Square One TV-101

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  • čas přidán 21. 08. 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.

Komentáře • 378

  • @carolweiss5078
    @carolweiss5078 Před 7 lety +230

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

    • @chrisjepsen6824
      @chrisjepsen6824 Před 6 lety +3

      Awesome!

    • @JayAyers
      @JayAyers Před 5 lety +2

      Love the song

    • @brich2929
      @brich2929 Před 5 lety +2

      Great song, Carol!

    • @emilphoryew9436
      @emilphoryew9436 Před 5 lety +4

      I had to watch this program in summer school camp.

    • @LogoMan7777
      @LogoMan7777 Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @MaestroDrake
    @MaestroDrake Před 7 lety +154

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

    • @VanillaLimeCoke
      @VanillaLimeCoke Před 5 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

    • @derekkinman7492
      @derekkinman7492 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

  • @rcole718
    @rcole718 Před 6 lety +69

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

    • @westport17782010
      @westport17782010 Před 5 lety +8

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

    • @epcotman32
      @epcotman32 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @EarthdogGFX
    @EarthdogGFX Před 10 lety +128

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

    • @Weesing
      @Weesing Před 9 lety

      +Earthdog BIG BROTHER FAN It was pretty amazing!

    • @deesee3622
      @deesee3622 Před 6 lety

      yup!

    • @emilylloyd5477
      @emilylloyd5477 Před 5 lety

      I thought that, too.

    • @soxpuff
      @soxpuff Před 3 lety +1

      So then Roundhouse was the OG before In Living Color?

    • @channic99
      @channic99 Před 3 lety

      Facts!!

  • @moeperry554
    @moeperry554 Před 5 lety +28

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

    • @crimsontide1980
      @crimsontide1980 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

      Me 2

    • @elithunder
      @elithunder Před 3 lety

      For realz!!!

  • @richardson.1424
    @richardson.1424 Před 5 lety +59

    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 Před 2 lety

      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 Před rokem +1

      I concur.

  • @dananola
    @dananola Před rokem +30

    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.

  • @DaJSUDiva
    @DaJSUDiva Před 3 lety +13

    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

  • @Drfresh1402
    @Drfresh1402 Před 2 lety +10

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

  • @TommyLellan
    @TommyLellan Před 5 lety +12

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

  • @joshgellis3292
    @joshgellis3292 Před 2 lety +7

    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!

  • @shorecross
    @shorecross Před 9 lety +38

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

  • @didi012578
    @didi012578 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @princesserica718
    @princesserica718 Před 4 lety +14

    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.

  • @dananajj
    @dananajj Před 5 lety +26

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

  • @ntchpt1271
    @ntchpt1271 Před 9 lety +23

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

    • @Weesing
      @Weesing Před 9 lety +2

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

  • @jwilliams7554
    @jwilliams7554 Před 5 lety +13

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

  • @christierochellecox9083
    @christierochellecox9083 Před 7 lety +21

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

  • @nelleo2507
    @nelleo2507 Před 6 lety +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!

  • @floofytown
    @floofytown Před 5 lety +6

    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

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens Před 14 hodinami +1

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

  • @surpriseme1082
    @surpriseme1082 Před 3 lety +18

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

  • @robertdubs9466
    @robertdubs9466 Před 8 lety +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 Před měsícem

      There is a reference to that in future Rama

  • @redmanr5522
    @redmanr5522 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @Searching4Rinoa
    @Searching4Rinoa Před 8 lety +35

    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 Před 4 lety +4

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

    • @jasonpdsi
      @jasonpdsi Před 3 lety +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.

  • @KayNJ
    @KayNJ Před 2 lety +5

    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 Před 8 lety +27

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

    • @deesee3622
      @deesee3622 Před 6 lety +3

      loved math net!!

    • @dawnpriest302
      @dawnpriest302 Před 3 lety +3

      That was my favorite part of the show.

    • @kevinpayton2664
      @kevinpayton2664 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @runeramdas
    @runeramdas Před 3 lety +10

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

  • @matt_____9309
    @matt_____9309 Před 7 lety +10

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

  • @JoeCnNd
    @JoeCnNd Před 9 lety +17

    ah life before caller ID.

  • @LucyFlynnBTShow
    @LucyFlynnBTShow Před 9 měsíci +3

    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

  • @christopherjudge1138
    @christopherjudge1138 Před 3 lety +6

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

  • @VGMStudios33
    @VGMStudios33 Před 8 lety +16

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

  • @funshine97
    @funshine97 Před 10 lety +8

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

  • @funshine97
    @funshine97 Před 10 lety +16

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

  • @rebeccaknell2368
    @rebeccaknell2368 Před rokem +2

    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.)

  • @DaDoc540
    @DaDoc540 Před 7 lety +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

  • @TheLycheegreentea
    @TheLycheegreentea Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @MercifulVoodoo
    @MercifulVoodoo Před 2 lety +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 😄

  • @ibrahimjalloh5300
    @ibrahimjalloh5300 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @knowledgeispowermediaprodu7094

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

  • @ksmith3108
    @ksmith3108 Před 2 lety +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!

  • @BoomstickBabyKel
    @BoomstickBabyKel Před 7 lety +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!

  • @a2pha
    @a2pha Před 3 lety +4

    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.

  • @funshine97
    @funshine97 Před 10 lety +9

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

  • @JayRacer
    @JayRacer Před 7 měsíci +1

    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 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @ms.payton1458
    @ms.payton1458 Před 5 lety +3

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

  • @or1750
    @or1750 Před 5 lety +3

    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!!

  • @ir10031981
    @ir10031981 Před 7 lety +6

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

  • @wstml555
    @wstml555 Před 8 lety +4

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

  • @turduckenwrath6110
    @turduckenwrath6110 Před 4 lety +2

    omg i LOVED this show and am sooooo excited to be able to watch it on youtube! Hahhaha, i’m 40 and still remember the theme song! Thanks for uploading this!

  • @april1969simnel
    @april1969simnel Před 6 lety +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?

  • @JerryOrbachFan
    @JerryOrbachFan Před rokem +1

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

  • @EmmanuelIwhiwhu
    @EmmanuelIwhiwhu Před 3 lety +1

    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 CZcams and it was the exact episode with the exact song I was singing in my head. Awesoooooome. You have a new subscriber. Awesome page.

  • @MrPisster
    @MrPisster Před 9 lety +25

    The US debt? "Add one to it".

    • @jmholmes83
      @jmholmes83 Před 8 lety +8

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

    • @dianaprince4011
      @dianaprince4011 Před 7 lety +2

      MrPisster it will never ends...

    • @emilphoryew9436
      @emilphoryew9436 Před 5 lety +2

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

    • @deadmansgulf911
      @deadmansgulf911 Před 5 lety +1

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

  • @rio197
    @rio197 Před 10 lety +3

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

  • @dreyb1801
    @dreyb1801 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @gregorya.champion3784
    @gregorya.champion3784 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @Denise.Taylorx88
    @Denise.Taylorx88 Před 2 lety +1

    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!!!!

  • @chrisrios1709
    @chrisrios1709 Před 6 lety +5

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

  • @AroundIndiana
    @AroundIndiana Před 6 lety +2

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

  • @courtneyst.julian8192
    @courtneyst.julian8192 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @christianlong1907
    @christianlong1907 Před měsícem

    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.)

  • @amyslifelocsandmakeup8731

    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

  • @DniSorceress
    @DniSorceress Před 6 lety +1

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

  • @shirdonbock6072
    @shirdonbock6072 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank You Anton Spivack For Bringing Us Great Memories

  • @Packersman3478
    @Packersman3478 Před 6 lety +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 Před 2 lety

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

  • @thinkgood
    @thinkgood Před 2 lety +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.

  • @kalvin1123
    @kalvin1123 Před 6 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @mstiffq
    @mstiffq Před 28 dny

    Mike you knows up!! Thanks for this 🖤

  • @Fuzy2K
    @Fuzy2K Před 8 lety +2

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

  • @FoxxMulderr
    @FoxxMulderr Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @aurakasihdonkitunya
    @aurakasihdonkitunya Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @kimrider2594
    @kimrider2594 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I’m in 2 grade and our class loves this

  • @mducey
    @mducey Před rokem

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

  • @floofytown
    @floofytown Před 5 lety +1

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

  • @mezza001
    @mezza001 Před 8 lety +3

    i lovethis! watched it when i was young

  • @channic99
    @channic99 Před 3 lety +1

    Mathnet was the Bloodhound Gang of Square One TV!

  • @bradjames891
    @bradjames891 Před 4 lety +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!

  • @Titanbrotha00
    @Titanbrotha00 Před 2 lety

    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!"

  • @MrKenichi22
    @MrKenichi22 Před 3 lety

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

  • @craigfoye6674
    @craigfoye6674 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @AubreyEllenShomo
    @AubreyEllenShomo Před 8 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @beeaye7944
    @beeaye7944 Před rokem +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.

  • @nickbell8353
    @nickbell8353 Před 6 lety +2

    R.I.P. Reg E. Cathey

  • @geoffwallick
    @geoffwallick Před měsícem

    I started playing saxaphone as a kid because of this theme song.

  • @williamthomasiii4144
    @williamthomasiii4144 Před 3 lety

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

  • @legionaireb
    @legionaireb Před 11 měsíci

    DAMN! That second grocer in Mathnet is the guy who played Mr. Whipple in those ancient Charmin commercials!

  • @missmoxie9188
    @missmoxie9188 Před 2 lety

    I’ve been looking for this for so long

  • @LawrenceKassab
    @LawrenceKassab Před 3 lety +1

    This is how you do educational programming for kids.

  • @dedrickmcconnell621
    @dedrickmcconnell621 Před 8 lety +9

    Wow Reg E. Cathy looks young here!

    • @lhooq27
      @lhooq27 Před 7 lety +3

      It just occurred to me that he's Norman Wilson from The Wire. Though he's really young, he has that unmistakable super baritone voice.

    • @rcole718
      @rcole718 Před 6 lety +1

      And he just passed, and none of the articles mentioned this show.

    • @tnawcwvictoria
      @tnawcwvictoria Před 5 lety

      @@rcole718 I know, that's crazy

    • @cloudsleyfalconbridge
      @cloudsleyfalconbridge Před 4 lety

      Rip Reg E

  • @BennyMcGhee
    @BennyMcGhee Před 2 lety

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

  • @big88ful
    @big88ful Před 9 lety +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!!!

  • @zackmorseii8216
    @zackmorseii8216 Před 4 lety

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

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network Před rokem +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.

  • @saxmanb777
    @saxmanb777 Před 5 lety +1

    I watched this show exclusively for Mathnet. Kate Monday, Pat Tuesday, George Frankly.

  • @lauriesch
    @lauriesch Před 7 lety

    Thanks so much for posting this! Loved this show.

  • @ibrahimjalloh6603
    @ibrahimjalloh6603 Před 5 lety

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

  • @alexeidarling
    @alexeidarling Před 11 lety +2

    Wow, free game on the first episode!