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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
29th Jan, 2011 10:42:54 PM
When this was asked on the old YKTS, somebody suggested Mentors.
I think this was a PBS series, but I'm not sure. The main characters were a boy and girl who had a sort of "time scoop" they used to bring people out of the past and talk with them. One episode had them bring Moses forward, just before the Burning Bush. They knew better, they really did, but they just couldn't help expecting the pop culture versions of the various people. So they were more than slightly disconcerted to get, when they drew Moses forward, an eighty year old Judean shepherd... who stuttered.