The Best Episodes Directed By Stephen Cooter

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds

   S1:E56/25/2019

   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.

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   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #2 - The Godfather: Jupiter

   S1:E36/11/2019

   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.

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   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn

   S1:E46/18/2019

   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.

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   8.2/10(6 votes)

   #4 - Turning Seasons

   S1:E311/22/2022

   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.

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   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Elemental

   S1:E411/22/2022

   The elements that constitute every living being were formed within the very first stars. Today, a green sea turtle searches the ocean for them.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Destiny

   S1:E13/6/2011

   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.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #7 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planets

   S1:E15/28/2019

   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?

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #8 - The Two Sisters - Earth & Mars

   S1:E26/4/2019

   Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets.

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   4.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - Band of Brothers

   S1:E36/8/2025

   Utah, 130 million years ago. A band of armoured dinosaurs battle to reach adulthood, pursued by a group of Utahraptors: some of the most formidable predators that have ever lived.

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    3.2/10(6 votes)

    #10 - The Orphan

    S1:E15/25/2025

    An orphaned baby triceratops must outwit a deadly T. rex. Today, paleontologists are uncovering her remains, allowing us to bring her story to life with stunning VFX.

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