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The Best Episodes of Pandora's Box

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Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory

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    Pandora's Box Season 1 Episode 1 - The Engineer's Plot
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    #1 - The Engineer's Plot

    S1:E1

    "The revolutionaries who toppled the Tsar in 1917 thought science held the key to their new world. In fact, it ended up creating a bewildering world for millions of Soviet people. In this light-hearted investigation, one industrial planner tells how she decided the people wanted platform shoes, only to discover that they had gone out of fashion by the time that the factory to manufacture them had been built.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Pandora's Box Season 1 Episode 2 - To The Brink of Eternity
    7.9/10(50 votes)

    #2 - To The Brink of Eternity

    S1:E2

    Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world could be controlled by the scientific manipulation of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the American Rand Corporation. In the end, their visions were the stuff of science fiction fantasy.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Pandora's Box Season 1 Episode 4 - Goodbye Mrs Ant
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #3 - Goodbye Mrs Ant

    S1:E4

    A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime movers of social or political change when, for instance, DDT made post-war heroes of American scientists only to be put on trial by other scientists in 1968? What kind of in-fighting goes on between rival camps before one scientific truth emerges, and when it does emerge, just how true is it?

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Pandora's Box Season 1 Episode 3 - The League of Gentlemen
    7.8/10(46 votes)

    #4 - The League of Gentlemen

    S1:E3

    Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. Pandora's Box tells the saga of how their experiments have led the country deeper into economic decline, and asks - is their game finally up?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Pandora's Box Season 1 Episode 5 - Black Power
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #5 - Black Power

    S1:E5

    A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced utopia. But as his grand experiment took shape, it brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control, and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption and debt."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Pandora's Box Season 1 Episode 6 - A is For Atom
    7.5/10(47 votes)

    #6 - A is For Atom

    S1:E6

    An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a different world with a limitless source of nuclear energy. But things began to go wrong. Scientists in America and the Soviet Union were duped into building dozens of potentially dangerous plants. Then came the disasters of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl which changed views on the safety of this new technology. This episode was named after a 1953 General Electric propaganda film explaining nuclear power and features artfully chosen footage from this film.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Engineer's Plot" is the best rated episode of "Pandora's Box". It scored 8.1/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/11/1992. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "To The Brink of Eternity".