@@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
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.
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 .
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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
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 😄
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.
Square One Television had its roots in MTV, Broadway, SCTV and Saturday Night Live! Providing young viewers with mathematics and hilarious sketch comedy!
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!
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.
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.
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!!!!
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!!
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
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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?
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.
AVID seems to think it wasn't real, but I remember seeing the episode before the Glass logo plastered it, and I remember the variant. ~ Daniella (I'm making this up, but I know it's real!)
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.
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!"
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.)
Happy 30th anniversary, now let's get this on DVD and Blu Ray already.
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.
I waited a long time for the complete 5 seasons of square one tv to come to dvd and blu ray for years
@@derekkinman7492 does that mean it has or that you've given up waiting?
@@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
@@derekkinman7492 aww I was hoping I'd missed something and they were now available.
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.
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 .
I concur.
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
I am the author of "THAT'S INFINITY" - Carol Weiss
Awesome!
Love the song
Great song, Carol!
I had to watch this program in summer school camp.
Was it your idea to have the song spill over into the PBS ID at the end of the episode?
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.
Oh wow it’s like I had amnesia and just remembered my whole life. Talk about a blast from the past.
I used to scream at the TV for Mathman to eat the right numbers.
mathman....mathman....mathman.....mathman....
Mathman always taught us how to be stupid at math, that's probably because I did poorly in school.
This theme songs takes me back to Elementary school!!😊😊
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
Me 2
For realz!!!
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
Wow some how at 34 this still keeps my attention. This was a great show.
Me too
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!
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.
Square One was the #SNL for kids in the 80s
+Earthdog BIG BROTHER FAN It was pretty amazing!
yup!
I thought that, too.
So then Roundhouse was the OG before In Living Color?
Facts!!
OMG Mathman! This was the sole thing I waited to watch in each episode. Nothing else mattered.
This was absolutely one of my favorite after school programs! I learned a lot from this show!
loved watching this on public TV on ch.13 at 5 p.m. way back when. good memories!
+Ntch Pt1 It's amazing how long these shows stick with you!
What a freaking blast from the past! Thank you so much for these uploads! Mathnet was the best!
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!
Thanks heaps for putting these episodes on line. You're doing noble work
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.
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
Mathnet was awesome.
Watching this while solving some KenKen and Sudoku puzzles. Thank you Square One.
loved math net!!
That was my favorite part of the show.
I watched Square One just for Mathnet. It could've been its own show.
I never realized it until recently but, in the opening credits, the spiraling squares with clips from the show form a Fibonacci sequence.
There is a reference to that in future Rama
This was the perfect late afternoon show for us teens who were too old for cartoons but not interested in the evening news
i used to watch this show at my grandparents house after school in 1988
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 😄
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.
Square One Television had its roots in MTV, Broadway,
SCTV and Saturday Night Live! Providing young viewers
with mathematics and hilarious sketch comedy!
Wow a blast from the past. Man this was great. Thanks to the uploader.
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!
I miss Square One I used to watch that show!!!
I love the music videos! i just told a friend about Less Than Zero yesterday, before I knew you were sharing these. Thank you!
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.
Jesus christ, it's like I'm 6 again
I'm back in my childhood again!!!! Man this just made my night!!!! 😍😍😍😍
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.
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.
This takes me back!!!! Thanks for bringing back the nostalgia to my eyes!!! 🙌
The shopkeeper in Math Net was the "ASSMAN" in a Seinfeld episode!
Worlds colliding 😂
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!!!!
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!!
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.
Wow, for me, this was like close to 40 years ago! I loved this show!!!
Amazing! I watched this when i was a kid, im going to have to watch all these again as an adult!
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
R.I.P. Reg E. Cathey (August 18, 1958 - February 9, 2018)
Thanks for this!
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.
Searching4Rinoa 9,9,9...fantastic number 9! Times any number you can find, it all comes back to 9!
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.
I never once found this on television.
They played Square one during summer school when it was too hot to go outside.
It's so cute when Mathman goes like, "Ya-ha!"
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
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.)
I thought this show was a fever dream! No one else seems to remember it!
I Remember Square One TV great Program
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.
He had a great career after Square One.
Another blast from my childhood. The early '90s 🥰🤩
This show came to mind out of nowhere. I had completely forgotten about it until 5 minutes ago.
Soooooo many memories!! That intro theme song gave me all kinds of flashbacks!!
That Square One TV song, "That's Infinity", drives me crazy!
Perfect for Distance Learning for my kids. Now they get to grow up doing what I did.
This show reminds me of the many times I stayed home from school "sick" lol. Id always watch this in the afternoon.
Happy 35th anniversary Square One TV! Wed 1/26/22.
Love this. Brought back memories. Thanks for posting the vid.
this week 30 years ago, Square One TV premiered on PBS!
Mathman: "Free Game! Ha-Ha!
me: "Yay for Mathman!"
Thank you Grumps! Glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers this show!
ah life before caller ID.
Should have a billion views. That song is great at the beginning, nice job Carol. Nice job to everyone involved
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.
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?
I've learned new things about mathematics from this but the schools I attended never taught us square, prime, palindrome & triangular numbers.
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.
AVID seems to think it wasn't real, but I remember seeing the episode before the Glass logo plastered it, and I remember the variant.
~ Daniella (I'm making this up, but I know it's real!)
Thank You Anton Spivack For Bringing Us Great Memories
What a great TV show. It recalls all those math teaser when I was at the elementary school
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.
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego was an awesome game show.
I’m in 2 grade and our class loves this
Oh mannnnn, Mathnet. Wow. The music. Those faces! This is nuts to watch for the first time in probably 30 years.
The US debt? "Add one to it".
And on, and on, and on, and on...
MrPisster it will never ends...
@@dianaprince4011 Eventually it will end. No empire lasts indefinitely.
Might as well be as I dont think we will ever see it ever start going down.
i lovethis! watched it when i was young
I was in the stupid class in 2nd grade. Our depressed teacher would randomly turn off the class lights and play Square One. 1992. It was amazing.
24:25 "Maybe he was going to toss his salad" LMAO!
To this day whenever I hear someone say "My name is _______," in my head I follow it with "I'm a mathematician."
Good on you.
Thanks so much for posting this! Loved this show.
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!
man this takes me back, as a 90’s kid with 80’s kid cousins who needed help on Math.
Even Carmen Sandieago
Helped Me In School
And Square One
Helped Me In Elementary School
Square One was My School Assignment Almost Everyday
4:22 I loved the Mathman/ Mr. Glitch shorts.
The instructions sure sound like the voice actor of Inspector Gadget (Don Adams).
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.
I remembered watching this program on television.
R.I.P. Reg E. Cathey
Been trying to think of this show forever! Childhood reloaded!!!
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!"
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.)
I used to watch this show after school everyday. I loved Mathman!
"Well, am you or ain't you? ...I mean, aren't you?'' LOL
I used to love watching this show even though I didn't understand anything that was happening. "Oh yeah, that kinda makes sense, awesome!"
Mike you knows up!! Thanks for this 🖤
Square One was a great show…and my god was there some loving going on with the cast members.
I remember this episode. They must've had it repeat a lot. Took me back when i watched this ever day after school.
Mathnet was the Bloodhound Gang of Square One TV!
Best of best teaching shows
Wow,that took me back to when I was a kid. That was great.
From the production company that brought you “Sesame Street”, “The Electric Company” and “3-2-1 Contact” comes “Square One TV”!!