Newton's Apple

Newton's Apple is an American educational television program produced and developed by KTCA, and distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran from 1983 to 1999. The show's title is based on the rumor of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree and an apple falling near him—or, more popularly, on his head—prompting him to ponder what makes things fall, leading to the development of his theory of gravitation. The show was produced by Twin Cities Public Television. For most of the run, the show's theme song was Ruckzuck by Kraftwerk, later remixed by Absolute Music. Later episodes of the show featured an original song. An occasional short feature appeared called "Science of the Rich and Famous" in which celebrities appeared to explain a science principle.

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Seasons

1. Body Fat-I; Fiberoptics; Fainting Chat; Dolphins

Air Date: 1983-10-15

2. Voiceprints; Curveball; Goosebumps Chat; Hawk

Air Date: 1983-10-22

3. Astronaut Training; Hand: Fall Asleep; Clouded Leopard

Air Date: 1983-10-29

4. Hypnosis; Sky Blue; Seeing Stars Chat; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1983-11-05

5. Visual Cliff; Heart; Ears Pop Chat; Wolves

Air Date: 1983-11-12

6. Video Games; Holograms; Funnybone Chat; Onions & Tears Chat

Air Date: 1983-11-19

7. Color Blindness; Taste Buds; Black Hole Chat

Air Date: 1983-11-26

8. Digital Sound; Eggs; Teeth Chatter Chat; Camel

Air Date: 1983-12-03

9. Ultrasound; Spacesuit; Knuckles Crack Chat; Porcupine

Air Date: 1983-12-10

10. Robots; X-Terrestrials; Headaches Chat; Parrots-I

Air Date: 1983-12-17

11. Wagon Wheel; Prosthetics; Armadillo

Air Date: 1983-12-24

12. Police Radar; Voice Synthesis; Skin/Wrinkles Chat; Snake and Lizard

Air Date: 1983-12-31

13. Karate; Lightning; Tears Chat; Oppossum

Air Date: 1984-01-07

1. Mummies; Bicycles; Helium Chat; Owl

Air Date: 1984-10-13

2. Hot-Air Balloons; Hearing; Side Stitch Chat; Beluga Whales

Air Date: 1984-10-20

3. Fire; Artificial Heart; Penguins

Air Date: 1984-10-27

4. Lie Detector; Golf Balls; Hiccup Chat; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1984-11-03

5. Imploding Buildings; Snoring; Stomach Growl Chat; Walrus

Air Date: 1984-11-10

6. Computer Graphics; Smell; Tarantula Chat; Inventors Fair

Air Date: 1984-11-17

7. Pain; Optical Illusions; Wine Glass Sing Chat; Iguana

Air Date: 1984-11-24

8. Electricity; Vision; Tennis Elbow Chat; Bubbles

Air Date: 1984-12-01

9. Thermography; Voice; Yawn Chat; Pronghorn

Air Date: 1984-12-08

10. Car Crash; Allergies; Blush Chat; Reindeer

Air Date: 1984-12-15

11. Sports Clinics; Radioactivity; Acne Chat; Baby Tigers

Air Date: 1984-12-22

12. Space Shuttle

Air Date: 1984-12-29

13. Balance; Cooking; Scientists Disagree; Eagle

Air Date: 1985-01-05

1. Earnie; Rainbow; Popcorn Chat; Pygmy Hippo

Air Date: 1985-10-12

2. Dinosaurs; Bullet Proof Vest; Heartburn Chat; Killer Whales

Air Date: 1985-10-19

3. Space Shuttle; Rube Goldberg; Crazy Inventions

Air Date: 1985-10-26

4. Chimp Communication; The Bends; Sweating Chat; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1985-11-02

5. Boomerangs; Cooking Chemistry; Bears

Air Date: 1985-11-09

6. Comets; Perpetual Motion; Warts Chat; Sharks

Air Date: 1985-11-16

7. FBI; Stomach; Llama

Air Date: 1985-11-23

8. Cancer; Tennis Racquets; Sneezing Chat; Badger

Air Date: 1985-11-30

9. Punting A Football; Color; Jet Lag Chat; Sea Lions

Air Date: 1985-12-07

10. Muscles And Bones; Einstein; Falling Stars Chat; Raptor Center

Air Date: 1985-12-14

11. Earthquakes; Lungs; Bats

Air Date: 1985-12-21

12. Headaches; Eggs/Equinox; Hot Pepper Chat; Inventors Fair; Lion

Air Date: 1985-12-28

13. Singing In The Shower; Calories; Sun Tanning Chat; Patagonian Cavy

Air Date: 1986-01-04

1. Flight Trainers; Snake Bite; Hedgehoh Chat; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1986-10-11

2. Caves; Lasers; Skin Wrinkle Chat; Whale Birth

Air Date: 1986-10-18

3. Hypothermia; Moon; Voice Change Chat; Yak

Air Date: 1986-10-25

4. Sponges; Bed of Nails; Probability; Pelicans

Air Date: 1986-11-01

5. Bees; Blood Pressure; Bruises Chat; Hiccups

Air Date: 1986-11-08

6. Telescopes; Food Myths; Manatee

Air Date: 1986-11-15

7. Fossil Dig; Mirrors; Frostbite Chat; Elephants

Air Date: 1986-11-22

8. Wind Blow; Baldness; Soda Pop Fizz Chat; Cranes

Air Date: 1986-11-29

9. Alcohol; Helium Balloons; Backache Chat; Roller Coaster; Snow Monkeys

Air Date: 1986-12-06

10. Diabetes; Frozen Food; Flat Feet Chat; Battery Inventions; Alligators

Air Date: 1986-12-13

11. Immune System; Skiing; Blimp; Beaver

Air Date: 1986-12-20

12. Pterodactyl; Rube Goldberg; Black Box Chat; Quickies

Air Date: 1986-12-27

13. Baseball Bats; Polarized Light; Dreams Chat; Inventors Fair; Falcon

Air Date: 1987-01-03

1. Plastic Surgery; High-Speed Bicycles; Lemons; Alling Whale

Air Date: 1987-10-10

2. Treasure Diving; Blackboard Chat; Lemons; Mothballs & Wintergreen

Air Date: 1987-10-17

3. Polar Expedition; Inventors Fair; Sea Otter

Air Date: 1987-10-24

4. Submarine; Budgies In A Truck; Uvula Chat; Lemons; Sea World Science Day

Air Date: 1987-10-31

5. Tornado; Exploratorium; Laryngitis Chat; Lemons; Beach Science

Air Date: 1987-11-07

6. Neon Lights; Rube Goldberg; Aspirin Chat; Lemons; Puffins

Air Date: 1987-11-14

7. MRI; Segment Update; Stars Twinkle Chat; Lemons; Kitchen Science

Air Date: 1987-11-21

8. Cavities; Snowflakes; Reflexes Chat; Lemons; Artic Fox

Air Date: 1987-11-28

9. Cocaine Addiction; Laundry Science; Lemons; Sled Dogs

Air Date: 1987-12-05

10. Child Development; Bridges; Lemons; Octopus

Air Date: 1987-12-12

11. Sailing; Skin Lotion Chat; Lemons; Jelly Fish

Air Date: 1987-12-19

12. Bureau Of Standards; Gravity Contest; Upset Stomach Chat; Lemons; Kelp Forest

Air Date: 1987-12-26

13. Gymnastics; Computer Vision; Lemons; Golden Monkeys

Air Date: 1988-01-02

1. Skydiving; Facial Symmetry; Lemons; Baby Orangutans

Air Date: 1988-10-15

2. ILM-Movie Creatures; Cholesterol; Lemons; Suntan; Vulture

Air Date: 1988-10-22

3. Microsurgery; Strobes; Coordination Chat; Lemons; Aardvark

Air Date: 1988-10-29

4. Air Traffic Control; Feet; Bell Curves; Tracking Bears

Air Date: 1988-11-05

5. Clouds; Rube Goldberg; Skin Itch Chat; Home Runs; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1988-11-12

6. Woods Holeâ€“Lobster; Woods Holeâ€“Cell Division; Woods Hole 3

Air Date: 1988-11-19

7. Rockets; CPR Chat; Inventors Fair; Lemons; Aerosol Sprays; Cow

Air Date: 1988-11-26

8. Fireworks; Papermaking; Gas Chat; Lemons; Slow Loris

Air Date: 1988-12-03

9. Insomnia; Electron Microscope; Lemons; Exponentials; Giraffe

Air Date: 1988-12-10

10. Liquid Nitrogen; Dolphins; Superconductivity Chat; Lemons; Insects

Air Date: 1988-12-17

11. Synthesizers; Maple Syruping; Non-Stick Pans; Wind Chill Chat; Lemons; Serval

Air Date: 1988-12-24

12. Magnets; Forest Fires; Night Blindness Chat; Lynx

Air Date: 1988-12-31

13. Horse Jumping; Toys in Space; Dust Bunnies; Carnivorous Plants; Lemons; Toucan

Air Date: 1989-01-07

1. Roller Coaster; Quicksand; Jelly-Side Down; Lemons; White Tiger

Air Date: 1989-10-14

2. Bee Stings; Bowling; High-Speed Elevator; Lemons; Boa

Air Date: 1989-10-21

3. Race Cars; Spider Webs; Lemons; Tropical Fish

Air Date: 1989-10-28

4. Rain Forest; Buoyancy; Pouring Catsup; Lemons; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1989-11-04

5. Caffeine; Butterfly Migration; Autumn Leaves; Lemons; Doppler Effect; Sloth

Air Date: 1989-11-11

6. Surfing; Geothermal/Volcanoes; Luau; Sugar Processing; Hawaiian Language; Eel

Air Date: 1989-11-18

7. Whale Watch; Sunspots; Lemons; Skunk

Air Date: 1989-11-25

8. Milky Way; Epilepsy; Lemons; Inventors Fair; Cuttlefish

Air Date: 1989-12-02

9. DNA; Rube Goldberg Contest; Parrot Chat; Chewing Tin Foil; Seahorse

Air Date: 1989-12-09

10. Marathons; Celestial Navigation; Cataracts Chat; Lemons; Echidna

Air Date: 1989-12-16

11. Spinal Cord; Glue; Lemons; Dog Behavior

Air Date: 1989-12-23

12. Cheese; Aging; Appendix Chat; Wolves

Air Date: 1989-12-30

13. Supercomputer; Greenhouse Effect; House Creaking; Owl

Air Date: 1990-01-06

1. Disney-Cartoons; Skateboards; Smothers/Yo-yos; Lemons; Turtles

Air Date: 1990-10-13

2. Juggling; Greenwich; Echoes; Flies

Air Date: 1990-10-20

3. Everglades; Tomorrow's World; Recycling Chat; Everglades Students

Air Date: 1990-10-27

4. Demolition Derby; Stress; Topology Chat; Eagles

Air Date: 1990-11-03

5. Kidney; Steve Allen/Music; Lemons; Swans

Air Date: 1990-11-10

6. Blood; Physics Circus; Faxes; Lemons; Pronghorn

Air Date: 1990-11-17

7. Helicopter; Isaac Newton; Lemons; Koala

Air Date: 1990-11-24

8. Dyes; Billiards; Cheerios; Lemons; Cheetah

Air Date: 1990-12-01

9. Desert Animals; Judo; Salt & Ice; Pigs

Air Date: 1990-12-08

10. Hydro Power; Whitewater Rafting; Mold; Lemons; Weather Proverbs

Air Date: 1990-12-15

11. Wildlife Census; Eggs; Inventors Fair; Stone Crabs

Air Date: 1990-12-22

12. Violins; Voyager; Rube Goldberg; Lemons; Kinkaju

Air Date: 1990-12-29

13. Glaciers; Termites; Lemons; Alligators

Air Date: 1991-01-05

1. Aerobic Exercise; Swimming/Weightlifting; Luge/Skating; Softball/Racewalking

Air Date: 1991-10-12

2. Solar Cars; Steroids; The Amazing Kreskin; Foot Fall Asleep; Miniature Horses

Air Date: 1991-10-19

3. Murder Mystery; Ted Nugent; Bats

Air Date: 1991-10-26

4. Cancer Causes; Frisbees; Computer Virus

Air Date: 1991-11-02

5. Sewers; Cancer Treatments; Dick Cavett; Porcupines

Air Date: 1991-11-09

6. Mapping the Dig Site; Dating the Bones; Assembling Dinosaur

Air Date: 1991-11-16

7. Domed Stadium; Photosynthesis; Polarized Sunglasses; Amusement Park

Air Date: 1991-11-23

8. Tears; Slinky Physics; Barcodes; Aspirin; Camels

Air Date: 1991-11-30

9. Soviet Space; Sky Blue; Inventors Fair; Llamas

Air Date: 1991-12-07

10. Acid Rain; Highjump; Potholes; Goats

Air Date: 1991-12-14

11. Medical Quackery; Microwave Ovens; Dollar Changer; Golden Eagles

Air Date: 1991-12-21

12. Telecommunications; Solar Eclipse; Blimp; Bear Cubs

Air Date: 1991-12-28

13. Hip Replacement; Airbags; Paper Cuts; Potbelly Pigs

Air Date: 1992-01-04

1. Television; Studio Tour; Post-Production; Satellites

Air Date: 1992-10-10

2. Movie Stunts; Household Chemistry; Coffee and Cream; Musk Ox

Air Date: 1992-10-17

3. Election Polls and Surveys; Electric Car; Ceramics; Cougars

Air Date: 1992-10-24

4. Monster Make-Up; Ozone; Rearview Mirrors; Artificial Sweeteners

Air Date: 1992-10-31

5. Oil Spill; Diet & Nutrition; Crystal Gayle; Caribou

Air Date: 1992-11-07

6. Antarctic Journey; Antarctic Penguins; Palmer Station; Krill; Seals

Air Date: 1992-11-14

7. AIDS ; Glass Recycling; Science Challenge; Cement; Wolverine

Air Date: 1992-11-21

8. Cockroaches; Broken Bones; Dentist Chair; Rhinoceros

Air Date: 1992-11-28

9. Omnimax Technology; Archery; Lightbulb; Condors

Air Date: 1992-12-05

10. Aurora Borealis; Air Pressure; Al Gore; Piranha

Air Date: 1992-12-12

11. Traffic Control; Cryogenics; Static Electricity; Russian Kids

Air Date: 1992-12-19

12. Blood Typing; Locks & Dams; Moles; Penguins

Air Date: 1992-12-26

13. Diabetes; Galaxy Mapping; Dweezil Zappa; Ostrich

Air Date: 1993-01-02

1. Rock Climbing; Taste Test; Monty Hall; Baby Bobcats

Air Date: 1993-10-16

2. Emergency Rescue; Black Holes; Pizza; Reindeer

Air Date: 1993-10-23

3. Memory; In Vitro Fertilization; Goose Bumps; Hummingbirds

Air Date: 1993-10-30

4. Newspaper; Bomb Squad; Echoes; Mosquitoes

Air Date: 1993-11-06

5. Jumbo Jets; Meteors; Knuckle Crack; Paper Recycling

Air Date: 1993-11-13

6. Windsurfing; Permafrost; Tumbleweeds; Zebras

Air Date: 1993-11-20

7. Spotted Owls; Carpal Tunnel; Foggy Mirrors; Lizards

Air Date: 1993-11-27

8. Archaeology; Mazes; Dolphins

Air Date: 1993-12-04

9. Firefighting; Dairy Farm; Inventors Fair; Otters

Air Date: 1993-12-11

10. Bison Roundup; Heart Attack; Dead Fingernails; Chile Peppers

Air Date: 1993-12-18

11. The Bends; Compact Disc; Michael York; Wolves

Air Date: 1993-12-25

12. Garbage; Infrared; Shelley Duvall; Polar Bears

Air Date: 1994-01-01

13. Mt. Rushmore; Virtual Reality; Candles; Chimpanzees

Air Date: 1994-01-08

1. Hang Gliding; Karate; Robin Leach; Elephant

Air Date: 1994-10-15

2. Sled Dogs; Arctic Travel; Life in Camp; Arctic Weather

Air Date: 1994-10-22

3. Aircraft Carrier; Brain; Carrier Life

Air Date: 1994-10-29

4. Brain Mapping; Garlic; Sunscreens; Tasmanian Devil

Air Date: 1994-11-05

5. Movie Dinosaurs; Bread Chemistry; Scott Hamilton; Wallaby

Air Date: 1994-11-12

6. Movie Sound Effects; Sun; Globetrotters; Hedgehog

Air Date: 1994-11-19

7. Dinosaur Extinction; Floods; Blue Seas; Siberian Tiger

Air Date: 1994-11-26

8. Internet; Antibiotics; Panning for Gold; Taxidermy

Air Date: 1994-12-03

9. Ethnobotany; Hubble Telescope; Inventors Fair; Komodo Dragons

Air Date: 1994-12-10

10. Raptor Hospital; Photography; Skipping Stones; Snakes

Air Date: 1994-12-17

11. Redwoods; Electricity; Monuments; Red Fox

Air Date: 1994-12-24

12. Printing Money; Gravity; Nature Labs

Air Date: 1994-12-31

13. Bridges; Earthquakes; Chroma-Key; Grizzly Bear

Air Date: 1995-01-07

1. Waterskiing; Reflexes; Escalator; Fat-free Foods

Air Date: 1995-10-14

2. Circus High Wire; Mummies; Bug Spray; Armadillo

Air Date: 1995-10-21

3. Maya Bike Trek; Hearing; Parachutes; Owls

Air Date: 1995-10-28

4. Balloon Safari; Grasslands; Maasai Mara; Mara Animals

Air Date: 1995-11-04

5. Ice Surfing; DNA Fingerprinting; Bubble Gum; Cold Remedies

Air Date: 1995-11-11

6. Aircraft Fire Rescue; Balloons; Knives; Science Home Videos

Air Date: 1995-11-18

7. Simulator Rides; Dolphin Communication; Parade Technology; Laser Show

Air Date: 1995-11-25

8. Hazardous Materials; In-Line Skating; Skin Wrinkling; Compost

Air Date: 1995-12-02

9. Human Slingshot Ride; Bone Marrow; King's Singers; Rotting Foods

Air Date: 1995-12-09

10. Wild Lion Vet; Bicycles; Fish Breathing; Insect Warfare

Air Date: 1995-12-16

11. Equator; Maasai Village; Coffee; Baby Elephants

Air Date: 1995-12-23

12. Bird Songs; Ergonomics; Inventor's Fair; Scorpions

Air Date: 1995-12-30

13. Jungle Survival; Liver; Emus

Air Date: 1996-01-06

1. Spelunking; Human Eye; Betty White; Elks

Air Date: 1996-10-12

2. Sharks; Tattoo; Black Pearls; Coconuts

Air Date: 1996-10-19

3. Riverboats; Body Fat-II; Motorcycle Scientists; Parrots-II

Air Date: 1996-10-26

4. Hypercoaster; Nicotine; Erasers; Dance Scientists

Air Date: 1996-11-02

5. Avalanche Rescue; Prosthetic Limbs; Football Scientist; Popcorn

Air Date: 1996-11-09

6. Inca Engineering; Quipus; Potatoes; Alpacas

Air Date: 1996-11-16

7. Ski Jump; Bee Stings; Fear; Ruminants

Air Date: 1996-11-23

8. Rain Forest Researchers; Snakes; Frogs; Leaf Cutter Ants

Air Date: 1996-11-30

9. Olympics Solar Energy; Soccer; Trumpets; Earthquake Scientist

Air Date: 1996-12-07

10. Malaria Tracking; Clocks; Inventors' Fair; Deformed Frogs

Air Date: 1996-12-14

11. Post Office; Gems; SCI HomeVideo

Air Date: 1996-12-21

12. Ethanol; Bones; Coyotes

Air Date: 1996-12-28

13. Wetlands; Eco-Filtration; Drinking Water; Water Tower

Air Date: 1997-01-04

1. Lost World Dinosaurs; Glaucoma; Research Vet; Enzyme Cleaners

Air Date: 1997-10-11

2. Henrietta Marie; Scuba Kids; Fog; Best Of Inventors' Fair

Air Date: 1997-10-18

3. Goldmine; Phases Of The Moon; Craig T. Nelson; Baby Tiger

Air Date: 1997-10-25

4. Pet Food; The Family Pack; Wishbone; Not-A-Pet; Exotic Pets

Air Date: 1997-11-01

5. White Water Rafting; Asthma; Meteorologist; Wild Horses

Air Date: 1997-11-08

6. Gliders; Suction Cups; Novocaine; Leeches

Air Date: 1997-11-15

7. Wilderness Training; River Kayaking; Glacier Climbing; Summit Bid

Air Date: 1997-11-22

8. Glass Blowing; Smiles; Richard Dean Anderson; Enviro-Archaeology

Air Date: 1997-11-29

9. Mammoth Dig; Greenhouse Effect; Neo-Natologist; Palmer Station

Air Date: 1997-12-06

10. Kids On Mars; Wind Blow; Badlands; Chocolate

Air Date: 1997-12-13

11. Zoo Vet; Car Engines; Can Opener; Walking Sticks

Air Date: 1997-12-20

12. 'Bot Or Not; NASA Robots; Mars VR; Robot Camps

Air Date: 1997-12-27

13. Lightning Bolts; Proteins; Geese; Home Videos

Air Date: 1998-01-03

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Rating

8.0/10

Release Date

1983-10-15

Episodes

195 (15 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

KTCA