S3 E1 • Season 3 Episode 1

Segments in the third-season opener include a horned toad that survived 31 years in a time capsule; training procedures at the Los Angeles Police Academy; advances in medical technology providing new treatments for kidney stones and tumors; recordings attached to the Voyager space vehicles; mushrooms.

Première diffusion : 23 septembre 1984

S3 E2 • Season 3 Episode 2

- Go deep into ancient catacombs to meet some of the world's best-dressed mummies - Peel away the glitter of Las Vegas to see how hidden cameras keep an eye on the action - Take a close look at an Australian lizard that inspired a dance craze in Japan - Attend a class where future morticians learn to recreate the faces of the dead - Find out how experts make sure gamblers get a fair shot at a winning roll - Share the inspiration of a young boy who ignores the loss of his arms - Get as close as you dare to a frog that can kill with a single touch - Watch carefully as a professional dealer reveals the secrets of card cheats - Examine the remains of a Chinese holy man preserved under a thin layer of gold

Première diffusion : 7 octobre 1984

S3 E3 • Season 3 Episode 3

- Explore new techniques that may one day permit the blind to see - Handle deadly cobras in India to honor the great god Shiva - Examine the specimens in one of the world's most unusual collections - Share one woman's devotion to the care and protection of turtles - Blast off with a jet engine to crate a new form of modern art - Share a meal with feathered friends in a unique Hong Kong restaurant - Go on a painful pilgrimage in Guatemala to honor an ancient statue - Learn how dogs guide the deaf through a silent world - Go inside a factory where original art is mass produced - Probe the mysterious processes of the human brain at work - Shatter ancient rocks to reveal masterpieces billions of years old

Première diffusion : 14 octobre 1984

S3 E4 • Season 3 Episode 4

- Roman food tasters - Snake venom collectors - Belgian World War II ordnance collectors - English steeplejack Fred Dibnah - Dabbawalas in Bombay - Exotic butcher in Illinois - Dolphins who swim along the shore to play with humans - Gem mining in Colombia

Première diffusion : 21 octobre 1984

S3 E5 • Season 3 Episode 5

- Chip away with Chinese artists to build ice palaces worthy of an emperor - Peer inside a complex bionic arm that gives amputees a new hold on life - Scoop up a small fortune in coins at a laundry that washes money - Witness the breakup of a frozen river in Alaska that's worth over $100,000 - Watch as scientists demonstrate new weapons in a war against cockroaches - Bang away with a Texan determined to cover his home with empty beer cans - Fire explosives into an Austrian mountainside to start a thundering avalanche - Push, pull, hoist, and hammer in a hectic race to build an instant house

Première diffusion : 28 octobre 1984

S3 E6 • Season 3 Episode 6

Included: a paperclip trick; whale artist John Perry;[11] fishing with a kite; a house of jigsaw puzzles; torture tests for household appliances (UL (safety organization)); military experts setting off a large conventional explosion (Trinity (nuclear test)); hunting for spider webs; Fillmore fish hatchery; salmon struggling to reach their spawning ground; the top-secret preparations for the D-day invasion; books made of wood pulp.

Première diffusion : 11 novembre 1984

S3 E7 • Season 3 Episode 7

Typhoid Mary; Explosives Marcelo Ramos; Controlled Demolition, Inc.; Double Dutch (jump rope) at Lincoln Center; thoroughbreds; cheetah w/ tiger stripes; Walking catfish; Dougal Dixon; Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered Petra; the Anasazi; a vacuum & cork trick.

Première diffusion : 18 novembre 1984

S3 E8 • Season 3 Episode 8

Balloon puncture trick; U.S. Navy survival training; British Royal Tournament; baseball for blind National Beep Baseball Association; handicapped man competes in Paralympic Games; Stephen Hawking; soil samples from Mars; a volcanic eruption on a moon of Jupiter; the Moon landing; astronauts training for zero gravity; Space Flight Operations Facility; a rooftop garden in New York City; a machine that picks apples; using corn smut in Mexico; how a grammatical error cost $2 million.

Première diffusion : 25 novembre 1984

S3 E9 • Season 3 Episode 9

Included: D.H. Lawrence's final resting place; a painless way to gather wool from sheep in Australia; Jerusalem's sacred Western Wall; milking cows by computer in Holland; how to make fertilizer; a valuable garbage dump; how to make a bulletproof window; luring rats to their deaths.

Première diffusion : 2 décembre 1984

S3 E10 • Season 3 Episode 10

Included: how America was named; a fire that burned for eight months; a high-stakes poker game pitting a man against a computer; an artist who paints with cobwebs; how Leonardo kept his ideas secret; why $500 million is gathering dust in storage; a tower built as a home for bats; triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13..

Première diffusion : 9 décembre 1984

S3 E11 • Season 3 Episode 11

Included: the friendship of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison; the Fourth of July; how the New Year is celebrated in Japan; 10 days in history that have been lost forever; art of camouflage; how skiers keep in shape during the summer; sky divers performing at 14,000 feet.

Première diffusion : 16 décembre 1984

S3 E12 • Season 3 Episode 12

Segments include crime-prevention techniques; reconstructing faces from skulls; how a slave won freedom with a snake bite; controlling the weather; how to make sea water drinkable; a customized Mercedes-Benz with a TV and fireplace; milk-carton boats; water that can cut through steel.

Première diffusion : 6 janvier 1985

S3 E13 • Season 3 Episode 13

Segments include a computer that helps create speech for the disabled; a scheme to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap iron; F-15 pilots in mock aerial combat; how America saved the French wine industry; a pumpkin that weighs some 550 pounds.

Première diffusion : 13 janvier 1985

S3 E14 • Season 3 Episode 14

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls; armor for an elephant; a 13-year-old test pilot; James Joyce and the longest passage in English literature; solar -powered planes; endangered turtles; CPR; arthroscopic knee surgery.

Première diffusion : 27 janvier 1985

S3 E15 • Season 3 Episode 15

Segments on sleep research; Einstein's brain; a wedding performed in a tub; how visual brain waves can assist the handicapped; a Japanese ritual battle to ensure a bountiful harvest; a mountain village where people dress up as wild bears; a fish that lives in the desert.

Première diffusion : 3 février 1985

S3 E16 • Season 3 Episode 16

Pulling a dollar bill between two bottles trick; Segments on sacred sites and rituals in Jerusalem; Absalom's tomb, water baptism in the river Jordan, 7 martyrs church of Saint Saba, via dolorosa; ruins of Herod's second temple; words pronunciation; Missouri auction school; a Japanese rite dedicated to the sound of laughter; Vivian Fisher, a man who can imitate the sounds of musical instruments; devices for seeing in the dark (Infra red vision and Night vision); wildlife in darkness (Flashlight Fish, Fireflies, Foxes, and Bats); AMKUS pump; how firefighters rescue victims trapped in car wrecks; Pascal's calculator.

Première diffusion : 10 février 1985

S3 E17 • Season 3 Episode 17

- Thrust and parry with avant-garde poets as they prepare to transform sound into art - Defy the law of gravity to make water run uphill - Fondle a good-luck charm in a battle to beat the odds in a marathon million-dollar bingo game - Play tricks on the brain as part of a series of experiments in England - Participate in a Chinese religious ritual designed to foretell the future - Witness a demonstration of the powers of hypnosis - Join hands to hum a long during a transcontinental concert devoted to a single sound - Put a clock on the speedy speech of one of the world's fastest talkers - Push off with an adventurer determined to be the first man to ski down Mt. Everest

Première diffusion : 17 février 1985

S3 E18 • Season 3 Episode 18

- Start a chain reaction involving over a quarter of a million dominoes - Join an expedition in Japan to study the habits of giant killer wasps - Descend into a human throat to see vocal cords at work - See how surgeons in China transform toes into a new hand for an accident victim - Go on a picnic in a Miami zoo with a man who put himself on public display - Play ball in Italy where rough-and-tumble action is part of the game - Find out how surgeons use precision procedures to reconstruct a human arm - Learn how an artist transforms ordinary paper bags into an extraordinary variety of unusual hats

Première diffusion : 24 février 1985

S3 E19 • Season 3 Episode 19

- Witness the practice of mysterious rituals in the once-forbidden kingdom of Tibet - Manipulate a computer that performs photographic magic - Discover how the Chinese solved the problem of crowded graveyards in Hong Kong - Operate a voice-controlled computer simply by pointing at the screen - Dive into a tank to witness the rare birth of a whale in captivity - Explore the possibilities of a computer that works just by looking at it - Examine the mummies of long-dead Eskimos in an effort to resolve an ancient mystery

Première diffusion : 3 mars 1985

S3 E20 • Season 3 Episode 20

The Dead Sea; Bonsai trees; mangled money; professional venom collectors; Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, Ca; car customizer Dean Jeffries; low-rider competition; junkyard artist Jim Gary; National Severe Storms Forecast Center predicts violent weather; Elis Stenman's Paper house in Rockport, Mass; Ant Lovack French Riviera house; Empress Dowager Cixi's Marble Boat; origin of the Statue of Liberty and it's French duplicate; Sea Cucumber in Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco.

Première diffusion : 10 mars 1985

S3 E21 • Season 3 Episode 21

- Witness the impact when an irresistible force meets an immovable object - Crawl along in a race with some of the world's youngest competitors - Dive into the depths of the ocean to recover more than $65 million in sunken gold - See a cancerous growth removed in a bloodless operation - Drive over the edge to discover how to escape a deathtrap - Sharpen your pencils to match wits with crossword puzzle champions - Take a slow-motion look at what whiplash does to your neck - Discover how laser beams reveal fingerprints no other method can detect - Take a leap into the wild blue yonder with the fearless birdmen of Japan - Watch a series of the world's most spectacular intentional accidents

Première diffusion : 31 mars 1985