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I started elementary school the same year as you (1973.). While I don’t remember the NBC program, I do remember an A/V cart wheeled into our classroom on a weekly basis. The reception wasn’t the best, but we’d watch PBS for what was kind of like The Electric Company devoted solely to the metric system. It had a catchy theme song- I think it just repeated “It’s the metric system!” We were told how, Under President Carter, the entire USA would make the switch. And then, we never spoke of it again...

[Nowhere Man]

I started elementary school the same year as you (1973.). While I don’t remember the NBC program, I do remember an A/V cart wheeled into our classroom on a weekly basis. The reception wasn’t the best, but we’d watch PBS for what was kind of like The Electric Company devoted solely to the metric system. It had a catchy theme song- I think it just repeated “It’s the metric system!” We were told how, Under President Carter, the entire USA would make the switch. And then, we never spoke of it again...

We did the same thing too, we used to watch PBS where they showed "the Electric Company," "Zoom," "Big Blue Marble," and a few others. I remember early on, we only had B&W TV's old Setchell/Carlsons but by 1977 or so, we finally went to color. Reception was good, we watched WQED here in Pittsburgh.

"Big Blue Marble" was about children around the world and how they lived. IIRC, I remember one 1976/77 episode about a teenaged girl in Iran and although they were Moslem, they adopted and loved Western values. She liked how she could wear jeans, listen to rock music and not have to wear a hijab (head scarf) when she went out. Sad to say, that would change after a couple of years. B-(