3-2-1 Contact — Season 1, Episode 58: Big/Small: Dinoaurs

Episode synopsis

Trini is convinced she has discovered a dinosaur bone. A visit to a American Museum of Natural History shows that she actually has the femur of a horse. Also at the museum, a young student reflects on her part-time work with paleontology. Lisa discovers a ""dinosaur graveyard"" in Utah, where several scientists uncover thousands of bones.ANIMATIONS: Fossilization of animal bones; stop-action assembly bones of an animal; scale replication of a dinosaur cartoon.THE BLOODHOUND GANG: ""The Case of the 264-Pound Burglar, Part One."" (Recycled from Episode 6) An old lady's life savings is stolen from her attic. Did the culprit weigh 264 pounds, as a found weight card suggests? (Concludes in next episode.)

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