The BEST episodes of The Planets (2019)
Every episode of The Planets (2019) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Planets (2019)!
In this major landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled with astonishing spectacle and great drama. Using the data from our very latest explorations of the solar system combined with groundbreaking CGI this series reveals the unimaginable beauty and grandeur of eight planets whose stories we are only just beginning to understand.
#1 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2019
Professor Brian Cox reveals the history of Saturn. Saturn began life as a strange planet of rock and ice and in time transformed into a gas giant, ring-less and similar looking to its rival, Jupiter.
#2 - A Moment in the Sun: The Terrestrial Planets
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2019
The rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars were born at the same time from the same material - yet have lived radically different lives. What immense forces are at play?
#3 - The Godfather: Jupiter
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2019
Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the other planets.
#4 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/2019
In the final episode, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home.
#5 - The Two Sisters: Earth & Mars
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2019
Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets.