The Good Night Show with Nina & Star (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2006-2017) (2024)

The Good Night Show is a children's television block, with segments that aired in a blockisode format between other shows on Sprout (now known as Universal Kids) starting on September 26th, 2005, with Michele Lepe "Nina" becoming the final, permanent host on December 18th, 2006 until the show was gradually cancelled between late 2016 to early 2017, shortly before the switch to Universal Kids.

This page covers the seasons hosted by Nina (seasons 3+). For the earlier seasons hosted by Melanie/Leo, see The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo.

History

In September 2005, between a joint venture with Comcast, NBCUniversal, PBS, and HiT Entertainment/Sesame Workshop, PBS Kids Sprout first launched on Comcast (later on other cable & satellite providers) & The Good Night Show premiered on the same day.

• Season 3 of the show Premiered on December 18th, 2006 and brought back many elements of the show that were previously suspended during the Noel Macneal season like Crafts, Yoga Stretches & Moonbeam Wheel, carried over a relatively new segment where the host asks a question and sproutlets provide answers based on the night's theme and introduced another variation of the storytime segment.
• Season 4 of the show saw some changes like bringing back Sproutlets to do Yoga Stretches alongside Nina, a new game called Lucy Light The Way was introduced and instead of a book Nina & Star do improv storytelling by using the craft they created in the previous segment.
• Season 5 however removed the Storytime segment (replacing it with Nina's Little Fables), shortened the Sign Language segment, and had a lot more repetition by doing the birthdays, gallery and Sproutlets q&a segments twice.
• Season 6, premiering on November 7th, 2011, saw a major overhaul to the show, switching from the Goodnight Garden to The You & Me Tree setting where Nina & Star would hang out in the treehouse every night, A part of the show where Nina would ask a question & sproutlets provide answers were revamped into an entire segment called "Star talks to kids" where star has a conversation with several sproutlets about the night's theme, Craft & Goodnight Gallery segments were permanently dropped, a new storytime segment was introduced called "Sandy Stories" where Nina tells & writes pictures of the story in sand while Star provides commentary, the Moonbeam Wheel had pictures of various games on the wheel itself instead of Flashcards, and a new, original clean up song was created to play near the end of every episode that encouraged the sproutlets at home to tidy up their rooms before bedtime.^[1] Season 6B started airing on September 27th, 2012 were not much changed except for Nina's Pajamas & another new variation of the Star Puppet.
• Season 7, which premiered on July 27th, 2015 during the Nina's World era, and the final season of GNS, also saw some changes to the show, with one of the biggest being that a new element the "Best Day Ever Book" was introduced which contains Nina's childhood memories and used as a plot device for certain parts of every episode with various games & activities. ^[2] the Moonbeam Wheel segment was completely dropped, and Esai Morales (Best Known for playing as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on ABC's NYPD Blue, Camino del Rio on Netflix's Ozark, and President Julian in HBO's The Brink) played the role of Nina's Uncle "Tio Javier" in several Good Night Show episodes & in the prequel series Nina's World.^[3] Although since almost all of S7 is currently lost, we currently don't know what episodes he appeared in & what the format is like for each episode.

Periodicity, they would also do live episodes like The 2011 Halloween episode “A Sweet Goodnight Treat”, The 2009 Mothers Day episode or the 2014 Space Episode when Astroblast first premiered, usually taking place at The Sunshine Barn.

Premise

The Good Night Show features a variety of segments. Some of the segments were removed or modified in the later seasons for various reasons.

Season 4:

• Nina & Star introduce themselves to the audience, sing a short song, start talking about the topic and learn a word in Spanish
• Nina & Star discuss a little more about the night’s topic, make up a short poem, then sing Twinkle Twinkle during the Sprout-O-Scope segment
• Nina & Star Making a Craft, usually revolving around the topic of the episode
• Nina & Star Once A Sprout A Time (Storytime Segment)
• Nina asking a question related around the topic, and hearing the Sproutlets response
• Nina & Star Play a Goodnight Game by spinning the moonbeam wheel
• Nina teaching the audience a new word in ASL, then showing examples of Sproutlets acting it out
• Goodnight Gallery “Showcasing art sent in by Sproutlets” (Original TV Airings Only)
• Lucy Light The Way
• Star & The Sproutlets getting ready for bed with a song "Brusha Brusha/Rub Scrub."
• Hush Poem/Goodnight Song

Seasons 5:

• Nina & Star introduce themselves to the audience, sing a short song, start talking about the topic and learn a word in Spanish
• Nina & Star discuss more about the topic, sing twinkle twinkle & do the Sprout-O-Scope segment
• Nightly “Leftover” Birthdays from Sunny Side Up (Original TV Airings Only)
• Sprout Stretch “Yoga” with Nina
• Craft Segment, Usually revolving around the topic of the episode
• Goodnight Gallery “Showcasing art sent in by kids” (Original TV Airings Only)
• Nina asking a question related around the topic, and hearing the Sproutlets response
• Playing a Goodnight Game by spinning the moonbeam wheel
• Sign Language segment with Nina
• Repeat Airing of Nightly “Leftover” Birthdays from Sunny Side Up (Original TV Airings Only)
• Second Round of Goodnight Gallery (Original TV Airings Only)
• Lucy Light The Way
• Repeat of “Nina asking a question, and hearing the sproutlets response.”
• Star & The Sproutlets getting ready for bed with a song "Brusha Brusha/Rub Scrub."
• Hush Poem/Goodnight Song

Season 6:

• Nina & Star introduce themselves to the audience, sing a short song, read a short poem & learn a word in Spanish
• Nina & Star discuss more about the topic, sing twinkle twinkle & do the Sprout-O-Scope segment
• Nightly “Leftover” Birthdays from Sunny Side Up (Original TV Airings Only)
• Sprout Stretch “Yoga” with Nina
• Lucy Light The Way
• "Star Talks to Kids" where star has a conversation with several sproutlets that mainly centred around the episode's theme.
• Reading another poem, Learning more Spanish words & a word in Sign Language
• Repeat Airing of Nightly “Leftover” Birthdays from Sunny Side Up (Original TV Airings Only)
• Sandy Stories Segment
• Playing a Goodnight Game by spinning the Moonbeam Wheel (Removed in season 7)
• Cleaning up the treehouse while singing the Cleanup Song
• Nina & Star having one more conversation together before getting Star ready for bed with the "Brusha Brusha/Rub Scrub" Song
• Hush Poem/Goodnight Song

Cast

• Nina, played by Michele Lepe, debuted as the permanent host on December 18th, 2006. and was the most popular host with audiences; she did crafts, translated words into Spanish, did ASL sign language, narrated and drew pictures in the sandy story segments, etc. and guest-hosted The Sunny Side Up Show several times.
• Star, a star-shaped puppet, Voiced & Played by Stacia Newcomb, was the show's co-host. Star served as the child character of the show, asking questions about the evening's theme, commenting to Nina about the segment (such as the Goodnight Game), & encouraging viewers to follow him as he performed nighttime routines such as brushing his teeth or reading a bedtime story. Star debuted shortly before the departure of the program's original host, "Melanie." His puppet was changed several times & appears as a character in the prequel animated series Nina's World, living with Nina, even though Star began with the two former hosts before her.
• Lucy The Firefly, who was originally a firefly puppet in seasons 2-5, updated once in Mid-2009, then completely animated in Seasons 6 and 7, used to introduce show segments, featured in such as "Lucy Light the Way"; in this game, viewers were shown parts of a picture (as though they were illuminated by a firefly's light) and then guessed what the picture represented, In Seasons 6/7 She was also used in the "Sprout-o-Scope" segments to help Nina & Star find constellations in the night time sky, She also appears as a character in the prequel Nina's World, living with Nina, even though she was introduced alongside Leo before Nina arrived.
• Hush was a real-life goldfish who was originally used to introduce shows with the original host, but quickly went from a main character to a minor character who would mainly appear at the ending segments of every episode just before & after star goes to sleep with Nina closing the show by saying goodnight and reciting a poem in which viewers were encouraged to "make a wish." He also appeared in the prequel animated series Nina's World living with Nina as a child even though Hush also began with the two former hosts.
• Nina's Friends and Sproutlets, On The Good Night Show, Melanie or Nina would teach the viewers a Sprout stretch, often based on a show in the fourth season. In 2007, Nina's Sproutlet friends were added to the segments. Originally, the girls wore purple pajamas with stars and the boys wore blue pajamas with moons, but then they wore blue and pink pajamas with either Star on the moon or white and yellow sparks. While still technically counting as stretches, Nina often did poses in the third season. Some of the Nina's Friends and Sproutlets include: Christopher Convery, Jaden Betts, Delaney Jones, Madalynn LeClair, Kamiah Johnson, Giovanni Aponte, Christina Sims, Scout Latshaw, Asa White, William Sum, Deysha Nel, Grace Kelly, and Jeremiah Jackson White.

Availability

Despite airing on the Sprout Channel for over a Decade, and Nina being pretty popular with audiences, surprisingly most of the series is either completely lost, or partially found in varying quality.

• 2 complete episodes from Original TV Airings
• 1 complete episode from a University of Georgia W.J.B Media Archive
• 3 Mostly Complete episodes (w/o Moonbeam Wheel segment) from the DVD "Good Night Stories".^[4]
• 3 Mostly Complete episodes (w/o Moonbeam Wheel segment) on the Sprout Cubby Tablet.

Also while airing on Sprout there were several digital releases of clips/episodes of the show, including Google Play for a brief period of time, ^[5] websites such as DigitalPodcasts (which the files have since been revoked),^[6] YouTube on the original PBSKidsSprout channel but have since been privated,^[7] the current Peaco*ck Jr channel which used to have more clips from the show but only has a few left nowadays.^[8] and on the SproutOnline website & apps like Sprout Player & I-Tunes (which are no longer accessible since the switch to Universal Kids)^[9]

List of Known Episodes

Season 3

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Season 4

Season 5

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Seasons 6 & 7

• A few segments that would have aired in the TV version like birthday reminders and the goodnight gallery were intentionally removed for various reasons, and if any episodes were officially digitally released in the future, they would not include those segments. Still, the Goodnight Game segment that is part of every episode is missing from DVD & Digital re-releases for unknown reasons.

Gallery

Host/Cast

• 3rd host Nina & Star.

• Hush the fish.

• Lucy The Firefly

New Season Promos & Premiere Dates

• Screenshot from season 5 promo, which started on a Monday in mid-late 2009 (Presumed to be Monday, September 21st, 2009)^[12]

• Screenshot from Sproutonline for the earlier parts of Season 6, which the premiere date was Monday, November 7th, 2011.

• Screenshot from a promo for the slightly tweaked season 6, which the premiere date was Monday, August 27th, 2012.

• Screenshot from season 7 promo, which the premiere date was Monday, July 27th, 2015.

Miscellaneous/Other

• Rare Behind The Scenes from the You & Me Tree Set (1/2)

• Rare Behind The Scenes from the You & Me Tree Set (2/2)

• Rare Screenshot of The Good Night Show's Website Homepage

• Screenshot from the episode "Pirates" (S7)

Clips

Other Clips

• Production reel for season 7.

See Also

The Good Night Show

• The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2005-2006)

Bumpers

• Bookworm Bunch (partially found interstitials from PBS Kids channel block; 2000-2001)
• PBS Kids (partially lost schedule bumpers and interstitial material of TV channel block; 1999-present)
• PBS Kids Vote-A-Rama (lost bumpers of "Arthur" themed marathon; 2002)
• Someday School (partially found PBS Kids channel block; 1998-2000)

PBS

• Adventures with Kanga Roddy (partially lost PBS children's series; 1998-2000)
• Backyard Safari (partially found PBS children's educational series; 1997)
• Barney & Friends "Season 9" (partially found alternative version of PBS children's series; 2004-2005)
• Christmastime with Mister Rogers (found holiday TV special; 1977)
• Lamb Chop's Play-Along (partially lost PBS children's puppet series; 1992-1995)
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Mister Rogers Talks About Conflict" (found episode arc of PBS children's educational series; 1983)
• The Puzzle Place (partially found PBS puppet series; 1994-1998)
• Reading Rainbow (found Johnny Kemp opening sequence for PBS children's educational series; 1999)
• Shining Time Station (found season one intro of PBS series; 1989-1990)
• Storytime (found PBS children's reading series; 1992-1998)
• Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Auld Lang Gone" (non-existent episode of PBS children's game show; 1992)
• Zoom (found pilot of revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1995)
• Zoom (partially lost revival of PBS children's series; 1999-2005)

PBS Kids

• The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (partially lost PBS Kids "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" spin-off series; 1998-1999)
• Curious George (lost test pilot of PBS Kids animated series based on books; existence unconfirmed; 2004/2005)
• Cyberchase "The Poddleville Case" (found test pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; 1999)
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids animated musical series; 2006-2008)
• Dragon Tales "One Small Step for Cassie" and "Circle of Friends" (lost pilots of PBS Kids animated series; 1999)
• Jet Propulsion (partially found pitch pilot of "Ready Jet Go!" PBS Kids CGI-animated series; 2013)
• Kratts' Creatures (found PBS children's educational series; 1996)
• Make Way for Noddy (partially found PBS Kids version of British children's TV series; 2005)
• Molly of Denali (partially found pitch pilot of PBS Kids animated series; 2018)
• Nature Cat (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; early 2010s)
• Peg + Cat (partially lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; 2011)
• Preschool Musical... On a Stick (partially lost PBS Kids Sprout "High School Musical" parody; 2008)
• Seven Little Monsters (found episodes of PBS Kids animated series; 2000-2004)
• Space Race (partially found PBS Kids web series; 2011)
• Super Why! (partially found British dub of PBS Kids CGI animated series; late 2000s-2010s)
• What's The Big Idea? (partially found pitch pilot of "Sid The Science Kid" PBS Kids CGI animated series; 2007)
• WordGirl (lost pitch pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
• WordWorld (found test pilot of PBS Kids CGI animated educational series; 2005)

External Links

• The Complete Theme Song for The Good Night Show, by Tim Burns (Composer).
• The Good Night Show Nina's Yoga Stretches Screenshots.
• Wikipedia page on The Good Night Show.
• Petition to get The Good Night Show digitally released.

References

Categories:

• Lost puppetry
• Lost TV
• Partially found media