Man, I remember that episode. A pencil, pin, some tape and construction paper shaped into a cone.

RIP Mr. Wizard. :sad:

 

I'm also Canadian.


Which can mean one of two things also. He NEVER made it to Canada TV... or he made it to Canada TV a few years later, syndicated in Canada with past shows.

 

I did but I was the one that watched it. Every morning because school.

The ones I vividly remember is the Clock from potatoes, breaking a yardstick using only newspaper, and cutting ice with fishing line.

 

And the ibeam bridge, the big bubbles....ah, the list goes on and on

 

Old school Nick show (Can't Do That On TV era Nick)... which apparently was based off an even older show.. I never knew that part. h:

Not a lot of pics:

 

I guess I was too young and was living in the PI at the time to remember or know

 

Bahahhahaha! I remember being with that one!

It wasn't too long after I got in trouble for breaking all my mother's yard sticks. :lmao:

 

:rofl: that's fantastic

 

RIP.

I wish that all of my teachers growing up had the same passion and caring about teaching as he showed.

 

I remember him being with a kid or two at a time and they would work on various experiments. He would go step by step of what's happening, why it's happening, and how he did it. I vaguely remember his show but I used to watch it early in the morning before school when I was young. He was