1980-01-14 6.727/10
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.
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Seasons List
Season 1
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1. Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound
2. Noisy/Quiet: The Ear
3. Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound
4. Noisy/Quiet: Music
5. Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration
6. Forces and Motion
7. Forces and Fields
8. Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity
9. Forces and Machines
10. Forces: A Spectacle of Forces
11. Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds
12. Growth/Decay: Human Growth
13. Growth/Decay: Decay
14. Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms
15. Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles
16. Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down
17. Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature
18. Fast/Slow: Lifetimes
19. Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing
20. Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again
21. Communication: Human Communication
22. Communication: Animal Communication
23. Communication: Machinery of Communication
24. Communication with Other Species
25. Communication: Feedback
26. Food/Fuel: Animal Food
27. Food/Fuel: Human Food
28. Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food
29. Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines
30. Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go
31. Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures
32. Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations
33. Hot/Cold: How Hot or Cold Can It Get?
34. Hot/Cold: Heat and Work
35. Hot/Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space
36. Light/Dark: The Sun
37. Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum
38. Light/Dark: The Eye
39. Light/Dark: Light Sources
40. Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
41. Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home
42. Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth
43. Near/Far: Space Travel
44. Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are
45. Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns
46. Order/Disorder: The Body – An Ordered System
47. Order/Disorder: Social Order
48. Order/Disorder: Disordered
49. Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts
50. Surfaces: Protection
51. Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface
52. Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles
53. Surfaces: Surface of the Earth
54. Surfaces: The Atmosphere
55. Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling
56. Big/Small: Animal Habitats
57. Big/Small: Dinoaurs
58. Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency
59. Big/Small: How Big is Big?
60. Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding
61. Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature
62. Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials
63. Crowded/Uncrowded: Down Among the Atoms (Liquids & Solids)
64. Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities
Season 2
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1. Survival: Breathing
2. Survival: Temperature
3. Survival: Protection
4. Survival: Energy
5. Survival: Teamwork
6. Sports: Training Analysis
7. Sports: Time, Rate, Measurement
8. Sports: Energy Transfer
9. Sports: Impact Analysis
10. Sports: Coordination
11. Flight: Flying Animals
12. Flight: Air Resistance
13. Flight: Thrust
14. Flight: Acceleration
15. Babies: The Code of Life
16. Babies: Growth and Development
17. Babies: Behavior
18. Babies: Colonization
19. Babies: Change
20. Senses: Taste and Smell
21. Senses: Sight
22. Senses: Hearing
23. Senses: Touch
24. Senses: Special Sensors
25. Shapes in Nature
26. Shapes and Gravity
27. Shapes: Streamlining
28. Shapes: Form and Function
29. Shapes: Clues
30. Water: 3 Phases – Gas, Liquid, Solid
31. Water: Medium for Life
32. Water and People
33. Water: Distribution
34. Water in the Body
35. Building: Materials
36. Building: One of a Kind
37. Building: Standard Parts
38. Building: Modular
39. Building: Communication
Season 3
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1. Space: Weightless
2. Space: Getting There
3. Space: Living There
4. Space: Working There
5. Space: Anybody Out There?
6. Measurement: How Long? How Far?
7. Measurement: What's the Area? What's the Volume?
8. Measurement: How Heavy? How Dense?
9. Measurement: How Many? How Much?
10. Measurement: How Fast? How Slow?
11. Earth is Change
12. Earth: Maps
13. Earth: Climate
14. Earth: Flora and Fauna
15. Earth: Building Models
16. Electricity: What is It?
17. Electricity and Magnetism
18. Electricity: Where Do We Get It?
19. Electricity Runs in a Circuit
20. Electricity: You Are Electric
Season 4
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1. Tropics: Rubber
2. Tropics: Metals
3. Tropics: Rice
4. Tropics: Working Animals ￃﾢ￢ﾂﾬ￢ﾀﾜ Monkeys and Elephants
5. Tropics: Endangered Animals
6. Light: From the Sun; To Your Eyes
7. Light: Color
8. Light: Eyes
9. Light: How Animals See
10. Light: Bending and Bouncing
11. Farms: Sheep and Pigs ￃﾢ￢ﾂﾬ￢ﾀﾜ Selective Breeding
12. Farms: Plants and Pigs – Plant Production
13. Farms: Hybrids
14. Farms: Cows and Pigs ￃﾢ￢ﾂﾬ￢ﾀﾜ Animal Products
15. Farms: Chickens and Pigs ￃﾢ￢ﾂﾬ￢ﾀﾜ Animal Production
16. Stuff: Metals
17. Stuff: Clay
18. Stuff: Shaping It
19. Stuff: Feathers and Rubber
20. Stuff: Using It
Season 5
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1. Signals: Lingo
2. Signals: Talking Birds, Talking Rooms
3. Signals: Looking for Visual Clues
4. Signals: Getting Them Around
5. Signals: Cracking Codes
6. Oceans: On the Sea
7. Oceans: In the Sea
8. Oceans: From the Sea
9. Oceans: By the Sea
10. Oceans: Of the Sea
11. Motion: What's Up?
12. Motion: Bones
13. Motion: Smashing
14. Motion: Getting a Grip
15. Motion: Heave Ho!
16. Eating: Tooth Detectives
17. Eating: Picky Eaters
18. Eating: Zoo Food
19. Eating: Down the Hatch
20. Eating: Leftovers
Season 6
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1. Japan: Precious Oysters, Rare Salamanders
2. Japan: Landslide!
3. Japan: Paper and Kites
4. Japan: Earthquake!
5. Japan: Judo and Computers
6. Detectives: Skin and Bone Detectives
7. Detectives: Tool and Trash Detectives
8. Detectives: Wildlife Detectives
9. Detectives: Dinosaur Detectives
10. Detectives: Pattern Detectives
11. Architecture: Raising the Big Top
12. Architecture: Home
13. Architecture: Stack It Up
14. Architecture: Made to Fit
15. Architecture: Light But Strong
16. Mammals: Rats and Bats
17. Mammals: Keeping Warm
18. Mammals: Live Birth, Warm Milk
19. Mammals at Play
20. Big Mammals: The High Cost of Living
21. Modeling: Things on Wheels
22. Modeling: Through Ice and Air
23. Modeling: The Earth
24. Modeling: Knees and Small Things
25. Modeling: Spaces
26. In the Air: Finding Your Way
27. In the Air: Drifting with the Wind
28. In the Air: Born to Fly
29. In the Air: Fat Things That Fly
30. In the Air: Unbelievable Flying Objects
Season 7
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1. Antarctica: Getting There
2. Antarctica: Getting Around
3. Antarctica: Life On The Edge
4. Antarctica: Life Under The Ice
5. Antarctica: The Desert Continent
6. Your Body: Twins
7. Your Body: Having a Baby
8. Your Body: Sleep
9. Your Body: Spinning
10. Your Body: Your Health
11. Australia: Platypus & Echidna
12. Australia: Moths & Beetles
13. Australia: Emu & Kookaburra
14. Australia: Koalas
15. Australia: Kangaroos
16. Structures: Bubble, Bubble
17. Structures: Pipes and Reeds
18. Structures: Chaos and Computers
19. Structures: Running Robots
20. Structures: Suspended in Air
21. Greece: The Journey Begins
22. Greece: Under The Ash
23. Greece: Before History
24. Greece: Sheep & Cheese
25. Greece: The Parthenon
26. Island: Parrot Fish
27. Island: Lizards
28. Island: Coral
29. Island: Flamingos
30. Island: Conch