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[1978] Think of a Number - Science series presented by Johnny Ball.

First episode: Johnny Ball, with the help of a studio audience, will show some mind-stretching models, blistering ballistics, lightning calculations and some shocking ways to store your energy - and let it go.

youtube.com/watch?v=0LTcnPI41L

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]1977] Think of a Number - Science series presented by Johnny Ball. It was envisaged as a light-hearted puzzle show, but developed to become, in the days before the phrase 'infotainment' was coined, a genuine factual series, billed as 'a light-hearted exploration of science and number'. Pilot episode.

youtube.com/watch?v=c3j3ON5LZa

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Didn't see all of Think Of A Number but what I did see was fantastic. Definitely lived up to its reputation.

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"W12 8QT" klaxon. That postcode was and still is seared into my brain.

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I wonder if anyone remembered to pick up that gold bar that he left lying on that lass's legs. Maybe she just took it home with her!

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Some of the hairstyles and clothes fashions in this '70s episode of on are a bit... Wow, they have not aged well.

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The Think Of A Number studio is a a sea of 70s-tastic yellow/orange/beige and shiny silver.

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Ahh the days before any kind of computerised captions or displays. Everything that needed to be shown had to be written down and then revealed using ... a cunning system of flaps!

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The entire set is in various shades of orange and brown. This would have been so so fashionable in the 1970s!

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Johnny Ball is BRILLIANT.

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OMG is showing an old episode of . I am here for this.

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Historical Television Website · @htw
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'2p or not 2p'. GROAN.

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Still early use of ASCII art there in the titles.

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Historical Television Website · @htw
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All well and good, but now it's the thing I've really been looking forward to. Think Of A Number, presented by Johnny Ball who is one of a small number of presenters who could legitimately be described as 'legendary'.

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