The Body Human

American TV series or program

The Body Human
Genre	Science
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Robert E. Fuisz Alfred R. Kelman
Production company	Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Company
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	1977 (1977) – 1984 (1984)

The Body Human is a series of specials produced by Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Company and telecast by CBS,^[1] between 1977 and 1984.^[2] They were produced and directed by Robert E. Fuisz and Alfred R. Kelman, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1966 for The Face of a Genius. The series concentrated on exploring aspects of the human body, from plastic surgery to sexual function. American actor Alexander Scourby was the narrator. The series was nominated for and won Emmy Awards as well as a Peabody Award.^[3]

References

^ Franks, Don (2005). Entertainment awards : a music, cinema, theatre and broadcasting guide, 1928 through 2003 (3rd ed.). Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.]: McFarland & Co. p. 563. ISBN 9780786417988. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
^ "- IMDb". IMDb.
^ "The Body Human: The Vital Connection". Peabody Awards. Retrieved 31 December 2017.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special

1970s

The Body Human / The Great Whales: National Geographic Special (1978)
Scared Straight! (1979)

1980s

The Body Human: The Magic Sense (1980)
The Body Human: The Bionic Breakthrough / Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds (1981)
Creativity with Bill Moyers / The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
The Barbara Walters Specials / The Body Human: The Living Code (1983)
A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers / America Remembers John F. Kennedy (1984)
* Cousteau: Mississippi / The Living Planet (1985)
Laurence Olivier: A Life (Great Performances) / Planet Earth / W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986)
Agnes, the Indomitable DeMille (Great Performances) / Smithsonian World / Unknown Chaplin (American Masters) (1987)
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (American Masters) / Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam / Nature (1988)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (American Masters) / Nature (1989)

1990s

Bob Fosse: Steam Heat (Great Performances) / Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (American Masters) / Smithsonian World (1990)
The Civil War / Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter (American Masters) (1991)
Abortion: Desperate Choices / MGM: When Lions Roared (1992)
Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers / Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993)
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School / Later with Bob Costas (1994)
Baseball / One Survivor Remembers / Taxicab Confessions / TV Nation (1995)
Survivors of the Holocaust / Time Life's Lost Civilizations (1996)
Biography / The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century / National Geographic Special: Tigers of the Snow / Without Pity: A Film About Abilities (1997)