''Discover Magazine'' is a 1992–2000
documentary television series that aired on the
Disney Channel
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from 1992 to 1994 and then on
Discovery Channel
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from 1996 to 2000. The series is named after the magazine of the same name, ''
Discover Magazine''. The Disney Channel series was narrated by actor
Joseph Campanella.
Discovery Channel
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series was
hosted by
Peter DeMeo
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a sur ...
from 1996 to 1998. The series was nominated for an
Emmy Award
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for "Outstanding Informational Series" in 1996, 1997 for "Outstanding Non-Fiction Series", and one other time
The series was created by producer-director
Les Guthman
Les Guthman is an American director, writer, editor and production executive, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the ''20 Top Adventure Films of All Time'', according to '' Men's Journal'' magazine, and having won the Nation ...
at the
Walt Disney Company in 1991, after Guthman licensed the television rights to ''
Discover Magazine'' from Family Media in 1990. (Disney subsequently bought ''Discover Magazine'' in 1991.) Guthman produced the series for two seasons on The Disney Channel, 1992–1994, and then working with Disney President and CEO
Frank Wells sold the series to
Discovery Communications in late 1994, after The Disney Channel abandoned its family-adult prime time schedule.
Discovery Channel episodes
''(in alphabetical order; there may be others)''
* "A Monster's Tale":
Komodo dragons in
Indonesia
* "Avalanche: Bracing for
Disaster"
* "Bones"
* "Cops and Robbers":
Crime-fighting technology
* "
Crime Lab": Crime-solving techniques;
Pan Am Flight 103
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;
World Trade Center bombing
* "Catastrophes" :
MGM Grand fire,
Titanic
* "Engineering Secrets"
* "Fear": Soldiers are trained to overcome fear, exposure to prolonged fear causes
brain damage
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in humans,
Walt Disney World's Tower of Terror ride; features
Martin Samuels (Chief of Neurology at
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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),
''Physician's Profile: Martin Allen Samuels, M.D.''
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux (born December 7, 1949) is an American neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety. LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science a ...
, Roger Pitman
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, Michael Davis, Larry Cahill
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Larry may refer to the following:
People Arts and entertainment
*Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer
*Larry Boone, ...
; produced by Big Rock Productions.
* "Forensic Detectives": One of the most shocking crimes of the 19th century has a new twist.
* "Ghost Ships of Pisa": Roman ships in Pisa, Italy
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* "Hidden Temples": People continue to find temples of the ancient Khmer empire.
* "Hidden Worlds": Mammoth Cave in Kentucky; underground sewage tunnel
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s.
* "Immortality"
* "Inside an Earthquake"
* "Internet Safety Spot" Episode Notes: This Episode has the Callistos hosting and this episode is 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": Physical limitations of race horses; mechanics of drag racers; fast airplanes; slowing down atoms.
* "The Body Electric"
* "The Last Neanderthals": Neanderthals disappear without a trace.
* "The Mysteries of Jade
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"
* "The New Alcatraz"
* "The Next Plague": How Malaysia struggled to contain the deadly Pinna Virus
Pinna may refer to:
Biology
* Pinna (anatomy), the outer part of the ear - also referred to as the ''auricle''
* ''Pinna'' (bivalve), a genus of bivalve molluscs also known as "pen shells"
* Pinna (botany), a primary segment of a compound leaf
...
affecting pigs.
* "The Pioneers of Flight"
* "Who Were the First Americans?"
Disney Channel episodes
* "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"
* "DNA and Disease"
References
External links
The Science Channel: ''Discover Magazine'' schedule
*
{{Discovery Channel programming
Science Channel original programming
Documentary television series about science
1990s American documentary television series
2000s American documentary television series
1992 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
Discovery Channel original programming