- 9.3/103 votes
#1 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/2019
In the final episode, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/105 votes
#2 - The Godfather: Jupiter
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2019
Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the other planets.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/105 votes
#3 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2019
Professor Brian Cox reveals the history of Saturn. Saturn began life as a strange planet of rock and ice and in time transformed into a gas giant, ring-less and similar looking to its rival, Jupiter.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/105 votes
#4 - Turning Seasons
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/2022
Dive into the long year of the Alaskan brown bear through the Earth's seasonal cycle amid the frigid winter months and into the warmth of summer.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: Stephen Cooter
- 8.2/104 votes
#5 - Elemental
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/22/2022
The elements that constitute every living being were formed within the very first stars. Today, a green sea turtle searches the ocean for them.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: Stephen Cooter
- 8.0/102 votes
#6 - Destiny
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/6/2011
Brian Cox seeks to understand the nature of time. From an extraordinary calendar built into the landscape of Peru to the beaches of Costa Rica, Brian explores the cycles of time which define our experience of life on Earth. But as the Earth orbits the Sun, the Solar system orbits the entire Milky Way Galaxy in a cycle that takes a staggering 250 million years to complete.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/104 votes
#7 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planets
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2019
The rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars were born at the same time from the same material - yet have lived radically different lives. What immense forces are at play?
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/104 votes
#8 - The Two Sisters - Earth & Mars
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2019
Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets.
Director: Stephen Cooter
Writer: N/A