The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel DVD (1972)

The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel was an educational cartoon series that ran in the early 1970s. The program combined film clips, animation, and commentary to teach the viewers about historic and cultural events. It was hosted by Professor Kitzel (voiced by Paul Soles), an eccentric scientist, with occasional appearances by his grandfather or his parrot. The format of each short (5 minute) episode was generally an opening discussion by the professor introducing the subject. He would then take the viewer to his time machine, pull a lever and the first series of drawings and commentary related to the subject would begin. Halfway through the story, the professor would interrupt the commentary to make some humorous remark, before returning to the narrative with an invitation to "Let's see what happened next." Each episode concluded with some humorous closing sequence.