The Real Thing (1983)

Asking how you tell what's real and what isn't sounds like an obvious question. But in this series of six programmes, James Burke shows that the more you think about it the harder it is to answer. After all, what have you got, apart from your five senses, to prove those senses are giving you the real thing?

The Real Thing

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    The private eye

  • 1x2

    This way up

  • 1x3

    Time out of mind

  • 1x4

    The memory lingers on

  • 1x5

    The view from within

  • 1x6

    Life sentence

Recomendation Series

  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
  • Horizon
  • The Real History of Science Fiction
  • Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
  • Through the Wormhole
  • Eli Roth's History of Horror
  • Great Performances
  • Mind Field
  • Voir
  • History 101
  • The Dead Files
  • The World According to Jeff Goldblum
  • Welcome to Wrexham
  • The Eighties
  • Baseball
  • The Nineties
  • 30 for 30
  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
  • Deadly Women
  • Expedition Unknown

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