Season 19
12 episodes · Sep 24, 1978
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- S19E1
Evolution Update
Sep 24, 1978Season premiere: Anthropologist Richard Leakey discusses his work in Africa, and explains the latest techniques by which scientists measure time and age of subjects.
- S19E2
Clockwork Atom
Oct 1, 1978The phenomenon of man's changing concepts of the world is explored in relation to his desire to measure time more accurately.
- S19E3
This Will Do For Today
Oct 8, 1978A series of people of varying ages, professions and experiences express their innermost feelings on subjects ranging from dateless Saturday nights to fear of death.
- S19E4
Island of Monkeys
Oct 15, 1978A study of individual development and group dynamics in a troop of rhesus monkeys in the natural observable environment of Cayo Santiago near Puerto Rico.
- S19E5
The Dogon
Oct 29, 1978The cliff-dwelling Dogon farmers and their unique culture are studied in their homeland near the Niger River in Mali.[261]
- S19E6
Toward The Sun
Nov 5, 1978The current efforts in both the United States and Canada to harness the sun as a major resource of heat and power are examined.
- S19E7
Portrait Of A Market: Sololá
Nov 12, 1978The activities of the economic and social center of Sololá, located on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, are viewed.[263]
- S19E8
Sleep (part 1 of 2)
Nov 26, 1978Volunteers 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]
- S19E9
Dreams (part 2 of 2)
Dec 3, 1978Analysis 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.
- S19E10
Charlie
Dec 17, 1978Canadian paleontologist Charlie Sternberg and his work in cataloguing dinosaur fossils in the Albertan Badlands are profiled.
- S19E11
The Search
Dec 24, 1978The 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.
- S19E12
The Cajuns
Dec 31, 1978The descendants of Nova Scotia's Acadians and their lifestyle are profiled at their adopted home, the Bayou Lafourche in southern Louisiana.