3-2-1 Contact
tv show
223 total episodes
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7 seasons
First Aired January 14, 1980
Overview
3-2-1 Contact is an American science educational television show that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, and an adjoining children's magazine. The show, a production of the Children's Television Workshop, teaches scientific principles and their applications. Dr. Edward G. Atkins, who was responsible for much of the scientific content of the show, felt that the TV program wouldn't replace a classroom but would open the viewers to ask questions about the scientific purpose of things.
Surfaces: Surface of the Earth
Season 1 - Episode 54 - 1h 30m
Air Date
April 10, 1980
Overview
A geologist appears in the workshop for a discussion on the three types of Earth rock. In Hawaii, Lisa sees a volcano and takes a novice surfing lesson. Film insert: Searching for oil; inactive volcanoes.ANIMATIONS: The moving rocks of Earth; one billion years of Earth change is compressed into 1¾ minutes.THE BLOODHOUND GANG: ""The Case of the Thing in the Trunk, Part Two."" (Recycled from Episodes 19 and 39). Using a pinhole camera effect with a piece of cardboard picking up light from a hole in the side of the van, the gang learns where the mummy is being stowed. They radio that information to the police after trapping the henchman.