The Nature of Things - Season 1

1. Why Is It So?

Aired: 11/6/1960

2. The Roar of the Crowd

Aired: 11/13/1960

Study of brain cells, how research has helped the understanding of learning and memory. Filmed at the Montreal Neurological Institute, with Dr. Wilder Penfield and Dr. Herbert Jasper

3. The Future of Science

Aired: 11/20/1960

Professor Donald Ivey probes the attitudes and working habits of scientists

4. Schizophrenia

Aired: 11/27/1960

5. Engineering

Aired: 12/4/1960

6. Man as an Environment

Aired: 12/11/1960

7. Science Fiction

Aired: 12/18/1960

8. A special Christmas edition

Aired: 12/25/1960

9. The Aurora-Borealis

Aired: 1/1/1961

10. Man as an Environment – Human Body

Aired: 1/8/1961

11. Kept Alive

Aired: 1/15/1961

12. Physics and Games – Laws of Probability

Aired: 1/22/1961

13. The Face of the Moon

Aired: 1/29/1961

14. Hibernation

Aired: 2/5/1961

15. Man and His Environment

Aired: 2/12/1961

16. Eclipse

Aired: 2/19/1961

17. Animal Communication

Aired: 2/26/1961

18. The Speed of Light

Aired: 3/5/1961

19. Monotony

Aired: 3/12/1961

Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind

20. The Chemical Senses

Aired: 3/19/1961

21. The Mohole: Earth's Crust

Aired: 4/2/1961

22. Laws of Conservation

Aired: 4/16/1961

23. Photosynthesis

Aired: 4/23/1961

24. Physics of Clouds

Aired: 4/30/1961

25. The Sources of Science

Aired: 5/7/1961