Watch Bingo&Molly-Rainy Day Blues
- 25 min
There is going to be a picnic and everyone is excited. Molly is preparing the picnic basket. Bingo is packing his favourite toys. Zigger is cooking banana bread, Gladys is making a potato salad and Duck is dressing in his special picnic outfit. He's going as a bee. The sky grows very dark. There is thunder and lightening and it starts to rain. Everyone is crammed into Bingo and Molly's house and they are all rather miserable except for Zigger who has found the food.
Duck has an idea. He borrows a large sheet and while Mr. Growl is reading a story, he makes a large circus tent. Imagine the surprise and laughter when he pops out to introduce a special rainy day circus.
Bingo & Molly was originally produced for The Learning Channel, a division of Discovery Networks and was designed to meet their high standards of excellence in children's programming. Bingo & Molly aired on Discovery Kids and The Learning Channel in around 100 million homes across North and South America.
The shows combine music, puppets and fun-filled animation to help pre-schoolers learn the social skills necessary to relate to family members and other children their own age. An ensemble cast of comical and endearing characters, comprising Bingo & Molly brother and sister rabbits, Gladys the Emu, is the nosy neighbour, Duck is a duck who thinks he's a rabbit, Zigger the mole, Rosa the Bear from South America, and of course Mr. Growl, the vegetarian Wolf, who is the mentor and confidant of the whole team. Together they cope with and solve many of the same concerns that trouble or confuse our young readers. Children will learn that they too can solve the same kind of problems by emulating the solutions of the Bingo & Molly and their woodland friends.
Targeted at the K through 8 age range, these sensitive children's shows were designed to build children's confidence and trust in themselves by modelling positive problem solving skills. In pursuing this goal of greater social underst