The Magic School Bus
Plays Ball
TV Flash files “Plays Ball” as hour 10 of 52 in the TV Flash guide — The Magic School Bus (1994–1997) on PBS, season 1, episode 10, aired 1994-11-12, 25 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 52 in the The Magic School Bus guide, hour 10 of 13 in season 1. It aired 1994-11-12 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Gets Ready, Set, Dough” (S01E09). Next is “Goes to Seed” (S01E11).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Plays Ball sit in the The Magic School Bus guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 52 — hour 10 of 13 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did The Magic School Bus S01E10 air?
Plays Ball aired 1994-11-12 and is listed at 25 minutes.
Is it actually educational?
PBS gold-standard edutainment: science as adventure, curriculum hiding inside field trips that no waiver would allow.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Seatbelts, everyone: a class that shrinks, dives, and ignores every field-trip waiver ever written. PBS educational animation at gold-standard wattage — Lily Tomlin’s Frizzle, science as adventure, and curiosity treated as a personality. Kids’ TV that made organelles exciting and still the show teachers cite when they want entertainment to do homework without feeling like a worksheet.
The work, first: Ms. Frizzle shrinking, digging, and space-traveling her class through science concepts — seatbelts, everyone, field trips that ignore every waiver ever written. Based on the Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen books, the PBS series (1994–1997) made Lily Tomlin's Frizzle a style icon and curiosity a personality. Daniel DeSanto, Tara Meyer, and Danny Tamberelli among the class voices. Entertaining enough that kids forgot it was curriculum: organelles as adventure, gold-standard wattage educational…
Filed against
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- Daniel DeSanto as Carlos Ramon
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- Tara Meyer as Dorothy Ann
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