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- A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
- Huell Howser travels around California looking for interesting stories about the state's rich history, cultural diversity, landmarks, natural wonders, amazing people and points of interest, especially lesser known and out-of-the-way places.
- Huell Howser visits the many diverse neighborhoods of Southern California to meet the amazing people living there who embody the spirit of the Southland.
- California has more than 280 state parks plus many nationally-protected areas and local parks. In each episode, Huell Howser visits a different park, exploring its natural beauty, history, and unique geographical and recreational features.
- Huell Howser takes a trip of discovery on California highways and byways to see where the road leads. His many destinations include small towns, fascinating geography and historic locales with many amazing sights and people along the way.
- Huell Howser explores the steps that innovative and creative Californians are taking to preserve and protect the fragile natural environment and provides knowledge and practical ideas that viewers can implement in their daily lives.
- Huell Howser takes viewers up and down California's 1,100 miles of coastline, looking at its breathtaking beauty, the challenges it faces, and some of the people and organizations working hard to protect and preserve it.
- Huell Howser travels to fairs throughout California seeing all sorts of attractions, animals, great rides, and meeting diverse people. He discovers that each fair has its own history and traditions and is unique in its own way.
- Huell visits the 1997 Long Beach International Beauty Expo for a very exciting and colorful look at the world of beauty care. Huell and 50,000 beauty care professionals share a wild day.
- Huell explores one of the last remnants of the wild west. Bodie, once a thriving gold-mining town, is now a state historic park and regarded as one of the largest and best preserved examples of an authentic ghost town.
- Huell explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast where the enormous set from the 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments" is buried. Then he goes to Alleghany in Sierra County and descends 1500 feet underground in a gold mine.
- Huell gets the full Golden Gate Bridge experience by going across, under, above, inside and on top of it. He learns its construction history from two original crew members and rare footage and then meets the current daily maintenance crew.
- Huell devotes a full episode to one of America's oldest, strangest and most beautiful lakes. Located east of the Sierra Nevada, Mono Lake is famous for the curious formations of calcium carbonate known as tufa and for its unique ecosystem.
- Huell looks at three unexpected state firsts: the story behind the "real" discovery of gold; the first commercial oil well; and a location where an overlooked innovation led to the first national transmission of electricity.
- Huell checks out a palm and a pine tree planted on Highway 99 to signify the transition from SoCal to NorCal. A search ensues for the state's geographic center. A few towns claim to be the center, but surveyors help locate the exact spot.
- Huell explores Beauty Ranch, once the home of Jack London and now a State Historic Park in Sonoma Valley, also known as Valley of the Moon. It's where London wrote many books, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
- Huell explores one of the state's biggest, most beautiful, and least seen forests, the incredible kelp forests offshore. He travels from Monterey to San Diego to see how it grows, how it's harvested, and how it's used in many common foods.
- The Coast Guard airlifts Huell to the 1892 St. George Reef Lighthouse, seven miles offshore from Crescent City. He learns about this massive 150-foot-tall structure from a member of the Preservation Society that will soon take over upkeep.
- Huell traces the lives of two unique men who created two amazing underground sites: the Underground Gardens of Baldasare Forestiere in Fresno and Burro Schmidt's 2,000-foot-long tunnel through a mountain in the Mojave Desert.
- Huell learns about Catalina Island Pigeon Messenger Service which provided communication to the mainland in the 1890s. Then he visits the former Army Air Corps Condor Field, Twentynine Palms which trained glider pilots during World War II.
- Huell travels back to a bygone era when he tours the Aztec Hotel and the Wigwam Motel, two popular attractions along "The Main Street of America," Route 66.
- Huell tours Devils Postpile National Monument in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Made of thousands of columns of black basalt towering 60 feet over the San Joaquin River, the postpile looks like a huge cathedral pipe organ built of stone.
- Alcatraz Island is well known as a federal penitentiary that housed the most notorious criminals from 1934 to 1963. Huell learns the prior history dating to the 1850s and tours the labyrinth of tunnels and rooms under "The Rock."
- Huell spends the day in the central-coast town of Lompoc at their annual Mural-in-a-Day where 15 talented artists paint a mural that commemorates a 12-acre floral flag planted by Bodger Seeds in 1942 as patriotic support of the war effort.
- Known today for recreation, Lake Arrowhead was originally built to irrigate the citrus groves of San Bernardino through tunnels. Huell rides an elevator 185 feet down into a 3800 feet long tunnel that was part of this abandoned project.
- Huell stops at Noriega's Basque restaurant and bar, a third-generation family business, in Bakersfield's Old Town Kern. He enjoys an amazing, traditional Basque lunch and is treated to wonderful stories about Basque culture in the area.
- The historic mining town of Randsburg in eastern Kern County was established after the discovery of gold in 1895. Huell spends the day learning about the town's history and getting to know some of the colorful characters living there now.
- At Sutter's Fort, which had a hospital since 1840, Huell learns about Gold Rush-era medical care. Few actual doctors were available and those seeking treatment may have seen midwives, nurses, herbalists, or charlatans selling snake oil.
- On this adventure Huell sees the Laguna Beach that the locals know and love including Orange Inn, Laguna Art Museum, Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Nix Nature Center, Las Brisas Mexican Restaurant and Main Beach's historic lifeguard tower.
- Huell travels to the Sacramento Delta to learn about pears. He starts with a family who has been farming for six generations. Then he visits the 36th annual Pear Fair, in Courtland, to sample pear bread, pie, ice cream, vinegar, and more.
- Huell spends a day in Granite Bay at family-owned Otow Orchard to learn the ancient Japanese art of Hoshigaki, the drying of persimmons. They are dried each fall in a slow, hands-on process resulting in a tender, moist sugary delicacy.
- In a one-hour special episode, Huell looks back at previous visits to two unusual desert locales near the Salton Sea: geothermal mud pots and Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain. He then revisits Leonard to see how his mountain has grown.
- Huell gets a personal tour of the Hearst Castle grounds to see the beautiful trees, flowers, walkways, statues, fountains, pool and gardens, all elements of the landscape architecture collaboratively designed by Julia Morgan and WR Hearst.
- Huell tours the largest wooden buildings in the world, the blimp hangars at Marine Corps Air Station Tustin. He then visits the Navy Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to learn the history of Quonset huts.
- Huell visits two historic Gold Rush towns with interesting names in Yuba County. Timbuctoo was named after the faraway African city. Smartsville now has its original name after the reversal of a 1909 mandate changed the name to Smartville.
- Curious about the odd, colored ponds in south San Francisco Bay, Huell visits Cargill Salt in Newark. Salt has been harvested from seawater ponds there since the Gold Rush thanks to a combination of natural conditions found in few places.
- Finished in 1874, the California State Capitol is a neoclassical gem. As with any building of this size, there are lots of steps. Some are obvious, such as those to the entrance, but some are hidden, and some are very scary to climb.
- Huell has the most exciting adventure of his lifetime, skydiving with the world-famous U.S. Army Parachute Team, known as the Golden Knights, at the Yuma Proving Ground in the year of their 50th anniversary.
- Huell sails aboard the state's official tall ship, the Californian to see just how hard it was for our early settlers to get here. He also enjoys some sea shanties.
- Huell travels to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve and Monterey Bay to explore the little-known history of abalone in California. From Native Americans who harvested them from the intertidal zone to the diving industry of the early 1900s.
- Huell spends the day with the biologists who live on the Farallon Islands 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco. Now protected as the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, these islands are rich with flora, fauna, and human history.
- Huell goes to the little farming community of Sloughhouse near Sacramento and meets George Signorotti, owner of the state's last family-owned hops farm. He witnesses the harvesting and baling process of this formerly huge California crop.
- Huell explores the history of Yosemite Firefall. Prior to 1969, burning embers were pushed off Glacier Point summer nights at 9:00 to thrill visitors in Camp Curry 3000 feet below. He shares footage of Horsetail Fall, a natural "firefall".
- Huell tours two neat, but extremely different, houses where nobody lives now: the public, grand Victorian house which was the governor's mansion from 1903 to 1967, and a one-room cabin that was the very private home of a bona fide hermit.
- Situated 30 miles east of Indio, this popular stop for travelers and truckers is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Huell spends the day with the people who live and work in this desert outpost as they enjoy this milestone.
- Huell rides the rails without boarding a train. He goes to the State Railroad Museum in Sacremento to learn about handcars and watch the National Handcar Races. Then he goes to McCloud for a rail excursion with the Motorcar Operators West.
- Huell tours The Central Garden at The Getty Center, a 134,000-square-foot design created by renowned artist Robert Irwin featuring a natural ravine and tree-lined walkway winding through an extraordinary array of sights, sounds and scents.
- Huell gets a behind the scenes tour and takes the swim of a lifetime in the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle. One of the most spectacular pools in the world, it is fed by spring water and surrounded by ancient Roman-style columns and statues.
- Huell meets Joe Rinaudo whose passion is a 1926 American Fotoplayer, which uses rolls like player pianos to provide music and sound effects for silent films. He enjoys a silent film with Joe, his hand cranked projector and his photoplayer.
- Huell learns about past attempts at forming a new state comprised of northern California and southern Oregon.