Introduces Joseph Smith, gives an overview of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, and provides perspectives from scholars on Joseph Smith’s significance and the importance of publishing his papers.

Episode 0—Pilot—The Joseph Smith Papers: A Television Foreword

Describes in more depth the organization and significance of the Joseph Smith Papers Project. Managing editor Ronald K. Esplin discusses the different types of documents that will be included.

Episode 1—The Joseph Smith Papers

An in-depth look at the family heritage that helped shape Joseph Smith, including profiles of his parents and grandparents.

Episode 2—Joseph Smith’s New England Beginnings

Explores the historical context into which Joseph Smith was born.

Episode 3—Joseph Smith’s America

Provides a window into the lives of the Smith family during their time in Palmyra, New York—the small town where Joseph Smith came of age.

Episode 4—Joseph Smith’s Palmyra

Sets the stage for Joseph Smith’s first vision of heavenly beings that would propel him into his life as the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Episode 5—The Setting of the First Vision

Explores the differing accounts of Joseph Smith’s first vision.

Episode 6—The First Vision

Examines how Joseph Smith obtained and translated the records that became the Book of Mormon.

Episode 7—The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon

Discusses the significance of Harmony, Pennsylvania, and the events that took place there, including Joseph Smith’s marriage to Emma Hale and the birth and death of their first child.

Episode 8—Harmony, Pennsylvania

Examines the conferral of divine authority by heavenly beings upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and the importance of those events to later developments.

Episode 9—Restoration of the Priesthoods

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Season 1 Episodes 0-09: Joseph Smith Papers Television Documentary