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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[Creator/SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' previously tried to engage young viewers in reading and how ''Series/SquareOneTV'' would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[Creator/SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' previously tried to engage young viewers in reading and how ''Series/SquareOneTV'' would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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* CatchPhrase: Whenever the gang gets a call at the office, they answer the phone with "Whenever there's trouble we're there on the double. Mr. Bloodhound isn't here."

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* CatchPhrase: Whenever the gang gets a call at the office, they answer the phone with "Whenever there's trouble trouble, we're there on the double. Mr. Bloodhound isn't here."



* InvisibleWriting: There's a story called "The Case of the Secret Message" in which they find an old lady's stolen purse and discover that it only contains a seemingly blank piece of paper. The Gang suspects invisible ink, but have to go through various methods to find out like heating it to expose lemon juice writing, which doesn't work. Eventually, the way to expose the writing is to rub pencil graphite on the paper to expose the secret writing, which was written in salt water.

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* InvisibleWriting: There's a story called In "The Case of the Secret Message" in which they Message," the Gang find an old lady's a stolen purse and discover that it only contains a seemingly blank piece of paper. The Gang suspects invisible ink, but have to go through various methods to find so they set out like heating it to expose lemon juice writing, discover how to reveal the message. They eventually discover that the invisible ink was concentrated salt water, which doesn't work. Eventually, the way to expose the writing is to rub pencil revealed when a soft graphite on pencil is rubbed over the paper to expose the secret writing, which was written in salt water.writing.


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* UndercoverCopReveal: In "The Case of Princess Tomorrow," one of a group of gamblers turned out to be a bunco squad cop who was investigating the titular character, who was promoted as a psychic.
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* IconicOutfit: Vikki's red windbreaker.
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* CatchPhrase: Whenever the gang gets a call at the office, they answer the phone with "Whenever there's trouble we're there on the double. Mr. Bloodhound isn't here."


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* TheGhost: Mr. Bloodhound, the team's employer, is never seen. Even in the episode where he's kidnapped.
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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[Creator/SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' previously tried to engage young viewers in reading and what ''Series/SquareOneTV'' would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[Creator/SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' previously tried to engage young viewers in reading and what how ''Series/SquareOneTV'' would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.
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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop,]] was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/SquareOneTV'' would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop [[Creator/SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop,]] Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' previously tried to engage young viewers in reading and what ''Series/SquareOneTV'' would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The show explains why giant insects a la ''Film/{{Them}}'' are simply not possible.

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The show [[SquareCubeLaw explains why why]] giant insects a la ''Film/{{Them}}'' are simply not possible.
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However, the most popular section was "The Bloodhound Gang'', about a private detective agency staffed primarily by [[KidDetective kids]] due to the seemingly perpetual absence of their boss, Mr. Bloodhound. In a world where [[AdultsAreUseless nearly every adult other than the arresting police officers appears to be a gullible idiot]], the young sleuths find themselves busting frauds and other nonviolent crimes all around them with their knowledge of science (and, in one case, communication -- in one episode, the Gang visits a diner and the waitress appears able to read minds -- until TheReveal, which shows that it was all due to non-verbal hand-signals used commonly by the staff of many diners).

The show also had a tie-in magazine that ran about ten years longer than the original series (although it became rechristened as ''Contact Kids'' near the end of its publication).

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However, the most popular section was "The Bloodhound Gang'', about a private detective agency staffed primarily by [[KidDetective kids]] due to the seemingly perpetual absence of their boss, Mr. Bloodhound. In a world where [[AdultsAreUseless nearly every adult other than the arresting police officers appears to be a gullible idiot]], the young sleuths find themselves busting frauds and other nonviolent crimes all around them with their knowledge of science (and, - and, in one case, communication -- in episode, communication. (In one episode, the Gang visits a diner and the waitress appears able to read minds -- minds... until TheReveal, which shows that it was all due to non-verbal hand-signals hand signals used commonly by the staff of many diners).

diner staff.)

The show also had a tie-in magazine that which ran about ten years longer than the original series (although series, although it became rechristened as ''Contact Kids'' near the end of its publication).
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In 1992, A new spin-off series debuted as ''3-2-1 Classroom Contact''.

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In 1992, A a new spin-off series debuted as ''3-2-1 Classroom Contact''.



* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The show explains why giant insects ala ''Film/{{Them}}'' are simply not possible.

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The show explains why giant insects ala a la ''Film/{{Them}}'' are simply not possible.



* {{Retool}}: The first version was of three college-age kids and a fancy college studyhouse, then there was a second version with younger kids in a plain basement playroom. The show was retooled a second time in 1986 (season 5), being hosted by David Quinn and taking place mainly on-location.
* SesameStreetCred - The first version had short spots of various stars and media characters explaining various scientific facts.

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* {{Retool}}: The first version was of three college-age kids and a fancy college studyhouse, study house, then there was a second version with younger kids in a plain basement playroom. The show was retooled a second time in 1986 (season 5), being hosted by David Quinn and taking place mainly on-location.
* SesameStreetCred - SesameStreetCred: The first version had short spots of various stars and media characters explaining various scientific facts.



!!The Bloodhound Gang episodes has its own tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: Outside of the arrest police officers, most of the honest adults are gullible idiots.

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!!The Bloodhound Gang episodes sub-show has its own tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: Outside of the arrest arresting police officers, most of the honest adults are gullible idiots.



* InvisibleWriting: There's a story called "The Case of the Secret Message" in which they find an old lady's stolen purse and finds that it only has a seemingly blank piece of paper. The Gang suspects invisible ink, but have to go through various methods to find out like heating it to expose lemon juice writing, which doesn't work. Eventually, the way to expose the writing is it to rub pencil graphite on the paper to expose the secret writing that was written in salt water.

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* InvisibleWriting: There's a story called "The Case of the Secret Message" in which they find an old lady's stolen purse and finds discover that it only has contains a seemingly blank piece of paper. The Gang suspects invisible ink, but have to go through various methods to find out like heating it to expose lemon juice writing, which doesn't work. Eventually, the way to expose the writing is it to rub pencil graphite on the paper to expose the secret writing that writing, which was written in salt water.



* ShowWithinAShow: "The Bloodhound Gang".
* YouMeddlingKids: The caught villains often ask "Who are these meddling kids?"

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* ShowWithinAShow: "The Bloodhound Gang".
Gang."
* YouMeddlingKids: The caught captured villains often ask ask, "Who are these meddling kids?"
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* TitleThemeTune: ''3! 2! 1! Contact is the secret, is the moment...''
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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop,]] was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/SquareOneTV'' attempted to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop,]] was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science, the same way ''Series/SquareOneTV'' attempted would later attempt to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.
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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop,]] was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop,]] was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science.science, the same way ''Series/SquareOneTV'' attempted to engage young viewers in mathematics. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.
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In 1992, A new spin-off series debut as ''3-2-1 Classroom Contact''.

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In 1992, A new spin-off series debut debuted as ''3-2-1 Classroom Contact''.
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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop]], Workshop,]] was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.
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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

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This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[SesameWorkshop [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.
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In 1992, A new spin-off series debut as ''3-2-1 Classroom Contact''.

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The Bloodhound Gang episodes has its own tropes:

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Bloodhound Gang episodes has its own tropes:


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* InvisibleWriting: There's a story called "The Case of the Secret Message" in which they find an old lady's stolen purse and finds that it only has a seemingly blank piece of paper. The Gang suspects invisible ink, but have to go through various methods to find out like heating it to expose lemon juice writing, which doesn't work. Eventually, the way to expose the writing is it to rub pencil graphite on the paper to expose the secret writing that was written in salt water.
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* YouMeddlingKids: The caught villains often ask "Who are these meddling kids?"
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* AdultsAreUseless: Outside of the arrest police officers, most of the honest adults are gullible idiots.

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* ScoobyDooHoax: The Bloodhound Gang exposed a few of these.


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The Bloodhound Gang episodes has its own tropes:

* {{Gaslighting}}: "The Case of the Cackling Ghost" was discovered to be primarily this.
* KidDetective: The staff of the Bloodhound Detective Agency is primarily this.
* ScoobyDooHoax: The Bloodhound Gang exposed a few of these.
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However, the most popular section was "The Bloodhound Gang'', about a private detective agency staffed primarily by [[KidDetective kids]] due to the seemingly perpetual absence of their boss, Mr. Bloodhound. In a world where nearly every adult other than the arresting police officers appears to be a gullible idiot, the young sleuths find themselves busting frauds and other nonviolent crimes all around them with their knowledge of science (and, in one case, communication -- in one episode, the Gang visits a diner and the waitress appears able to read minds -- until TheReveal, which shows that it was all due to non-verbal hand-signals used commonly by the staff of many diners).

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However, the most popular section was "The Bloodhound Gang'', about a private detective agency staffed primarily by [[KidDetective kids]] due to the seemingly perpetual absence of their boss, Mr. Bloodhound. In a world where [[AdultsAreUseless nearly every adult other than the arresting police officers appears to be a gullible idiot, idiot]], the young sleuths find themselves busting frauds and other nonviolent crimes all around them with their knowledge of science (and, in one case, communication -- in one episode, the Gang visits a diner and the waitress appears able to read minds -- until TheReveal, which shows that it was all due to non-verbal hand-signals used commonly by the staff of many diners).
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-->'''Chart:''' Dumb

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-->'''Chart:''' DumbDumb.



* ShowWithinAShow: "The Bloodhound Gang"

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* ShowWithinAShow: "The Bloodhound Gang"Gang".
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* CosmeticHorror: From Marc's point of view, this is PlayedForLaughs and for [[EdutainmentShow edutainment]] purposes when he has makeup applied to show how he would look as an elderly man.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Jim Boyd of TheElectricCompany had a recurring role in the first season as a friend to the teens.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: CrackIsCheaper if you're going for the VHS releases, and you can forget about DVD.
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* RandomTransportation: A regular feature in the magazine based on the show was "The Time Team" stories, in which modern teenagers Sean and Jenny have a hand-held "tachyon machine" that transports them to various locations in time. However, they can't predict where the machine will take them, and it has to recharge before they can reactivate it to go back home.
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Nothing to do with [[Film/{{Contact}} the 1997 movie with Jodie Foster]]. The rock/hip-hop band "Music/TheBloodhoundGang" did [[{{homage}} get their name from here]], however.

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Nothing to do with [[Film/{{Contact}} the 1997 movie with Jodie Foster]]. The rock/hip-hop band "Music/TheBloodhoundGang" "Music/BloodhoundGang" did [[{{homage}} get their name from here]], however.
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Nothing to do with [[Film/{{Contact}} the 1997 movie with Jodie Foster]].

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Nothing to do with [[Film/{{Contact}} the 1997 movie with Jodie Foster]].
Foster]]. The rock/hip-hop band "Music/TheBloodhoundGang" did [[{{homage}} get their name from here]], however.
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* SesameWorkshop: Produced this show.



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-->-- Opening theme

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-->-- Opening --Opening theme
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->''3! 2! 1! Contact is the secret, is the moment/When everything happens!''

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->''3! ->''"3! 2! 1! Contact is the secret, is the moment/When everything happens!''happens!"''\\
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[[caption-width-right:304:"Let's make contact!"]]

->''3! 2! 1! Contact is the secret, is the moment/When everything happens!''
-->-- Opening theme

This Creator/{{PBS}} series, created by the [[SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]], was the CTW's 1980s attempt to engage young viewers in science. The original series lasted from January, 1980 to November, 1988. Edited versions of older episodes were broadcast to 1992.

To that end, ''3-2-1 Contact'' took the equivalent format of ''Series/SesameStreet'' and adjusted it for a preteen audience with comedy sketches, cartoons as well as demonstrations of scientific principles not only on the set, but also in filmed segments in which the hosts went around America to explore interesting things about science.

However, the most popular section was "The Bloodhound Gang'', about a private detective agency staffed primarily by [[KidDetective kids]] due to the seemingly perpetual absence of their boss, Mr. Bloodhound. In a world where nearly every adult other than the arresting police officers appears to be a gullible idiot, the young sleuths find themselves busting frauds and other nonviolent crimes all around them with their knowledge of science (and, in one case, communication -- in one episode, the Gang visits a diner and the waitress appears able to read minds -- until TheReveal, which shows that it was all due to non-verbal hand-signals used commonly by the staff of many diners).

The show also had a tie-in magazine that ran about ten years longer than the original series (although it became rechristened as ''Contact Kids'' near the end of its publication).

Nothing to do with [[Film/{{Contact}} the 1997 movie with Jodie Foster]].

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!!Tropes featured include:

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The show explains why giant insects ala ''Film/{{Them}}'' are simply not possible.
* AnimateInanimateObject: {{Lampshaded}} in an animated sequence by a chart questioning the smugness of a "smart" scientist explaining human speech.
-->'''Chart:''' Dumb
-->'''Scientist''': What?
-->'''Chart''': Dumb. Charts can't talk. (chart comically rolls up)
* BalloonBurstingBird: The tie-in magazine would publish computer games written in BASIC to run on your computer during TheEighties. One of the games, called "Pop!", carried an illustration of a computer blowing bubble gum and spotting a bird ready to [[BubbleGumPopping pop the bubble]].
* HeyItsThatGuy: Jim Boyd of TheElectricCompany had a recurring role in the first season as a friend to the teens.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: CrackIsCheaper if you're going for the VHS releases, and you can forget about DVD.
* MickeyMousing: The 83-86 version of the intro does this.
* ReCut: A condensed version of the series, titled ''3-2-1 Classroom Contact'', was produced in 1992, after the original series was dropped from syndication.
* {{Retool}}: The first version was of three college-age kids and a fancy college studyhouse, then there was a second version with younger kids in a plain basement playroom. The show was retooled a second time in 1986 (season 5), being hosted by David Quinn and taking place mainly on-location.
* ScoobyDooHoax: The Bloodhound Gang exposed a few of these.
* SesameWorkshop: Produced this show.
* SesameStreetCred - The first version had short spots of various stars and media characters explaining various scientific facts.
** And yes, Big Bird did appear once.
* ShowWithinAShow: "The Bloodhound Gang"
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