| Bli Sodot | |
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| Also known as | Without Secrets |
| Starring | Lukács András |
| Country of origin | Israel |
| Original languages | Hebrew, Szikron magyar |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 45 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Original release | |
| Network | [[ adó MTV-1 / TV-1, TV-2, Duna TV, Minimax]] |
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Bli Sodot (Hebrew: בְּלִי סוֹדוֹת lit. Without Secrets) was an educational television show broadcast on Israeli Educational Television during the years 1983–1986 and on reruns during the mid-1990s. The show was intended for lower grades of Elementary, seeking to help with their reading. The show was incorporated as an integral part of the school curriculum and was even accompanied by 10 study booklets and five enrichment booklets, published by the Center for Educational Technology (CET).[1]
The first-of-its-kind educational television broadcasts intended to teach children to read and would visualize to the viewer the process of reading through songs and sketches led by some well-remembered characters such as Gashash Balash ("Probing Detective") and Itonish ("Newspaperman"). The show's hosts Hanny Nahmias, Oshik Levi, Nathan Nathanson, and Hanan Goldblatt, and several other actors who'd participated on the show such as Shula Hen, Ofra Haza, Galia Isay, and Matti Sari. Plasticine Animation clips, introducing the characters "Alphy" and "Betty", (a play on the Hebrew letters aleph and bet) were also featured.
As a singular channel, the show received extremely high ratings among children and was considered one of Israeli Educational Television's classics. Its popularity led to a follow-up series called BeSod HaYinyanim (Hebrew: בסוד הענינים) between the years 1991-1992. First graders would watch Bli Sodot while second graders would watch the BeSod HaYinyanim follow-up.
The show remains[as of?] an integral part of Israeli culture, with 39% of elementary schools still using it in the classroom.[2]
- ^ Bli Sodot Archived July 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, on Israeli Educational Television.
- ^ 'Spelling acquisition in two social groups: Mother-child interaction, maternal beliefs and child's spelling' The two schools used a program of reading and writing instruction called "No Secrets" (in Hebrew, "Bli Sodot"), which is employed by approximately 39% of elementary schools in Israel (Ministry of Education, 2001).