Square One TV/Episode 156

Episode 156
Season 1, Episode 56
Airdate	April 13, 1987
Production Number	56
Written by
Directed by
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Square One TV — Season One

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Episode 156 is the fifty-sixth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the fifty-sixth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Harry Blackstone (Himself), Ric Mancini (Truck Driver #1) Sena Ayn Black (Truck Driver #2), Mike Muscat (Truck Driver #3)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• The Adventures of Spade Parade: Fishy Anchovy - Part 1

Georgia McBundy hires Spade Parade to determine which one of the Andrews Brothers robbed her burger restaurant.

• Music Video: "More Than 1 Way"

This song takes a group of children on a camping trip and encourages different approaches to solving problems.

• The Adventures of Spade Parade: Fishy Anchovy - Part 2

Spade Parade draws a chart and uses logic to determine which Andrews brother is which. He next determines that the brother who eats anchovies stole the money.

• Mathman: Factors of 18 (EKA #108)

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat all numbers that are factors of 18.

• Gypsy Rose Amicable

A fortune teller determines that a young man and woman will share happiness because the numbers of their street addresses, 220 and 284, are amicable: the factors of each number add up to the other.

• Don't Despair (EKA #147)

• Stick Squares - Part 3

Alison Smith demonstrates toothpick square tricks to the viewing audience.

• EB: Prime Cow

This short animation illustrates the concept of prime numbers -- using 11 cows.

• Backstage with Blackstone: Cups

Blackstone performs a magic trick with cups and balls before demonstrating a logic problem that depends on parity and observation. The point is to turn over 2 cups at a time, ending with 3 face up.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money - Part 1 (EKA #121)

The Mathnetters investigate 3 reports of dump trucks mysteriously disappearing and reappearing before they realize that what is being stolen is the dirt!

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