Season
- Season 1 2009-09-27
- Season 0
Episode
- Episode 1: The Scripture Of Nature: Extra
- Episode 2: The Last Refuge: Extra
- Episode 3: The Empire of Grandeur: National Parks Timeline
- Episode 4: The Empire of Grandeur: Peace At Last/Across The Ocean
- Episode 5: The Empire of Grandeur: Horizons
- Episode 6: The Empire of Grandeur: Green Groves Of Erin
- Episode 7: The Empire of Grandeur: The Shores Of Ogygia
- Episode 8: The Empire of Grandeur: Teddy Bear's Picnic
- Episode 9: Going Home: An Interview with Nevada Barr
- Episode 10: Going Home: "The Boss"
- Episode 11: Great Nature: Extra
- Episode 12: The Morning of Creation: Mount Rushmore
- Episode 13: The Morning of Creation: Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers
- Episode 14: The Morning of Creation: San Antonio Missions, Keeping History Alive
- Episode 15: The Morning of Creation: Manzanar - Never Again
- Episode 16: The Morning of Creation: City Kids In National Parks
The National Parks: America's Best Idea Specials
Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - “The National Parks: America's Best Idea” is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
