The Nature of Things - Season 19

The Nature of Things - Season 19

Season 19

Network
DatesSep 24, 1978 - Dec 31, 1978
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Episodes

1978-09-24
Season 19Episode 160 min

1978-09-24

Season premiere: Anthropologist Richard Leakey discusses his work in Africa, and explains the latest techniques by which scientists measure time and age of subjects.
Sep 24, 1978
Clockwork Atom
Season 19Episode 260 min

Clockwork Atom

The phenomenon of man's changing concepts of the world is explored in relation to his desire to measure time more accurately.
Oct 1, 1978
This Will Do for Today
Season 19Episode 360 min

This Will Do for Today

A series of people of varying ages, professions and experiences express their innermost feelings on subjects ranging from dateless Saturday nights to fear of death.
Oct 8, 1978
Island of Monkeys
Season 19Episode 460 min

Island of Monkeys

A study of individual development and group dynamics in a troop of rhesus monkeys in the natural observable environment of Cayo Santiago near Puerto Rico.
Oct 15, 1978
1978-10-29
Season 19Episode 560 min

1978-10-29

The cliff-dwelling Dogon farmers and their unique culture are studied in their homeland near the Niger River in Mali.[261]
Oct 29, 1978
1978-11-05
Season 19Episode 660 min

1978-11-05

The current efforts in both the United States and Canada to harness the sun as a major resource of heat and power are examined.
Nov 5, 1978
1978-11-12
Season 19Episode 760 min

1978-11-12

The activities of the economic and social center of Sololá, located on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, are viewed.[263]
Nov 12, 1978
Sleep (1 of 2)
Season 19Episode 860 min

Sleep (1 of 2)

Volunteers undergo an experiment at the Montefiore Sleep Lab in New York which monitors their sleeping-awakening cycles in an attempt to learn more about the body's biological time system.[264]
Nov 26, 1978
Dreams (2)
Season 19Episode 960 min

Dreams (2)

Analysis of dreams is viewed at several institutions established expressly for that purpose, and those who participate in the experiments are shown as they make notations and give recollections of what they dreamed.
Dec 3, 1978
Charlie
Season 19Episode 1060 min

Charlie

Canadian paleontologist Charlie Sternberg and his work in cataloguing dinosaur fossils in the Albertan Badlands are profiled.
Dec 17, 1978
The Search: Smallpox Eradication
Season 19Episode 1160 min

The Search: Smallpox Eradication

The Search follows World Health Organization medical teams on their campaign to vaccinate the against smallpox in Somalia, the world's last location where the disease survives.
Dec 24, 1978
The Cajuns
Season 19Episode 1260 min

The Cajuns

The descendants of Nova Scotia's Acadians and their lifestyle are profiled at their adopted home, the Bayou Lafourche in southern Louisiana.
Dec 31, 1978

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