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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Insisting that no customer-or their no-limit platinum card-should be turned away, Diesel has added "the Kratt" to their unisex collection this season. The Kratt is the upwardly mobile blue-jean...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: Tanking Up: Diesel Display | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...shuffling harmonica sounds like it could be background music for Hee Haw, and host Martin Kratt is all got up in cowboy boots and a bandanna just like the country show's star, Roy Clark. This episode, Kratt explains in a humorously fake Western accent, will focus on bovines, "the puurtiest darn cows I've ever seen." But he's not talking about barnyard animals, and his brother and co-host Chris waddles onto the scene to set things straight. The show is actually about sea cows. What are sea cows? Ah, that's the fun on Kratts' Creatures--finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DUDES, ANIMALS ARE TOTALLY COOL! | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

Hailing not from the wilds of Big Sky Country but rather from the suburbs of New Jersey, Chris and Martin Kratt have added the element perennially missing from TV wildlife shows: wit. At the same time, they have deleted other elements usually all too evident: the funereal music, the somber voice of an offscreen narrator, and the snooty self-importance. Airing weekdays on PBS, the half-an-hour series is aimed at six-to-11-year-olds, but the hosts' offbeat affability and unpatronizing tone have made it a favorite among grownups too. In many areas ratings for Kratts' Creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DUDES, ANIMALS ARE TOTALLY COOL! | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

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