Square One TV/Episode 120

Episode 120
Season 1, Episode 20
Airdate	February 20, 1987
Production Number	20
Written by	head writer Jim Thurman writers Jim Thurman, David D. Connell, Harry Crossfield, C.C. Berg, Michael Winship, Douglas Anderson, Ellen Fogle, David Yazbek, Bob Brush, Jack Kenny
Directed by	Dan F. Smith Mathnet director Charles S. Dubin
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Square One TV — Season One

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Episode 120 is the twentieth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the twentieth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Kurtis Blow (Himself), William Windom (Judge Hoffman), James Karen (Prosecutor) Gary Paget (Wiley Monger/Jake Karamazoff), Wayne Grace (Bailiff)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Warning: Prime Numbers

• Callous: Candy Box

Attempting to design a package for 101 candies, wealthy Texans see the host of possibilities that exist when the consider 100 candies instead. The final solution plays on 101 being the sum of squares,

• Bureau of Missing Numbers: 101

Terry Ryan, an investigator, takes information pertaining to the number 101 and inputs it in her computer. These characteristics include whether it is prime, whether it is the sum of squares, etc.

• Prime Club

The cast explores the difference between prime and non-prime numbers in this rap song about a club that only allows entrance to prime numbers.

• Square Dance

This animation shows square numbers of dots arranging themselves into square arrays - all to a square dance tune.

• Multiplication Rap Logo

• Music Video: Multiplication Rap (Kurtis Blow)

Kurtis Blow, the rapper, enters the classroom and raps a song about multiplication as the cast keeps the beat.

• Mathman: Fractions Less Than 1/2

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only fractions less than 1/2.

• Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly - Part 5

Kate proves that George could not possibly have left the island and committed the crime because weather conditions would not have allowed the plane to maintain its usual speed.

Credits

• Executive Producer: David D. Connell
• Senior Producer: Jim Thurman
• Producers: Jeanne Shanahan, Stephanie Hochman, Herb Gardner, Joel Kosofsky
• Production Manager: Yvonne A. Hill-Ogunkoya
• Associate Producers: Danica Kombol, Rosemary Marlow
• Music Director: John Rodby
• Music Supervisor: Allen Goodman
• Art Director: Ronald D. Baldwin
• Supervising Director: Ted May
• Post Production Coordinator: Michael Chu
• Videotape Editor: John R. Tierney
• Costume Designer: Lowell M. Detweiler
• Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
• Graphic Director: Jim Jinkins
• Assistant Graphic Director: S. Jan Fleming
• Assistant to the Production Manager: Lynn Reed
• Production Manager: Lori Petchers
• Production Associates: Richard Buxenbaum, Brett D. King
• Production Assistants: Aishah Zuhri-Pachez, David Schmalholz
• Production Secretaries: Dorothy Teneketges, Lorraine Velazquez, Sharen Gay Vernale
• Associate Director: Ken Diego
• Stage Manager: Ric E. Anderson
• Technical Director: Ronald D. Davis
• Lighting Designers: Tony DiGirolamo, Daniel McKenrick
• Assistant Lighting Director: Roberto Jiminez
• Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
• Audio: Todd Miller, Ron Lantz, Jerry Romano, Jeff Robbins
• Video & Engineer in Charge: Paul Stiegelbauer
• Cameras: Jill Bowers, Dave Driscoll, Trevor Odell
• Videotape Operators: Renee DiCuia, Bob Soond
• Off-Line Editing: Richard Fernandes
• Make-Up Artist: James Pinto
• Hair Stylist: Anthony Cortino
• Wardrobe: Florence Aubert, E. Susan Erenburg
• Master Carpenters: Peter Fazio, Timothy McDonough
• Scenic Artist: Ellen Hopkins
• Graphic Artists: Joseph Aaron, Carolyn Brunetto, Linda Griffin, Les Hunter, Bob Perkins
• Dance Numbers Staged by Patricia Birch, Hope Clarke

Mahnet

• Producer: Jeanette M. Webb, George E. Swink
• Story Consultant: Sid Fleischman
• Director of Photography: Ron Vargas
• Editors: Ed Brennan, Harvley Stambler
• Music Composed by Gerald Fried
• Music Arranger & Conductor: John Rodby
• Casting by Mary West, C.S.A., Brown & West Casting
• Associate Director & Associate Producer: Scott A. Satin
• Stage Manager: Bruce Alan Solow
• Production Designer: William Bohnert
• Production Sound: Walter Hoylman
• Script Supervisor: Nancy Friedman-Gitlin
• Production Secretary: Jacqueline G. Raw
• Production Assistants: Tracy Thielen, Rhonda Baer, Michael W. Green, James Douglas Williams, Chris Jarmick
• Costume Designer: Donna Thorburn
• Costumer: Gala Autumn
• Make-Up Artist: Pamela S. Westmore
• Hair Stylist: Kay Cole
• Transportation Captain: Dan Goldberg
• Music Editor: Eugene Marks
• Sound Effects: Echo Film Service
• Sound Mixer: Blaine Stewart
• With Special Thanks to Darryl F. Gates of the Los Angeles Police Department

• Content Director: Joel Schneider
• Assistant Content Director: Kathryn Aucoin
• Story Researcher: Linda Schupack
• Content Assistant: Brett Pierce
• Mathematics Consultant: Edward T. Esty
• Vice President for Research: Keith W. Mielke
• Directors of Research: Diane Field, Bettina Peel
• Researchers: Anne E. Nesbitt, Sheri Offerman, Alexndra Rochwell
• Research Consultant: Milton Chen
• Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
• Vice President for Production: Al Hyslop
• Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.

Quotes

• Mathnet Announcer: The Brothers Karamazoff or Karamazoff, Irving & Jake, were tried and convicted of a 6133, escaping from prison, a 211, robbing a bank, a 487.3, driving a mathematician’s car without his permission, a 653, Frank lying under oath and a 3.1416, impersonating a mathematician. They were sent back to prison and good riddance. They still write to George on a regular basis.