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Connections (1978)

Name: Connections
Genre: Documentary, History
Rating: 9.3
Cast: James Burke, Kenneth Kendall, Bruce Boa, Mark Wing-Davey, Ted Burnett

3 seasons40 episodes50 min per episode★ 9.3 · 1,659 votes

Documentary
History

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually ancient or medieval) and traces a path from that event through a series of connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.

First aired: October 17, 1978
Last episode: January 1, 1997
Network: BBC One, TLC
Country of origin: United Kingdom, United States

Seasons

Connections10 episodes · 1978
Connections²20 episodes · 1994
Connections³10 episodes · 1997

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Cast

James Burke as Self - Presenter
Kenneth Kendall as Newsreader
Bruce Boa as Newsreader
Mark Wing-Davey as Henry V
Ted Burnett as Man Carrying Barrel
Keith Macey as Saxon Child