3-2-1 Contact — Season 1, Episode 60: Big/Small: How Big is Big?

Episode synopsis

REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: 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. Marc visits Miami Seaquarium to see whales trained. At the Bronx Zoo, Lisa goes on the rounds with a young veterinarian feeding baby animals.Fresh items for end of week: Model train built to one-eighth scale. Film insert: New York pizzeria owner bakes the largest pizza ever made (80 feet). ANIMATIONS: The need for a standardized measuring system; a pizza baker's dilemma with a trio of customers.

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