Through the Wormhole is an American science documentary television series narrated and hosted by American actor Morgan Freeman. It began airing on Science in the United States on June 9, 2010.[1] The series concluded its run on May 16, 2017.[2]

Development and production [ edit ]

The TV network Science has been highlighting what VP of Production Bernadette McDaid calls the "Rock Stars of Science",[3] and physics outreach such as Michio Kaku and Brian Cox. "We wanted to merge our 'Rock Stars of Science' ... with the superstars of pop culture."[3] When Science general manager Deborah Myers heard that Morgan Freeman was very interested in things to do with the universe and space and "asks the big philosophical questions",[3] she approached Freeman and his producer and proposed making a series together.[3]

On February 17, 2011, Sean Carroll confirmed on his Twitter page that filming of season 2 of Through the Wormhole began.[4] On May 17, 2011, Discovery confirmed the second season would premiere on Science on June 8, 2011.[5] An episode from the second season was supposed to air on July 13, 2011,[5] but went unaired. It was later released on the season 2 DVD as the sixth episode.[6]

On January 3, 2012, Sean Carroll posted a picture on his Twitter page, mentioning that it was taken during the taping of season 3.[7] Season 3 began with a special episode on March 6, 2012,[8] and the remaining nine episodes began airing on June 6, 2012.[9]

Season 4 of Through the Wormhole began with a special episode on March 20, 2013,[10] and the remaining nine episodes began airing on June 5, 2013.[11]

On October 9, 2013, the Science Channel began airing enhanced episodes of the show under the title Beyond the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.[12]

Season 5 of Through the Wormhole began with a special episode on March 5, 2014,[13] and the remaining nine episodes began airing on June 4, 2014.[14]

On March 10, 2014, series producer Anthony Lund stated in an interview with the Los Angeles Post-Examiner that "Wormhole season 6 is a GO, and I’m dreaming of new, thought provoking ideas to explore with this show."[15]

Season 6 of Through the Wormhole premiered on April 29, 2015.[16] Season 6 consists of six episodes, unlike the previous seasons, which all have ten (except season 1, which has 8 episodes).[17]

On March 31, 2016, Science Channel announced it would return for a seventh season,[18] which premiered on August 30, 2016. The eighth and final season premiered on April 25, 2017.

Series overview [ edit ]

Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 8 June 9, 2010 ( ) July 28, 2010 ( 2010-07-28 ) 2 10 June 8, 2011 ( ) August 3, 2011 ( 2011-08-03 ) 3 10 March 6, 2012 ( ) August 8, 2012 ( 2012-08-08 ) 4 10 March 20, 2013 ( ) July 31, 2013 ( 2013-07-31 ) 5 10 March 5, 2014 ( ) July 23, 2014 ( 2014-07-23 ) 6 6 April 29, 2015 ( ) June 3, 2015 ( 2015-06-03 ) 7 4 August 30, 2016 ( ) September 20, 2016 ( 2016-09-20 ) 8 4 April 25, 2017 ( ) May 16, 2017 ( 2017-05-16 )

Episodes [ edit ]

Season 1 (2010) [ edit ]

Season 2 (2011) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date 9 1 "Is There Life After Death?" June 8, 2011 ( ) 10 2 "Is There an Edge to the Universe?" June 15, 2011 ( ) 11 3 "Does Time Really Exist?" June 22, 2011 ( ) 12 4 "Are There More than Three Dimensions?" June 29, 2011 ( ) 13 5 "Is There a Sixth Sense?" July 6, 2011 ( ) 14 6 "Are There Parallel Universes?" Unaired 15 7 "How Does the Universe Work?" July 13, 2011 ( ) 16 8 "Can We Travel Faster Than Light?" July 20, 2011 ( ) 17 9 "Can We Live Forever?" July 27, 2011 ( ) 18 10 "What Do Aliens Look Like?" August 3, 2011 ( )

Season 3 (2012) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date 19 1 "Will We Survive First Contact?" March 6, 2012 ( ) 20 2 "Is There a Superior Race?" June 6, 2012 ( ) 21 3 "Is The Universe Alive?" June 13, 2012 ( ) 22 4 "What Makes Us Who We Are?" June 20, 2012 ( ) 23 5 "What is Nothing?" June 27, 2012 ( ) 24 6 "Can We Resurrect The Dead?" July 11, 2012 ( ) 25 7 "Can We Eliminate Evil?" July 18, 2012 ( ) 26 8 "Mysteries of the Subconscious" July 25, 2012 ( ) 27 9 "Will Eternity End?" August 1, 2012 ( ) 28 10 "Did We Invent God?" August 8, 2012 ( )

Season 4 (2013) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date 29 1 "Is There a God Particle?" March 20, 2013 ( ) 30 2 "When Does Life Begin?" June 5, 2013 ( ) 31 3 "Can We Survive the Death of the Sun?" June 12, 2013 ( ) 32 4 "How Do Aliens Think?" June 19, 2013 ( ) 33 5 "Will Sex Become Extinct?" June 26, 2013 ( ) 34 6 "Can Our Minds Be Hacked?" July 3, 2013 ( ) 35 7 "Are Robots the Future of Human Evolution?" July 10, 2013 ( ) 36 8 "Is Reality Real?" July 17, 2013 ( ) 37 9 "Do We Have Free Will?" July 24, 2013 ( ) 38 10 "Did God Create Evolution?" July 31, 2013 ( )

Season 5 (2014) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date 39 1 "Is God an Alien Concept?" March 5, 2014 ( ) 40 2 "Is Luck Real?" March 12, 2014 ( ) 41 3 "Is Poverty Genetic?" June 4, 2014 ( ) 42 4 "How to Collapse a Superpower" June 11, 2014 ( ) 43 5 "Does the Ocean Think?" June 18, 2014 ( ) 44 6 "Is a Zombie Apocalypse Possible?" June 25, 2014 ( ) 45 7 "Is Gravity An Illusion?" July 2, 2014 ( ) 46 8 "Will We Become God?" July 9, 2014 ( ) 47 9 "Is There a Shadow Universe?" July 16, 2014 ( ) 48 10 "When Did Time Begin?" July 23, 2014 ( )

Season 6 (2015) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date US viewers

(millions) 49 1 "Are We All Bigots?" April 29, 2015 ( ) 0.411[19] 50 2 "Can Time Go Backwards?" May 6, 2015 ( ) 0.335[20] 51 3 "Are We Here for a Reason?" May 13, 2015 ( ) 0.401[21] 52 4 "Do We Live in the Matrix?" May 20, 2015 ( ) 0.467[22] 53 5 "Are Aliens Inside Us?" May 27, 2015 ( ) 0.303[23] 54 6 "Why Do We Lie?" June 3, 2015 ( ) 0.307[24]

Season 7 (2016) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date US viewers

(millions) 55 1 "What Makes a Terrorist?" August 30, 2016 ( ) 0.466[25] 56 2 "Is Privacy Dead?" September 6, 2016 ( ) 0.364[26] 57 3 "Are There More Than Two Sexes?" September 13, 2016 ( ) 0.357[27] 58 4 "Can We All Become Geniuses?" September 20, 2016 ( ) 0.332[28]

Season 8 (2017) [ edit ]

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season Title Original air date US viewers

(millions) 59 1 "Is the Force With Us?" April 25, 2017 ( ) 0.369[29] 60 2 "Can We Cheat Death?" May 2, 2017 ( ) 0.347[30] 61 3 "Can We Hack the Planet?" May 9, 2017 ( ) 0.282[31] 62 4 "Is Gun Crime a Virus?" May 16, 2017 ( ) 0.206[32]

DVD releases [ edit ]

In region 1, season 1 was released on DVD on March 8, 2011,[33] season 2 was released on November 22, 2011,[6] season 3 was released on October 23, 2012,[34] season 4 was released on September 16, 2014,[35] season 5 was released on June 16, 2015,[36] and season 6 was released on December 15, 2016.[37]

See also [ edit ]