WQLN Original Productions

We Question and Learn, hosted by Tom Pysz

© 2007 WQLN Productions

Education has always been at the heart of the mission of WQLN. When our forefathers selected W Q L N as our call letters they selected them to create the acronym
We Question and Learn. Today We Question to Learn is a monthly television program hosted by Tom Pysz. Tom interviews local leaders who are shaping Erie’s future in areas of technology, finance, education and business. You can purchase an individual We Question and Learn interview by clicking the orange order button.

Old Solders

© 2007 WQLN Productions

In 2006 WQLN invited World War II veterans from the Greater Erie area to sit down in front of our cameras and record memories of their wartime service. The recordings became a collection of extraordinary stories from everyday people that we turned into a series of one minute vignettes. Our intent was to honor the greatest generation, as it turned out - greatest generation honored all of us.

A WQLN Old Solders DVD, including 46 vignettes – many never before seen -- is now available by clicking the orange order button.

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Outdoor Family Adventures

© 2006 WQLN Productions

Outdoor Family Adventures is a thirty-minute outdoor program for the entire family featuring real families hiking, biking, skiing and proving the age-old postulate that states that "families that play together—stay together."

Our Outdoor Family Adventure families not only stayed and played together, but they proved that family bonds develop when the electronic distractions of modern day life are far, far away.

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Scenes from the Attic

© 2006 WQLN Productions

How many times have you toured a museum, paused in front of a single exhibit, and wondered to yourself "if only this thing could talk—just imagine the stories it could tell." The creative production team from WQLN-TV 54 shared the same musings and, with the aid of local writer Richard Boler, has produced a series of fi ve one-act plays recreating moments from time.

Erie's plastic claim to fame with the Big Wheel, Lisa Lichtenfels Avalon Restaurant, and the Firefi ghters Museum all come to life through the skillful storytelling of Boler's pen and four talented Erie actors. Scenes From The Attic includes: the Marx Toy Museum, the Erie Art Museum, the Corry Museum, the Firefi ghters Museum, and the Lake Shore Railway Museum.

Scenes from the Attic is not available for purchase.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

© 2004 WQLN Productions

Take a look at America’s favorite pastime as it’s never been shown before, from a fan’s perspective. One pound burgers, giant hamster balls, and hotdog men riding ostriches – baseball is no longer your grandfather’s game.

They're Everywhere! LeapFrogs in Erie

© 2004 WQLN Productions
After the riveting success of 2001's community art project, GoFish!, local artists and businesses are at it again with the LeapFrog project. This video chronicles the life and times of downtown Erie as it overflows with frogs, both big and small, and takes you inside the artists' process, through the suburbian streets of the imposter frogs, and on a whirlwind tour of how much fun it can be when a community comes together!

Experience Pennsylvania Wineries

© 2003 WQLN Productions

Take a tour of Pennsylvania’s seven wine making regions:

Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley/Berks
Upper Susquehanna
Lower Susquehanna
Groundhog Trail
Pittsburgh Countryside
Lake Erie

“Experience Pennsylvania Wineries” is not just a vine and barrel video tour. The hour-long documentary is also a tour of Pennsylvania - highlighting picturesque Keystone communities and their local wineries, taking viewers to fun filled wine festivals and fabulous wine tasting parties.

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BOO! Tour Eerie Erie 2

© 2003 WQLN Productions

Further down the deadman's trail you'll travel, over Spook Hill and into the legend of Hurst Hauntings. These and several other daunting hauntings add to all of the fun and fright-tacular craziness from the original Tour Eerie Erie.

Tour Eerie Erie

© 2002 WQLN Productions

A haunting tale of local ghoulery - Tour Eerie Erie explores the region's (comically) darker side. We go deep inside Hotel Evergreen, dare to cross the Gudgeonville Bridge, and even walk the shores of Deadman's Creek. And no ghost story would be complete without frightening accounts of the Vampire Tomb, the Witch's Circle, Mad Anthony Wayne and the true story of the Scott Mausoleum.

Made in Pennsylvania

© 2002 WQLN Productions

Made in Pennsylvania is a one-hour "field trip" which looks at some of Pennsylvania's most intriguing factories and profiles entrepreneurs who beat all the odds and are living the "American Dream." M.I.P. features the Common-wealth's brightest and best, including:

Mrs. T's Pierogies
Campbell Pottery
Case Cutlery
KME (makers of fire engines)
James Industries (maker of The Slinky)
Philadelphia
Toboggan Coasters
Schulmerich Carillons
Zambelli Fireworks Internationale
Zippo Manufacturing Co.

Our Town Series

© 2000 - 2002 WQLN Productions

Step aside Stephen Spielberg! The Our Town series highlights the unique characteristics of the towns featured in each of the separate one-hour documentaries spotlighting several local communities, including: North East, Titusville, Girard/Lake City, and St. Thomas, Ontario.

Residents from each of the local sites volunteered to document events that make their town special. Learn about your neighbors and local communities from the people who treasure them most.

Pennsylvania Breweries

© 2001 WQLN Productions

Pennsylvania Breweries tours some of Pennsylvania's most famous and unique breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs. Pennsylvania has more operating regional breweries than any other state and is also the home of North America's oldest brewery, D.G. Yuengling & Son. The program expands the beer connoisseur's palate and exposes them to some of the finest, most colorful beers in the country. This program is unavailable for sale.

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GoFish!

© 2001 WQLN Productions

GoFish! The Offishial Tale is an original documentary which tells the story of Northwest Pennsylvania’s most popular public art project, GoFish, and how it “swam” its way into everyone’s hearts. Hear about the work that went into planning the project, listen to the artists talk about their inspiration, and even see some of Erie’s unoffishial fish! GoFish! The Offishial Tale takes viewers to GoFish Night at the Erie Seawolves and the opulent GoFish Auction. This program is unavailable for sale.

Waldameer: 100 Years of Fun

Lunch with Ronald Reagan

PA Behind Bars

Rise and Fall of a Tin Toy Dynasty

Timber Rattle Snake

On Shifting Sands

Saga of the Steamship Atlantic

Underwater Graveyard

Unforgettable Erie

We Remember When

Remembering Erie