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Puzzle Place

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded Lancit and Community Television of Southern California awarded Lancit and Community Television of Southern California (“KCET”) $4.5 million grant, one of the largest children’s television grants in CPB’s history, to develop and produce The Puzzle Place, designed to be the first new major daily preschool series created for public television since the premier of “Sesame Street”. The series premiered on January 16, 1995 with an initial 40 episodes delivered to PBS and since its debut, has regularly achieved the second highest average daily ratings among daily PBS children’s shows based on ratings in the top 32 metered markets.

The series featured a cast of multi-ethnic “people puppet’ characters who inhabit a make-believe workshop and together must solve the many “puzzles” of growing up. The show is intended to teach children life skills, such as understanding other people, evaluating choices and solving basic problems.

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