Hodgepodge Lodge

Hodgepodge Lodge (sometimes spelled Hodge-Podge Lodge) was a half-hour children's television series produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting and shown on a number of PBS stations from 1970 to 1977, hosted by "Miss" Jean Worthley.[1] It featured the quiet Miss Jean introducing elementary school children to wild animals and other nature topics (for example, trees) in a calm setting around the namesake lodge.

This article is about the American children's series. For the former children's block on CBC Television in Canada, see CBC Kids.

Hodgepodge Lodge was aired on PBS stations on the East Coast and syndicated for the rest of the nation in the early and mid-1970s.[2] The host introduced the wonders of nature to national audiences, which included inner-city children, many of whom had never seen a garden or an animal in a setting other than a zoo. Miss Jean would do everything from opening up a pine cone and exploring its depths (which might have led to the discovery of a beetle or worm), to examining the habitat of a hedgehog or a red fox.

Unfortunately, most episodes of Hodgepodge Lodge have been lost because the master tapes were erased to save money by allowing the tapes to be reused. Of the over 760 original episodes, only about 30 remain. Maryland Public Broadcasting offers some of the surviving episodes on DVD.

References
  1. Rasmussen, Frederick N. (April 16, 2017). "Jean R. Worthley, host of popular MPT nature show in the 1970s". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  2. Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 220–222. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
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