Square One TV: Mathnet - Case of the Great Car Robbery pt.3

[@EnviousDominous]

This was so well acted and presented, it never clicked with me as a kid that this was just a farce meant to teach math. Why did this never catch on like Law and Order?

[@broward123]

I cant believe I am watching this. Its been 20 years. I loved this show. I owe my math scores to this show. Thank you for posting these videos.

[@Rodimus78]

The show never covered heavily on Monday's departure from Mathnet nor was there a farewell scene w/ her and George. Her final appearance was the Masked Avenger Case into which she and George about to make their High Five Victory, George hit a strain on his back and Kate Comforted him after that. Pat Tuesday made her immediate 1st appearance in the Baseball Player Case in the next season afterwards. That's all I know so far.

[@quizmaster85]

"My name is Monday. I'm a mathematician." Really the only line I knew from the show by heart :)

[@irenedontoh3539]

Me too😁

[@emilysong2000]

Mathnet is one of my favorite Square One skits. I hope someone posts more episodes sometime.

[@tericlee]

this takes me back! Mathnet was always the last skit on Square One TV...It's like I am kid and my grandma's house all over again!

[@stuckin2003]

It is! I watched religiously for years and yet I still remember this Mathnet episode sooo well!! This is such a trip seeing it on youtube 15 years later!

[@michelobob]

wow...this reminds me of the good ol' days..i loved watching this program as a kid. thanks for the upload

[@craftymore]

TY for putting this one, hadn't seen this in 15+ years

[@campsjams]

For years....years...I've been trying to remember the name of this show. Such a relief to finally know.

[@Synergy3k]

I loved these guys before Mulder and Scully came into my life a few years later! This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing :)

[@estrandskov]

I love this show! I am pretty sure watching this when I was little is why I love Law and Order so much! Thanks for posting it!

[@eayoti]

Absolutely loved this show. Was so dramatic when I was young, used to be on the edge of my seat & couldn't wait until the next Friday for the next episode.

[@Sbourgeois225]

Wow, I haven't seen this show in years. I used to watch square one everyday after school. Thanks for posting

[@OfficialFrizzo]

George is frikkin useless in this episode. This show looks so old but it's just from the early 90's. This is a total throwback to my PBS after school childhood. Great upload!

[@fizzplease6742]

OMG, it's so meta. "We decided to watch a few clips from yesterday's show." I love the background music XD Also, wow, Monday is really pretty.

[@colleen4ever]

You should see her in the 3rd season!

[@fizzplease6742]

@@colleen4ever I just got the alert to your reply to my *fifteen-year-old* comment and it made my day.

[@DonOwnsYou]

i LOVED this show as a kid!! I watched Square One just for Mathnet!

[@wolejare]

Dragnet... math-style Salesman 2 cameraman:"you're lucky you're my wife's cousin"

[@djtrixen]

This was my favorite part of the show! I used to watch this show all the time as a kid. :)

[@mndr1983]

I waited Daily for this show and Mathnet!!!

[@quizmaster85]

Her name is Monday. She's a heartthrob.

[@PAguy95]

Great Clip! Tbis is the Mathnet story I remember most because of the dramatic ending in part 5. Great work by Ronnie Schell playing Art Fraud.

[@cheesegod1337]

Holy crap I remember this exact episode. Thanks for uploading this.

[@Vitaluv]

I loved this show!!!!!!!! square One at 4:00 followed by ghostwriter followed by where in the world is carmen sandiego

[@cmcoultrup]

I was in love with this show. My favorite. My sister and I still do the high five. Good memories.

[@hamsterama]

Ooh, thank you so much! Thus a 15 year long mystery for me is solved! I bet that when I was that young, I didn't know what scrap metal was. So either I couldn't understand everything that was going on in the show, or I understood it wrong.

[@StukInBuf]

"The following is a fib, but it's short."

[@rugrat94086]

brings back memories. Thanks!

[@sklanger]

LOLOLOL Brilliant! Loved these as a kid. You really can get anything on KZbin these days.

[@MikeeHollMartz]

"Did any other guys out there have a HUGE crush on Kate?" Yeah!!! specially on the scene where she takes her blazer off... That was like the equivalent of porn to a kid my age back then.... LOL

[@kalloused]

My head just exploded watching this. I completely forgot about this show, I haven't seen this since gradeschool!

[@djtrixen]

I remember this episode. Takes me back! :)

[@Garrettk41]

I was lucky enough to be able to see this entire episode on the workshop website five years ago. I remember thinking at first maybe Art Fraud was the car thief.

[@Rodimus78]

I believe that's the most popular Mathnet story ever by most fans because it was action-oriented and dramatic at the same time.

[@jinx490000]

My teacher would make us watch this in elementary school. I loved it!!!!

[@hamsterama]

Oh boy, what I would give to see the rest of this. This is the Mathnet series I remember the most, probably because it really scared me as a kid. If I remember right, all the stolen cars were taken to the junkyard and crushed. The cars were being crushed to recycle the glass (?). Anyway, I remember George Frankly was hiding in one of the cars being crushed (he was hiding in the car to see where the stolen cars were going), and that's that part that scared me when I was little.

[@JCStrickland]

Awesome! Thank you! If anyone has the one where Kate's old friend stars on Broadway and is accused of kidnapping the star, Please post it!

[@Starlysh]

This show was so great!

[@spindalis79]

I remember watching this in the late 80s. Square One after school.. Oh those were the days.

[@melskunk]

I love Mathnet.. i wish I could just get all these as a DVD :(

[@joechopchop]

I love the Case of the Great Car Robberies, especially the chase scene in part 5.

[@eagle152f]

Tiradorfranco2, please please please find the other episodes. This was my favorite Mathnet mystery. Especially the chases in the last 2 episodes.

[@km9OOO]

In retrospect, I like the sincere acting.

[@TehDeceptikon]

I had a huge crush on Monday when I was a kid. I still love the nerd girls. :D

[@danka2000]

@OfficialFrizzo. Acutally this episode is from the late 1980's. If you look at the end of the video where the Square One Logo flashes, it says copyright 1988. In the early 1990's they did re-run some of these.

[@vallic08]

I remember that show! I also have been trying to find the name of it for years. I'm in my early 20's and i remember watching it in school... like 1st grade. Man I wish someone knew!

[@zetaandnazboojunkie]

Art Fraud is played by Ronnie Schell, who played the principal of a rival school in Saved By The Bell

[@TrueX7]

I remember watching this show during the summer months (and Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Electric Company, Mr. Rodgers, ect.) back when I was a small kid, late 80's early 90's on WTTW (PBS) Loved this! I'm noticing that Monday looks and kind of talks like Drew Barrymore ?? 3:54 - 4:05

[@djmikeswift]

man this show was my shit back in the day! the crazy thing is most people I know dont remember this show

[@JCStrickland]

this is one of my fave cases i hope someone has the rest

[@koffeebrwn]

I loved this show and 321 Contact,ah the good ole days.

[@drexalexander]

I always wanted this to become a spinoff!!!

[@cmcoultrup]

I really miss shows like this and Bill Nye the science guy, good shows where you actually learn something as kids.

[@vanni9283]

I remember the cars were getting demolished in a junkyard, and George NARROWLY escaped at the end of this case!

[@RenoEdits]

Gotta love PBS....even in the Late 80's/Early 90's.

[@tiradorfranco2]

It was for selling scrap metal. The only reason I remember is because a friend and I always got a kick out of the way Li So said "they're turning the cars into scrap metal!" or something like that.

[@jsmommy9804]

That's why we bring them to KZbin...my kids watch all these on here :)

[@tiradorfranco2]

No. But I do have pieces of episodes from the Little Louie case, the Kate in a wheelchair case, the missing house case, and the old west case. It's a damn shame I couldn't lay off the VCR when I taped them, though.

[@OldManTheseDays]

Never a truer word hath been spoken. "Educational" TV isn't even educational anymore.

[@gregarious24]

I loved this fucking show! Every day after school.

[@Arkonu]

you guys got the one where they ended up at that hote? Wit's End? One of my favorites! :)

[@tiradorfranco2]

I have most of the Friday episode and parts of the recap for the week.

[@hamsterama]

Can you remember the exact reason why the cars were being crushed? I believe it was to gather up the broken glass (such as from the windshields) in order to later re-sell it. But I could be remembering it wrong. I was only seven years old at the time, so I don't remember all the details.

[@DarthSinistris]

wow...this was actually better acted that I expected..

[@AYBSFAN1]

I am digging the blue suit jackets.

[@SpundDaddy]

@kalloused, it's been 25 years for me as well, I remember watching this show for hours. Does anyone know where to get full episodes?

[@jenniferbleemel-moreno6841]

I remember watching this in high school math classes

[@JCStrickland]

Yes the final foot chase is classic.

[@Feenix0Fire]

wow i totally remember these!

[@cuellarfam85]

HOW COME YOU DIDN'T PUT ON PART ONE!! I AM LOOKING ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR ONE FULL EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@uxbnkuribo]

"... so we decided to watch scenes from yesterday's program." hahahahaha That's so Police Squad.

[@kerethp]

this is my show!!!

[@tsukune007]

god i remember this show

[@vallic08]

that was a reply to the comment made by jeanascully... about the show with the Pirate and a lady solving puzzles

[@waraandina4015]

is there any tv show like this today??

[@harphone]

Joe Howard as Appraiser in House of Sand and Fog - Using a trundle wheel.

[@officialohioreps]

Here is the reason why Generation X is the best. We had the best in TV.

[@RabidG1]

I forgot he did his tv commercials live.

[@wohdinhel]

Who needs a fourth wall? We have MATHS!

[@richardtheconquerer]

I saw this before I ever saw Dragnet

[@MegaNFer81]

Anywhere to get more eps? Eve, I O Privacy, Smart Dummy, Roy Lety Cobbs.....

[@rassmith78]

for some reason this show always scared me...odd!

[@tiradorfranco2]

The one with Little Louie *don't remember the real name*. Ill put up what i have sometime next week.

[@bailorg]

Anyone know who the guy playing Art Fraud is? He looks vaguely familiar...

[@ElectricGrandma614]

The X Files totally ripped this off.

[@JCStrickland]

do u have the case where they helped an actress friend of Kate's?

[@shontapl]

oooohh hell i remember this

[@joechopchop]

Do you have any other parts that you can post?

[@u0201535]

zomg. I just realised: box step mat = 80s dance dance revolution.

[@fjccommish]

8 bucks and a 15 thousand dollar balloon payment, LOL

[@Dc3atl]

i used to HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE this show. I knew that when it came on my morning was over... lol.. time to either read a book or go outside lol

[@JCStrickland]

how much of the little louie case?

[@MartenFerret]

56,000 cars? Are there even that many PEOPLE in their town? XD

[@JCStrickland]

of which case?

[@ComradeSephiroth]

They have to explain everything out loud as though George and Kate were in 5th grade math class...always found that to be amusingly ironic.

[@woodbrassandglass]

I love these old shows, where there was no political agenda behind it, just learning and humor...

[@jessicagray51]

Wow Superfly movie Ron O'Neal in this RIP miss u dearly

[@pbscraze]

Don't you have Square One Tv's fundings credits from 1987, 1992, and 1995?

[@newpageone]

they need to put this kind of money into kids' shows again...

[@lokithor83]

I hope to live to see the day when I can film a porno parody of Mathnet.. It's just begging to be made and I know it's gonna be awesome as hell..