What's New? is a half-hour American daily science and entertainment television program for children,Wolters, Larry. "What's New? Show Called What's New" (Chicago Tribune, August 25, 1963, TV Section 5, p.14)What's New? programming schedule {with daily mention of George Fischbeck and Murl Deusing} for Monday, February 20 through Friday, February 24, 1967 on Pennsylvania educational station WITF, channel 33 in Reading (Reading Eagle, February 19, 1967, TV section, p.4) that was broadcast on the National Educational Television (NET) network and its 1970 successor, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), from 1962 to 1973."J. Allison (Al) Binford Jr." (Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame) The program aired in black-and-white and, then as of October 1967, in color.Mary Ann Watson,"The expanding vista: American television in the Kennedy years," Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1994, p. 186
The show began with a marching theme, with the narrator saying: "In, Out, and Round About. Here, There, and Everywhere. What's New?"
The target audience was upper elementary school and junior high school grades. The show was hosted by Al Binford, with daily segments presented by science teacher George Fischbeck,Fischbeck, George. Dr. George: My Life in Weather {Chapter 3: "My Classroom Expands" is devoted to his work at NET} UNM Press, 2013"'Dr. George' Fischbeck dies at 92; popular weatherman at KABC–TV (Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2015) naturalist Murl Deusing and others, including deaf mime actor Bernard Bragg whose silent semi-comical educational adventure sketches were based on the artistry of his teacher, Marcel Marceau.Bragg, Bernard as signed to Bergman, Eugene. Lessons in Laughter / The Autobiography of a Deaf Actor. Gallaudet University Press, 2002 Ron Finley created the opening credits. Each program would deal with three different topics, such as baseball or space science.
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