Original airdate: 7 March 2001[2] This episode looks at how the face communicates without speech, focusing on expressions, disguise and the mysterious art of face-reading.

Original airdate: 14 March 2001[3] This episode investigates family resemblances, facial recognition and the purpose of the face and its features, going back to five hundred million years ago.

It also speculates about the multi-racial face of the future and showed surgeons in Kentucky preparing for the world's first facial transplant.

Original airdate: 25 March 2001[5] This episode looks at the ubiquity of famous faces on billboards, magazines, and movie screens, and the messages they carry about sex, politics, glamour and power.

Considering Diana, Princess of Wales, Jackie Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, it tells the story of the face as icon, from Egyptian mummies to Hollywood stars.