Animated Hero Classics
Animated Hero Classics is an educational Animated television series of programs co-produced by Nest Family Entertainment and Warner Bros. The series, geared toward elementary school aged children, includes twenty biographies of both female and male scientists, inventors, explorers, and social champions from around Europe, North America and the Middle East, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, Marco Polo, Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur. The Children's Television Act of 1990 required terrestrial television networks to devote time to Educational and Informative programming for children. Even though Warner Bros' cable networks were not directly affected by these requirements, these programs were debuted on their HBO network's Saturday morning children's block as a show of good faith that the network was committed to quality educational programming for children. The dramatic biographies were meticulously researched by ...
Details
- First aired
- 1 Jun 1991
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 20
- TMDB 6.3
- Last aired
- 1 Jan 2005
- Genres
Documentary Action & Adventure
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- HBO
- Countries
US
- Original language
- en
- Original title
- Animated Hero Classics
- Creators
- Writers
Brian Nissen
