Square One TV/Episode 165

Episode 165
Season 1, Episode 65
Airdate	April 24, 1987
Production Number	65
Written by	head writer Jim Thurman writers Jim Thurman, David D. Connell, Harry Crossfield, C.C. Berg, Michael Winship, Douglas Anderson, Ellen Fogle, David Yazbek, Bob Brush, Jack Kenny
Directed by	Dan F. Smith Mathnet director Charles S. Dubin
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Square One TV — Season One

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Episode 165 is the sixty-fifth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the sixty-fifth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Devon Ericson (Maureen O'Reilly), Adam Carl (Noel Sphinx, Jr.)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Kubrick's Rule (EKA #136)

In order to stop its incessant singing, Irving and Dave give Hank the computer a program he can never finish: start with 3; add 4; stop if the sum is even; if not go back to step 2.

• Music Video: "That's Infinity" (EKA #101)

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

• Newsroom Interruption: Infinity (EKA #101)

• Infinity (EKA #126)

The camera zooms in on Beverly sitting in a room with a picture of Beverly sitting in a room with a picture of Beverly sitting in a room -- to illustrate the idea of infinite regress.

• Odd and Even Hands (EKA #122)

2 hands stick out different numbers of fingers, and a voice calls out Odd or Even.

• Odd Pair

Felicia tells Oscarina that adding 2 odd numbers always results in an even number, and adding 2 evens results in an even number.

• Moebius Trip Beverly

Beverly demonstrates how to make a moebius strip, a strip of paper with only one side.

• Moebius Trip

This animation uses an automobile trip to illustrate the 1-sidedness of the moebius strip.

• "And on..." (EKA #101)

• Backstage with Blackstone: Heads or Tails (EKA #109)

After a spectator has turned over pairs of coins from a pile of 10 dimes, Blackstone uses the principle of parity to correctly determine whether a covered coin is heads or tails.

• Mathnet: The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon - Part 5 (EKA #130)

Thinking logically and mathematically, the Mathnetters determine that Bridget stole the bird from Gutman - and they trap her into a confession.

Credits

• Executive Producer: David D. Connell
• Senior Producer: Jim Thurman
• Producers: Jeanne Shanahan, Stephanie Hochman, Herb Gardner, Joel Kosofsky
• Production Manager: Yvonne A. Hill-Ogunkoya
• Associate Producers: Danica Kombol, Rosemary Marlow
• Music Director: John Rodby
• Music Supervisor: Allen Goodman
• Art Director: Ronald D. Baldwin
• Supervising Director: Ted May
• Post Production Coordinator: Michael Chu
• Videotape Editor: John R. Tierney
• Costume Designer: Lowell M. Detweiler
• Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
• Graphic Director: Jim Jinkins
• Assistant Graphic Director: S. Jan Fleming
• Assistant to the Production Manager: Lynn Reed
• Production Manager: Lori Petchers
• Production Associates: Richard Buxenbaum, Brett D. King
• Production Assistants: Aishah Zuhri-Pachez, David Schmalholz
• Production Secretaries: Dorothy Teneketges, Lorraine Velazquez, Sharen Gay Vernale
• Associate Director: Ken Diego
• Stage Manager: Ric E. Anderson
• Technical Director: Ronald D. Davis
• Lighting Designers: Tony DiGirolamo, Daniel McKenrick
• Assistant Lighting Director: Roberto Jiminez
• Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
• Audio: Todd Miller, Ron Lantz, Jerry Romano
• Video & Engineer in Charge: Paul Stiegelbauer
• Camera: Dave Driscoll, Marvin "Diallo" McLinn, Trevor Odell
• Videotape Operators: Renee DiCuia, Tom Wittman
• Make-Up Artist: James Pinto
• Hair Stylist: Scott Farley
• Wardrobe: Florence Aubert
• Master Carpenter: Timothy McDonough
• Scenic Artist: Ellen Hopkins
• Graphic Artists: Joseph Aaron, Carolyn Brunetto, Linda Griffin, Les Hunter, Bob Perkins
• Dance Numbers Staged by Patricia Birch, Hope Clarke

Mahnet

• Producer: Jeanette M. Webb, George E. Swink
• Story Consultant: Sid Fleischman
• Director of Photography: Ron Vargas
• Editors: Ed Brennan, Harvley Stambler
• Music Composed by Gerald Fried
• Music Arranger & Conductor: John Rodby
• Casting by Mary West, C.S.A., Brown & West Casting
• Associate Director & Associate Producer: Scott A. Satin
• Stage Manager: Bruce Alan Solow
• Production Designer: William Bohnert
• Production Sound: Walter Hoylman
• 1st Assistant Camera: Gary Huddleston
• Script Supervisor: Jeff Glasser
• Production Secretary: Jacqueline G. Raw
• Production Assistants: Tracy Thielen, Rhonda Baer, Michael W. Green, James Douglas Williams
• Costume Designer: Donna Thorburn
• Costumer: Bridget Ostersehlte
• Make-Up Artist: Pamela S. Westmore
• Hair Stylist: Kay Cole
• Transportation Captain: Dan Goldberg
• Music Editor: Eugene Marks
• Sound Effects: Echo Film Service
• Sound Mixer: Blaine Stewart
• With Special Thanks to Darryl F. Gates of the Los Angeles Police Department

• Content Director: Joel Schneider
• Assistant Content Director: Kathryn Aucoin
• Story Researcher: Linda Schupack
• Content Assistant: Brett Pierce
• Mathematics Consultant: Edward T. Esty
• Vice President for Research: Keith W. Mielke
• Directors of Research: Diane Field, Bettina Peel
• Researchers: Anne E. Nesbitt, Sheri Offerman, Alexndra Rochwell
• Research Consultant: Milton Chen
• Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
• Advisory Board Staff: Dr. Sadie Bragg, Ms. Marilyn Burns, Dr. Robert Davis, Dr. Richard Griego, Mr. Wayne Goodwin, Dr. Peter Hilton, Magdalene Lampert, Dr. Katherine Merseth, Dr. Henry Pollak, Ms. Yolanda Rodriguez, Dr. Elizabeth Stage, Dr. Harold Stevenson, Dr. Zalman Usiskin, Ms. Nancy Varner, Mr. William U. Walton, Dr. Charles Whitney, Dr. Stephen Willoughby
• Vice President for Production: Al Hyslop
• Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.

Quotes

• Mathnet Announcer: Maureen O'Reilly was tried and convicted of a 459, burglary, and a 487A, grand theft autobahn. She was put away from society for an appropriate number of years.