The best science TV series of all time.

[Drewish]

National Geographic's Is It Real?

[Clinton Huxley]

Bronowski's The Ascent Of Man was pretty good, for its time. Dated now and someone like Bronowski would never be allowed near the business end of a TV camera these days, he looked too much like a human.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ”
― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

[Pappa]

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That guy is a legend.

[rachelbean]

Another that wasn't the 'best of all time,' but was important to me when I was young: 3*2*1 Contact!

I used to get the magazine, too.

And it had the Bloodhound Gang! They taught me about pinhole cameras!

Yes! I loved that show, and I also just remembered "Mr. Wizard"

I know what you are talking about with the creationism trial as well I think, but can't remember the name of it either.

[Coito ergo sum]

Cosmos was probably the best because of Carl Sagan's almost unmatched ability to explain things.

After that Nova and Ascent of Man.

Oh, and then there was James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed" and "Connections." Which they would replay them.....loved them!

[odysseus]

Attenborough's entire body of work, for me...

Good call!

[hadespussercats]

National Geographic's Is It Real?

No. I think this was a one-off, or a short series.

[rasetsu]

I thought Cosmos was poorly paced, badly written, and Sagan was putting me to sleep. I don't remember it well (probably because it made me sleepy), but I get turned on more by the physics and mathematics of cosmology than the nitty gritty. (Or the history of it and the philosophy involved. I can read endlessly about Muslim astronomers and the like without ever getting bored.)


Oh, and Bronowski can chew my wet codpiece. Something to do with Durkheim, but I don't remember what. I don't remember what else either.

[rasetsu]

Oh, if you watch Burke's Connections, look for Connections I. I don't know what happened in the second, but it just didn't have the same magic. Like he had a lobotomy between the two or something.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Anything presented by Jim Al Khaleli is usually worth watching - especially Everything & Nothing - which was OSSUM!!1!

[klr]

Anything presented by Jim Al Khaleli is usually worth watching - especially Everything & Nothing - which was OSSUM!!1!

The same applies IMHO to anything presented by Marcus du Sautoy or Brian Cox.

[Tyrannical]

I was a big fan of James Burke's Connections.