Season 1

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  Part 1

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2000

  When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.

  Director: Charles Sturridge

  Writer: Unknown

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  Part 2

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/2000

  Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.

  Director: Charles Sturridge

  Writer: Unknown