List of episodes of the series «Origins»
- Seasons count: 2
- Episodes count: 5
- Total viewing time: 3 h. 41 m.
Release date: 9/15/2020
Search for Hawaiki
- Episode number: 1
- Episode duration: 44 min.
- Episode description: Scotty Morrison explores the origins of the Māori people, visiting the Wairau Bar site which could be the first community in Aotearoa. Scotty tries to locate his hawaiki, his homeland, in the Pacific, but is hawaiki a real place or just a concept?
Release date: 9/22/2020
Birth of Polynesia
- Episode number: 2
- Episode duration: 44 min.
- Episode description: Scotty learns how early Pākehā researchers got the origins of Māori so wrong. He is surprised to find that several traditional folktales in Samoa are replicated in Māori culture and he makes a shock personal discovery at an ancient Vanuatu urupa.
Release date: 9/29/2020
Ancient Homelands
- Episode number: 3
- Episode duration: 45 min.
- Episode description: Series Finale: Scotty travels to Ethiopia to explore the place that is said to be the origin of us all, and he visits the Cook Islands - the stepping off point for waka heading to Aotearoa hundreds of years ago.