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Square One TV/Episode 320

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Episode 320
Season 3, Episode 20
Airdate February 9, 1990
Production Number 135
Written by David D. Connell, Jim Thurman
Directed by Mike Gargiulo, Dan F. Smith
Mathnet director
Charles S. Dubin
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Episode 320 is the twentieth episode of the third season of Square One TV, and the one-hundred thirty-fifth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Sue Ann Gersherson (Eve Adams), Tammy Grimes (Lauren Bacchanal), Jonathan Freeman (Joshua), Lianne Kressin (Ms. Snood)

Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Person on the Street: Brush Twice a Day

People on the street are asked: If you brush your teeth twice a day, it will take almost 3 years to brush them 2,000 times. How long will it take to brush them 2,000,000 times? 2,000,000,000?


  • What's My Number: 41

Contestants try to find the secret number from a group of 25 by eliminating subsets which contain that number.


  • Oops!: 34 x 12 (EKA #218)

A confused character makes a mistake when multiplying 34 x 12 which causes a stock-footage disaster.


  • Exclusive Music Video: "Infinity - There is No End" (The Jets) (EKA #302)

This song uses several examples of large numbers to illustrate that infinity is not a large number. Several patterns for building sequences of whole numbers are used to suggest infinite sequences.


  • Mathnet: The Case of the Unkidnapping - Part 5

George ties himself up in same knots usedon Ms. Bacchanal. Mathnetters play "What do we know," and check bank balances of show. They use logic to prove Ms. Bacchanal kidnapped herself.


Credits

Mathnet

  • Associate Producer: Annina Lavee
  • Director of Photography: David H. Sperling
  • Musical Number Staged by James Mellon
  • Casting: Marcia Shulman
  • Extras Casting: D. Urell
  • 1st Assistant Director: Harvey Waldman
  • 2nd Assistant Director: Marlene Arvan
  • Production Designer: Robert P. Kracik
  • Costume Designer: Tanna Moonataro
  • Hair & Make-Up: Matiki Annoff
  • Sound Mixer: Jeff Pullman
  • 1st Assistant Camera: Anne Gwynn
  • Gaffer: Tory Estern
  • Key Grip: Richard Boyle, II
  • Location Managers: Sara Beth Allen, Brian Howard
  • Script Supervisor: Elisabeth Myles
  • Production Coordinator: Betty Chin
  • Assistant Production Coordinator: Elly Eisenberg
  • Auditor: Donna Santora
  • Teamster: David Babcock
  • Unit Manager: Maura McGloin
  • Production Assistants: Jody Solomon, Jonathan Stern
  • Re-Recording Mixer: Rex Recker/Photomog
  • Sound Effects Editor: Steve Rosen
  • Post Production Facitlity: The Tape House
  • Special Thanks to Sardi's Resturant, Stephan Adrian, Ltd.


  • Content Director: Joel Schneider
  • Assistant Content Director: Richard Miller
  • Content Associate: Betsy McNeal
  • Mathematics and Research Consultant: Edward T. Esty
  • Vice President for Research: Keith W. Miekle
  • Assistant Vice President for Research: Eve Hall
  • Research Team and Consultants: Shalom Fisch, Dorothy T. Bennett, Samara Solan, Elizabeth Debold, Audrey Korsgaard
  • Story Researcher: Dana Zoran
  • Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
  • Advisory Board Staff: Dr. Sadie Bragg, Ms. Marilyn Burns, Dr. Robert Davis, Mr. Wayne Goodwin, Dr. Richard Griego, Dr. Peter Hilton, Dr. Magdalene Lampert, Dr. Katherine Merseth, Dr. Henry Pollak, Ms. Yolanda Rodriguez, Dr. Elizabeth Stage, Dr. Zalman Usiskin, Ms. Nancy Varner, Mr. William U. Wallton, Dr. Charles Whitney, Dr. Stephen Willoughby
  • Vice President for Production: Franklin Getchell
  • Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.
  • Sets by Lincoln Scenic Studios


Notes

Trivia

The Show

Allusions and References

Quotes

  • Mathnet Announcer: Lauren Bacchanal was tried in Manhattan, in and for the city of New York, and found guilty of a 155.42 grand larceny in the first degree, and a 190.65 scheme to defraud in the first degree, and a 13.13 letting the air out of an actor's ego. She was sent to prison, where it was reported she was working on a new musical. Working title: Time On My Hands.