4 ms·

I don't know about anyone else, but listening to the theme song of 3-2-1 Contact just brings me back to coming back from school afternoons, or lazy days in summ

I don't know about anyone else, but listening to the theme song of 3-2-1 Contact just brings me back to coming back from school afternoons, or lazy days in summer as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-LEBc2sO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-LEBc2sO8 By the way, listening now, this song still impresses me. Every single measure in the main part, while sounding repeated, has a slight rhythmic or instrumental variation from the previous one, maybe to keep you on your toes. Very clever. And pure 1980s... Oh what a simpler time we enjoyed growing up.

0des 5y ago
Most of the episodes for 3-2-1 Contact as well as Mr Wizard and other classics are on YouTube now, which is great!
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- uptownfunk 5y ago
  I was just remembering Mr. Wizard today! A show I haven't thought about in decades.. the synchronicity!
russellbeattie 5y ago
I am now humming that song from memory. I LOVED watching 3-2-1 contact after school. But as a parent, I can tell you that it's sooo much better growing up today. We had to have shows like that dribbled out to us on a daily basis, and learning stopped after the 30 minutes were over and the McNeil Lehrer News Hour would start. Today, kids have access to that kind of programming any time they want, on various screens, in never ending quantities. Any question can be answered without a trip to the library or reading decades old information out of whatever volume of World Book Encyclopedia your family had on hand. It was simpler when we were younger because our world was so much smaller.
xbar 5y ago
I feel it, too. I associate 3-2-1 Contact with its associated print magazine, in particular the issue that highlighted the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
tclancy 5y ago
Man, there was one episode of the detective show on that which scared me every time it came on.
- mattcwilson 5y ago
  The person clad in black spandex, with toilet paper rolls on their head that they unspooled to communicate. I dunno what the heck about that did it, but maaaaan did that freak me out as a kid.
  - DerekL 5y ago
    That sounds like one of the bits performed by Mummenschanz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mummenschanz https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mummenschanz
SavantIdiot 5y ago
I fell into a YouTube hole watching 321 a while ago. I was almost too old for it when it came out, but they had some slick computer stuff: like the Bell labs speech synthesis, and learning to program a TI. FYI: there's an episode that documents recording the soundtrack. There is ZERO narration, it just cuts to different instruments and vocalists recording their tracks, and the producer and sound mixer working on the balance. It was exceptional in that it didn't spoon-feed, it showed.

0des 5y ago

Most of the episodes for 3-2-1 Contact as well as Mr Wizard and other classics are on YouTube now, which is great!

deleted 5y ago
[deleted]
uptownfunk 5y ago
I was just remembering Mr. Wizard today! A show I haven't thought about in decades.. the synchronicity!

russellbeattie 5y ago

I am now humming that song from memory. I LOVED watching 3-2-1 contact after school. But as a parent, I can tell you that it's sooo much better growing up today. We had to have shows like that dribbled out to us on a daily basis, and learning stopped after the 30 minutes were over and the McNeil Lehrer News Hour would start. Today, kids have access to that kind of programming any time they want, on various screens, in never ending quantities. Any question can be answered without a trip to the library or reading decades old information out of whatever volume of World Book Encyclopedia your family had on hand. It was simpler when we were younger because our world was so much smaller.

xbar 5y ago

I feel it, too. I associate 3-2-1 Contact with its associated print magazine, in particular the issue that highlighted the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

tclancy 5y ago

Man, there was one episode of the detective show on that which scared me every time it came on.

mattcwilson 5y ago
The person clad in black spandex, with toilet paper rolls on their head that they unspooled to communicate. I dunno what the heck about that did it, but maaaaan did that freak me out as a kid.
- DerekL 5y ago
  That sounds like one of the bits performed by Mummenschanz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mummenschanz https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Mummenschanz

SavantIdiot 5y ago

I fell into a YouTube hole watching 321 a while ago. I was almost too old for it when it came out, but they had some slick computer stuff: like the Bell labs speech synthesis, and learning to program a TI. FYI: there's an episode that documents recording the soundtrack. There is ZERO narration, it just cuts to different instruments and vocalists recording their tracks, and the producer and sound mixer working on the balance. It was exceptional in that it didn't spoon-feed, it showed.