In Search of...
The Garden of Eden
TV Flash files “The Garden of Eden” as the last listed hour of season 2 — In Search of... (1977–1982) on Syndicated, season 2, episode 24, aired 1978-06-01, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E24: listed hour 48 of 152 in the In Search of... guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 1978-06-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Coming Ice Age” (S02E23). Next is “UFO Captives” (S03E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Garden of Eden: Using the Old Testament as a road map, researchers attempt to trace the possible site of the original Garden to India, China, and an island off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Garden of Eden sit in the In Search of... guide?
S02E24 is listed hour 48 of 152 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 24.
When did In Search of... S02E24 air?
The Garden of Eden aired 1978-06-01 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this a skeptical documentary?
It investigates with serious tone and does not require a closed answer. Nimoy's calm is the gravitas; the hypothesis can stay open.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Leonard Nimoy narrates Bigfoot, Atlantis, and every late-night rabbit hole with Spock-grade calm. Syndicated paranormal documentary as mass habit, occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. The voice, the grainy reenactments, and the pleasure of a hypothesis that never has to close.
The voice arrives before the hypothesis. Syndicated, 1977–1982 in the best-known version: Alan Landsburg's In Search of... puts Leonard Nimoy in the host/narrator chair covering UFOs, cryptids, lost civilizations, and conspiracies with serious tone and eerie synths. Spock-grade calm lending gravitas to wild hypotheses. Bigfoot, Atlantis, every late-night rabbit hole. Grainy reenactments. Occult-chic 1970s meeting proto-cable mystery television. Aesthetic ancestor of countless paranormal docuseries. **They were…
Filed against
- Leonard Nimoy as Narrator / Host
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