Loved the show and also the magazine.
I also can still remember the close up microscope pictures.
I still remember when Newton’s Apple had a scientist use the skeleton from the show and reconstruct what the person looked like when they were alive.
I also remember them inducing hypothermia on a dude to show how it affects the human body. They had him get in super, super cold water.
Another great show.
I remember it, and I remember loving it.
I also remember its prdecessor in time slot, “ZOOM.” My wife and I just finished watching South Park Season 14 on DVD, and one of the episodes (“Insheepshon”) mentions it, and she had never heard of it. (She’s 5 years younger than me.)
THAT makes me feel old.
Another sucker for 3-2-1 Contact! I’d accuse it for my interest in science. I loved their theme song, and still sing it obnoxiously every once in a while to annoy my wife and kids. 
I couldn’t stand the Bloodhound Gang, though. I’d suffer through it, but even at the time found it boring compared to the rest of the show.
I used to watch every science show I could, actually. Square One, Mr. Wizard, Mr. Goodbody, Beakman’s World, Bill Nye the Science Guy… so yeh, up into my adult life I’d watch this stuff (although, I was a parent by the time Beakman and Nye were on the air).
Every chance I get, I like to point out that Don Herbert(Mr. Wizard) lived right by us and my Mom and I used to sometimes see him at the grocery store and so forth. Very nice guy; never minded if people came up to him to talk science. 
YES! I loved that show, but hardly any one remembers it when I bring it up. Most of them confuse it with The Electric Company (which was, IMHO, much better in its 70-80’s incarnation than the current one.)
The theme song still gives me shivers. 
As soon as I read the thread title the theme song slammed into my head where I suspect it will remain for at least all day today.
I think the people who don’t remember it may have been playing outside…
Losers.
I remember the show, but it seems like they repeated episodes so often that I got tired of it pretty quickly.
Did the actor who portrayed Slim Goodbody ever do his character in recent times? Would he now be called Fat Oldbody?
And what special superpowers did he have? It seems like missing skin for most of his body and missing muscles for half would result in an existence of unending, indescribable agony. Maybe his power is ignoring pain or missing pain receptors?
But then he couldn’t feel much pleasure either. And it must be a bummer to have missing genitals. Maybe he dated Dr Holly Goodhead?
He never stopped! Still working, touring schools, making shorts and books and CD’s. He did find some time in the last 20 years to visit a hair salon, though.
Still looking pretty good, actually. I think he’s a man who practices what he preaches.
Count me in as another who loved the show, loved the focus on science, and still remembers the theme song. 
Awesome! I would’ve told him how much he inspired science in my life, and because of his show, I knew what burning hair smells like at the tender age of 11 as I tried to replicate one of his experiments and burnt my eyebrows clean off. (Trying to create a mini hot air balloon… I failed. And almost set my parent’s house on fire. Don’t tell them.)
I wish this show was available on DVD 
I remember it…but barely.
I definitely know the show existed…and I vaguely remember the theme song.
So I will count myself in the “knows it” group.
One of my favorite shows as a kid. My favorite segment was the liquid nitrogen. Freezing a rubber ball and then shattering it on the floor - awesome!
Same here. It was a catchy tune.
Aside from the opening theme song, my only memory of the show now is a particular cartoon showing what it would be like to travel into the far, far future. I believe YouTube has it these days, somewhere. There’s a boy and his dog sitting on a hillside, watching as the days and nights whip by, then seasons, then years, then ages and ages.
For a while, the only reason I was watching 3-2-1 Contact was for the chance to see this cartoon again. Not that I disliked the show, but I was otherwise a little old for it.
I remember the show. I had a crush on one of the boys, big time. I don’t remember if it was the kid who was my age or the kid who was older (his older brother?)
I was more of a Square One fan, tho…which is weird because I love science more than math. But Square One was so f’n clever!
I got the magazine, also called “3-2-1 Contact.” And Ranger Rick.
I’m pretty sure I watched the show sometimes, but we weren’t allowed much tv.