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The Worst Episodes of Mathnet

Every episode of Mathnet ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Mathnet!

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...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Problem Of The Missing Baseball" is the worst rated episode of "Mathnet". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/26/1987. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Problem Of The Missing Monkey".

  • The Problem Of The Missing Baseball
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    #1 - The Problem Of The Missing Baseball

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/1987

    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.

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  • The Problem Of The Missing Monkey
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    #2 - The Problem Of The Missing Monkey

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/1987

    Los Angeles, 1986. A grocery store is robbed of 20 pounds of bananas, the first of several heists apparently done by a gorilla. When the L.A. Zoo reports a gorilla missing, Kate and George are convinced he is the guilty party. Only the gorilla's friend, a teenage girl named Jane, stands to the gorilla's defense.

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  • The Problem Of The Passing Parade
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    #3 - The Problem Of The Passing Parade

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/9/1987

    Santa Monica, 1986. After the Mathnetters help estimate the crowd at a parade honoring rock star and Burbank native son Steve Stringbean, they get word Stringbean has been kidnapped. His buddy Rimshot helps Kate and George immensely on the pursuit of the kidnappers. One strange lead is a badly-written march called 75 Trombones.

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  • The Trial Of George Frankly
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    #4 - The Trial Of George Frankly

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/1987

    Los Angeles, May 1986. George Frankly comes back from a week in the Great North Woods. He has just heard of a robbery at the Next to the Last National Bank three days before. When he and Kate look at the bank's videotape recording of the robbery, they see the impossible: George is doing the heist. Evidence piles up against George as his preliminary hearing looms. George knows he is innocent, as does Kate. But can they prove it?

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  • The Problem Of The Dirty Money
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    #5 - The Problem Of The Dirty Money

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/1987

    Glendale, 1986. Three truck drivers call within six hours to report that their dump trucks full of dirt have been stolen. Initially, this ""Case of the Missing Dirt"" turns up a long-lost tale about Merle Fish, the man who pulled off the Finks Armored Truck Robbery in 1965. Rumor had it he had an accomplice who took the money and left the country. This is all explained in a book written by the fishy Norman Mailbag.

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  • The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon
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    #6 - The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/1987

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  • The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger
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    #7 - The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1987

    L.A. County, April 1985. Two crimes start separately, but merge a few days later. Multi-talented Hans Ballpeen is kidnapped for one of his special skills. Before they can bear down on this case, Kate and George must help with the delivery of an oak hamburger to the mansion of tycoon Orson Kane. Within a day, Kane reports that one of his prized possessions, the Despair Diamond, has been stolen.

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  • The Case of the Great Car Robbery
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    #8 - The Case of the Great Car Robbery

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1988

    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?

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  • The Case of the Deceptive Data
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    #9 - The Case of the Deceptive Data

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1988

    Los Angeles, 1988. A shocking development in the rapidly-deteriorating TV scene: The Mike Pliers Show has been canceled. The leader of the Mike Pliers Fan Club wants to know the truth behind its axing. With the Mathnetters at her side, she learns that it all comes down to ratings and Nielsen boxes. But these numbers don't add up to what they say.

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  • The Case of the Swami Scam
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    #10 - The Case of the Swami Scam

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1990

    New York City, November 1988. Kate and George have just moved in to the Mathnet division at NYPD, with a new chief and a new ally, cabdriver Benny Pill. As they are fresh off ""The Case of the Ersatz Earthquake,"" Kate and George are well-prepared to hear about another prognosticator. This guy worked long hours to swindle five prominent city lawyers out of a few thousand bucks by predicting the results of a horse race.

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  • Despair in Monterey Bay
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    #11 - Despair in Monterey Bay

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1992

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  • The Case of the Calpurnian Kugel Caper
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    #12 - The Case of the Calpurnian Kugel Caper

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1991

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  • The Case of the Smart Dummy
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    #13 - The Case of the Smart Dummy

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1992

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  • The Case: Off The Record
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    #14 - The Case: Off The Record

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1992

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  • The Case of the Bermuda Triangle
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    #15 - The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1992

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  • The Case of the Piggy Banker
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    #16 - The Case of the Piggy Banker

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1992

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  • The Case of the Mystery Weekend
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    #17 - The Case of the Mystery Weekend

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1992

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