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==== Season 3 (1978–1979) ====
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 | EpisodeNumber  = 49
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 | Title      = UFO Captives
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|09|14}}
 | ProdCode    = 768
 | ShortSummary  = [[Abduction phenomenon|UFO Captives]]: Meet people who believe they have been held captive aboard alien spacecraft - close encounters of the fourth kind.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 50
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 | Title      = Tornadoes
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|09|21}}
 | ProdCode    = 772
 | ShortSummary  = [[Tornadoes]]: A terrifying look at one of nature's deadliest forces. Tornadoes can swallow up buildings and people without a trace - can they be stopped?
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 51
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 | Title      = Cloning
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|09|28}}
 | ProdCode    = 771
 | ShortSummary  = [[Cloning]]: An in-depth look at the process which may allow us to "copy" people exactly and produce single-parent human beings.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 52
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 | Title      = Water Seekers
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|05}}
 | ProdCode    = 777
 | ShortSummary  = [[Dowsing|Water Seekers]]: Scientists take another look at the [[divining rod]]. Does water emit valuable signals?
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 53
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 | Title      = Jack the Ripper
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|12}}
 | ProdCode    = 763
 | ShortSummary  = [[Jack the Ripper]]: An investigative report on the unsolved mystery of [[London]]'s notorious serial killer. The episode reveals the killer's connection with contemporary media and the possible involvement with the [[Freemasonry|Ancient Free And Accepted Masons]]. Various identities are suggested as being that of the killer, including a duke who was second in line to the British throne.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 54
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 | Title      = Cryogenics
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|19}}
 | ProdCode    = 765
 | ShortSummary  = [[Cryogenics]]: Scientists are discovering new methods to prolong human life and, in the case of cryogenics, to suspend the possibility of life for centuries.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 55
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 | Title      = Siberian Fireball
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|26}}
 | ProdCode    = 767
 | ShortSummary  = [[Tunguska event|Siberian Fireball]]: Considers the possibility that the unexplained and catastrophic explosion in [[Siberia]] in 1908 was an atomic blast occurring 37 years before the development of the A-bomb.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 56
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 | Title      = The Great Lakes Triangle
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|11|02}}
 | ProdCode    = 774
 | ShortSummary  = The [[Marysburgh vortex|Great Lakes Triangle]]: Investigates efforts by scientists and psychics to discover the mysterious forces around the [[Great Lakes]] that have caused more air and sea disasters than the Bermuda Triangle.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 57
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 | Title      = Monster Hunters
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|11|09}}
 | ProdCode    = 770
 | ShortSummary  = Monster Hunters: Leonard Nimoy investigates what compels scientists and teachers to pursue a man-like beast in [[Northern California]].
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 58
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 | Title      = Bermuda Triangle Pirates
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|12|07}}
 | ProdCode    = 775
 | ShortSummary  = Bermuda Triangle [[Pirate]]s: Luxurious yachts are disappearing off the coast of [[Florida]]. Are pirates trafficking in drugs to blame?
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 59
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 | Title      = Indian Astronomers
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|12|14}}
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 | ShortSummary  = Indian Astronomers: Recent excavations in [[Southern Illinois]] provide tantalizing glimpses at [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] use of astronomy.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 60
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 | Title      = Sherlock Holmes
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|12|21}}
 | ProdCode    = 779
 | ShortSummary  = [[Sherlock Holmes]]: A look at surprising new clues which indicate that the famed super sleuth actually did exist, after a fashion.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 61
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 | Title      = Lost Vikings
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|12|28}}
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 | ShortSummary  = Lost Vikings: The story of [[Vikings|Viking]] [[Erik the Red]]'s descendants, who left [[Scandinavia]] and arrived in [[Northern Canada]] centuries before [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]].
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 62
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 | Title      = Dreams and Nightmares
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|01|04}}
 | ProdCode    = 766
 | ShortSummary  = [[Dream]]s and [[Nightmares]]: Our dreams provide clues to the dark world of our unconscious mind, but can we learn to control them?
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 63
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 | Title      = Animal ESP
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|01|11}}
 | ProdCode    = 786
 | ShortSummary  = Animal ESP: Dramatic scenes attempt to demonstrate that close communication between people and their pets may be due to more than emotional bonds.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 64
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 | Title      = The Money Pit Mystery
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|01|18}}
 | ProdCode    = 776
 | ShortSummary  = The Money Pit Mystery: A true tale of hidden treasure and mysterious death. Six people have died in the scramble to dig up the [[Oak Island]] treasures, supposedly buried by [[Captain Kidd]].
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 65
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 | Title      = Psychic Sea Hunt
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|01|25}}
 | ProdCode    = 784
 | ShortSummary  = Psychic Sea Hunt: A team of psychics gives scientists the exact description and location of an unknown shipwreck, and a submarine hunt proves them right.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 66
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 | Title      = The Angel of Death
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|02|01}}
 | ProdCode    = 782
 | ShortSummary  = Angel of Death: Nazi hunter [[Simon Wiesenthal]] tracks infamous war criminal [[Josef Mengele]] to his hiding place in [[Paraguay]].

Mengele is believed to have died only six days after this episode was broadcast, having drowned as a result of a stroke while swimming.  At the time of his death, his identity was not widely known.

Years after this installment was initially transmitted, Mengele's remains were found and identified; he proved to have had to eke out a bare existence as a farm worker, and his punishment for his war crimes was to have lived out the rest of his days in both comparative obscurity and the fear of eventual discovery.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 67
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 | Title      = Noah's Flood
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|02|08}}
 | ProdCode    = 783
 | ShortSummary  = [[Noah]]'s Flood: A dramatic inquiry into whether or not scientific proof exists for the legend of the [[Genesis flood narrative|Biblical Great Flood]].
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 68
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 | Title      = The Diamond Curse
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|02|15}}
 | ProdCode    = 787
 | ShortSummary  = The Diamond Curse: Why do mystery and tragedy plague the owners of great gems like the [[Hope Diamond]]?
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 69
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 | Title      = Ghostly Stakeout
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|02|22}}
 | ProdCode    = 789
 | ShortSummary  = [[Ghost]]ly Stakeout: In a [[haunted house]], a psychic team contacts troubled spirits that live on after death.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 70
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 | Title      = Brain Power
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|03|17}}
 | ProdCode    = 790
 | ShortSummary  = [[Brain]] Power: A study of the incredible hidden potential of the human mind, including the possibility that average people can become geniuses.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 71
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 | Title      = Sodom & Gomorrah
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|05|10}}
 | ProdCode    = 764
 | ShortSummary  = [[Sodom and Gomorrah]]: Studies evidence developed by archaeologists suggesting that the two wicked cities existed on the site of a crater now filled in by the [[Dead Sea]].
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber  = 72
 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 | Title      = King Tut
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 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|05|17}}
 | ProdCode    = 780
 | ShortSummary  = [[Tutankhamun|King Tut]]: Investigates the ancient Egyptian monarch's final days. Was he a beloved leader who died a natural death or did court intrigues lead to his assassination?
Years after this installment was transmitted, Egyptological historians became convinced that Tutankhamun was in atrocious health for almost his entire life due to birth deformities. These historians came to believe that his birth deformities resulted from inbreeding within the Pharaoh's family.
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