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The Sky at Night - Episode Guide

Season 1957

Season 1958

Season 1959

Season 1960

Uranus

Episode: 1960-05-11 | Airdate: May 11, 1960

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The Moon

Episode: 1960-09-27 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1960

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Season 1961

Season 1962

Season 1963

Space 63

Episode: 1963-01-23 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1963

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Manned Bases On The Moon

Episode: 1963-09-10 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1963 (20 min)

Manned Bases On The Moon

Many of the early Sky at Night programmes were destroyed or lost from the BBC library. Recently this early and very rare programme from 1963 with Arthur C Clarke, was discovered in an African TV station. Patrick and Arthur were both members of the British Interplanetary Society and here they discuss bases on the Moon and Mars. Arthur C Clarke made very few interviews, so this really is a broadcasting gem- once lost, but now found.

 

Star Myths

Episode: 1963-12-13 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1963

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Season 1964

Quasars

Episode: 1964-07-24 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1964

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Season 1965

Season 1966

Sun Time

Episode: 1966-08-05 | Airdate: Aug 5, 1966

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Season 1967

Vega

Episode: 1967-06-23 | Airdate: Jun 23, 1967

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Season 1968

Pulsars

Episode: 1968-07-19 | Airdate: Jul 19, 1968

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Season 1969

Moonquakes

Episode: 1969-09-18 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1969

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Relativity

Episode: 1969-06-09 | Airdate: Jun 9, 1969

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Season 1970

Moonrock

Episode: 1970-01-12 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1970

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Moon Quakes

Episode: 1970-09-15 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1970

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Season 1971

Target Mars

Episode: 1971-11-17 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1971

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Season 1972

X-Ray Stars

Episode: 1972-02-02 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1972

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Mars

Episode: 1972-10-02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1972

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Season 1973

Jupiter

Episode: 1973-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1973

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Season 1974

Season 1975

The Outer Planets

Episode: 1975-04-30 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1975 (15 min)

The Outer Planets

A look back at a Sky at Night episode from 1975. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all on view. Each has its own special points of interest and Patrick Moore talks about these remote members of the Sun's family.

 

Season 1976

Season 1977

Season 1978

Season 1979

The Zodiac

Episode: 1979-08-21 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1979

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Season 1980

Quasars

Episode: 1980-07-10 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1980

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Season 1981

Season 1982

The Winter Sky

Episode: 1982-01-10 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1982 (20 min)

The Winter Sky

Patrick Moore talks about lunar eclipses, looking in particular at the eclipse of 6 January 1982, and describes features in the January night sky.

 

Season 1983

Season 1984

Cooking The Elements

Episode: 1984-05-20 | Airdate: May 20, 1984 (20 min)

Cooking The Elements

Most astronomers believe that the universe began with a big bang, perhaps 15 billion years ago, and that all the elements have since been built up out of the original hydrogen by being 'cooked' inside stars which have long since exploded.

Season 1985

Moon Rills

Episode: 1985-05-05 | Airdate: May 5, 1985

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Summer Sky

Episode: 1985-06-30 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1985

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Mizar

Episode: 1985-08-18 | Airdate: Aug 18, 1985

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Season 1986

Season 1987

High Moon

Episode: 1987-06-14 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1987

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Season 1988

Radio Stars

Episode: 1988-11-13 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1988

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Season 1989

Season 1990

Season 1991

Season 1992

Sky-Watcher

Episode: 1992-02-23 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1992

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Season 1993

Star Death

Episode: 1993-05-30 | Airdate: May 30, 1993

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Specials

Guides: Planets

Episode: 2018 Special | Airdate: May 17, 2018 (60 min)

Guides: Planets

The planets have fascinated us for millennia, but over the past 60 years our understanding of them has been transformed. Using The Sky at Night archives, Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes us on a spectacular voyage of discovery through our exploration of the planets. From incredible technological achievements, to astonishing phenomena such as epic storms on Jupiter and the stunningly complex rings of Saturn, this is the definitive guide to the planets. And the journey doesn't end at the edges of our solar system. We're now discovering that the Milky Way is full of weird and wonderful exoplanets outside our own solar system. Yet the more we learn, the more we discover how special our own planet really is.

Guides: Galaxies

Episode: 2018 Special | Airdate: May 24, 2018 (60 min)

Guides: Galaxies

Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe. Our solar system sits inside a huge galaxy that we call the Milky Way - home to as many as 300 billion stars. But the Milky Way is itself just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. Over the last 60 years of broadcasting, the Sky at Night has covered every major story of discovery about the galaxies, and in this film presenter Chris Lintott uses this archive to reveal the deepest secrets of galaxies, from their earliest beginnings to their very ends.

Guides: Stars

Episode: 2019 Special | Airdate: Apr 10, 2019 (60 min)

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Chris Lintott opens up The Sky at Night's 60-year archive to reveal how stars work, their life cycles and how their own demise holds the key to our very existence.

Review of the Year

Episode: 2019 Special | Airdate: Dec 8, 2019

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Looking back on the major stories of the year - from the New Horizons mission to the most distant world we have ever visited to the release of the first-ever picture of a black hole. The team relive the highlights and uncover the latest developments.

Guides: Comets and Asteroids

Episode: 2019 Special | Airdate: Dec 29, 2019

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Comets and asteroids have been witnessed in our skies for millennia, but only now can we see these tiny, mysterious worlds up close. What will the next one bring us?

The episode list was truncated because of the large number of episodes. Visit the seasons page to see individual seasons' episode guides.

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