Cosmos
<p><i><b>Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</b></i> is a thirteen-part television series written by <a title="Carl Sagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan">Carl Sagan</a>, <a title="Ann Druyan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Druyan">Ann Druyan</a>, and <a title="Steven Soter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Soter">Steven Soter</a>, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It covered a wide range of scientific subjects, including the <a title="Origin of life" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life">origin of life</a> and a perspective of our place in the universe.
The series was first broadcast by the <a title="Public Broadcasting Service" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service">Public Broadcasting Service</a> in 1980 and was the most widely watched series in the history of American <a title="Public television" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_television">public television</a> until <i><a title="The Civil War (TV series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_War(TV_series)">The Civil War</a></i> (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most widely watched PBS series in the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:A_Personal_Voyage#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> It won an <a title="Emmy Award" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award">Emmy</a> and a <a title="Peabody Award" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Award">Peabody Award</a> and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Starchild_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:A_Personal_Voyage#cite_note-Starchild-2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:A_Personal_Voyage#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> A <a title="Cosmos (book)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(book)">book</a> was also published to accompany the series.</p>