Square One TV/Episode 124

Episode 124
Season 1, Episode 24
Airdate	February 26, 1987
Production Number	24
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 124 is the twenty-fourth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the twenty-fourth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Kevin McCarthy (Norman Mailbag)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Mathman: Prime Numbers

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only prime numbers.

• Matinee Movie: Dialing for Factors - Part 1

Shirley Schlemmer, a television celebrity, asks her viewers to call in with the factors of 84.

• Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House - Part 1

Mr. Bland hires Stan and Ollie to make him a rectangular window using his 17 antique panes of glass. But he does not want a long thin rectangle.

• Matinee Movie: Dialing for Factors - Part 2

A caller calls in with the factors of 84, listing all the factors and reiterating the prime ones.

• Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House - Part 2

When Stanley inadvertently breaks 1 and then 2 panes of glass, that leaves 16 and then 15 panes to work with. Because these numbers are not prime, they form several rectangles.

• Matinee Movie: Dialing for Factors - Part 3

Shirley Schlemmer thanks her audience for tuning in to "Dialing for Factors" and asks then to join her next week for the Matinee Movie.

• Newsroom Interruption: Mr. Bland

• Show Remainder (EKA #121)

• Bureau of the Missing Numbers: 9

Terry Ryan, an investigator, takes information pertaining to the number 9 and inputs this information into her computer. These characteristics include factors, if it is prime or square, etc.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Nine, Nine, Nine" (The House Band) (EKA #102)

The cast sings a country music tune expressing the idea that the sum of the digits of any multiple of 9 always add up to 9 or a multiple of 9.

• But Who's Adding?

2 contestants attempt to cover 3 numbers in a row by selecting addends of those numbers from the Addend board and calling out the resultant sum.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money - Part 4

The Mathnetters do an analysis of the soil from the Abandoned Gravel Pits and that of Mailbag's back yard. They also determine that the footprints at the Pits and in Mailbag's garden are the same.

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