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26 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Fri, Oct 31, 2008 30 mins
The first episode of the series, which highlights notable people from history, begins with Martin Luther King Jr., the Wright Brothers, Jane Fonda, Albert Einstein and Queen Elizabeth II.
Episode 2
Fri, Nov 7, 2008 30 mins
Queen Elizabeth II, Babe Ruth, Barbra Streisand, Oprah Winfrey and explorer Ernest Shackleton are profiled.
Episode 3
Fri, Nov 14, 2008 30 mins
Muhammad Ali, Alfred Hitchcock, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Taylor and former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi are featured.
Episode 4
Fri, Nov 21, 2008 30 mins
Richard Branson, Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso and Dame Nellie Melba, an Australian opera singer, are featured.
Episode 5
Fri, Nov 28, 2008 30 mins
The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher and French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir are featured.
Episode 6
Sat, Dec 6, 2008 30 mins
Humphrey Bogart; Salvador Dali; Olympic great Jesse Owens; Dolly Parton; Margaret Thatcher.
Episode 7
Sat, Dec 13, 2008 30 mins
Neil Armstrong; Charlie Chaplin; former Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser; Body Shop founder Anita Roddick; fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.
Episode 8
Fri, Dec 19, 2008 30 mins
Amelia Earhart; Grace Kelly; George Lucas; former Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser; golfer Annika Sorenstam.
Episode 9
Sat, Dec 27, 2008 30 mins
Jimmy Carter; boxer Jack Dempsey; Princess Diana; Anne Frank; actress Vivien Leigh.
Episode 10
Sat, Jan 3, 2009 30 mins
Princess Diana; Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi; Danny Kaye; tennis great Martina Navratilova; George Bernard Shaw.
Episode 11
Sat, Jan 10, 2009 30 mins
George Bernard Shaw; figure skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean; inventor Guglielmo Marconi; Audrey Hepburn; Winston Churchill.
Episode 12
Sat, Jan 17, 2009 30 mins
Winston Churchill; Mother Theresa; fashion designer Manolo Blahnik; WWII-era British singer Vera Lynn; mountaineer-explorer Edmund Hillary.
Episode 13
Fri, Jan 23, 2009 30 mins
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti; author-poet Rudyard Kipling; singer-actress Judy Garland; auto racer Michael Schumacher; John F. Kennedy.
Episode 14
Fri, Jan 30, 2009 30 mins
John F. Kennedy, chanteuse Edith Piaf; golfer Tiger Woods; Eleanor Roosevelt; Walt Disney.
Episode 15
Sat, Dec 13, 2008 30 mins
Inventor Thomas Edison; actress Diane Keaton; soccer great Pele; artist Frida Kahlo; former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Episode 16
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 30 mins
Former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev; physicist Marie Curie; actress Sophia Loren; rocket scientist Robert Goddard; playwright Arthur Miller.
Episode 17
Fri, Feb 20, 2009 30 mins
Playwright Arthur Miller; former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir; mime Marcel Marceau; actress Julie Andrews; Elvis Presley.
Episode 18
Fri, Feb 27, 2009 30 mins
Elvis Presley; political activist Helen Keller; Barbara Walters; Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Also: leading suffragettes are remembered.
Episode 19
Fri, Mar 6, 2009 30 mins
Leading suffragettes; Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi; filmmaker Steven Spielberg; "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling; Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-min. mile.
Episode 20
Fri, Mar 13, 2009 30 mins
Actress Judi Dench; soccer star David Beckham; actor Peter Sellers; pioneer aviator Jean Batten; former president Bill Clinton.
Episode 21
Fri, Mar 20, 2009 30 mins
Former president Bill Clinton; Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger; playwright Noel Coward; Nancy Astor, the first female member of Britain's parliament; actor Cary Grant.
Episode 22
Fri, Mar 27, 2009 30 mins
Actress Katharine Hepburn; Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement; country-music legend Johnny Cash; children's book author Beatrix Potter ("The Tale of Peter Rabbit"); former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Episode 23
Fri, Apr 3, 2009 30 mins
Actress Hedy Lamarr; Franklin D. Roosevelt; basketball's Magic Johnson; rock singer Patti Smith; Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagari.
Episode 24
Fri, Apr 10, 2009 30 mins
Benjamin Franklin; actress Bette Davis; boxer Joe Louis; singer Madonna; actor Orson Welles.
Episode 25
Fri, Apr 17, 2009 30 mins
Former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin; singer-songwriter Carole King; legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus; actress Marlene Dietrich; actor-activist Paul Robeson.
Episode 26
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 30 mins
Baseball's Joe DiMaggio; actor-filmmaker Woody Allen; former East Timor president Xanana Gusmao; actors Laurence Olivier and Mary Pickford.