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Mathnet

Season 2 1988

  • 1988-09-19T04:00:00Z on PBS
  • 1h
  • 6h (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
"The story you are about to see is a fib, but it's short. The names are made up, but the problems are real." MATHNET Founded 1985 "to cogitate and to solve" From 1987 through 1992, Mathnet was the most consistent element of Square One TV„¢. Mathnet was a creation of the Children's Television Workshop (as it was then called). Mathnet was a Dragnet parody, produced by Janette Webb (Jack's widow). These five-part serials consisted of the Mathnet team, a branch of a big-city police department (Los Angeles' in the first fourteen mysteries, New York's in the last sixteen) confronting a crime, working their way through it, and eventually getting a notch on their calculators. The Mathnet mysteries always appeared at the end of Square One TV.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1988-09-19T04:00:00Z

2x01 The Case of the Willing Parrot

Season Premiere

2x01 The Case of the Willing Parrot

  • 1988-09-19T04:00:00Z1h

Los Angeles, September 1988. For two months, the number of stolen cars in the area has skyrocketed. An estimated 20,000 cars have gone missing–permanently. Amidst all the data, Kate and George do find certain ""preferences"" in what kind of cars are stolen. But can they figure out what has happened to the cars?

Los Angeles, September 1988. For two months, the number of stolen cars in the area has skyrocketed. An estimated 20,000 cars have gone missing–permanently. Amidst all the data, Kate and George do find certain ""preferences"" in what kind of cars are stolen. But can they figure out what has happened to the cars?

2x03 The Case of the Deceptive Data

  • 1988-10-03T04:00:00Z1h

Los Angeles, 1988. A shocking development in the rapidly-deteriorating TV scene: The Mike Pliers Show has been canceled. The leader of the Mike Pliers Fan Club wants to know the truth behind its axing. With the Mathnetters at her side, she learns that it all comes down to ratings and Nielsen boxes. But these numbers don't add up to what they say.

2x04 The View from the Rear Terrace

  • 1988-10-10T04:00:00Z1h

Los Angeles, 1988. Kate is out with an injured foot, leaving George Frankly to investigate a strange set of pranks. One by one, a different brand of bank falls prey to a prank, and the hoodlum responsible leaves a poetic note on a bank slip. But there's more to the caper than that, as Kate telephones in to say she has looked through the rear terrace. She has seen someone working on plastique bombs.

2x05 The Case of the Missing Air

  • 1988-10-17T04:00:00Z1h

Kate and George need to figure out the common factors to a chain of robberies, in which the thief was talking like a duck. The thief turns out to be a controversial radio talk show host who robs stores that pulled their ads from his station.

Season Finale

1988-10-24T04:00:00Z

2x06 The Case of the Map With A Gap

Season Finale

2x06 The Case of the Map With A Gap

  • 1988-10-24T04:00:00Z1h

Kate and George go out to the desert with a young cowboy to find a buried treasure of gold, using the help of angles and mirrors.

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