The Good Night Show with Nina & Star (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2006-2017)

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Melanie, the first host, with Star

Status: Partially Found

The Goodnight Show was a TV show that played between other shows on Sprout (now known as as Universal Kids) that aired between 2005-2017 with the first episode airing on September 26th 2005. The series ended when Sprout was rebranded as Universal Kids. The series was hosted by Nina and Star 2006-2017, with previous hosts Melanie and Leo from 2005-2006.

Premise

The Good Night Show features a variety of segments. Some of them were removed in 2012.

The first segment involves a different form of constellations as Nina and Star look at the sky with their telescope, and will usually have nighttime birthday remainders from The Sunny Side Up Show.

The next segment features an animated game titled Lucy, Light the Way!, where Lucy, a firefly puppet, (who introduces the shows that come between the block), will light up and viewers need to guess where Lucy is.

The next segment involves a different craft based on the day’s theme. The crafts were removed in 2012, and were replaced by the Sandy Story segment, where Nina would tell a story and draw the pictures in sand.

The next segment involves Nina and Star to spin a moonbeam wheel, play a goodnight game, and translate a word in Spanish.

The quarter-final segment deals with cleaning up, where Nina and Star put up a musical number to sing.

The final segment involves Nina to encourage viewers to give their wishes to Hush, their pet goldfish, with a poem and the goodnight song, Before or After that, Sprout friends sleeping to the iconic Pajanimals song “La-La-Lullaby”. The Pajanimals song was removed in 2016.

In later episodes there were some special guests and went live in The Sunshine Barn from The Sunny Side Up Show a couple of times.

Production

In September 2005 in a joint venture between Comcast, NBCUniversal, PBS and HIT Entertainment/Sesame Workshop, PBS Kids Sprout was launched on Comcast and later other cable/satellite providers., The original Host was Melanie until August 2006 when the network found some raunchy videos online and fired her, and for a short period of time the second host was Leo aka Noel MacNeal who came up with Lucy the Firefly, the 3rd and final host was Nina aka Michele Lepe and stayed host until 2017.

Hosts/Cast

  • Nina, played by Michele Lepe, debuted as the permanent host on December 18, 2006. Lepe's fourth season premiered on November 7, 2009. and her fifth season premiered on August 27, 2012. The sixth season premiered on July 27, 2015. Michele (as Nina) guest-hosted The Sunny Side Up Show in 2014.
  • Star, a star-shaped puppet, portrayed by Stacia Newcomb, was the show's co-host. Star served as the child character of the show, asking questions about the evening's theme, commenting to Nina about the segment (such as the Good-Night Game), or encouraging viewers to follow him as he performed nighttime routines such as brushing his teeth or reading a bedtime story. Star debuted shortly before the departure of the program's original host, "Melanie." His puppet was updated on November 7, 2011 and again on August 27, 2012. He appeared as a character in the prequel Nina's World, living with Nina, even though Star accompanied Melanie and Leo prior to Nina's arrival.
  • Lucy was a firefly puppet used to introduce show segments. She was also featured in games, such as "Lucy Light the Way"; in this game, viewers were shown parts of a picture (as though they were illuminated by a firefly's light) and then guessed what the picture represented. Her puppet was updated in mid-2009. She also appears as a character in the prequel Nina's World, living with Nina, even though she was introduced alongside Leo before Nina arrived.
  • Hush was a real-life goldfish who was originally used to introduce show segments. He appeared at the end of every show, with Nina closing the show by saying good night and reciting a poem in which viewers were encouraged to "make a wish." He appears in the prequel Nina's World living with Nina as a child even though he began with Melanie.

Episodes

While it is not fully known how many episodes were produced/aired, considering that most of the entire series is lost.

  • 1 Complete Episode "Parents"
  • 3 Mostly Complete Episodes on DVD "Birthdays, Shadows, Gift Giving"
  • 3 Partially Found Episodes "Dinosaurs, Circus, Sports"
  • other episodes with only 1-2 clips found

According to some reviews for the DVD, the one segment missing from the 3 episodes is the Moonbeam Wheel/Goodnight Game, considering that Pajanimals is not actually part of the main show and the birthdays were part of the sunny side up show, 2 completely different shows that aired between certain parts of the goodnight show segments.

Availability

While it was popular when it was airing on the Sprout channel, there is very little archived and it's hard to find most episodes, only one DVD has been released and there is currently not any digital release although allegedly there may have been a short period of time you may have been able to purchase some segments/episodes on Google Play.

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