3-2-1 Contact was an American educational program which aired on PBS from 1980 to 1992. The show, a production of the Children's Television Workshop, taught scientific principles and their applications. One segment featured The Bloodhound Gang, a group of junior detectives who used science to solve crimes.
The show spawned a print magazine of the same name that also focused on science. In the late 1980s, the magazine absorbed some of the content of sibling publication Enter, which included computer programs written in the BASIC computer language. Later, it occasionally featured content from Square One television as well, another CTW production. Under Sesame Workshop the magazine later became Contact Kids, removing the original reference to the television show. Production was suspended indefinitely in 2001.
Though the show went off the air in 1992, it appeared in reruns from 1999 to 2003 on the cable television network Noggin, a joint venture of CTW and Nickelodeon. The rating is TV-Y7 (possibly due to the target audience).
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