"Bella's Cafe" was our entry into the subject of Political Science. McDugal-Littell wanted to develop a new approach to compete with the high school traditional texts. Terra developed the video component to the new text package - "Bella's Cafe."

The series of short episodes were loosely patterned after a "Cheers" type environment, minus the alcohol. "Bella's Cafe" was a truly wired cafe where people, young and old, could meet to chat mostly about politics, since that was Bella's favorite topic. The monitors were constantly tuned to C-SPAN, and the customers plugged into the internet. The conversations were fast and upbeat and always based on real events taken from the lives of the staple of characters.