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1	Shows that attempt to teach valuable science lessons in the basic format of a SaturdayMorningKidsShow or SketchComedy. Usually, each episode is focused on a specific field. The host of such a show is often an endearing MadScientist type in a lab coat.
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3	A common format is that the audience/viewers are invited to ask questions about science and the show's resident experts set about to answer them, typically in the most entertaining way possible.
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5	Very common in TheEighties, when making educational programs had major benefits under Reagan administration policy. (See AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.)
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7	The EdutainmentShow is its parent trope, the ExperimentShow is a common form of it.
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10	!!Examples:
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12	* ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy''
13	* ''Series/BlastLab''
14	* ''[[Series/BeakmansWorld Beakman's World]]''
15	* ''Series/CestPasSorcier'', a French show with one or two hosts who go in the field and a second/third one who stays in his lab explaining things with models.
16	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cro}}''
17	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHatKnowsALotAboutThat''
18	* ''Series/TheCuriosityShow'' is an Aussie example.
19	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' began as this combined with a history show. Considering that it now involves fighting alien cyborgs with 'scientific' terms like [[TechnoBabble "instantaneous biological meta-crisis"]] you can see that its experienced something of a GenreShift in the last 50 years.
20	* ''Don't Ask Me'', a 1970s UK series with professional crazy scientist Magnus Pyke.
21	* ''Series/LookUp''
22	* ''Series/WatchMrWizard''
23	** Briefly parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.
24	** Repeatedly parodied as a ShowWithinAShow in ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}''. ("Ask Mr. Lizard")
25	** In the science fiction book ''[[Literature/LadyAstronaut The Calculating Stars]]'', Don Herbert repeatedly invites the protagonist (who he knows from [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII his time in the Air Force]]) to appear on Mr. Wizard.
26	* ''Series/MysteryHunters'', which showed the science that can be used to explain paranormal activities.
27	* ''Newton's Apple''
28	* ''Not Another Science Show''
29	* ''WesternAnimation/ScienceCourt'' (later ''Squigglevision'')
30	* ''Series/SquareOneTV'', but with mathematics instead of science.
31	* [[JustForFun/XMeetsY Mixed]] with CookingShow to create Alton Brown's ''Series/GoodEats''.
32	* ''[[Series/ThreeTwoOneContact 3-2-1 Contact]]'', a ReTool of ''The Curiosity Show'' for American audiences.
33	* Creator/TheBBC series ''Tomorrows World'' ran for over 30 years.
34	* ''Owl/TV''
35	* ''WesternAnimation/SidTheScienceKid'', aimed at preschoolers
36	* Some shows are aimed at young adults rather than children, e.g. ''Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse'', ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''.
37	* Parodied by Radio/BobAndRay in the "Mr. Science" skits.
38	* ''Anime/MarieAndGali'' is a rare Japanese example. Its view on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature Curie temperature]] is highly creative, to say the least.
39	* Definitely at the hard science end are ''Rough Science'' and ''Science Shack'', by The Open University.
40	* ''Wonder Why'', appearing at the beginning of 1990s.
41	* ''Series/{{Oddities}}''
42	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xu-loBmhRY Science Time with Susan Tieman]]'' is what it would look like if [[{{VideoGame/Portal}} Aperture Science]] made one.
43	* ''[[Series/ScienceWhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What Could Possibly Go Wrong]]?''
44	* Fictional example: ''Professor Proton'', a ShowWithinAShow on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and its spin-off ''Series/YoungSheldon''.
45	* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' with the "Ask Dr. Stupid" segments.
46	* WGBH invited Creator/IsaacAsimov, Creator/JohnHansen, and Creator/DavidOWoodbury to present on the importance of clear communication for science and technical ideas. So Dr Asimov wrote "Literature/InsertKnobAInHoleB" during the show.
47	* ''Manga/DrStone'' is another Japanese example. Its premise has OmnidisciplinaryScientist and TeenGenius Senku wake up in a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has regressed to the Stone Age, and Senku strives to bring living conditions back up to the 21st century. In doing so, he re-invents or re-discovers all of humanity's key achievements, such as iron, electricity, the internal combustion engine, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications, and the narrative demonstrates how Senku does each of these with the resources he has. In the process, it also indirectly demonstrates that humanity's knowledge of science is cumulative, and that even breakthroughs as simple as stoves and basic agriculture require other breakthroughs to be created first.[[note]]Incidentally, those two ideas, when combined, create another breakthrough in human society: bread.[[/note]]
48	* ''Radio/TheInfiniteMonkeyCage'' is a comedy science panel discussion aimed at adults.
49	* ''Emily's Wonder Lab'', a kid's science show hosted by science communicator and former MIT engineer Emily Calandrelli.
50	* ''Sine'skewla'', a Filipino series produced by Creator/{{ABSCBN}} that ran during TheNineties and [[TurnOfTheMillennium The 2000s]].
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