3-2-1 Contact Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Noisy/Quiet: Production and Processing of Sound

Mon, Jan 14, 1980

Four-minute film showing the recording of the 3-2-1 Contact theme. ANIMATIONS: Telephones; human voice. THE BLOODHOUND GANG: "The Case of the Educated Pig,"

Episode 2

Noisy/Quiet: The Ear

Tue, Jan 15, 1980

Loud noises damaging people's hearing. Lisa visits the (White Plains) New York School for the Deaf. ANIMATION: Sound vibrations. THE BLOODHOUND GANG: "The Case of Princess Tomorrow, Part One."

Episode 3

Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound

Wed, Jan 16, 1980

Episode 4

Noisy/Quiet: Music

Thu, Jan 17, 1980

Dizzy Gillespie shows off his jazz talents. Trini checks out the behind-the-scenes work at a Kiss concert. The Bloodhound Gang cracks the Case of Princess Tomorrow.

Episode 5

Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibrations

Fri, Jan 18, 1980

Episode 6

Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures

Mon, Jan 21, 1980

Episode 7

Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations

Tue, Jan 22, 1980

Episode 8

Hot/Cold: Properties of Matter and Changes

Wed, Jan 23, 1980

Episode 9

Hot/Cold: Heat and Work

Thu, Jan 24, 1980

Episode 10

Hot Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space

Fri, Jan 25, 1980

Episode 11

Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down

Mon, Jan 28, 1980

Episode 12

Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature

Tue, Jan 29, 1980

Episode 13

Fast/Slow: Lifetimes

Wed, Jan 30, 1980

Episode 14

Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing

Thu, Jan 31, 1980

Episode 15

Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again

Fri, Feb 1, 1980

Episode 16

Food/Fuel: Animal Food

Mon, Feb 4, 1980

Episode 17

Food/Fuel: Human Food

Tue, Feb 5, 1980

Episode 18

Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food

Wed, Feb 6, 1980

Episode 19

Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines

Thu, Feb 7, 1980

Episode 20

Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go

Fri, Feb 8, 1980

Episode 21

Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding

Mon, Feb 11, 1980

Episode 22

Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature

Tue, Feb 12, 1980

Episode 23

Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials

Wed, Feb 13, 1980

Episode 24

Crowded/Uncrowded: Liquids & Solids

Thu, Feb 14, 1980

Episode 25

Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities

Fri, Feb 15, 1980

Episode 26

Light/Dark: The Sun

Mon, Feb 18, 1980

Episode 27

Light/Dark: Adaptation of Plants/Animals

Tue, Feb 19, 1980

Episode 28

Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum

Wed, Feb 20, 1980

Episode 29

Light/Dark: The Eye

Thu, Feb 21, 1980

Episode 30

Light/Dark: Light Sources

Fri, Feb 22, 1980

Episode 31

Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling

Mon, Feb 25, 1980

Episode 32

Big/Small: Animal Habitats

Tue, Feb 26, 1980

Episode 33

Big/Small: Dinosaurs

Wed, Feb 27, 1980

Episode 34

Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency

Thu, Feb 28, 1980

The nature of the oil supertanker, its massive dimensions and the profound moral ambiguity of its cargo.

Episode 35

Big/Small: How Big is Big?

Fri, Feb 29, 1980

Episode 36

Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always

Mon, Mar 3, 1980

Episode 37

Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home

Tue, Mar 4, 1980

Episode 38

Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth

Wed, Mar 5, 1980

Episode 39

Near/Far: Space Travel

Thu, Mar 6, 1980

Episode 40

Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are

Fri, Mar 7, 1980

Episode 41

Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds

Mon, Mar 10, 1980

Episode 42

Growth/Decay: Human Growth

Tue, Mar 11, 1980

Episode 43

Growth/Decay: Decay

Wed, Mar 12, 1980

Episode 44

Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms

Thu, Mar 13, 1980

Episode 45

Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles

Fri, Mar 14, 1980

Episode 46

Communication: Human Communication

Mon, Mar 17, 1980

Trini gets stranded in the desert as she runs out of gas. Marc visits Roy Lee Jackson and the New York Mets baseball team and learns about using communication between the pitcher and catcher. Lisa visits a school for the deaf and learns how to communicate by sign language. In addition, there is a song on how many ways to say "I Love You."

Episode 47

Communication: Animal Communication

Tue, Mar 18, 1980

Episode 48

Communication: Machinery of Communication

Wed, Mar 19, 1980

Trini is still stranded in the desert until rescued by the Goodyear Blimp, Mark visits Bell Labs and sees how a talking computer works and how our voices work, Lisa shows how a TV program is made and sent to an old cathode ray tube TV (with the help of a song).

Episode 49

Communication: With Other Species

Thu, Mar 20, 1980

Trini visits University of Tennessee where a scientist teaches orangutan how to communicate in sign language. Mimes in action doing some movements. In addition, some artifacts that will be sent to the Voyager I satellite into outer space as far as the planet Saturn. Also, The Bloodhound Gang in "The Case of the Dead Man's Pigeon." Lastly, highlights of Trini stranded in the desert.

Episode 50

Communication: Feedback

Fri, Mar 21, 1980

Episode 51

Forces: Forces and Motion

Mon, Mar 24, 1980

Episode 52

Forces: Forces and Fields

Tue, Mar 25, 1980

Episode 53

Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity

Wed, Mar 26, 1980

Episode 54

Forces: Forces and Machines

Thu, Mar 27, 1980

Episode 55

Forces: A Spectacle of Forces

Fri, Mar 28, 1980

Episode 56

Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns

Mon, Mar 31, 1980

Episode 57

Order/Disorder: The Body - An Ordered System

Tue, Apr 1, 1980

Episode 58

Order/Disorder: Social Order

Wed, Apr 2, 1980

Episode 59

Order/Disorder: Disordered

Thu, Apr 3, 1980

Episode 60

Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts

Fri, Apr 4, 1980

Episode 61

Surfaces: Protection

Mon, Apr 7, 1980

Episode 62

Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface

Tue, Apr 8, 1980

Episode 63

Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles

Wed, Apr 9, 1980

Episode 64

Surfaces: Surface of the Earth

Thu, Apr 10, 1980

Episode 65

Surfaces: The Atmosphere-Skin of the Earth

Fri, Apr 11, 1980