3-2-1 Contact — Season 1, Episode 28: Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food

Episode synopsis

Lisa, Marc, and Trini have been invited to a canoe trek in Maine. They have difficulty at first trying to decide what food to bring. Marc learns about the growth of corn and pigs at the Bakers Akers farm. (This film is more complete than the footage found in Episode 11.) Lisa makes a loaf of bread in the shadows of a bread factory. Marc watches how a pizza is made. (More about the proprietor in Episode 60.) Film insert: Time-lapse of fruit rotting. (Wastes food, but makes great stock film.)THE BLOODHOUND GANG: ""The Case of Mr. Q, Part Two."" The gang keeps an all-out watch on anybody or anything slipping out of the laboratories. They follow a pigeon, who has been let out a window, and trace it to apprehend the mysterious Mr. Q.

About 3-2-1 Contact

3-2-1 Contact is an American science educational television show that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, and an adjoining children's magazine. The show, a production of the Children's Television Workshop, teaches scientific principles and their applications. Dr. Edward G. Atkins, who was responsible for much of the scientific content of the show, felt that the TV program wouldn't replace a classroom but would open the viewers to ask questions about the scientific purpose of things.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound
• E2Noisy/Quiet: The Ear
• E3Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound
• E4Noisy/Quiet: Music
• E5Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration
• E6Forces and Motion
• E7Forces and Fields
• E8Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity
• E9Forces and Machines
• E10Forces: A Spectacle of Forces
• E11Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds
• E12Growth/Decay: Human Growth