3-2-1 Contact -- Forces - Motion -- Episode 106 -- 1980 

I have to admit,sometimes being able to watch this show is the only thing that keeps me going(or shows like this from the late 70's early eighties).Memories of childhood are so precious to an older person.I was 12 when this show first aired,and I remember it like yesterday. I grew up in the Boston area and Boston public television shaped my life.Good old channel 2.Sesame street,Electric company,zoom,Jabberwocky,and awesome enough...Doctor who!Now that I am 52 years old,I sometimes long for my childhood and the good old days.Being able to watch this show is wonderful. I especially liked this string of episodes with the hurricane and the heavy storm outside the workshop.It gives a strange cozy feeling thinking about being there with these people during a storm in such a wonderfully science oriented place.Having fun with friends and learning fun things all the while a storm rages outside.

I am so lucky I grew up in the 80s. No better time in history to be a kid.

I remember watching this show as a kid. I would always run home from being outside playing just to watch this show. It was this episode that really got me interested in becoming a stunt performer doing highfalls off stuff and landing onto large airbags below.

I answered my phone at work like the bloodhound gang once at my restaurant, only a cook and one server laughed.

Reid Rondell (the kid that jumped off the building) died in a helicopter crash while performing as a stuntman in 1985 on Airwolf.

I was born in 1978 and watched this as a kid. The original cast here was my favorite. I wish they had brought them back when the show continued after being put on hold for about a year or so. This first season was shot in 1979 and first aired in 1980.

3:11 Leon Grant says "Oh shit." 😂 I wonder if any of those people on the ride would go on The Demon (used to be called Turn Of The Century) now? I've been going on it for about 35 years and it was my first coaster. It's a bit bumpy now, but still one of my favorites...even at 48.

PBS in the 80s was soo much better. Daytime: Sesame Street Mr Rogers 321 Contact Reading Rainbow Captain Kangaroo Evening: Nova Frontline National Geographic Nature Live from Lincoln Center This Old House Masterpiece Theater Wonderworks No purple dinosaurs,flying school buses in site!! This was the PBS I was watching when I was little.

At 2:16, the radio weathercaster is "Force Field". If you grew up in NYC during that time, you may get the joke. We had a father/son pair of TV weathermen named Frank Field and Storm Field.

"Disco Frog" starts at around 1:24-1:56, then at 7:56 it's more of a murmur, then at 27:29-27:32. I think they used the "Sesame Disco" version (great album, check it out). The name of the coaster at Great America where Marc rode was actually called "Turn of the Century", later known as the "Demon". 22:49 The all-time worst product placement concealment.

This show was a legend in its time and it didn't have to push issues

An episode featuring The Bloodhound Gang! Yes! But it's funny how Mr. Bloodhound was never there...lol

mr. bloodhound is never there!!......that's the real mystery!

Thanks for finding and uploading this episode! This is the one I've been looking for that has a horse skeleton galloping on a black screen and a gray spotty horse galloping up close to the screen and I see its spotty chest and belly up close. I've been looking for it since October 2009 but I didn't find it on RU-vid until December 2018. Now its been 40 years since this episode aired and 40 years since 3-2-1 Contact first aired.

The shorts on Frisbee man, in danger of a rogue bollock seeing the sunshine.

the song lisa and mark were roller skate dancing with at the beginning is part of "disco frog" by Kermit the frog

The roller coaster designer is the LEGEND himself, Ron Toomer from Arrow Dynamics. If you rode in an Arrow Looper, you rode in one of his creations.

cover band rock group at a bar last night was playing this song.

that's rita Moreno from 7:34 to 7:49. it was funny when she let the balloon fly through the air and it made a funny sound and landed on her head

My favorite part is when the gray spotty horse is galloping from 9:18 - 9:28 and I see its spotty and its spotty chest up close from 9:27 - 9:28.

The disco song in the background after the intro is "The Disco Frog" by Kermit the Frog from a Sesame Street episode.

I always wondered what sort of place they were supposed to be in. I mean was it supposed to be their home? House? Was it an apartment? A sound stage for sure. But what were they going for?

My favorite part is when the gray spotty horse is galloping from 9:18 - 9:28 and I see its spotty chest and its spotty belly up close at 9:27 - 9:28.

@3:02 This roller coaster segment was largely responsible for my love of roller coasters. And they're at my home park Six Flags Great America no less! This show though was one of my loves as a kid. ❤🎢

A very young Glenn Scarpelli is in this! LMAO!

Apparently RU-vid heard Trini speaking Spanish in this one and figured the show needed to be interrupted by a Spanish ad for Disney+.

Most of these teens ended up in the movie The Warriors.

Never found out the reason why Noggin didn't air the 1st season of 321C. Anyone know?

This was a great show, but I got heavy Blacked vibes here.

I'd forgotten just how goofy this series was.

Ok, do these kids live together are they related what’s the deal?

Black life's matter

This show was ahead of its time. In 1980 how many network shows had an interracial cast and a white girl and black guy dancing and touching each other? In another episode the girls kiss Mark on his birthday. I am sure in NYC back then it was no big deal, but this show broadcast to places where that would have been taboo.

Rita is hot..look at Marlowe

When kids were encouraged to use critical thinking.