This seven-part BBC drama series traced the life of naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-82), from his university days through his five-year exploratory voyage on the HMS Beagle to the controversy surrounding the 1859 publication of his landmark "On the Origin of Species".
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | I Was Considered a Very Ordinary Boy | 1978-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | My Mind Was a Chaos of Delight | 1978-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | How Wide Was the Distance Between Savage and Civilised Man? | 1978-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Can Any Mountains, Any Continent, Withstand Such Waste? | 1978-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | I Felt Myself Brought Within Reach of that Great Fact, That Mystery of Mysteries | 1978-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Suppose That All Animals and All Plants Are Represented by the Branch of a Tree, the Tree of Life | 1978-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | In the Distance Future, Light Will Be Thrown on the Origin of Man, and His History | 1978-12-12 | 60 min |
