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Pamana (TV series)

Philippine educational television show

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ85791963 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pamana (lit. 'Heritage') is a Filipino educational television series developed by the Sky Foundation (now the Knowledge Channel Foundation) and broadcast on Knowledge Channel beginning in 2001. Both this series and Kasaysayan TV were the first original programs to be created by the foundation.

Pamana was developed to engage elementary school students in Philippine geography and culture.

Cast

Julia Clarete and Jan Marini Alano as Ms. Cruz

Julia Clarete and Angel Aquino as Diway

Jet Paz as Niko

Jiro Manio and Julio Pacheco as Nico

Deo Noveno and Ricky Antenor as Bobby Buot

Guest appearances

Hans Dimayuga as Billy

Cris Jones as a farmer

Steve Zamboa as Mang Dan

Linda Gonzales as Ms. Santos

Justine Moreno as Emilio Aguinaldo

Teddy Garcia as a Filipino soldier

Al Sison as Julian Felipe

Jeric Bautista as Manuel Quezon

Michelle Bautista as a moviegoer

Froilan Sales as a father

Girlie Alcantara as a mother

Claudine Alejandro as Ate Arlene

Timothy Gaspar as Kuya Mark

Keno Agaro as Kuya Jesse

Jelly Cruz as Ika

Production

Maria Bernadette L. Abrera, then an associate professor of history at the University of the Philippines, was a consultant for Pamana.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pamana (TV series)” as philippine educational television show. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pamana, series and Philippine.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pamana, series and Philippine providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85791963. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pamana (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.