Kids for Character was a program that was released on VHS

VHS

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 in 1996. It was a charity special about moral character

Moral character

Moral character or character is an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits...

 that featured many different children's characters. It was produced by The Character Counts! Coalition and was distributed by Lyrick Studios

Lyrick Studios

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 (now HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment

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). A sequel to the Kids for Character video, entitled Kids for Character: Choices Count, was released on October 14, 1997.

Featured shows

Each of the six shows represented a different "pillar" of character (trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship):

• The Puzzle Place
  The Puzzle Place
  The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles, California and Lancit Media in New York City, New York...
  
  - Julie recaps the episode Finder's Keepers
• Barney & Friends
  Barney & Friends
  Barney and Friends, also referred to by HiT Entertainment as Barney the Friendly Dinosaur, is an independent children's television show produced in the United States, aimed at children from ages 1-8...
  
  - In this skit created for this video, Barney as well as Min, Shawn, and Tosha teach Baby Bop about respect through song.
• The Magic School Bus
  The Magic School Bus
  The Magic School Bus is a series of children's books about science written by author Joanna Cole. They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar...
  
  - The episode Wet All Over is used to teach responsibility
• Lamb Chop's Play-Along! - Lamb Chop and Shari Lewis talk about when she had to split jelly beans between Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse in a lesson on fairness.
• Gullah Gullah Island
  Gullah Gullah Island
  Gullah Gullah Island is an American children's television series starring Ron Daise and his wife Natalie Daise. It was the first show designed for preschoolers to feature a Gullah family.-Background:...
  
  - The episode The Binyah Binyah Pollywog Show to show the importance of caring
• Babar
  Babar (TV series)
  Babar is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and HBO, subsequently was rerun on HBO Family and Qubo. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original Babar books, and was Nelvana's first international...
  
  - The episode Babar's Triumph is used to reinforce the importance of citizenship

Cast

• Tom Selleck
  Tom Selleck
  Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B....
  
   as narrator
• Alice Dinnean
  Alice Dinnean
  Alice Dinnean-Vernon is a puppeteer and creative writer who works at The Jim Henson Company. Dinnean-Vernon has performed on many children's television shows such as Sesame Street, Bear in the Big Blue House, Cousin Skeeter, and Jack's Big Music Show...
  
   as Julie Woo
• Noel MacNeal
  Noel MacNeal
  Noel MacNeal is a puppeteer, writer, and director of children's television, best known as the voice and puppeteer of Bear in Bear in the Big Blue House and Breakfast with Bear...
  
   as Leon MacNeal
• Bob West
  Bob West
  Bob West is an American television actor best known as the voice of Barney in the hit children's show Barney & Friends. He has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours...
  
   as Barney
• Julie Johnson
  Julie Johnson
  Julie Johnson is a 2001 drama film directed and written by Wendy Hammond and Bob Gosse. It was shown at several film festivals worldwide between 2001 and 2004.-Plot:...
  
   as Baby Bop
• Patty Wirtz as B.J.
• Lily Tomlin
  Lily Tomlin
  Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in...
  
   as Valerie Felicity Frizzle
• Shari Lewis
  Shari Lewis
  Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s...
  
   as Lamb Chop
• Philip D. Garcia as Binyah Binyah
• Gordon Pinsent
  Gordon Pinsent
  Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.-Early life:Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie ; originally from Clifton, Newfoundland, and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler;...
  
   as King Babar
• Sandy Whitney as King Babar (singing voice)
• Mark Ritts
  Mark Ritts
  Mark Ritts was an American actor, puppeteer, television producer and director, and author. Ritts also produced and directed many independent videos and television spots as President of Mark Ritts Productions, Inc., to clients around the world.-Biography:Ritts was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania...
  
  as Kino
• Marsha Moreau as Madeline
• Rory Carty as Peter Rabbit

Songs

• "It's Your Character That Counts"
• "Six Simple Words"
• "Respect"
• "It's Not Fair"
• "Go Underneath the Broomstick"
• "Friends and Family"
• "We're Kids for Character"