Square One TV/Episode 135

Episode 135
Season 1, Episode 35
Airdate	March 13, 1987
Production Number	35
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 135 is the thirty-fifth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the thirty-fifth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Harry Blackstone (Himself), Kenneth Mars (Hans Ballpeen), Henry Jones (Orson Kane), Yula Gavala (Beulah Ballpeen)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Don't Ratio Without It

In this commercial take-off, the subject is the colon, a critical symbol for any ratio.

• Don't Be Nosey

The ratio of people wearing nose glasses to those who are not changes several times within a party of people.

• Don't Despair (EKA #107)

• Backstage with Blackstone: 1089

Blackstone asks the spectator to take a 3-digit number, reverse the digits, subtract the smaller from the larger, reverse those digits, and gets the answer 1089.

• Music Video: Apple Rap (Jonathan) (EKA #115)

Arthur solves the problem of how many apples he and another character can peel in 3 hours by using addition, multiplication, and division.

• Coatrack Lead-In

• Coatrack

Koatrack and Snafu practice trial and error to figure out how to pour exactly 4 liters from a 3 liter and a 5 liter measure.

• EB: Double Star Polygon

This short animation illustrates a 5-point star that is circumscribed by a pentagon.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger - Part 5

When a half cup of coffee suddenly becomes full, the Mathnetters know that a solid must have displaced the coffee. They recognize that Hans dropped the diamond in the cup and caused the liquid to rise.

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
• Video & Engineer in Charge: Paul Stiegelbauer
• Videotape Operator: Renee DiCuia
• Off-Line Editing: Richard Fernandes
• Make-Up Artist: James Pinto
• Wardrobe: Florence Aubert
• Master Carpenter: Timothy McDonough
• Scenic Artist: Ellen Hopkins
• Graphic Artists: Joseph Aaron, Carolyn Brunetto, Linda Griffin, Les Hunter, Bob Perkin
• 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
• 1st Assistant Camera: Bob Hall
• 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: Julie Purcell
• Hair Stylist: Steve Frank
• 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: Hans Ballpeen was tried and convicted of a 459, stealing a valuable diamond. He was sentenced to an appropriate number of years in state prison where he learned yet another skill: making little rocks out of big rocks.