COSMOS Series

1. The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
2. One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
3. Harmony of the Worlds
4. Heaven and Hell
5. Blues for a Red Planet
6. Travellers' Tales
7. The Backbone of Night
8. Travels in Space and Time
9. The Lives of the Stars
10. The Edge of Forever
11. The Persistence of Memory
12. Encyclopaedia Galactica
13. Who Speaks for Earth?
14. A Dialog between Carl Sagan and Ted Turner (not included in DVD version)

Cosmos: "A Personal Voyage" is the name of a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until 1990's The Civil War, and is still the most widely watched PBS series in the world.[1] It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 600 million people, according to the Science Channel. A book to accompany the series was also published.

	The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 1) 1980 Carl Sagan talks about galaxies, stars, and planetary systems. On Earth, we visit the ancient library at Alexandria and learn how Erostosthenes computed the Earth's circumference. (Subjects: Astronomy. Galaxies. Stars. Planets.)
	One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 2) 1980 A discussion of the origins of life, natural selection, and how different species adapt to their environment. (Subjects: Natural selection. Evolution. Origin of species. Adaptation.)
	Harmony of the Worlds. (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 3) 1980 Carl Sagan discusses astrology and how people interpreted the patterns of the stars long ago in different civilizations. Johannes Kepler's life and work is also dramatized. (Subjects: Stars. Kepler, Johann, 1571-1630.)
	Heaven and Hell. (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 4) 1980 Using a mysterious blast in Siberia as a starting point, Carl Sagan discusses comets, meteorites, and theories about the planet Venus. (Subjects: Comets. meteorites. The planet, Venus.)
	Blues for a Red Planet. (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 5) 1980 Explores the planet Mars through actual photographs relayed from Mariner and Viking probes. Theories of the planet are discussed, including those of Percival Lowell. (Subject: The planet Mars -- exploration.
	Travellers' Tales (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 6) 1980 On Voyager II's exploratory mission, Jupiter and its satellites are examined. Space exploration in the 20th Century is compared and contrasted to 17th Century exploration by Holland. (Subjects: The planet Jupiter. Project Voyager. Outer Space -- Exploration.)
	The Backbone of Night (56 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 7) 1980 Carl Sagan discusses the ancient Ionian "physicists" of the island of Samos. Many discoveries and concepts were formed here from the concept of the atom to the construction of a celestial globe. (Subjects: Physics -- History. Ancient Science.)
	Travels in Space and Time (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 8) 1980 Carl Sagan discusses the concept of a light-year and Einstein's theory of relativity. Also, the history of ideas proposed for space travel is discussed. (Subjects: Light -- Speed. Interplanetary voyages. Relativity.)
	The Lives of the Stars (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 9) 1980 Carl Sagan explores the nature of atoms and the part that nuclear energy plays in the universe. (Subjects: Nuclear structure. Fusion. Cosmology. Creation. Astronomy.)
	The Edge of Forever (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 10) 1980 Carl Sagan explores the origins of the universe. (Subjects: Cosmology. Creation. Astronomy.)
	The Persistence of Memory (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 11) 1980 Carl Sagan discusses the human brain and genes. This is compared to the way we store information in libraries and computers. (Subjects: Brain, Human genetics.)
	Encyclopedia Galactica (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 12) 1980 Carl Sagan presents a discussion of UFO's and explores the possibility of extraterrestrial life. (Subjects: Unidentified flying objects. Life on other planets.)
	Who Speaks for Earth? (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 13) 1980 "Who Speaks for Earth?" Dr. Carl Sagan discusses how, in the past, humans made war with one another. But now the planet is in the midst of a stirring world-wide revolution to become a single global community, and yet humanity's engines of destruction have become able to destroy our civilization as was the great library at Alexandria in the fourth century.
	Discussions with Dr. Carl Sagan (60 min) Color (Cosmos Series, Part 14) A Dialog between Carl Sagan and Ted Turner 1980 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Board Chairman and President R.D. "Ted" Turner and famed astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan present an informal discussion on current, urgent global problems affecting us in the 20th century and those likely to affect us in the future.

 

 

 

 

COSMOS SPECIAL EDITION

The 1986, special edition of Cosmos is distinctive in many ways. It featured new narration by and filmed segments with Sagan, including content from Sagan's book Comet and discussion of his theory of nuclear winter (none of which was used in subsequent television or home video releases.) The series is much shorter than the original, running four and a half hours. It premiered as one marathon program on the TBS network and has been repeated as six episodes each about 45 minutes in length:

1. Other Worlds
2. Other Worlds
3. Children of the Stars - Part 1
4. Children of the Stars - Part 2
5. Message from the Sky - Part 1
6. Message from the Sky - Part 2

Visually, the series uses several of the historic sequences and animations from the original series, but interweaved are also new computer animated sequences and additional scenes with host Carl Sagan. As known today, the special edition version was at least broadcast in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Australia.

This version of Cosmos contains a mix of music used in the original series, together with a unique score by Vangelis, composed specially for this series. This score in some sources is also referred to as "Comet", with "Comet 16" acting as the title and ending theme of each episode. Only one of the total 21 cues of this score has officially been released, "Comet 16." Some of the new music also appears in the 2000 remastered DVD release.
 

About Music of COSMOS : TV programme "COSMOS SPECIAL" that was broadcasted by Asahi Broadcasting Co.(ABC)in Nippon [Japan] on 24-27 Aug 1987. It is also known as "COSMOS a special edition" that was broadcasted by KCET, USA in the fall of 1986. Not to mention, all of them were performed by Vangelis Papathanassiou himself.

Cosmos series released on DVD