Square One TV/Episode 101

Episode 101
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	January 26, 1987
Production Number	1
Written by
Directed by
— N/A	1x2 → Episode 102
Square One TV — Season One

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Episode 101 is the first episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the first episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Lou Cutell (Store Manager)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Music Video: "That's Infinity"

The song introduces the idea that there is no largest number. The graphics suggest several infinite collections to support the song.

• Newsroom Interruption: Infinity (cut from the Noggin version)

• Mathman: Multiples of 3 (cut from the Noggin version)

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only multiples of 3. He does so and wins a free game.

• Phoner: The Answer is Always 3

Arthur has a one-sided telephone conversation in which he chooses a number and performs a series of operations that always give him the answer of 3.

• "And on..."

• Battle of the Bulge Caterers: Sandwiches

The Battle of the Bulge Catering Company must make more than 11 different sandwich combinations from 2 meats and 3 cheeses. The problem introduces the multiplication principle from combinatorics

• Oops: Subtraction 300 - 163 (cut from the Noggin version)

A confused engineer makes a 'borrowing' mistake in a subtraction problem and cause a stock-footage plane crash.

• Newsroom Interruption: Infinity 2 (cut from the Noggin version)

• Perfect Squares Intro

• Exclusive Music Video: "Perfect Squares" (The Square Brothers)

A blues band sings about square numbers and graphically suggests their connection to geometry.

• Bureau of Missing Numbers: 14

Terry Ryan, an FBI type, takes information pertaining to the number 14 and inputs this information into her computer. These characteristics include factors, whether or not it is prime or square, etc.

• "And on..."

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Monkey - Part 1

The Mathnetters investigate a series of burglaries allegedly committed by a monkey that escaped from the zoo.

• "And on..."

• Next time...

Notes

• The closing PBS ID at the very end had the "Infinity" trick in its airings until October 1989 when PBS changed its closing ID.

Quotes

• Mathnet Announcer: The story you're about to see is a fib but it's short. The names are made up but the problems are real.

• George: Mathnet, Frankly. Could you say that again? A little slower?...No, not that slow. Thank you. We'll be right there.