High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 3-2-1 Contact is an American science educational television show that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, and an adjoining children`s magazine. The show, a production of the Children`s Television Workshop, teaches scientific principles and their applications. Dr. Edward G. Atkins, who was responsible for much of the scientific content of the show, felt that the TV program wouldn`t replace a classroom but would open the viewers to ask questions about the scientific purpose of things.