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Saturday, October 12, 2019

White Blood Cell Badge — from Reading Rainbow: Germs Make Me Sick 1986

In 1986 the first cool cartoon about white blood cells depicted as police was broadcast in homes across America with Reading Rainbow, Episode 4 from season 4: Germs Make Me Sick.  In the episode, white blood cells have a badge that is a five pointed white star.  It can be seen on their hats and vehicles.


In this version the portrayal of the immunity response team, antibodies are like police dogs that bite onto foreign criminals.  You can see one police-protein canine unit with a bone in its mouth and another has a spiked dog collar.

Also, a bad guy is being shuttled into back of the the larger Macrophage white blood cell paddy wagon to be executed, but they don't show us that part in the original 1986 episode.  Phagocytes act as judge, jury, and executioner, in addition to being a police-security force.



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