3-2-1 Contact -- Very First Episode - 1980 - Intro/Theme -- Part 1 of 2
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2007
- 3-2-1 Contact - Very First Episode from 1980. Part 1 of 2. This is very first episode of this popular TV series back then. You will see the episode number on the lower left hand corner of the screen. You also get to see how they put the theme music together (intro only).
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I remember coming home after school, and spending the afternoon with the public TV line-up. Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, The Electric Company, then 3-2-1 Contact. Public TV made a lot of nerds of us all, but we're proud of that fact.
You are so right. I share the exact same experience. I am a PBS junkie!
Between this and Mr. Wizard on Nickelodeon..and all the documentaries on the early discovery channel..and NOVA...Still love all of it.
Yep. In that order. And the. Sometimes they would exchange 321 Contact for Powerhouse.
@@MsTexas73 And all these years later, we can recite certain parts of the shows, word for word, and sing their theme songs.
L.B. James Yep. Last night I was singing along to one of them.
Remember when television shows had heart and education I mean you actually learned something... I miss those days!😀👍💙🇺🇸
Alan Espinoza shows like this knew how to blend education and entertainment in the right mixture. They really made learning fun
Uh... they're still made NOW, duh. Ya ever heard of... DISCOVERY? SCIENCE CHANNEL? Etc. Duh.
Such a stupid comment. And proof you can say the dumbest stuff on the internet, and you'll have no shortage of morons to agree with you
@HelloKittyFanMan. Yes. Not nearly as well done.
Yeah,what happened?😮
In 1980, I was just 8 yrs old watching great PBS shows like this one. Wished I had a time machine to go back and start all over again. I terribly miss my youth, how time flies. I'm 47 now. 😊
Happy 50! 2023
@@Alan.Bishop
Thanks, I just turned a half a century old back in October 2022. 😂✌️
@@robroy5573 Me too, I'm September. 09/29/72. This show was a childhood fave of mine, along with The Electric Company....
Nice, man. I agree with those sentiments. A geat time to grow up.
I wish to travel back in time with a time machine. Make the timeline improve.
They really need a PBS retro channel !!!
I thought it was just crazy nostalgia that made me think the 3-2-1 Contact music was awesome, but I just looked up the composer, Tom Anthony, and found out he was nominated for an Emmy for this episode!
I would gladly pay hundreds of dollars for the soundtrack to this show. The original 3 2 1 Contact theme is my all time favourite song, and the outro themes are fantastic. I'm amazed they never sold vinyl copies of it. It's some of the best music to never make it to record stores.
It is probably on 1/2” analog tape just shedding in some PBS vault somewhere. When you do request it, be sure to get the closing credits part of the song not on this RUclips video.
@@peterfiveland3553I would think that Sesame Workshop or whoever currently works with Sesame Workshop would own the recording master tapes. So if that particular analog tape was in a vault somewhere, it would not be in a vault owned by PBS. It would however be in the one owned by Sesame Workshop....if Sesame Workshop owns an archival vault in the first place.
After all these years, this is still my favorite theme song! Legendary show.
Even a theme song had more effort put into it then today’s music
programs like this got me into computers and science. born at a perfect time, '75!
I was born in April 1975. This and the bloodhound gang was my joint. Also "Land of the lost"
Haha, me too - though I'm German. It was broadcasted there in 1981 when I was 7. I became an electrical engineer because of that. :D
I feel the same way. Born in '76. Why is it so hard for networks to greenlight this kind of quality today? There is no excuse.
1973 here, shitty year. Hell, shitty century: immortality won't be invented in my lifetime and neither will time machines (even in the basic form of a relativistic interstellar space ship) or even a stupid space elevator.
It was worth watching the show when it was on the air, just to hear the opening theme.
Man I ADORED this show!!! It was the last pbs children's show I watched. I was 9 when it started. Wonderful memories.
PBS should bring this show back! Great show.
Or better yet, have HBO Family air reruns of this show along with reruns of other Sesame Workshop favorites Ghost Writer, Sesame Street (1969-2015 episodes), The Electric Company (1971-77 version) and Square One TV!
I do understand exactly what you said, however PBS should bring back Mister Rogers Neighborhood, because that was the greatest of all of the educational shows on PBS!
I believe a reboot was made with a new cast not long ago. Anybody know what "Mark," "Trini" and "Lisa" are doing these days?
@@rogerhackler223 Mr. Rogers himself died already.
@@danalong1237 That's Noggin's repeat gig and the Noggin app is so minor with Sesame Workshop's Upside-Down Show.
We need shows like this nowadays
Seeing this has hit me with a tsunami of nostalgia. I can't believe this was almost 40 years ago! I remember watching this after school like it was yesterday.
Me too
Man, it'd be nice to have this version of the theme in stereo. It's my favorite version. I love that it's not just analog synths, but analog instruments, also.
definitely, we see here that it was recorded on a bunch of tracks but they're seemingly locked away forever or destroyed.
Wow, it's like I just saw this yesterday and yesterday happen to be 34 years ago.
No doubt. I remember watching in school. Sixth grade.
Bizarre isn't it? I felt like, "Aw crap, I already saw this one," as though it were only last week. I wonder if it's a testament to the show or to the brains of people who liked that show as children...
I saw this very first episode on Channel 13 NYC when if first aired and I've never forgotten it. It's just so cool to be watching it again today.
tmontyb..
please delete any videos from bottom line records off your page
other channels have been closed because of copyright claims
oporopolists channel is gone forever because of ed the red
Like a magnetic attraction, it doesn't go away.
I also remember watching 321 Contact at different times on WETA channel 26, WHMM (Now WHUT) channel 32 and on Maryland Public Television's WMPT channel 22 in the DC area.
What times were they on in the am & pm? I remember WNET channel 13 would broadcast 321 in the late afternoon after Sesame Street & Mister Rogers Neighborhood. The order of shows were Sesame Street at 4:00, Mister Rogers Neighborhood at 5:00 & 321 Contact at 5:30 pm.
I loved this show, my brothers and I watched it. I wish they'd bring it back so my niece and nephews could watch new episodes. 3-2-1 Contact was educational and entertaining.
Throw in new "Bloodhound Gang" stories, and you've got a deal!
Thanks guys, it's because of you I got into STEM. I speak on behalf of Gen X when I say: your work is worth more than gold and appreciates in value with time as people don't realize how important learning is anymore.
Wow! This clip was on YT for over 10 years! GreAt memories.
Thanks for uploading it!
The theme music for this, in general, is great. I always loved every aspect of this. Seeing footage of the session is fun for me - helps me identify which instruments blended to create a complete sound, the individual instruments of which I never could pinpoint.
40+ years later i really do appreciate the effort of these people. It would've been lost on me when i was a child back then but definitely not now. Thank you all who took part in shaping this wonderful memory!
I also attribute 90% of my brainy meats to this show. Nothing like it then, and still nothing like it now. I doubt there ever will be again. It's like was one of a kind. They did the impossible, they made learning, REAL learning, fun, and engaging, and when you walked away, you felt like you really learned something. Hoo...
I enjoyed watching this show back in the day and especially this episode showing all the musicians and singers putting the theme song together in the studio. In 1980 I was just about to start playing the drums and so this was very interesting and exciting to watch. It is great seeing this after 43yrs. Great song, great show and great memories. Thank you for posting.
Love this show. It was on after school on PBS. Great memories
I never forgot about Contact, but when RUclips came along, I'm ashamed to admit I never invested proper time in reliving these childhood memories as I did Sesame, Electric Company, Mr. Rogers, Vegetable Soup, and later, Reading Rainbow, and Square One TV. Perhaps that's because science, from grade school to college was always my least favourite subject..I could never get above a "C" no matter what!
I'm finally pouring through all these old Contact shows, looking at them with an unbiased eye, knowing there'll never be another science test I'll do miserably in! I can simply enjoy spending time with Mark, Lisa, and Trini again...and (part one of) this first episode, where the studio cats are building up that wonderful theme song, is the perfect way to start!
I hope everyone enjoys this childhood blast from the past as much as I do.
Great show. That's cool how they show disco is actually recorded.
I think this season had one of the coolest sets ever used for a TV show. I'm not sure what that building Mark, Trini & Lisa hung out in was supposed to be, but it always fascinated me. I'd love to meet the set designer who dreamed up that place.
jhillst it was definitely a cool concept. Always hoped it was an actual building, not just a set for the show.
@@TheOfficialIceman It was a set. The show's conceit was that Mark, Trini, and Lisa were college students, and the building they were at was a "science workshop" of sorts.
This song popped in my head as I was putting my contacts in. I watched this from day 1. My how time flies. The "Cern" would be a great topic for Contact. We've come a long way!
Did anyone else have a subscription to the 3-2-1 contact magazine?
I did and looked forward to it every month in addition to the TV show!
One of my absolute favorite theme songs of all time is the 3-2-1 contact theme song. It's wonderful to see all the instruments that went into it. I can't find a high-quality recording so I'm sure I'm missing most of the awesome nuances. Such as that acoustic guitar.
And as a musician (and in the midst of recording myself) this is just unbelievably cool.
I count this show among some of the most important influences that led me to engineering/science as a career. I am not sure what this says, that a TV show influenced my development that much, but it is without a doubt true. Loved this show for its science and dense amounts of info, and I could hear the song in my head before the clip even loaded!
As someone who grew up with this intro bouncing around in my head, that was pretty amazing.
Love this show. They still showed it to us in the 90s/early 2000’s.
Weeping tears of joy and nostalgia. This brings back a flood of good memories. Thank you!
I remember this in Day Care in the 80s. The baby from the opening credits is likely 51 years old. Most of these cast/crew are Seniors, and quite a few have passed away. I am grateful their work and lives were recorded forever on the Internet.
Please, never delete this.
Man....flashing back. This show got me ready for Sesame Street later in the afternoon
dpcoronado other way around for me. Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, the Electric Company and this.
I watched this religiously as a kiddo in the 80s👍🏽✌🏽❤️
Had the song stuck in my head for some reason and you brought me into a straight up binge of contact now! Thanks so much for this i greatly appreciate it. It was awesome to see how the intro song was made in the studio finally i never seen this episode before when i was a kid.
I was born in 79, so I don’t remember this, but I do have vague memories of the early 80s episodes from my early childhood, and I remember loving the theme song. It managed to stay with me even though the early 80s were a blur.
AFter all these years I finally see how they made this powerful theme song! This is sooo cool. Thanks for sharing. The nostalgia wave is overwhelming!
PBS kids shows afterschool were the best. This show, Mr. Rogers, Electric Company, and Zoom, not to mention Sesame Street. Great memories
I loved this show after school in my childhood. The show theme alone was well worth it. I remember the tv resolution being slightly more clearer back in the 80's but that's HDTV today for ya😉.
Thanks for the nostalgia, I'll watch the other episodes soon.
Great show. Miss it. Used to always watch it. After school i would comeback home & take off my shoes & socks at the door & get a snack. Watched it everyday part of my after school routine. PBS always had great kids shows back then.
321 Contact was an outstanding tv show, and was on our set every single weekday! Good stuff. Thanks for posting.
CTW was red hot during the 70s and 80s with Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and Square One TV.
Thank you SO MUCH of posting this - so many memories of a great show!
I absolutely love this program. It and "Square One TV" are very near and dear to my heart. I just wish they would air reruns of these shows to offer the education in the same format to the newest generation as they did to the children of the '80s. As I watched this, one thing did pop out at me. Please watch from 0:36 to 0:41 again and listen carefully. Notice anything? That voice sounds exactly like Stephen Hawking's computer voice. I bet it is, but Hawking didn't receive that voice until 1986, whereas this was aired in 1980. Thank you for sharing.
RJ
square 1 sucked ass
Steve Mandl I don't think it sucked, "Square One TV" was a fun show. I used to watched it all the time after coming home from school. I love the segments like "Mathman" and "Mathnet". Both were excellent.
@@Musicradio77Network
As I recall, Square 1 TV came out much later. It seems like a 90's production to me, but I might be misremembering things. I do recall that no version of "3,2,1 Contact!" was airing new episodes here locally when Square 1 was on, but I seem to recall Square 1 predating other titles that were definitely 90's productions, such as "The Magic School Bus" and "Wishbone." Square 1 may have been contemporary to "Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?"
Magic School Bus... I was too old to be the core audience by the time that came out, but I was disappointed. Ostensibly, it covered many of the same topics that "3,2,1 Contact!" did, however, Contact didn't try to dumb things down for their audience. Bus would often have a bit at the end describing how some things they depicted were for dramatic effect, and didn't really happen in real life (like one of the students turning orange moments after eating too many carrots). What's doubly troubling there, is that these little interludes only aired on public TV. "Magic School Bus," was edited so that it could accommodate commercial breaks, and these end-of-episode bits would therefore be removed.
Also, using "Magic" to describe scientific concepts just doesn't seem right.
I remember that episode. In it the host goes to a speech synthesis lab. It may have been at MIT, I don't recall.
There they used a crossectional display of the human mouth as it made sounds, and interpolated those images, toungue position, use of lips and teeth, etc, into... er sounds. They had huge disks they had to swap out that basically looked like giant bunt cake pans.
In the introduction you refer to, the presenter is lip-synching to the computer generated voice.
Edit:
Well, the voice lab is actually in the second part of this video, and it was Bell Laboratories. Here's the URL for part two of this video:
ruclips.net/video/TX4s0X6FDcQ/видео.html
Tanana M I think it was late 80s. I seem to recall it coming on in the 6pm time skit that 321 Contact used to air.
Thank you SOOOO much for putting this up! I really miss this show. I used to watch it EVERY day!
I never saw this show but the theme and everything about it draws me in. It's amazing! :D
LOVED the theme to this show!
I especially loved the piano. Its simple, but beautiful.
Great post!
Awesome! Thanks for the flashback!
"Stan" was Stan Lemkuil(1949-2013) who I met when my college had him speak to the music department. He could made AMAZING sounds. At one point he said, "Cover your ears, because I am going to make a noise so loud that it will make your skull vibrate", and he did! It sounded like being in the same room as a Civil Defense siren.
Contact is the reason and the answer for everything that happens. Let's make contact! 3 2 1 contact! 😊
I LOOOOOOVE THIS SONG!!!! I watched this show from the first day it aired back when I was 11 in 1980 - it was the start of a decade of many incredible TV theme songs, musical commercials, and show tunes. I miss 3-2-1 Contact!
I love this theme. It reminds me of childhood and being happy. Its awesome I can see how it was made.
Loved this show so much as a child! I was always envious of the cool things the hosts got to experience for the show!
this was by far the best show on tv in the 80's, brings tears to my eyes, such great memories. thx for the great post
i havent heard this music in 30 years when i was a kid. and yet its the sort of music that stays with u because its so perfect. great post.
Man, this is it. I watched this show without fail every day. I remember this segment because it was all music and sound and when was a kid (about 5 or 6) all I wanted was music and sound (and Robotech). I didn't understand what a multi-track studio was or quite what was going on, but it made it's impression as I am now playing and recording music at home 25 years later. Good stuff, many thanks for posting!!!
This show ran thru the 80s. I was born in 1980 & I still sing the theme song
Contact was our favorite show
Watching this show, suddenly learning was fun and exciting.
That took alot of work!!! Thank you for the memories!!!
Man, this is so damn cool! I watched this show as a kid and just lately I got the theme song stuck in my head. What a treat to see it get made.
Love this show "thanks" for putting it on the tube!
Thanks for the upload!!
This was actually pretty clever! Great theme too!! Thanks for posting! This made me smile alot!!!
So good! Loved this show - the KISS episode hooked me - and to see the vocals in the theme getting cut, just WOW!
NEAT! i don't know why but for some reason i was thinking about this show today. i didn't think i'd find any results. thanks so much for this! you really made my day!
The piano and guitar always sounded like the chorus to Super Tramp's "Goodbye Stranger" to me
+CarMoves Not to mention some 'CHiPSy-ness' to it.
Behind the scenes... of 1980.....
But..i was still a two year old toddler turned 3......when 3-2-1 contact premiered in 1980.... did not watch it until 1986 ... when I was coming home from school...
Today 2023-present day
It brings back good memories.🌈🎸🤍💙💛🤍💙🇺🇸
Thanks alot for the memories....
Besides from all that in today's world...... it's all politics (no offense taken, I am very sorry)....
But 3-2-1 Contact....takes the cake..(Back in 1980).....🗽🇺🇸🌈
I adored this show. It's what I watched when I was sick and stayed home from school. I had a bad crush on Trini. She was like a really cute babysitter who didn't talk down to you...
Grew up watching this, till this very day I think it has the best intro of any children's tv educational series.
Loved 3-2-1 Contact! Especially it's theme song. Love The Bloodhound Gang feature too. Great memories for me!
I remember the episode where they tried to explain why things float and I didn't understand until I saw Mr. Wizard's version. Way to go Mr. Wizard. I also remember the episode with the KISS concert and my brother telling me, "KISS sucks"
Thank you for sharing this ! I'd never seen this before.
Thank You ....❤❤❤❤ shaped my Childhood
Nothing like the 80s man 😂😂😂
These were the days… 1st grade after school…
Its funny, when you watch these old PBS shows, it doesn't look so old.
Wow, Took a lot of people to put that theme song together. I had no idea. Great posting.
Just crazy that I found this. Love this show..
I didn't join the 3-2-1 Contact hype until the 90s, but it was my freaking JAM though.
This was my favourite show on the other side of the planet. And this intro- I use to sing it. Still remember it..
I dearly loved this show as a kid, for the fun graphics and snappy pace as well as the explanations of how nature and our world works.
And hey! It's even got a cameo of Lenny and Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley! Can't hate a show with those guys!
Loved this show! Pbs instructional programs were great!
Watching this show EVERY DAY AFTER SCHOOL is what gave me a foundation to answer 80% of ALL of my science test questions/homework assignments from 7th grade all the way through 12th grade... I MEAN it... and because they ran the episodes over and over throughout the years, there was constant memory re-enforcement...
It's been almost 40 years since this show premiered. I would watch it occasionally after school.
What is particularly amazing about this is it gives kids an in depth look at the adult world presenting them with possibilities for their own lives.
I'm pretty sure I saw this episode the day it aired for the first time. I guess I was 6 years old at the time, and I was FASCINATED by the recording session. I can remember being real into it all those years ago.
Here I am 43 years later and I've spent the last 30+ years as a recording engineer, and I'm still fascinated by it. Except for the fact that I actually understand what they're doing, watching it again today feels like it did the first time I saw it
Idk how or why I forgot about this "gem" but brought back some great memories! Seems there were more Public educational programming back in the 80s than in current day. 🤔 God I miss this programming and Square One TV!
AWESOME! Thanks for uploading.
Oh, absolutely! When your young and impressionable and your brain is still forming, everything can have an impact. My parents also restricted our viewing when we were young, and they banned video games from the house. And guess what? When me and my siblings were teenagers, we never became wild and rebellious.
Wonderful. I haven't heard that song in 20 years. Oh the memories of growing up watching educational television. All the kids at school wondered how I was so 'smart'... I was a couch potatoe for PBS!!
This was literally my childhood growing up in Chicago.
Don’t remember what made me think of this show and look it up on RUclips but a whole mess of warm memories came back listening to this theme song and seeing the kids Act out this first episode. I loved coming home from school and watching TV no matter what was on but this show was the jewel in the crown as far as I was concerned. I had a little crush on both of the ladies even though I was like 10. And I agree with the person who said the space they went to was so cool… Their own little private after school nerd hang out? Yeah, I wanted that.
I was that young trumpet player in this show. Those were the days. So many of them have passed on.
Leon W. Grant, who portrayed Marc on this show, died at the of 64 in May 2023.