3-2-1 Contact
1980-1988
30 minutes
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...
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Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound
1980-01-14
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Noisy/Quiet: The Ear
1980-01-15
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Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound
1980-01-16
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Noisy/Quiet: Music
1980-01-17
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Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration
1980-01-18
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Forces and Motion
1980-03-24
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Forces and Fields
1980-03-25
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Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity
1980-03-26
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Forces and Machines
1980-03-27
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Forces: A Spectacle of Forces
1980-03-28
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Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds
1980-03-10
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Growth/Decay: Human Growth
1980-03-11
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Growth/Decay: Decay
1980-03-12
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Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms
1980-03-13
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Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles
1980-03-14
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Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down
1980-01-28
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Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature
1980-01-29
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Fast/Slow: Lifetimes
1980-01-30
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Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing
1980-02-07
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Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again
1980-02-01
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Communication: Human Communication
1980-03-17
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Communication: Animal Communication
1980-03-18
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Communication: Machinery of Communication
1980-03-19
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Communication with Other Species
1980-03-20
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Communication: Feedback
1980-03-21
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Food/Fuel: Animal Food
1980-02-04
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Food/Fuel: Human Food
1980-02-05
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Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food
1980-02-06
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Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines
1980-02-07
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Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go
1980-02-08
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Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures
1980-01-21
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Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations
1980-01-22
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Hot/Cold: How Hot or Cold Can It Get?
1980-01-23
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Hot/Cold: Heat and Work
1980-01-24
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Hot/Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space
1980-01-25
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Light/Dark: The Sun
1980-02-18
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Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum
1980-02-20
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Light/Dark: The Eye
1980-02-21
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Light/Dark: Light Sources
1980-02-22
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Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
1980-03-03
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Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home
1980-03-04
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Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth
1980-03-05
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Near/Far: Space Travel
1980-03-06
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Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are
1980-03-07
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Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns
1980-03-31
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Order/Disorder: The Body – An Ordered System
1980-04-01
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Order/Disorder: Social Order
1980-04-02
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Order/Disorder: Disordered
1980-04-03
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Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts
1980-04-04
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Surfaces: Protection
1980-04-07
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Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface
1980-04-08
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Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles
1980-04-09
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Surfaces: Surface of the Earth
1980-04-10
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Surfaces: The Atmosphere
1980-04-11
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Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling
1980-02-25
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Big/Small: Animal Habitats
1980-02-26
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Big/Small: Dinoaurs
1980-02-27
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Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency
1980-02-28
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Big/Small: How Big is Big?
1980-02-29
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding
1980-02-11
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature
1980-02-12
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials
1980-02-13
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Down Among the Atoms (Liquids & Solids)
1980-02-14
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities
1980-02-15
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