About this season
Speciale Superquark was a spin off of the Superquark show, conceived and conducted by Piero Angela
Episodes (5)
1. Albert Einstein
Aired 13 September 2005 • 112 min
This episode is dedicated to a man who, with the help of pen and paper, managed to penetrate the great secrets of atoms and the universe: Albert Einstein.
2. Carlo Magno: la corona e la spada
Aired 14 December 2005
3. Gengis Khan: il cavaliere dell'Apocalisse
Aired 21 December 2005
4. Napoleone. Seguendo la Grande Armata
Aired 28 December 2005 • 98 min
On November 9, 1799, a coup d'état took place in France that would change its history and that of Europe. Napoleon overthrew the parliamentary regime by force of arms and took power.
5. Chernobyl. Nel buio degli anni luce
Aired 19 April 2006 • 125 min
Twenty years after the Chernobyl tragedy, Piero Angela and a crew from Superquark have produced a special dedicated to those places that are still isolated for a radius of 30 km. The nuclear reactor, which exploded on the night of April 26, 1986, is not yet turned off: the melted fuel is still incandescent. The emergency cover has cracks, and there are fears of a collapse if nothing is done soon. The Superquark crew went to the sites of the disaster: to the nuclear power plant and to the ghost town of Prypiat, hastily abandoned by its inhabitants and left as it was at the time. An English fiction will reconstruct with actors what happened that night in the control room, and all the lies that followed in the following 36 hours. With Paco Lanciano and with the help of models Piero Angela will explain why the reactor exploded.