Square One TV/Episode 205

Episode 205
Season 2, Episode 5
Airdate	September 23, 1988
Production Number	80
Written by	head writer Jim Thurman writers Jim Thurman, David D. Connell, Michael Winship
Directed by	Mike Gargiulo, Ted May Mathnet director Karl Epstein
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Square One TV — Season Two

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Episode 205 is the fifth episode of the second season of Square One TV, and the eightieth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Jim Thurman (Beak of Little Louie), Ian Fried (Walter Treppling), Harry Blackstone (Himself), Dweezil Zappa (Himself), Tempsett Bledsoe (Herself)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Dirklet: Blackstone Promo (cut from the Noggin version)

Dirk promotes Blackstone who will be appearing later on the show.

• Mathman: 2 Mod 5

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat all numbers congruent to 2 mod 5.

• Backstage with Blackstone: 5 Envelope Spelling

By seeding an envelope with money among 4 others with only messages, Blackstone retains the money for himself when all count off to choose one. He thus illustrating a careful use of remainders.

• Calvin Klein Boy

Dweezil Zappa discovers the meaning of combinatorics when he determines how many possible outfits he can make from a certain number of pants, shirts, and sweaters.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Time Keeper" (Tempestt Bledsoe)

Tempestt Bledsoe sings about keeping time in a factory and the clock arithmetic which is involved.

• Data Headache

• Mathnet: The Case of the Willing Parrot - Part 5

The Mathnetters use Walter Treppling's assistance in making a conversion between the Fibonacci sequence and a pattern of tiles. Solving this pattern leads them to the hidden fortune left in the will.

Credits

• Executive Producer: David D. Connell
• Senior Producer: Jim Thurman
• Producers: Jeanne Shanahan, Stephanie Hochman
• Production Manager: Yvonne A. Hill-Ogunkoya
• Associate Producers: Anne Gorfinkel, Rosemary Marlow
• Music Director: John Rodby
• Music Supervisor: Allen Goodman
• Art Director: Ronald D. Baldwin
• Supervising Editor: Ted May
• Post Production Coordinator: Michael Chu
• Videotape Editor: John R. Tierney
• Costume Designer: Lowell M. Detweiler
• Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
• Graphics Director: Jim Jinkins
• Graphics Assistants: Elaine Farley, S. Jan Fleming, Les Hunter, David Jon Link, Doug Meyer, Christa Myers
• Assistant to the Production Manager: Lynn Reed
• Production Secretary: Nicole Messenger, Sharen Gay Vernale
• Production Assistants: Eliot Maletzky, Dolly Patterson, Daniel Robbins, Lynne D. Shipp, Robin Weeks
• Stage Managers: Ric E. Anderson, Dean Gordon
• Technical Director: Ronald D. Davis
• Lighting Directors: Tony DiGirolamo, Daniel McKenrick
• Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
• Audio: Todd Miller, Carla Bandini-Lory, Wayne Frost
• Video & Engineers in Charge: Martin Gaujeniks, Paul Stiegelbauer
• Camera: Frank Biondo, Jill Bowers, Dave Driscoll, John Mieklejohn
• Videotape Operator: Rennie DiCuia
• Make-Up Artist: James Pinto
• Hair Stylist: Bob Grimaldi
• Wardrobe: Roberta Christy
• Master Carpenters: Timothy McDonough, Gerald Burns

Mathnet

• Producer: Janette M. Webb
• Casting by Mary West, C.S.A., Brown & West Casting
• Associate Director & Associate Producer: Scott A. Satin
• Director of Photography: Howard S. Ex
• Editors: Dominic G. DiMasscio, Beryl Gelfond
• Stage Manager: Bill Cherones
• Production Supervisor: Susan Ross
• Production Designer: William Bohnert
• Production Sound: Walter Hoylman, Stu Fox
• 1st Assistant Camera: Randy Shanofsky
• Script Supervisor: Francine West
• Production Secretary: Meredith Martin
• Production Coordinators: Tracey L. Thielen, Rhonda Baer
• Production Assistants: Gary Newman, Brian Siebrandt
• Costume Designer: Donna Thorburn
• Costume Supervisor: Julie Jensen
• Make-Up Artist: Courtney Stone
• Hair Stylist: Erin Lyons
• Transportation Captain: Rick Rollison
• Music Editor: Eugene Marks
• Post Production Sound: B&B Sound Studios
• Sound Editor & Mixer: Steven D. Williams
• Online Editor & Optical Effects: Terry Greene, Compact Video
• With Special Thanks to: Daryl F. Gates, Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department

• Content Director: Joel Schneider
• Assistant Content Director: Kathryn Aucoin
• Story Researcher: Rich Miller
• Mathematics Consultant: Edward T. Esty
• Vice President for Research: Keith W. Miekle
• Director of Research: Eve Hall
• Associate Researchers: Shalom M. Fisch, Dorothy Teneketges
• Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
• Advisory Board Staff: Dr. Sadie Bragg, Ms. Marilyn Burns, Dr. Robert Davis, Dr. Richard Griego, Mr. Wayne Goodwin, Dr. Peter Hilton, Dr. Magdalene Lampert, Dr. Katherine Meseth, Dr. Henry O. Pollack, Ms. Yolando Rodriguez, Dr. Elizabeth Stage, Dr. Zalman Usiskin, Ms. Nancy Varner, Mr. William U. Walton, Dr. Charles Whitney, Dr. Stephen Willoughby
• Vice President for Production: Al Hyslop
• Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.
• Sets by Lincoln Scenic Studios

Quotes

• Mathnet Announcer: Norman Tedge was picked up by the ever-vigilant Los Angeles Police Department while walking near the Beverly Hills hotel without permission or white shoes. He was convicted of a 487F grand theft feathers, and caged away from society until he began to molt.