Discover Magazine (TV series)
A documentary series based on the science magazine.
Discover Magazine is a documentary television series that aired on the Disney Channel from 1992 to 1994 and later on Discovery Channel from 1996 to 2000. The series was named after the magazine of the same name. It received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Informational Series and Outstanding Non-Fiction Series.
Quick Facts
- Original network
- Disney Channel (1992–1994), Discovery Channel (1996–2000)
- Narrator (disney channel)
- Joseph Campanella
- Host (discovery channel)
- Peter DeMeo (1996–1998)
- Emmy nominations
- Outstanding Informational Series (1996)
- Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (1997)
- and one other
Facts from the source article.
Overview
Producer-director Les Guthman created the series at the Walt Disney Company in 1991 after licensing television rights to Discover Magazine from Family Media in 1990. Disney bought the magazine in 1991. Guthman produced two seasons on The Disney Channel from 1992 to 1994. After the channel abandoned its family-adult prime time schedule, Guthman worked with Disney President and CEO Frank Wells to sell the series to Discovery Communications in late 1994.
Episodes
Episodes include "A Monster's Tale" about Komodo dragons in Indonesia; "Avalanche: Bracing for Disaster"; "Bones" on dinosaur fossils; "Cops and Robbers" on crime-fighting technology; "Crime Lab" covering crime-solving techniques, Pan Am Flight 103, and the World Trade Center bombing; "Catastrophes" about the MGM Grand fire and Titanic; "Engineering Secrets"; "Fear" on soldiers overcoming fear, prolonged fear causing brain damage, and Walt Disney World's Tower of Terror ride, featuring Martin Samuels, Joseph E. LeDoux, Roger Pitman, Michael Davis, and Larry Cahill, produced by Big Rock Productions; "Forensic Detectives" about a 19th-century crime; "Ghost Ships of Pisa" on Roman ships in Pisa, Italy; "Hidden Temples" on Khmer empire temples; "Hidden Worlds" on Mammoth Cave and underground sewage tunnels; "Imagining the Devil"; "Immortality"; "Inside an Earthquake"; "Internet Safety Spot" hosted by the Callistos and produced by Banyan Productions; "Islands of Mystery"; "Lost in Time"; "Mummies"; "Mummies of the Philippines"; "Nature's Greatest Hits"; "Science Detectives"; "Secrets of the Samurai"; "Speed" on race horses, drag racers, fast airplanes, and slowing atoms; "The Body Electric"; "The Last Neanderthals"; "The Mysteries of Jade"; "The New Alcatraz"; "The Next Plague" on Malaysia containing the Pinna Virus in pigs; "The Pioneers of Flight"; "Uranium Cops"; "Who Were the First Americans?"; "The Ten Great Unanswered Questions of Science"; "Ants, with Edward O. Wilson"; "First Humans, with Jared Diamond"; "Dinosaur Heresies, with Bob Bakker"; "Keck Telescope"; "Magellan Explores Venus"; "Super Computer Graphics"; "The Prehistoric Origins of Art"; "Solar Aquatics"; "Ocean Drifters: Charting the Currents"; and "DNA and Disease".
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