No Jackanory in the USA then?

[sffcorgi]

--- Felicia Rickmann wrote:
> Ah, I take it Jackanory didn't make it over the Atlantic then?   

If it did, I missed it.  I have some shocking gaps.... ;)  The name 
is familiar, for some reason, but that's as far as that goes.
 
> Well, I think Harry Potter would have gone down a storm and put
> the viewing figures into the millions for the programme, long,
> long before the Philisopher's Stone hit the big screen.  
> 
> Every weekday evening, when I was young *sigh*, famous and/or
> reputable actors and actresses such as Jason Carter, read stories
> on TV.

What a lovely idea!  TV-as-babysitter in the =best= way.  And you're 
right, HP would have been wonderful on a show like that.

Corgi