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Category: Fun • Science Education
Posted on: October 20, 2006 8:25 AM, by Coturnix
What's the best science TV show of all time?
This one's easy: Dont' Ask Me, 1970s BBC show starring Magnus Pyke, 
David Bellamy 
and Miriam Stoppard 
(and occasionally some other people). Absolutely the best of all time!
Update: Thanks to Brandon, you can see a short clip:
That is actually one of the weakest and tamest I remember. You should have seen where Magnus explains coriolis force, or quicksand!
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Comments
Aaah. Magnus Pike - the reason I'm a food scientist today. Wave those hands about 'cos science is very exciting.
The Beeb had (and still has) some great science shows: Horizon, Tomorrow's World, all the David Attenborough and other nature shows. Patrick Moore on the Sky at Night.
All reasons that I became a scientist.
Posted by: Lab Cat | October 20, 2006 9:53 AM
How on earth do you know of Magnus Pike? I barely know of him and I'm British. I remember Tommorrows world in the early 80's, but I dont think your that old either.
Posted by: guthrie | October 20, 2006 6:55 PM
You'll like this, then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aumctMrhsI
Posted by: Brandon | October 21, 2006 12:23 AM
The series ran on Belgrade TV in the 1980s and everybody watched it and commented on it the next day.
Posted by: coturnix | October 21, 2006 12:33 AM
Let me remaind you: optical illusion with "big" Bellamy and "little" Pyke in room, why chimeny breaks when falls, what is sound in finger cracking, can you break a glass with singers voice, why honey curves when falling...
Posted by: coki | May 17, 2007 7:55 AM