3-2-1 Contact

3-2-1 Contact (1980)


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  • First Air Date: 1980-01-14
  • Last Air Date: 1988-11-18
  • Total Seasons: 7
  • Total Episodes: 223
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 30 min.
  • Production Company: Children's Television Workshop
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: PBS
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Summary

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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3-2-1 Contact Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 1980-01-14
64 Episodes

Season 2

First Air Date: 1983-10-31
39 Episodes

Season 3

First Air Date: 1984-10-22
20 Episodes

Season 4

First Air Date: 1985-09-23
20 Episodes

Season 5

First Air Date: 1986-09-22
20 Episodes

Season 6

First Air Date: 1987-10-12
30 Episodes

Season 7

First Air Date: 1988-10-10
30 Episodes

3-2-1 Contact Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound30 min
Season 1Episode 2Noisy/Quiet: The Ear30 min
Season 1Episode 3Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound30 min
Season 1Episode 4Noisy/Quiet: Music30 min
Season 1Episode 5Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration30 min
Season 1Episode 6Forces and Motion30 min
Season 1Episode 7Forces and Fields30 min
Season 1Episode 8Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity30 min
Season 1Episode 9Forces and Machines30 min
Season 1Episode 10Forces: A Spectacle of Forces30 min
Season 1Episode 11Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds30 min
Season 1Episode 12Growth/Decay: Human Growth30 min
Season 1Episode 13Growth/Decay: Decay30 min
Season 1Episode 14Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms30 min
Season 1Episode 15Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles30 min
Season 1Episode 16Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down30 min
Season 1Episode 17Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature30 min
Season 1Episode 18Fast/Slow: Lifetimes30 min
Season 1Episode 19Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing30 min
Season 1Episode 20Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again30 min
Season 1Episode 21Communication: Human Communication30 min
Season 1Episode 22Communication: Animal Communication30 min
Season 1Episode 23Communication: Machinery of Communication30 min
Season 1Episode 24Communication with Other Species30 min
Season 1Episode 25Communication: Feedback30 min
Season 1Episode 26Food/Fuel: Animal Food30 min
Season 1Episode 27Food/Fuel: Human Food30 min
Season 1Episode 28Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food30 min
Season 1Episode 29Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines30 min
Season 1Episode 30Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go30 min
Season 1Episode 31Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures30 min
Season 1Episode 32Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations30 min
Season 1Episode 33Hot/Cold: How Hot or Cold Can It Get?30 min
Season 1Episode 34Hot/Cold: Heat and Work30 min
Season 1Episode 35Hot/Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space30 min
Season 1Episode 36Light/Dark: The Sun30 min
Season 1Episode 37Light/Dark: Adaptation of Plants/Animals30 min
Season 1Episode 38Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum30 min
Season 1Episode 39Light/Dark: The Eye30 min
Season 1Episode 40Light/Dark: Light Sources30 min
Season 1Episode 41Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing30 min
Season 1Episode 42Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home30 min
Season 1Episode 43Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth30 min
Season 1Episode 44Near/Far: Space Travel30 min
Season 1Episode 45Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are30 min
Season 1Episode 46Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns30 min
Season 1Episode 47Order/Disorder: The Body â€" An Ordered System30 min
Season 1Episode 48Order/Disorder: Social Order30 min
Season 1Episode 49Order/Disorder: Disordered30 min
Season 1Episode 50Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts30 min
Season 1Episode 51Surfaces: Protection30 min
Season 1Episode 52Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface30 min
Season 1Episode 53Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles30 min
Season 1Episode 54Surfaces: Surface of the Earth30 min
Season 1Episode 55Surfaces: The Atmosphereâ€"Skin of the Earth30 min
Season 1Episode 56Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling30 min
Season 1Episode 57Big/Small: Animal Habitats30 min
Season 1Episode 58Big/Small: Dinoaurs30 min
Season 1Episode 59Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency30 min
Season 1Episode 60Big/Small: How Big is Big?30 min
Season 1Episode 61Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding30 min
Season 1Episode 62Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature30 min
Season 1Episode 63Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials30 min
Season 1Episode 64Crowded/Uncrowded: Down Among the Atoms (Liquids & Solids)30 min
Season 1Episode 65Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities30 min
Season 2Episode 1Survival: Breathing30 min
Season 2Episode 2Survival: Temperature30 min
Season 2Episode 3Survival: Protection30 min
Season 2Episode 4Survival: Energy30 min
Season 2Episode 5Survival: Teamwork30 min
Season 2Episode 6Sports: Training Analysis30 min
Season 2Episode 7Sports: Time, Rate, Measurement30 min
Season 2Episode 8Sports: Energy Transfer30 min
Season 2Episode 9Sports: Impact Analysis30 min
Season 2Episode 10Sports: Coordination30 min
Season 2Episode 11Flight: Flying Animals30 min
Season 2Episode 12Flight: Air Resistance30 min
Season 2Episode 13Flight: Lift30 min
Season 2Episode 14Flight: Thrust30 min
Season 2Episode 15Flight: Acceleration30 min
Season 2Episode 16Babies: The Code of Life30 min
Season 2Episode 17Babies: Growth and Development30 min
Season 2Episode 18Babies: Behavior30 min
Season 2Episode 19Babies: Colonization30 min
Season 2Episode 20Babies: Change30 min
Season 2Episode 21Senses: Taste and Smell30 min
Season 2Episode 22Senses: Sight30 min
Season 2Episode 23Senses: Hearing30 min
Season 2Episode 24Senses: Touch30 min
Season 2Episode 25Senses: Special Sensors30 min
Season 2Episode 26Shapes in Nature30 min
Season 2Episode 27Shapes and Gravity30 min
Season 2Episode 28Shapes: Streamlining30 min
Season 2Episode 29Shapes: Form and Function30 min
Season 2Episode 30Shapes: Clues30 min
Season 2Episode 31Water: 3 Phases â€" Gas, Liquid, Solid30 min
Season 2Episode 32Water: Medium for Life30 min
Season 2Episode 33Water and People30 min
Season 2Episode 34Water: Distribution30 min
Season 2Episode 35Water in the Body30 min
Season 2Episode 36Building: Materials30 min
Season 2Episode 37Building: One of a Kind30 min
Season 2Episode 38Building: Standard Parts30 min
Season 2Episode 39Building: Modular30 min
Season 2Episode 40Building: Communication30 min
Season 3Episode 1Space: Weightless30 min
Season 3Episode 2Space: Getting There30 min
Season 3Episode 3Space: Living There30 min
Season 3Episode 4Space: Working There30 min
Season 3Episode 5Space: Anybody Out There?30 min
Season 3Episode 6Measurement: How Long? How Far?30 min
Season 3Episode 7Measurement: What's the Area? What's the Volume?30 min
Season 3Episode 8Measurement: How Heavy? How Dense?30 min
Season 3Episode 9Measurement: How Many? How Much?30 min
Season 3Episode 10Measurement: How Fast? How Slow?30 min
Season 3Episode 11Earth is Change30 min
Season 3Episode 12Earth: Maps30 min
Season 3Episode 13Earth: Climate30 min
Season 3Episode 14Earth: Flora and Fauna30 min
Season 3Episode 15Earth: Building Models30 min
Season 3Episode 16Electricity: What is It?30 min
Season 3Episode 17Electricity and Magnetism30 min
Season 3Episode 18Electricity: Where Do We Get It?30 min
Season 3Episode 19Electricity Runs in a Circuit30 min
Season 3Episode 20Electricity: You Are Electric30 min
Season 4Episode 1Tropics: Rubber30 min
Season 4Episode 2Tropics: Metals30 min
Season 4Episode 3Tropics: Rice30 min
Season 4Episode 4Tropics: Working Animals â€" Monkeys and Elephants30 min
Season 4Episode 5Tropics: Endangered Animals30 min
Season 4Episode 6Light: From the Sun; To Your Eyes30 min
Season 4Episode 7Light: Color30 min
Season 4Episode 8Light: Eyes30 min
Season 4Episode 9Light: How Animals See30 min
Season 4Episode 10Light: Bending and Bouncing30 min
Season 4Episode 11Farms: Sheep and Pigs â€" Selective Breeding30 min
Season 4Episode 12Farms: Plants and Pigs â€" Plant Production30 min
Season 4Episode 13Farms: Hybrids30 min
Season 4Episode 14Farms: Cows and Pigs â€" Animal Products30 min
Season 4Episode 15Farms: Chickens and Pigs â€" Animal Production30 min
Season 4Episode 16Stuff: Metals30 min
Season 4Episode 17Stuff: Clay30 min
Season 4Episode 18Stuff: Shaping It30 min
Season 4Episode 19Stuff: Feathers and Rubber30 min
Season 4Episode 20Stuff: Using It30 min
Season 5Episode 1Signals: Lingo30 min
Season 5Episode 2Signals: Talking Birds, Talking Rooms30 min
Season 5Episode 3Signals: Looking for Visual Clues30 min
Season 5Episode 4Signals: Getting Them Around30 min
Season 5Episode 5Signals: Cracking Codes30 min
Season 5Episode 6Oceans: On the Sea30 min
Season 5Episode 7Oceans: In the Sea30 min
Season 5Episode 8Oceans: From the Sea30 min
Season 5Episode 9Oceans: By the Sea30 min
Season 5Episode 10Oceans: Of the Sea30 min
Season 5Episode 11Motion: What's Up?30 min
Season 5Episode 12Motion: Bones30 min
Season 5Episode 13Motion: Smashing30 min
Season 5Episode 14Motion: Getting a Grip30 min
Season 5Episode 15Motion: Heave Ho!30 min
Season 5Episode 16Eating: Tooth Detectives30 min
Season 5Episode 17Eating: Picky Eaters30 min
Season 5Episode 18Eating: Zoo Food30 min
Season 5Episode 19Eating: Down the Hatch30 min
Season 5Episode 20Eating: Leftovers30 min
Season 6Episode 1Japan: Precious Oysters, Rare Salamanders30 min
Season 6Episode 2Japan: Landslide!30 min
Season 6Episode 3Japan: Paper and Kites30 min
Season 6Episode 4Japan: Earthquake!30 min
Season 6Episode 5Japan: Judo and Computers30 min
Season 6Episode 6Detectives: Skin and Bone Detectives30 min
Season 6Episode 7Detectives: Tool and Trash Detectives30 min
Season 6Episode 8Detectives: Wildlife Detectives30 min
Season 6Episode 9Detectives: Dinosaur Detectives30 min
Season 6Episode 10Detectives: Pattern Detectives30 min
Season 6Episode 11Architecture: Raising the Big Top30 min
Season 6Episode 12Architecture: Home30 min
Season 6Episode 13Architecture: Stack It Up30 min
Season 6Episode 14Architecture: Made to Fit30 min
Season 6Episode 15Architecture: Light But Strong30 min
Season 6Episode 16Mammals: Rats and Bats30 min
Season 6Episode 17Mammals: Keeping Warm30 min
Season 6Episode 18Mammals: Live Birth, Warm Milk30 min
Season 6Episode 19Mammals at Play30 min
Season 6Episode 20Big Mammals: The High Cost of Living30 min
Season 6Episode 21Modeling: Things on Wheels30 min
Season 6Episode 22Modeling: Through Ice and Air30 min
Season 6Episode 23Modeling: The Earth30 min
Season 6Episode 24Modeling: Knees and Small Things30 min
Season 6Episode 25Modeling: Spaces30 min
Season 6Episode 26In the Air: Finding Your Way30 min
Season 6Episode 27In the Air: Drifting with the Wind30 min
Season 6Episode 28In the Air: Born to Fly30 min
Season 6Episode 29In the Air: Fat Things That Fly30 min
Season 6Episode 30In the Air: Unbelievable Flying Objects30 min
Season 7Episode 1Antarctica: Getting There30 min
Season 7Episode 2Antarctica: Getting Around30 min
Season 7Episode 3Antarctica: Life on the Edge30 min
Season 7Episode 4Antarctica: Life Under the Ice30 min
Season 7Episode 5Antarctica: The Desert Continent30 min
Season 7Episode 6Your Body: Twins30 min
Season 7Episode 7Your Body: Having a Baby30 min
Season 7Episode 8Your Body: Sleep30 min
Season 7Episode 9Your Body: Spinning30 min
Season 7Episode 10Your Body: Your Health30 min
Season 7Episode 11Australia: Platypus & Echidna30 min
Season 7Episode 12Australia: Moths & Beetles30 min
Season 7Episode 13Australia: Emu & Kookaburra30 min
Season 7Episode 14Australia: Koalas30 min
Season 7Episode 15Australia: Kangaroos30 min
Season 7Episode 16Structures: Bubble, Bubble30 min
Season 7Episode 17Structures: Pipes and Reeds30 min
Season 7Episode 18Structures: Chaos and Computers30 min
Season 7Episode 19Structures: Running Robots30 min
Season 7Episode 20Structures: Suspended in Air30 min
Season 7Episode 21Greece: The Journey Begins30 min
Season 7Episode 22Greece: Under The Ash30 min
Season 7Episode 23Greece: Before History30 min
Season 7Episode 24Greece: Sheep & Cheese30 min
Season 7Episode 25Greece: The Parthenon30 min
Season 7Episode 26Island: Parrot Fish30 min
Season 7Episode 27Island: Lizards30 min
Season 7Episode 28Island: Coral30 min
Season 7Episode 29Island: Flamingos30 min
Season 7Episode 30Island: Conch30 min
Production Joanne Roberts Producer
Production Karen Katz Producer
Production Anne MacLeod Hoffman Executive Producer
Production Maxine Wishner Producer
Production Susan Schwartz Lynn Producer
Production Alfred Hyslop Executive Producer
Production Larry Engel Producer
Production Thomas Cammisa Producer
Production Ozzie Alfonso Producer
Production Tish Sommers Producer
Production Franklin Getchel Producer
Production Kenneth Fink Producer
Production Patti Kaplan Producer

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