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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 1 - The Winter Sky
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    #1 - The Winter Sky

    S2:E1

    Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 2 - Radio Astronomy
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    #2 - Radio Astronomy

    S2:E2

    Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 3 - The Plough
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    #3 - The Plough

    S2:E3

    Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 4 - Penumbral Eclipse
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    #4 - Penumbral Eclipse

    S2:E4

    Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 5 - The Moon
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    #5 - The Moon

    S2:E5

    Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 6 - Jupiter
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    #6 - Jupiter

    S2:E6

    Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 7 - Dwarf and Giant Stars
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    #7 - Dwarf and Giant Stars

    S2:E7

    Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 8 - Moon Missions
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    #8 - Moon Missions

    S2:E8

    Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 9 - Telescopes
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    #9 - Telescopes

    S2:E9

    Patrick Moore talks about old and new telescopes with A. H. Degenhardt, and shows some of the things which the new telescopes can reveal-for instance, about the Andromeda Galaxy, whose light takes nearly two million years to reach us.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 10 - The Universe
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    #10 - The Universe

    S2:E10

    Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 11 - Mars
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    #11 - Mars

    S2:E11

    Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. The Sky at Night Season 2 Episode 12 - The Craters on the Moon
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    #12 - The Craters on the Moon

    S2:E12

    Patrick Moore and Dr. Gilbert Fielder discuss the recent report by a Russian astronomer of an eruption on the moon, and what it reveals about the moon's origin and present state.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 1 - Life and Death of the Sun
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    #13 - Life and Death of the Sun

    S3:E1

    Patrick Moore describes the life-cycle of a star and compares the Sun's history with that of Betelgeuse, the vast red giant now visible in Orion.

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  14. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 2 - Life and Death of the Sun
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    #14 - Life and Death of the Sun

    S3:E2

    Patrick Moore describes the life-cycle of a star and compares the Sun's history with that of Betelgeuse, the vast red giant now visible in Orion.

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  15. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 3 - Mercury and the Moon
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    #15 - Mercury and the Moon

    S3:E3

    Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming partial eclipse of the Moon and about the planet Mercury, which is at its most visible period for some time.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 4 - Twin Stars
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    #16 - Twin Stars

    S3:E4

    Patrick Moore and Roger Griffin talk about these pairs of suns revolving round each other, and how they help astronomers to measure the masses of the stars.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 5 - The Shape of our Galaxy
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    #17 - The Shape of our Galaxy

    S3:E5

    Patrick Moore discusses with Dr Harlow Shapley, former Director of Harvard College Observatory and one of the world's leading astronomers, our island of stars in the Universe, of which the solar system forms a minute and insignificant part.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 6 - Minor Planets
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    #18 - Minor Planets

    S3:E6

    Patrick Moore talks about some of the lesser known bodies of the Solar System.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 7 - Life on Venus
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    #19 - Life on Venus

    S3:E7

    Patrick Moore discusses with F. L. Jackson, F.R.A.S., the theory that the planet Venus is covered with a shallow ocean, which might possibly contain single-celled creatures of a primeval type.

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  20. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 8 - Lights in the Sky
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    #20 - Lights in the Sky

    S3:E8

    Patrick Moore discusses with Colin Ronan the Northern Lights and other similar natural phenomena.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 9 - The Ringed Planet
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    #21 - The Ringed Planet

    S3:E9

    Patrick Moore talks about the planet Saturn, which may now be seen low in the south, looking like a fairly bright yellowish star. With its rings of satellites and its retinue of moons, it is one of the loveliest objects in the whole sky.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 10 - Topical Events
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    #22 - Topical Events

    S3:E10

    Patrick Moore introduces George Alcock who recently discovered two new planets. He also speaks about the eclipse of the sun which is visible here next Friday.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 11 - The Front and the Back of the Moon
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    #23 - The Front and the Back of the Moon

    S3:E11

    Patrick Moore talks with Colin Ronan about what is known of the hidden side of the moon, and about the Russian satellite Lunik III, its path through space, its looping of the moon, and the possible information it has brought back with it.

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  24. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 12 - Pairs of Suns
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    #24 - Pairs of Suns

    S3:E12

    Patrick Moore talks about double stars.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. The Sky at Night Season 3 Episode 13 - The Star in the East
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    #25 - The Star in the East

    S3:E13

    Patrick Moore gives an astronomer's view of the Star of Bethlehem which is described in Chapter 2 of the Gospel according to St. Matthew.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Winter Sky" is the worst rated episode of "The Sky at Night". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Radio Astronomy".