April 21, 2014
Whereas the National Geographic Channel’s web site seems to go out of its way to obscure the sequence of episodes, I have found a WikiPedia article Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey that lists the episodes in numerical order.
I am hoping that this list will enable me to break through the barrier of confusion of The NatGeo web site that is preventing me from finding out if there is an online video for the episode that I missed.
| 5 | “Hiding in the Light“ | Bill Pope | Ann Druyan and Steven Soter | April 6, 2014 | 3.98[29] |
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No, Charter Subscribers are still not allowed to watch the recent videos online, even though Charter carries The National Geographic Channel on its cable service.
April 9, 2014
I have discovered that you need to use a valid cable TV subscription to view the videos on the Web.
I have such a subscription with Charter Communications, but Charter is not one of the cable providers that NatGeoTV supports.
March 31, 2014
I have finally found the links to the episodes of Cosmos on the National Geographic web site. I found that the first episode that I watched last week was episode 3.
So here is the list of episodes already aired.
| Episode | Premier date |
|---|---|
| Standing Up In The Milky Way – Episode 1 | March 10, 2041 |
| Some of the Things That Molecules Do – Episode 2 | March 17, 2014 |
| When Knowledge Conquered Fear – Episode 3 | March 24, 2014 |
| A Sky full of Ghosts – Episode 4 | March 31, 2014 |
The first episode will only be on the web site for the next 30 or so days, so you’d better look at it now. I just watched this episode on my computer. Watching it without commercial interruption is a blessing.
The upcoming episodes on the National Geographic Cable TV channel are shown in the next table.
| Episode | Premier date |
|---|---|
| Hiding in the Light | April 7, 2014 |
| Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still | April 14, 2014 |
| The Clean Room | April 21, 2014 |
| Sisters of the Sun | April 28, 2014 |
I think the following table lists all the remaining episodes.
| Episode | Premier date |
|---|---|
| Blues for a Red Planet | |
| Encyclopedia Galactica | |
| Heaven and Hell | |
| Journeys in Space and Time | |
| One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue |
I have questions to think about after watching these episodes. I don’t see a good forum for talking about those questions on the web. Perhaps this post as echoed on my Facebook page will form that place for a few of us.