The Nature of Things

Season 19

12 episodes · Sep 24, 1978

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  • S19E1

    Evolution Update

    Sep 24, 1978

    Season premiere: Anthropologist Richard Leakey discusses his work in Africa, and explains the latest techniques by which scientists measure time and age of subjects.

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  • S19E2

    Clockwork Atom

    Oct 1, 1978

    The phenomenon of man's changing concepts of the world is explored in relation to his desire to measure time more accurately.

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  • S19E3

    This Will Do For Today

    Oct 8, 1978

    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.

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  • S19E4

    Island of Monkeys

    Oct 15, 1978

    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.

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  • S19E5

    The Dogon

    Oct 29, 1978

    The cliff-dwelling Dogon farmers and their unique culture are studied in their homeland near the Niger River in Mali.[261]

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  • S19E6

    Toward The Sun

    Nov 5, 1978

    The current efforts in both the United States and Canada to harness the sun as a major resource of heat and power are examined.

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  • S19E7

    Portrait Of A Market: Sololá

    Nov 12, 1978

    The activities of the economic and social center of Sololá, located on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, are viewed.[263]

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  • S19E8

    Sleep (part 1 of 2)

    Nov 26, 1978

    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]

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  • S19E9

    Dreams (part 2 of 2)

    Dec 3, 1978

    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.

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  • S19E10

    Charlie

    Dec 17, 1978

    Canadian paleontologist Charlie Sternberg and his work in cataloguing dinosaur fossils in the Albertan Badlands are profiled.

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  • S19E11

    The Search

    Dec 24, 1978

    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.

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  • S19E12

    The Cajuns

    Dec 31, 1978

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

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