Release Message:  Professor Kitzel (Paul Soles) uses his visual time machine to display a series of drawings and commentary related to a historical subject.

Description:  The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel was an educational animated series that ran from 1972 to 1976 in Canada and lived on in reruns for many years after. Produced by Shamus Culhane for Krantz Films, the program combined film clips, animation, and narrative to teach the viewers about historic and events. It was "hosted" by the eccentric scientist Professor Kitzel (whose voice was provided by Paul Soles) with occasional appearances by his grandfather or his parrot. The format of each short (5 minute) episode, of which one hundred and six were produced in all, was generally an opening discussion by the professor introducing the subject. He would then take the viewer to his time machine, pull a lever and the first series of drawings and commentary related to the subject would begin. Halfway through the story, the professor would interrupt the commentary to make some humorous remark, before returning to the narrative with an invitation to "Let's see what happened next." Each episode concluded with some humorous closing sequence.