In 1959, he took a job as a fifth-grade teacher at Forestville Elementary School in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Viewers watched the picture develop as they listened to the story, usually ending with a cliffhanger or another dramatic point in the narrative.

[1] Robbins created other programming for WETA, including Portraits: The Americans, featuring biographical profiles of figures from American history, Across Cultures, about people and cultures from around the world, The Short Story, aimed at high school students, a production of the ballet The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore, and another of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Old Maid and the Thief.

Robbins received two awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for programs that he produced and hosted in 1969 and 1970, and he was honored with a Producer's Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy for School Television and Video in 1992.

[1] Robbins traveled around the country, speaking to elementary school students about reading and using their imaginations to create their own stories.