3x1 - Episode 1

January 6, 1963

Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items.

3x2 - Brainwashing

January 13, 1963

British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of mind.

3x3 - Tubes To Transistors

January 20, 1963

Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age brought about by vacuum tube and transistor.

3x4 - From Water To Land

January 27, 1963

Palaeontologist Dr Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures.

3x5 - Chemistry Of Salt

February 3, 1963

Dr Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about sources and chemistry of salt and industrial applications of salt and its components.

3x6 - Ear Operation

February 10, 1963

Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist.

3x7 - The Way The Ball Bounces

February 17, 1963

Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball.

3x8 - Lie Detectors

February 24, 1963

This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal.

3x9 - Smoking And Lung Cancer

March 3, 1963

In cooperation with National Cancer Institute and Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America.

3x10 - Science Museum

March 10, 1963

To commemorate the Canadian Centennial in 1967 it has been proposed that Canada build a national museum of science. The program includes filmed demonstrations of how science and technology can be made meaningful to the general public.

3x11 - Tornadoes

March 24, 1963

3x12 - The Descent of Man

March 31, 1963

Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. Guest Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and paleontologist, unearthed fossil remains in the Olduvai Gorge that have extended the time scale of human evolution from 500,000 to two million years or more. A deductive story in anthropology and paleontology is told as Dr. Leakey describes his finds and interprets their significance

3x13 - Isaac Newton

April 7, 1963

Series consultant Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Sir Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture the spirit of the time through the words of Newton himself and those of his contemporaries

3x14 - New Atoms For Old

April 14, 1963

3x15 - Car Crashes

April 21, 1963

What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash?

3x16 - Bird Migration

May 5, 1963

3x17 - Fact & Fiction

May 12, 1963

Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis.

3x19 - The Chemistry Of Bread

May 26, 1963

Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of fundamental chemical actions are demonstrated in baking of one loaf of bread

3x20 - The Infra-Red

June 2, 1963

Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses.

3x21 - Human Overpopulation

June 9, 1963

In aftermath of industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now held about future food supply.

3x22 - Mars

June 16, 1963

3x23 - Spiders

June 23, 1963

3x24 - Hypnosis

June 30, 1963