Mathnet
1987
📺 5 Seasons
🎬 30 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
Mathnet is a segment on the children's television show Square One Television, of which five seasons were produced. This parody of Dragnet featured detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department who solved mysteries using their mathematical skills. There were two main characters: detectives Kate Monday and George Frankly. Mary Watson also had a regular role as the duo's technical analyst, Debbie Williams. The third season had the show's setting moved to New York City. Beginning in the fourth season, Kate Monday was replaced by Pat Tuesday. James Earl Jones played a recurring role as Chief Thad Green. He also briefly appears in season 4 and indicates he knows Pat Tuesday. When the duo was transferred to New York, Captain Joe Greco became their new boss and undercover NYPD officer Benny Pill became their semi-regular backup support.
Seasons
Season 1
Burbank, summer 1985. Young Howie and his friends have lost a baseball belonging to Howie's father. It's a unique baseball in that it has Babe Ruth's autograph. Kate and George determine, through mathematical and physical laws, that the ball entered a house. Apparently Mrs. McGregor left her door open when she left for the store. So the valuable baseball is in Mrs. McGregor's house. When Kate and George call her the next day, they learn her house has been stolen.
Season 2
Los Angeles, September 1988. For two months, the number of stolen cars in the area has skyrocketed. An estimated 20,000 cars have gone missing–permanently. Amidst all the data, Kate and George do find certain ""preferences"" in what kind of cars are stolen. But can they figure out what has happened to the cars?
Season 3
Los Angeles, fall 1988. For some time, a ""prognosticator"" named Sybil Divine has been exposing her apparent ability to predict earthquakes. She intends to extort money from L.A. Mayor Quail [sic] with her big scam. Everyone in town is convinced she can predict the big quake that will rock Southern California within the next half-century. Assistant Chief Rosa Morales knows better, as do Kate and George. They must prove it.
Season 4
Rivervale, New Jersey, 1991. In the minor leagues, a journeyman baseball player attempts to attract every major club's attention. Roy (Lefty) Cobb is hitting a ball at 143 miles per hour for a wicked batting average. A sneaky agent is following him everywhere, or, more correctly, Cobb is following him. Pat Tuesday, George's new partner, gets to meet Cobb on the field, thanks to his good friend, who plays a game of number sequences with him. But those aren't number sequences. They are codes.
Season 5
Network
PBS
Production
Children's Television Workshop, The Entertainment Group, TurtleBack Productions