The Body in Question

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC TV, BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 13
Original Language EN
Creator Jonathan Miller

The Body in Question (1978)

Created by Jonathan Miller
⭐ 4.0 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 13 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The Body in Question is a landmark British medical documentary series of 13 shows made for the BBC. It was a groundbreaking show, being the first to ever televise an autopsy (in the final show on 29 Jan 1979). Dr Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards our bodies, our ignorance of them, and our inability to read our body's signals. The first episode starts with vox populi asking where various organs in the body are located. By the final episode we are left in no doubt. Taking as his starting point the experience of pain, Dr Miller analyses the elaborate social process of "falling ill", considers the physical foundations of "disease" and looks at the types of individuals humankind has historically attributed with the power of healing. The series was nominated for two 1979 BAFTAs: Best Factual Television Series and Most Original Programme/Series.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Naming of Parts
E2 Try a Little Tenderness
E3 How Do You Feel?
E4 Breathless
E5 Blood Relations
E6 Heart of the Matter
E7 Shaping the Future
E8 Sleight of Hand
E9 Native Medicine
E10 Balancing Act
E11 Brute Machine
E12 Heads and Tails
E13 Perishable Goods