: "Retro: Montréal/Southern Québec Tues., July 4, 1989", 7/2/2009. (includes listings for WMTW, which carried the program)
^TV Guide, Flint-Lansing Edition, July 28-August 3, 1990.
^"Learn to Read (YouTube Playlist)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
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