3-2-1 Contact
(01/14/1980–11/18/1988)Children
PBS (US)30 min
Source: unknown
Episodes
S01E01
Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound
S01E02
Noisy/Quiet: The Ear
S01E03
Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound
S01E04
Noisy/Quiet: Music
S01E05
Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration
S01E06
Forces and Motion
S01E07
Forces and Fields
S01E08
Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity
S01E09
Forces and Machines
S01E10
Forces: A Spectacle of Forces
S01E11
Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds
S01E12
Growth/Decay: Human Growth
S01E13
Growth/Decay: Decay
S01E14
Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms
S01E15
Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles
S01E16
Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down
S01E17
Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature
S01E18
Fast/Slow: Lifetimes
S01E19
Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing
S01E20
Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again
S01E21
Communication: Human Communication
S01E22
Communication: Animal Communication
S01E23
Communication: Machinery of Communication
S01E24
Communication with Other Species
S01E25
Communication: Feedback
S01E26
Food/Fuel: Animal Food
S01E27
Food/Fuel: Human Food
S01E28
Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food
S01E29
Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines
S01E30
Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go
S01E31
Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures
S01E32
Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations
S01E33
Hot/Cold: How Hot or Cold Can It Get?
S01E34
Hot/Cold: Heat and Work
S01E35
Hot/Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space
S01E36
Light/Dark: The Sun
S01E37
Light/Dark: Adaptation of Plants/Animals
S01E38
Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum
S01E39
Light/Dark: The Eye
S01E40
Light/Dark: Light Sources
S01E41
Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
S01E42
Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home
S01E43
Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth
S01E44
Near/Far: Space Travel
S01E45
Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are
S01E46
Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns
S01E47
Order/Disorder: The Body â€" An Ordered System
S01E48
Order/Disorder: Social Order
S01E49
Order/Disorder: Disordered
S01E50
Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts
S01E51
Surfaces: Protection
S01E52
Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface
S01E53
Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles
S01E54
Surfaces: Surface of the Earth
S01E55
Surfaces: The Atmosphereâ€"Skin of the Earth
S01E56
Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling
S01E57
Big/Small: Animal Habitats
S01E58
Big/Small: Dinoaurs
S01E59
Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency
S01E60
Big/Small: How Big is Big?
S01E61
Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding
S01E62
Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature
S01E63
Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials
S01E64
Crowded/Uncrowded: Down Among the Atoms (Liquids & Solids)
S01E65
Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities
S02E01
Survival: Breathing
S02E02
Survival: Temperature
S02E03
Survival: Protection
S02E04
Survival: Energy
S02E05
Survival: Teamwork
S02E06
Sports: Training Analysis
S02E07
Sports: Time, Rate, Measurement
S02E08
Sports: Energy Transfer
S02E09
Sports: Impact Analysis
S02E10
Sports: Coordination
S02E11
Flight: Flying Animals
S02E12
Flight: Air Resistance
S02E13
Flight: Lift
S02E14
Flight: Thrust
S02E15
Flight: Acceleration
S02E16
Babies: The Code of Life
S02E17
Babies: Growth and Development
S02E18
Babies: Behavior
S02E19
Babies: Colonization
S02E20
Babies: Change
S02E21
Senses: Taste and Smell
S02E22
Senses: Sight
S02E23
Senses: Hearing
S02E24
Senses: Touch
S02E25
Senses: Special Sensors
S02E26
Shapes in Nature
S02E27
Shapes and Gravity
S02E28
Shapes: Streamlining
S02E29
Shapes: Form and Function
S02E30
Shapes: Clues
S02E31
Water: 3 Phases â€" Gas, Liquid, Solid
S02E32
Water: Medium for Life
S02E33
Water and People
S02E34
Water: Distribution
S02E35
Water in the Body
S02E36
Building: Materials
S02E37
Building: One of a Kind
S02E38
Building: Standard Parts
S02E39
Building: Modular
S02E40
Building: Communication
S03E01
Space: Weightless
S03E02
Space: Getting There
S03E03
Space: Living There
S03E04
Space: Working There
S03E05
Space: Anybody Out There?
S03E06
Measurement: How Long? How Far?
S03E07
Measurement: What's the Area? What's the Volume?
S03E08
Measurement: How Heavy? How Dense?
S03E09
Measurement: How Many? How Much?
S03E10
Measurement: How Fast? How Slow?
S03E11
Earth is Change
S03E12
Earth: Maps
S03E13
Earth: Climate
S03E14
Earth: Flora and Fauna
S03E15
Earth: Building Models
S03E16
Electricity: What is It?
S03E17
Electricity and Magnetism
S03E18
Electricity: Where Do We Get It?
S03E19
Electricity Runs in a Circuit
S03E20
Electricity: You Are Electric
S04E01
Tropics: Rubber
S04E02
Tropics: Metals
S04E03
Tropics: Rice
S04E04
Tropics: Working Animals â€" Monkeys and Elephants
S04E05
Tropics: Endangered Animals
S04E06
Light: From the Sun; To Your Eyes
S04E07
Light: Color
S04E08
Light: Eyes
S04E09
Light: How Animals See
S04E10
Light: Bending and Bouncing
S04E11
Farms: Sheep and Pigs â€" Selective Breeding
S04E12
Farms: Plants and Pigs â€" Plant Production
S04E13
Farms: Hybrids
S04E14
Farms: Cows and Pigs â€" Animal Products
S04E15
Farms: Chickens and Pigs â€" Animal Production
S04E16
Stuff: Metals
S04E17
Stuff: Clay
S04E18
Stuff: Shaping It
S04E19
Stuff: Feathers and Rubber
S04E20
Stuff: Using It
S05E01
Signals: Lingo
S05E02
Signals: Talking Birds, Talking Rooms
S05E03
Signals: Looking for Visual Clues
S05E04
Signals: Getting Them Around
S05E05
Signals: Cracking Codes
S05E06
Oceans: On the Sea
S05E07
Oceans: In the Sea
S05E08
Oceans: From the Sea
S05E09
Oceans: By the Sea
S05E10
Oceans: Of the Sea
S05E11
Motion: What's Up?
S05E12
Motion: Bones
S05E13
Motion: Smashing
S05E14
Motion: Getting a Grip
S05E15
Motion: Heave Ho!
S05E16
Eating: Tooth Detectives
S05E17
Eating: Picky Eaters
S05E18
Eating: Zoo Food
S05E19
Eating: Down the Hatch
S05E20
Eating: Leftovers
S06E01
Japan: Precious Oysters, Rare Salamanders
S06E02
Japan: Landslide!
S06E03
Japan: Paper and Kites
S06E04
Japan: Earthquake!
S06E05
Japan: Judo and Computers
S06E06
Detectives: Skin and Bone Detectives
S06E07
Detectives: Tool and Trash Detectives
S06E08
Detectives: Wildlife Detectives
S06E09
Detectives: Dinosaur Detectives
S06E10
Detectives: Pattern Detectives
S06E11
Architecture: Raising the Big Top
S06E12
Architecture: Home
S06E13
Architecture: Stack It Up
S06E14
Architecture: Made to Fit
S06E15
Architecture: Light But Strong
S06E16
Mammals: Rats and Bats
S06E17
Mammals: Keeping Warm
S06E18
Mammals: Live Birth, Warm Milk
S06E19
Mammals at Play
S06E20
Big Mammals: The High Cost of Living
S06E21
Modeling: Things on Wheels
S06E22
Modeling: Through Ice and Air
S06E23
Modeling: The Earth
S06E24
Modeling: Knees and Small Things
S06E25
Modeling: Spaces
S06E26
In the Air: Finding Your Way
S06E27
In the Air: Drifting with the Wind
S06E28
In the Air: Born to Fly
S06E29
In the Air: Fat Things That Fly
S06E30
In the Air: Unbelievable Flying Objects
S07E01
Antarctica: Getting There
S07E02
Antarctica: Getting Around
S07E03
Antarctica: Life on the Edge
S07E04
Antarctica: Life Under the Ice
S07E05
Antarctica: The Desert Continent
S07E06
Your Body: Twins
S07E07
Your Body: Having a Baby
S07E08
Your Body: Sleep
S07E09
Your Body: Spinning
S07E10
Your Body: Your Health
S07E11
Australia: Platypus & Echidna
S07E12
Australia: Moths & Beetles
S07E13
Australia: Emu & Kookaburra
S07E14
Australia: Koalas
S07E15
Australia: Kangaroos
S07E16
Structures: Bubble, Bubble
S07E17
Structures: Pipes and Reeds
S07E18
Structures: Chaos and Computers
S07E19
Structures: Running Robots
S07E20
Structures: Suspended in Air
S07E21
Greece: The Journey Begins
S07E22
Greece: Under The Ash
S07E23
Greece: Before History
S07E24
Greece: Sheep & Cheese
S07E25
Greece: The Parthenon
S07E26
Island: Parrot Fish
S07E27
Island: Lizards
S07E28
Island: Coral
S07E29
Island: Flamingos
S07E30
Island: Conch