The Magic School Bus Rides Again

The Magic School Bus Rides Again is an animated children's web series, based on the book series of the same name by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It also serves as a continuation of the 1994–1997 PBS Kids series The Magic School Bus, with Lily Tomlin reprising her role as Ms. Frizzle. The series premiered on Netflix on September 29, 2017. The second season premiered on April 13, 2018. The series made its linear debut on Qubo on November 1, 2020 and aired until the channel ceased broadcasting on February 28, 2021. Three 45-minute specials, "Kids in Space", "The Frizz Connection", and "In the Zone", premiered on Netflix in 2020. A fourth special, "Goldstealer" was never released on Netflix but was instead released on a DVD. They were dedicated to Joanna Cole, the author of the original books, who died in 2020. Plot In the sequel to Scholastic's The Magic School Bus, the flagship Valerie Frizzle (now Professor Frizzle) gets her Ph.D and retires from teaching at Walkerville Elementary School. She then hires her younger sister, Miss Fiona Frizzle, to teach the class, and passes the keys of the Magic School Bus over to her. The kids journey on exciting new field-trips, discovering new locations, creatures, time periods and more to learn about the wonders of science, educating viewers along the way, on the eponymous Magic School Bus.