Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

Directed by

Adrian Malone

Genre

popular science, documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TP

Rating

8.7 of 10 from 443 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Host Carl Sagan presents a science documentary series covering cosmology and the origin of life. He explains complex scientific topics with wonder and clear language.

awe-inspiringthoughtfulcontemplativeeducationalsoberwonder-filledlyricalexpansive

What happens

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a 1980 science documentary television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, especially cosmology and its connection to the origin of life. Owing to its bestselling companion book and soundtrack album using the title, Cosmos, the series is widely known by this title, with the subtitle omitted from home video packaging. The subtitle began to be used more frequently in the 2010s to differentiate it from the sequel series that followed. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world. It won two Emmys and a Peabody Award, and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people. A book was also published to accompany the series. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage has been considered highly significant since its broadcast; David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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