Aux frontières du possible
Scientific foundation
### Scientific foundation

Each episode, whose adventures are imaginary, is based on real and scientific facts, existing at the time, at the level of laboratories or pilot plants. This relationship to scientific reality and the possibilities offered by these new scientific discoveries gives the name of the series: "At the frontiers of the possible".Jacques Baudou and Jean\-Jacques Schleret, Meurtres en séries : les séries policières de la télévision française, Paris, Éditions Huitième Art, 1995, p. 190,191

Jacques Bergier and Henri Viard are inspired by the most recent scientific and technological advances or unexplained phenomena to write the scenarios of the episodes. They explore the extrapolations that could be imagined from these discoveries.

Many episodes of the series are directly inspired by scientific discoveries of the time:Alain DIANA, "Jacques Bergier became a character of Tintin and Snowy", Télémagazine n°833, 9 October 1971, p. 64,65

The episode "The V Mutation File" is based on the work of Professor Pirie in England, who is seriously studying the possibilities of making diamonds from plants.
The episode "The Radar Man": is inspired by the work of Dr. Delgado of the New York Academy of Sciences, who had the idea of attaching implants and transistors to the nervous system of chimpanzees in order to teleguide them


How do Jacques Bergier and Henri Viard write scenarios for the episodes?