Watch Mr. Wizard was an American television program for children that demonstrated the science behind ordinary things. The show's creator and on-air host was Don Herbert.

The children’s educational series Watch Mr. Wizard — which ended its original NBC run 60 years ago, on June 27, 1965 — introduced countless TV viewers to the wonders of science. And that’s ...

Mr. Wizard, aka Don Herbert, rose to fame in the '50s as host of Watch Mr. Wizard on NBC. In the '80s, he impressed a new generation on Nickelodeon's Mr. Wizard's World. He turned clear liquids black.

The news spots led to renewed interest in Mr. Wizard. After viewing a pilot, Nickelodeon agreed to fund 26 half-hour episodes of Mr. Wizard’s World for a 1983 premiere. More than 30 years after ...

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for a later ...

Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday of bone cancer in Bell Canyon, Calif. He was 89.