3-2-1 Contact -- Episode 130 -- Food and Fuel -- 1980 

When I was a kid I use to watch this show everyday after school on PBS.

Wow this brings memories when I had no obligations, no mortgage, bills, etc, lol

Can I get a like for all my fellow 80’s kids that didn’t have cable so this show was Our little lives!!!

37 years old, watching this. I've learned more in a few minutes than I ever remember learning in school. That's a sign of good "lesson structure" in an educational show

OMG, my teacher use to let us watch this every day in junior high and do a story about it, I use to hate it but loved the shows, funny 😃😂😀now I’m 46, I was 12 back then, miss the 80’s

PBS was such a joy all day when I was at home "sick". ;)

Simple times and the people look so much happier. Watched this show and searched for it to show my kids. Hope everyone on the program lived a good life.

Oh my lord you guys! This show was so amazing back in the day! I learned more by watching this than I did in actual science classes

When there were entertaining and educational shows for kids. The value of this program cannot be overstated.

It's always amazing to me what the brain can do via nostalgia and how it can make you feel and remember things by things such as a TV show I used to watch every day as a kid.

Oh man the feels! The opening CTW crawl and Moog synth with the lead in 3-2-1 Contact intro. I am 5 again! :-)

This show was everything. Absolutely everything. I never knew Black People let alone other Black Kids were into science the way I was. One of the many, many reasons I still give to PBS. They intentionally reached out to me, and brought me in. I'm grateful. My Kids will be as well.

I love VHS tape lines on the side..👍😉

RIP Robert Guillaume

OMG You are making me feel my age!! I haven't seen this show in forever

From a simpler happier time

So nostalgic. I remember watching this show in science class at school when I was 10. I'm 50 now :-)

So nostalgic. Listening to the theme song, it magically transports me 40 years back in time.

I didn’t discover 321 contact until 1988. This and square one were awesome.

PBS use to have great educational shows . I don’t know about now. But I remember learning so much watching them on my old black and white TV.

The theme song to this show is as iconic as much as it is nostalgic 🏆 3-2-1……..CONTACT!

The best theme song of any show in history!!!!!

This show brings it all back! We watched everyday. Excellent show!

used to copy BASIC programs out of 3-2-1 Contact magazine as a kid. Quality content that inspired countless STEM careers, these folks are heroes.

Awesome show! Thanks to Children's Television Workshop!

Made me feel old when i realized how old this show was but the feel good memories are worth it ❤

These put the vision in television 🙏🏼

I absolutely loved this series growing up!!!!!

Why can’t we have more kid friendly shows like this?

Absolutely loved this show and the Bloodhound Gang!!!!

I'm so old I remember this lol

When this show came on my life as a kid elevated!

Watching this when I was 6, I didn't realize how young the beautiful Liz was. It seems like children's programming like 3-2-1 Contact, Electric Company, and Mister Wizard wouldn't hold attention spans of today's audiences, especially children.

I loved this show. Too bad kids today grow up on mindless nonsense.

About 15 students were left at the parking lot, forgotten and never picked up by either the bus nor the Volkswagen. I wonder what happened to them. Her uncle is cheap, only buying a single gallon of gas! This was filmed in or around Yonkers, New York. The school bus is owned by the Amberwood Coach Company which is based in Yonkers.

Nice to watch 321 contact again after all these years

The reason this is not on DVD? Someone might learn something. Oh no. Can't have that.

I remember watching this episode as a kid

They should play this on Nick at Night for all us X'ers and Millennials! LoL

Ty for posting. 🤩👍🏽👍🏽🌹 one of my favorites...especially the bloodhound gang. 💎

How come I'm about to try that bread recipe! LoL I watched this as a 7 year old back in the early 80s. What an awesome flashback!❤️

I used to watch this in the UK at the weekends in the early 80s with The Red Hand Gang. The US fed us so many great kids shows at that time I grew up almost speaking with an American accent!

Used to watch this here in New Zealand in the early 80s. Ah nostalgia. Damn you adulthood lol.

These shows were made for us to think outside the box and make innovative products and live life with purpose and meaning make the world a better place.

It seemed like 3/4 of the time they would play the Bloodhound Gang intro but then say there was no episode this week.

Used to love this. 46 now.

I completely remember the Bus vs the compact car segment. I probably haven't seen it or thought about it since 1981. But as I watched this I remembered everything almost perfectly. I knew when the car was going to run out of gas etc. Pretty amazing.

Wow my childhood is back. I had this theme song in my head and I had to look this up! I was 10, these “Kids” have got to be in there 60s now. I wonder whatever happened to them. I use to have a crush on one of the girls. Loved this show.

At least those piggies could walk and turn around. I’m surprised they mentioned tanning was bad for the skin back in 1980. 3-2-1 Contact was ahead of its time!

Making me feel like a kid again. I was 9 and this was a daily staple in my life. Thank you so much.

The original cast was the show everyone loved. I wonder what ever happened to the three teens in it....

I was one when this episode aired on TV so I don't remember this particular episode but I do remember the intro to this show. watched this show religiously for years lol

This brings back so much memories. This was the time when learning was fum. It's got that awesome catchy them song.

I remember this, and a few other PBS shows, my preschool and elementary school teachers would always play for us before class.

The song just popped into my head for no reason...now I'm watching an episode

I enjoyed this show as a kid and am just now realizing the baby in the intro is over 40 years old.

Here we are 2022... I still love this show! Been watching since the beginning

Man I remember watching this as a kid, great educational show. Miss those days….

I miss these days. So fun. 43 now. Not so fun days anymore.

How many of you wants to go back to the 80s?

I loved this show

3-2-1 Contact aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, with reruns airing for 4 years until September 27, 1992. Reruns resumed the next year in 1993 on commercial television, with All American Television handling syndication. It later ran on Noggin (a joint venture between the CTW and Nickelodeon) from 1999 to 2003, and lastly on Nickelodeon from September 5, 2000 until January 24, 2003.

Lisa looks like Dana Plato but is Liz Moses.

My mom loved this show and the 80's!

Team Trini.... HUGE CRUSH!

That intro song is such a slapp on the nostalgia button

The days before reality tv and social media with quality programming that stimulated the mind…

Actor Leon W. Grant, who portrayed the character Marc on this show, died at the age of 64 in May 2023 in Hawaii.

I was 11 years old when contact got me...lol when am back from school always glue to my dad old JVC black and white tv and living a life without responsibility, and the moral value of teaching and educating kids on tv was a virtue. I cry for the generations of kids now on what they watch now.

Loved this show growing up. Owl TV was another good one too.

Watched this over-the-air on PBS in school when it was on. We had to schedule periods around the air times of PBS programs (pre-VCR's). Processed food, pigs, goo, poor diet advice, pretty typical 3-2-1 Contact stuff. II had forgotten about this show.

20:16 Bloodhound gang

Love the intro!

I totally forgot about this show until someone mentioned it on Reddit. Total nostalgia...

28:38 " I'm Jogging"...with a radio? Hahaha!

Good Lord it's been like 38 years since I last saw this.

Crazy! By today's standards!! The handling of the piglets to a slaughter house!!

Brings back memories.

I remember having the biggest crush on Lisa and Trini.

THIS was television.

I watched this from 1985-88 or age 3 to 6 loved it waz my favorite pbs show

I used to watch this in grade school back in early 80s.

I missed 3-2-1 Contact on most of the PBS stations. It's a production of the Children's Television Workshop. It is known as the Sesame Workshop.

In the intro song, they pet the kitty right at the chord change. That was the first music lesson I ever learned

Who's the blond gal in the Bloodhound Gang episode? She's hot. The black girl looks like one of my co-workers. And the black guy looks like Commander La Forge from Star Trek The Next Generation. And Lisa Moses oh my is she HOT. Oh the good days. The music in car vs bus sounds like music from my Commadore 64's game Defender of The Crown, love it. Thanks to RU-vid we can go back in time. Were would we be without RU-vid? Thank you.

Taking me back this was my show!!

All we need now is a Sweet Pickles commercial

Loved this as a kid,never realized Ricardo played in the warriors until now,lol

Bring back so many memories as a child👍🏿 do anyone remember The Electric company I think it came on after 321 contact

Oh my 80s. When life was simpler.

I miss the shows when we were young they just feed our kids an grandchildren bull crap now watching this makes me happy an sad 😔

This version of 130 watch broadcast between 1990 and 1992 because Show 129 never reran on PBS after 1987. The same thing went Show 104. So when Show 105 reran between 1990 and 1992, some scenes where removed to make room for the conclusion of The Bloodhound Gang's "Case of Princess Tomorrow".

I can't say contact without humming that opening song.

Glad I was born in '79... saw this from '83 to '90... kids nowadays aint learning 💩 afterschool..

The children on here are respectful well dressed and well mannered.

I watched this when I was a kid

Awesomeness

I like the theme song of this TV show.

tv was a million times better 40 years ago

It's been about 35 years since I've seen this show....