Produced by:
David Mrazek
Peter Baker

Written by:
David Mrazek
Julio Emilio Moliné

Series Producer:
Julio Emilio Moliné

Associate Producer:
Diana S. Lee

Visual Effects Producer:
Michael Van Himbergen

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Jay Mark Johnson

Visual Effects Assistant:
Malcolm Wright

Production Accountants:
Matthew Lawton
Mark Otero
Martin P. Casas
Amanda Barstow
Jorgen Nelson
Ian Tilson

Computer Animation by:
Mondo Media
Britt Anderson, Art Director
Vivian Barad, Producer
Andy Murdock, Technical Director
Richard Quan, Director of Production
Scott Tolmie, Creative Director

Post Production:
Laserpacific Media Corp. André A. Trejo, Scheduling
Terry Brown, Chief Engineer
Michael Rankin, HD Engineer
Jay Steinberg, SuperComputer Editor

Stills:
Stephen Giovannoni, Ph.D.
Photo Researchers, Inc.

Stock Footage:
Biosphere 2 Center, Inc.
David Graham, MDL
Cinenet
Film Bank
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Audience Communication Inc., Toronto
Energy Film Library
National Geographic Film Library
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
"Galileo Earth/Moon 1 Encounter Rotation" Courtesy of JPL/NASA

Publicist:
Stone/Hallinan Associates, Inc.

Evaluation:
Multimedia Research

Science Editors:
Barry Marrs, Ph.D.
Cynthia Needham, Ph.D.

Outreach Advisors:
Wayne Carley, Ph.D. Kathy Frame

Science Advisors:
Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D.
Alice S. Huang, Ph.D.
Holger Jannasch, Ph.D.
Mary E. Lidstrom, Ph.D.
Stephen Morse, Ph.D.
Frederic K. Pfaender,Ph.D.
David Pramer, Ph.D.
Moselio Schaechter, Ph.D.
Henry Williams, Ph.D.
Ralph Wolfe, Ph.D.

Music Composed by:
John Nordstrom

Director of Photography:
Stuart Asbjornsen

Additional Camera:
Blake McHugh
Mitch Wilson

Editors:
Beth A. Spiegel
Jason Rosenfield

Supervising Editor:
Stosh Jarecki

Narrated by:
Lillian Lehman

Artist:
Bert Dodson

Sound Recordists:
Percy Urgena
Scott Harbert
Randi Jacobs

Technical Coordinator:
Hedio Lobo

Production Coordinator:
Teri Kirkwood

Fixer:
Heidy Villalobos

Gaffers:
Erich Dal Molin
Brad Barrett
Russ Wicks

Video Microscopy by:
Bruce J. Russell, Biomedia Associates
Jeremy Pickett-Heaps, Cytographics
Oxford Scientific Films

AVID Rentals:
Video Symphony

Camera Rentals:
Bexel Corporation

On Line Editors:
Bill Missett

Mixed at:
Stage Two Audio

Sound Designer:
Mark Korba

Re-Recording Engineers:
Mark Linden
Al Decker

Microbiology Workshop Leaders:
Edward Delong, Ph.D.
Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.
Gill Geesey, Ph.D.
Stephen Giovannoni, Ph.D.
Jenny C. Hunter-Cevera, Ph.D.
Dale Kaiser, Ph.D.
Margaret McFall-Ngai, Ph.D.
James Shapiro, Ph.D.
Craig Venter, Ph.D.

Special Thanks:
Linda Kaempfer Baker
Microbial Literacy Collaborative, Project Manager - Susan E. Kee
Sam Kaplan, Ph.D.
Michael I. Goldberg, Ph.D.
J. William Schopf, Ph.D.
George Gentry
Gene Buchanan
Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Bermuda Biological Station For Research
Ecosphere® Provided Courtesy of Hammacher Schlemmer and Ecosphere Associates
Studio City Travel
Old World Deli, Corvallis, OR
Ellen Jo Barron, Ph.D., for Instigation of the Series
Leon Silverman, for Invaluable Support

Production and Finance Manager: Casey Spira

Executive Producer: Peter Baker, Ph.D.

A Production of:
Baker & Simon Associates, in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting

Major Funding Provided by:
The National Science Foundation
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Dept. of Energy
American Society for Microbiology
The Annenberg/CPB Project

Additional Funding Provided by:
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Corporation for Public Broadcasting

For information on this program, including videos, books and other materials in the Annenberg/CPB Collection, call 1-800-LEARNER.