Episode 1
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.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
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.
Episode 4
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.
Episode 5
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]
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
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]
Episode 8
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]
Episode 9
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.
Episode 10
Charlie
Dec 17, 1978
Canadian paleontologist Charlie Sternberg and his work in cataloguing dinosaur fossils in the Albertan Badlands are profiled.
Episode 11
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.
Episode 12
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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