Proposed TV Series
AMERIKIDS USA proposes several half hour TV series programs for youngsters 8-12 years old. The television series will compliment the highly successful CD-ROM game "PONY EXPRESS RIDER", produced by McGraw-Hill Home Interactive in association with AMERIKIDS USA. As each title in the AMERIKIDS® CD-ROM is published, the TV series amplifies and further expands the adventures in the CD-ROM game. The AMERIKIDS® television series, orginally developed for ABC-TV as Weekend Specials will now be a complimentary rendition and logical expansion of the live action computer game.
 | Pony Express Rider TV series |
| Bird Woman TV series |
| Josiah and the Whale TV series |
| Sybil and the Spy TV series |
Contact:
Lynn Rogoff
10 Leonard St. #3SW
New York, N.Y. 10013
TEL 212-941-8461 FAX: 646-613-8787
Thus, for the premier of our TV series, "PONY EXPRESS RIDER", each episode is an adventure in preserving the Union and saving the USA from secret Confederate States of America militias. The protagonist is a "kid" rider for the Pony Express. He is secretly working for President Lincoln as a Union agent, gathering information on the recently uncovered Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC). Every week as the riders deliver the mail in different Territories from Missouri to California, where they uncover nefarious plots by the KGC to over run the Union.
Our Pony Express rider is working for the undercover Union Agent, Bradley, who relays his messages to the President. The President, in turn, relays messages through Bradley to the Pony Express Riders who delivers thses coded messages to the Fort Commanders and Union allies.
The KGC, led by the villainous Edmund Drongoole, are planning to take over the Country for the Confederacy. Their master plan is to cut off the Pony Express and thereby eliminate all communications with the West, institute their own militia, take over California for themselves, and then start their own Republic.
While the covert KGC is busy conspiring, they hope to trick the Indians into believing that the Union is cheating their Chiefs. Thus, Drongoole and his gang will foment the Indians to attack the Pony Express. They hope the Indians will unwittingly help cut off the Pony Express Riders and all communications with the Western Territories.
Meanwhile Drongoole and his gang plan to take over California and re-institute the slave trade from California seaports. The KGC eventually plan to conquer Mexico, Nicaragua and Cuba. The KGC plot the final destruction of the Union mapping their international golden circles of slave plantations, a profitable slave trade route and a new Imperial Empire.
In addition to the adventure and excitement of the western panorama and working for a US President, Abe Lincoln, the teenagers have dramatic encounters with several Indian Nations. Our PONY EXPRESS RIDER will have to decode letters, Morse code, and spy ciphers to uncover the dastardly deeds of the KGC. Our PONY EXPRESS RIDER encounters sacred youthful challenges by Indians men and woman.
The viewer experiences the history of our Nation as well as its geography . You will meet young people crossing the country by wagon train and then experience all the variations of the westward expansion movement from the teenage viewpoint. You will meet a young female spy for the Confederate States of America, a young runaway slave who becomes a news reporter, and even triumph over gangsters, Frank and Jesse James, who began their life of crime plundering for the Confederate cause.
Our audience will experience:
| The excitement of teenagers delivering important messages on horseback across the Nation in merely ten days, |
| The drama on the eve of Civil War, |
| The rugged building of the West |
| Fearless Indian tribes along the Pony Express trail. |
Our viewers will understand how difficult it was to build this great Nation and how young people helped keep it united as one country. You will encounter many remarkable people of this period through an exciting synergy of computer on-line gaming and TV adventures.
Most importantly, viewers will experience important and influential average American kids who saved our Nation. Kids who have been bold and courageous throughout American history are AMERIKIDS®. This series will make kids see how important their actions really are to our country, both then and now. For as the series progresses, kids will become the protagonists of adventures throughout American history. The audiences will time travel through the last 200 years of America engrossed in the adventures of real heroic characters who helped save our nation through their courage and daring deeds.
Sacajawea "Bird Woman" dramatizes the adventures of the heroic Shoshone Native American woman, Sacajawea , who is half woman and half bird. At the birth of her child, Sacajawea discovers her spirit's supernatural powers as Bird Woman, part woman and part hawk.
She is the natural guide for the risky Lewis and Clark expedition across the newly acquired Louisiana Territories, and the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. This is a King Solomon story of a young mother and a spiritually awakened Native American, who has to make monumental choices between the Indian world and William Clark's love. None of these choices are easy and the final one has climactic consequences.
Given that the 200 year anniversary of the Expedition is soon approaching it will be a grand celebration to tell Sacajawea's untold story. This is the heartfelt version of the Lewis and Clark Journey. You will be moved by this poignant tale of a young country and a young woman's voyage of discovery.
JOSIAH AND THE WHALE TV Series
| Healing The Damage |
| Saving The Whales Off The Coast Of Cape Cod. |
| Ecological Movement |
| 1986 |
The film opens with panoramic whale routes of the East and West Coasts of America. The Center For Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts researches whales, dolphins, porpoises and turtles, It is run by Josiah Mayo's family. A species of whale, the Right Whale, the largest and rarest on Earth, is spotted by Stormy Mayo, Josiah's father. Josiah discovers unique marine mammal sounds and the problems in recording the songs and patterns of a 40 Foot, 80,000 Pound Whale.
The tender boat captain heads out for the gigantic whale. To get near the Right Whale and to record its unusual sounds, the boat must drift quietly and avoid turning over or hitting any rocks, boats or other whales. Josiah learns to steer the boat and then switch to handling lines and finally to use radar.
After Josiah searches he spots the whales. Rushing towards the whales, he must identify this particular whale, record it's song and put a luminescent tag on the giant Right Whale. Then he can trace it in the darkness. He can then release the Right Whale. This song that we record, telling of the eating and living patterns of the Right Whale, is now providing newly revealed dramatic information to the international science community. Josiah Mayo, a 10 year old boy, learns how many endangered whale species there are on the high seas. We experience the unusual customs and habits of all the numerous species of whales. Josiah learns of the special marine environment and weather conditions along the coasts of America. We experience the gigantic Humpback Whales and Right Whales, their communicative songs, their distinctive patterned tails and their unique breathing blow holes. We experience how they migrate and swim thousands of miles, and how to help mammals that are stranded, beached and entangled by nets.
| The American Revolution |
| 1777 |
Sibyl In The Virtual Forest
This script focuses on the adventures and contributions of a 16 year old girl, Sibyl Ludington, during the Revolutionary War. Sibyl, a teen horse rider, gallops through the forest to alert the militia that the British have landed in Connecticut and are marching towards West Point, New York. The British burn down the patriot's ammunition supplies and head for the Hudson Highlands from Long Island Sound. This 10 hour ride covers 40 miles, through perilous trails in upstate New York throughout the night. Her heralded ride is longer than the famed ride of Paul Revere. A stamp was issued during the Bicentennial commemorating her achievements. A statue of Sibyl stands at Lake Carmel in New York State.
Sibyl deduces a strategy in order to gather the farmer-troops and beat the Britishs. She meets up with Benedict Arnold, the traitor, who is preparing to sell the secrets of Fort West Point to the British and endanger the entire Continential Army. As Sibyl rides through the forest she saves Enoch Crosby, a famous counter spy for the patriots, and scares away Indians, the British and even bandits.
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