Long before Bill Nye the Science Guy, How Stuff Works and Mythbusters, there was Mr. Wizard. Don Herbert, who was Mr. Wizard, passed on yesterday at 89. If you are over a certain age, you will ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An experiment began on March 3, 1951, in the studios of what is today NBC-5 in Chicago. The question it sought to answer was: Could television use ...

In the 1950s, it was unusual for television programs to address the topic of sex. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo slept in separate beds on I Love Lucy. Both were forbidden by network standards to even use the ...

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for a later generation of ...

Jules Power, who helped break the mold of cartoonish children’s shows in the early days of television by producing programs that entranced youngsters with basic science and allowed them to roam the ...

Forget Harry Potter; when it comes to the real-life magic that is the wonder of science, the only real game in town is a mysterious and benevolent marvel known far and wide throughout the land as the ...

The tornado machine is turning a lot of little heads at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, where the new "Science of Oz" show features other cool stuff like the Tin Man blood-pumping-heart ...

Growing up I watched a series called “Watch Mr. Wizard” on television. The kids show ran on NBC from 1951 to 1965 and featured Don Herbert. He conducted science experiments on the air that we could do ...

Don Herbert, better known to generations of TV viewers as Mr. Wizard, died yesterday at the age of 89. The cause was multiple myeloma. From the 1950s through to the 80s, Herbert brought science to the ...

At the very same time during the 1950s that some young women wondered why they should study science when all they wanted to do was get married, and magazines aimed at teen girls and women did their ...

Students at Battles Elementary School in Santa Maria were shown the magic of science by a real-life “wizard” on Wednesday. David Hagerman, better known as the “Science Wizard,” made a stop at the ...