E1 - The Winter Sky

Aired: January 08, 1958

Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.

E2 - Radio Astronomy

Aired: February 05, 1958

Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.

E3 - The Plough

Aired: March 05, 1958

Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

E4 - Penumbral Eclipse

Aired: April 02, 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.

E5 - The Moon

Aired: April 30, 1958

Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.

E6 - Jupiter

Aired: May 28, 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.

E7 - Dwarf and Giant Stars

Aired: June 20, 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

E8 - Moon Missions

Aired: July 23, 1958

Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.

E9 - Telescopes

Aired: August 20, 1958

Patrick Moore talks about old and new telescopes with A. H. Degenhardt, and shows some of the things which the new telescopes can reveal-for instance, about the Andromeda Galaxy, whose light takes nearly two million years to reach us.

E10 - The Universe

Aired: September 17, 1958

Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.

E11 - Mars

Aired: November 17, 1958

Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.

E12 - The Craters on the Moon

Aired: December 15, 1958

Patrick Moore and Dr. Gilbert Fielder discuss the recent report by a Russian astronomer of an eruption on the moon, and what it reveals about the moon's origin and present state.