This marked the debut of University of British Columbia science professor David Suzuki as a television series host and launched his career as a Canadian scientific broadcaster.
This series on scientific subjects was produced by CBC Vancouver, with the initial pilot episodes reflecting Suzuki's specialty of genetics.
[1] This half-hour series began with a pilot run on Sundays at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern time) from 10 January to 14 February 1971.
It continued in a Monday 10:00 p.m. time slot from 12 July to 20 September 1971.
The final series run returned to its original Sunday afternoon time slot from 9 January to 26 March 1972.