7.5/1042 votesLoading...#1 - A is For Atom
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/16/1992
An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a different world with a limitless source of nuclear energy. But things began to go wrong. Scientists in America and the Soviet Union were duped into building dozens of potentially dangerous plants. Then came the disasters of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl which changed views on the safety of this new technology. This episode was named after a 1953 General Electric propaganda film explaining nuclear power and features artfully chosen footage from this film.
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7.8/1042 votesLoading...#2 - The League of Gentlemen
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/22/1992
Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. Pandora's Box tells the saga of how their experiments have led the country deeper into economic decline, and asks - is their game finally up?
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7.9/1046 votesLoading...#3 - To The Brink of Eternity
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/18/1992
Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world could be controlled by the scientific manipulation of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the American Rand Corporation. In the end, their visions were the stuff of science fiction fantasy.
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7.9/1036 votesLoading...#4 - Black Power
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/1992
A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced utopia. But as his grand experiment took shape, it brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control, and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption and debt."
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8.0/1037 votesLoading...#5 - Goodbye Mrs Ant
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/2/1992
A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime movers of social or political change when, for instance, DDT made post-war heroes of American scientists only to be put on trial by other scientists in 1968? What kind of in-fighting goes on between rival camps before one scientific truth emerges, and when it does emerge, just how true is it?
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8.2/1056 votesLoading...#6 - The Engineer's Plot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/11/1992
"The revolutionaries who toppled the Tsar in 1917 thought science held the key to their new world. In fact, it ended up creating a bewildering world for millions of Soviet people. In this light-hearted investigation, one industrial planner tells how she decided the people wanted platform shoes, only to discover that they had gone out of fashion by the time that the factory to manufacture them had been built.
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The Worst Episodes of Pandora's Box
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Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Worst Episodes Summary
"A is For Atom" is the worst rated episode of "Pandora's Box". It scored 7.5/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/16/1992. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The League of Gentlemen".