Connections (1978)
- Genre: Documentary
- Creator: James Burke
- First Air Date: 1978-10-17
- Last Air Date: 1997-01-01
- Total Seasons: 5
- Total Episodes: 52
- Status: Returning Series
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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Trigger Effect | 1978-10-17 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Death in the Morning | 1978-10-24 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Distant Voices | 1978-10-31 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Faith in Numbers | 1978-11-07 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Wheel of Fortune | 1978-11-14 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Thunder in the Skies | 1978-11-21 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Long Chain | 1978-11-28 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Eat, Drink and Be Merry | 1978-12-05 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Countdown | 1978-12-12 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Yesterday, Tomorrow and You | 1978-12-19 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Revolutions | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Sentimental Journeys | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Getting It Together | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Whodunit? | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Something for Nothing | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Echoes of the Past | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Photo Finish | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Separate Ways | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | High Times | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Deja Vu | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | New Harmony | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Hot Pickle | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Big Spin | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | Bright Ideas | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | Making Waves | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | Routes | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | One Word | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | Sign Here | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | Better Than the Real Thing | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | Flexible Response | 1994-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Feedback | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | What's in a Name? | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Drop the Apple | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Invisible Object | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Life is No Picnic | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Elementary Stuff | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | A Special Place | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Fire From the Sky | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Hit the Water | 1997-12-31 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | In Touch | 1997-12-31 | min |
