Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993) is a comedy, documentary, kids web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy online in HD.
Bill Nye the Science Guy — Storyline
It's "Mr. Wizard" for a different decade. Bill Nye is the Science Guy, a host who's hooked on experimenting and explaining. Picking one topic per show (like the human heart or electricity), Nye gets creative with teaching kids and adults alike the nuances of science.
Cast & Crew
- Created by: Bill Nye
- Starring: Bill Nye, Rachel Glenn, Jennifer Lin, Amy Broder, Ethan Ferkiss
Bill Nye the Science Guy — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1993-09-10 |
| Seasons | 5 |
| Episodes | 100 |
| Genre | Comedy, Documentary, Kids |
| Language | English |
| Network | PBS |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 7.4/10 (96 votes) |
Bill Nye the Science Guy — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Flight (1993-09-10) — Things that fly need air. Even though we walk through it, breathe it, and sneeze it, air seems to be a whole bunch of nothing. But air is there, and it's powerful. Balloons infla
- E2: Earth's Crust (1993-09-17) — Don't just go with the flow. Settle down on the crust. Imagine a world without any crust. There would be no pies, just goopy filling, no bread, no hamburger buns, and no you or
- E3: Dinosaurs (1993-09-24) — We can dish the real dirt about dinosaurs, thanks to fossils – traces of theses astonishing animals. Dinosaurs did not print newspapers. They did not take family snapshots or vid
- E4: Skin (1993-10-01) — Learning about skin science is no sweat. It's gigantic. It's gargantuan. It's your skin. It's your body's biggest organ. If you could lay your skin out flat, it would cover abo
- E5: Buoyancy (1993-10-08) — A hot-air balln ride and a trip to the aquarium help Bill Nye explain why things float
- E6: Gravity (1993-10-15) — Next time you throw a ball in the air, and it doesn't fly off into outer space, thank gravity. Right now, you and everything in the room where you are, is getting pulled down by
- E7: Digestion (1993-10-22) — Take time to digest this show. They say that your food is no more inside you than a pencil is inside a donut, when it's poked through the hole. Instead of the food going in you
- E8: Phases of Matter (1993-10-29) — Bill Nye is going through a phase – a phase of matter. Check out the ""Phases of Matter"" episode to find out about rock-solid solids, liquidy liquids, and gassy gases. It's phas
- E9: Biodiversity (1993-11-05) — Ecosystems are areas where things live. Ecosystems that are biodiverse are home to a variety of plants and animals. A healthy ecosystem is one with a lot of biodiversity. Imagi
- E10: Simple Machines (1993-11-12) — Learning about science can be hard work, but simple machines can make it easier. Let Bill Nye push and pull you around ramps, levers, screws, and pulleys. Simple machines simpl
- E11: The Moon (1993-11-19) — Let the moon master Bill Nye teach you the ancient and not-so-ancient secrets of the Moon. Wax on, wax off. The Moon grows bigger (waxes) and smaller (wanes) every 30 days or so.
- E12: Sound (1993-11-26) — Listen up, scientists. Bill Nye is here to make some noise in the ""Sound"" episode. Your vocal cords do it. Speakers playing rock music do it. Even a school bell does it. They a
- E13: Garbage (1993-12-03) — Garbage is a look at two different kinds of garbage — biodegradable and non-biodegradable. Nye emphasizes the importance of recycling and cutting down on the amount of the waste t
- E14: Structures (1993-12-10) — Are you tense? Need some structure to your life? Then tune in to Bill Nye the Science Guy as he explains the science of structures. All structures give support or create a shap
- E15: Earth's Seasons (1993-12-17) — It doesn't matter if it's spring, summer, winter, or fall – Bill Nye is always in season. Every year, we experience the seasons. Some months have snow and rain, while other month
- E16: Light & Color (1993-12-24) — Lighten up. It's the ""Light and Color"" episode. Without light, we wouldn't be able to see. It would be like living in a room with no windows, doors, or lamps. There's an old
- E17: Cells (1994-01-21) — You can't see them, but they're everywhere even inside Bill Nye. This is not science fiction, it's the science of cells. All things that live are made from cells. You can't see
- E18: Electricity (1994-01-28) — It's time for Bill Nye to shed a little light on electricity. Electricity might seem mysterious, but once you understand the science the light goes on (so to speak). You flip a
- E19: Outer Space (1994-02-04) — The show is way out there, way far away. After all, it's in Outer Space. When you look at the night sky on a clear dark night, you can see thousands of stars. There are far more
- E20: Eyeball (1994-02-11) — Look no further … Bill Nye is on the ball – the eyeball. For their small size, your eyes do an important job. By working with your brain, your eyes can tell the difference be
Season 2
- E1: Magnetism (1994-02-18) — Magnetic fields; how to make a compass; why opposites attract.
- E2: Wind (1994-02-25) — The relationship between the Earth, the sun, the wind and the weather. Guest: "Today" weather reporter Willard Scott.
- E3: Blood & Circulation (1994-03-04) — It's time for a heart-to-heart talk about blood and circulation with Bill Nye the Science Guy. Your blood is your bud. Without blood, your skin would dry up and fall off, your in
- E4: Chemical Reactions (1994-03-11) — Bill and actress Candace Cameron use fire to demonstrate what chemical reactions are.
- E5: Static Electricity (1994-03-18) — Actress Elaine Miles and Bill Nye explain why static electricity makes clothes stick together.
- E6: Food Web (1994-03-25) — Feeling a little hungry? Then grab a snack and watch Bill Nye the Science Guy's episode on the Food Web. When it comes to eating, all living things depend on other living thing
- E7: Light Optics (1994-09-10) — Don't stay in the dark – Bill Nye will help you absorb the science of light optics. Light is energy that normally moves in a straight line, but often something gets in the way. Whe
- E8: Bones & Muscles (1994-09-17) — In this show, you can Bone up on Muscles. When you clicked on the Nye Labs web site to read this, you used your bones and muscles. Without them, you can't click, surf, or even sigh
- E9: Oceanography (1994-09-24) — Surf's up! Get the current information as Bill Nye explains why oceans are salty and explores the ocean currents. Go with the flow of ocean currents with Bill Nye the Science Guy.
- E10: Heat (1994-10-01) — Things sure are heating up at Nye Labs. Snow cones, flowers, hot dogs, people — everything is made of molecules. No matter what they're in, solid, liquid, or gas, molecules are al
- E11: Insects (1994-10-08) — Bill Nye's not here to bug you – he just wants to tell you about insects. Do you know when you're looking at an insect? All insects have six legs, three body segments, antennae, an
- E12: Balance (1994-10-15) — Bill Nye's going to use the force to pull you into the world of balance. A force is a push or a pull. You can feel a force when someone pushes you. You can use a force to pull a do
- E13: The Sun (1994-10-22) — The Sun is huge. It's bigger than huge. It's so big that 1.3 million Earths would fit inside a hollowed-out Sun. It's really far away, too – about 150 million kilometers (93 millio
- E14: Brain (1994-10-29) — Bill Nye looks at how the brain controls the body and stores information
- E15: Forests (1994-11-05) — In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Forests, Nye shows students the levels of a forest, which include the canopy, the under story, and the floor. His special guest is Nalini Nadkarni, who
- E16: Communication (1994-11-12) — In this program, Bill points out the different ways in which humans and animals exchange information. He also talks about the ability of humans to store data in computers, books, a
- E17: Momentum (1994-11-19) — The momentum of a moving thing, like you riding your bike, depends on how much mass you and your bike have and how fast you’re speeding down that hill. An elephant on a bike has mo
- E18: Reptiles (1994-11-26) — Bill Nye teaches us about reptiles.
- E19: Atmosphere (1994-12-03) — The air that surrounds Earth is called the atmosphere. Compared to the size of the Earth, the atmosphere is very, very thin. It’s made from gases – mainly nitrogen, oxygen, and wat
- E20: Respiration (1995-01-07) — How breathing supplies the body with the oxygen it needs
Season 3
- E1: Planets & Moons (1995-01-14) — Each planet is different. They are all different sizes – Pluto’s the smallest, and Jupiter’s the biggest. They come in a variety of colors – Mars is covered with rust, so it looks
- E2: Pressure (1995-01-21) — When you push something, you’re using pressure. Pressure depends on two things – the power of the push and the area that’s being pushed on. A push on a small area makes more pressu
- E3: Plants (1995-01-28) — A plant’s recipe for food has only three main ingredients: sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. When plants make their food, they give off what animals need – oxygen. Without oxyge
- E4: Rocks & Soil (1995-02-03) — We live on top of rocks – the Earth’s surface. There are three basic types of rocks — igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic — and each type is made a different way. Igneous rocks a
- E5: Energy (1995-02-10) — Energy can change forms. Your body changes the energy in food into energy you can use to do things. Dams turn the energy in falling water into electrical energy to bring power to y
- E6: Evolution (1995-02-17) — All living things have genes, which are like little sets of blueprints. Genes have information about the color of your eyes, the shape of your nose, and whether you hair is straigh
- E7: Water Cycle (1995-03-24) — About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, and almost all of that water has been around since the Earth formed billions and billions of years ago. That means a glass of
- E8: Friction (1995-03-31) — Friction is a force that slows moving things down and turns the moving energy into heat energy. When two things rub together, like your bike tires and the road, friction between th
- E9: Germs (1995-04-07) — Don’t panic, but germs are all around you. Germs are bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi, very small one-celled organisms. Your skin keeps most of these organisms from ever gett
- E10: Climates (1995-04-14) — There are lots of different climates all over the world. Deserts are warm and dry. Temperate forests are cold and wet. Tropical rain forests are warm and wet. Animals and plants li
- E11: Waves (1995-04-21) — Energy, things like light, heat, and sound, moves in waves. You’ve probably seen waves in the ocean, or ripples when you throw a rock in a pond. Moving energy is not like the wave
- E12: Ocean Life (1995-04-28) — There’s an amazing amount of living things in the ocean. There are fish, sharks, flowers, whales, squid, sea plants, sea anemones, sea otters, and all sorts of other things living
- E13: Mammals (1995-09-08) — Mammals – They're (sometimes) big, they're hairy, and they're warm-blooded. From human being to moose and from cats to rats, Bill Nye explains what it takes to be in the mammal fam
- E14: Spinning Things (1995-09-15) — A lot of things spin – bike wheels, footballs, hard disks in your computer, and even the Earth – they’re all twirling around. Spinning things have inertia, which means they keep sp
- E15: Fish (1995-09-22) — More than 22,000 different species of fish live in the oceans, lakes, and rivers of the world. Fish come in all shapes and sizes. Some eat water plants, some eat other fish. Lampre
- E16: Human Transportation (1995-09-29) — Transportation is all about moving people and their things. You can transport yourself around using your feet, a bike, a car, a train – anything that gets you going from one place
- E17: Wetlands (1995-10-06) — Wetlands are not just home to different animals and plants, but they also control flooding and help keep the Earth’s water clean. Flood waters move more slowly through wetlands bec
- E18: Birds (1995-10-13) — Scientists believe that birds evolved from reptiles. Birds have backbones, and they lay eggs, but they’ve developed a unique feature that sets them apart from all other animals – f
- E19: Populations (1995-10-20) — Populations need a couple of basic things to survive – food and a place to live. When two or more populations of living things are crowded into a small area, there is competition f
- E20: Animal Locomotion (1995-10-27) — Some animals have wings that let them fly and hover. Other animals have legs, from two to more than 200, to get them walking, galloping, or running. Some animals’ legs are really p
Season 4
- E1: Rivers & Streams (1995-11-03) — Water is massive; rivers are powerful. As rivers flow downhill, they wear away rock and soil to form canyons or winding curves in the land, called meanders. Sometimes rivers fill a
- E2: Nutrition (1995-11-10) — All food, whether it’s protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, or minerals, is made of chemicals. When your body gets a hold of these chemicals, it recombines them and makes energy.
- E3: Marine Mammals (1995-11-17) — Whales, dolphins, otters, walruses, and orcas are just like us, they’re mammals. Well, they’re not just like us. They live in the ocean. They breathe air, have hair, nurse their ba
- E4: Earthquakes (1995-11-24) — Earthquakes happen when pieces of land in the Earth’s crust scrape together. The crust of the Earth is made of big slabs of land called plates that are constantly moving just a lit
- E5: NTV Top 11 Video Countdown (1995-12-01) — Join Bill Nye as he counts down the hits from the Soundtracks of Science. Along with the music, Bill does a few new experiments on the lab bench. You’ll see the grunge band Nyevana
- E6: Spiders (1996-01-05) — Be sure to get this straight: spiders are not insects, they’re arachnids. Spiders have eight legs, and insects have only six. Spiders have two body parts, a head and an abdomen, wh
- E7: Pollution Solutions (1996-01-12) — Dirty water, land, and air are a result of pollution. People are the only animals on Earth that make pollution. Garbage, burning fuel, chemicals, sewage, oil, and pesticides are al
- E8: Probability (1996-01-19) — Probability is a way to measure how likely it is that something will happen. Probabilities are predictions. They’re often just very careful guesses. When a scientist wants to calcu
- E9: Pseudoscience (1996-01-26) — People once thought that world was flat or nearly flat. It was considered a bit crazy to think of it as a big ball. But it is. You can prove it. One of the big ideas in science is
- E10: Flowers (1996-01-27) — Flowers are an important part of many plants. Plants use flowers to make other plants – to reproduce. Flowers have special parts, called stamens and pistils. When pollen from the s
- E11: Archaeology (1996-01-28) — Archaeologists are kind of like detectives. They’re scientists who snoop through old or ancient people’s things to find out what life was like thousands of years ago. Archaeologist
- E12: Deserts (1996-01-29) — About 20% of the Earth is a desert. Deserts are places that get very little precipitation (rain or snow) each year, and that makes them extremely dry. Deserts cover big areas of la
- E13: Amphibians (1996-01-30) — Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (worm-like animals that have backbones) are all amphibians, animals that spend part of their lives in water and part on land. Amphi
- E14: Volcanoes (1996-01-31) — Volcanoes are mountains made from molten rock. The Earth’s crust is divided into big slabs, called plates, which are slowly moving all the time. The plates are floating on the Eart
- E15: Invertebrates (1996-02-07) — Worms, squid, clams, and flies are spineless creatures. They’re not afraid, they’re invertebrates – animals that don’t have backbones. Invertebrates are everywhere. You can find in
- E16: Heart (1996-02-14) — Your heart pumps your blood around your body, all hours, every day of the week, to keep you alive. Your heart is about the size of your fist, and it’s made of special muscle called
- E17: Inventions (1996-02-21) — Almost everything around you, from paper clips to computers, was thought of, designed, and built by humans. An invention can be a totally new idea, or an improved variation on some
- E18: Computers (1996-04-25) — With special guest, Mick H. Computers are used throughout the world all the time. Computers are in cars, calculators, televisions – you’re even using one right now. Humans use comp
- E19: Fossils (1997-09-05) — Most dead animals and plants break up, get decomposed, and become part of the soil, but some turn into fossils. A fossil forms when a plant or animal dies, and gets buried. If cond
- E20: Time (1997-09-12) — Time affects every living thing on Earth. Trees shed their leaves. Some animals only come out at night. There are even insects that only emerge every 17 years. Days, hours, minutes
Season 5
- E1: Forensics (1997-09-19) — Forensic scientists try to find out the who, what, when, where, and why of events in the past – crimes. Most forensic scientists work in police labs. They collect evidence from the
- E2: Space Exploration (1997-09-26) — Space is hard to explore, because it’s really, really big. Most things in space are so far away that people we build special equipment just to see them. We use telescopes to magnif
- E3: Genes (1997-10-17) — The color of your eyes, the shape of your nose, and the straightness (or curliness) of your hair depend on your genes. Not jeans the pants, but genes, the long strands of chemicals
- E4: Architecture (1997-10-24) — Towers, teepees, castles, and condominiums – some kind of planning goes into all buildings, no matter how big or small. Architects are people who design buildings, and the areas ar
- E5: Farming (1997-10-31) — Before food gets into your kitchen, before it even gets to the store, it’s on a farm. Almost everything we eat is grown on a farm, an area of land used to raise animals and plants.
- E6: Life Cycles (1997-11-14) — My, how you’ve grown! The popular exclamation from your Auntie may be no great revelation, but growing bigger is a part of life. In fact, it’s part of the whole cycle, or pattern,
- E7: Do-It-Yourself Science (1997-11-21) — Do-it-yourself science involves a question, observations, a hypothesis, and experimentation. You have probably come up with questions after you noticed something unusual. For insta
- E8: Atoms & Molecules (1997-11-28) — Atoms are reeeeally small. They are so small that you can’t see them with just your eye. It takes as many as 10 million of them side-by-side to measure a single millimeter. In fact
- E9: Ocean Exploration (1997-12-05) — Ocean exploration is a tricky, risky business since humans can’t naturally survive under the ocean. Ocean explorers are constantly inventing new tools to help them dive deep into t
- E10: Lakes & Ponds (1998-02-21) — What do you get when you have a big hole in the ground and some water? Lakes and ponds. All lakes and ponds have one thing in common – they happen when a basin, or hole, forms, and
- E11: Smell (1998-02-28) — How do noses work? Objects give off tiny amounts of tiny molecules into the air. When just a few of these molecules get up your nose, they dissolve in the mucus up there. Some mole
- E12: Caves (1998-04-25) — Caves come in all different shapes and sizes depending on how they were formed. Spelunkers (people who explore caves) have plenty of descriptive names for caves and the natural roc
- E13: Fluids (1998-05-02) — Fluids are cool; they ooze and swoosh. Whatever container you put a fluid in, that fluid will take the same shape. Milk poured into a pitcher forms to the shape of the pitcher. If
- E14: Erosion (1998-05-09) — Dirt, sand, and rock from the Earth’s surface gets blown, sliced, torn, swallowed and distributed all over the world. What was yesterday’s hill is tomorrow’s flat plain. The planet
- E15: Comets & Meteors (1998-05-16) — Outer space is full of stuff. We’re not just talking about planets and moons. There are some bits and pieces, too small to be noticed most of the time that float around and occasio
- E16: Storms (1998-05-23) — Storms are big, loud, and often accompanied by rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Where do these wild, dangerous, and necessary tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms come from? Storms
- E17: Measurement (1998-05-30) — Did you know that the Concorde moves 300,000 times faster than a land snail? Or that a giant redwood can be as tall as a 35-story apartment building? The only reason we can make th
- E18: Patterns (1998-06-06) — Every time you look at something, hear something, touch something, smell something, or taste something, your brain collects a little information about the world around you. You may
- E19: Science of Music (1998-06-13) — Music is the art and science of expressing ideas and feelings through sound. A sad song can say more about how someone feels than most words, and a familiar song can make crowds cl
- E20: Motion (1998-06-20) — Things can appear to be moving, when they really aren’t. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest, even when it is in motion. It’s all relative. Relative motion, that is. How t
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Bill Nye the Science Guy have? 5 season(s) with 100 episodes.
Who created Bill Nye the Science Guy? Bill Nye.
Where can I watch Bill Nye the Science Guy? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.