AskAScienceBlogger: Best Science Show of All Time? I think the answer is obvious: 321 Contact

By purepedantry on October 23, 2006.

Ask a ScienceBlogger inquires:

What's the best science TV show of all time?...

I think that is pretty obvious. The answer is obviously my favorite science show from when I was a kid: 3-2-1 Contact

Not only did it have the best do-it-yourself science for young people, but it had a great 80s science montage as opening music. I can still to this day sing this song from memory.

<singing>"Contact is the secret, is the moment, when everything happens. Contact..."</singing>

A video of the opening music is below the fold:

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