Basic Info

First Air: October 25, 1990

Rating: ⭐ 10.0/10 (1 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Last Episode

Name: Il cuore

Season: 1, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1990-12-13

Runtime: 63 min

A journey to discover the "engine" of the organism: the heart. At the beginning of the episode Angela asks a series of questions: how many times does this organ beat in a lifetime? How does it work? What exactly happens when something goes wrong? The description of this "four-chamber pump" is careful and punctual, as in Piero Angela's style. When observed under a scanning electron microscope, the organ reveals many interesting details that are worth paying attention to.

La macchina meravigliosa

1990 1 seasons 8 episodes ⭐ 10.0/10 1 votes

Overview

A long journey in 8 episodes to discover the human body, with Piero Angela who closely observes our organism, focusing each time on a theme: the eye, the ear, taste and smell, the stomach and the intestine, liver, bones, lungs and heart. How does our "wonder machine" work? To make each explanation direct and clear, the program uses films, animations and photographs developed with the scanning electron microscope.