NOVA

Season 21, Episode 6

Episode Title: In Search of Human Origins, Part One

Air Date: 1994-02-28

Overview:

In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species - reaching back more than three million years to a strange ape who walked upright. Johanson takes viewers to the site in Ethiopia where he discovered the fossil remains of this missing link nicknamed "Lucy."