Bill Nye the Science Guy is an educational television program

Television program

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 that originally aired from September 10, 1993 to June 20, 1998, hosted by Bill Nye

Bill Nye

William Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist...

 and produced by Buena Vista Television

Buena Vista Television

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. The show aired on PBS Kids

PBS Kids

PBS Kids is the brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States founded in 1993. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial. It is aimed at children ages 2 to 10...

 and was also syndicated

Television syndication

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 to local stations, making it the second first-run television program behind The Open Mind. It still airs on some PBS stations as an educational program for in-school use. Each of the 100 episodes aims to teach a specific topic in science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 to a preteen

Preteen

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 audience.