I feel like I should say Cosmos, since Carl Sagan was the man and all, but I never watched it as much as I watched Connections, which I used to watch obsessively.

Connections. The other two are good too, but Connections really changed my understanding of history.

I loved Connections! Connections II was just not as good.

My father loved Cosmos, but I barely remember it.

I learned much more from Connections.

Connections! That's where I started my bad habit of watching Every. Single. Episode. One after the other. of a series whenever I got a tape or DVD. My parents recorded the series then we had a Connections-o-thon one weekend. I think it warped our brains.

Connections, 100%. i even found the book. James Burke was a genius. way ahead of the interdisciplinary learning curve

Wow, great question. Connections. I wish they'd re-broadcast the first series. I'm too lazy and cheap to buy the DVDs.

Connections. No slight to Sagan or Attenborough, both of whom are among the greatest explainers science has ever produced, but Burke's pretty awesome.

Connections. But only 1. 2 was really not good at all.

Connections for sure. It was the first real way I saw history and science presented that made sense. I regularly used it as a teaching tool for 7th and 9th graders when I was teaching technology. Connections II, not so much, but I recall liking The Day the Universe Changed.

I bought into a fundraiser for the San Jose PBS station, at which James Burke was the speaker. Oddly enough, he is not a scientist or really a historian, but a Latin and Italian scholar. Fascinating talk. Failed to hit it off with my date.

I'm going to buck the trend and say Cosmos. I have very fond memories of watching Cosmos with my dad as a kid. it did, however, trigger a dreadful bout of prepubescent night terrors about the end of the world (in 5 BILLION years). Damn you, Sagan!

But I also ADORE Connections and had a really warped teenage crush on David Attenborough. That guy can narrate anything and make it sound sexy :D

No contest - Connections. I'm glad to see this even come up, because I'm always a little surprised how few people seem to remember that show. It was a big time fave and a show I never missed. I was giddy the first time I saw them being replayed on cable.