Newton's Apple

First Aired in 1983

Newton's Apple, one of the longest-running series on PBS, relied on viewer questions about science, technology, and nature. The average show usually consisted of two field reports, one studio guest, a nature or wildlife sequence, and (in later seasons) "On The Spot" questions posed to one of the hosts or field reporters. From Season 5 to Season 8, the series also presented "Newton's Lemons," old newsreels of inventions that didn't quite become mainstream.

Given its educational value, Newton's Apple was popular to schools throughout the United States. GPN, a service of The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, acquired video sales rights to the later seasons in 1994, and still sells these programs.

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Episodes:

Season 1:
1. Body Fat-I; Fiberoptics; Fainting Chat; Dolphins
2. Voiceprints; Curveball; Goosebumps Chat; Hawk
3. Astronaut Training; Hand: Fall Asleep; Clouded Leopard
4. Hypnosis; Sky Blue; Seeing Stars Chat; Cold Remedies
5. Visual Cliff; Heart; Ears Pop Chat; Wolves
6. Video Games; Holograms; Funnybone Chat; Onions & Tears Chat
7. Color Blindness; Taste Buds; Black Hole Chat
8. Digital Sound; Eggs; Teeth Chatter Chat; Camel
9. Ultrasound; Spacesuit; Knuckles Crack Chat; Porcupine
10. Robots; X-Terrestrials; Headaches Chat; Parrots-I
11. Wagon Wheel; Prosthetics; Armadillo
12. Police Radar; Voice Synthesis; Skin/Wrinkles Chat; Snake and Lizard
13. Karate; Lightning; Tears Chat; Oppossum

Season 2:
1. Mummies; Bicycles; Helium Chat; Owl
2. Hot-Air Balloons; Hearing; Side Stitch Chat; Beluga Whales
3. Fire; Artificial Heart; Penguins
4. Lie Detector; Golf Balls; Hiccup Chat; Cold Remedies
5. Imploding Buildings; Snoring; Stomach Growl Chat; Walrus
6. Computer Graphics; Smell; Tarantula Chat; Inventors Fair
7. Pain; Optical Illusions; Wine Glass Sing Chat; Iguana
8. Electricity; Vision; Tennis Elbow Chat; Bubbles
9. Thermography; Voice; Yawn Chat; Pronghorn
10. Car Crash; Allergies; Blush Chat; Reindeer
11. Sports Clinics; Radioactivity; Acne Chat; Baby Tigers
12. Space Shuttle
13. Balance; Cooking; Scientists Disagree; Eagle

Season 3:
1. Earnie; Rainbow; Popcorn Chat; Pygmy Hippo
2. Dinosaurs; Bullet Proof Vest; Heartburn Chat; Killer Whales
3. Space Shuttle; Rube Goldberg; Crazy Inventions
4. Chimp Communication; The Bends; Sweating Chat; Cold Remedies
5. Boomerangs; Cooking Chemistry; Bears
6. Comets; Perpetual Motion; Warts Chat; Sharks
7. FBI; Stomach; Llama
8. Cancer; Tennis Racquets; Sneezing Chat; Badger
9. Punting A Football; Color; Jet Lag Chat; Sea Lions
10. Muscles And Bones; Einstein; Falling Stars Chat; Raptor Center
11. Earthquakes; Lungs; Bats
12. Headaches; Eggs/Equinox; Hot Pepper Chat; Inventors Fair; Lion
13. Singing In The Shower; Calories; Sun Tanning Chat; Patagonian Cavy

Season 4:
1. Flight Trainers; Snake Bite; Hedgehoh Chat; Cold Remedies
2. Caves; Lasers; Skin Wrinkle Chat; Whale Birth
3. Hypothermia; Moon; Voice Change Chat; Yak
4. Sponges; Bed of Nails; Probability; Pelicans
5. Bees; Blood Pressure; Bruises Chat; Hiccups
6. Telescopes; Food Myths; Manatee
7. Fossil Dig; Mirrors; Frostbite Chat; Elephants
8. Wind Blow; Baldness; Soda Pop Fizz Chat; Cranes
9. Alcohol; Helium Balloons; Backache Chat; Roller Coaster; Snow Monkeys
10. Diabetes; Frozen Food; Flat Feet Chat; Battery Inventions; Alligators
11. Immune System; Skiing; Blimp; Beaver
12. Pterodactyl; Rube Goldberg; Black Box Chat; Quickies
13. Baseball Bats; Polarized Light; Dreams Chat; Inventors Fair; Falcon

Season 5:
1. Plastic Surgery; High-Speed Bicycles; "Lemons"; Alling Whale
2. Treasure Diving; Blackboard Chat; "Lemons"; Mothballs & Wintergreen
3. Polar Expedition; Inventors Fair; Sea Otter
4. Submarine; Budgies In A Truck; Uvula Chat; "Lemons"; Sea World Science Day
5. Tornado; Exploratorium; Laryngitis Chat; "Lemons"; Beach Science
6. Neon Lights; Rube Goldberg; Aspirin Chat; "Lemons"; Puffins
7. MRI; Segment Update; Stars Twinkle Chat; "Lemons"; Kitchen Science
8. Cavities; Snowflakes; Reflexes Chat; "Lemons"; Artic Fox
9. Cocaine Addiction; Laundry Science; "Lemons"; Sled Dogs
10. Child Development; Bridges; "Lemons"; Octopus
11. Sailing; Skin Lotion Chat; "Lemons"; Jelly Fish
12. Bureau Of Standards; Gravity Contest; Upset Stomach Chat; "Lemons"; Kelp Forest
13. Gymnastics; Computer Vision; "Lemons"; Golden Monkeys

Season 6:
1. Skydiving; Facial Symmetry; "Lemons"; Baby Orangutans
2. ILM-Movie Creatures; Cholesterol; "Lemons"; Suntan; Vulture
3. Microsurgery; Strobes; Coordination Chat; "Lemons"; Aardvark
4. Air Traffic Control; Feet; Bell Curves; Tracking Bears
5. Clouds; Rube Goldberg; Skin Itch Chat; Home Runs; Cold Remedies
6. Woods Hole–Lobster; Woods Hole–Cell Division; Woods Hole 3
7. Rockets; CPR Chat; Inventors Fair; "Lemons"; Aerosol Sprays; Cow
8. Fireworks; Papermaking; Gas Chat; "Lemons"; Slow Loris
9. Insomnia; Electron Microscope; "Lemons"; Exponentials; Giraffe
10. Liquid Nitrogen; Dolphins; Superconductivity Chat; "Lemons"; Insects
11. Synthesizers; Maple Syruping; Non-Stick Pans; Wind Chill Chat; "Lemons"; Serval
12. Magnets; Forest Fires; Night Blindness Chat; Lynx
13. Horse Jumping; Toys in Space; Dust Bunnies; Carnivorous Plants; Lemons; Toucan

Season 7:
1. Roller Coaster; Quicksand; Jelly-Side Down; "Lemons"; White Tiger
2. Bee Stings; Bowling; High-Speed Elevator; "Lemons"; Boa
3. Race Cars; Spider Webs; "Lemons"; Tropical Fish
4. Rain Forest; Buoyancy; Pouring Catsup; "Lemons"; Cold Remedies
5. Caffeine; Butterfly Migration; Autumn Leaves; "Lemons"; Doppler Effect; Sloth
6. Surfing; Geothermal/Volcanoes; Luau; Sugar Processing; Hawaiian Language; Eel
7. Whale Watch; Sunspots; "Lemons"; Skunk
8. Milky Way; Epilepsy; "Lemons"; Inventors Fair; Cuttlefish
9. DNA; Rube Goldberg Contest; Parrot Chat; Chewing Tin Foil; Seahorse
10. Marathons; Celestial Navigation; Cataracts Chat; "Lemons"; Echidna
11. Spinal Cord; Glue; "Lemons"; Dog Behavior
12. Cheese; Aging; Appendix Chat; Wolves
13. Supercomputer; Greenhouse Effect; House Creaking; Owl

Season 8:
1. Disney-Cartoons; Skateboards; Smothers/Yo-yos; "Lemons"; Turtles
2. Juggling; Greenwich; Echoes; Flies
3. Everglades; Tomorrow's World; Recycling Chat; Everglades Students
4. Demolition Derby; Stress; Topology Chat; Eagles
5. Kidney; Steve Allen/Music; "Lemons"; Swans
6. Blood; Physics Circus; Faxes; "Lemons"; Pronghorn
7. Helicopter; Isaac Newton; "Lemons"; Koala
8. Dyes; Billiards; Cheerios; "Lemons"; Cheetah
9. Desert Animals; Judo; Salt & Ice; Pigs
10. Hydro Power; Whitewater Rafting; Mold; "Lemons"; Weather Proverbs
11. Wildlife Census; Eggs; Inventors Fair; Stone Crabs
12. Violins; Voyager; Rube Goldberg; "Lemons"; Kinkaju
13. Glaciers; Termites; "Lemons"; Alligators

Season 9:
1. Aerobic Exercise; Swimming/Weightlifting; Luge/Skating; Softball/Racewalking
2. Solar Cars; Steroids; The Amazing Kreskin; Foot Fall Asleep; Miniature Horses
3. Murder Mystery; Ted Nugent; Bats
4. Cancer Causes; Frisbees; Computer Virus
5. Sewers; Cancer Treatments; Dick Cavett; Porcupines
6. Mapping the Dig Site; Dating the Bones; Assembling Dinosaur
7. Domed Stadium; Photosynthesis; Polarized Sunglasses; Amusement Park
8. Tears; Slinky Physics; Barcodes; Aspirin; Camels
9. Soviet Space; Sky Blue; Inventors Fair; Llamas
10. Acid Rain; Highjump; Potholes; Goats
11. Medical Quackery; Microwave Ovens; Dollar Changer; Golden Eagles
12. Telecommunications; Solar Eclipse; Blimp; Bear Cubs
13. Hip Replacement; Airbags; Paper Cuts; Potbelly Pigs

Season 10:
1. Television; Studio Tour; Post-Production; Satellites
2. Movie Stunts; Household Chemistry; Coffee and Cream; Musk Ox
3. Election Polls and Surveys; Electric Car; Ceramics; Cougars
4. Monster Make-Up; Ozone; Rearview Mirrors; Artificial Sweeteners
5. Oil Spill; Diet & Nutrition; Crystal Gayle; Caribou
6. Antarctic Journey; Antarctic Penguins; Palmer Station; Krill; Seals
7. AIDS ; Glass Recycling; Science Challenge; Cement; Wolverine
8. Cockroaches; Broken Bones; Dentist Chair; Rhinoceros
9. Omnimax Technology; Archery; Lightbulb; Condors
10. Aurora Borealis; Air Pressure; Al Gore; Piranha
11. Traffic Control; Cryogenics; Static Electricity; Russian Kids
12. Blood Typing; Locks & Dams; Moles; Penguins
13. Diabetes; Galaxy Mapping; Dweezil Zappa; Ostrich

Season 11:
1. Rock Climbing; Taste Test; Monty Hall; Baby Bobcats
2. Emergency Rescue; Black Holes; Pizza; Reindeer
3. Memory; In Vitro Fertilization; Goose Bumps; Hummingbirds
4. Newspaper; Bomb Squad; Echoes; Mosquitoes
5. Jumbo Jets; Meteors; Knuckle Crack; Paper Recycling
6. Windsurfing; Permafrost; Tumbleweeds; Zebras
7. Spotted Owls; Carpal Tunnel; Foggy Mirrors; Lizards
8. Archaeology; Mazes; Dolphins
9. Firefighting; Dairy Farm; Inventors Fair; Otters
10. Bison Roundup; Heart Attack; Dead Fingernails; Chile Peppers
11. The Bends; Compact Disc; Michael York; Wolves
12. Garbage; Infrared; Shelley Duvall; Polar Bears
13. Mt. Rushmore; Virtual Reality; Candles; Chimpanzees

Season 12:
1. Hang Gliding; Karate; Robin Leach; Elephant
2. Sled Dogs; Arctic Travel; Life in Camp; Arctic Weather
3. Aircraft Carrier; Brain; Carrier Life
4. Brain Mapping; Garlic; Sunscreens; Tasmanian Devil
5. Movie Dinosaurs; Bread Chemistry; Scott Hamilton; Wallaby
6. Movie Sound Effects; Sun; Globetrotters; Hedgehog
7. Dinosaur Extinction; Floods; Blue Seas; Siberian Tiger
8. Internet; Antibiotics; Panning for Gold; Taxidermy
9. Ethnobotany; Hubble Telescope; Inventors Fair; Komodo Dragons
10. Raptor Hospital; Photography; Skipping Stones; Snakes
11. Redwoods; Electricity; Monuments; Red Fox
12. Printing Money; Gravity; Nature Labs
13. Bridges; Earthquakes; Chroma-Key; Grizzly Bear

Season 13:
1. Waterskiing; Reflexes; Escalator; Fat-free Foods
2. Circus High Wire; Mummies; Bug Spray; Armadillo
3. Maya Bike Trek; Hearing; Parachutes; Owls
4. Balloon Safari; Grasslands; Maasai Mara; Mara Animals
5. Ice Surfing; DNA Fingerprinting; Bubble Gum; Cold Remedies
6. Aircraft Fire Rescue; Balloons; Knives; Science Home Videos
7. Simulator Rides; Dolphin Communication; Parade Technology; Laser Show
8. Hazardous Materials; In-Line Skating; Skin Wrinkling; Compost
9. Human Slingshot Ride; Bone Marrow; King's Singers; Rotting Foods
10. Wild Lion Vet; Bicycles; Fish Breathing; Insect Warfare
11. Equator; Maasai Village; Coffee; Baby Elephants
12. Bird Songs; Ergonomics; Inventor's Fair; Scorpions
13. Jungle Survival; Liver; Emus

Season 14:
1. Spelunking; Human Eye; Betty White; Elks
2. Sharks; Tattoo; Black Pearls; Coconuts
3. Riverboats; Body Fat-II; Motorcycle Scientists; Parrots-II
4. Hypercoaster; Nicotine; Erasers; Dance Scientists
5. Avalanche Rescue; Prosthetic Limbs; Football Scientist; Popcorn
6. Inca Engineering; Quipus; Potatoes; Alpacas
7. Ski Jump; Bee Stings; Fear; Ruminants
8. Rain Forest Researchers; Snakes; Frogs; Leaf Cutter Ants
9. Olympics Solar Energy; Soccer; Trumpets; Earthquake Scientist
10. Malaria Tracking; Clocks; Inventors' Fair; Deformed Frogs
11. Post Office; Gems; SCI HomeVideo
12. Ethanol; Bones; Coyotes
13. Wetlands; Eco-Filtration; Drinking Water; Water Tower

Season 15:
1. Lost World Dinosaurs; Glaucoma; Research Vet; Enzyme Cleaners
2. Henrietta Marie; Scuba Kids; Fog; Best Of Inventors' Fair
3. Goldmine; Phases Of The Moon; Craig T. Nelson; Baby Tiger
4. Pet Food; The Family Pack; Wishbone; Not-A-Pet; Exotic Pets
5. White Water Rafting; Asthma; Meteorologist; Wild Horses
6. Gliders; Suction Cups; Novocaine; Leeches
7. Wilderness Training; River Kayaking; Glacier Climbing; Summit Bid
8. Glass Blowing; Smiles; Richard Dean Anderson; Enviro-Archaeology
9. Mammoth Dig; Greenhouse Effect; Neo-Natologist; Palmer Station
10. Kids On Mars; Wind Blow; Badlands; Chocolate
11. Zoo Vet; Car Engines; Can Opener; Walking Sticks
12. 'Bot Or Not; NASA Robots; Mars VR; Robot Camps
13. Lightning Bolts; Proteins; Geese; Home Videos

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