Square One TV-101

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  • Опубліковано 2 гру 2024
  • Square One TV's very first episode, with the song "That's Infinity," Battle of the Bulge Caterers coming up with combinations for meat and cheese sandwiches, and in Mathnet, part 1 of the Problem of the Missing Monkey. This is a repeat episode, so it does not have the original PBS logo.
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  • @DaJSUDiva
    @DaJSUDiva 4 роки тому +17

    I am instantly reverted back to my childhood .. They don't make programs like this anynore and it's a shame! PBS was the elite channel for kids tv..So great to see this again

  • @MaestroDrake
    @MaestroDrake 7 років тому +161

    Happy 30th anniversary, now let's get this on DVD and Blu Ray already.

    • @VanillaLimeCoke
      @VanillaLimeCoke 5 років тому +3

      I’m game.
      But I think the problem is the music videos.
      They’re copyrighted and I guess need to get the rights so they can get the show onto DVD.

    • @derekkinman7492
      @derekkinman7492 3 роки тому +2

      I waited a long time for the complete 5 seasons of square one tv to come to dvd and blu ray for years

    • @Mythinspace
      @Mythinspace 3 роки тому

      @@derekkinman7492 does that mean it has or that you've given up waiting?

    • @derekkinman7492
      @derekkinman7492 3 роки тому +1

      @@Mythinspace every square one tv fans are still waiting for square one tv to be dvd and blu ray released cause they celebrated the 30th anniversary of square one tv

    • @Mythinspace
      @Mythinspace 3 роки тому

      @@derekkinman7492 aww I was hoping I'd missed something and they were now available.

  • @richardson.1424
    @richardson.1424 5 років тому +64

    Why is this still entertaining after all of these years?!? It's a testament to how effective kids educational programing was back in the day... Engaging, fun, and smart. Shows like this need to make a comeback for kids of this day and age.

    • @joed180
      @joed180 2 роки тому +1

      I dunno have you seen Number Blocks? Because that's teaching kids set theory at 6... and this is like "you can't count infinity." On the other hand, they really could use more Sesame Street .

    • @ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock
      @ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock 2 роки тому +2

      I concur.

  • @dananola
    @dananola 2 роки тому +34

    I was always amazed at how versatile these performers are. They sing, dance and act with incredible ease. Shout out to wonderful artists who don't find "Children's" television to be beneath them.

  • @carolweiss5078
    @carolweiss5078 7 років тому +250

    I am the author of "THAT'S INFINITY" - Carol Weiss

    • @chrisjepsen6824
      @chrisjepsen6824 6 років тому +4

      Awesome!

    • @JayAyers
      @JayAyers 6 років тому +3

      Love the song

    • @brich2929
      @brich2929 5 років тому +3

      Great song, Carol!

    • @emilphoryew9436
      @emilphoryew9436 5 років тому +4

      I had to watch this program in summer school camp.

    • @LogoMan7777
      @LogoMan7777 5 років тому +2

      Was it your idea to have the song spill over into the PBS ID at the end of the episode?

  • @TommyLellan
    @TommyLellan 5 років тому +14

    Oh wow it’s like I had amnesia and just remembered my whole life. Talk about a blast from the past.

  • @rcole718
    @rcole718 6 років тому +75

    I used to scream at the TV for Mathman to eat the right numbers.

    • @westport17782010
      @westport17782010 5 років тому +8

      mathman....mathman....mathman.....mathman....

    • @epcotman32
      @epcotman32 3 роки тому +2

      Mathman always taught us how to be stupid at math, that's probably because I did poorly in school.

  • @princesserica718
    @princesserica718 4 роки тому +17

    WOW, you took it bac bac. This show made me love math as a kid. Now I have a BS in Accounting and pursuing an MBA in Finance.

  • @joshgellis3292
    @joshgellis3292 2 роки тому +9

    From the second half of the 80s to the start of the middle 90s I watched AN INCREDIBLE LOAD of PBS's Square One, Sesame Street and Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego.
    I still REALLY like clips of each. Something so incredibly: cool, weird and academic in a PURE way about ALL of IT. lol!

  • @LucyFlynnBTShow
    @LucyFlynnBTShow Рік тому +5

    When I was in middle school my math teacher always plays square one tv (I’m a junior in high school) it was a memory I won’t forget

  • @EarthdogGFX
    @EarthdogGFX 10 років тому +135

    Square One was the #SNL for kids in the 80s

    • @Weesing
      @Weesing 9 років тому

      +Earthdog BIG BROTHER FAN It was pretty amazing!

    • @deesee3622
      @deesee3622 6 років тому

      yup!

    • @emilylloyd5477
      @emilylloyd5477 5 років тому

      I thought that, too.

    • @soxpuff
      @soxpuff 3 роки тому +1

      So then Roundhouse was the OG before In Living Color?

    • @channic99
      @channic99 3 роки тому

      Facts!!

  • @dananajj
    @dananajj 5 років тому +29

    OMG Mathman! This was the sole thing I waited to watch in each episode. Nothing else mattered.

  • @surpriseme1082
    @surpriseme1082 3 роки тому +18

    What a freaking blast from the past! Thank you so much for these uploads! Mathnet was the best!

  • @moeperry554
    @moeperry554 5 років тому +31

    This theme songs takes me back to Elementary school!!😊😊

    • @crimsontide1980
      @crimsontide1980 3 роки тому +3

      It sure doesn't feel like it's been over 30 years since I last watched this.....scary how fast time flies once we stopped being kids. If I only knew how good we had it back then I would have enjoyed it so much more

    • @jeff5882174
      @jeff5882174 3 роки тому +2

      Me 2

    • @elithunder
      @elithunder 3 роки тому

      For realz!!!

  • @christierochellecox9083
    @christierochellecox9083 7 років тому +20

    This was absolutely one of my favorite after school programs! I learned a lot from this show!

  • @AubreyEllenShomo
    @AubreyEllenShomo Рік тому +2

    You just made my day. I used to love this as a kid, and it wasn't on TV where I grew up, so my grandpa had to tape it for me. I must've watched the same 5 episodes over and over and over again on one shitty long play video cassette tape.
    I'm almost 40 now, and the nostalgia is wonderful.

  • @Drfresh1402
    @Drfresh1402 2 роки тому +14

    Wow some how at 34 this still keeps my attention. This was a great show.

  • @runeramdas
    @runeramdas 3 роки тому +10

    Thanks heaps for putting these episodes on line. You're doing noble work

  • @nelleo2507
    @nelleo2507 7 років тому +14

    I was trying to teach my little boy about infinity and remembered the song from square one and here I am, reliving my childhood. 😀 such good times!

  • @ntchpt1271
    @ntchpt1271 9 років тому +24

    loved watching this on public TV on ch.13 at 5 p.m. way back when. good memories!

    • @Weesing
      @Weesing 9 років тому +2

      +Ntch Pt1 It's amazing how long these shows stick with you!

  • @VGMStudios33
    @VGMStudios33 8 років тому +16

    Wow a blast from the past. Man this was great. Thanks to the uploader.

  • @floofytown
    @floofytown 6 років тому +8

    Holy HECK I remember this!! But I forgot all about it until this second! Dude, Mathman!! And that inexplicably weird tornado guy!! AHHH MEMORY FEELS, FLOODING BACK ALL AT ONCE, DON'T KNOW IF CAN HANDLE

  • @BoomstickBabyKel
    @BoomstickBabyKel 8 років тому +8

    Thank you so much for the upload. I loved Square One, even now I randomly break into songs from the show! I can't find it anywhere else, so it means a lot to find it here. Thanks again for everything!

  • @blugreen123
    @blugreen123 2 місяці тому +2

    I thought this show was a fever dream! No one else seems to remember it!

    • @MattHandy8577
      @MattHandy8577 2 місяці тому

      I Remember Square One TV great Program

  • @ksmith3108
    @ksmith3108 2 роки тому +1

    I love the music videos! i just told a friend about Less Than Zero yesterday, before I knew you were sharing these. Thank you!

  • @jwilliams7554
    @jwilliams7554 5 років тому +14

    This was the perfect late afternoon show for us teens who were too old for cartoons but not interested in the evening news

  • @MercifulVoodoo
    @MercifulVoodoo 2 роки тому +4

    Omg! All these CTW uploads! I grew up in the Midwest with no cable access in the early 90’s so I learned everything from Square One and 3,2,1 Contact. My childhood exists on your channel 😄

  • @KayNJ
    @KayNJ 3 роки тому +7

    This show, and Mathnet in particular, contributed to my quirky sense of humor. I used to love this and 3-2-1 Contact. It greatly contributed to my love of STEM and I ended up getting a BS in Chemistry and Biology.

  • @kencoleman5007
    @kencoleman5007 9 років тому +29

    Mathnet was awesome.
    Watching this while solving some KenKen and Sudoku puzzles. Thank you Square One.

    • @deesee3622
      @deesee3622 6 років тому +3

      loved math net!!

    • @dawnpriest302
      @dawnpriest302 3 роки тому +3

      That was my favorite part of the show.

    • @kevinpayton2664
      @kevinpayton2664 3 роки тому +2

      I watched Square One just for Mathnet. It could've been its own show.

  • @christopherjudge1138
    @christopherjudge1138 3 роки тому +7

    Square One Television had its roots in MTV, Broadway,
    SCTV and Saturday Night Live! Providing young viewers
    with mathematics and hilarious sketch comedy!

  • @DaDoc540
    @DaDoc540 7 років тому +13

    Square One Television, Season 1, Episode 1
    0:59 "That's Infinity"
    4:21 Mathman, Multiples of 3
    5:41 The answer is always 3
    8:07 Battle of the Bulge Caterers: Combinatorics
    12:48 OOPS! Subtraction: borrowing 10
    14:26 The Square Brothers, "Perfect Squares"
    17:51 Bureau of Missing Numbers, 14
    19:50 Mathnet, "The Problem of the Missing Monkey" part 1

    • @DaDoc540
      @DaDoc540 6 років тому +4

      R.I.P. Reg E. Cathey (August 18, 1958 - February 9, 2018)

    • @christinamarcet1780
      @christinamarcet1780 6 років тому

      Thanks for this!

  • @EmmanuelIwhiwhu
    @EmmanuelIwhiwhu 3 роки тому +2

    Whaaaat!!!‽ So I'm singing the "infinity" song in my head out of the blue, and I decide to search for square one, just for the nostalgia and I couldn't believe my luck when I pressed play on my 1st result on UA-cam and it was the exact episode with the exact song I was singing in my head. Awesoooooome. You have a new subscriber. Awesome page.

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens 3 місяці тому +2

    I never once found this on television.
    They played Square one during summer school when it was too hot to go outside.

  • @shorecross
    @shorecross 9 років тому +40

    Jesus christ, it's like I'm 6 again

  • @matt_____9309
    @matt_____9309 8 років тому +12

    i used to watch this show at my grandparents house after school in 1988

  • @robertdubs9466
    @robertdubs9466 8 років тому +24

    I never realized it until recently but, in the opening credits, the spiraling squares with clips from the show form a Fibonacci sequence.

    • @ChrisXperince
      @ChrisXperince 4 місяці тому

      There is a reference to that in future Rama

  • @JayRacer
    @JayRacer 10 місяців тому +2

    I vaguely remembered this from when I was very young so I looked it up. I remember “square one!” From the title. Very impressive show.

  • @MrSamer83
    @MrSamer83 4 роки тому +3

    This takes me back!!!! Thanks for bringing back the nostalgia to my eyes!!! 🙌

  • @a2pha
    @a2pha 3 роки тому +5

    This show is what encouraged me to get a career in being the programmer for writing business applications for companies years ago. That and writing video-games too.

  • @Searching4Rinoa
    @Searching4Rinoa 9 років тому +38

    Watched this religiously as a kid, didn't care for the Mathnet back then but I'll never forget that is where that if any multiple of 9 returns to 9 if you add the answer of those numbers together until you get a single number. For example: 9 times 88 = 792. 7+2 is another 9 which plus the first 9 is 18, 1+8=9.

    • @parlet
      @parlet 4 роки тому +4

      Searching4Rinoa 9,9,9...fantastic number 9! Times any number you can find, it all comes back to 9!

    • @jasonpdsi
      @jasonpdsi 3 роки тому +2

      I absolutely LOVED Mathnet. But to be honest, this entire show was the bees knees. If I were to put my finger on the main reason why I loved this show, it was the presentation. There was quite a variety to it. It was engaging.

  • @Denise.Taylorx88
    @Denise.Taylorx88 2 роки тому +2

    OMG... This takes me waaaaaaaaay back. I was trying to remember what the segment was with Joe Howard (he's in S2:E4 of American Horror Story) I was like... "IS THAT JOE WALSH???" and here we are. Confirmed. Now I have to see how many episodes I actually faintly remember. Glad someone posted this!! Thank you Anton.- MATHNET!!!!

  • @knowledgeispowermediaprodu7094

    Wow, for me, this was like close to 40 years ago! I loved this show!!!

  • @wstml555
    @wstml555 9 років тому +4

    Amazing! I watched this when i was a kid, im going to have to watch all these again as an adult!

  • @rebeccaknell2368
    @rebeccaknell2368 Рік тому +3

    This is my all-time favorite kids’ show!!! (But in case anyone is looking for a math show that is more current, I have to say that Odd Squad is pretty great too.)

  • @or1750
    @or1750 6 років тому +4

    Ahhh....I remember coming home to watch this show, "Reading Rainbow" and "Wishbone" to name a few that aired at the time. Don't get me wrong I did watch all the other cartoons (and In Living in Color) but I learned a great deal from "Square One" like what is a Dodecahedron. Good times!!

  • @ms.payton1458
    @ms.payton1458 5 років тому +4

    I'm back in my childhood again!!!! Man this just made my night!!!! 😍😍😍😍

  • @amyslifelocsandmakeup8731
    @amyslifelocsandmakeup8731 3 роки тому +1

    I don't know who you are but I love you for posting this!! My 4 year old granddaughter is in loveeeee with these episodes in 2021

  • @rio197
    @rio197 10 років тому +3

    Love this. Brought back memories. Thanks for posting the vid.

  • @didi012578
    @didi012578 2 роки тому +2

    The shopkeeper in Math Net was the "ASSMAN" in a Seinfeld episode!
    Worlds colliding 😂

  • @kalvin1123
    @kalvin1123 9 місяців тому +3

    PBS would make so much $ if they released the series on DVD.
    Someone watching these videos must have worked on the show or knows someone who did.

  • @funshine97
    @funshine97 11 років тому +9

    It's so cute when Mathman goes like, "Ya-ha!"

  • @JerryOrbachFan
    @JerryOrbachFan Рік тому +1

    This show came to mind out of nowhere. I had completely forgotten about it until 5 minutes ago.

  • @williamthomasiii4144
    @williamthomasiii4144 3 роки тому +1

    Soooooo many memories!! That intro theme song gave me all kinds of flashbacks!!

  • @redmanr5522
    @redmanr5522 2 роки тому +2

    Happy 35th anniversary Square One TV! Wed 1/26/22.

  • @TheLycheegreentea
    @TheLycheegreentea 4 роки тому +4

    Perfect for Distance Learning for my kids. Now they get to grow up doing what I did.

  • @funshine97
    @funshine97 11 років тому +9

    That Square One TV song, "That's Infinity", drives me crazy!

  • @gregorya.champion3784
    @gregorya.champion3784 3 роки тому +3

    I've learned new things about mathematics from this but the schools I attended never taught us square, prime, palindrome & triangular numbers.

  • @funshine97
    @funshine97 11 років тому +16

    Mathman: "Free Game! Ha-Ha!
    me: "Yay for Mathman!"

  • @AroundIndiana
    @AroundIndiana 6 років тому +3

    This show reminds me of the many times I stayed home from school "sick" lol. Id always watch this in the afternoon.

  • @DniSorceress
    @DniSorceress 7 років тому +1

    Thank you Grumps! Glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers this show!

  • @dreyb1801
    @dreyb1801 2 роки тому +3

    Another blast from my childhood. The early '90s 🥰🤩

  • @ir10031981
    @ir10031981 7 років тому +7

    this week 30 years ago, Square One TV premiered on PBS!

  • @mducey
    @mducey Рік тому

    Should have a billion views. That song is great at the beginning, nice job Carol. Nice job to everyone involved

  • @JoeCnNd
    @JoeCnNd 9 років тому +17

    ah life before caller ID.

  • @courtneyst.julian8192
    @courtneyst.julian8192 5 років тому +1

    This show was excellent. I can do long multiplication and division in my head because of this show. I'm going to make sure my daughter watches it after school every day just like I did.

  • @april1969simnel
    @april1969simnel 6 років тому +7

    As someone who was a freshman in college when this show debuted, all I can say is this was really cute, and I would've loved it if CTW had done something like this in the 70s. I only know about this show because I've seen the special PBS logo done for this episode, so I wanted to see what you kids saw.
    I also have to say: Ha! Mr. Whipple! Hahahaha! Did the monkey squeeze any Charmin?

  • @shirdonbock6072
    @shirdonbock6072 3 роки тому +1

    Thank You Anton Spivack For Bringing Us Great Memories

  • @aurakasihdonkitunya
    @aurakasihdonkitunya 4 роки тому +1

    What a great TV show. It recalls all those math teaser when I was at the elementary school

  • @beeaye7944
    @beeaye7944 Рік тому +1

    Watching "The Wire" tonight and wondering why Reg. E Cathey looks so damned familiar... Proceeds to look through his IMDB and find a forgotten part of my childhood afternoons with PBS.

  • @mstiffq
    @mstiffq 4 місяці тому

    Mike you knows up!! Thanks for this 🖤

  • @floofytown
    @floofytown 6 років тому +1

    Oh mannnnn, Mathnet. Wow. The music. Those faces! This is nuts to watch for the first time in probably 30 years.

  • @lauriesch
    @lauriesch 7 років тому

    Thanks so much for posting this! Loved this show.

  • @mezza001
    @mezza001 8 років тому +3

    i lovethis! watched it when i was young

  • @kimrider2594
    @kimrider2594 7 місяців тому +1

    I’m in 2 grade and our class loves this

  • @Packersman3478
    @Packersman3478 6 років тому +4

    Decided I'd go ahead and go back to part of my past that I remember, but I was a bit too young to understand the math concepts of this at the time. It always aired right after Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego came on on my local PBS station.

    • @kevinpayton2664
      @kevinpayton2664 3 роки тому

      Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego was an awesome game show.

  • @MrPisster
    @MrPisster 9 років тому +25

    The US debt? "Add one to it".

    • @jmholmes83
      @jmholmes83 8 років тому +8

      And on, and on, and on, and on...

    • @dianaprince4011
      @dianaprince4011 7 років тому +2

      MrPisster it will never ends...

    • @emilphoryew9436
      @emilphoryew9436 5 років тому +2

      @@dianaprince4011 Eventually it will end. No empire lasts indefinitely.

    • @deadmansgulf911
      @deadmansgulf911 5 років тому +1

      Might as well be as I dont think we will ever see it ever start going down.

  • @MrKenichi22
    @MrKenichi22 3 роки тому

    man this takes me back, as a 90’s kid with 80’s kid cousins who needed help on Math.

  • @ibrahimjalloh5300
    @ibrahimjalloh5300 3 роки тому +2

    Even Carmen Sandieago
    Helped Me In School
    And Square One
    Helped Me In Elementary School
    Square One was My School Assignment Almost Everyday

  • @Titanbrotha00
    @Titanbrotha00 2 роки тому

    What I loved about Square One TV: Mathnet, Mathman, Backstage with Blackstone, & of course "Nine, nine, nine fantastic number nine times any number you can find it all comes back to nine!"

  • @christianlong1907
    @christianlong1907 4 місяці тому

    They really need to bring back this TV program to a newer generation of audience! I am really feeling bad that I totally missed out on this amazing program. These kids today need to know that mathematics is absolutely amazing and awesome! (I was born in January 1993.)

  • @FoxxMulderr
    @FoxxMulderr 5 років тому +4

    24:25 "Maybe he was going to toss his salad" LMAO!

  • @bradjames891
    @bradjames891 4 роки тому +1

    It took me watching Dragnet episodes to get the intro to Mathnet but now it is hilarious! Kate Monday is a play on Joe Friday!

  • @thinkgood
    @thinkgood 2 роки тому +1

    Gotta be honest. I loved watching this show as a kid but when it came to the math, I had no idea what was going on.

  • @Fuzy2K
    @Fuzy2K 8 років тому +2

    "Well, am you or ain't you? ...I mean, aren't you?'' LOL

  • @anniefinch6843
    @anniefinch6843 3 місяці тому

    I remembered watching this program on television.

  • @missmoxie9188
    @missmoxie9188 2 роки тому

    I’ve been looking for this for so long

  • @zackmorseii8216
    @zackmorseii8216 5 років тому

    Been trying to think of this show forever! Childhood reloaded!!!

  • @BennyMcGhee
    @BennyMcGhee 2 роки тому

    Square One was a great show…and my god was there some loving going on with the cast members.

  • @seeemwalk4203
    @seeemwalk4203 4 роки тому

    I used to watch this show after school everyday. I loved Mathman!

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network 2 роки тому +1

    29:02 is the 1989 PBS “Glass” logo where it plastered over the 1984 PBS logo variant “And On”. How sad. I wonder if the 1984 PBS “And On” variant exists in the PBS vault if they want this episode restore with the 1984 PBS logo preserved.

  • @craigfoye6674
    @craigfoye6674 3 роки тому +1

    From the production company that brought you “Sesame Street”, “The Electric Company” and “3-2-1 Contact” comes “Square One TV”!!

  • @chrisrios1709
    @chrisrios1709 7 років тому +5

    To this day whenever I hear someone say "My name is _______," in my head I follow it with "I'm a mathematician."

  • @terrancer49
    @terrancer49 8 місяців тому +2

    I had a huge crush on Kate Monday 😂

  • @big88ful
    @big88ful 9 років тому +28

    If the kids today had this kind of show on maybe just maybe the school system wouldn't be what it is today...Bad!!!

  • @channic99
    @channic99 3 роки тому +1

    Mathnet was the Bloodhound Gang of Square One TV!

  • @derekwilliams1660
    @derekwilliams1660 7 років тому

    Wow,that took me back to when I was a kid. That was great.

  • @fatxthor2469
    @fatxthor2469 4 роки тому

    I remember this episode. They must've had it repeat a lot. Took me back when i watched this ever day after school.

  • @ibrahimjalloh6603
    @ibrahimjalloh6603 5 років тому

    Square One Used To Help Me Do My Homework Thank You Square
    One I will Miss You So Much

  • @varianschirmer9375
    @varianschirmer9375 3 роки тому

    4:22 I loved the Mathman/ Mr. Glitch shorts.
    The instructions sure sound like the voice actor of Inspector Gadget (Don Adams).

  • @hurgenflerg2133
    @hurgenflerg2133 2 місяці тому

    Think of a number. Subtract the same number. Wow, no matter what number you picked, the answer is zero! How amazing!