📺 'James Burke's Connections' Tuesday 17 October 1978 -- BBC1: 19:20 1: The Trigger Effect James Burke, in the first of a series of ten films, examines the connections between ideas, inventions and amazing coincidences that have made our modern world the shape it is. What happened in the past to make our 20th-century lives so complex? What are the strange events, accidents, people and places that have come together to make change happen - and what will it do to us next? The series tries to show