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	Watch Mr. Wizard
		Wizard, one of commercial television's early educational efforts was highly successful in making science exciting and understandable for children.
		Wizard to WNBQ-TV, the Chicago outlet for NBC and the series premiered on 3 March 1951, with Herbert as the Wizard and Bruce Lindgren as the first of his young assistants.
		Wizard persona, this soft-spoken, Minnesota-born personality had the ability to communicate and inspire in others his passion for the "fun" to be had with science.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/watchmrwiz/watchmrwiz.htm (1041 words)

	Don Herbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wizard, was the host of two popular television shows about science aimed at children.
		Wizard" was briefly revived by NBC from September 11, 1971 through September 2, 1972.
		Wizard's World", a faster-paced version of his show that was shown three times a week on the cable channel Nickelodeon.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/d/do/don_herbert.html (372 words)

	Don Herbert; as 'Mr. Wizard,' he brought joy of science to TV - The Boston Globe
		Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died yesterday.
		Wizard,' he brought joy of science to TV Don Herbert, known as Mr.
		Wizard," which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Mr.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/06/13/don_herbert_as_mr_wizard_he_brought_joy_of_science_to_tv (567 words)

	Don Herbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herbert was a General Science and English major at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse who was interested in drama, until his career as an actor was interrupted by World War II when he joined the army as a private.
		Wizard and a general science experiments show that utilized the new medium of television.
		Wizard was briefly revived by NBC in the 1971-1972 season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Herbert (473 words)

	Harry Potter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wizard ability is inborn, rather than learned, although one must attend schools such as Hogwarts in order to master and control it.
		He is perhaps one of the most respected men in the wizarding world, holding high ranking positions in both national and international magical government, along with being an accomplished alchemist and master of an assortment of magical disciplines.
		If she does, she intends it to be a sort of encyclopedia of the wizarding world, containing concepts and snippets of information that were not relevant enough to the novels' plots to be included in them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Potter (7261 words)

	Mr. Wizard's World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wizard wuz showin' that kid something in his "lab" (am I the only one who finds the concept of an old man who takes children into his home to introduce them to the "wonders of nature and science" disconcerting?), and the kid said "wicked," which kinda perplexed old Don.
		Wizard was that he didn't dress everything up in sillyness, like the more recent science shows (see Bill Nye's wierd guy in a rat suit); it was just really cool science demonstrations, and the actual science behind them.
		Wizard driving, especially the episode where he's demonstrating to one of the kids how far it would be to stack 1 million sugar cubes together, and he and the kid drive (in his blue cargo van) 10 kilometers away!
	www.jumptheshark.com /m/mrwizardsworld.htm (1736 words)

	Watch Mr. Wizard @ Toonarific Cartoons
		Wizard was a teacher, he needed students, and so the show gathered a group of “neighborhood kids,” who were actually young actors hired to be inquisitive.
		Wizard had file cards with “one-word reminders” on them, most of the dialogue was improvised, although the audience could always count on at least one “Gee, Mr.
		Wizard ran on NBC for fourteen straight seasons from 1951-65, then left the air for several years.
	www.toonarific.com /show.php?show_id=4397 (313 words)

	Watch Mr. Wizard - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wizard covered everything from air travel to sound speed to chemical reactions and much, much more.
		Wizard was a teacher, he needed students, and so the show gathered a group of “neighborhood kids,” who were actually young actors hired to be inquisitive.
		Wizard had file cards with “one-word reminders” on them, most of the dialogue was improvised, although the audience could always count on at least one “Gee, Mr.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/kids/watchmrwizard.htm (326 words)

	Pharyngula Science
		Wizard," which ran each Saturday at noon on NBC from 1951 to 1964, was simplicity itself: the avuncular Mr.
		Wizard" franchise alive with frequent talk-show appearances and revived the show twice, on NBC in 1971 and on Nickelodeon from 1983 to 1990.
		Wizard Studios (http://www.mrwizardstudios.com); the first three volumes are out this month.
	pharyngula.org /index/science/mr_wizard (228 words)

	Remembering Mr. Wizard - A True Inspiration
		Wizard had on science education and me personally, I can’t help but be thankful for his dedication and contagious enthusiasm for learning science.
		Wizard’s Supermarket Science from the shelves this evening for my boys and shared a few stories about one of the special people who inspired me to be a teacher.
		Wizard was, perhaps, the greatest single influence on kids in regard to science.
	www.stevespangler.com /archives/2007/06/12/mourning-the-passing-of-mr-wizard (993 words)

	Classic Nick - Mister Wizard
		Wizard ran on NBC from 1951-1965, then was revived briefly in 1971.
		Wizard sought not make science accessible to everyone, and show kids how to perform scientific tricks with everyday materials, and to encourage them to ask questions about the world around them.
		Wizard never talked down to kids, or underestimated their intelligence.
	www.johnnorrisbrown.com /classic-nick/mrwizard/index.htm (157 words)

	Don Herbert
		Don Herbert was Mr Wizard, the dorky-looking man in a shirt-and-necktie who conducted science experiments on the wildly popular Watch Mr Wizard on NBC in the 1950s and 60s.
		Watch Mr Wizard premiered on Chicago's WNBQ on March 3, 1951, went national on NBC in 1954, and ran until 1965.
		At the peak of the program's popularity, there were thousands of local chapters of the Mr Wizard Science Club, with more than half a million kids as members, and Herbert was added to the cast of the long-running prime time anthology GE Theater with Ronald Reagan.
	www.nndb.com /people/726/000031633 (423 words)

	NSTA :: News Story
		Wizard was briefly revived by NBC from 1971 to 1972 as Mr.
		Wizard.â Spangler writes, âI remember watching him as a kid and being impressed by the fact that while he was amazing, he didnât have a laboratory or wear a lab coat.
		Wizard as a kid back in the 50s, along with Soupy, and the idea of combining these two kinds of on-camera hosts influenced me a lot when we were creating the show.
	www.nsta.org /publications/news/story.aspx?id=53886 (1376 words)

	MAKE: Blog: Don Herbert, 'Mr. Wizard' (July 10, 1917 - June 12, 2007)
		Wizard passing away at the age of 89 today many makers sent in the news and brief comments like "I wouldn't be where I am today without Mr.
		Posted by: dummptyhummpty on June 13, 2007 at 12:07 AM I had watched his program on Nickelodeon as a youth, there was a particular episode about using buttermilk or lemon juice to write a 'secret message' that could be revealed by holding a the note over a candle.
		Posted by: ericcherry on June 13, 2007 at 2:17 AM I had watched his program on Nickelodeon as a youth, there was a particular episode about using buttermilk or lemon juice to write a 'secret message' that could be revealed by holding a the note over a candle.
	www.makezine.com /blog/archive/2007/06/don_herbert_mr_wizard_jul.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 (1109 words)

	Keeping In Contact With Critter: RIP, Mr. Wizard
		Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday.
		Wizard" series, which became a fond baby boomer memory.
		Wizard," which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom.
	single-dads.us /index.cfm/2007/6/12/RIP-Mr-Wizard (206 words)

	The Norman Lear Center
		Wizard would demonstrate some experiment - getting a milk bottle to suck an egg in through its narrow mouth, or combining two clear liquids to make a colored one.
		A couple of years ago, when Don Herbert's company issued a DVD set of his old shows, I seized the chance to interview him for a show I was then hosting on Air America.
		As he indulged my reminiscing about watching him when I was a kid -- "I wanted to be Timmy!" -- he made me feel as though I were the first person who made him endure my nostalgia, and not the umpteenth.
	blog.learcenter.org /2007/06/_what_woodward_and_bernsteins.html (572 words)

	Don Herbert, ‘Mr. Wizard’ to Science Buffs, Dies at 89 - New York Times
		Wizard,” which was aimed at youngsters between 8 and 13, received a Peabody Award in 1953 for young people’s programming.
		Wizard was that he talked to the kids as if they were real people,” said Frank Wilczek, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., in a 1990 interview while recounting informal approaches to teaching science.
		Wizard, misstated the name of the institution in Princeton, N.J., with which the physicist Frank Wilczek was affiliated in 1990, when he was interviewed about informal approaches to teaching science and praised Mr.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/06/13/arts/13herbert.html?ex=1339387200&en=c4908a8b12ec75db&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (989 words)

	TV's "Mr. Wizard" dies (SFScope)
		Wizard," died of bone cancer on 12 June 2007.
		Wizard, was on NBC from 1951 to 1965.
		Wizard was aimed at youngsters between 8 and 13, and won a Peabody Award for young people's programming in 1953.
	sfscope.com /2007/06/tvs-mr-wizard-dies.html (321 words)

	skippy the bush kangaroo: rip mr. wizard
		Wizard; you were pivotal in teaching me the value of learning.
		Wizard Studios is selling at least some episodes on DVD--maybe you can get them from Blockbuster.
		Watch Mr Wizard was about all I did watch back in the B&W day.
	xnerg.blogspot.com /2007/06/rip-mr-wizard.html (604 words)

	Blended Exposures: Watch Mr. Wizard
		Wizard was a United States television program for children in the 1950s, a general science experiments show, that explained the science behind ordinary things.
		Mister Wizard always had some kind of neat laboratory experiment going that was fun to watch and taught something about science.
		Wizard's World, a faster-paced version of the show developed by Don Herbert, was shown three times a week on the cable channel Nickelodeon.
	blendedexposures.blogspot.com /2007/06/watch-mr-wizard.html (644 words)

	Solutions Magazine, Spring 2006 - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
		Wizard, a weekly NBC education show that brought clever experiments and a love of learning in Kinescope across America.
		Wizard science clubs in the U.S. Every week children would sit in front of their fl and white TV sets and watch Mr.
		Wizard was my hero," said Bordelon, a BCM associate professor of cell biology.
	www.bcm.edu /solutions/v2i1/bordelon.html (535 words)

	Don Herbert, 89; TV's 'Mr. Wizard' taught science to young baby boomers - Los Angeles Times
		Wizard" and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday.
		Wizard' Saturday mornings and was just glued to the television," said Nikosey, president of Mr.
		Wizard, Herbert was a true TV star, featured in an array of magazines, including TV Guide, Life, Time, Newsweek, Science Digest, Boy's Life and even Glamour.
	www.latimes.com /news/local/la-me-herbert13jun13,0,7656221.story (667 words)

	Cryptomundo.com » Watch Mr. Wizard No More
		Wizard” was briefly revived by NBC from September 11, 1971 through September 2, 1972.
		Wizard’s World,” a faster-paced version of his show that was shown three times a week on the cable channel Nickelodeon.
		Wizard” is it any surprise that science education is in such a sad state.
	www.cryptomundo.com /cryptozoo-news/mr-wizard-obit (1069 words)

	Veronica Belmont » Mr. Wizard
		Wizard before school–I want to say he came on around 6am, maybe part of that Cable in the Classroom initiative.
		Wizard is learning on his show that you could not fold a piece of paper in half more than eight times.
		Wizard back in the 50’s when I was just a wee tike (4 or 5) shortly after the show started to originate out of NYC (I lived in north Jersey at the time).
	www.veronicabelmont.com /2007/06/mr-wizard (976 words)

	Mr. Wizard / Don Herbert Mr. Wizard
		Wizard," especially if they're adults because, after all, the show was on from 1951 through '65 back in the NBC days.
		Wizard," they say, "Of course." Quite a few people recognize me by my voice, which is unusual, I think.
		But the fact that two, three million would watch a show based on science to me was a complement in itself.
	tvparty.com /lostmrwizard.html (3445 words)

	'Mr Wizard' dies, 89
		Don Herbert, who as TV's 'Mr Wizard' was responsible for exciting millions of children in the US about science in the 1950s and 60s, died on Tuesday aged 89.
		His simply presented weekly show, "Watch Mr Wizard," in which he used the "magic" of simple science experiments to spark interest and explain basic principles, spawned thousands of science clubs across the US with more than 100,000 members.
		Starting in 1951, "Watch Mr Wizard" was broadcast by NBC and ran for 14 years.
	www.firstscience.tv /blog/science-tv-blog/mr-wizard-dies-89.html (344 words)

	What's New
		Wizard' television series broadcast nationally on the NBC network form 1951 to 1965.
		Wizard became a household name for millions of Americans from the beginning of television through the inventive 60's.
		Wizard, along with a child helper, explored the magic and mystery of science in everyday living.
	www.olvs.org /index_int.asp?pageid=1671 (407 words)

	Nation & World \| "Mr. Wizard," had a formula to hook kids, dies at 89 \| Seattle Times Newspaper
		Wizard" and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday.
		Wizard" — broadcast live from Chicago on Saturdays the first few years and then from New York — ran for 14 years.
		Wizard" was revived on NBC in 1971 for a season, and "Mr.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003745404_mrwizardobit13.html (616 words)

	TV's Mr. Wizard Dies at Age 89 - Associated Content
		Wizard and the child would conduct science experiments that seemed impossible at first glance, but by the end of the show, the viewer would know how to recreate it at home.
		Wizard's World," which was broadcast on Nickelodeon between 1983 and 1990, was modeled after "Watch Mr.
		Wizard's World," told CNN, "He really taught kids how to use the thinking skills of a scientist." Jacobs was the "science sidekick" to Mr.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/279694/tvs_mr_wizard_dies_at_age_89.html (603 words)

	Digg - Stephen Colbert's tribute to Mr. Wizard
		Wizard, Stephen performs one of his trademark science tricks.
		I used to watch his show all the time when I was a kid.
		We'll see some more 'wizards' stepping forward once the Christian Fundamentalist war on science is concluded and the fundies lose.
	digg.com /videos/comedy/Stephen_Colbert_s_tribute_to_Mr_Wizard (486 words)

	‘Mr. Wizard’ to receive honorary degree from Dearborn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wizard,” will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from U-M-Dearborn at its commencement exercises on April 24.
		Wizard,” which was broadcast each week from 1955 to 1965 on the NBC network, featured Herbert and a young boy or girl conducting scientific experiments with ordinary household items.
		Wizard,” to be shown on the Nickelodeon cable channel.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/9394/Mar14_94/6.htm (238 words)

	Watch Mr Wizard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although it featured children, Watch Mr Wizard was entertaining for all ages and was recognised as being one of pioneers of educational television.
		Despite this Mr Wizard was a strong and wholesome brand.
		It wasn't long before he was back on the air with Mr Wizard Close-ups followed some years later by various shows recorded for the Nickelodeon children's channel.
	www.bygonetv.com /shows/watch_mr_wizard.htm (609 words)

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