
Season 2 (1962)
Episodes: 24
Star Cast:
Episodes List

Ep.1 Looking Ahead
Air Date: 1962-01-04

Ep.2 Photography in Science
Air Date: 1962-01-11

Ep.3 To Educate a Scientist
Air Date: 1962-01-18

Ep.4 The Situation Is Fluid
Air Date: 1962-01-25

Ep.5 Gallstones
Air Date: 1962-02-01

Ep.6 The Upper Mantle Project
Air Date: 1962-02-08

Ep.7 The Physics of Music
Air Date: 1962-02-22

Ep.8 Survival
Air Date: 1962-03-01
An appraisal of the probable effects of a large-scale nuclear blast over a North American city. Dr. Tom Stonier of the Rockefeller Institute of Government discusses what can be expected to happen to people and property as a result of such a blast.

Ep.9 Man and the Moon
Air Date: 1962-03-08

Ep.10 Hibernating Molecules
Air Date: 1962-03-15
Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume talk about conditions at extremely cold temperatures, when matter 'hibernates' and molecular action slows almost to a complete stop, and how this allows physicists to study the basic structure of matter.

Ep.11 Monkey Curiosity
Air Date: 1962-03-29

Ep.12 Spermatozoa
Air Date: 1962-04-05
Lord Rothschild of the University of Cambridge describes the results of his research in the field of spermatozoa

Ep.13 Animals With Feathers
Air Date: 1962-04-12
Dr. William Swinton, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's Life Sciences Department, and John Livingston, executive director of the National Audubon Society, trace the history of birds

Ep.14 Getting the Upper Hand
Air Date: 1962-04-26

Ep.15 Thinking about Math
Air Date: 1962-05-03
Host Lister Sinclair discusses the thinking that goes into the science of mathematics. Using animated film and studio demonstrations, he explains Mathematical logic

Ep.16 The Plague
Air Date: 1962-05-10

Ep.17 Instant Heat
Air Date: 1962-05-17
Co-hosted by Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey, of the University of Toronto. They show how electricity can be produced directly from heat, and vice versa, and discuss the difficulties of transforming thermal energy into electrical energy.

Ep.18 A Science Newsreel
Air Date: 1962-05-24

Ep.19 Learning
Air Date: 1962-06-07

Ep.20 A Bang-Up Job
Air Date: 1962-06-21

Ep.21 Out of Africa
Air Date: 1962-06-28

Ep.22 Count on Me
Air Date: 1962-07-05
Computers are given the once-over by Drs. Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume.

Ep.23 Blood in the Balance
Air Date: 1962-07-19

Ep.24 Episode 24
Air Date: 1962-07-26
Examines work of Dr. William Sheldon, who has spent 30 years gathering statistics about the human physique, classifying body types, and correlating this information to medical and psychiatric studies