Science In A Candle-Watch Mr.Wizard-1964

[@michellekirwan-woods7623]

Holy hell! What a gem! I watched him during the early 80s. I had no idea he was doing this in the 60s!

[@scottklien513]

Same!

[@shohmyoh]

I watched him in the 80s as well. I also wanted to be on the show but also didn't because when he told the kids to explain the results I was always clueless and sometimes he'd get a little snarky when the kids gave incorrect answers.

[@jimjoyce4423]

I only ever watched him in the 80s, never knew he had these but he was just awesome

[@ericjay6021]

Looking back he was older in the 80s even. We were just kids though

[@WDCallahan]

I love watching these. I grew up on Mr. Wizards World, so this series is new to me as I watch here.

[@RobertTKlaus]

Hope all is well. We need more Mr. Wizard videos!

[@hfase]

Wow! I love that there is a currently uploading channel for Mr Wizzard. I am currently 40 and grew up with this man blowing my mind. Bill Nye just wasn't quite the same and due to the way media worked at the time was more difficult to watch. I will definitely make my kids watch some of this.

[@sarahmattingly6971]

There’s a guy called “Wizard IV” making content on a KZbin channel called Midnight Science Club. It’s basically this exactly style of content, but shorter form videos. Pretty cool!

[@chrispowers345]

I began my nerdhood at the foot of Mr. Wizard's television show. Wow! I probably saw this episode in first run as a four-year-old. I LOVED this show. Nothing better has been telecast since.

[@firetecher]

As a retired design engr, I routinely find myself in situations like this, except my "students" are grown adults who thought this was boring in their youth, only to realize how much they missed out on in what goes on in main stream K-12. A d how their day to day experuences and perceptions have been reduced to lobotomized sound bites.

[@Rotary_Phone]

THey had those good ol' strike anywhere matches back in the day. Hard to find those the past several years. I lucked out and found a package of mini boxes of diamond strike anywhere matches several months ago at Rural King.

[@Clevelandsteamer324]

Imagine if kids took the time to learn this

[@pinedelgado4743]

Imagine if kids took the time to learn ANYTHING IMPORTANT.

[@Beedubbz]

Mr. Wizzle always playing games

[@actioncom2748]

Bravo!

[@KKAkuoku]

It’s awesome to see so much of Watch Mr. Wizard and Mr. Wizard’s World on here, but whatever happened to the 1971 revival he did? Hopefully those aren’t lost.

[@55Ramius]

Interesting science behind a common candle flame. The reason it is hollow makes sense now. Never really understood why nor was I taught the reason back in the early 70's.

[@avisiktachakraborty3438]

Science in lighting....process and timing

[@SoCoolScience]

Are you gong to upload more of these episodes?

[@pinedelgado4743]

Are there broadcast dates for these wonderful episodes? We know the titles from the start. But--the IMDb isn't of any help. Other than that, these early shows are awesome as a possum with a blossom!!

[@rteish]

Please uploads watch mr wizard video all episodes

[@SomeOne-eo7rw]

Of course, when he needs smoke to demonstrate air flow, he lights up a cigarette… 😂

[@fjccommish]

The later version was short attention span theater. This is the only real Mr. Wizard.

[@Biendotado]

I warched him in the 50's when tv was decent for kids

[@7karlheinz]

It's great to see a girl as Mr. Wizard's assistant back when science was reserved for the boys.

[@kaitlynrose9191]

I was thinking the same!

[@jaymaloney8321]

That's feminist gibberish. Science was never "reserved for boys" back then. Boys and girls both took the same science classes throughout HS. Both took the same math classes. Girls were never segregated from boys.

[@yovtobe]

​@@jaymaloney8321 well this was already the 1960s. Perhaps the coed schools with coed science came into being because of feminist advocacy.

[@jaymaloney8321]

@@yovtobe No. "Feminist advocacy" wasn't a thing until the early 70s, maybe the late 60s. The idea that girls were separated from science classes is a Feminist trope that's a total falsehood. The only sex separations were "shop classes" for boys, and "Home economics" for girls.

[@jaymaloney8321]

The little girl was Rita McLaughlin. She was such a truly sweet thing, always well turned out and bright as sunshine. I was about her age at that time, and had such a crush. Boys at that time were clueless about girls and had no idea how to talk with them. I figure there must have been a kaziilion little boys who would have loved to meet sweet, bright Rita as a friend.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

She was the "stand in double" for Patty Duke, on her TV series about "identical cousins" [we believed anything in 1963, until November 22nd], and she was on "As The World Turns" for eleven years. She died on Christmas Day of 2022, which was the 41st anniversary of her exit from that show. There are many more interesting facts about her life. Search online, in the usual places. Some of them will contain the truth.

[@ericjay6021]

My mom had a friend that surname about the same age as her. No idea if any relation

[@cheeseandonions9558]

Charming girl... I wonder what happened to her.

[@ericjay6021]

That little girl would be around 70 now

[@chaosticalz]

Retirement age or dead .

[@NathanMullenax-oi1wn]

Who watched this guy as a kid?

[@FitzKeepsItSimple]

Back in the days when you could force kids to burn themselves and they would thank you for it.

[@ericjay6021]

Yeah that was weird

[@GraemeCree]

2:28 Some children were harmed in the making of this show. She's not as excitable as Little Jimmy Schwab, and she didn't even blow up the lab.

[@korbenuhler1296]

I knows hes dead but im related to him no lie for real

[@Rotary_Phone]

Just saw on another Mr. Wizard video in the Comment section where Rita sadly passed away this past Christmas at the age of 71.

[@ericjay6021]

😢

[@CraftyArts]

all these uinshooling child abusers are gonna have a whole generation needing to watch stuff like this to get a basic understanding of reality.

[@sachiperez]

i loved mr wizard growing up. today he'd be arrested for burning innocent child on tv😒. "progress" is weird.

[@chaosticalz]

So it's ok for people to le kids into a strange man's house with the lights off in the1960s at night ? Talk about automatic prison time!

[@jimgaddio6255]

At 2:21 he should have said "If you drop that copper tube ... something bad is gonna happen"