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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This PBS series, created by the Children's Television Workshop, was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way The Electric Company previously tried to engage young viewers in reading and how Square One TV would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.To that end, 3-2-1 Contact took the equivalent format of Sesame Street and adjusted it for a preteen audience with comedy sketches, cartoons as well as demonstrations of scientific principles not only on the set, but also in filmed segments in which the hosts went around America to explore interesting things about science.However, the most popular section was "The Bloodhound Gang'', about a private detective agency staffed primarily by kids due to the seemingly perpetual absence of their boss, Mr. Bloodhound. In a world where nearly every adult other than the arresting police officers appears to be a gullible idiot, the young sleuths find themselves busting frauds and other nonviolent crimes all around them with their knowledge of science - and, in one episode, communication. (In one episode, the Gang visits a diner and the waitress appears able to read minds... until The Reveal, which shows that it was all due to non-verbal hand signals used commonly by diner staff.)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The show also had a tie-in magazine which ran about ten years longer than the original series, although it became rechristened as Contact Kids near the end of its publication run.Nothing to do with the 1997 movie with Jodie Foster. The rock/hip-hop band "Bloodhound Gang" did get their name from here, however.In 1992, a new spin-off series debuted as 3-2-1 Classroom Contact. | |
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Balloon-Bursting Bird: The tie-in magazine would publish computer games written in BASIC to run on your computer during The '80s. One of the games, called "Pop!", carried an illustration of a computer blowing bubble gum and spotting a bird ready to pop the bubble. | |
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Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The show explains why giant insects a la Them! are simply not possible. | |
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Animate Inanimate Object: Lampshaded in an animated sequence by a chart questioning the smugness of a "smart" scientist explaining human speech. | |
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