The Body in Question

Not to be confused with the Northern Exposure season 3 episode 6.
The Body in Question
Genre Medical
Created by Jonathan Miller
Written by Jonathan Miller
Presented by Jonathan Miller
Composer(s) Peter Howell "The Greenwich Chorus" (BBC Radiophonic Workshop)
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) Karl Sabbagh
Producer(s) Patrick Uden
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) ABC (Aus.), BBC, CBC, OECA, KCET-TV
Release
Original network BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Television, KCET-TV (PBS), OECA
Picture format 4:3
Original release 6 November 1978 – 1979

The Body in Question is a British-based, internationally co-produced medical television series first aired in the UK in November 1978.

Premise

This is a 13-part series (1 hour episodes) on all aspects of medicine and health science, written and presented by Dr Jonathan Miller.

Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards our bodies, our ignorance of them, and our inability to read our body's signals. The first episode starts with vox populi asking where various organs in the body are located. By the final episode we are left in no doubt, as the show became the first in television history to depict the dissection of a human cadaver (i.e. post-mortem examination or autopsy).

Taking as his starting point the experience of pain, Dr. Miller analyses the elaborate social process of "falling ill", considers the physical foundations of "disease" and looks at the types of individuals humankind has historically attributed with the power of healing. The series was nominated for two 1979 BAFTAs: Best Factual Television Series and Most Original Programme/Series.[1]

Production

The series was primarily produced by the BBC, with international co-production support from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Television, Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and KCET-TV.

Scheduling

This hour-long series was first aired by the BBC on 6 November 1978. It was first broadcast in Canada on CBC Television Mondays at 11:45 p.m. (Eastern time) from 26 February to 28 May 1979. It was rebroadcast on CBC in mid-1981 (3 June to 2 September).

Episodes

  1. Naming of Parts
  2. Try a Little Tenderness
  3. How Do You Feel?
  4. Breathless
  5. Blood Relations
  6. Heart of the Matter
  7. Shaping the Future
  8. Sleight of Hand
  9. Native Medicine
  10. Balancing Act
  11. Brute Machine
  12. Heads and Tails
  13. Perishable Goods

Production team

This list is extracted from the ending credits of all the shows:

References

External links

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