Square One TV/Episode 305

Episode 305
Season 3, Episode 5
Airdate	January 19, 1990
Production Number	120
Written by	David D. Connell, Jim Thurman, David Yazbek
Directed by	Mike Gargiulo, Dan F. Smith Mathnet director Jesus Salvatore Trevino
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Square One TV — Season Three

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Episode 305 is the fifth episode of the third season of Square One TV, and the one-hundred twentieth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: David D. Connell (Dick), Jim Thurman (Vern), Julie Bennett (Sybil Divine), John Moschitta, Jr. (Himself), F. William Parker (Mayor Quail), Anita Morales (Rosa Morales)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Person on the Street: $10 a Day

People on the street are asked: If you spend $10 day, it will take about 3 1/2 months to spend $1,000. How long will it take to spend 1,000,000? $1,000,000,000?

• Big Numbers: Million, Billion, Trillion (cut from the Noggin version)

This segment compares the length of time a clock would take to tick off 1 million, 1 billion, and 1 trillion seconds.

• Michigan Stadium: Footballs

The following question is posed to the viewer: How many footballs would it take to fill the entire Michigan Stadium to the top?

• Mathman: Hexagons (EKA #229) (cut from the Noggin version)

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat all polygons which are hexagons.

• Insert: Queen-Math is a Tool

"Mathematics is like a tool...use it and solve problems.

• Square One Challenge: Kenny vs. Shalyn

2 students try to determine whether each of 2 cast members is bluffing or telling the truth when answering the questions: Spheres, Mathman Portrait, and 3 Nets.

• John Moschitta, Jr.: Peter Piper (cut from the Noggin version)

John Moschitta does 3 different versions of "Peter Piper" slow, medium, and fast. A graph illustrates the different rates as well.

• Mathnet: The Case of the Erstaz Earthquake - Part 5

The Mathnetters and the Mayor ask Ms. Divine to predict the outcome of a football game before paying for prediction of the Big Quake. They trick with the score of a game which never took place.

Credits

• Executive Producer: David D. Connell
• Senior Producer: Jim Thurman
• Mathnet Producer: Howard Meltzer
• Producers: Jeffrey Nelson, Jeanne Shanahan, Stephanie Hochman
• Production Manager: Yvonne A. Hill-Ogunkoya, Sabina Barach
• Associate Producers: Rosemary Marlow, Jeff Thurman, Susan Markowitz
• Editor: John R. Tierney
• Music Composed and Conducted by John Rodby
• Music Supervisor: Allen Goodman
• Art Directors: Mitchell Greenberg, Lee Mayman
• Supervising Editor & Associate Director: Ken Diego
• Post Production Coordinator: Michael Chu
• Costume Designers: Lowell M. Detweiler, Nanzi Adzima
• Wardrobe: Roberta Christy
• Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
• Graphics Director: Jim Jinkins
• Assistant Graphics Director: S. Jan Fleming
• Graphic Artists: Joe Aaron, Sonya Cohen, Avery Kayten, Betsey Kershaw, Sasha Lee, James Schexnaydre
• Assistant to the Production Manager: Nicole L. Messinger
• Production Secretary: Rebecca Sanhueza
• Music Department Assistant: Sharen Gay Vernale
• Production Assistants: Anita Fuentes, Lalita Khosla, Catherine Marie Kovac, Greg Lee, Jane Murphy, Dolly Neal, Dan Robbins, Sue Rosenthal, Hernan Sanhueza
• Game Show Consultant: Kathryn Aucoin
• Stage Manager: Ric E. Anderson
• Technical Director: Ronald D. Davis
• Lighting Designer: Tony DiGirolamo, Daniel McKendrick
• Audio: Tim Lester, Carla Bandini-Lory, Ron Lantz, Basil Matychak
• Video & Engineers in Charge: Ralph Mensch, Martin Gaujenicks, Larry Seigal, Paul Stiegelbauer
• Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
• Cameras: Jill Bowers, Dave Driscoll, John Meiklejohn, Tom Ucciferri
• Videotape Operators: Rennie DiCuia, Ed Lopez
• Make-Up Artist: Paul Gebbia, James Pinto
• Hair Stylists: Lilliane Cvecich, Bob Grimaldi
• Master Carpenters: Timothy McDonough, Gerald Burns

Mathnet

• Associate Producer: Mark Allan
• Director of Photography: David H. Sperling
• Casting: Marcia Shulman
• Unit Manager: Susan Ross
• 1st Assistant Director: David White
• 2nd Assistant Director: Michael Amundson
• Art Director: Dian Perryman
• Wardrobe: Nancy Cone
• Make-Up: Maria Haro
• Sound Mixer: Susumu Tokunkow
• Script Supervisor: Marvel Wakefield
• Gaffer: Bob Fisher
• Key Grip: John Harlan
• Location Manager: Rhonda Baer
• Production Coordinator: Susan McConnell
• Transporation Captain: George Matejka
• Production Assistants: Bryan S. Constans, Tom Merino, Leigh Waltz
• Re-Recording Mixer: Rex Recker/Photomog
• Sound Effects Editor: Steve Rosen
• Post Production Facitlity: The Tape House, Pacific Video
• Content Director: Joel Schneider
• Assistant Content Director: Richard Miller
• Content Associate: Betsy McNeal
• Mathematics and Research Consultant: Edward T. Esty
• Vice President for Research: Keith W. Miekle
• Assistant Vice President for Research: Eve Hall
• Research Team and Consultants: Shalom M. Fisch, Dorothy T. Bennett, Samara Solan, Elizabeth Debold, Audrey Korsgaard
• Story Researcher: Dana Zoran
• Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
• Advisory Board Staff: Dr. Sadie Bragg, Ms. Marilyn Burns, Dr. Robert Davis, Mr. Wayne Goodwin, Dr. Richard Griego, Dr. Peter Hilton, Dr. Magdalene Lampert, Dr. Katherine Merseth, Dr. Henry Pollak, Ms. Yolanda Rodriguez, Dr. Elizabeth Stage, Dr. Zalman Usiskin, Ms. Nancy Varner, Mr. William U. Wallton, Dr. Charles Whitney, Dr. Stephen Willoughby
• Vice President for Production: Franklin Getchell
• Specaial Thanks to The National Geographic Society, Mark Goodon Productions
• Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.
• Sets by Lincoln Scenic Studios

Quotes

• Captain: Sybil Divine was tried in a criminal court in Los Angeles, in and for the state of California. She was found guilty of 401.13, fraud and 517.3, attempted extortion and tucked snugly away from society for a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 12 years. Ms. Divine predicted she would be out sooner than that. She was wrong again.