Goodbye Mr. Wizard

Don Herbert more famously known as Mr. Wizard, died this morning after battling cancer. I remember watching Mr. Wizard.s World on Nickelodeon when I was in Jr. High. Mr. Wizard presented lots of great kitchen sink science and taught lots of kids some basic scientific principles in a really fun way. Here is the open to that great show:



Here is a very funny clip on a very early episode of Letterman:



So long to a TV pioneer who paved the way for Beakman's World and Bill Nye the Science Guy.