correctionAn earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the McCaffrey & McCall creative director. It is George Newall, not George Newell. This version has been corrected. “Schoolhouse Rock ...

Any TV-watching child of the 70s can probably tell you which superheroes appeared on the Super Friends, the Saturday morning cartoon franchise show that featured everyone from Superman and Wonder ...

“I am a bill, I am only a bill …” —My first political science lesson, Saturday morning, 1970-something. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Schoolhouse Rock series of cartoon shorts. For some ...

Friday is T-shirt Day at the office. The writers and editors of LNP’s Watchdog team recently embraced casual Fridays, and while shorts and open-toed shoes are still frowned upon, T-shirts — ...

George Newall, the co-creator of the educational musical cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock,” has died. He was 88. Newall’s wife, Lisa Maxwell, told the New York Times he died of cardiopulmonary arrest ...

View All Chicago Shows > SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage! The Emmy Award-winning 1970's Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, ...

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) -- Thomas G. Yohe, the creative force behind television's Emmy-winning "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons, which set educational messages to catchy music, has died of cancer. He was 63.

Entertainment can be educational, especially if the information is rolled up in a nifty little number like the "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons in the 1970s. Those sing-along animations get the full ...

He was the last surviving member of the team that produced the educational cartoon for ABC-TV that informed Generation X. By Sam Roberts George R. Newall, an advertising executive who was the last ...

George Newall, the last surviving original creator of ABC-TV’s “Schoolhouse Rock” cartoon, died Nov. 30 in a hospital near his Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., home. He was 88. According to The New York ...