Wednesdays, April 20-May 11, 2011, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET
In the final episode, the very survival of the Bay is threatened by the postwar boom and the issue becomes how best to balance the competing demands of a major urban center set amidst an environmentally significant landscape.
The second hour follows San Francisco’s “rapid monstrous maturity” into a major metropolis following the California Gold Rush.
This first hour introduces the first inhabitants along the Bay’s shores and continues through European exploration and settlement, including Spanish, Russian and American influences.
The third hour of the series begins with The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, the rise of California’s water re-distribution projects and the Bay's transformation into the world's greatest shipbuilding center by the close of World War II.
