Square One TV-101 

I am the author of "THAT'S INFINITY" - Carol Weiss

Happy 30th anniversary, now let's get this on DVD and Blu Ray already.

Why is this still entertaining after all of these years?!? It's a testament to how effective kids educational programing was back in the day... Engaging, fun, and smart. Shows like this need to make a comeback for kids of this day and age.

I used to scream at the TV for Mathman to eat the right numbers.

I was always amazed at how versatile these performers are. They sing, dance and act with incredible ease. Shout out to wonderful artists who don't find "Children's" television to be beneath them.

I am instantly reverted back to my childhood .. They don't make programs like this anynore and it's a shame! PBS was the elite channel for kids tv..So great to see this again

Square One was the #SNL for kids in the 80s

This theme songs takes me back to Elementary school!!😊😊

OMG Mathman! This was the sole thing I waited to watch in each episode. Nothing else mattered.

Oh wow it’s like I had amnesia and just remembered my whole life. Talk about a blast from the past.

WOW, you took it bac bac. This show made me love math as a kid. Now I have a BS in Accounting and pursuing an MBA in Finance.

I was trying to teach my little boy about infinity and remembered the song from square one and here I am, reliving my childhood. 😀 such good times!

From the second half of the 80s to the start of the middle 90s I watched AN INCREDIBLE LOAD of PBS's Square One, Sesame Street and Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego. I still REALLY like clips of each. Something so incredibly: cool, weird and academic in a PURE way about ALL of IT. lol!

This was absolutely one of my favorite after school programs! I learned a lot from this show!

Wow some how at 34 this still keeps my attention. This was a great show.

loved watching this on public TV on ch.13 at 5 p.m. way back when. good memories!

What a freaking blast from the past! Thank you so much for these uploads! Mathnet was the best!

I never realized it until recently but, in the opening credits, the spiraling squares with clips from the show form a Fibonacci sequence.

This was the perfect late afternoon show for us teens who were too old for cartoons but not interested in the evening news

Mathnet was awesome. Watching this while solving some KenKen and Sudoku puzzles. Thank you Square One.

Watched this religiously as a kid, didn't care for the Mathnet back then but I'll never forget that is where that if any multiple of 9 returns to 9 if you add the answer of those numbers together until you get a single number. For example: 9 times 88 = 792. 7+2 is another 9 which plus the first 9 is 18, 1+8=9.

Thanks heaps for putting these episodes on line. You're doing noble work

Jesus christ, it's like I'm 6 again

Square One Television had its roots in MTV, Broadway, SCTV and Saturday Night Live! Providing young viewers with mathematics and hilarious sketch comedy!

i used to watch this show at my grandparents house after school in 1988

The shopkeeper in Math Net was the "ASSMAN" in a Seinfeld episode! Worlds colliding 😂

Holy HECK I remember this!! But I forgot all about it until this second! Dude, Mathman!! And that inexplicably weird tornado guy!! AHHH MEMORY FEELS, FLOODING BACK ALL AT ONCE, DON'T KNOW IF CAN HANDLE

This show, and Mathnet in particular, contributed to my quirky sense of humor. I used to love this and 3-2-1 Contact. It greatly contributed to my love of STEM and I ended up getting a BS in Chemistry and Biology.

Omg! All these CTW uploads! I grew up in the Midwest with no cable access in the early 90’s so I learned everything from Square One and 3,2,1 Contact. My childhood exists on your channel 😄

When I was in middle school my math teacher always plays square one tv (I’m a junior in high school) it was a memory I won’t forget

This is my all-time favorite kids’ show!!! (But in case anyone is looking for a math show that is more current, I have to say that Odd Squad is pretty great too.)

Wow a blast from the past. Man this was great. Thanks to the uploader.

Square One Television, Season 1, Episode 1 0:59 "That's Infinity" 4:21 Mathman, Multiples of 3 5:41 The answer is always 3 8:07 Battle of the Bulge Caterers: Combinatorics 12:48 OOPS! Subtraction: borrowing 10 14:26 The Square Brothers, "Perfect Squares" 17:51 Bureau of Missing Numbers, 14 19:50 Mathnet, "The Problem of the Missing Monkey" part 1

This show is what encouraged me to get a career in being the programmer for writing business applications for companies years ago. That and writing video-games too.

Thank you so much for the upload. I loved Square One, even now I randomly break into songs from the show! I can't find it anywhere else, so it means a lot to find it here. Thanks again for everything!

It's so cute when Mathman goes like, "Ya-ha!"

As someone who was a freshman in college when this show debuted, all I can say is this was really cute, and I would've loved it if CTW had done something like this in the 70s. I only know about this show because I've seen the special PBS logo done for this episode, so I wanted to see what you kids saw. I also have to say: Ha! Mr. Whipple! Hahahaha! Did the monkey squeeze any Charmin?

Perfect for Distance Learning for my kids. Now they get to grow up doing what I did.

Mathman: "Free Game! Ha-Ha! me: "Yay for Mathman!"

ah life before caller ID.

Ahhh....I remember coming home to watch this show, "Reading Rainbow" and "Wishbone" to name a few that aired at the time. Don't get me wrong I did watch all the other cartoons (and In Living in Color) but I learned a great deal from "Square One" like what is a Dodecahedron. Good times!!

That Square One TV song, "That's Infinity", drives me crazy!

Happy 35th anniversary Square One TV! Wed 1/26/22.

Wow, for me, this was like close to 40 years ago! I loved this show!!!

I love the music videos! i just told a friend about Less Than Zero yesterday, before I knew you were sharing these. Thank you!

Amazing! I watched this when i was a kid, im going to have to watch all these again as an adult!

I'm back in my childhood again!!!! Man this just made my night!!!! 😍😍😍😍

This takes me back!!!! Thanks for bringing back the nostalgia to my eyes!!! 🙌

This show came to mind out of nowhere. I had completely forgotten about it until 5 minutes ago.

You just made my day. I used to love this as a kid, and it wasn't on TV where I grew up, so my grandpa had to tape it for me. I must've watched the same 5 episodes over and over and over again on one shitty long play video cassette tape. I'm almost 40 now, and the nostalgia is wonderful.

omg i LOVED this show and am sooooo excited to be able to watch it on youtube! Hahhaha, i’m 40 and still remember the theme song! Thanks for uploading this!

this week 30 years ago, Square One TV premiered on PBS!

I vaguely remembered this from when I was very young so I looked it up. I remember “square one!” From the title. Very impressive show.

OMG... This takes me waaaaaaaaay back. I was trying to remember what the segment was with Joe Howard (he's in S2:E4 of American Horror Story) I was like... "IS THAT JOE WALSH???" and here we are. Confirmed. Now I have to see how many episodes I actually faintly remember. Glad someone posted this!! Thank you Anton.- MATHNET!!!!

Whaaaat!!!‽ So I'm singing the "infinity" song in my head out of the blue, and I decide to search for square one, just for the nostalgia and I couldn't believe my luck when I pressed play on my 1st result on RU-vid and it was the exact episode with the exact song I was singing in my head. Awesoooooome. You have a new subscriber. Awesome page.

They really need to bring back this TV program to a newer generation of audience! I am really feeling bad that I totally missed out on this amazing program. These kids today need to know that mathematics is absolutely amazing and awesome! (I was born in January 1993.)

PBS would make so much $ if they released the series on DVD. Someone watching these videos must have worked on the show or knows someone who did.

The US debt? "Add one to it".

I've learned new things about mathematics from this but the schools I attended never taught us square, prime, palindrome & triangular numbers.

Another blast from my childhood. The early '90s 🥰🤩

To this day whenever I hear someone say "My name is _______," in my head I follow it with "I'm a mathematician."

This show reminds me of the many times I stayed home from school "sick" lol. Id always watch this in the afternoon.

I don't know who you are but I love you for posting this!! My 4 year old granddaughter is in loveeeee with these episodes in 2021

"Well, am you or ain't you? ...I mean, aren't you?'' LOL

24:25 "Maybe he was going to toss his salad" LMAO!

This show was excellent. I can do long multiplication and division in my head because of this show. I'm going to make sure my daughter watches it after school every day just like I did.

Even Carmen Sandieago Helped Me In School And Square One Helped Me In Elementary School Square One was My School Assignment Almost Everyday

Decided I'd go ahead and go back to part of my past that I remember, but I was a bit too young to understand the math concepts of this at the time. It always aired right after Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego came on on my local PBS station.

Thank You Anton Spivack For Bringing Us Great Memories

Gotta be honest. I loved watching this show as a kid but when it came to the math, I had no idea what was going on.

29:02 is the 1989 PBS “Glass” logo where it plastered over the 1984 PBS logo variant “And On”. How sad. I wonder if the 1984 PBS “And On” variant exists in the PBS vault if they want this episode restore with the 1984 PBS logo preserved.

Thank you Grumps! Glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers this show!

Oh mannnnn, Mathnet. Wow. The music. Those faces! This is nuts to watch for the first time in probably 30 years.

Love this. Brought back memories. Thanks for posting the vid.

Mathnet was the Bloodhound Gang of Square One TV!

Watching "The Wire" tonight and wondering why Reg. E Cathey looks so damned familiar... Proceeds to look through his IMDB and find a forgotten part of my childhood afternoons with PBS.

Should have a billion views. That song is great at the beginning, nice job Carol. Nice job to everyone involved

DAMN! That second grocer in Mathnet is the guy who played Mr. Whipple in those ancient Charmin commercials!

What a great TV show. It recalls all those math teaser when I was at the elementary school

It took me watching Dragnet episodes to get the intro to Mathnet but now it is hilarious! Kate Monday is a play on Joe Friday!

I’m in 2 grade and our class loves this

man this takes me back, as a 90’s kid with 80’s kid cousins who needed help on Math.

What I loved about Square One TV: Mathnet, Mathman, Backstage with Blackstone, & of course "Nine, nine, nine fantastic number nine times any number you can find it all comes back to nine!"

From the production company that brought you “Sesame Street”, “The Electric Company” and “3-2-1 Contact” comes “Square One TV”!!

R.I.P. Reg E. Cathey

Mike you knows up!! Thanks for this 🖤

Wow Reg E. Cathy looks young here!

i lovethis! watched it when i was young

Soooooo many memories!! That intro theme song gave me all kinds of flashbacks!!

I started playing saxaphone as a kid because of this theme song.

If the kids today had this kind of show on maybe just maybe the school system wouldn't be what it is today...Bad!!!

This is how you do educational programming for kids.

I miss the simplistic life from the past, now we live in hell. Life seemed more enjoyable back then in the 1980s before the shit hit the fan. I was one of the youth during summer school who was given advanced episodes of Square One to review.

Wow, free game on the first episode!

I remember this episode. They must've had it repeat a lot. Took me back when i watched this ever day after school.

Frankly: Maybe he was gonna toss a salad. Store clerk: I thought of that, but he didn't take any dressing. Monday: *smirks* Uh huh... LOL The things you notice only as an adult. ^_^

Been trying to think of this show forever! Childhood reloaded!!!

Excellent but it fails to capture the true horror of infinity.

I watched this show exclusively for Mathnet. Kate Monday, Pat Tuesday, George Frankly.

Of course! A bread sandwich! That's brilliant! :)