Mr. Wizard's World Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

Toss Ball on Bike

Sat, Mar 19, 1988

Episode 2

Pond Animals

Sun, Apr 17, 1988

Pond Animals, Paper Tube Kazoo, and more. Mr. Wizard explores micro pond life through a microscope with Tarek. Flatworms in a small tank are projected onto a TV screen by Mr. Wizard's microscope set up.

Episode 3

Absolute Zero

Fri, Apr 22, 198824 mins

LIGHT ON A STRING - Tanis is amazed to see the image of an elephant on a vibrating piece of string. Mr.Wizard explains that light is invisible. We see it only when it is reflected from an object. PIN PIANO - Mr.Wizard shows Jason how to construct a piano made of straight pins and a block of wood. MOLDY ORANGE - Be sure to take a close look at these fascinating plants before you throw away a moldy orange. WORD PROCESSING - Mr.Wizard shows Stacey, on an early model computer, the insert and delete keys of a computer set up for word processing. TREE MOWER - (Billy is cutting grass with a lawn mower) - You know how a lawn mower works: a blade cuts off the grass just above the ground. Imagine those blades of grass are trees, and you want to design a machine to cut them off in the same way. MOBIUS LOOP - Mr.Wizard shows Tanis what a mobius loop is using a continuous strip of paper. METEOR PORTRAIT - Astronomers took this photo of a meteor.The camera recorded the fiery path of what you call a falling star. WHAT MAKES THE WIND BLOW - In the kitchen, Jason brings Mr. Wizard a bowl of ice cubes from the refrigerator. On the table is an empty aquarium with a lamp above one end to represent the heating effect of the sun. The aquarium represents a small section of the air. Mr. Wizard puts a top over the center section of the aquarium. Inside the other end he puts ice cubes to represent a cool area of the earth. DRAWING AN ELLIPSE - Stacey is shown a drawing of an ellipse: a circular figure with two foci, the plural of focus. She calls it egg‑shaped.

Episode 4

Dog Training Part 1

Sun, May 1, 1988

Episode 5

Meaning of Words

Wed, Jun 1, 1988

Episode 6

Fire Triangle

Tue, Jul 12, 1988

Episode 7

Meaning of a Dot

Sat, Aug 20, 1988

Episode 8

Human Center of Gravity

Wed, Sep 14, 1988

Episode 9

Wheel Travel Part 1

Tue, Nov 1, 1988

Episode 10

Animal Classification

Fri, Jan 6, 1989

Episode 11

Siphon Challenge

Sun, Feb 12, 1989

Episode 12

25X Magnification

Mon, Apr 17, 1989

Episode 13

Density Gradient

Wed, Jun 7, 1989

Episode 14

Microscopic Images

Tue, Jun 20, 1989

Episode 15

Walking in Circles

Fri, Jul 21, 1989