Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
Episode 01 - The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
Galaxies, stars, planetary systems, and how Erostosthenes computed the Earth's circumference.
Episode 02 - One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
The origins of life, natural selection, and how different species adapt to their environment.
Episode 03 - The Harmony of the Worlds
How people's view on the universe has been changed, Johannes Kepler's life and his work.
Episode 04 - Heaven and Hell
The Tunguska event, Comets, meteorites, and theories about the planet Venus.
Episode 05 - Blues for the Red Planet
The planet Mars through the eyes of science fiction authors, as well as through actual photographs from space probes.
Episode 06 - Traveler's Tales
Dutch explorers by sailing ships in the 17th century, Voyager II's exploratory mission to Jupiter and Saturn.
Episode 07 - The Backbone of Night
The ancient Ionian physicists of the island of Samos, including Democritus and Pythagoras, and their discoveries.
Episode 08 - Journeys in Space and Time
Time and space, the speed of light and Einstein's theory of relativity, space travel.
Episode 09 - The Lives of the Stars
The nature of atoms, nuclear forces, the lifecycle of stars; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes.
Episode 10 - The Edge of Forever
The origins of the universe, the Big Bang theory.
Episode 11 - The Persistence of Memory
Intelligence, the human brain and genes, libraries and computers.
Episode 12 - Encyclopedia Galactica
UFOs, the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Episode 13 - Who Speaks for Earth?
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria, Big Bang and the stuff of life, evolution of life, what humans have done.