The Big World of Little Adam facts for kids
The Big World of Little Adam was a fun television cartoon series. It first appeared in 1964. This show was special because it combined real science videos with animated characters.
In the early 1960s, a producer named Fred Ladd found many NASA documentary short subjects. These were short films about space and science. He turned them into 110 five-minute episodes for TV. To make them more exciting, he added short animated parts at the beginning and end of each film. These parts featured a curious boy named Little Adam and his younger brother, Wilbur.
The episodes were shown on TV in a special way called "syndication." This means local TV stations could buy the show to air it. Sometimes, stations would show a few episodes together in a half-hour block. Other times, they would play single five-minute episodes during blocks of other cartoons. The science videos used in the show became a bit old-fashioned after the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. After that amazing event, the show stopped being shown on TV by the early 1970s.
The voice of Little Adam was done by John Megna. Wilbur's voice was played by Craig Sechler.
Exploring the Episodes
This show had many episodes, each teaching something new about space and science. Here is a list of some of them:
- Aerospace Ship
- A Far-Away Cry
- Aim for the Stars
- Aim for the Sun
- Blueprints from Space
- Breathing in Space
- Echo in Space
- Flying the Blizzard
- Gemini: The Space Twins
- How Not to Fly to Venus
- Kitty Hawk to Mars
- Man in a Spacesuit
- Man on the Moon
- Mercury in Orbit
- Mercury Man in Space
- Missing Spaceman
- OAO-Telescope in Space
- Our Wandering Planet
- Pictures from Space
- Recovery at Sea
- Star Glazers
- The Amazing Maser
- The Dust Storm
- The Flaming Re-entry
- The Highest Wind
- The Middle Ear
- The Space Tug
- The World Tomorrow
- To Take the Moon
- Track of the Capsule
- Voice from Space
- Voices from the Moon
- War of the Satellites
- What Scares You
- Zero Gravity
- Zero Plus Five!
