# Another what show is this
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 28, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083 "2009-08-28T21:21:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083/1 "2009-08-28T21:21:23Z")
I watched it as a kid, probably 3rd - 6th grade, late 70s - early 80s. Pretty sure it was on PBS, because it wasn’t just action/adventure but also learnin’. Lets see what I remember: 3 kids, probably young teenagers, 2 girls and a boy (I think). One of them inherited an uncle’s print shop after the uncle had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The kids discover 2 robots in the shop, one is an IBM Selectric with eyeballs, I think the other was a CRT monitor. Eventually, there are aliens, mysteries, and cheesy late 70s special fx.
Please help me remember this show, 'cause my wife thinks I’m nuts.
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### Author:  [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083/2 "2009-08-28T22:07:19Z")
I remember it: _Read All About It_. Kinda creepy, as I recall.
It looks like all the episodes are online. The first one is [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg9lLi_I60).
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083/3 "2009-08-28T22:08:57Z")
Darn you, **Sefton**! Beat me by one minute!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083/4 "2009-08-28T22:24:31Z")
Okay, how about this one? Aired in the late 80’s I think. Took place in one room, for some reason I want to say it was a basement, I’m thinking from time to time his mom would yell down. There was s robot who’s face was made up of a VHS cassette (might have been Beta at the time).
And that’s all I remember.
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-show-is-this/508083/5 "2009-08-28T23:45:01Z")
> [@Sefton](#):
>
> I remember it: _Read All About It_. Kinda creepy, as I recall.
>
> It looks like all the episodes are online. The first one is [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg9lLi_I60).
Holy Crap! That’s it!