Mathnet, a segment on Square One and spoof of Dragnet, featured detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department who solved mysteries using their mathematical skills. There were two main characters: detectives Kate Monday (Beverly Leech) and George Frankly (Joe Howard). Later on in the series, Kate Monday was replaced by Pat Tuesday (Toni DiBuono) after the show's setting moved to New York City in the third season. James Earl Jones played a recurring role as the chief Thad Green. He also briefly appears in season 4 and indicates he knows Pat Tuesday. When the duo was transferred to New York, Captain Joe Greco (Emilio Del Pozo) became their leader.

Each segment of the series aired on one episode of Square One, a production of the Children's Television Workshop aimed at teaching math skills to young viewers. Five segments made up an episode (one for each weekday), with suspense building at the end of each segment. A Mathnet comic briefly appeared in 3-2-1 Contact magazine, also a CTW production, but the magazine eventually stopped featuring Square One content.

Mathnet and Square One went off the air in 1994, reappearing from 1999-2003 on the cable television network Noggin, a joint venture of Nickelodeon and CTW.

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I do! That show was da bomb! RT @marielfd: who remembers MATHNET! http://bit.ly/czHQ0
SBomm (No Rhyme Or Reason) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:02:44 -0000
I do! That show was da bomb! RT @marielfd: who remembers MATHNET! http://bit.ly/czHQ0
@Moeskido Mathnet was my fave on the show: http://bit.ly/i4nxf
secondglantz (Cheryl) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:38:31 -0000
@Moeskido Mathnet was my fave on the show: http://bit.ly/i4nxf
Haha random memory: who remembers square one tv & mathnet!? Such good tv!!!
eml45 (emilie) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:47:05 -0000
Haha random memory: who remembers square one tv & mathnet!? Such good tv!!!
I heart NUMB3RS. It reminds me of Mathnet. I need a holster for my calculator.
adriennejscott (adriennejscott) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:43:59 -0000
I heart NUMB3RS. It reminds me of Mathnet. I need a holster for my calculator.
@ShoutFactory In order for me to have a good Christmas, I need you to invent Mathnet DVDs. Or at least put it on your "To Burn" list.
xraycat (xraycat) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:34:04 -0000
@ShoutFactory In order for me to have a good Christmas, I need you to invent Mathnet DVDs. Or at least put it on your "To Burn" list.
It may be Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but in my opinion Square 1 TV was way better. Mathnet, anyone?
spartanindc (David Alim-Young) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:50:52 -0000
It may be Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but in my opinion Square 1 TV was way better. Mathnet, anyone?

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