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Puppets & Computers: The Best Christian Children's Programming From The '80s & '90s

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Sunshine Factory

This one was before my time, but I remember seeing the videos at Sunday school, eating cookies and drinking orange juice. No, we weren't giving blood. And yes, it was based in a factory.

Adventures in Odyssey

Odyssey was a bit more mature, with the story lines geared toward life lessons, and not so heavy handed on the God stuff. Pretty animation too.

Circle Square

The best and worst thing about Circle Square was the creepy lip-syncing going on, with almost no effort on the part of the child cast. They must have all had guns to their heads off camera, with puppets who were also computers with their felt hands on the triggers.

Davey & Goliath

The OG of Christian kids television, D&G was created by Gumby mastermind Art Clokey who passed away just last year. This one still sucks us in on Saturday afternoons, and still warms my dark heart.

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