"Don't know who James Burke is"

He was the presenter for a multi-part TV show called "Connections" (the title here in the U.S. was "The Day the Universe Changed"). When I watched it 20 odd years ago I thought it was really good. He would start with some tidbit of histroy and follow a thread from that to some other, seemingly unrelated, occurence (sort of like Dr. Suess' "Because a Little Bug Went Ker-shoo" or what ever the title was). It showed how everything was connected, hence the name.


BTW, last night I watched Shatner in the lawyer show he is in now (can't remember the name), he really is pretty good in that. It showed clips of him, as a lawyer, in a show from the late 50's. These scenes were used as flashbacks for his current character.