Square One TV/Episode 420

Episode 420
Season 4, Episode 20
Airdate	October 25, 1991
Production Number	175
Written by	David D. Connell, Jim Thurman, Michael Winship, Douglas Anderson
Directed by	Mike Gargiulo, Dan F. Smith Mathnet director Bill Schreiner
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Square One TV — Season Four

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Episode 420 is the twentieth episode of the fourth season of Square One TV, and the one-hundred seventy-fifth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Paul Lazar (Louie Jerris), Bernice Massi (Hester Phester), Herschel Sparber ("Mad Dog" Fist)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Grown-Ups: Lawrence Taylor (EKA #403)

A child actor plays Lawrence Taylor, the football player, explaining why he will need math in the future.

• Piece of the Pie (cut from the Noggin version)

2 teams guess top answers to the survey question "Name a food that comes in slices." Team earning greater percentage guesses top answer to: dog trick, continent, unpopular pizza topping.

• If It's Out There: Director

A movie actress must act afraid when she sees a version of King Kong, but she laughs to see how small he really is. With a lamp, the directors project his shadow onto the wall & it looms much larger.

• Mathnet: The Case of the Galling Stones - Part 5

By analyzing Hestor's salon visits, the Mathnetters begin to understand her methods. They predict that she will steal a June birthstone, and stake out the Pearl-O-Rama to catch her in action.

Credits

• Executive Producer: Jeffrey Nelson
• Senior Producers: David D. Connell, Jim Thurman
• Coordinating Producer: Yvonne A. Hill-Ogunkoya
• Mathnet Producer: Howard Meltzer
• Production Manager: Rosa Kesser
• Associate Producers: Rosemary Marlow, Jeff Thurman, Maura McGloin
• Production Manager: Rosa Kesser
• Editor: John R. Tierney
• Music Composed and Conducted by John Rodby
• Music Supervisor: Allen Goodman
• Art Director: Mitchell Greenberg
• Supervising Editor & Associate Director: Ken Diego
• Post Production Coordinator: Michael Chu
• Production Coordinator: Rebecca Sanhueza
• Costume Designers: Lowell M. Detweiler, Nanzi Adzima
• Wardrobe: Roberta Christy, Florence Aubert
• Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
• Graphics Director: S. Jan Fleming
• Graphic Designers: Sonya Cohen, Kim Chandler
• Graphic Artists: Betsy Kershaw, Kelly Van Patter, Otto Berchem
• Assistant Production Manager: Teena Marie Harley
• Production Secretary: Karen Renée Ialacci
• Music Department Assistant: Sharen Gay Vernale
• Production Associate: Danielle Rockhold
• Production Assistants: Alan Bruckner, Lauren Goldberg, Dawn Montefusco, Julia Morgan, Christina Parente, Robert Rivera
• Stage Manager: Ric E. Anderson
• Technical Director: Ronald D. Davis
• Lighting Designers: Bruce Ferri, Daniel McKenrick
• Recording Mixer: J.C. Convertino
• Re-Recording Mixer: Pam Bartella/Sync Sound
• Audio: Tim Lester, Carla Bandini-Lory, Mel Becker
• Video & Engineers in Charge: Ralph Mensch, Richard Sens
• Sound Effects: Dick Maitland/CP Sound
• Cameras: Jill Bowers, Eli Clarke, Dave Driscoll, John Meiklejohn
• Videotape Operator: Rennie DiCuia
• Make-Up: Paul Gebbia
• Hair Stylist: Lilliane Cvecich
• Master Carpenters: Andy Falco, Timothy McDonough

Mathnet

• Co-Producers: Annina Lavee, Frank Doelger
• Director of Photography: David H. Sperling
• Casting: Marcia Shulman
• Extras Casting: D. Urell
• 1st Assistant Director: Charles Zalben
• 2nd Assistant Director: David Hallinan
• Production Designer: Robert P. Kracik
• Costume Designer: Tanna Moontaro
• Hair & Make-Up: Kelly MacNeal
• Sound Mixer: Jeff Pullman
• 1st Assistant Camera: Jim McConkey
• Gaffer: Paul R. Birk
• Key Grip: John Dianda
• Location Manager: Laura Pitkus
• Script Supervisor: Wendy Roberts
• Post Production Supervisor: Jonathan Stern
• Production Coordinator: Kate Kelly
• Assistant Production Coordinators: Junie Vildzius, Jacqueline Glover
• Auditor: Joan Altman
• Teamster: David Babcock
• Unit Manager: Deborah Magocsi
• Production Assistants: Chuck Dudley, Heather MacGowan, Lori Trochim
• Re-Recording Mixer: Rex Recker/Photomag
• Sound Effects Editors: Tim McCarthy, Anthony Pipitone
• Color and Video by DuArt

• Director of Content: Joel Schneider
• Content Associates: Betsy McNeal, Karen Singer, John Miles
• Mathematics and Research Consultant: Edward T. Esty
• Vice President for Research: Keith W. Miekle
• Vice President for Production Research: Bettina Peel
• Directors of Research: Shalom Fisch, Eve Hall
• Research Team: Dorothy T. Bennett, Mel Jurist, Susan McCann, Karen McClafferty, Samara Solan, Bill Yotive
• Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
• Advisory Board Staff: Dr. Sadie Bragg, Dr, Robert Davis, Mr. Wayne Goodwin, 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
• Senior Vice President for Programming and Production: Franklin Getchell
• Special thanks to Lawrence Taylor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, He Man Shops for Big & Tall
• Production and Post Production Facilities by Unitel Video, Inc.
• Sets by Lincoln Scenic Studios

Quotes

• Mathnet Announcer: Hester Phestor and Marion "Mad Dog" Fist were convicted of a 155.45, grand larceny, a 240.35, loitering and a 170.45, criminal simulation. They are currently in an upstate prison in Stride Rite, New York, where they are busy making shoes.