January 14, 1980 • 30m
A sixty-second tease introduces the cast and previews some of their scientific adventures. This is followed by a four-minute film...Read more
January 15, 1980 • 30m
Same 60-second tease as in first episode precedes an invasion of noises into Marc's world. Knowing that ""noise annoys,"" Marc il...Read more
January 16, 1980 • 30m
Lisa goes to Hawaii to see how dolphins use sonar. Another segment sees sonar of bats. Trini sees an ultrasound apparatus at wor...Read more
January 17, 1980 • 30m
Dizzy Gillespie shows off his jazz talents. Trini checks out the behind-the-scenes work at a Kiss concert. The Bloodhound Gang c...Read more
January 18, 1980 • 30m
Lisa, Marc, and Trini are given a puzzle. They hear a bell ring and, as instructed, put the bell in a closed jar and take out som...Read more
March 24, 1980 • 30m
Trini becomes concerned when and where a hurricane is projected to strike. Marc visits Six Flags Great America to learn the mecha...Read more
March 25, 1980 • 30m
Hurricane Rufus is turning inland, heading toward the workshop. This prompts Trini to give a brief description of a hurricane. J...Read more
March 26, 1980 • 30m
Hurricane Rufus is now abutting the workshop. Trini prepares herself with a lifeboat. She proves to Marc and Lisa that boats wil...Read more
March 27, 1980 • 30m
Hurricane Rufus strikes the workshop. Calmer discussion of the Earth's forces are seen at a circus, in the paths of satellites, a...Read more
March 28, 1980 • 30m
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Roller coaster design; stuntman; orbiting satellites. Also: what forces propel a bicycle.
March 10, 1980 • 30m
Marc learns about the growth of corn and pigs at the Bakers Akers farm. Trini sits in on an expectant mother's ultrasound. At th...Read more
March 11, 1980 • 30m
Lisa arrives at a hospital to see treatment for a premature baby. Trini and others at Staten Island discuss adolescent changes. A...Read more
March 12, 1980 • 30m
Lisa ventures into a sewage treatment plant in Chicago.Film inserts: Msima Spring in Kenya houses a massive food chain, and it all...Read more
March 13, 1980 • 30m
Lisa sees a volcano that is almost ready to erupt. Marc demonstrates a model volcano. Trini joins a group of young archaeologist...Read more
March 14, 1980 • 30m
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Lisa sees a volcano that is almost ready to erupt. Marc learns about the growth of corn ...Read more
January 28, 1980 • 30m
Trini and Lisa stage a surprise birthday party for Marc. It revolves around a tape recording which Marc must play at various spee...Read more
January 29, 1980 • 30m
Lisa gets some instructions on rhythms from a professional drummer and witnesses the wicked tides at the Bay of Fundy. Trini exam...Read more
January 30, 1980 • 30m
Recycled from Episode 12: Lisa arrives at a hospital to see treatment for a premature baby.A make-up artist transforms Marc into a...Read more
February 7, 1980 • 30m
Marc and Lisa give Trini a psychological boost prior to Field Day. Lisa checks out a professional motorcycle racer (filmed Oct. 1...Read more
February 1, 1980 • 30m
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Lisa checks out a professional motorcycle racer (filmed Oct. 1979) and witnesses the wic...Read more
March 17, 1980 • 30m
Marc and Lisa discover too late that Trini is stranded in the desert with an empty gas tank, setting the stage for three episodes....Read more
March 18, 1980 • 30m
Trini is still lost in the desert, despite several attempts to get messages across. Marc illustrates his expertise on bugs. He v...Read more
March 19, 1980 • 30m
After two days and contact, Marc sends out the Goodyear Blimp for Trini. Marc visits Bell Laboratories to see a computer that is ...Read more
March 20, 1980 • 30m
Trini returns from the desert. She gets in her first segment of the week, visiting the University of Tennessee, where an ape name...Read more
March 21, 1980 • 30m
Trini recounts her attempts to send distress signals from the desert. Lisa and Marc remind her that her messages had to reach som...Read more
February 4, 1980 • 30m
Trini decides to bring a pet to the workshop, but she didn't count on a friend bringing a wolf. At the Bronx Zoo, Lisa goes on the...Read more
February 5, 1980 • 30m
Marc illustrates the truth about calories while baking a pizza. A group of school kids at Staten Island learn about nutrition. L...Read more
February 6, 1980 • 30m
Lisa, Marc, and Trini have been invited to a canoe trek in Maine. They have difficulty at first trying to decide what food to bri...Read more
February 7, 1980 • 30m
True fuel is discussed in this episode, first with the 1980 phenomenon ""gasohol"" and with real gasoline at a motorcycle race. T...Read more
February 8, 1980 • 30m
RECYCLED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Gasohol, Baker's Akers, baking bread. Another sequence believed to be in this episode i...Read more
January 21, 1980 • 30m
Trini has been standing in the freezing cold, threatening to become almost as sick as Marc. Lisa gives a demonstration on feeling...Read more
January 22, 1980 • 30m
The desert and polar regions demonstrate how plants and animals react to extreme heat or cold. The Bloodhound Gang unlocks ""The ...Read more
January 23, 1980 • 30m
Marc and Trini relate temperature to each other as they make ice cream and candied apples respectively. Lisa demonstrates extreme...Read more
January 24, 1980 • 30m
Lisa is bitter over her cold. As Marc and Trini try to warm her spirits, Lisa thinks back to her visits with the motorcyclist and ...Read more
January 25, 1980 • 30m
A solar astronomer explains how the sun produces the seasons. He tells Marc that the sun is closer to Earth in winter than in sum...Read more
February 18, 1980 • 30m
Marc wants to set up a model solar system. To simulate the sun, he and the others get the largest light bulb they can buy. Only ...Read more
February 20, 1980 • 30m
Trini follows the crew that sets up the lighting on a Kiss concert (recorded during their 1979 tour). At the workshop, Trini uses...Read more
February 21, 1980 • 30m
Everyone celebrates Trini's birthday with a piñata. Marc visits a visually-impaired boy navigating around his school and neighbor...Read more
February 22, 1980 • 30m
Marc proposes to burn a hole through a piece of cardboard using a magnifying glass and the sun. It doesn't harm the cardboard, bu...Read more
March 3, 1980 • 30m
Lisa and Trini enter an Eames Room to play tricks on Marc. Marc gets an up-close look at things through a scanning electron micro...Read more
March 4, 1980 • 30m
Marc visits a researcher determining how bees communicate. Then, in a segment previously used in Light/Dark: The Eye, Marc watches...Read more
March 5, 1980 • 30m
For the bulk of the show, a guest at the workshop is Willis Brown, a transcontinental pilot who discusses air travel. Trini examin...Read more
March 6, 1980 • 30m
This program goes to Houston to observe the space shuttle. The Bloodhound Gang has to stop a swindle in ""The Case of the Educated Pig.""
March 7, 1980 • 30m
RECYCLED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Marc sees a sailing ship chart its return course and observes how a blind boy finds his ...Read more
March 31, 1980 • 30m
Lisa is looking for a quilt design, which she can't quite place. Trini suggests that Lisa use a computer to create a new quilt de...Read more
April 1, 1980 • 30m
A student of neuropharmacology visits the workshop to discuss the order of the human body and all its systems. Marc observes how ...Read more
April 2, 1980 • 30m
Animals keep a semblance of order, whether they are bees in a hive or people in the Kalahari Desert searching for melons. Music a...Read more
April 3, 1980 • 30m
Marc, Lisa, and Trini become helter-skelter at the beginning, but they calm down and devise plans. In the process, Lisa finds a p...Read more
April 4, 1980 • 30m
A composer visits the workshop to discuss writing music. Marc sees the specialized work of honey bees. Trini gets the full story...Read more
April 7, 1980 • 30m
Clothes are humans' number-one source of protecting the skin. Trini finds out what clothing works best when climbing a mountain. ...Read more
April 8, 1980 • 30m
Field locations include cacti in the Arizona desert, a Zamboni, and a scanning electron microscope. The Bloodhound Gang decodes M...Read more
April 9, 1980 • 30m
Lisa rides a hot-air balloon and gets tips from a glassblower on making goblets. A film insert discusses bubbles and how they are...Read more
April 10, 1980 • 30m
A geologist appears in the workshop for a discussion on the three types of Earth rock. In Hawaii, Lisa sees a volcano and takes a...Read more
April 11, 1980 • 30m
Episode 55 of Season 1 premiered on April 11, 1980
February 25, 1980 • 30m
At the Bronx Zoo, Lisa goes on the rounds with a young veterinarian feeding baby animals. Marc visits Miami Seaquarium to see wha...Read more
February 26, 1980 • 30m
Everyone is perplexed when they find bugs living on just about everything. Trini examines a salt marsh. (Continues in Episode 59...Read more
February 27, 1980 • 30m
Trini is convinced she has discovered a dinosaur bone. A visit to a American Museum of Natural History shows that she actually ha...Read more
February 28, 1980 • 30m
At an aquarium, Lisa and Trini learn about volume. Marc and Lisa head out to see a supertanker. Trini stakes her case about oil ...Read more
February 29, 1980 • 30m
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Trini is convinced she has discovered a dinosaur bone. A visit to a American Museum of ...Read more
February 11, 1980 • 30m
The workshop welcomes a guest to discuss the human psyche of crowding.Film inserts: Building a skyscraper; the Gui people of Afric...Read more
February 12, 1980 • 30m
A wildlife expert visits the workshop to extoll on the impact humans have had on animals such as the wolf. FILM INSERT: Kudzu tak...Read more
February 13, 1980 • 30m
Trini pilots around New York City in the Goodyear blimp. Lisa gets to ride a hot-air balloon. The Bloodhound Gang gets an eyesig...Read more
February 14, 1980 • 30m
Marc adds too much food coloring to the frosting on a birthday cake for his sister, starting a discussion of molecular density in ...Read more
February 15, 1980 • 30m
REHASHED FROM PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Lisa rides a hot-air balloon. FILM INSERT: The elephant struggles for survival in Africa. ...Read more