All 24 segments on one DVD.
Even though Frankie and Frank are quite different – one’s a little boy and the other’s a big monster – they are best buddies who love to play together. Join them as they have loads of fun filled with sweet surprises and lots of learning!
Synopsis: As Harrison prepares for his school science fair, he realizes that science is all around us. Highlights from this past season, including questions about the sun, plants, teeth and spiders, help prove his point.
Frank might have a little trouble counting ten, but he has no trouble finding Frankie.
The Big Question: “How come humans don’t have scales?”
Synopsis: Harrison investigates the stuff that holds us in: skin. With help from a special-effects make-up artist, he finds out the science behind scabs and bruises, and even learns how to make cool fish-monster scales.
My Great Challenge: Are parts of our skin more sensitive than others? Blindfolded challengers have to identify mystery objects rubbed against their foot, leg, and hands.
In the Field: Harrison goes to the beach with a skin scientist to test how sunscreen can protect UV-sensitive Frisbees from turning purple.
The Big Question: “How can you break things with a karate chop?”
Synopsis: Harrison is on a quest to break a karate board with his bare hand, but first he’ll need some expert help – from a materials engineer and a karate master – to understand the science behind why things break. Hiii-yaaa!
My Great Challenge: Kids compete in an egg-drop challenge, to see what kind of padding materials can protect a raw egg when it’s dropped from a great height.
In the Field: Harrison has a dynamite time at a rock quarry when an expert helps him blow up rocks with real explosives!
The Big Question: “How do flowers poop?”
Synopsis: Hold on to your nose! Harrison decides to do a show about, well, you know. He’s visited by a paleontologist who brings million-year-old fossils of dinosaur poop.
My Great Challenge: Challengers have to pick apart fake animal poop to find bones, berries, and grass, and then guess whether the animal who made the poop was an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore.
In the Field: Harrison and an animal biologist collect real animal poop in the woods, and then examine it in the lab. P-U!
The Big Question: “Is a Ferrari faster than a cheetah?”
Synopsis: Harrison finds out how a car works when a teenage race car driver brings her mini Formula 1 to Harrison’s house.
My Great Challenge: Challengers race remote-controlled cars along a track filled with obstacles to understand how road conditions can make driving hazardous.
In the Field: Harrison goes to a race track and gets to drive a real Ferrari! Then, with an expert driving instructor at the wheel, they burn rubber to see who’s faster – the Ferrari or a cheetah?
The Big Question: “Why don’t people have wild animals as pets?”
Synopsis: Harrison starts a pet-sitting service, but he’s soon overwhelmed by how much work it is – especially when one of the pets turns out to be surprisingly wild. Fortunately, a zoo-owner friend helps him out.
My Great Challenge: Harrison’s studio is full of real animals – a bird, dog, hamster, and a cat. Challengers have to match various pet foods, toys, and other pet-care items to the correct pet before time’s up.
In the Field: Harrison visits a professional dog-trainer to get help with a particularly unruly puppy.
The Big Question: “What clues do detectives need to figure out a crime?”
Synopsis: Someone took a bite out of Harrison’s cheese sandwich! Who was this nefarious nabber? To find out, Harrison brings in a detective and a forensics expert to collect fingerprints, DNA evidence, and other clues.
My Great Challenge: How reliable is eyewitness testimony? To find out, challengers watch a video of a “crime,” and then Harrison and the detective quiz them about how much they remember.
In the Field: Harrison visits the world’s cutest crime fighters: police dogs! To test how they can sniff out a criminal, Harrison hides while the dogs follow their noses to find him.
