Cro is an American animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993 as part of the Saturday morning line-up for fall 1993 on ABC. Cro did not do well with the viewers. The show had an educational theme in accordance with FCC-mandated educational/instructional requirements, introducing basic concepts of physics, mechanical engineering, and technology. The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work; Macaulay is credited as writer on the show. The last new episode aired on October 22, 1994. The show was released on video in a total of nine volumes.
Just a stone's throw away
No time for steamer
Destroy all buckies
It's snow problem
Let me help
The legend of big thing
A bridge too short
Pakka's cool invention
Here's looking at you, cro'
No way up
Adventures in miscommunications
Escape from mung island
Pulley for you
Things that eat mung in the night
Meal like a pig
What's that smell
Play it again, cro... not!
Lever in a million years
Turn up the heat
They move mammoths, don't they?
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