3-2-1 Contact -- Forces - Motion -- Episode 106 -- 1980

[@djsi38t]

I have to admit,sometimes being able to watch this show is the only thing that keeps me going(or shows like this from the late 70's early eighties).Memories of childhood are so precious to an older person.I was 12 when this show first aired,and I remember it like yesterday. I grew up in the Boston area and Boston public television shaped my life.Good old channel 2.Sesame street,Electric company,zoom,Jabberwocky,and awesome enough...Doctor who!Now that I am 52 years old,I sometimes long for my childhood and the good old days.Being able to watch this show is wonderful. I especially liked this string of episodes with the hurricane and the heavy storm outside the workshop.It gives a strange cozy feeling thinking about being there with these people during a storm in such a wonderfully science oriented place.Having fun with friends and learning fun things all the while a storm rages outside.

[@mrchopsticks3]

I am so lucky I grew up in the 80s. No better time in history to be a kid.

[@marklechman2225]

We had it good :)

[@marklechman2225]

I have such good memories of coming home after to school to my faux wood paneled basement and playing Atari until 3-2-1 Contact came on. Thank you Jason Warhol for making this list. Maybe someday we’ll get those missing episodes and have a compete season.

[@Tumbler101]

I remember watching this show as a kid. I would always run home from being outside playing just to watch this show. It was this episode that really got me interested in becoming a stunt performer doing highfalls off stuff and landing onto large airbags below.

[@mikestous4114]

Reid Rondell (the kid that jumped off the building) died in a helicopter crash while performing as a stuntman in 1985 on Airwolf.

[@zefallafez]

18:40

[@derekcope3803]

I answered my phone at work like the bloodhound gang once at my restaurant, only a cook and one server laughed.

[@mikejorsch304]

When there is trouble were there on the double

[@hoagie1978]

I was born in 1978 and watched this as a kid. The original cast here was my favorite. I wish they had brought them back when the show continued after being put on hold for about a year or so. This first season was shot in 1979 and first aired in 1980.

[@RockinDaBoombox]

I was born in 1978, too. We grew up during a special time!

[@RolloSmokes]

At 2:16, the radio weathercaster is "Force Field". If you grew up in NYC during that time, you may get the joke. We had a father/son pair of TV weathermen named Frank Field and Storm Field.

[@andyrose5616]

Random production observation: This is the only episode where the music bed for the tease bleeds over into the beginning of the open, which normally only has drums. Can't decide whether I like it better this way or the usual way.

[@JeffreyHietala]

PBS in the 80s was soo much better. Daytime: Sesame Street Mr Rogers 321 Contact Reading Rainbow Captain Kangaroo Evening: Nova Frontline National Geographic Nature Live from Lincoln Center This Old House Masterpiece Theater Wonderworks No purple dinosaurs,flying school buses in site!! This was the PBS I was watching when I was little.

[@JRollins-qv6pn]

LOL! Arthur was great though, PBS was still pretty good through mid-2000s then it really fell off. I think the 80s was better with Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, 321 Contact, Reading Rainbow, and Captain Kangaroo.

[@petewheeler7283]

3:11 Leon Grant says "Oh shit." 😂 I wonder if any of those people on the ride would go on The Demon (used to be called Turn Of The Century) now? I've been going on it for about 35 years and it was my first coaster. It's a bit bumpy now, but still one of my favorites...even at 48.

[@RockinDaBoombox]

I grew up in the Bay Area (1978-1989) and went to Great America many times. I have a pic of my mom in front of the Demon from the early 80’s. Such great memories!

[@TheOfficialIceman]

An episode featuring The Bloodhound Gang! Yes! But it's funny how Mr. Bloodhound was never there...lol

[@ljrockstar69]

It's like they borrowed the premise from Charlie's Angels.

[@lamonthamilton667]

Yeah now that I am thinking Charlie' s. Angels.

[@zymaymyn]

"Disco Frog" starts at around 1:24-1:56, then at 7:56 it's more of a murmur, then at 27:29-27:32. I think they used the "Sesame Disco" version (great album, check it out). The name of the coaster at Great America where Marc rode was actually called "Turn of the Century", later known as the "Demon". 22:49 The all-time worst product placement concealment.

[@marklechman2225]

I remember when the Demon was new :)

[@DogTiredFan]

Thanks for finding and uploading this episode! This is the one I've been looking for that has a horse skeleton galloping on a black screen and a gray spotty horse galloping up close to the screen and I see its spotty chest and belly up close. I've been looking for it since October 2009 but I didn't find it on KZbin until December 2018. Now its been 40 years since this episode aired and 40 years since 3-2-1 Contact first aired.

[@pressmin]

Bill Sullivan you’re welcome

[@jimdoe3288]

This show was a legend in its time and it didn't have to push issues

[@HeartFeltGesture]

The shorts on Frisbee man, in danger of a rogue bollock seeing the sunshine.

[@ProfessorIgor]

The roller coaster designer is the LEGEND himself, Ron Toomer from Arrow Dynamics. If you rode in an Arrow Looper, you rode in one of his creations.

[@happy543210]

mr. bloodhound is never there!!......that's the real mystery!

[@sheepwolf2004]

the song lisa and mark were roller skate dancing with at the beginning is part of "disco frog" by Kermit the frog

[@stevenmandl4920]

cover band rock group at a bar last night was playing this song.

[@sheepwolf2004]

that's rita Moreno from 7:34 to 7:49. it was funny when she let the balloon fly through the air and it made a funny sound and landed on her head

[@stevenmandl4920]

lmao

[@philipdefibaugh5683]

The disco song in the background after the intro is "The Disco Frog" by Kermit the Frog from a Sesame Street episode.

[@fiddleback4903]

I always wondered what sort of place they were supposed to be in. I mean was it supposed to be their home? House? Was it an apartment? A sound stage for sure. But what were they going for?

[@marklechman2225]

It was supposed to be an on-campus building called the workshop. Presumably other college students used the facility as well, whenever the three hosts weren’t there, of course.

[@DogTiredFan]

My favorite part is when the gray spotty horse is galloping from 9:18 - 9:28 and I see its spotty and its spotty chest up close from 9:27 - 9:28.

[@smadaf]

Apparently KZbin heard Trini speaking Spanish in this one and figured the show needed to be interrupted by a Spanish ad for Disney+.

[@geraldinekearns8198]

A very young Glenn Scarpelli is in this! LMAO!

[@DogTiredFan]

My favorite part is when the gray spotty horse is galloping from 9:18 - 9:28 and I see its spotty chest and its spotty belly up close at 9:27 - 9:28.

[@Siraj75]

I'd forgotten just how goofy this series was.

[@JohnJohn-do2oj]

Most of these teens ended up in the movie The Warriors.

[@JRollins-qv6pn]

For real? The Warriors was filmed two years before this, though.

[@JohnJohn-do2oj]

@@JRollins-qv6pn they filmed it in 78, and premiered in 79. Most of the actors were from New York casting call. Most PBS shows are out of New York back then

[@JRollins-qv6pn]

@@JohnJohn-do2oj Oh okay, thanks for explaining bro, that makes sense then because the movie was based out of NY. That likely allowed for some opportunities out of the tri-state area. I think maybe just a few of those actors from The Warriors were in Hollywood like we know the actress who played Mercy was cast in the hit ABC sitcom Too Close for Comfort in 1980.

[@MIKECNW]

Never found out the reason why Noggin didn't air the 1st season of 321C. Anyone know?

[@treyjohnson82]

Noggin had a chance to air a lot of vintage PBS. I only saw sesame Street hwaii

[@mysecondemailatl]

Either they didn't have the rights to it or there's a reason why you only see the first season of this series off of a VHS cassette meaning they just didn't have it only we the people have it.

[@andybaldman]

Who or what is Noggin?

[@andrewjoslyn3523]

Ok, do these kids live together are they related what’s the deal?

[@JRollins-qv6pn]

This was a great show, but I got heavy Blacked vibes here.

[@protamine4]

This show was ahead of its time. In 1980 how many network shows had an interracial cast and a white girl and black guy dancing and touching each other? In another episode the girls kiss Mark on his birthday. I am sure in NYC back then it was no big deal, but this show broadcast to places where that would have been taboo.

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

The people who control the media have been promoting miscegenation for years.

[@protamine4]

@@huskyfaninmass1042 I don't think the media "promotes" it as much as they reflect societal changes. Miscegenation is inevitable in a multi-racial and ethnic society. I am so glad younger people are much less hung up on race like my generation.

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

@@protamine4 People overwhelmingly date and marry within their own race. The number of interracial couples in the various media, especially advertising, is far out of proportion to their true numbers. the most common interracial combination in advertising, black male/white female, isn't even the most common combination seen in real life.

[@protamine4]

@@huskyfaninmass1042 OK, you got me interested so I looked it up and the latest Pew figures show about 17 percent of newlyweds are in interracial or interethnic mixed marriages. The percentage are naturally higher in groups smaller in population. In public I see many Hispanic/White, Asian/White, and Black Male/White Females. Of course I live in a big city. I am sure in rural, nearly all white communities, there is very little miscegenation. I am not sure why media moguls would "promote" mixed relationships. They are business people and try to show the public what they want to see and reflect their customer base.

[@LouisMesser-bw3xz]

Black life's matter

[@treyjohnson82]

Rita is hot..look at Marlowe

[@ohiyotrippole6645]

When kids were encouraged to use critical thinking.

[@waynejkl4035]

@3:02 This roller coaster segment was largely responsible for my love of roller coasters. And they're at my home park Six Flags Great America no less! This show though was one of my loves as a kid. ❤🎢