I know nothing about Mr Wizard (Donald Herbert), largely because I grew up elsewhere. Many of you do, however. Even if not*, this (from Rebecca at Skepchicks) is worth pursuing**:
(Click to follow over to YouTube.)
“Ultimately, the point is to flood YouTube with videos of people doing fun and entertaining science experiments. Woo hoo!”
Design your experiment and join in!
“Get to it!”
[Update: In the spirit of science tv presenting, I should point to a comment by Amara on another thread, pointing to a casting call for a science presenter. Unfortunately, it is playing to the “Mad Scientist” cliché, but one must not prejudge. Have a look. Her agent finder’s-fee is quite reasonable.]
-cvj
(*You can find out more about Mr Wizard here and here, for example.)
(**Spotted at Bad Astronomy. More on the Skepchicks blog.)
He was wonderful!
TLC, I think, reran some of his shows 3 or so years ago, and we caught some. I remember watching some in school, not at home. Gotta love that hands on science stuff, that is what I still remember from grade school.