Look Around You

Episode 1 covers the basics of mathematics and numerology, including maths in social situations, the largest number, and brain-boosting chewing gum.

Episode 2 explores water, in all its forms.

Episode 3 looks at germs: what they are, how they behave and how they spread.

The series of short films parodying educational and science programmes from the 1970s and 1980s focuses on ghosts.

Episode 5 investigates the properties and behaviour of sulphur.

Episode 6 investigates music, featuring an experiment with a songwriting computer, the Harrington 200 and a music quiz for St Heathen's Grammar School.

Episode 7 finds out about the many facets of iron.

Episode 8 takes a look at the brain. How does it work? What does it look like pickled? What happens when you stick a metal probe in it?

Synthesiser Patel joins the Look Around You team, Peter, Jack, Pealy and Pam, to look at the future today! Marvel at the way music in the future might be made by keyboards called 'synthesisers' that can make just about any sound in the world, except for the bassoon. Find out what we will be listening to in the year 2000 in the Music 2000 contest and don't forget the invention of the week.

Peter, Jack, Pealy and Pam are back in another healthful look at the future. How could Jack be more attractive? See for yourself after he comes to grips with Medibot, a harmonica-playing, qualified plastic surgeon who is also a robot. Pam takes a serious look at cobbles, and Pealy gets her teeth into electronic toothpaste.

The team look at the future of sport. They hear about a wonder serum for long-distance athletes and look at two new hybrid sports, 'Gonnis' and 'Dencing'. They are joined by Ros Lamb, the southport sparrow, Championess, the horse, an Ant Derby and the Jackson clones.

As our lives have become busier, there has been less time for food. However, one solution has been to eat 'fast food', and it seems that Britain's favourite kind of fast food is casserole. The BBC's crack science team get to grips with food, from the latest fully automated casserole restaurant to Slimby's patented weight-loss system. Peter, Jack, Pealy and Pam tuck into another menu from the future.

By the year 1990 there may be up to 10,000 computers in Britain. The Look Around You team prepare you for a computed future with the help of Computer Jones and the most powerful computer in Britain, called Bournemouth. Also in this episode, the first computer designed for women - the Petticoat 5.

The Look Around You Invention of the Year Award comes to you live from BBC Television Centre in Shepherd's Bush, London. Six leading inventors are in the studio hoping to take the big trophy. The finalists include the team behind a machine which can change your sex in minutes, and it will be tested live on the show.HRH Prince Charles will be announcing the winner and awarding the grand prize, always supposing he is not busy somewhere else...