Mr. Wizard’s World. The latter show aired repeatedly during the day on Nickelodeon, one of the eleven channels my house got at the time. (Damn kids these days with their endless content on tiny ...

Diane Bullock and Mike Schuster have now made a second supercut of Mr. Wizard being a dick to kids during the show’s 78-episode run on Nickelodeon. The show also inspired one of my favorite TV ...

Even if you didn’t see “Watch Mr. Wizard,” the TV show that aired from 1951 to 1965 and was briefly revived in the 1970s and ’80s, even if you never thrilled to any of the wild science ...

Don Herbert was known to his fans as Mr. Wizard, star of the Watch Mr. Wizard show. Long before Mythbusters, Herbert made common household items seem magical every Saturday at noon on NBC ...

From 1951 to 1965, Herbert hosted “Watch Mr. Wizard,” a half-hour weekly show. Broadcast from his garage studio, the program was geared towards children, but kids weren’t his only fans.

Some of his shows featured early computing technology as well as show-and-tells about fiber optics. We still use fiber optics today. Mr. Wizard was active up to and through, the Internet age.

Don Herbert, known as Mr. Wizard, died Tuesday in suburban Los Angeles. He was 89. His TV show, Watch Mr. Wizard, was produced from 1951 to 1964. He taught millions of kids to think like scientists.

In 1965, NBC announced it would be canceling Watch Mr. Wizard. The show had run its course, the network claimed, and audiences were increasingly looking at television as an empty-calorie prospect ...

With almost 550 live broadcasts, the show ran through 1965, winning praise from scientific organizations and earning Mr. Wizard the image of a permanent ambassador from the world of science.

"He would talk to the kids like real people." Venson works some of Mr. Wizard's style into his stage show. He asks 7-year-old Megan Davies to smell vinegar to prove that it's real. He gives 8-year ...