Season 2 (1983)

Survival: Breathing
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October 31, 1983 • 30m

A computer program introduces the names of the new cast. Robin surprises Miguel and Kathy with a used car, but all three are surp...Read more

Survival: Temperature
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November 1, 1983 • 30m

Robin goes on a survival trek in the mountains of Wyoming.In Part Two of the New York City Marathon story, Lauren explains the imp...Read more

Survival: Protection
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November 2, 1983 • 30m

Miguel, Robin, and Kathy help epidemological detectives in their investigation on a food poisoning case. Jackie searches with sch...Read more

Survival: Energy
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November 3, 1983 • 30m

Paco attempts to surprise the others by preparing bread–and ends up surprising himself. In The Bloodhound Gang, Vikki senses so...Read more

Survival: Teamwork
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November 4, 1983 • 30m

Miguel, Robin, and Kathy have a computer game in waiting for a contest. Can they get anything done by splitting the responsibilit...Read more

Sports: Training Analysis
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October 24, 1983 • 30m

Before Miguel can put together a training program for his friends, they spend the day organizing the closet. Miguel and Jackie go...Read more

Sports: Time, Rate, Measurement
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October 25, 1983 • 30m

Robin helps Kathy and Miguel to coordinate their schedule of errands, splitting the duties among themselves to get everything done...Read more

Sports: Energy Transfer
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October 26, 1983 • 30m

Carol Lewis (Carl's brother) and her trainer illustrate the mechanics of the long jump. Kathy witnesses a pole-vaulter in trainin...Read more

Sports: Impact Analysis
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October 27, 1983 • 30m

Kathy is downstairs, exercising while waiting for Miguel to return. Miguel is with Judy Clarke, who discusses the design of athle...Read more

Sports: Coordination
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October 28, 1983 • 30m

Robin sees two synchronized swimmers in perfect coordination. The Biography segment features a neurologist discussing people's mo...Read more

Flight: Flying Animals
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October 17, 1983 • 30m

Miguel invites Kathy and Robin to Lincoln Park Airport, where he is taking flying lessons. After a brief discussion of the four fo...Read more

Flight: Air Resistance
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October 18, 1983 • 30m

Miguel, Robin, and Kathy join the crew of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as they inflate balloons. Robin takes her first para...Read more

Flight: Thrust
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October 20, 1983 • 30m

Miguel has entered himself and Robin in a boomerang-throwing competition. But neither knows how to throw a boomerang properly. T...Read more

Flight: Acceleration
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October 21, 1983 • 30m

Kathy brings a telescope to talk about the changing constellations in the night sky. In the process, Kathy discusses Newton's Law...Read more

Babies: The Code of Life
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November 7, 1983 • 30m

Paco is trying to find out what DNA is. Not everyone has the complete answer until somebody calls the wrong number repeatedly. R...Read more

Babies: Growth and Development
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November 8, 1983 • 30m

Miguel has had it up to his ears with duplicates. He goes to a florist to get the perfect orchid for his mother's birthday. The ...Read more

Babies: Behavior
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November 9, 1983 • 30m

While Miguel, Robin, and Kathy go off on a picnic, Paco is left to examine Miguel's ants. He then has to scramble for the ants wh...Read more

Babies: Colonization
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November 10, 1983 • 30m

Robin visits Mount St. Helens two years after its historic 1980 eruption to see where plant life in the area is attempting a comeb...Read more

Babies: Change
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November 11, 1983 • 30m

Paco sets up a school report on his walk on the beach. He teams up with a chimpanzee and a biologist who studies animal locomotio...Read more

Senses: Taste and Smell
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December 5, 1983 • 30m

Miguel, Robin, and Kathy are prepared for a fishing campout. On their way back from fishing, Kathy discovers she has lost the mat...Read more

Senses: Sight
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December 6, 1983 • 30m

Main Concept: In order for us to see, the eye must convert light energy to electrical energy, which is interpreted by the brain as...Read more

Senses: Hearing
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December 7, 1983 • 30m

The kids assemble glasses with varying water amounts for a musical scale. In the process, Paco learns that certain frequencies ar...Read more

Senses: Touch
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December 8, 1983 • 30m

Paco surprises everyone with a gecko as his present for Robin's birthday. We meet a neurologist who studies the sense of touch in...Read more

Senses: Special Sensors
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December 9, 1983 • 30m

After a close call, Miguel, Robin and Kathy drill themselves (and the basement) in case of fire. The Bloodhound Gang, en masse, b...Read more

Shapes in Nature
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November 21, 1983 • 30m

Miguel and Paco start the week in the back of a pick-up truck, riding through San Diego Wild Animal Park. They see the prehensile ...Read more

Shapes and Gravity
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November 22, 1983 • 30m

From the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Miguel and Paco observe elephants flipping dust and dirt on their backs. An evolutionary exp...Read more

Shapes: Streamlining
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November 23, 1983 • 30m

Miguel and Robin attach a speedometer on a bicycle so they and Paco can see how fast Paco can really ride his bike. Jackie meets ...Read more

Shapes: Form and Function
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November 24, 1983 • 30m

Miguel is chopping wood because he wants to play the violin. He asks Robin to take the wood to Carlene Hutchins, who makes violin...Read more

Shapes: Clues
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November 25, 1983 • 30m

Robin has her hands full trying to develop pictures in the makeshift darkroom set up in the basement. In the field, Robin gets a ...Read more

Water: 3 Phases – Gas, Liquid, Solid
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November 28, 1983 • 30m

Robin is ready to ski down a mountain. Miguel and Kathy, who have never skied before, spend their time witnessing a snow-making m...Read more

Water: Medium for Life
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November 29, 1983 • 30m

A dry tour of the solar system shows no substantial water on the other planets. Back on Earth, water contains just about all life...Read more

Water and People
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November 30, 1983 • 30m

Miguel helps Robin complete a homework project before heading to a harbor on the Hudson River. He and Kathy are worried that a ho...Read more

Water: Distribution
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December 1, 1983 • 30m

Miguel discovers a leak in the water pipes and tries valiantly to fix it. Kathy discusses Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, which supply ...Read more

Water in the Body
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December 2, 1983 • 30m

Paco, Kathy and Robin set up an aquarium to surprise Miguel. Two scientists from different fields lead Robin to study bears in th...Read more

Building: Materials
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November 14, 1983 • 30m

Jackie gets an up-close look at the Teflon roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Bloodhound Gang is called to investigate...Read more

Building: One of a Kind
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November 15, 1983 • 30m

Leonardo da Vinci's vision of a spring-driven car is put to the test in the ""Olympics of the Mind,"" where youngsters test ideas....Read more

Building: Standard Parts
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November 16, 1983 • 30m

Among the field visits in this program is an automobile assembly line. The Bloodhound Gang gets involved in ""The Case of the Bottled Boat.""

Building: Modular
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November 17, 1983 • 30m

Paco envisions the concept of modular components. Among the sites visited is a video-games manufacturer. The Bloodhound Gang try...Read more

Building: Communication
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November 18, 1983 • 30m

Broadway Video provided production facilities for 3-2-1 Contact for six seasons. In this episode, editors at Broadway Video show ...Read more