Episode 1
Aired Jan 12, 1999
The Beast of Loch Ness
Two American scientists search Loch Ness using the latest in sonar equipment to find the sea creature first reported more than 60 years ago.
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Episode 2
Aired Jan 19, 1999
Submarines, Secrets, and Spies
Oceanographer Robert Ballard pores over declassified Cold War documents to learn the fate of two sunken nuclear submarines.
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Episode 3
Aired Feb 2, 1999
Surviving AIDS
What scientists have learned about treating HIV and AIDS from studying people with a natural resistance to the conditions.
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Episode 4
Aired Feb 16, 1999
Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire
The tragedies that led to the mandatory installation of fire hydrants, sprinklers and evacuation drills.
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Episode 5
Aired Feb 16, 1999
Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash
The push for automotive safety that began 100 years ago and prompted such innovations as safety glass, roll bars and air bags.
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Episode 6
Aired Feb 17, 1999
Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship
How the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the Estonia in 1994 have both contributed to international regulations at sea.
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Episode 7
Aired Feb 17, 1999
Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash
A brief history of airplane crashes shows the steps the industry has made toward improving commercial airline safety.
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Episode 8
Aired Feb 23, 1999
Battle Alert in the Gulf
How the U.S. Navy contends with Iraq using a miscellaneous assortment of old and new cruisers, carriers and submarines.
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Episode 9
Aired Mar 30, 1999
Volcanoes of the Deep
The conclusions scientists are drawing about possible life elsewhere in the universe based on the ecosystems surrounding deep-sea volcanoes.
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Episode 10
Aired Oct 5, 1999
Fall of the Leaning Tower
The 10-year attempt to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which began falling 800 years ago, from finally collapsing.
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Episode 11
Aired Oct 6, 1999
Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
In 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappear while climbing Mount Everest.
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Episode 12
Aired Oct 12, 1999
Time Travel
The independent work of physicists Kip Thorne and Guenter Nimtz in exploring time travel using such concepts as wormholes and exotic matter.
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Episode 13
Aired Oct 19, 1999
The Killer's Trail
A re-examination of the forensic evidence largely ignored during the 1954 murder trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard, convicted of killing his wife.
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Episode 14
Aired Nov 2, 1999
Island of the Spirits
Life on the wintry Japanese island of Hokkaido, home to grizzly bears, cranes, flying squirrels, white-tailed eagles and Blakistons fish owls.
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Episode 15
Aired Nov 9, 1999
Decoding Nazi Secrets
How the British group of cryptologists known as Station X cracked the German code Enigma in 1940, helping to change the tide of World War II.
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Episode 16
Aired Nov 23, 1999
Voyage of Doom
The culmination of a 20-year search for a ship lost under the command of the French explorer La Salle in the 1680s.
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Episode 17
Aired Dec 21, 1999
Electric Heart
The work of two medical teams, one headed by Dr. Michael DeBakey and the other by Dr. Robert Jarvik, to invent a reliable mechanical replacement for a failing heart.
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