Square One TV/Episode 160

Episode 160
Season 1, Episode 60
Airdate	April 17, 1987
Production Number	60
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 160 is the sixtieth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the sixtieth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Kevin McCarthy (Norman Mailbag), Moon Unit Zappa (Herself), Harry Blackstone (Himself)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Pos vs. Neg Jousts: Taking a Break -12 Plus +1 (EKA #145)

When one "positive" clay-mation creature suddenly appears amongst 12 "negative" clay-mation creatures, 11 "negative" creatures remain.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Less Than Zero" (Negative Scratch) (EKA #103)

This song presents a diving, dance, skating, and hammer-throw competition to show arithmetic realizations of negative numbers.

• Million Dollar Giveaway

Jed Clampon decides to give away $1,000,000 in $50 increments to 20,000 people. He determines that the line will stretch over 7 1/2 miles, and people at the end will have to stand more than 2 days.

• Person on the Street: Googol (EKA #139)

The Person on the Street Interviewer asks a variety of people what a googol is.

• Googol (EKA #139)

Moon Unit Zappa discusses being presented with a number: one googol.

• Blackstone Intro

• Backstage with Blackstone: Move the Clip (EKA #119)

Blackstone correctly identifies the number of paper clips that have been moved as he notes the new position of the one clip that is oriented opposite the others.

• Groaning Wall

Freddy Kohler and the cast tell each other riddles that have a mathematical theme.

• Set-Up: Mandrell Concert

This mini-documentary addresses the problem of setting-up for a Barbara Mandrell concert. There are also interviews with crew members who must read graphs and charts to do their jobs properly.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Money - Part 5 (EKA #125)

The Mathnetter use problem-solving skills as they re-examine their hypothesis and calculate the weight of $1,000,000 in $1 or $5 bills.

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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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.