January 2, 1994
What do all these things have in common—three grandfathers' lifetimes, two revolutions, 1750 Cornish steam engines for Cornwall's ...Read more
January 16, 1994
What do these have in common – Freud, lifestyle crisis, electric shock therapy, hypnotherapy, magnetism, phrenology, penology, phy...Read more
February 6, 1994
James Burke explains the relationship between hot air balloons and laughing gas, and goes on to surgery, hydraulic-water gardens, ...Read more
February 20, 1994
This episode starts with a billiard ball and ends with a billiard ball. Along the way, Burke examines Georgius Agricola's De Re Me...Read more
March 6, 1994
How do space shuttle landings start with the vacuum which was forbidden by the Church? Burke takes us on an adventure with baromet...Read more
March 20, 1994
The past in this case starts with the tea in Dutch-ruled India, examines the Japanese tea ceremony, Zen Buddhism, porcelain, the a...Read more
April 3, 1994
Another series of discoveries examined by Burke includes Eastman Kodak's Brownie, the disappearing elephant scare of 1867, billiar...Read more
April 17, 1994
Burke shows how to get from sugar to atomic weapons by two totally independent paths. The first involves African slaves, Abolition...Read more
May 8, 1994
The connection between polyethylene and Big Ben is a few degrees of separation, so let us recount them: polyethylene, radar, soap,...Read more
May 22, 1994
James Burke provides evidence that history does repeat itself by examining the likes of black and white movies, conquistadors, Per...Read more
May 22, 1994
A dream of utopia is followed from microchips to Singapore, from the transistor to its most important element, germanium, to Ming ...Read more
June 5, 1994
Burke starts out in a spice market in Istanbul where you can find hot pickle, recounts the taking of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453,
June 5, 1994
The Big Spin is what California's lottery TV show is called. And lottery being a game of chance, from here Burke takes us through ...Read more
June 19, 1994
Gin and tonic was invented to combat malaria in British colonies like
July 3, 1994
A permanent wave in ladies' hair is aided by curlers, and this leads us to explore borax, taking us to Switzerland, Johann Sutter'...Read more
July 17, 1994
Jethro Tull, a sick English lawyer, recuperates sipping wine and contributes the hoe to help fix farming problems. Farm production...Read more
July 24, 1994
How one word changed history
July 31, 1994
Episode 18 of Connections² premiered on July 31, 1994
August 7, 1994
Episode 19 of Connections² premiered on August 7, 1994
August 14, 1994
Episode 20 of Connections² premiered on August 14, 1994