Are there any fans of Marc Brown's Arthur books and the PBS Kids Arthur cartoon series?

I know there were a number of Arthur books published in the 1980's, the first Arthur book - Arthur's Nose - was released in 1976, the second Arthur book - Arthur's Eyes (later narrated by Bill Cosby on a "Reading Rainbow" episode in 1983) - came out in 1979. Marc Brown still churns out new Arthur book titles almost every year.

In 1996 PBS launched the Arthur cartoon series produced by Canadian animation studio Cinar (now Cookie Jar Entertainment) and Boston PBS station WGBH. Between 2 15 minute Arthur animated episodes there's the mid show "A Word from Us Kids" live action segment. The cartoon series launched a spinoff series in 2004 called "Postcards from Buster" (which included a controversial episode set in Vermont featuring a same sex married female couple that many PBS stations refused to air, also: One PBS station in my area airs a Spanish dubbed version of "Postcards from Buster" Saturday mornings).

Regarding Arthur: We are all familiar with Arthur's sister D.W. and Arthur's pet dog named Pal as well as Arthur's friends including Buster, Francine, Muffy, Binky, Brain, Sue Ellen, Prunella, and Fern. There has also been some Arthur toys (like the Milton Bradley board game "Arthur Goes to the Library" and even some Arthur plush dolls - I have seen plush dolls of Arthur, D.W., Baby Kate, Francine, Buster, Muffy, Binky, Brain, Pal, Sue Ellen, Nadine, and Arthur's mother; but how come there is not yet plush doll versions of Prunella and Fern?)

"And I say, hey! HEY! what a wonderful kind of day..."

Speaking of Arthur: Does anyone have on videotape or DVD-R the Arthur episode "Popular Girls/Buster's Growing Grudge" since my local PBS station may have banned this episode from airing on that station like PBS banned the Postcards from Buster episode "Sugartime" for a reason.

aaah very interesting i didn't know arthur came out in the 80s