Episode 1
Aired Jan 16, 2001
Sultan's Lost Treasure
How archeologists were able to reconstruct a 15th-century international trade route following the discovery of a sunken ship containing 12,000 intact porcelain china artifacts.
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Episode 2
Aired Jan 30, 2001
Vanished!
The search for an airliner missing since 1947 after two mountain climbers found pieces of an engine in the Andes Mountains in 1998.
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Episode 3
Aired Feb 6, 2001
Nazi Prison Escape
How more than 300 prisoners managed to escape Colditz Castle in eastern Germany, considered the most formidable Nazi POW camp of World War II.
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Episode 4
Aired Feb 13, 2001
Lost King of the Maya
The 1999 excavation of the tomb of the founder of the Copan dynasty by archaeologist Bill Fash and his team.
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Episode 5
Aired Feb 27, 2001
Cancer Warrior
Dr. Judah Folkman's cancer research using mice that seems to validate his theories from the 1960s regarding tumor growth.
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Episode 6
Aired Mar 27, 2001
Survivor MD: Tattooed Doctor
A Harley-riding doctor faces a busy night in the emergency room when he treats two women, one who chopped off the tip of her finger and another who fell out of a moving car.
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Episode 7
Aired Apr 3, 2001
Survivor MD: Second Opinions
Internist Jane Liebschutz; Dr. Cheryl Dorsey serves as a director of public health; ophthalmologist David Friedman.
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Episode 8
Aired Apr 10, 2001
Survivor MD: Hearts & Minds
The careers of different medical specialists, including a psychiatrist and a cardiologist; surgeons perform an off-pump coronary artery bypass graft.
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Episode 9
Aired Oct 2, 2001
Search for a Safe Cigarette
The debate over attempts by tobacco companies to create a less-toxic cigarette, which critics see as a marketing ploy that will not reduce smoking-related illnesses.
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Episode 10
Aired Oct 9, 2001
18 Ways to Make a Baby?
The advances in medical technology that are allowing infertile couples, post-menopausal women and gay couples to have children.
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Episode 11
Aired Oct 23, 2001
Secrets of the Mind
Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, a brain researcher and expert in neurological deficits, reveals what he has learned about emotion, perception and consciousness.
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Episode 12
Aired Oct 30, 2001
Sex: Unknown
The life of Bruce Reimer, who was surgically castrated at the age of 2 in 1965 and raised as a girl, until biology took over and he insisted he was a boy.
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Episode 13
Aired Nov 6, 2001
Russia's Nuclear Warriors
The men in control of Russia's nuclear missiles and how they are motivated by a strong sense of patriotic duty.
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Episode 14
Aired Nov 13, 2001
Bioterror
Bioterrorism as a new form of warfare includes the biological revolution pioneered by the U.S. and perfected by the Soviet Union.
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Episode 15
Aired Nov 20, 2001
Life's Greatest Miracle
The inside-the-womb story of human life from conception to birth using advances in microscopy and medical imaging.
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Episode 16
Aired Dec 11, 2001
Methuselah Tree
The oldest living thing on Earth -- a bristlecone pine in the California's White Mountains -- which was around when the Egyptian pyramids were built.
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Episode 17
Aired Dec 25, 2001
Flying Casanovas
Species of bower birds, male forest birds native to Australia and New Guinea, and their courting behavior.
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