The Nature of Things (also, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki) is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program "was one of the first mainstream programs to present scientific evidence on a number of environmental issues, including nuclear power and genetic engineering".[1] The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "De rerum natura" – On the Nature of Things.
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- 10:30 pm Thu May 25: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p8kyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YO0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=714%2C7023710 --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- Episode of 09/19/1968 appears likely rescheduled (after press time) to one week later --> < | -- Program was pre-empted for Olympic Games on 10/17/1968 (Thu) --> < | ----> < | -- rescheduling "Canals and Tunnels" for one week later --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode< | -- This portion is all repeats; commenting out to remove from view but keeping for references -- -- end of commented-out repeats --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- Cities for People was apparently rescheduled from 02/19/1973 to 03/19/1973--> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- No broadcast on Wednesday 10/16/1974: pre-empted for World Series Baseball --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- Island of Monkeys apparently wasn't broadcast until 10/15/1978, so trimming it from 01/18/1978 listing --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- full Cinema Canada issue (May 1979): http://cinemacanada.athabascau.ca/index.php/cinema/issue/view/94 --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- The "Insects" segment is likely the film "Success Story" (about insects) by Jack Carey. -- This episode of 12/26/1979 may have been changed to "Memories From Eden" (about zoos), -- with "Success Story" delayed until 11/26/1980. Looking for sources to verify the suspected change. --> < | -- Crocodile City was apparently rescheduled from 01/09/1980 to 02/20/1980, so commenting this episode out -- also, description in the newspapers is incorrect; it's -not- a community for crocodiles.--> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- second reference provides full title for "Skin – The Bare Necessity" --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- Reference for "Edge Of The Cold" title: --> < | -- Second reference provides the complete program title --> < | -- 03/17/1982: "Going Without Gas / Surface Tension / Science Fair" (repeat from 11/05/1980) --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- "Erie Ice", mentioned in the refs, was apparently rescheduled to 11/07/1984, --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- ref for same episode, later date, lists drought segment: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/159557886/ --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- No episode on 11/19/1986 --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- "Fossils" possibly an excerpt from: Burgess Shale: Impressions of Life (1991) --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- References may indicate the title as "A Toxic Journey"; but the title frameon the actual film/video reads "Journey to the Source" --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- This episode is referred to as "Return of the Whooping Cranes" by the CBC in their logs and Hotlist --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- Note: phony archive-date used, because the field is mandatory and the actual archive date is unknown --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | -- mervsheppard blog reference states "Change of Heart" is the show's season premier on Oct 26, 2005 -->< | -- http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/features/new-tv-season-falls-from-reality/ -->< | -- Which of these dates is the "official" start of the season, 08/31/2005 or 10/26/2005, is unclear, but for now --> < | -- ref: CBC Hotsheet: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.tv.networks.cbc/bnXlh3eNFRo --> < | -- ref: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.tv.networks.cbc/76fUt1J4O9Y --> |
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| Title | Broadcast date | Episode < | --[5] --> < | -- The CBC's website and other sources frequently misstate the title of the program -->< | -- Date of the broadcast is not directly stated in the references, but is reasonably well confirmed by --> < | -- -->< | -- Designating this program as the start of another season, as this reference suggests, wouldthrow the season numbers off (as they appear in other sources), so I'm going to assume that this isn't reallythe start of a season, and designate the "Wild China" and "Antarctic Mission" series as specials instead. --> |
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