Long before Bill Nye the Science Guy, How Stuff Works and Mythbusters, there was Mr. Wizard. Don Herbert, who was Mr. Wizard, passed on yesterday at 89. If you are over a certain age, you will ...

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Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. Herbert was 89. By The Associated Press Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr ...

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 generation of ...

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban ...

Don Herbert, better known to generations of TV viewers as Mr. Wizard, died yesterday at the age of 89. The cause was multiple myeloma. From the 1950s through to the 80s, Herbert brought science to the ...

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. We remember now the man baby boomers know as Mr. Wizard. Don Herbert died yesterday in suburban Los Angeles. He was 89. His TV show, "Watch Mr. Wizard," was produced ...

Don Herbert inspired many baby boomers as children and sparked an interest in science through his long-running "Mr. Wizard" television show in the 1950s and '60s. But "Mr. Wizard" had his start in La ...

If you’re like us, you grew up watching Don Herbert (AKA Mr. Wizard) give scientific life lessons on either Watch Mr. Wizard or (more likely) Mr. Wizard’s World. The latter show aired repeatedly ...

In “Watch Mr. Wizard,” which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom. Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” ...