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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.
- 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 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.
- 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 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 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 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.