NOVA
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NOVA

7.0/10 1974 53 Seasons 1020 Episodes Returning Series

PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

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Season 9 Episodes

E1
Salmon on the Run
55 min 1982

NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technolo…

E2
Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
55 min 1982

NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA foll…

E3
Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
55 min 1982

NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a …

E4
The Hunt for the Legion Killer
55 min 1982

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independenc…

E5
Finding a Voice
55 min 1982

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick B…

E6
The Television Explosion
55 min 1982

NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio,…

E7
Life: Patent Pending
55 min 1982

NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on indust…

E8
Palace of Delights
55 min 1982

NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collec…

E9
Animal Impostors
55 min 1982

In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many ot…

E10
Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome
55 min 1982

What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes wh…

E11
The Case of the UFOs
55 min 1982

For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified f…

E12
The Fragile Mountain
55 min 1982

The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as…

E13
Here's Looking At You Kid
55 min 1982

Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraord…

E14
Adventures of Teenage Scientists
55 min 1982

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests…

E15
The Cobalt Blues
55 min 1982

An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel indu…

E16
Goodbye Louisiana
55 min 1982

NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to chang…

E17
Whale Watch
55 min 1982

NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveal…

E18
Tracking The Supertrains
55 min 1982

While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles pe…

E19
The Making of a Natural History Film
55 min 1983

To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightf…

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