Season 1

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  Week 1: The Journey Begins (New Year)

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Why it is cold when the Earth is closest to the sun. Why we see Venus in the morning. The planets are close, the stars unreachable.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 2: Travelling in the Solar System (Early January)

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Day and Night. A gigantic Sun with tiny planets. A look at the Zodiac. The solar system is the present; the stars are the past.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 3: The Moon, Our Companion (Mid-January)

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/18/1997

  The Sun is on time but the Moon is late. Why we see the Moon as a crescent. The half-moon crosses the Earth's orbit. Where the Moon came from. The Moon: Delay in space and Time.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 4: The Full Moon (Late January)

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Discovering Mercury. Distant moons of other planets. Why we always see the same side of the Moon. Why we see the Sun so low but the Moon so high.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 5: Earth's Rotation (January/February)

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Earth's Rotation. The Moon shows us where Mars is. Copernicus: The Earth in orbit. Why the Earth turns. Crossing time zones.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 6: Copernicus and Kepler (Early February)

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Hidden planets. Kepler discovers the planets' timetable. The Earth moves more quickly in Winter. Earth overtakes Mars. Why we have two tides every day.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 7: Gravity (Early/Mid-February)

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Why the Earth is round. Newton's apple. Why the Earth does not fall into the Sun. Three minutes more Sun every day. Sundials and the Earth's axis. Comets.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 8: The Stars (Mid-February)

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Columbus and the Pole Star. Earth wobbles over the centuries. The imaginary 'heavenly vault'. The Sun, our star. Infinitely large to infinitely small.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 9: The Calendar (Late February)

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Leap Days: The Earth misses a quarter of a day. Gregorian and Orthodox calendars. Solar and lunar calendars. Solid and gaseous planets.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 10: Waning Moon and Solar Eclipses (Early March)

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/18/1997

  The half-moon shows where we are going. Where the stars go during the day. The Moon and the planets: The Sun's invisible companions. The Moon's shadow on the Earth: Solar Eclipses.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Week 11: Eclipses and Occultations (Mid-March)

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/18/1997

  Annular solar eclipses. Partial solar eclipses. The Moon eclipsed in Earth's shadow. Occultation of Aldebaran.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown