List of Nova episodes#ep583

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|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheMakingofaNaturalHistoryFilm The Making of a Natural History Film]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|3|3}}

|ProdCode=0101

|ShortSummary=Re-narrated Horizon episode, first aired in the UK in 1972.{{#invoke:cite|web|author=David Stewart |date=4 May 1998 |url=http://www.current.org/doc/doc808nova.html |title=Ambrosino and Nova: making stories that go 'bang' |work=Current |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306090930/http://www.current.org/doc/doc808nova.html |archive-date=6 March 2009 }}

We give you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood wasp laying its eggs inside trees, the hatching of a chick and the courtship rituals of the stickleback.

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|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TimeLifeVideoWhereDidtheColoradoGo Where Did the Colorado Go?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|3|10}}

|ProdCode=0102

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the lifeblood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and Arizona. The program examines the political expediency and technological over-optimism that has led to some major miscalculations of the river's capacity. Narrated by Robert J. Lurtsema.

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|EpisodeNumber=3

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WhalesDolphinsMen Whales, Dolphins, and Men]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|3|17}}

|ProdCode=0103

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, versus the grace and beauty of this intelligent mammal of the sea.

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|EpisodeNumber=4

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheSearchForLife The Search for Life]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|3|24}}

|ProdCode=0104

|ShortSummary=Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how life started on Earth and examines the Viking Lander being built in its germ-free room before starting its long journey.

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|EpisodeNumber=5

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/thelastofthecuiva Last of the Cuiva]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|3|31}}

|ProdCode=0105

|ShortSummary=How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misunderstandings between the two cultures.

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|EpisodeNumber=6

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/StrangeSleep Strange Sleep]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|4|7}}

|ProdCode=0106

|ShortSummary=Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disorders, subsequently took its place in the front rank of medical practice. This NOVA docudrama depicts the pioneers of medicine.

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|EpisodeNumber=7

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheCrabNebula The Crab Nebula]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|4|14}}

|ProdCode=0107

|ShortSummary=In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the explosion of a dying star that was bigger than the Sun. NOVA explores this mysterious explosion that led to the discovery of the Crab Nebula.

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|EpisodeNumber=8

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/Horizonbirdbrain1974 Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|4|21}}

|ProdCode=0108

|ShortSummary=Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as many as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, focusing on how they choose routes that avoid bad weather and make the best of prevailing winds – information that can aid meteorologists.

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|EpisodeNumber=9

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|4|28}}

|ProdCode=0109

|ShortSummary=The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerous, and may not be of direct benefit to the subject. NOVA examines how individuals' interests are safeguarded, and asks under what circumstances should experiments be conducted on children.

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|EpisodeNumber=10

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheFirstSignsOfWashoe The First Signs of Washoe]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|5|5}}

|ProdCode=0110

|ShortSummary=Washoe is a chimpanzee more like a person; she talks with her hands. NOVA visits Washoe and her teachers, Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner, to learn more about this unusual animal.

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|EpisodeNumber=11

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=The Case of the Midwife Toad

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|5|12}}

|ProdCode=0111

|ShortSummary=When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Arthur Koestler joins NOVA in an in-depth examination of Kammerer's infamous experiment.

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|EpisodeNumber=12

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HorizonFusionTheEnergyPromise Fusion: The Energy Promise]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|5|19}}

|ProdCode=0112

|ShortSummary=Controlled nuclear fusion means taming the hydrogen bomb. It could solve the world's energy shortage but it is an enormous engineering challenge. NOVA looks at the latest fusion machines in the UK and USA. Narrated by David Rose.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://archive.org/details/fusiontheenergypromise |title=Fusion: The Energy of Promise |year=1974 |access-date=1 September 2019}}

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|EpisodeNumber=13

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TimeLifeVideoTheMysteryoftheAnasazi/ The Mystery of the Anasazi]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|5|26}}

|ProdCode=0113

|ShortSummary=Who were the people that built the first cities – complete with apartment blocks – in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest for some eight or nine thousand years, and who then, in about 1300 AD, abruptly abandoned their cities and apparently disappeared. NOVA traces the steps of this ancient sophisticated culture.

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|EpisodeNumber=14

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WhyDoBirdsSing Why Do Birds Sing?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|11|3}}

|ProdCode=0201

|ShortSummary=NOVA travels to the forest and marshes by discovering why birds sing, and finding to surprise parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.

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|EpisodeNumber=15

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=How Much Do You Smell?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|11|10}}

|ProdCode=0202

|ShortSummary=Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. NOVA explains how, for example, the entire economy of an ant's nest is organized by smell, and how some moths use smell for population control—an ability we are now beginning to understand.

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|EpisodeNumber=16

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Hunting of the Quark

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|11|17}}

|ProdCode=0203

|ShortSummary=Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has produced a confused nightmare of particles. NOVA looks at this on-again, off-again story—one of science's most mysterious—and, one of the most expensive, involving some of the biggest machines in the world.

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|EpisodeNumber=17

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheSecretsofSleep The Secrets of Sleep]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|11|24}}

|ProdCode=0204

|ShortSummary=Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand remarkably little—some people sleep for only a few minutes a night, and function perfectly well, while others declare that eight hours isn't enough. NOVA explores traditional notions about how much sleep we need; looks at effects of the sleeping pill, and, perhaps the most baffling of all aspects of sleep—dreaming.

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|EpisodeNumber=18

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAInsidetheGoldenGate Inside the Golden Gate]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|12|1}}

|ProdCode=0205

|ShortSummary=NOVA joins scientists from different fields as they study the ecosystem of the estuary known as the San Francisco Bay, and man's effects on that ecosystem.

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|EpisodeNumber=19

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=The Men Who Painted Caves

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|12|8}}

|ProdCode=0206

|ShortSummary=Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out from the desperate business of survival to paint pictures in inaccessible corners of his cave dwellings? NOVA joins French and American archeologists as they piece together the lifestyle of these hunters and artists of the last great Ice Age, and try to interpret the meaning of their cave art.

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|EpisodeNumber=20

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Red Sea Coral

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1974|12|15}}

|ProdCode=0207

|ShortSummary=NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in the middle of the Red Sea, who for several years have been studying the crown-of-thorns starfish, notorious for the devastation it has wrought on the coral reefs of Australia and the Pacific.

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|EpisodeNumber=21

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WarFromTheAir War From the Air]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|1|5}}

|ProdCode=0208

|ShortSummary=Using historical and propaganda footage, NOVA traces the history of the usage of airplanes in warfare; beginning from movies that depict the possibility of pilots dropping bombs using airplanes to the development of nuclear weapons in the 1970s.

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|EpisodeNumber=22

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WhatTimeisYourBody What Time is Your Body?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|1|12}}

|ProdCode=0209

|ShortSummary=Scientists study the circadian body rhythms of plants and animals on Earth. Knowing man's circadian rhythms may help us perform better at work and lead healthier lives.

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|EpisodeNumber=23

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheRiseAndFallOfDDT The Rise and Fall of DDT]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|1|19}}

|ProdCode=0210

|ShortSummary=NOVA traces the rise in popularity of the insecticide after helping WWII soldiers avoid disease to its ban in the US after scientists rose the alarm of its effect on animals' reproduction rates.

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|EpisodeNumber=24

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Take the World From Another Point of View

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|2|2}}

|ProdCode=0211

|ShortSummary=NOVA asks famed Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman how he thinks and who he wants to have conversations with.

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|EpisodeNumber=25

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheLysenkoAffair The Lysenko Affair]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|2|9}}

|ProdCode=0212

|ShortSummary=NOVA talks about the rise and fall of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist who used his political influence to push pseudoscientific ideas in agronomy that caused prolonged food shortages in the Soviet Union.

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|EpisodeNumber=26

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=The Tuaregs

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|2|16}}

|ProdCode=0213

|ShortSummary=High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives Sidi Mohammed and his family: children, grandchildren, cousins and a few former slave women. Their environment, one of the most ungenerous on Earth, provides them with almost nothing. NOVA examines the changing lifestyle of Sidi Mohammed.

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|EpisodeNumber=27

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAPlutoniumConnection The Plutonium Connection]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|3|9}}

|ProdCode=0214

|ShortSummary=With information into making a small nuclear bomb readily obtainable, NOVA determines whether nuclear reprocessing plants are capable of preventing the theft or robbery of plutonium.

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|EpisodeNumber=28

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheOtherWay The Other Way]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|3|16}}

|ProdCode=0215

|ShortSummary= As the price of fuel continues to rise, Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher promotes intermediate technology to help small-scale businesses and less industrialized countries increase productivity and labor opportunities. NOVA asks Schumacher to explain his solution to increase productivity, while requiring less energy consumption. First aired on Horizon on November 11, 1974.

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|EpisodeNumber=29

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LostWorldoftheMaya The Lost World of the Maya]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|3|30}}

|ProdCode=0216

|ShortSummary=Dr. Eric Thompson guides Magnus Magnusson around various Mayan sites and their meanings.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/chronicle--the-lost-world-of-the-maya/znhm47h |title=The Lost World of the Maya |work=BBC |access-date=15 May 2020}} First broadcast in BBC Chronicle, October 6, 1972.

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|EpisodeNumber=30

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WillTheFishingHaveToStop_201809 Will The Fishing Have to Stop?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1975|4|6}}

|ProdCode=0217

|ShortSummary=Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing international food shortage. But in 1972 the total world fish catch dropped. NOVA explores the possible reasons for this decline.

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|EpisodeNumber=31

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/PredictableDisaster Predictable Disaster]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|1|4}}

|ProdCode=0301

|ShortSummary=It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful predictions have already been made in the United States; and the NOVA crew was present and filming while a third prediction was being formulated. NOVA looks at why earthquakes occur, how predictions are made, the threat they pose to cities at risk, and examines the advantages and disadvantages of making an earthquake a predictable disaster.

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|EpisodeNumber=32

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/joeyfilmpart1 Joey]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|1|11}}

|ProdCode=0302

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic since birth. Joey has lived most of his life in institutions, unable to communicate with anyone until he met Ernie Roberts. The docudrama recreates Joey's story, with remarkable performances by two spastic actors portraying him as a boy and as a young man. Joey and Ernie themselves appear in the final sequences. First aired in Horizon on December 9, 1974.

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|EpisodeNumber=33

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MeditationandtheMind Meditation and the Mind]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|1|18}}

|ProdCode=0303

|ShortSummary=What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressman Richard Nolas have in common? They all practice a ritual called TM—Transcendental Meditation. NOVA examines the recent phenomenal success of the TM movement in America.

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|EpisodeNumber=34

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAThePlanets The Planets]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|1|25}}

|ProdCode=0304

|ShortSummary=The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our place in the stars, the Solar System. Beginning in 1961 with a Russian spacecraft flying to Venus, quickening with the Apollo crewed missions to the Moon, it came of age in the Spring of 1974, when there were six spacecraft traveling simultaneously from the Earth to the planets. NOVA looks at the era of crewed and uncrewed exploration of the Solar System. Narrated by Paul Vaughan. Originally aired in Horizon on March 10, 1975.

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|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAADesertPlace A Desert Place]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|2|1}}

|ProdCode=0305

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence—in a pool created only minutes before—of a pair of adult spadefoot toads. Toads who had been waiting beneath the sand for a year for this brief and fortuitous moment to procreate the next generation. Narrated by Robert Dryden.

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|EpisodeNumber=36

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=A Small Imperfection

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|2|8}}

|ProdCode=0306

|ShortSummary=Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congenital abnormality of the central nervous system. NOVA explores the mystery of what causes spina bifida and raises the issues of whether heroic measures should be taken to preserve the life of severely malformed babies.

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|EpisodeNumber=37

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NinetyDegreesBelow Ninety Degrees Below]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|2|15}}

|ProdCode=0307

|ShortSummary=There's one place on Earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freezing waters are so bitter there that a fish has been discovered to have developed its own anti-freeze. NOVA explores Antarctica—the coldest desert in the world.

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|EpisodeNumber=38

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheRacefortheDoubleHelix The Race for the Double Helix]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|3|7}}

|ProdCode=0308

|ShortSummary=Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of the discovery of the structure of DNA. James Watson and his ex-colleague Francis Crick exchange memories of the events which led to their winning the race for the structure of the gene.

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|EpisodeNumber=39

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheRenewableTree The Renewable Tree]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|3|7}}

|ProdCode=0309

|ShortSummary=Paper mill business began planting trees in the early 20th Century after logging wiped out the forests in the Southern United States. This practice has continued, but is the tree a truly renewable resource? NOVA examines the effect of clear-cutting and reforestation efforts to determine if we will eventually run out of trees for wood products. Narrated by Glenn Kezer.

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|EpisodeNumber=40

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVATheWilliamsburgFile The Williamsburg File]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|3|14}}

|ProdCode=0310

|ShortSummary=NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noël Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, for a fascinating glimpse of the lifestyles of the founders of this country, complete with detailed reconstructions of houses, stores, workshops, gardens, taverns and palaces.

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|EpisodeNumber=41

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=The Overworked Miracle

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|3|21}}

|ProdCode=0311

|ShortSummary=Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding their medical value. NOVA examines the problem of resistance to antibiotics in the bacteria they are designed to kill.

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|EpisodeNumber=42

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheTransplantExperience The Transplant Experience]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|4|11}}

|ProdCode=0312

|ShortSummary=Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplants than any other heart surgeon. NOVA explores those extraordinary days in 1968–69 when it appeared that everyone with a scalpel was doing heart transplants, and survival of patients was measured in days.

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|EpisodeNumber=43

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundMovement The Underground Movement]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|4|18}}

|ProdCode=0313

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and Worms down to the myriad of micro-organisms that make soil the most complex substrate for life on Earth. Included in the film is extraordinary footage of a mole burrowing and of roots growing.

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|EpisodeNumber=44

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HuntersOfTheSeal Hunters of the Seal]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|5|2}}

|ProdCode=0314

|ShortSummary=In 1967, the Canadian Government gave housing to the Netsilik Inuit for them to settle in and give up their nomadic lifestyle. 10 years later, some of them have returned to their old ways. NOVA shows how the elders preserve and teach their culture to the next generation while attempting to protect their ancestral lands from industrialization. Narrated by Mercedes McCambridge.

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|EpisodeNumber=45

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HorizonBenjamin Benjamin]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|5|9}}

|ProdCode=0315

|ShortSummary=Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first year of life provides the backbone of this revealing NOVA about early child development.

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|EpisodeNumber=46

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=The Women Rebel

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|5|23}}

|ProdCode=0316

|ShortSummary=Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole attitude of the male-dominated medical profession towards "women's issues" and, above all, for gaining social and political acceptance for the concept of birth control. This NOVA docudrama reconstructs her life, told as flashbacks interspersed throughout an interview. Piper Laurie stars as Margaret Sanger.

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|EpisodeNumber=47

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DeathOfADisease Death of a Disease]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|6|6}}

|ProdCode=0317

|ShortSummary=As late as 1967, smallpox struck as many as 15 million people in 43 countries and killed an estimated two or three million. Experts now believe that the disease is on the verge of extinction. NOVA looks at the recent success of the World Health Organization's program to eradicate this disease, considered a triumph of western-styled medicine. Narrated by Robert Montiegel.

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|EpisodeNumber=48

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/InsidetheShark Inside the Shark]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|6|13}}

|ProdCode=0318

|ShortSummary=The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really such a barbarian? NOVA looks at the lifestyle of this remarkable survivor from the days when dinosaurs ruled the earth.

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|EpisodeNumber=49

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHTheGeneticChance The Genetic Chance]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|6|20}}

|ProdCode=0319

|ShortSummary=Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety of defects in unborn babies. NOVA focuses on the ethical question that must be considered: What defines a defect? Should defective babies be aborted, or should they be allowed to live?

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|EpisodeNumber=50

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheCaseOfTheBermudaTriangle The Case of the Bermuda Triangle]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1976|6|27}}

|ProdCode=0320

|ShortSummary=Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean off of Florida, known as the Bermuda Triangle. NOVA penetrates the mystery of the terrifying Bermuda Triangle. Narrated by David Palmer. First aired on Horizon on February 16, 1976.

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|EpisodeNumber=51

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HitlersSecretWeapon Hitler's Secret Weapon]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|1|5}}

|ProdCode=0401

|ShortSummary=Wernher von Braun and others recount the development of the V-2 rocket, the first long-range, guided ballistic missile. Narrated by Richard Kiley.

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|EpisodeNumber=52

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HotBloodedDinosaurs The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|1|12}}

|ProdCode=0402

|ShortSummary=If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the giant jigsaw puzzle together, never mind discover anything about how these dinosaurs lived? NOVA explores the incredible world of the dinosaur scientist.

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|EpisodeNumber=53

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVAWhatPriceCoal What Price Coal?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|1|19}}

|ProdCode=0403

|ShortSummary=What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by the government, industry, and the victims.

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|EpisodeNumber=54

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheSunspotMystery The Sunspot Mystery]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|2|2}}

|ProdCode=0404

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover the link between weather patterns and the 11-year sunspot mystery.

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|EpisodeNumber=55

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ThePlasticPrison The Plastic Prison]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|2|9}}

|ProdCode=0405

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.

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|EpisodeNumber=56

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WGBHIncidentatBrownsFerry Incident at Brown's Ferry]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|2|23}}

|ProdCode=0406

|ShortSummary=NOVA recreates March 1975 at Browns Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a seven-hour fire which came very close to developing into a major public disaster.

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|EpisodeNumber=57

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Bye Bye Blackbird

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|3|2}}

|ProdCode=0407

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.

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|EpisodeNumber=58

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ThePillforthePeople The Pill for the People]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|3|9}}

|ProdCode=0408

|ShortSummary=NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for the hormone progesterone.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=59

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheGeneEngineers The Gene Engineers]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|3|16}}

|ProdCode=0409

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=60

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SociobiologyTheHumanAnimal The Human Animal]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|3|23}}

|ProdCode=0410

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically determined.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=61

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=The Wolf Equation

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|3|30}}

|ProdCode=0411

|ShortSummary=In the winter of 1976–77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. Although the area is roamed by the Western Arctic caribou herds—a natural predator of the wolf—the caribou population has been steadily decreasing in number. NOVA examines how the Dept. of Fish and Game is handling the problem of wolf control.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=62

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DawnoftheSolarAge The Dawn of the Solar Age]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|4|20}}

|ProdCode=0412

|ShortSummary=Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a source of industrial power. NOVA looks at this new industrial approach, such as the use of a huge windmill in Ohio, giant machines that may generate electricity from the heat of the tropical seas or from the motion of waves, and an orbiting solar power station able to beam microwaves to Earth.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=63

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheBusinessofExinction The Business of Extinction]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|4|20}}

|ProdCode=0413

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on vanishing wildlife.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=64

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheRedPlanet The Red Planet]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|4|27}}

|ProdCode=0414

|ShortSummary=NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particularly the theory that the planet could support life. Questions raised by NASA's 1976 Viking missions about how the vast canyons were formed are also explored.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=65

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheTonguesofMen Tongues of Men: Disaster at Babel] |RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 2)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|5|11}}

|ProdCode=0415

|ShortSummary=In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and why the bewildering confusion of languages came about.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=66

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheTonguesofMen Tongues of Men: A World Language?] |RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 2)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|5|18}}

|ProdCode=0416

|ShortSummary=In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped with the confusion of language and asks if the growing acceptance of English is the answer.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=67

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LinusPaulingCrusadingScientist Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|6|1}}

|ProdCode=0417

|ShortSummary=NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=68

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAAcrosstheSilenceBarrier Across the Silent Barrier]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|6|22}}

|ProdCode=0418

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitty O'Neil—a woman record-holding speed car racer; Frances Parsons, an advocate of hearing-impaired persons' rights; and workers at Silent Industries—a factory in Los Angeles founded by a deaf man.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=69

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheNewHealers The New Healers]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1977|6|29}}

|ProdCode=0419

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the debilitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United States.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=70

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/IntheEventofCatastrophe In The Event of Catastrophe]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|1|4}}

|ProdCode=0501

|ShortSummary=Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=71

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheGreenMachine The Green Machine]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|1|11}}

|ProdCode=0420

|ShortSummary=Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth hormones, responses to light and shade, photosynthesis, root mechanisms and twining responses.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=72

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/BlueprintsintheBloodstream Blueprints in the Bloodstream]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|1|18}}

|ProdCode=0502

|ShortSummary=It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristics. NOVA looks at the more recent discovery that the different white cell types, as determined by a variety of different molecular markers on the cell surface, open up the possibility of the prevention of disease.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=73

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAOneSmallStep One Small Step]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|1|25}}

|ProdCode=0503

|ShortSummary=Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through the triumph of the Apollo programs. By tracing the history of three key programs—Mercury, Gemini, Apollo—we show how the basic challenges surrounding space flight were answered: rendezvous and docking, life support, weightlessness, space sickness, equipment reliability and so on.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=74

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAFinalFrontier The Final Frontier]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|2|1}}

|ProdCode=0504

|ShortSummary=Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, including the possibility of space colonization—huge orbiting space stations where people live and work in an earth atmosphere under artificial gravity.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=75

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|2|15}}

|ProdCode=0505

|ShortSummary=In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficult to capture on film, though many have tried. NOVA presents a rare portrait of an elusive people, made by an independent filmmaker who lived with the Pygmies and won their trust.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=76

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TrialofDentonCooley Trial of Denton Cooley]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|2|22}}

|ProdCode=0506

|ShortSummary=In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of his patients died after heart surgery, and examines the legal and moral issues this raises in the practice of modern medicine.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=77

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TLVTheGreatWineRevolution The Great Wine Revolution]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|3|1}}

|ProdCode=0507

|ShortSummary=A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with the predicting of mass production high-quality vintage wines.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=78

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheCaseOfTheAncientAstronauts The Case of the Ancient Astronauts]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|3|8}}

|ProdCode=0508

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among claims examined are: that the building techniques used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops are so advanced that only an extraterrestrial intelligence could have built it; and that the engraved stones of Palenque in Mexico depict an ancient astronaut at the controls of a space rocket.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=79

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheMindMachines_201901 The Mind Machines]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|3|22}}

|ProdCode=0509

|ShortSummary=Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, only suggest that in the not too distant future, machines will outpace their creators. NOVA examines the possibility.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=80

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/IcarusChildren Icarus' Children]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|3|29}}

|ProdCode=0510

|ShortSummary=In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airplane which completed, unaided, a one-mile figure-eight course entirely under the power provided by the pilot himself. This is the story of those many failures and MacCready's success.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=81

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAStillWaters Still Waters]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|4|12}}

|ProdCode=0511

|ShortSummary=NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, from the microscopic plant life of summer to the eagles feeding on carcasses of deer that collapsed on the winter ice.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=82

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Battle for the Acropolis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|4|19}}

|ProdCode=0512

|ShortSummary=The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble structures built in the fifth century BC, including the renowned Parthenon, represent the artistic peak of classical Greek architecture. NOVA examines how the heavily polluted air of Athens produces acid rain which is dissolving the marble sculptures and columns; and how iron tiles used extensively in repair 40 years ago are now rusting, expanding and shattering the stone structures.

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|EpisodeNumber=83

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheRoadtoHappiness The Road to Happiness]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|5|3}}

|ProdCode=0513

|ShortSummary=Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Deposited in the National Archives and known as the Ford Film Collection, it covers not only the Ford family and Ford Motor Company but also contains newsreels, and general films produced under Ford. Using the Collection, NOVA profiles Ford's life and times.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=84

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/Lightofthe21stCentury Light of the 21st Century]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|5|10}}

|ProdCode=0514

|ShortSummary=When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fact research scientists immediately began to exploit their pure colors and near-perfect focusing ability. Today lasers have grown into a billion-dollar business. They are used in construction, manufacturing, clothing, dentistry and medicine. And the future uses of lasers are likely to be of major significance as the means of achieving nuclear fusion and as a very high efficiency communications medium.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=85

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheInsectAlternative The Insect Alternative]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|5|24}}

|ProdCode=0515

|ShortSummary=In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pesticides have backfired. Pesticide-resistant insects frequently develop, and previously harmless insects have become devastating infestations. Farmers have found themselves trapped on a "pesticide treadmill"—the more they spray, the more they have to spray. NOVA examines several alternatives for pest control.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=86

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheDesertsEdge The Desert's Edge]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|5|31}}

|ProdCode=0516

|ShortSummary=For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands of the international market have put more stress on these poor and easily exhausted lands. NOVA examines the consequences and possible solutions to desertification.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=87

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheTsetseTrap The Tsetse Trap]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|6|7}}

|ProdCode=0517

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=88

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WGBHMemoriesfromEden Memories From Eden]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|6|14}}

|ProdCode=0518

|ShortSummary=Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than about an animal and its habitat. But just as man has realized that he has all but destroyed much of the world's wilderness and its wildlife, he is realizing that the zoo may be the last refuge for wildlife. NOVA visits several United States zoos to examine a variety of activities of concern today: breeding, public education, creative new animal habitats, and the reintroduction of animals to their natural environment.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=89

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AWhisperfromSpace A Whisper From Space]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|6|21}}

|ProdCode=0519

|ShortSummary=In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals from space—the most ancient and most distant signals detected by man: the oldest "fossils" in the universe. NOVA explores the current surge of cosmological discovery that continues to aid scientists in the "cosmic archaeology" of digging into the history of the universe.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=90

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AlaskaTheClosingFrontier Alaska: The Closing Frontier]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1978|6|28}}

|ProdCode=0520

|ShortSummary=Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk of Alaska as off-limits to developers. NOVA explores the public debates on Alaska, such as the construction of the oil pipeline—a proposal that has sparked a bitter controversy between conservationists and developers.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=91

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/blacktide Black Tide]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|1|4}}

|ProdCode=0601

|ShortSummary=On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US-owned, Liberian registered supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, went aground off the coast of Brittany. Over the following days and weeks its entire 68 million gallons of oil drained into the sea. A NOVA production team began filming at the scene shortly after the disaster, the biggest oil spill in history, and recorded clean-up efforts, effects of the spill on the crucial tourism and fishing industries, and the attempts of US and French marine biologists to trace the passage of the oil through the environment.

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|EpisodeNumber=92

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LongWalkofFredYoung Long Walk of Fred Young]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|1|11}}

|ProdCode=0602

|ShortSummary=As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, spoke only the Indian languages Ute and Navajo, went to a medicine man when he was sick, and slept under the stars. NOVA profiles Dr. Frederick Young, now a nuclear physicist working on the laser fusion project at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.

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|EpisodeNumber=93

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AWorldOfDifference A World of Difference]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|1|18}}

|ProdCode=0603

|ShortSummary=In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13-month-old daughter, Deborah, into a "box." The box was actually a climate-controlled crib designed for comfort and protection, and the young psychologist was merely testing his theory that environment controls behavior. NOVA portrays the life of this famous behavioral psychologist now in his 70's and living quietly in Cambridge as Emeritus professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=94

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CashingInontheOcean Cashing In On The Ocean]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|2|1}}

|ProdCode=0604

|ShortSummary=The bed of the northeast Pacific Ocean is covered with a "carpet" estimated to be worth a staggering ten million dollars. These manganese nodules—the bumpy carpet—are rich not only in manganese but in the key strategic minerals: copper, nickel and cobalt. NOVA examines the debate about who owns them and who has the right to exploit their use.

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|EpisodeNumber=95

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Patterns from the Past

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|2|8}}

|ProdCode=0605

|ShortSummary=Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'ero Indians live a life patterned on that of their ancestors thousands of years ago. NOVA takes a look at the unchanging world of these isolated mountain people.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=96

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheInvisibleFlame The Invisible Flame]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|2|22}}

|ProdCode=0606

|ShortSummary=Some day hydrogen may replace the gasoline that we are now using up so rapidly. NOVA looks at the potential of hydrogen as a zero-pollution fuel.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=97

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAEndoftheRainbow The End of the Rainbow]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|3|1}}

|ProdCode=0607

|ShortSummary=Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promise—and problems—of fusion as a future energy source.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=98

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Beersheva Experiment

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|3|8}}

|ProdCode=0608

|ShortSummary=Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent on medical education in the 1960s, there are now too many specialists and too few primary care physicians, especially in underserved areas. NOVA tells the story of one medical school in Israel that is training a new kind of family doctor.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=99

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAAEinstein Einstein]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|3|15}}

|ProdCode=0609

|ShortSummary=One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most Americans. NOVA presents an insightful portrait of the man and his mind through rarely viewed film footage.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=100

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheKeysOfParadise The Keys of Paradise]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|3|29}}

|ProdCode=0610

|ShortSummary=Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a place where you would least expect to find them. Endorphins and their component Enkephalins are manufactured in the brain, and perform the same painkilling function as analgesics like morphine. NOVA explores some physiological mysteries, such as why acupuncture works, and how placebos can relieve symptoms, and shows how endorphins could revolutionize the treatment of pain, depression, and even schizophrenia.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=101

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/APlagueOnOurChildren A Plague on our Children]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|10|2}}

|ProdCode=0611

|ShortSummary=Is the chemical industry a boom to modern civilization, or a major threat to our health and that of future generations? NOVA examines how toxic heribicides, Pesticides, and other chemicals may cause cancer, Miscarriages and Birth defects in humans.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=102

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/Novalifeonsilkenthread Life on a Silken Thread]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|10|9}}

|ProdCode=0612

|ShortSummary=Sinister, sometimes even deadly, spiders have little popular appeal; yet their silken webs are among nature's loveliest creations. NOVA takes a close look in slow motion, as spiders reveal a delicate grace and beauty, and an amazing array of lifestyles.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=103

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SweetSolutions Sweet Solutions]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|10|16}}

|ProdCode=0613

|ShortSummary=NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political history to its medical controversy.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=104

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/RaceForTheGold Race For Gold]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|10|30}}

|ProdCode=0614

|ShortSummary=At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted gold medals, though their country is only the size of New Jersey. NOVA investigates whether a drug is responsible for their incredible success—or is American athletic training and commitment falling behind that of the Communist world?

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=105

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AllPartoftheGame All Part of The Game]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|11|6}}

|ProdCode=0615

|ShortSummary=Thousands of amateur athletes are hurt every year, and many professional athletes suffer injuries that may mean the end of a career. NOVA looks at a new medical specialty—sports medicine—that promises to prevent and cure many sports related problems.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=106

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAMachineryofHope India: Machinery of Hope]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|11|20}}

|ProdCode=0616

|ShortSummary=Most of India lives by the same rhythm, the same tools, as in centuries past. But there is another India—with thriving commercial centers, spotless research laboratories and large-scale industry. NOVA looks at how the gap between these two extremes is shrinking because of a policy of "appropriate" technology that uses the resources of both to meet the greatest needs of all.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=107

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheBridgethatSpannedtheWorld The Bridge That Spanned The World]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|4}}

|ProdCode=0617

|ShortSummary=The Iron Bridge across the River Severn in Telford, England is two centuries old this year. It remains a monument to the Shropshire iron masters who built it, and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution that was born in the area where the bridge stands. NOVA traces the development of ironmaking and its far-reaching effects on society and the world economy.

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|EpisodeNumber=108

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TermitesandTelescopes Termites and Telescopes]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|11}}

|ProdCode=0618

|ShortSummary=Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents this thoughtful and provocative commentary on the nature of civilization.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=109

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Blindness: Five Points of View

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|18}}

|ProdCode=0619

|ShortSummary=For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA looks at five people struggling to save their threatened vision using drugs, surgery, counseling and determination.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=110

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheElusiveIllness The Elusive Illness]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|1|15}}

|ProdCode=0701

|ShortSummary=Aborigines in Australia, woodchucks in Pennsylvania, the Nobel Prize in Stockholm and the gay community in New York City—what could possibly link such disparate elements? The answer is Hepatitis. NOVA examines this elusive disease, what causes it, how it is spread and how you get rid of it.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=111

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AisforAtomBisforBomb A is for Atom, B is for Bomb]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|1|22}}

|ProdCode=0702

|ShortSummary=NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclaimed scientific genius and brilliant theoretician, and a man considered by some the most dangerous scientist in the United States.

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|EpisodeNumber=112

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LivingMachines Living Machines]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|2|5}}

|ProdCode=0703

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the science of natural engineering and asks the basic questions: what makes a good design in nature and why did a particular plant or animal adopt a particular design?

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|EpisodeNumber=113

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PortraitofaKiller Portrait of a Killer]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|2|19}}

|ProdCode=0704

|ShortSummary=More than 40 million Americans are afflicted by cardiovascular disease. NOVA examines the new information on risk factors and possible prevention of heart attacks and Strokes—often fatal diseases.

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|EpisodeNumber=114

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/UmealitTheWhaleHunters Umealit: The Whale Hunters]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|3|4}}

|ProdCode=0705

|ShortSummary=Whaling is an integral part of Eskimo life, and a major source of food; even so, conservationists are seeking to restrict the hunting of bowheads in Alaska.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=115

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheSafetyFactor The Safety Factor]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|3|11}}

|ProdCode=0706

|ShortSummary=Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern commercial aviation really is. NOVA looks at some of the problems and experimental efforts underway to deal with them.

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|EpisodeNumber=116

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAS07E07AMediterraneanProspect A Mediterranean Prospect]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|3|18}}

|ProdCode=0707

|ShortSummary=Every year, millions of tourists converge on the Mediterranean's sunny coasts, lured by the prospect of bathing in clear, azure waters and basking in semi-tropical sun. But years of use and abuse have taken their toll on the once idyllic Mediterranean and the "world's biggest swimming pool" has become the world's biggest open sewer. NOVA explores the complex problems that plague the Mediterranean's future.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=117

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/MrLudwigsTropicalDreamland_201808 Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|3|25}}

|ProdCode=0708

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the amazing Jari project of the Amazon basin. Eleven years ago, 3.5 million acres of virgin jungle were bought by the reclusive billionaire, Daniel K. Ludwig.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=118

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAPinksandtheBlues The Pinks and the Blues]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|9|30}}

|ProdCode=0709

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the shaping and molding of the male and female personality. From infancy through childhood, the program documents the impact of culture on the development of sex differences. Known as "The Secret Of The Sexes" as the Vestron Video release of 1988.

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|EpisodeNumber=119

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheCancerDetectiviesOfLinXian The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|10|7}}

|ProdCode=0710

|ShortSummary=In one of the first films ever to come out of modern China, NOVA sifts through clues that Chinese scientists have uncovered in their pursuit of particularly virulent and elusive forms of cancer from which one out of every four people die.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=120

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WGBHSeaBehindtheDunes The Sea Behind the Dunes]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|10|14}}

|ProdCode=0711

|ShortSummary=One year in the intricate life of a coastal lagoon unfolds in an hour's time when NOVA documents the fragile tidal ecosystem which supports the entire ocean.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=121

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DoWeReallyNeedtheRockies Do We Really Need The Rockies?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|10|28}}

|ProdCode=0712

|ShortSummary=Locked in the shale of the Western Rocky Mountains is more oil than in the Middle East—more than enough to solve our dependence on foreign crude oil. But will shale oil solve our gasoline shortage, or will it simply turn the Rockies into a gigantic industrial zone? NOVA explores the promise and the problems of shale oil.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=122

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/nova-interferon-s-8-e-5-aka-the-big-if-convert-video-online.com The Big IF]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|11|4}}

|ProdCode=0713

|ShortSummary=Is interferon—known as IF in medical shorthand—the wonder drug and cure for cancer that some doctors claim? NOVA travels to London, Stockholm, Houston, San Francisco, and New Haven in search of the answer in the most complete film on interferon ever to appear on American television.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=123

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/VoyagerJupiterandBeyond Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|11|11}}

|ProdCode=0714

|ShortSummary=On Wednesday, November 12, 1980, Voyager 1 is expected to arrive at Saturn for a first time extensive close-up investigation of the majestic ringed planet. Astronomers can expect to gather more information than ever before possible. On the day before this historic event, NOVA documents Voyager's journey through the outer Solar System.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=124

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheWizardWhoSpatontheFloor The Wizard Who Spat On The Floor]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|11|18}}

|ProdCode=0715

|ShortSummary=Thomas Edison is the quintessential American hero, the Wizard whose inventions revolutionized modern living. But there was always more to Edison than met the eye. He was a complex and contradictory man; a brilliant inventor, a foolish investor; a demanding boss, a liberal benefactor—a public figure that no one ever really knew. NOVA profiles the man behind the mythical reputation.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=125

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheWaterCrisis The Water Crisis]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|11|25}}

|ProdCode=0716

|ShortSummary=Water, water everywhere...but just how useful is it? NOVA travels to the Adirondack Mountains where acid rain is killing many high elevation lakes; to the Mississippi River where chlorine has combined with natural and manmade organic chemicals to form cancer-causing toxic chemical substances; to California, where conservation recycling has had to become a way of life; and to Bedford, Massachusetts, where the town wells have been contaminated by industrial waste.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=126

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MovingStill Moving Still]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|12|2}}

|ProdCode=0717

|ShortSummary=NOVA tells the story of still and cine photography in science—from the extraordinary work of the pioneers in the early 1800s to how the ability to freeze time on film in ever shorter periods has given scientists remarkable new insights. Today photography enables us to analyze (frame by frame) the thousands of molecular reactions that can happen in less time than the blink of an eye.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=127

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HorizonATouchofSensitivity A Touch of Sensitivity]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|12|9}}

|ProdCode=0718

|ShortSummary=The exquisite sensitivity of touch cells in the human skin makes it possible for us to discriminate with precision the slightest changes in texture and pressure, but how the electrical impulses we receive are converted into sensation remains a mystery. NOVA explores the hidden meaning and extraordinary power of human touch.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=128

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Red Deer of Rhum

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|12|23}}

|ProdCode=0719

|ShortSummary=The cuddly image of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become an integral part of the jollity of the Christmas season. NOVA takes a timely look at how real deer live by visiting Rhum—an island off the coast of Scotland inhabited by red deer.

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|EpisodeNumber=129

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=It's About Time

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|12|30}}

|ProdCode=0720

|ShortSummary=Time—a concept which has baffled scientists and philosophers since time immemorial. Actor Dudley Moore hosts a funny, sobering and visually stunning quest for answers to riddles, as NOVA spends an hour on time. Aired on the BBC in 1979.

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|EpisodeNumber=130

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/DoctorsofNigeria The Doctors of Nigeria]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|1|6}}

|ProdCode=0801

|ShortSummary=Is the fagara root a match for the stethoscope? This program looks at the contributions of both traditional herbal medicine and western orthodox medicine to the health of the Nigerian people.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=131

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MessageintheRocks Message In The Rocks]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|1|20}}

|ProdCode=0802

|ShortSummary=This program explores clues gathered from ancient rocks and Meteorites in an attempt to piece together how our planet formed, what happened during its earliest days, and when life first appeared. The program includes visits to the scene of a fresh fall of meteorites, several volcanic eruptions, and an underwater glimpse of molten "pillow" lava as it oozes out of volcanic vents in the sea floor.

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|EpisodeNumber=132

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheDeadSeaLives The Dead Sea Lives]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|1|27}}

|ProdCode=0803

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the Dead Sea. The lowest place on Earth, at 1400 feet below sea level, it is jointly owned by Israel and Jordan. If used properly it could become a vital natural resource for both countries, giving them not only salt, but protein, fertilizer, oil, and a solar energy store.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=133

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AnatomyOfAVolcano Anatomy of a Volcano]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|2|10}}

|ProdCode=0804

|ShortSummary=When Mount St. Helens erupted earlier this year, it focused the attention of the whole world on the almost incredible destructive forces that volcanos can release. Geologists from around the world congregated at the volcano and NOVA joined the vigil for an in-depth look at the incident and its aftermath.

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|EpisodeNumber=134

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ScienceofMurder The Science of Murder]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|2|17}}

|ProdCode=0805

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates what science can do in helping to solve murder—in understanding why it occurs, and how the rate might be reduced—and explores the work of people who have the stark job of dealing with death: the police, pathologist, scientists and psychiatrists.

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|EpisodeNumber=135

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MaladyofHealthCare The Malady of Health Care]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|2|24}}

|ProdCode=0806

|ShortSummary=Health care is no longer two Aspirins and some chicken soup—it is a huge enterprise capable of amazing feats and costing billions of dollars. How can we afford to pay the bills? Is quality health care a right or a privilege? NOVA examines these questions in a comparison between the American and British systems of health care.

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|EpisodeNumber=136

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVABeyondtheMilkyWay Beyond the Milky Way]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|3|3}}

|ProdCode=0807

|ShortSummary=Sophisticated instruments used by astronomers enable earthlings to see beyond what was once the cloudy barrier of the Milky Way, to a universe of perhaps 100 billion other galaxies. NOVA takes a trip into outer space to see these clusters which are as old as time and several million light years away.

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|EpisodeNumber=137

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheAsteroidAndTheDinosaur The Asteroid and the Dinosaur]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|3|10}}

|ProdCode=0808

|ShortSummary=For 150 million years, non-avian dinosaurs dominated the Earth. Then, 65 million years ago, they suddenly vanished, along with a great deal of the planet's animal and plant life. NOVA examines a remarkable theory about the cause of the catastrophe—in which the first clue to the solution was a piece of clay.

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|EpisodeNumber=138

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAAnimalOlympians Animal Olympians]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|3|17}}

|ProdCode=0809

|ShortSummary=The beauty, endurance, and raw power of animals in the wild are captured on film as NOVA juxtaposes Olympic athletes performing feats which have parallels in the animal kingdom with animals who are the champions of grace and strength.

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|EpisodeNumber=139

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ResolutononSaturn Resolution on Saturn]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|8|25}}

|ProdCode=0810

|ShortSummary=It's over 300 years since Galileo turned his new telescope on Saturn and first saw its spectacular rings. NOVA shows the beauty and new mysteries discovered by Voyager 1 on its historic visit.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=140

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/ComputersSpiesAndPrivateLives Computers, Spies, & Private Lives]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|9|27}}

|ProdCode=0811

|ShortSummary=NOVA reports on the potential danger of modern Computers that gather "routine" information about our daily lives as we buy things, go to the hospital, or make donations. Computers can know more about us than our closest friends. NOVA examines how much of that personal information is readily shared with other computers.

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|EpisodeNumber=141

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhyAmericaBurns Why America Burns]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|4}}

|ProdCode=0812

|ShortSummary=More people die in fires in the US than in any other industrialized country. In an alarming report that challenges the complacency of the US fire prevention establishment, NOVA uncovers glaring gaps in our defenses against flames that kill. Sealing any one of these gaps might save thousands of lives and prevent enormous pain and misery.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=142

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/GreatViolinMystery The Great Violin Mystery]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|11}}

|ProdCode=0813

|ShortSummary=A great secret lies locked inside the master Violins created by Italian craftsmen like Antonio Stradivari in the 17th and 18th centuries. Now, a Wisconsin physicist, working alone in his cellar, may have solved the violin mystery.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=143

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Cosmic Fire

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|18}}

|ProdCode=0814

|ShortSummary=A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that our universe is much stranger and more violent than ever imagined, filled with neutrons, stars, exploding galaxies, quasars and black holes—a universe seething with energy, bursting across vast distances of space and time.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=144

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVALocusts Locusts: "War Without End"]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|10|25}}

|ProdCode=0815

|ShortSummary=Called the "teeth of the wind" by those who have battled them for centuries, locusts continue to plague hundreds of millions of people. Rare desert rains transforms locusts from harmless grasshoppers to voracious swarms capable of destroying all vegetation in their path. NOVA reveals some of man's latest attempts to rid himself of his age-old enemy, the locust.

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|EpisodeNumber=145

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/DidDarwinGetItWrong Did Darwin Get It Wrong?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|1}}

|ProdCode=0816

|ShortSummary=The controversy which exploded a century ago when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species is erupting again with new facts and emotion. NOVA explores challenges to the theory of evolution coming from evidence in fossils, from biology laboratories, and Creationists.

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|EpisodeNumber=146

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ArtistsintheLab Artists in the Lab]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|15}}

|ProdCode=0817

|ShortSummary=Many were delighted by the extraordinary special effects in movies like 2001 and Star Wars, but few realized how their magic relied on technologies as futuristic as their science fiction plots. NOVA introduces 20th century pioneers who use computers and lasers to create an extraordinary array of strange, exciting new art forms.

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|EpisodeNumber=147

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NotesofaBiologyWatcher Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|22}}

|ProdCode=0818

|ShortSummary=You are not alone! Like it or not, every human being and virtually every living creature is, in a sense, owned and operated by legions of prehistoric organisms, hordes of them in each cell in the body. That is one of the startling revelations as NOVA explores the mysterious wonder of life with Dr. Lewis Thomas, a leading biologist and award-winning author described by Time as "quite possibly the best essayist on science anywhere in the world."

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|EpisodeNumber=148

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CitySpacesHumanPlaces City Spaces, Human Places]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|11|29}}

|ProdCode=0819

|ShortSummary=William H. Whyte's insightful and humorous look at city parks, plazas and Streets, and the people who use them. Whyte shows the remarkable research he did over a period of many years to find out why some city squares and small parks are enjoyable while others are so dreary. His work led to the transformation of some New York City plazas from barren to bustling. Whyte shows how any city—large or small—can lick the problem of downtown dreariness.

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|EpisodeNumber=149

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Twins

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1981|12|6}}

|ProdCode=0820

|ShortSummary=Ever thought what it's like having your mirror image talk back to you? It can be an everyday occurrence for identical twins. NOVA tells the incredible story of scientific research on twins—a field marked by brazen and damaging fraud, but also by surprising and important new discoveries about nature's recipe of heredity and environment which makes us all unique individuals.

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|EpisodeNumber=150

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SalmonOnTheRun Salmon on the Run]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|1|10}}

|ProdCode=0901

|ShortSummary=NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the fishing industry—and the salmon itself.

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|EpisodeNumber=151

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TestTubeBabies Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|1|17}}

|ProdCode=0902

|ShortSummary=NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy from the start, presenting the only view on American TV of the extraordinary medical procedures used to remove and fertilize the egg, and of the historic birth on December 28, 1981, in Norfolk, Virginia.

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|EpisodeNumber=152

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|1|24}}

|ProdCode=0903

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning birdwatching into a mass sport.

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|EpisodeNumber=153

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HuntfortheLegionKiller The Hunt for the Legion Killer]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|1|31}}

|ProdCode=0904

|ShortSummary=One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaires' disease. NOVA traces the search for a cause and cure—a search bedeviled by false trails, accusations of incompetence and cover-up, and increasing urgency as the death toll mounted.

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|EpisodeNumber=154

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/FindingaVoice Finding a Voice]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|2|7}}

|ProdCode=0905

|ShortSummary=What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair and unable for 30 years to say more than "yes" or "no" and investigates some of the new technology that gives the speechless a "voice."

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|EpisodeNumber=155

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheTelevisionExplosion The Television Explosion]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|2|14}}

|ProdCode=0906

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experiment, the array of new techniques and their potential social impact. Will the new video technology let people see what they really want, rather than what the networks want?

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|EpisodeNumber=156

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LifePatentPending Life: Patent Pending]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|2|28}}

|ProdCode=0907

|ShortSummary=NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and the universities themselves. NOVA reveals that other countries are plowing far more resources than the US into the burgeoning industry.

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|EpisodeNumber=157

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PalaceofDelights Palace of Delights]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|3|7}}

|ProdCode=0908

|ShortSummary=NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collection of physicists and high school students.

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|EpisodeNumber=158

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Animal Impostors

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|3|14}}

|ProdCode=0909

|ShortSummary=In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals, both predators and their intended victims, use remarkable forms of deception to achieve their goal: to eat, or avoid being eaten.

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|EpisodeNumber=159

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheMethuselahSyndrome Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|3|28}}

|ProdCode=0910

|ShortSummary=What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes which make us age and how to control them.

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|EpisodeNumber=160

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheCaseOfTheUFOs The Case of the UFOs]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|10|12}}

|ProdCode=0911

|ShortSummary=For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With vivid film and accounts from several eyewitnesses including astronauts, NOVA sifts the evidence for and against the existence of UFOs.

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|EpisodeNumber=161

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheFragileMountain The Fragile Mountain]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|10|19}}

|ProdCode=0912

|ShortSummary=The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in this breathtaking documentary.

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|EpisodeNumber=162

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVAHeresLookingatYouKid Here's Looking At You, Kid]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|9}}

|ProdCode=0913

|ShortSummary=Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resilience in an 11-year-old boy's fight to recover from burns suffered over 73 percent of his body.

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|EpisodeNumber=163

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AdventuresofTeenageScientists Adventures of Teenage Scientists]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|16}}

|ProdCode=0914

|ShortSummary=NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. With education facing a deepening financial crisis, will this year's group of well-trained young scientists be among the last of the best and the brightest?

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|EpisodeNumber=164

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheCobaltBlues The Cobalt Blues]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|23}}

|ProdCode=0915

|ShortSummary=An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which examines and questions Reagan Administration policies toward those international sources.

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|EpisodeNumber=165

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WGBHGoodbyeLouisiana Goodbye Louisiana]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|30}}

|ProdCode=0916

|ShortSummary=NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and where last year 49 square miles of coastline disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico.

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|EpisodeNumber=166

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhaleWatch Whale Watch]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|7}}

|ProdCode=0917

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known facts about the mating and feeding habits of the gentle giants.

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|EpisodeNumber=167

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TrackingtheSupertrains Tracking The Supertrains]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|14}}

|ProdCode=0918

|ShortSummary=While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.

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|EpisodeNumber=168

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HawaiiCrucibleOfLife Hawaii: Crucible of Life]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|1|18}}

|ProdCode=1001

|ShortSummary=This land of fire and beauty is the most isolated island chain in the world. NOVA cameras uncover an extraordinary world far from the teeming tourist hotels, one filled with unique life forms, but also scarred by tragic extinction.

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|EpisodeNumber=169

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ThePleasureOfFindingThingsOut_201809 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|1|25}}

|ProdCode=1002

|ShortSummary=NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man of few pretensions and tremendous personal charm, who speaks with the same passion about a child's toy wagon and the frontiers of subatomic physics.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=170

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LassaFever Lassa Fever]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|2|8}}

|ProdCode=1003

|ShortSummary=A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in 1969, and the frustrating, seesaw battle against it. NOVA recounts how public health workers came perilously close to accidentally releasing a deadly virus in the US.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=171

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheMiracleOfLife The Miracle of Life]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|2|15}}

|ProdCode=1004

|ShortSummary=NOVA presents the first film ever made of the incredible chain of events which turns a sperm and an egg into a newborn baby. Amazing photographic techniques give the viewers the feeling of being reduced to the size of cells, following the sperm on its perilous voyage toward the egg, and meeting protectors and enemies along the way—like Ulysses on a microscopic odyssey.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=172

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AsbestosALethalLegacy Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|1}}

|ProdCode=1005

|ShortSummary=Every 58 minutes between now and the end of the century, one American will die from asbestos exposure. NOVA turns its spotlight on the tragic consequences of asbestos use and on the current controversy over who is responsible.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=173

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WGBHCityofCoral City of Coral]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|8}}

|ProdCode=1006

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes a spellbinding voyage through one of the world's most fascinating and colorful ecosystems: a coral reef, where the line between plants and animals is blurred, "rocks" move, eat and fight, fish farm, and weak animals borrow the shields and weapons of stronger ones.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=174

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/FatChanceinaThinWorld Fat Chance in a Thin World]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|22}}

|ProdCode=1007

|ShortSummary="Why can't I lose weight?" It's a question many Americans ask themselves everyday. NOVA comes up with some surprising answers about weight and dieting that could have significant impact on our daily lives.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=175

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SixtyMinutestoMeltdown Sixty Minutes to Meltdown]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|29}}

|ProdCode=1008

|ShortSummary=The accident at Three Mile Island made front page news all over the world and rocked the entire nuclear power industry. In this special 90-minute broadcast, NOVA presents a docudrama chronicling the minute-by-minute events leading up to the accident and examines the questions raised about safety confronting nuclear power industry today.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=176

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SignsoftheApesSongsoftheWhales Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|10|11}}

|ProdCode=1009

|ShortSummary=The dream of talking with animals has been with us for centuries. NOVA explores the latest research, from language experiments with dolphins and apes to studies of animal calls in the wild.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=177

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheArtificialHeart The Artificial Heart]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|10|18}}

|ProdCode=1010

|ShortSummary=Seattle dentist Barney Clark received the first artificial heart implant in 1982. He died in March 1983, having survived 112 days with the world's first permanent, pneumatic, totally artificial heart. NOVA follows the case with the surgeon, William DeVries, and looks at the prospects for this technology to save lives. It also explored the work of Dr. William F. Bernhard on the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) ongoing at the Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories, Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=178

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATalkingTurtle Talking Turtle]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|10|25}}

|ProdCode=1011

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at computers in the classroom through the eyes of MIT's Seymour Papert, father of the Turtle—a computerized robot that crawls on the floor and talks in versatile language even five-year-olds can learn.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=179

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAAnthropologyonTrial Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|11|1}}

|ProdCode=1012

|ShortSummary=Remote tribes and exotic islanders have been made known to the world through the lens of anthropology. But in recent years, some of these people have begun to object. NOVA travels to Margaret Mead's Papua New Guinea and looks at anthropology from the other side.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=180

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/toliveuntilyoudietheworkofelisabethkublerross To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|11|8}}

|ProdCode=1013

|ShortSummary=Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has become a legend in her lifetime for her work with the dying. For the first time on American television, her explorations with patients are captured in film, as NOVA presents an intimate portrait of the Swiss-born psychiatrist at work.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=181

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AMagicWayofGoing A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|11|15}}

|ProdCode=1014

|ShortSummary=Can the thoroughbred horse run any faster? NOVA examines the billion-dollar horse racing industry in its search for the magic combination of speed, stamina and the will to win.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=182

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ANormalFace A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|11|22}}

|ProdCode=1015

|ShortSummary=When plastic surgeons repair the shattered face of a soldier or rescue a child from a disfiguring disease, the victory is more than skin-deep. NOVA looks at the history, heroes and miracles of plastic surgery in mending the accidents of war and birth.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=183

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Captives of Care

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|11|29}}

|ProdCode=1016

|ShortSummary=Patients at an Australian institution for the severely handicapped rebel against a pair of over-zealous custodians. This astonishing true story was filmed as a docudrama, written and performed by the patients themselves.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=184

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TwentyFiveYearsinSpace Twenty-Five Years in Space]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|12|6}}

|ProdCode=1017

|ShortSummary=As the American space program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, NOVA chronicles the effects of the space age on Earth, drawing on popular music, film and television archives from the last quarter of a century.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=185

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVANuclearStrategyForBeginners Nuclear Strategy for Beginners]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|12|13}}

|ProdCode=1018

|ShortSummary=Will nuclear weapons deter World War III or only make it more likely? NOVA explores the military strategies of the nuclear age, now that the challenge may no longer be to win global war but to prevent it.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=186

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheClimateCrisis The Climate Crisis]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|12|20}}

|ProdCode=1019

|ShortSummary=This summer's record temperatures may be one of the signs that the Earth's atmosphere is warming up. NOVA looks at the climate predictions and hazard warnings for the next century, based on the effects of our soaring consumption of Fossil fuels.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=187

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/EyesoverChina Eyes Over China]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|12|27}}

|ProdCode=1020

|ShortSummary=NOVA documents a dramatic encounter in international medicine when an American plane lands in China—equipped with a state-of-the-art eye-operating theater—and two very different medical systems meet eyeball to eyeball.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=188

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AlcoholismLifeUndertheInfluence Alcoholism: Life Under The Influence]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|1|10}}

|ProdCode=1021

|ShortSummary=In a culture laced with alcohol, the search for a scientific understanding of alcoholism is as complex as the disease. In an interdisciplinary report, NOVA looks at the many faces of alcoholism—medical, historical and social.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=189

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheCaseofESP The Case of ESP]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|1|17}}

|ProdCode=1101

|ShortSummary=In the past decade, a number of researchers have begun systematic laboratory research into extrasensory perception—ESP. NOVA considers the claims for—and against—paranormal phenomena and looks at some startling applications in the field of archaeology, criminology and Warfare.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=190

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AntarcticaEarthsLastFrontier Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|1|31}}

|ProdCode=1102

|ShortSummary=An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of our world: Antarctica, the ice-covered continent we are only just beginning to understand. NOVA visits this wilderness of ice, larger than the United States and Mexico combined, whose only warm-blooded residents are seals, skuas, penguins and scientists.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=191

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ChinasOnlyChild China's Only Child]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|2|14}}

|ProdCode=1103

|ShortSummary=Efforts to control the population explosion are among the burning controversies of our time. NOVA looks at the one-child policy of the People's Republic of China, a revolutionary decree with profound implications for a people accustomed to traditionally large families.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=192

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WillIWalkAgain Will I Walk Again?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|2|28}}

|ProdCode=1104

|ShortSummary=Is there a cure for paralyzing spinal injuries? Most neurosurgeons are doubtful, pointing to the central nervous system's most apparent inability to heal itself. But others dispute the point. NOVA explores the debate, the hopes for a cure and recent breakthroughs to help paralyzed patients.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=193

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/VisionsoftheDeep Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|3|6}}

|ProdCode=1105

|ShortSummary=Al Giddings is one of the greatest underwater photographers in the world. In a riveting look at the unearthly beauties and terrors of the seas, NOVA presents a portrait of Giddings at work.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=194

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVADownOnTheFarm Down on the Farm]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|3|20}}

|ProdCode=1106

|ShortSummary=Agriculture is America's biggest industry. This productivity, envied around the world, is also depleting the most essential ingredients in farming: water and soil. NOVA looks at the agricultural dilemma, the short term need for profit and long term needs of the land.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=195

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MakeMyPeopleLive Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|3|27}}

|ProdCode=1107

|ShortSummary=What are America's obligations to its native population? As an important Indian health act comes up for renewal in Congress this Spring (1984), NOVA explores the state of medical care for a proud but vulnerable minority.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=196

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheWorldAccordingtoWeisskopf The World According to Weisskopf]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|4|3}}

|ProdCode=1108

|ShortSummary=Victor Weisskopf: physicist, lover of music and citizen of the world. NOVA profiles the international statesman of science and learns that one of the giants of 20th century physics is also one of the country's greatest humanists.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=197

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SpaceBridgetoMoscow Space Bridge to Moscow]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|10|2}}

|ProdCode=1120

|ShortSummary=At a time when scientific exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union is at its lowest since the 1950s, a special hookup will allow eight leading Soviet and American scientists to share ideas face-to-face before millions of television viewers in each country on this NOVA special.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=198

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=The National Science Test I

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|10|16}}

|ProdCode=1109

|ShortSummary=NOVA departs from tradition with the first National Science Test. Viewers can match wits with celebrity panelists Jane Alexander, Jules Bergman, Marva Collins and Edwin Newman. Art Fleming hosts.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=199

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheFountainsofParadise Fountains of Paradise]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|10|23}}

|ProdCode=1110

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the billion-dollar-plus Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka. Will this high-risk project prove to be a great leap forward or an industrial and sociological disaster?

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=200

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryofYellowRain The Mystery of Yellow Rain]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|10|30}}

|ProdCode=1111

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores whether "yellow rain," described by members of the Hmong tribe of Laos, is a form of chemical warfare—or a naturally occurring phenomenon.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=201

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NomadsoftheRainForest The Nomads of the Rain Forest]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|11|6}}

|ProdCode=1112

|ShortSummary=NOVA visits a tribe of Ecuadoran Indians who still maintain traditions that date back to the Stone Age—thirty years after their first contact with Western Civilization.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=202

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/FarmersOfTheSea Farmers of the Sea]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|11|13}}

|ProdCode=1113

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at the "blue revolution"—modern advances in the ancient art of raising aquatic animals and plants—in the United States, Japan, Scotland and other countries.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=203

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/FrontiersofPlasticSurgery Frontiers of Plastic Surgery]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|11|20}}

|ProdCode=1114

|ShortSummary=NOVA's sequel to "A Normal Face" examines the merging of technology and art in modern reconstruction and cosmetic surgical techniques.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=204

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SpaceWomen Space Women]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|11|27}}

|ProdCode=1115

|ShortSummary=They have been part of the United States' space program for more than 20 years. Who are these talented, courageous women? NOVA looks at astronaut Sally Ride and her colleagues, how they are trained and their role in NASA's future.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=205

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/JAWSTheTrueStory Jaws: The True Story]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|12|4}}

|ProdCode=1116

|ShortSummary=Acclaimed underwater cameraman Al Giddings takes NOVA viewers beneath the waves to explore the fact and fiction surrounding the great white shark.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=206

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AcidRainNewBadNews Acid Rain: New Bad News]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|12|11}}

|ProdCode=1117

|ShortSummary=The debate over acid rain continues to grow. NOVA travels to West Germany, the mid-Atlantic states and New England to examine the controversy surrounding this phenomenon.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=207

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/StephenJayGouldThisViewOfLife Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1984|12|18}}

|ProdCode=1118

|ShortSummary=What do dinosaurs, a panda's thumb and a peacock's tail have in common? Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, the internationally renowned paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, provides some surprising answers in this NOVA profile.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=208

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheGardenofInheritance The Garden of Inheritance]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|1|8}}

|ProdCode=1119

|ShortSummary=In this docudrama presentation, NOVA looks at the life, times and work of Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Augustinian friar whose revolutionary scientific Experiments in selective breeding have made him the "Father of Genetics."

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=209

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/EdgertonAndHisIncredibleSeeingMachines Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|1|15}}

|ProdCode=1201

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the fascinating world of Dr. Harold Edgerton, electronics wizard and inventor extraordinaire, whose invention of the electronic strobe, a "magic lamp," has enabled the human eye to see the unseen.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=210

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/GlobalVillage Global Village]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|1|22}}

|ProdCode=1202

|ShortSummary=NOVA presents an in-depth look at India's attempt to use satellite technology to leapfrog into the era of space-age communication and whether it brings benefit or blight to India's villages and rural areas.

Note: This episode contains Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's last interview before she was assassinated.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=211

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ConquestoftheParasites Conquest of the Parasites]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|1|29}}

|ProdCode=1203

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the complex world of parasites, parasitic diseases and the exciting work currently being done by a new breed of medical researchers as they meet the challenge of conquering the world's number one medical problem.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=212

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/InTheLandOfThePolarBears In the Land of the Polar Bears]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|2|5}}

|ProdCode=1204

|ShortSummary=A rare look at the beautiful and desolate Wrangel Island-a Soviet possession 300 miles off the coast of Alaska-as seen through the eyes of Soviet Filmmaker and naturalist Yuri Ledin. Wrangel Island is not only the home to Siberian snow geese, polar foxes and Walruses, but serves as the world's largest denning area for Polar bears.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=213

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AIDSChapterOne AIDS: Chapter One]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|2|12}}

|ProdCode=1205

|ShortSummary=Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a deadly disease that has struck down some 2,000 people in the four years since its discovery. NOVA examines how modern science has been unraveling the mystery of this baffling ailment.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=214

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheShapeofThings The Shape of Things]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|2|19}}

|ProdCode=1206

|ShortSummary=Sea shells, Crystals, Honeycombs, Eggs and seeds: They are shaped the way they are for a reason. NOVA takes viewers on a unique journey of discovery to find out why things are shaped the way they are and why they work so well.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=215

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVABabyTalk Baby Talk]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|2|26}}

|ProdCode=1207

|ShortSummary=It's a mystery just how children acquire language. Does the process begin in the womb? And which comes first, language or thought? NOVA explores the fascinating world of baby talk and reveals the latest theories on this remarkable achievement.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=216

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheMathematicalMysteryTour A Mathematical Mystery Tour]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|3|5}}

|ProdCode=1208

|ShortSummary=Imagine a bottle with no inside or a number bigger than infinity or parallel lines that meet. Welcome to the world of pure mathematics. NOVA offers a look into a wholly abstract, quirky world of mathematics.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=217

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ChildsPlayProdigiesandPossibilities Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|3|12}}

|ProdCode=1209

|ShortSummary=What do Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the painter Raphael and chess champion Bobby Fischer have in common? They were all child prodigies. NOVA explores the current efforts to learn more about the nature of giftedness.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=218

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVAMonarchoftheMountains Monarch of the Mountains]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|3|19}}

|ProdCode=1210

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the breeding, migration and survival patterns of the Rocky Mountain elk in a unique film, made totally under natural conditions. Telephoto lenses were used so as not to disturb the animals; filmmakers spent 18 months tracking the elk through the breathtaking Wyoming Rockies.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=219

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=The National Science Test II

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|10|8}}

|ProdCode=1211

|ShortSummary=In NOVA's special sequel to 1984's National Science Test, viewers can match wits with celebrity panelists David Attenborough, Michelle Johnson, Edwin Newman and Alvin Poussaint and a live studio audience. Art Fleming hosts.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=220

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SeedsofTomorrow Seeds of Tomorrow]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|10|15}}

|ProdCode=1212

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines worldwide efforts of scientists who employ aggressive agricultural technologies to ensure food for the future.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=221

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhatEinsteinNeverKnew What Einstein Never Knew]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|10|22}}

|ProdCode=1213

|ShortSummary=Albert Einstein did not live to find the answer. NOVA follows a new generation of physicists in their search to explain the mystery of the universe.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=222

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheRobotRevolution The Robot Revolution?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|10|29}}

|ProdCode=1214

|ShortSummary=How are the computer and the robot affecting the way we work? NOVA chronicles the new industrial revolution reshaping the American workplace.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=223

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheMagicofSpecialEffects The Magic of Special Effects]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|11|5}}

|ProdCode=1215

|ShortSummary=NOVA cameras go behind-the-scenes to reveal the new art of illusion, Hollywood-style, focusing on three blockbuster films—Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=224

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ChildSurvivalTheSilentEmergency Child Survival: The Silent Emergency]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|11|12}}

|ProdCode=1216

|ShortSummary=NOVA charts the progress of an ambitious worldwide health program established to save the lives of millions of children who continue to die from common but curable diseases.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=225

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHTornado Tornado!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|11|19}}

|ProdCode=1217

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows a chase team—a group of scientists who chart deadly Tornadoes—in an effort to learn more about predicting nature's most powerful and elusive weather phenomenon.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=226

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheGeneticGamble The Genetic Gamble]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|11|26}}

|ProdCode=1218

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines current research and its ethical implications as modern medicine confronts the era of human gene therapy.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=227

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Animal Architects

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|12|3}}

|ProdCode=1219

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the intricate world of nature's construction industry and presents rare footage of unusual habits.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=228

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ThePlaneThatChangedtheWorld The Plane that Changed the World]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1985|12|17}}

|ProdCode=1220

|ShortSummary=NOVA joins the 50th anniversary celebration of the DC-3—the plane that revolutionized commercial air travel, served gallantly in World War II and is called the most important plane ever built.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=229

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HalleysCometOnceInALifetime Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|1|21}}

|ProdCode=1301

|ShortSummary=NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers and scientists armed with specialized cameras, high powered telescopes and spacecraft look to the heavens in search of the expected arrival in 1986 of Halley's Comet.

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|EpisodeNumber=230

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/GoddessoftheEarth Goddess of the Earth]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|1|28}}

|ProdCode=1302

|ShortSummary=Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial hypothesis that life on Earth controls the environment. NOVA explores this provocative theory that challenges conventional ways of thinking about the Earth.

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|EpisodeNumber=231

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HorsemenofChinaTheKazakhs Horsemen of China]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|2|4}}

|ProdCode=1303

|ShortSummary=For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions, refusing to be dominated by either the Chinese or nearby Russian cultures. Today, however, this nomadic tribe has integrated communism into its way of life. NOVA traces the ancient Kazahk lifestyle and looks at how the Chinese cultural Revolution has modernized Kazakh customs.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=232

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LifesFirstFeelings Life's First Feelings]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|2|11}}

|ProdCode=1304

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and examines the current theory that early childhood psychological intervention can head off emotional problems later in life.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=233

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheCaseoftheFrozenAddict The Case of the Frozen Addict]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|2|18}}

|ProdCode=1305

|ShortSummary=In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms, caused by a bad batch of synthetic heroin, were indistinguishable from those associated with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative nerve disorder that strikes the elderly. NOVA traces the story of a "designer" drug which could lead to a major medical breakthrough.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=234

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ToxicTrials Toxic Trials]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|2|25}}

|ProdCode=1306

|ShortSummary=When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town mobilized to investigate why. The result was a landmark study of the effects of hazardous wastes. NOVA explores the legal and scientific implications of the link between environmental pollution and illness.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=235

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Skydive to the Rain Forest

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|3|4}}

|ProdCode=1307

|ShortSummary=NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is alive with spectacular waterfalls, colored by exotic flowers and inhabited by rare species of birds and animals.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=236

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Return of the Osprey

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|3|11}}

|ProdCode=1308

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists and bird-lovers fight to save the majestic Osprey from extinction.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=237

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheRiseofaWonderDrug The Rise of a Wonder Drug]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|3|18}}

|ProdCode=1309

|ShortSummary=When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never considered its possible therapeutic value. NOVA explores the "Fleming myth" and reveals the true story of the scientists who worked behind the scenes to develop the wonder drug of the century.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=238

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhenWonderDrugsDontWork When Wonder Drugs Don't Work]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|3|25}}

|ProdCode=1310

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resistant infection increases, and studies how one hospital fights its own dramatic epidemic.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=239

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/VisionsofStarWars Visions of 'Star Wars']

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|4|22}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The two-hour documentary contains the most comprehensive information on "Star Wars" ever produced. Bill Kurtis of WBBM-TV—Chicago hosts.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=240

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheSearchfortheDisappeared The Search for the Disappeared]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|14}}

|ProdCode=1311

|ShortSummary=NOVA joins scientists in Argentina as they help locate kidnapped children and identify thousands of dead in the aftermath of a military reign of terror.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=241

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVAPlanetKnockedOnItsSide The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|21}}

|ProdCode=1312

|ShortSummary=The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of Uranus. Scientists suspect that violent events in the early history of the planet may have shaped Uranus and its strange collection of moons.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=242

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HighTechBabies High-Tech Babies]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|4}}

|ProdCode=1313

|ShortSummary=Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways never before imagined. NOVA looks at the medical, legal and moral questions raised by this new technology.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=243

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CanAIDSBeStopped Can AIDS Be Stopped?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|11}}

|ProdCode=1314

|ShortSummary=What are the prospects for halting or curing the deadliest epidemic ever to challenge modern medicine? NOVA finds cause for both hope and alarm in the battle against AIDS.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=244

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/IsAnybodyOutThere_201901 Is Anybody Out There?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|18}}

|ProdCode=1315

|ShortSummary=Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to scan the skies in a systematic attempt to find out. NOVA joins the search with guest host Lily Tomlin.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=245

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryoftheAnimalPathfinders The Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|25}}

|ProdCode=1316

|ShortSummary=Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habitat to migrate to another, often thousands of miles away. NOVA penetrates the mystery of where animals migrate, why and how they get there.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=246

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AreYouSwimminginaSewer Are You Swimming in a Sewer?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|12|2}}

|ProdCode=1317

|ShortSummary=NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, raw sewage and disease-carrying microbes are routinely dumped.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=247

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SailWars Sail Wars!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|12|9}}

|ProdCode=1318

|ShortSummary=Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scenes to look at the engineering effort to design a technically advanced sailboat.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=248

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LeprosyCanBeCured Leprosy Can Be Cured!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|12|16}}

|ProdCode=1319

|ShortSummary=Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still afflicts some 12 million people. NOVA looks at the tragedy of the disease that need not be.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=249

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HowBabiesGetMade How Babies Get Made]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|1|13}}

|ProdCode=1320

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a tiny sequence of molecules—and more clues to the mystery of how a complete baby develops from a single cell.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=250

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CountdowntotheInvisibleUniverse Countdown to the Invisible Universe]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|1|20}}

|ProdCode=1401

|ShortSummary=NOVA scans the universe with the infrared eye of IRAS—the Infrared Astronomical Satellite—and discovers never-before-seen comets, stars, galaxies and other celestial wonders and enigmas.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=251

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHChildrenofEve Children of Eve]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|1|27}}

|ProdCode=1402

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines a controversial theory that traces our ancestry to a small group of women living in Africa 300,000 years ago.

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|EpisodeNumber=252

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhyPlanesCrash Why Planes Crash]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|3}}

|ProdCode=1403

|ShortSummary=Between 60 and 80 percent of all commercial airplane accidents are attributable to pilot error. NOVA looks at some shocking instances of pilot negligence and what airlines are doing to solve the problem.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=253

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/OrangutansoftheRainforest Orangutans of the Rainforest]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|10}}

|ProdCode=1404

|ShortSummary=NOVA cameras travel to Borneo, one of the last habitats of the wild orangutans, where scientists study the endangered ape. Who is observing whom? It is not always clear.

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|EpisodeNumber=254

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/FreudUnderAnalysis Freud Under Analysis]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|17}}

|ProdCode=1405

|ShortSummary=Fifty years after his death, the creator of psychoanalysis is still the subject of intense debate. Was Freud right or wrong? NOVA profiles the enigmatic man and his controversial legacy.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=255

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheHoleintheSky The Hole in the Sky]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|24}}

|ProdCode=1406

|ShortSummary=NOVA travels to Antarctica with an emergency scientific expedition to study a baffling "hole" in the Earth's protective ozone layer.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=256

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Confessions of a Weaponeer

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|3|3}}

|ProdCode=1407

|ShortSummary=Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky was an anti-Bolshevik soldier in 1919 Russia, an atomic bomb scientist at Los Alamos, a presidential advisor in the Eisenhower White House and an arms control activist. Shortly before Kistiakowsky's death, he recounts his eventful career to interviewer Carl Sagan.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=257

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/GreatMomentsfromNOVA Great Moments from NOVA]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|3|10}}

|ProdCode=Special

|ShortSummary=NOVA presents two hours of the best from its 14 seasons of exciting science coverage. A "talking" chimpanzee, an exploding volcano and a sight-and-sound space video are but a few of the memorable segments. Richard Kiley hosts.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=258

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WilltheWorldStarve Will the World Starve?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|3|24}}

|ProdCode=1408

|ShortSummary=All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. NOVA reports on the soil crisis in world agriculture—a plight that has already resulted in massive starvation.

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|EpisodeNumber=259

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheDesertDoesntBloomHereAnymore The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|3|31}}

|ProdCode=1409

|ShortSummary=In rich and poor countries alike, once-productive farms are turning to desert because of mismanagement of water resources. NOVA examines the causes and cures of desertification.

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|EpisodeNumber=260

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheRockyRoadtoJupiter Rocky Road to Jupiter]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|4|7}}

|ProdCode=1410

|ShortSummary=In a case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States space program, NOVA chronicles the ambitious and long-delayed Galileo mission to Jupiter—still on the ground long after its planned May 1986 launch.

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|EpisodeNumber=261

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DeathofaStar Death of a Star]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|6}}

|ProdCode=1411

|ShortSummary=A star blows itself apart in a nearby galaxy, and astronomers scramble to study the rare appearance of a supernova. NOVA kicks off its 15th season with a fast-breaking science story as it is happening. Including scenes taken from Las Campanas Observatory in Chile and many others in the U.S., Australia and South Africa. Narrated by Bill Mason. Later, it was broadcast as a Horizon episode on the BBC, the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in West Germany and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=262

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SpyMachines Spy Machines]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|13}}

|ProdCode=1412

|ShortSummary=On the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, NOVA investigates the spy planes and satellites that played a critical role in history and influence arms control today.

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|EpisodeNumber=263

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/pbs-nova-s-15e-03-the-hidden-power-of-plants-1987 The Hidden Power of Plants]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|20}}

|ProdCode=1413

|ShortSummary=Plants produce some of the world's most potent chemicals in the fight against disease. NOVA follows the urgent efforts to track down new medicines in nature.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=264

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/JapansAmericanGenius Japan's American Genius]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|27}}

|ProdCode=1414

|ShortSummary=Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese industries are betting that the genius behind amorphous materials-a simpler and less expensive alternative to silicon-is onto something big.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=265

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AManAPlanACanalPanama A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|11|3}}

|ProdCode=1415

|ShortSummary=The Panama Canal opened in 1914 after a 30-year effort that dwarfed the building of the pyramids. Historian David McCullough navigates through the canal and tells the story of the human drama behind the engineering feat.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=266

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHVolcano Volcano!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|11|10}}

|ProdCode=1416

|ShortSummary=Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA accompanies scientists who are developing new techniques to predict when volcanos will erupt and how violently.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=267

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HowGoodisSovietScience How Good is Soviet Science?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|11|17}}

|ProdCode=1417

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes a behind-the-scenes look at science and technology in the USSR, where the government is trying novel approaches in an effort to catch up with the West.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=268

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Ancient Treasures from the Deep

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|12|1}}

|ProdCode=1418

|ShortSummary=NOVA joins underwater archaeologists as they explore the oldest shipwreck ever excavated, a richly-laden merchant vessel dating from the time of King Tut.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=269

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/RiddleoftheJoints Riddle of the Joints]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|12|8}}

|ProdCode=1419

|ShortSummary=A trail of evidence leading from a medieval abbey to a small town in Connecticut sheds new light on rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling inflammation of the joints with no known cause or cure.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=270

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|12|15}}

|ProdCode=1420

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows archaeologists as they unearth clues, some 7,000 years old, about unknown, mysterious and advanced sea-faring people who lived along the North Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=271

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TopGunandBeyond Top Gun and Beyond]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|1|19}}

|ProdCode=1501

|ShortSummary=Today's sophisticated fighter jets can almost fly themselves, but well-trained pilots are still needed to win air battles. NOVA looks at how planes and pilots are adapting to high technology.

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|EpisodeNumber=272

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HowtoCreateaJunkFood How to Create a Junk Food]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|1|26}}

|ProdCode=1502

|ShortSummary=Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in the creation of snack foods.

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|EpisodeNumber=273

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHBuriedinIce Buried in Ice]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|2|2}}

|ProdCode=1503

|ShortSummary=Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic and ask why all perished.

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|EpisodeNumber=274

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhyPlanesBurn Why Planes Burn]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|2|9}}

|ProdCode=1504

|ShortSummary=Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard planes less likely and more survivable.

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|EpisodeNumber=275

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AWonderDrugonTrial Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|2|23}}

|ProdCode=1505

|ShortSummary=In part one of a two-part special presentation, NOVA reports on the trials to determine whether the new drug Interleukin-2—the first to make use of the body's own disease-fighting strategy—will live up to its promise as a pivotal cancer breakthrough. Jane Pauley of NBC News hosts and narrates.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=276

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/BreastCancerTurningtheTide Battles in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer – Turning the Tide]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|1}}

|ProdCode=1506

|ShortSummary=Breast cancer claims the lives of four American women every hour. Jane Pauley of NBC News hosts and narrates this NOVA report on stepped-up efforts to reduce the death rate from this all-too-common killer.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=277

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryoftheMasterBuilders The Mystery of the Master Builders]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|8}}

|ProdCode=1507

|ShortSummary=Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beautiful buildings in the world including Notre Dame in Paris, St. Paul in London and the Roman Pantheon.

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|EpisodeNumber=278

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WhaleRescue Whale Rescue]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|15}}

|ProdCode=1508

|ShortSummary=It was a blustery day in December 1986, and the New England Coast was in the midst of a winter storm, accompanied by strong on-shore gales and an unusually high tide—conditions perfect for stranding whales in the confined shallows of Cape Cod. NOVA recounts this tragic episode and the happy surprise ending for the young whales who survived after being nursed back to health by the New England Aquarium in Boston.

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|EpisodeNumber=279

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheManWhoLovedNumbers The Man Who Loved Numbers] (Re-edit of episode aired during 8th season titled "Ramanujan – The Man Who Loved Numbers".)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|22}}

|ProdCode=1509

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor clerk from India who astounded mathematicians in the 1910s with his brilliant insight into the world of numbers.

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|EpisodeNumber=280

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/RacefortheSuperconductor Race for the Superconductor]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|29}}

|ProdCode=1510

|ShortSummary=NOVA charts an electronics revolution in the making as Japan and the United States race to develop a material that will conduct electricity at room temperature with zero resistance.

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|EpisodeNumber=281

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CanYouStillGetPolio Can You Still Get Polio?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|4|5}}

|ProdCode=1511

|ShortSummary=Most cases of polio in the United States are caused by the vaccine designed to prevent it. NOVA examines the controversy surrounding the nation's vaccine policy.

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|EpisodeNumber=282

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PioneersofSurgery Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|9|6}}

|ProdCode=1512

|ShortSummary=Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the early days, when surgery was practiced without the benefit of anaesthesia or antisceptics and patients usually died.

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|EpisodeNumber=283

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PioneersofSurgery Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|9|13}}

|ProdCode=1513

|ShortSummary=Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.

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|EpisodeNumber=284

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PioneersofSurgery Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|9|20}}

|ProdCode=1514

|ShortSummary=From kidneys to Hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplanted ones.

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|EpisodeNumber=285

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PioneersofSurgery Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|9|27}}

|ProdCode=1515

|ShortSummary=Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at some of the excesses of surgery, and at how new drugs and technologies are rendering some operations obsolete.

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|EpisodeNumber=286

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CantheVaticanSavetheSistineChapel Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|10|4}}

|ProdCode=1516

|ShortSummary=Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes.

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|EpisodeNumber=287

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CantheNextPresidentWintheSpaceRace Can the Next President Win the Space Race?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|10|11}}

|ProdCode=1517

|ShortSummary=Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and others sprint onward and upward.

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|EpisodeNumber=288

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/DoScientistsCheat Do Scientists Cheat?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|10|25}}

|ProdCode=1518

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught?

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|EpisodeNumber=289

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVAWhoShotPresidentKennedy Who Shot President Kennedy?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|11|15}}

|ProdCode=1519

|ShortSummary=Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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|EpisodeNumber=290

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheLightStuff The Light Stuff]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|11|22}}

|ProdCode=1520

|ShortSummary=Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals in its behind-the-scenes report of a human powered-flight across the Aegean Sea, a journey that symbolically recreated the mythical flight of Daedalus. NOVA follows the epic journey of the human-powered plane Daedalus 88 from the early prototypes to its dramatic landing in the surf after a 74-mile flight from the island of Crete to Santorini.

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|EpisodeNumber=291

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/nova-the-all-american-bear The All-American Bear]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|12|6}}

|ProdCode=1521

|ShortSummary=The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild—foraging, mating, playing and constantly preparing for its remarkable hibernation—is captured for the first time on film by NOVA.

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|EpisodeNumber=292

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CanWeMakeaBetterDoctor Can We Make a Better Doctor?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|12|13}}

|ProdCode=1522

|ShortSummary=NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of a doctor. In the premiere episode, we follow a handful of students as they start their first year at Harvard Medical School under a revolutionary program emphasizing early clinical contact with patients. Part one of a ten-year study. See also "So You Want to Be a Doctor?", "Making of a Doctor", and "Doctors' Diaries".

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=293

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/HotEnoughforYou Hot Enough for You?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|1|17}}

|ProdCode=1601

|ShortSummary=Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which portends higher temperatures, rising sea levels and other environmental disasters

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=294

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheLastJourneyofaGenius The Last Journey of a Genius]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|1|24}}

|ProdCode=1602

|ShortSummary=Re-narrated Horizon episode, "The Quest for Tannu Tuva".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.sykes.easynet.co.uk/ |title=Christopher Sykes Productions |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101082658/http://www.sykes.easynet.co.uk/ |archive-date=1 November 2013 }}

NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman, most recently famous for his role as gadfly of the Presidential Commission investigating the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=295

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheStrangeNewScienceofChaos The Strange New Science of Chaos]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|1|31}}

|ProdCode=1603

|ShortSummary=NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nature, from the weather to brain waves.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=296

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/BacktoChernobyl Back to Chernobyl]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|2|14}}

|ProdCode=1604

|ShortSummary=NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear power accident with correspondent Bill Kurtis.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=297

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/GodDarwinandDinosaurs God, Darwin and Dinosaurs]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|2|21}}

|ProdCode=1605

|ShortSummary=In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology lesson. As students take notes, he explains that creationism is a valid scientific explanation for the origin on life. Once relying solely on the literal word of the Bible to make their case, creationists now argue that the scientific evidence is on their side. NOVA reports on this new twist in the long-running battle between creationism and evolution.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=298

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/AdriftontheGulfStream Adrift on the Gulf Stream]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|2|28}}

|ProdCode=1606

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=299

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHSecretsofEasterIsland Secrets of Easter Island]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|3|7}}

|ProdCode=1607

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates the mystery of Easter Island in the South Pacific. Who built its celebrated statues and why?

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=300

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LegendsofEasterIsland Legends of Easter Island]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|3|14}}

|ProdCode=1608

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores ancient legends hold the clues to the violent history of the South Pacific's Easter Island.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=301

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheWorldisFullofOil The World Is Full of Oil!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|3|21}}

|ProdCode=1609

|ShortSummary=Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=302

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ConfrontingtheKillerGene Confronting the Killer Gene]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|3|28}}

|ProdCode=1610

|ShortSummary=Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A laboratory test can tell them if in fact they will fall victim. In their shoes, would you take the test? Thousands of others face a similar choice: to know, or not know, if they will carry the genetic time bomb of Huntington's disease. NOVA looks at this incurable disease which affects 20,000 people in the US and threatens tens of thousands of others.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=303

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheHiddenCity The Hidden City]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|10|3}}

|ProdCode=1611

|ShortSummary=Exposing four essential public infrastructure systems that city dwellers depend on: electricity, water, sewage and sanitation. Filmed in New York City and hosted by Judd Hirsch.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=304

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheControversialDrKoop The Controversial Dr. Koop]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|10|10}}

|ProdCode=1612

|ShortSummary=In this profile of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, NOVA follows events as they unfold in a unique behind-the-scenes account of a man who speaks his mind on AIDS, smoking and abortion.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=305

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/DesignWars Design Wars!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|10|17}}

|ProdCode=1613

|ShortSummary=Five architects compete for the approval of architecture-obsessed Chicagoans in the contest to build the city's new public library. NOVA looks at the strengths and weakness of each of the surprisingly varied entries.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=306

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EchoesofWar Echoes of War]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|10|24}}

|ProdCode=1614

|ShortSummary=The atomic bomb might have ended World War II, but radar was the quiet miracle that won battles. NOVA tells the little-known wartime history of radar.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=307

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/DecodingtheBookofLife Decoding the Book of Life]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|10|31}}

|ProdCode=1615

|ShortSummary=Biologists around the world gear up to decode the three-billion-letter genetic message that describes how humans are made. Ethicists warn that it may not be such a good idea.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=308

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHHurricane Hurricane!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|11|7}}

|ProdCode=1616

|ShortSummary=NOVA studies hurricanes—the lurking giants waiting to destroy many coastal areas—by flying straight into one. Scientists hope that such close-up studies will supply the data to make better predictions.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=309

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Will Venice Survive Its Rescue?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|11|14}}

|ProdCode=1617

|ShortSummary=Increasingly awash in high water, the romantic city of Venice is counting on high-tech floodgates to save it from drowning. Environmentalists worry that the gates may destroy the fragile lagoon that surrounds the city.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=310

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhatisMusic What Is Music?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|11|21}}

|ProdCode=1618

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the science of musical sound—from what makes a classic violin to how the human brain perceives music. Bells, trumpets, human voices and computers all perform.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=311

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Yellowstone's Burning Question

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|12|5}}

|ProdCode=1619

|ShortSummary=The 1988 Yellowstone fire may have been one of the worst in human memory, but nature has had eons of experience with such events. NOVA accompanies scientists who are studying the surprisingly rapid recovery from the blaze. Narrated by Peter Thomas.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=312

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheSchoolboysWhoCrackedtheSovietSecret The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1989|12|12}}

|ProdCode=1620

|ShortSummary=NOVA re-enacts a classic case of classroom detection when English schoolboys track down a secret Soviet launch site.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=313

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/PoisonintheRockies Poison in the Rockies]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|1|9}}

|ProdCode=1701

|ShortSummary=NOVA reports on the 100-year-old legacy of pollution from mining that poisons the once-pristine waters of the Rocky Mountain states. Acid Rain and economic development also contribute to stress on the West's scarce water supply.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=314

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/RacefortheTop Race for the Top]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|1|23}}

|ProdCode=1702

|ShortSummary=Using some of the largest machines ever built, American and European physicists race to discover one of the most fundamental and most elusive objects in nature—the top quark.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=315

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DisguisesofWar Disguises of War]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|2|6}}

|ProdCode=1703

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes the wraps off the art of deception in war—from simple camouflage to the expensive, radar-evading technology embodied in the Stealth bomber.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=316

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheBombsLethalLegacy The Bomb's Lethal Legacy]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|2|13}}

|ProdCode=1704

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines an alarming nuclear waste problem at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington state, where 45 years of mismanagement in the nuclear weapons industry will cost billions to correct.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=317

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheBigSpill The Big Spill]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|2|27}}

|ProdCode=1705

|ShortSummary=Covering last year's Exxon Valdez oil spill from an unexplored angle, NOVA focuses on how technology failed in preventing, containing and cleaning up the Alaskan disaster.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=318

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheGeniusThatWasChina The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|3|20}}{{#invoke:cite|news|author=Walter Goodman |date=20 March 1990 |title=Review/Television; A Technological Leader And Its Seeds of Decline |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D91430F933A15750C0A966958260 |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 March 2009}}

|ProdCode=1706

|ShortSummary=China in the 13th century was the richest, most powerful, most technologically advanced civilization on earth. NOVA looks at how China achieved what it did, and what in Chinese politics, culture and economy kept it from doing more.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=319

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheGeniusThatWasChina The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|3|27}}

|ProdCode=1707

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the extraordinary transformation that propelled Europe outward into the world from the 15th to 18th centuries, while China remained the insular middle kingdom.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=320

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheGeniusThatWasChina The Genius That Was China: The Threat from Japan]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|4|3}}

|ProdCode=1708

|ShortSummary=East and West came into direct conflict over trade and power in the 19th century. The West won. NOVA explores how Japan was later able to master Western methods, while China was not.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=321

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheGeniusThatWasChina The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|4|10}}

|ProdCode=1709

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers China's long road to economic and technological equality with the West, punctuated by frequent setbacks such as the 1989 massacre of pro-democratic demonstrations in Beijing.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=322

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WGBHKGBComputerMe The KGB, The Computer and Me]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|10|2}}

|ProdCode=1710

|ShortSummary=What happens when a Berkeley hippie turns detective and gets mixed up with the CIA and the KGB? NOVA follows computer sleuth Cliff Stoll as he tracks a data thief through a maze of military and research computers.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=323

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NeptunesColdFury Neptune's Cold Fury]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|10|9}}

|ProdCode=1711

|ShortSummary=NOVA visits Neptune, the planet that took Voyager 12 years to reach. Mysteries abound in and around this big, blue world at the outer limits of the Solar System. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=324

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAToBoldlyGo To Boldly Go...]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|10|16}}

|ProdCode=1712

|ShortSummary=NOVA chronicles the Voyager space mission – from Earth to the ends of the Solar System. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and dozens of moons star in this epic voyage of exploration and a new view of the Solar System. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=325

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/PoisonedWindsofWar Poisoned Winds of War]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|10|23}}

|ProdCode=1713

|ShortSummary=Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA looks at the problem of controlling substances that are easily produced and cruelly effective.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=326

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheBlimpisBack The Blimp is Back!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|10|30}}

|ProdCode=1714

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the troubled past and promising future of blimps, zeppelins, cyclocranes and other species of airships. There's life in the old gasbags yet.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=327

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVAEarthquake Earthquake!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|11|6}}

|ProdCode=1715

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at the high-stakes quest to predict earthquakes. Despite past disappointments, geologists still hope to divine the clues that precede nature's ultimate upheavals. Narrated by Avery Brooks.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=328

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/KillingMachines Killing Machines]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|11|13}}

|ProdCode=1716

|ShortSummary=Robotic weapons that seek out and destroy ships, planes, and other targets are the wave of the future. NOVA questions whether their proliferation may spell an end to superpower invincibility.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=329

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CantheElephantbeSaved Can the Elephant Be Saved?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|11|20}}

|ProdCode=1717

|ShortSummary=Is the ivory ban in the elephant's best interest? NOVA looks at the controversial strategies to save the world's largest land animal from extinction.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=330

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WeKnowWhereYouLive We Know Where You Live]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|11|27}}

|ProdCode=1718

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointing out how advertisers know a lot more about people than they think.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=331

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/IntheLandoftheLlamas In the Land of the Llamas]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|12|4}}

|ProdCode=1719

|ShortSummary=NOVA profiles the llama, alpaca, vicuña and guanaco of South America. At one time nearly extinct, these four members of the camel family are exceptionally well adapted to life in the beautiful high Andes.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=332

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/WhatsKillingtheChildren What's Killing the Children?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1990|12|18}}

|ProdCode=1720

|ShortSummary=NOVA tracks a mysterious disease that suddenly and fatally attacks the children of a small Brazilian town. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are called in to crack the case.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=333

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ReturntoMtStHelens Return to Mt. St. Helens]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|1|8}}

|ProdCode=1801

|ShortSummary=NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to learn how nature is recovering from the disaster.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=334

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/ConFusioninaJar ConFusion in a Jar]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|1|15}}

|ProdCode=1802

|ShortSummary=An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientific world on its head. NOVA covers the cold fusion controversy.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=335

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheHuntforChinasDinosaurs The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|2|5}}

|ProdCode=1803

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers the most elaborate expedition ever undertaken in the search for dinosaurs—to China's Gobi desert. Paleontologists brave sandstorms, heat and worse to find their fossils.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=336

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheCaseoftheFlyingDinosaur Case of the Flying Dinosaur]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|2|12}}

|ProdCode=1804

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at the question of whether present-day birds are dinosaurs. The origin of birds, avian dinosaurs, is explored.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=337

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TRexExposed T. Rex Exposed]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|2|19}}

|ProdCode=1805

|ShortSummary=Tyrannosaurus rex, a kind of dinosaur, recently turned up in a nearly complete skeleton in Montana. NOVA follows the dig to extract the bones and looks at the science and lore of dinosaurs in general.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=338

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/RussianRightStuffTheInvisibleSpaceman Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|2|26}}

|ProdCode=1806

|ShortSummary=In the first program of a three-part miniseries on the Soviet space program, NOVA profiles the mysterious genius behind the world's first satellite, the first man to orbit the Earth and other early Russian triumphs in space.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=339

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/RussianRightStuffTheDarkSideoftheMoon Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|2|27}}

|ProdCode=1807

|ShortSummary=NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the Moon ahead of the Americans.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=340

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/RussianRightStuffTheMission Russian Right Stuff: The Mission]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|2|28}}

|ProdCode=1808

|ShortSummary=In an unprecedented insider's look, NOVA covers the training, flight and recovery of a cosmonaut crew that visits the Soviet space station Mir. Unexpected emergencies show that space travel is still far from routine.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=341

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVASwimmingwithWhales Swimming With Whales]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|3|5}}

|ProdCode=1809

|ShortSummary=Gregory Peck narrates a scientific voyage around Vancouver Island in search of whales. Humpbacks, Killers, Grays and other whale species make their appearance in spectacular, never-before-seen footage both above and below the waves.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=342

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/TheChipvstheChessMaster The Chip vs. the Chessmaster]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|3|26}}

|ProdCode=1810

|ShortSummary=The computer chess champ matches wits with the human world titleholder.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=343

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SexLiesandToupeeTape Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|10|1}}

|ProdCode=1811

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers the causes and attempted cures of baldness. Some men take pride in their bald heads; others will go to great lengths to cover up. Alan Rachins of NBC's LA Law tells the story.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=344

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SoYouWanttobeaDoctor So You Want to Be a Doctor?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|10|9}}

|ProdCode=1812

|ShortSummary=In a two-hour special, NOVA follows seven aspiring doctors through four years of medical school. The first examination, the anatomy lab, the first death, the first baby-it's all part of becoming a doctor. Neil Patrick Harris, star of ABC's Doogie Howser, MD hosts.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=345

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsoftheDeadSeaScrolls Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|10|15}}

|ProdCode=1814

|ShortSummary=Forty years after they were discovered, the Dead Sea Scrolls have yet to be published in their entirety. NOVA looks at the laborious-some say scandalous-process of compiling and releasing this religious treasure.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=346

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/nova-suicide-mission-to-chernobyl Suicide Mission to Chernobyl]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|10|22}}

|ProdCode=1815

|ShortSummary=NOVA accompanies Soviet scientists on a deadly mission inside the sarcophagus-the massive structure that entombs the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Will there be another deadly explosion?

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=347

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TallerThanEverest Taller Than Everest?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|11|5}}

|ProdCode=1816

|ShortSummary=The tallest mountain in the world? Think again: cartographers had to when satellite date revealed a peak called "K2" might be the real champ. Which is the world's tallest mountain?

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=348

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/FastestPlanesintheSky Fastest Planes in the Sky]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|11|12}}

|ProdCode=1817

|ShortSummary=The fastest machines in the sky are going to be slow stuff when the latest speed demons on the drawing board take to the air. NOVA looks at the intoxicating lure to fly even faster.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=349

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AvoidingtheSurgeonsKnife Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|12|3}}

|ProdCode=1818

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows the efforts of four participants in a celebrated California study to unblock arteries without using drugs or surgery before their heart disease becomes fatal. A studio segment featuring experts with varying medical views will air as part of the 60-minute program. ABC News Medical Correspondent George Strait moderates.

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|EpisodeNumber=350

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVASkyscraper Skyscraper! A Nova Special]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|12|10}}

|ProdCode=1819

|ShortSummary=This 80-minute NOVA pledge special chronicles the building of the Worldwide Plaza, 47-story office tower in midtown Manhattan, from a hole in the ground to a 770-foot skyscraper.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=351

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheFineArtofFakingIt The Fine Art of Faking It]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1991|12|17}}

|ProdCode=1820

|ShortSummary=Science comes to the aid of art. Museums now employ scientists to find forgeries and give insight into the process of artist creation. Richard Dreyfuss narrates.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=352

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HellFightersofKuwait Hell Fighters of Kuwait]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|1|14}}

|ProdCode=1901

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuwait, which has created the worst manmade pollution event in history. Fire fighting teams from Houston and elsewhere are faced with a Texas-size job.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=353

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVASubmarine Submarine!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|1|21}}

|ProdCode=1902

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes a voyage on the newest of America's doomsday machines—the ballistic missile submarine USS Michigan. The Cold War may be won, but these submerged super arsenals continue to prowl the deep.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=354

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SaddamsWarOnWildlife Saddam's War on Wildlife]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|1|28}}

|ProdCode=1903

|ShortSummary=Few people give any thought to wildlife in the midst of a war. During the Gulf War, environmentalist John Walsh did his best to save animals from oil spills, bullets and other dangers.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=355

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=What Smells?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|2|11}}

|ProdCode=1904

|ShortSummary=The nose knows. How much is the subject of NOVA's investigation of the mysterious aromas and hidden messages picked up by our sense of smell. David Suzuki hosts.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=356

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CanYouBelievetheTVRatings Can You Believe TV Ratings?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|2|18}}

|ProdCode=1905

|ShortSummary=Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis. NOVA finds that ratings are getting more accurate but still are far from scientific.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=357

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/MakingaDishonestBuck Making a Dishonest Buck]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|3|3}}

|ProdCode=1906

|ShortSummary=Criminals still make money the old-fashioned way—by counterfeiting. NOVA looks at why US currency is so easy to fake and what the government is doing about it.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=358

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/RescuingBabyWhales Rescuing Baby Whales]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|3|10}}

|ProdCode=1907

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, as the puzzling behavior becomes more common.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=359

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AnAstronautsViewofEarth An Astronaut's View of the Earth]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|3|17}}

|ProdCode=1908

|ShortSummary=NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen IMAX/Omnimax space spectacle. Astronauts operate the cameras on location aboard the Space Shuttle.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=360

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EclipseoftheCentury Eclipse of the Century]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|3|24}}

|ProdCode=1909

|ShortSummary=The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6{{frac|1|2}} minutes of frenetic research that revealed new secrets about the Sun.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=361

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AnimalOlympiansII Animal Olympians II]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|8|25}}

|ProdCode=1910

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at grace, speed, strength and endurance of humans and animals.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=362

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheGeniusBehindtheBomb The Genius Behind the Bomb]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|9|29}}

|ProdCode=1911

|ShortSummary=Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons. Szilard drafted and Einstein signed the famous warning, which led to the building of the first atomic bomb.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=363

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/MindofaSerialKiller Mind of a Serial Killer]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|10|13}}

|ProdCode=1912

|ShortSummary=NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popularized in the Academy Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs. Using a detailed psychological profile, the unit helped the Rochester, New York, police department catch a notorious serial killer who targeted prostitutes. Actor Patrick Stewart narrates.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=364

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SearchfortheFirstAmericans Search for the First Americans]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|10|20}}

|ProdCode=1913

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate across a Bering Sea land bridge at the end of the last ice age, as we all learned in school? Or did they arrive thousands of years earlier, possibly by some different route, as new archaeological evidence increasingly hints?

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=365

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Rafting Through the Grand Canyon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|10|27}}

|ProdCode=1914

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating the spectacular first canyon voyage of the 19th-century explorer John Wesley Powell. The Grand Canyon tells the story of nearly 2 billion years of Earth history plus the changes caused by three decades of human intervention.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=366

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=This Old Pyramid

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|11|4}}

|ProdCode=1915

|ShortSummary=In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins (This Old House), join forces in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza to put clever and sometimes bizarre pyramid construction theories to the test.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=367

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Iceman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|11|10}}

|ProdCode=1916

|ShortSummary=Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found along with artifacts of his vanished way of life. NOVA covers the international effort to unlock the secrets of this astonishing discovery.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=368

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/ThePrivateLivesofDolphins The Private Lives of Dolphins]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|11|17}}

|ProdCode=1917

|ShortSummary=NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like humans and chimpanzees, dolphins have evolved a sophisticated social system that provides clues about the origins and purpose of big brains and intelligence.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=369

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/BrainTransplant Brain Transplant]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|12|1}}

|ProdCode=1918

|ShortSummary=Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease that is largely unavailable in the US due to the ban on fetal tissue research. "Brain Transplant" continues the remarkable story of a mysterious malady linked to a bad batch of synthetic heroin that NOVA first covered in the 1986 award-winning film, The Case of the Frozen Addict.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=370

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CanYouStopPeopleFromDrinking Can You Stop People From Drinking?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|12|22}}

|ProdCode=1919

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abuse with old and new weapons—including prohibition, hypnotism, imprisonment, surveillance, deception, aversion therapy and group therapy as practiced by Alcoholics Anonymous.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=371

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SexandtheSingleRhino Sex and the Single Rhino]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1992|12|29}}

|ProdCode=1920

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ark—but today's conservationists need all the tools that biology, ecology, diplomacy and politics can muster if endangered species are to survive beyond the next century.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=372

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|1|12}}{{#invoke:cite|news|author=Walter Goodman |date=12 January 1993 |title=Review/Television; Nosing Around in Iraq's Vast Arsenal |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5D81730F931A25752C0A965958260 |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 March 2009}}

|ProdCode=2001

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows the international team of advisors who are fulfilling the UN mandate to dismantle Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear technology, poison chemicals, missiles and giant guns are some of the threats that inspectors must hunt down in a cat-and-mouse game with the Iraqis.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=373

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/CanBombingWinaWar Can Bombing Win a War?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|1|19}}

|ProdCode=2002

|ShortSummary=The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history of strategic bombing and asks whether bombing has now achieved preeminence in warfare.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=374

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Deadly Deception

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|1|26}}

|ProdCode=2003

|ShortSummary=For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of this notorious human experiment. George Strait, ABC News Medical Correspondent, hosts.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=375

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NazisandtheRussianBomb Nazis and the Russian Bomb]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|2|2}}

|ProdCode=2004

|ShortSummary=NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of the crash program in 1949, with the explosion of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, shocked the world.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=376

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/InthePathofaKillerVolcano In the Path of a Killer Volcano]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|2|9}}

|ProdCode=2005

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines goes big time, producing the largest volcanic eruption in 80 years.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=377

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CanScienceBuildaChampionAthlete Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|2|16}}

|ProdCode=2006

|ShortSummary=Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOVA covers the record-setting trend for improving sports performance with science.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=378

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Diving for Pirate Gold

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|2|23}}

|ProdCode=2007

|ShortSummary=These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plundering sunken ships. NOVA explores the swashbuckling seafaring pirates of old and their present-day successors.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=379

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Murder, Rape and DNA

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|3|2}}

|ProdCode=2008

|ShortSummary=Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is putting increasing numbers of murderers and rapists behind bars.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=380

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheLostTribe The Lost Tribe]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|3|30}}

|ProdCode=2009

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippines in 1971, they were hailed as a Stone Age relic. Now, many anthropologists denounce them as fakes.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=381

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=The NOVA Quiz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|10|5}}

|ProdCode=2010

|ShortSummary=NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famous guests pose questions for the viewers at home. Marc Summers hosts.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=382

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WantedButchandSundance Wanted: Butch and Sundance]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|10|12}}

|ProdCode=2011

|ShortSummary=Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They find Hollywood and legend got a few things wrong.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=383

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofthePsychics Secrets of the Psychics]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|10|19}}

|ProdCode=2012

|ShortSummary=Magician James "The Amazing" Randi tests the claims of mind readers, fortune tellers, faith healers and others with purported paranormal powers. As a magician, "I know how people are deceived," Randi says.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=384

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DyingtoBreathe Dying to Breathe]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|10|26}}

|ProdCode=2013

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants – a new lung. Months of waiting end in a few frenzied hours of intricate surgery.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=385

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Shadow of the Condor

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|11|2}}

|ProdCode=2014

|ShortSummary=NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America. Footage includes never-before-photographed nesting sites in the cliffs of Patagonia.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=386

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheRealJurassicPark The Real Jurassic Park]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|11|9}}

|ProdCode=2015

|ShortSummary=With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts, NOVA investigates what it would take to recreate the dinosaur theme park in Jurassic Park. It won't be as easy as it was for Hollywood.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=387

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVARollerCoaster Roller Coaster!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|11|16}}

|ProdCode=2016

|ShortSummary=NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides of the future may take place entirely in the mind—with virtual reality. First aired on Channel Four in 1992.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=388

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/MysteriousCrashofFlight201 Mysterious Crash of Flight 201]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|11|30}}

|ProdCode=2017

|ShortSummary=US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama, Copa Airlines Flight 201. Nothing about the accident makes sense, until a key clue emerges.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=389

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Great Moments from NOVA

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|12|7}}

|ProdCode=2018

|ShortSummary=Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, adventure, mystery, drama and non-stop discovery fill this 90-minute special.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=390

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheBestMindSinceEinstein The Best Mind Since Einstein]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|12|21}}

|ProdCode=2019

|ShortSummary=A profile of the late Richard Feynman – an atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who helped solve the mystery of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Edited and re-narrated from the two-part Horizon episode, "No Ordinary Genius".

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=391

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Stranger in the Mirror

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1993|12|28}}

|ProdCode=2020

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and familiar objects, made famous in Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=392

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/Codebreakers Codebreakers]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|1|18}}

|ProdCode=2101

|ShortSummary=NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The program probes the most celebrated of all cryptographic coups: the breaking of the World War II codes used by Japan and Germany and how codebreaking helped shorten the war.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=393

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DinosaursoftheGobi Dinosaurs of the Gobi]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|1|25}}

|ProdCode=2102

|ShortSummary=Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Gobi Desert. The trip relives the exploits of the Museum's dashing explorer of the 1920s, Roy Chapman Andrews -said to be the real-life model for Indiana Jones.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=394

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DaredevilsoftheSky Daredevils of the Sky]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|2|1}}

|ProdCode=2103

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship. The sport, as precisely choreographed as gymnastics-except that it takes place in airplanes at 200 miles per hour-has always been on the leading edge of developments in aviation.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=395

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/JourneytoKilimanjaro Journey to Kilimanjaro]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|2|8}}

|ProdCode=2104

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the scorched plains. Giant forest hogs, bearded vultures, the elusive bongo and other exotic creatures live in this harsh and isolated high country.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=396

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Can Chimps Talk?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|2|15}}

|ProdCode=2105

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human symbols. Are they speaking their minds? Or are they just aping their trainers?

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=397

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/InSearchofHumanOrigins In Search of Human Origins: The Story of Lucy]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|2|28}}

|ProdCode=2106

|ShortSummary=In the first part of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species, reaching back more than three million years to a strange ape who walked upright. Johanson takes viewers to the site in Ethiopia where he discovered the fossil remains of this missing link nicknamed "Lucy".

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=398

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/InSearchofHumanOrigins In Search of Human Origins: Surviving in Africa]

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|3|1}}

|ProdCode=2107

|ShortSummary=Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to popular myth, scavenging was a more lucrative living than hunting – and may have contributed to the development of human intelligence.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=399

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/InSearchofHumanOrigins In Search of Human Origins: The Creative Revolution]

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|3|2}}

|ProdCode=2108

|ShortSummary=At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act like us? Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at what it is that makes us human.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=400

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CanChinaKicktheHabit Can China Kick the Habit?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|4|12}}

|ProdCode=2109

|ShortSummary=NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world, China. Western advertising and trading practices have exacerbated the fatal romance with smoking in the world's most populous country, where lung cancer cases are beginning to strain the nation's health care system.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=401

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AircraftCarrier Aircraft Carrier!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|4|19}}

|ProdCode=2110

|ShortSummary=NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence, where every day is a constant drill of launching and landing aircraft atop a floating city of 5,000 people. The action includes Top Gun mock combat exercises and live-ammunition patrols over Iraq.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=402

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheGreatWildlifeHeist The Great Wildlife Heist]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|10|11}}

|ProdCode=2111

|ShortSummary=Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's most beautiful and intelligent birds: parrots. NOVA goes undercover with a US government sting that breaks an international parrot smuggling ring, landing some surprising suspects.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=403

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SecretoftheWildChild The Secret of the Wild Child]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|10|18}}

|ProdCode=2112

|ShortSummary=NOVA profiles "Genie", a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy. When social workers discovered her as a teenager, Genie had not learned to walk or talk. This NOVA documentary includes never-before-seen footage of Genie during her rehabilitation and probes how and when we learn the skills that make us "human."

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=404

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HauntedCryofaLongGoneBird Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|10|25}}

|ProdCode=2113

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that was hunted to extinction over a century ago. In a journey retracing its migratory route, host Richard Wheeler kayaks from Newfoundland to Cape Cod and discovers that other marine species face the Auk's luckless fate.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=405

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WhatsNewAboutMenopause What's New About Menopause]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|11|1}}

|ProdCode=2114

|ShortSummary=NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and examining the medical and ethical controversies that arise when science enables women to postpone menopause or even to bear children long after "the change." Stockard Channing narrates.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=406

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheTribeThatTimeForgot The Tribe that Time Forgot]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|11|8}}

|ProdCode=2115

|ShortSummary=NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe- a tribe that dismembered and partially ate three prospectors in 1976. Locating the group, NOVA lives with them for three months, gaining insight into the customs and beliefs of a people whose lifestyle has not changed for centuries.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=407

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/KillerQuake Killer Quake!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|11|15}}

|ProdCode=2116

|ShortSummary=NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to repair itself from the tragedy, seismic pressure continues to build. Scientists fear that newly discovered faults could, at any moment, trigger California's most devastating natural disaster.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=408

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/BuriedinAsh Buried in Ash]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|11|29}}

|ProdCode=2117

|ShortSummary=Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is now Nebraska in up to 10 feet of ash, preserving countless skeletons of prehistoric big game animals. NOVA joins the discoverer of this treasure trove to learn what life was like when a lot more than buffalo roamed the West.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=409

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/RescueMissioninSpace Rescue Mission in Space]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|12|6}}

|ProdCode=2118

|ShortSummary=Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, the Hubble Space Telescope was recently repaired in a dramatic Space Shuttle mission. NOVA follows the exploits of astronauts who saved the day, and the stunning work that Hubble has performed in the months since its repair.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=410

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/JourneytotheSacredSea Journey to the Sacred Sea]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|12|20}}

|ProdCode=2119

|ShortSummary=NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth. Investigating Baikal from above, below and all around, NOVA charts its dramatically changing environment over the course of four seasons.

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|EpisodeNumber=411

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/InSearchoftheFirstLanguage In Search of the First Language]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|12|27}}

|ProdCode=2120

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a controversial theory that claims to reconstruct words from a time when only a handful of languages were spoken, recalling the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=412

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/MammothsoftheIceAge Mammoths of the Ice Age]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|1|10}}

|ProdCode=2201

|ShortSummary=The subjects of Stone Age Cave paintings thunder onto the screen as NOVA explores Woolly mammoths. Recent discoveries show that the hairy ancestors of Elephants fought off extinction much longer than anyone thought, surviving on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until as recently as 4,000 years ago.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=413

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/VikingsinAmerica Vikings in America]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|1|24}}

|ProdCode=2202

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates the myth and reality of the first known Europeans to reach North America – Vikings. These intrepid Norsemen explored and settled parts of present-day North America 500 years before Columbus set sail.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=414

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LittleCreaturesWhoRuntheWorld Little Creatures Who Run the World]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|1|31}}

|ProdCode=2203

|ShortSummary=Entomologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson shows who's boss on this planet: ants. The professor's infectious fascination for ant civilization wins over even the most confirmed "formicophobe" (ant hater).

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|EpisodeNumber=415

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NaziDesignersofDeath Nazi Designers of Death]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|7}}

|ProdCode=2204

|ShortSummary=NOVA uses recently discovered documents to uncover the complicity of German architects and engineers in the Holocaust. Focusing on Auschwitz, the program tells a tale of ever-deepening evil as the prison camp was methodically converted into a super-efficient factory for genocide.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=416

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVASiameseTwins Siamese Twins]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|14}}

|ProdCode=2205

|ShortSummary=Born joined at the pelvis, Siamese twins Dao and Duan were brought to the United States from Thailand to assess their chances for being separated surgically. NOVA covers the intricate planning and protracted operations that eventually made the two girls into two distinct individuals.

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|EpisodeNumber=417

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MysteryoftheSenses Mystery of the Senses]: Hearing |RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|19}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=What we hear can create a mood, build communication, and guide our physical movement. In this episode, series host and naturalist Diane Ackerman investigates musical communication in the movies, in relationships with babies, and in Maori culture. She presents information about how our ears process and protect us from sounds, and explores new medical technology that mimics some of those functions to enable deaf people to hear. She also studies the hearing abilities of several types of animals and discovers how an owl uses its ears to locate prey in total darkness.

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|EpisodeNumber=418

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MysteryoftheSenses Mystery of the Senses]: Smell |RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|20}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=For centuries, many cultures have used scents and odors for a variety of purposes. From the earliest civilizitions, humans have created and used scents to mask unpleasant odors and to enhance other, more appealing ones. To find out what makes humans so responsive to natural and synthesized fragrances, series host and naturalist Diane Ackerman investigates the role of incense in Oman, visits a perfume factory in New Jersey, traces a smell from outside the body to the part of the brain that stores memories and emotions, and examines how different animals use their sense of smell.

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|EpisodeNumber=419

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MysteryoftheSenses Mystery of the Senses]: Taste |RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|21}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Eating sustains life. However, our tongues also enable us to taste foods, so we eat the foods we like; and our cultures assign values to foods, so we often eat as part of a ritual. In this episode, series host and naturalist Diane Ackerman explores the biology and the rituals of taste around the world. In France, a master chef divulges his secrets; in Mexico, a family prepares a meal for the Day of the Dead; in a Japanese restaurant, Ackerman looks into why some people consider potentially poisonous fish to be a delicacy; and in Connecticut, a scientist maps our taste buds.

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|EpisodeNumber=420

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MysteryoftheSenses Mystery of the Senses]: Touch |RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|22}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Touch contributes dramatically to our feeling of well-being. In this episode, Ackerman explores how touching and being touched promotes physical and psychological growth in young monkeys and humans. She also explores human responses to touch in massage, relationships, and art; and cultural perspectives on touch in social taboos, hugging, and kissing. To explain our biological responses, series host and naturalist Diane Ackerman introduces a scientist who has identified how the brain's sensory map operates. His research has led to the groundbreaking discovery that even if a person loses a limb, the brain will respond as if that limb is being touched.

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|EpisodeNumber=421

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/MysteryoftheSenses Mystery of the Senses]: Vision |RTitle={{sp}}(5 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|2|22}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Vision allows us to see color, motion, form, and shadow. Our brain interprets images so that we understand what we see. In this episode, series host and naturalist Diane Ackerman considers both the biology of vision and the mental processes and perceptions that govern vision. She seeks answers to how the brain makes sense of optical illusions, what the importance of eye placement is in predatory animals, how artists use light and color, and why the sky is blue.

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|EpisodeNumber=422

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheUniverseWithin The Universe Within]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|3|7}}

|ProdCode=2206

|ShortSummary=What amazing processes go on inside super-athletes and couch potatoes alike? NOVA uses the latest medical imaging techniques to explore the body's incredible inner workings-with the help of Olympic ice skater Bonnie Blair, world record long jumper Mike Powell and others.

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|EpisodeNumber=423

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Making of a Doctor

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|5|3}}

|ProdCode=2207

|ShortSummary=In the third installment of a 10-year project, NOVA checks up on a group of aspiring doctors who've been chronicled since their first day of medical school in 1987. Now bona fide MDs and in the middle of residency training, the group faces the awesome responsibility of curing the sick and keeping their own lives intact.

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|EpisodeNumber=424

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/FastCars Fast Cars]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|5|23}}

|ProdCode=2208

|ShortSummary=What does it take to win at Indy? NOVA follows champion race driver Bobby Rahal and a team of engineers as they strive to design a new car that can win the checkered flag at the Memorial Day classic. The program also features racing insights from top drivers Emerson Fittipaldi, Willy T. Ribbs and Lyn Saint James.

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|EpisodeNumber=425

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AnastasiaDeadorAlive Anastasia: Dead or Alive?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|10}}

|ProdCode=2209

|ShortSummary=Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, at a house in the town of Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, Bolshevik guards awakened the deposed Tsar Nicholas II together with his family and forced them into the basement, where they were shot and clubbed to death. NOVA follows forensic tests of skeletons discovered in Ekaterinburg in 1979 that are alleged to be the remains of the Russian royals, and explores the intriguing claim that Anna Anderson of Charlottesville, Virginia, was really the long lost Anastasia.

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|EpisodeNumber=426

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/VenusUnveiled Venus Unveiled]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|17}}

|ProdCode=2210

|ShortSummary=Venus reveals its true face, recorded in detail for the first time by the radar spacecraft Magellan. Our next-door planetary neighbor turns out to be one of the most bizarre places in the Solar System.

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=427

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HawaiiBornofFire Hawaii: Born of Fire]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|24}}

|ProdCode=2211

|ShortSummary=NOVA explores the fiery moonscapes and lush rainforests or the world's most isolated archipelago: the Hawaiian islands. From blistering beginnings as molten rock, the islands have developed into a verdant paradise of unique lifeforms.

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|EpisodeNumber=428

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheDoomsdayAsteroid The Doomsday Asteroid]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|31}}

|ProdCode=2212

|ShortSummary=Is there an asteroid or comet out there with our name on it? NOVA scans the skies and the geological record on Earth, for evidence that giant rocks from outer space have struck before and will eventually plow into our planet again.

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|EpisodeNumber=429

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WGBHLightning Lightning!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|7}}

|ProdCode=2213

|ShortSummary=Lightning! takes you on a high voltage trip into the most electrically charged weather in the world culminating in a dazzling lightning show set to music that rivals the most extraordinary fireworks display. The program also visits with some of lightning's tragic victims who though they were out of harm's way.

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|EpisodeNumber=430

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HuntfortheSerialArsonist Hunt for the Serial Arsonist]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|14}}

|ProdCode=2214

|ShortSummary=In the spring of 1991, a rash of suspicious store fires in Los Angeles set fire investigators on the trail of a serial Arsonist. Using ingenious techniques to "read" burn patterns and reconstruct the chain of events at each fire, the team uncovered a crucial clue—a fingerprint on a crude incendiary device. Eight months later, the team closed in on their chief suspect and revealed the shocking truth behind his identity. A classic scientific detective story with a final twist that will keep viewers guessing until the end.

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|EpisodeNumber=431

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TreasuresoftheGreatBarrierReef Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|28}}

|ProdCode=2215

|ShortSummary=Recording sights that will astonish even experienced divers, NOVA documents an extraordinary day in the life of the largest coral reef in the world, capturing for the first time the annual spawning of coral and other unusual creatures of the reef.

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|EpisodeNumber=432

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/RacetoCatchaBuckyball Race to Catch a Buckyball]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|12|19}}

|ProdCode=2216

|ShortSummary=In 1985 a chemist looking at stardust, paired with one searching for brand new materials, stumbled across what science said could not exist – a third form of carbon. They named the soccer ball-shaped molecules "Buckminsterfullerene" after the architect who invented the geodesic dome. Today "Buckyballs," as the molecules are playfully known, are revolutionizing chemistry and promise countless technological applications. NOVA traces this remarkable tale of serendipity in scientific discovery.

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|EpisodeNumber=433

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CanBuildingsMakeYouSick Can Buildings Make You Sick?]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|12|26}}

|ProdCode=2217

|ShortSummary=NOVA unravels baffling cases of bad air in buildings all over the world. Even hospitals are on the "sick building" list – along with offices, schools, homes and just about any enclosed space.

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|EpisodeNumber=434

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TerrorintheMinefields Terror in the Mine Fields]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|1|9}}

|ProdCode=2301

|ShortSummary=In one-third of the world's countries, a misstep can mean a lost leg-to a land mine. Planted during an ongoing conflict or a war long since over, these invisible weapons lurk, ready to explode at any time. NOVA's unprecedented access to the elusive Khmer Rouge in Cambodia reveals the ease of laying mines and the difficulty and danger of clearing them.

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|EpisodeNumber=435

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheDaytheEarthShook The Day the Earth Shook]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|1|16}}

|ProdCode=2302

|ShortSummary=On the same date in January one year apart, Earthquakes of almost identical power shook Northridge, California (1994) and Kobe, Japan (1995). NOVA probes why almost 100 times more people died in Japan than in the United States and what scientists have learned from the twin calamities.

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|EpisodeNumber=436

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/B29FrozeninTime B-29 Frozen in Time]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|1|30}}

|ProdCode=2303

|ShortSummary=NOVA accompanies famed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer and his intrepid crew on a perilous mission to repair and refly Kee Bird, a B-29 bomber stranded on the Greenland icecap since 1947. In the face of incredible hardships, the team struggles to bring the old warbird back to life. Previously shown in the UK Channel 4 in the Encounters series as "Treasure of the Humboldt Glacier" on April 23, 1995.{{#invoke:cite|web| url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150445024 | title=Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute }}

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|EpisodeNumber=437

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EbolaThePlagueFighters Plague Fighters]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|2|6}}

|ProdCode=2304

|ShortSummary=In the spring of 1995 a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus swept through Kikwit, Zaire, killing 77 percent of those who fell ill. No one stayed in the infectious "hot zone" longer than NOVA's production team, which filmed the inside story of the battle to contain one of the most feared diseases on the planet.

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|EpisodeNumber=438

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WarMachinesofTomorrow War Machines of Tomorrow]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|2|20}}

|ProdCode=2305

|ShortSummary=NOVA travels to the testing ranges and training grounds for a leaner, meaner and more effective United States military force that can fight and win on almost any battlefield in the world. One innovation in the works: super-accurate "brilliant" weapons, designed as successors to the smart munitions used in the Gulf War.

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|EpisodeNumber=439

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Kidnapped by UFOs?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|2|27}}

|ProdCode=2306

|ShortSummary=Thousands of Americans have come forward with tales of being kidnapped by space aliens, and millions of Americans believe them. NOVA searches for the truth behind real-life stories, worthy of The X-Files, describing late-night visits by small, gray creatures bent on creating a hybrid human/alien race.

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|EpisodeNumber=440

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAFlood Flood!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|3|26}}

|ProdCode=2307

|ShortSummary=In 1993, the Mississippi River swept away bridges, levees, farms and entire towns in the largest flood ever recorded in America's heartland. NOVA covers the human drama of the flood-fight to stop a river overflowing from weeks of nearly nonstop rain.

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|EpisodeNumber=441

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DrSpockTheBabyDoc Dr. Spock the Baby Doc]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|2}}

|ProdCode=2308

|ShortSummary=NOVA profiles Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose best-selling baby and child care guide revolutionized the way Americans raise their children. At ninety-something, Dr. Spock continues to mix a lively interest in babies with his long-standing activism for world peace, on the theory that war is potentially more dangerous to children than accidents or illness.

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|EpisodeNumber=442

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WarriorsoftheAmazon Warriors of the Amazon]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|9}}

|ProdCode=2309

|ShortSummary=NOVA travels to the Amazonian jungle to live among the Yanomami, one of the few remaining hunter/gatherer groups in the world, recording their healing ceremonies, death practices and other customs, including a ritual feast with their enemies.

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|EpisodeNumber=443

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Bombing of America

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|16}}

|ProdCode=2310

|ShortSummary=Oklahoma City, the UNABOMBER, the World Trade Center – these tragedies have thrust Bombing into the national limelight. But such high profile events do not tell the whole story. They are part of a disturbing trend. Every other hour, somewhere in this country a bomb explodes – often causing death and serious injury. In the United States, the incidence of criminal bombing has quadrupled in just five years and bombing has become a major law enforcement problem.

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|EpisodeNumber=444

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EinsteinRevealed Einstein Revealed]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|10|1}}

|ProdCode=2311

|ShortSummary=A two-hour NOVA special presents a penetrating profile of Albert Einstein, who contributed more than any other scientist to our modern vision of physical reality. Enlivened by dramatizations based closely on Einstein's writings and the recollections of friends, our programs will trace his extraordinary rise from a student who flunked his engineering exams to the world's most renowned physicist—a transformation that took barely a decade. What was the secret of Einstein's scientific creativity? How did a lowly patent clerk without regular access to academic literature or other scientists come up with three revolutionary theories in the single 'miracle' year of 1905? How did Einstein, the pacifist, later evolve to become a crucial advocate of the Manhattan Project? And does Einstein's popular image of a lovable eccentric match reality? NOVA draws on the latest scholarly studies of Einstein's private life to reveal a complex personality who was sometimes an unscrupulous flirt and at other times icy and remote from the women who supported his genius.

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|EpisodeNumber=445

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/LostCityofArabia Lost City of Arabia]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|10|8}}

|ProdCode=2312

|ShortSummary=Ubar is the classic lost city of Arabia. The tale of its splendor and sudden catastrophic downfall is one of the most colorful of the Arabian Nights. One of the earliest maps of the region drawn up by Claudius Ptolemy in 150 AD seems to prove that it really existed, but the actual site eluded a generation of scholars and explorers. Drawing on travelers' tales and space-based remote sensing, an American expedition headed into the vast wasteland of Oman's Rub' al-Khali desert, the largest sea of sand on earth. Their dramatic rediscovery of the lost city made headlines around the world in 1992, and is presented in all its enthralling detail for the first time on NOVA.

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|EpisodeNumber=446

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/ThreeMenandaBalloon Three Men and a Balloon]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|10|15}}

|ProdCode=2313

|ShortSummary=When Richard Branson says he is out to defy the odds and be the first to circumnavigate the world in a hot-air balloon, everybody listens. At least three other teams, including American Steve Fossett, are quietly trying to compete for this elite first. NOVA follows the effort from designing a balloon capable of entering the jet stream 8 miles up to survival training aimed at saving their lives in a catastrophe. The heart stopping footage of Branson pulling the wrong cord and losing his parachute completely, only to be saved by a quick thinking instructor won't soon be forgotten. As the weather window closes, and countries in the proposed flight path deny fly over clearance, the going gets tough. Can the tough get going?

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|EpisodeNumber=447

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofMakingMoney Secrets of Making Money]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|10|22}}

|ProdCode=2314

|ShortSummary=The U.S. Treasury and Secret Service have battled to stay a step ahead of professional counterfeiters. But now color copiers and desktop publishing have invited a new class of "casual counterfeiters" to try their hands at making a dishonest buck. The Treasury is fighting back with a major initiative to re-design the U.S. currency—the most radical change in the look of American money in 60 years. NOVA will follow the process of making a better buck—from selecting new portraits through printing and issuing the first bills.

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|EpisodeNumber=448

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TopGunOverMoscow Top Gun Over Moscow]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|11|12}}

|ProdCode=2315

|ShortSummary=Former enemies meet in an atmosphere of mutual respect as NOVA accompanies pilot and aviation writer Jeff Ethell – call sign "Fighter Writer" – to an air base outside Moscow for a unique visit with the Russian Knights. The Russians invite their guests inside the cockpits of their Migs and SUs for a brain-numbing ride to demonstrate their aerobatic skills. As these pilots from opposite sides of the world swap questions and stories, a brief history of Russian and Soviet air combat will unfold, making use of images that were locked away in Moscow military archives for generations. The program will also take a detailed look at the design, firepower and capabilities of Russia's combat jets—still among the most awesome flying machines invented by man.

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|EpisodeNumber=449

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVASharkAttack Shark Attack]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|11|19}}

|ProdCode=2316

|ShortSummary=Strong and deadly, silent and swift, insatiable in its hunger for flesh – there is no more powerful image in nature than that of the shark. And chief among these emblems of terror are the Great White and the Tiger Shark. We will explore the behavior of these great killing machines of the seas and the attitudes of people towards them – from those who would see all sharks wiped out, to those others whose fear is tempered with awe, and even religious respect. Shot at exotic locations in California, Hawaii and Australia, the film looks at the dramatic increase in shark attacks on humans in the last few years. Is there a reason surfers are particularly vulnerable? We investigate the occurrence of attacks and the reason for their increase – with spectacular footage of sharks in action.

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|EpisodeNumber=450

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/OdysseyofLife Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|11|24}}

|ProdCode=2317

|ShortSummary=The development of animal embryos reflects the evolution of species.

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|EpisodeNumber=451

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/OdysseyofLife Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World]

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|11|25}}

|ProdCode=2318

|ShortSummary=Mites, beetles and borers that share man's surroundings are observed in this look at microscopic intruders including bacteria, viruses and fungi.

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|EpisodeNumber=452

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/OdysseyofLife Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets]

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|11|26}}

|ProdCode=2319

|ShortSummary=Cameras follow microphotographer Lennart Nilsson as he obtains spectacular footage of events, including a human egg cell during conception and a journey through the aorta.

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|EpisodeNumber=453

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CrackingtheIceAge Cracking the Ice Age]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|12|31}}

|ProdCode=2320

|ShortSummary=NOVA investigates an intriguing idea on the origin of the Ice Age: namely, the Himalayas did it. According to the theory, the crash of continents that produced Mount Everest also produced a complicated chain of effects that has resulted in a drastically altered world climate.

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|EpisodeNumber=454

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAKaboom Kaboom!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|1|14}}

|ProdCode=2401

|ShortSummary=An in-depth and heart stopping look at the ultimate chemical reaction – the explosion. Using high speed photography and dramatic reconstruction, the film will chart the tarnished history of explosives: the terrible accidents, the scientific ingenuity and ultimately, the carnage of war and terrorism.

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|EpisodeNumber=455

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TitanicsLostSister Titanic's Lost Sister]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|1|28}}

|ProdCode=2402

|ShortSummary=Few realize that the Titanic had two nearly identical sister ships, the RMS Olympic and the HMHS Britannic. The Olympic had a successful career as a liner until she was broken up in 1935, but the Britannic met with a fate nearly as unlucky as that of the Titanic. Serving as a hospital ship in the Aegean, it was either torpedoed or the victim of a mine on 21 November 1916, and sank within an hour. Thirty out of its crew died. Robert Ballard will search for the wreck of the Britannic and explore the evidence surrounding its dramatic end.

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|EpisodeNumber=456

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|2|11}}

|ProdCode=2403

|ShortSummary=In Britain, fresh light is cast on the enigma of Stonehenge as dozens of volunteers use ropes and wooden sledges to erect replicas of the massive stones originally raised 4,000 years ago. Their task involves more than brute force, since the question of how the lintels that bridge the uprights were raised and leveled continues to baffle scholars and engineers alike. The meaning of Stonehenge to its builders and the purpose of the astronomical alignments built into its structure also figure in this match between muscles and megaliths.

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|EpisodeNumber=457

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca]

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|2|11}}

|ProdCode=2404

|ShortSummary=In Peru, Quechua villagers revive the astonishing engineering lore of their Inca ancestors as they weave a traditional bridge from grass fiber and suspend it across a gorge. Meanwhile, an architect and an amateur archaeologist try to settle their long-standing arguments about the secrets of Inca stone walls. How did the ancient masons fit giant, irregular blocks together so perfectly that a knife blade cannot be pushed between the joints? As they join our experts in puzzling over Inca mysteries, NOVA viewers will glimpse the splendors of Machu Picchu and masterpieces of ancient Peruvian weaving and gold work.

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|EpisodeNumber=458

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk]

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|2|12}}

|ProdCode=2405

|ShortSummary=In Egypt, NOVA examines the quarrying of ancient obelisks, towering slabs of polished granite that pharaohs raised to honor the gods, and that now adorn Rome's piazzas, London's embankment, and Central Park. How did ancient laborers who had no metal tools or mechanized equipment carve out, transport, and raise single blocks of stone weighing several hundred tons? The team that made This Old Pyramid such a popular hit now travels to the quarries of Aswan, the source of the original obelisks. This time the team faces severe obstacles as they struggle to raise a thirty-five-foot-long replica from the living rock.

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|EpisodeNumber=459

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum]

|RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|2|12}}

|ProdCode=2406

|ShortSummary=The marvels of Roman public architecture and hydraulic engineering are explored in a show that looks at the structure of amphitheaters such as the Colosseum. A little known feature of these amphitheaters is that they were originally roofed by canvas covers that were retracted when the arena was not in use. But how did the Romans devise a mechanism as tricky as a huge retractable roof? Our team of archaeologists and engineers will tackle the problem that the ancient Romans solved in one of the most striking examples of that civilization's ingenuity.

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|EpisodeNumber=460

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HuntforAlienWorlds Hunt for Alien Worlds]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|2|18}}

|ProdCode=2407

|ShortSummary=Are we alone in the universe? The dream of answering that question might finally be coming true. For most of this century, astronomers have tried and failed to find evidence of other planets beyond the Solar System. Suddenly, with improved telescopes and faster computers, we now have the tools to find, for the first time, worlds beyond our own. NOVA follows a new breed of planet hunters as they race to find proof that other planets do exist.

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|EpisodeNumber=461

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/CurseofTRex Curse of T. Rex]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|2|25}}

|ProdCode=2408

|ShortSummary=They are the most spectacular—and rarest—creatures ever to walk the Earth. And they are for sale. In remote badlands, paleontologists have to compete with commercial fossil hunters to get at dinosaur bones. We follow the trail of legal and illegal fossil-dealing as the FBI tries to prevent the best Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found from winding up on the shelves of a souvenir shop.

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|EpisodeNumber=462

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Cut to the Heart

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|4|8}}

|ProdCode=2409

|ShortSummary=Heart failure is the biggest killer in the modern world. With three million Americans suffering from the debilitating disease, and fifty thousand dying each year, heart specialists are desperate for a cure. Now, a radical and controversial surgery that actually removes part of the heart is bringing new hope to thousands of patients. NOVA follows doctors in South America, Britain, and America who are on the cutting edge of this new heart surgery.

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|EpisodeNumber=463

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/KingdomoftheSeahorse Kingdom of the Seahorse]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|4|15}}

|ProdCode=2410

|ShortSummary=Of all males in the animal kingdom, only one can be absolutely sure of his paternity. The seahorse. Because in seahorses it is the male, and only the male, who gets pregnant and gives birth. Seahorses' extraordinary looks and surprising behavior have earned them a mythic stature, one that now puts them in peril. Millions are harvested each year for use in Chinese medicine as a cure for male impotence. Now their populations worldwide are plummeting. Dive with Amanda Vincent, the world's leading seahorse biologist, in Australia and the Philippines as she explores the secret lives of these extraordinary fish, and launches innovative efforts to help them thrive once again.

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|EpisodeNumber=464

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAComa Coma]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|7}}

|ProdCode=2411

|ShortSummary=A famous brain surgeon struggles to save the life of a comatose child using a controversial new method of treating severe head injuries. In charge is Dr. Jan Ghajar, who gained notoriety in 1996 by successfully treating a woman who was savagely beaten in Manhattan's Central Park and expected to die. Dr. Ghajar believes the measure that helped save her life should be available to all.

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|EpisodeNumber=465

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/FasterthanSound Faster Than Sound]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|14}}

|ProdCode=2412

|ShortSummary=On the 50th anniversary of the first supersonic flight, Chuck Yeager relives his gutsy assault on the sound barrier and tells how it was done. Other top test pilots of the day—those who survived—describe the dangers, mysteries, and thrill of trying to fly faster than sound at the dawn of the jet age. Heavily re-edited and re-narrated Secret History episode, "Breaking the Sound Barrier", July 7, 1997.{{#invoke:cite|web| url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150489183 | title=Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute }}

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|EpisodeNumber=466

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVABombSquad Bomb Squad]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|21}}

|ProdCode=2413

|ShortSummary=IRA terrorists and British bomb disposal experts tell behind-the-scenes stories of a deadly cat-and- mouse game that pits ingenious IRA explosives officers against the most creative bomb squad in the world. A Windfall Films production for WGBH in association with Channel 4 (UK).{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2413bombsquad.html |title=Nova - Transcripts - Bomb Squad |website=PBS |access-date=2009-03-01}} Original Channel 4 Equinox episode, "The Men with Nine Lives", November 24, 1996.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.windfallfilms.com/productions/productions_2000-1995.php |title=Windfall Films - 2000-1995 |access-date=2009-03-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024234504/http://www.windfallfilms.com/productions/productions_2000-1995.php |archive-date=October 24, 2008 }}{{#invoke:cite|web| url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150468355 | title=Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute }}

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|EpisodeNumber=467

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATheProof The Proof]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|10|28}}

|ProdCode=2414

|ShortSummary=In a tale of secrecy, obsession, dashed hopes, and brilliant insights, Princeton math sleuth Andrew Wiles goes undercover for eight years to solve history's most famous math problem: Fermat's Last Theorem. His success was front-page news around the world. But then disaster struck. Re-narrated Horizon episode, "Fermat's Last Theorem".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.stc-cdx.org/node/388 |title=Simon Singh Named Honorary Fellow for 2007 |date=November 2006 |access-date=2009-03-01}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.simonsingh.net/The_TV_Film.html |title=Fermat's Last Theorem - The TV Documentary |access-date=2009-03-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215140217/http://simonsingh.net/The_TV_Film.html |archive-date=2009-02-15 }}

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|EpisodeNumber=468

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WildWolves Wild Wolves]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|11|11}}

|ProdCode=2415

|ShortSummary=Sir David Attenborough hosts a never-before-seen look at one of the most misunderstood creatures in nature. Special photography, including infrared photography, exposes the secret life of the wolf pack. (Original BBC Wildlife Specials program, "Wolf: The Legendary Outlaw".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-Wildlife-Special-Legendary-Outlaw/dp/B00004CXBC |title=BBC Wildlife Special - Wolf: The Legendary Outlaw |website=Amazon UK |date=October 5, 1998 |access-date=2009-03-01}})

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|EpisodeNumber=469

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SuperBridge Super Bridge]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|11|12}}

|ProdCode=2416

|ShortSummary=Viewers are sidewalk supervisors for one of the most unusual construction projects in the U.S. – the building of the stunningly beautiful and eminently practical Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River. Contractors faced every obstacle in the book—and then some—to build this complex structure.

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|EpisodeNumber=470

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TreasuresofaSunkenCity Treasures of the Sunken City]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|11|18}}

|ProdCode=2417

|ShortSummary=Divers search for one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 1375 and some believe lies in rubble on the sea floor. Close inspection of submerged ruins reveals some monumental archaeological surprises.

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|EpisodeNumber=471

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAAvalanche Avalanche!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|11|25}}

|ProdCode=2418

|ShortSummary=Viewers see what it's like to be overwhelmed by a sudden onslaught of "white death"—an avalanche. Avalanches are an escalating peril as skiers and snowmobilers push the limits into the back country. NOVA witnesses scientists getting buried alive in their attempts to understand these forces of nature.

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|EpisodeNumber=472

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DangerintheJetStream Danger in the Jet Stream]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1997|12|2}}

|ProdCode=2419

|ShortSummary=NOVA covers the latest efforts to be first to circumnavigate the planet non-stop in a balloon. NOVA's cameras are on board for all three attempts, including that of the long-shot underdog, American Steve Fossett, who rode high-speed winds solo from Missouri to a remote corner of India against incredible odds.

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|EpisodeNumber=473

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NightCreaturesoftheKalahari Night Creatures of the Kalahari]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|6}}

|ProdCode=2501

|ShortSummary=Beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari lies a hidden world of rare and exotic animals. By day, the Kalahari belongs to familiar predators and grazing animals. At night, the earth seems to release scores of seldom seen nocturnal creatures—Bush Babies, Brown Hyenas, Aardvarks and Fungal Termites—in search of food.

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|EpisodeNumber=474

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/MysteriousMummiesofChina Mysterious Mummies of China]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|20}}

|ProdCode=2502

|ShortSummary=Perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old mummies have been unearthed in a remote Chinese desert. They have long, blonde hair and blue eyes, and don't appear to be the ancestors of the modern-day Chinese people. Who are these people and how did they end up in China's Takla Makan desert? NOVA takes a glimpse through a crack in the door of history, to a past that has never before been seen outside of China.

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|EpisodeNumber=475

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SupersonicSpies Supersonic Spies]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|1|27}}

|ProdCode=2503

|ShortSummary=The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner led to a massive espionage effort during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the west. The Soviets started years behind the Concorde team, but espionage enabled Konkordski to beat Concorde into the air by three months. Now, NOVA reveals the cause behind the fatal Konkordski disaster at the 1973 Paris Air Show, which put the Soviet's work on the plane in a deep freeze. In a twist of fate, Konkordski is being resurrected in a NASA initiative to build the second generation of supersonic jets.

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|EpisodeNumber=476

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AnimalHospital Animal Hospital]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|3}}

|ProdCode=2504

|ShortSummary=Tapping into the clearly demonstrated affection we all have for our pets, this program will offer an offbeat, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad portrait of pets, their owners, and the veterinarians who treat our beloved animals' ailments. From race horses under the knife for cancer treatment, to Manhattan hounds on Prozac, to anorexic boa constrictors, we will show how cutting edge veterinary medicine is saving lives, and draw viewers into the mini-dramas that unfold each day in homes, in zoos, and in veterinary hospitals across the country.

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|EpisodeNumber=477

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheBrainEater The Brain Eater]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|10}}

|ProdCode=2505

|ShortSummary=In this scientific mystery, NOVA ventures to the front lines of medical research where scientists are scrambling to understand the strange new ailment popularly known as "mad cow disease." Highly infectious and incurable, this disease has claimed the lives of nearly a million cattle in Britain, and a variant is responsible for a handful of deaths in humans. Millions more people may have been exposed, and now the race is on to determine if we are on the brink of another deadly epidemic like AIDS or Ebola. What scientists are finding is making them rethink many fundamental assumptions about epidemiology and may hold startling implications for public health in the future.

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|EpisodeNumber=478

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EverestTheDeathZone Everest – The Death Zone]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|2|24}}

|ProdCode=2506

|ShortSummary=NOVA treks with a group of Himalayan climbers in their quest to reach the summit of Everest, along the way exploring in never-before-conducted tests how extremes of weather and altitude affect the human mind and body. Why do some people succumb so quickly to the ills caused by high altitude while others do not? Does exposure to extreme hypoxia—or lack of oxygen—take a lasting toll on the mind and body? Images of the brain scanned before and after the expedition may reveal truths about the physical traumas suffered in an oxygen-depleted environment, and give us new insight into why the tallest mountain in the world has claimed so many victims.

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|EpisodeNumber=479

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SearchfortheLostCavePeople Search for the Lost Cave People]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|3|31}}

|ProdCode=2507

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows an international team of archaeologists and spelunkers into the Rio la Venta Gorge deep in the Chiapas jungle of Central America. In a rugged canyon they find caves filled with startling remains of a people called the Zoque who lived hundreds of years before the Maya. The extreme inaccessibility and relative dryness of the caves has preserved rare artifacts including bones, clothes, rope, and jewelry. Moving downstream from the caves the team finds a legendary city hidden in a tangle of jungle vines. Evidence of the Zoque's sophisticated writing system and their practice of ritualistic cannibalism and child sacrifice is shedding new light on a little known civilization.

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|EpisodeNumber=480

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/WarningsfromtheIce Warnings from the Ice]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|4|21}}

|ProdCode=2508

|ShortSummary=Could the world be facing the next deluge—a catastrophic rise in sea levels—as a result of the rapid break-up of the huge Antarctic ice sheets? The ice sheets hold 70% of the world's fresh water in a deep freeze cold enough to shatter steel, but now scientists are racing to understand whether the recent calving of a Connecticut sized iceberg signals the beginning of a giant meltdown.

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|EpisodeNumber=481

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVACrocodiles Crocodiles!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|4|28}}

|ProdCode=2509

|ShortSummary=An unprecedented look at a dangerous predator, this is the second of three natural history programs hosted by Sir David Attenborough. Surviving virtually unchanged since the days of the dinosaur and found throughout the world, these remarkable creatures have the tools for survival. Long known as vicious hunters, new photographic techniques now allow us to see them cooperating with each other and protecting their families. From tiny babies hatching from the shell we see them grow into great beasts capable of standing up to the lion and bringing down a zebra. BBC production in association with WGBH.{{#invoke:cite|web|author=Walter Goodman | date=April 28, 1998 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E0D81E3FF93BA15757C0A96E958260 |title=Television Review; Ticktock, Ticktock, Habits of the Wily Croc |work=The New York Times |access-date=2009-03-01}} Original BBC Wildlife Specials episode "Crocodile: The Smiling Predator".)

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|EpisodeNumber=482

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheTruthAboutImpotence The Truth About Impotence]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|5|12}}

|ProdCode=2510

|ShortSummary=NOVA reports on new hope for victims of erectile dysfunction, also known as impotence. Among the promising therapies covered in the program are ones developed by Dr. Irwin Goldstein of Boston University School of Medicine and Dr. Harin Padma-Nathan, director of the Male Clinic in Santa Monica, CA. Actual cases are profiled, featuring men talking candidly about their problem—and going through treatment—on camera. Erectile dysfunction affects an estimated 52% of men between the ages of 40 and 70.

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|EpisodeNumber=483

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LostatSeaTheSearchforLongitude Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|10|6}}

|ProdCode=2511

|ShortSummary=Tells of the dangers of longitudial errors in the age of exploration, the creation of the longitude prize, astronomical attempts at solution, and John Harrison's development of a chronometer-based solution.

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|EpisodeNumber=484

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/ChasingElNino Chasing El Niño]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|10|13}}

|ProdCode=2512

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines the effects of past and present El Niños on global weather and follows the work of scientists who are trying to understand and predict this phenomenon.

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|EpisodeNumber=485

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TerrorinSpace Terror In Space]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|10|27}}

|ProdCode=2513

|ShortSummary=NOVA looks at life on the Russian space station Mir and investigates the recent series of mishaps that the station has encountered.

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|EpisodeNumber=486

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|11|3}}

|ProdCode=2514

|ShortSummary=NOVA reveals the secrets behind the on-screen images that have captured moviegoers' imaginations for years.

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|EpisodeNumber=487

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DeadlyShadowofVesuvius Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|11|10}}

|ProdCode=2515

|ShortSummary=Archeologists study of the doom of the Roman city of Pompeii tells a story that hangs over the residents of Naples Italy even today.

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|EpisodeNumber=488

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/IceMummies Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|11|24}}

|ProdCode=2516

|ShortSummary=NOVA accompanies anthropologist Johan Reinhard as he journeys to the 5,639-meter (18,500-foot) peak of Sara Sara in southern Peru in search of evidence of capa cocha, a ritual in which the Incas were said to sacrifice their own children to the gods.

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|EpisodeNumber=489

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/IceMummies Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden]

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|11|24}}

|ProdCode=2517

|ShortSummary=NOVA follows archeologist Natalya Polosmok as she journeys to the Altay Mountains in southern Siberia to search for traces of an ancient people known as the Pazyryk.

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|EpisodeNumber=490

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/IceMummies Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman]

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|11|24}}

|ProdCode=2518

|ShortSummary=NOVA examines how science is unlocking the secrets of the Iceman, a man discovered in 1991 frozen in the Italian Alps.

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|EpisodeNumber=491

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LeopardsoftheNight Leopards of the Night]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|12|1}}

|ProdCode=2519

|ShortSummary=The social groups and predatory patterns of leopards living in the Luangua Valley of Zambia.

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|EpisodeNumber=492

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/ThePerfectPearl The Perfect Pearl]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|12|29}}

|ProdCode=2520

|ShortSummary=This NOVA program looks at the science of pearl farming, follows efforts of oyster farmers trying to cope with growing problems of pollution and overcrowding, and considers the shifting sands of dominance within the pearl industry.

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|EpisodeNumber=493

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheBeastofLochNess The Beast of Loch Ness]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|1|12}}

|ProdCode=2601

|ShortSummary=Two American scientists search Loch Ness using the latest in sonar equipment to find the sea creature first reported more than 60 years ago.

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|EpisodeNumber=494

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SubmarinesSecretsandSpies Submarines, Secrets, and Spies]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|1|19}}

|ProdCode=2602

|ShortSummary=Oceanographer Robert Ballard pores over declassified Cold War documents to learn the fate of two sunken nuclear submarines.

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|EpisodeNumber=495

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SurvivingAIDS Surviving AIDS]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|2|2}}

|ProdCode=2603

|ShortSummary=What scientists have learned about treating HIV and AIDS from studying people with a natural resistance to the conditions.

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|EpisodeNumber=496

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EscapeBecauseAccidentsHappen Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|2|16}}

|ProdCode=2604

|ShortSummary=The tragedies that led to the mandatory installation of fire hydrants, sprinklers and evacuation drills.

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|EpisodeNumber=497

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EscapeBecauseAccidentsHappen Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash]

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|2|16}}

|ProdCode=2605

|ShortSummary=The push for automotive safety that began 100 years ago and prompted such innovations as safety glass, roll bars and air bags.

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|EpisodeNumber=498

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EscapeBecauseAccidentsHappen Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash]

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|2|17}}

|ProdCode=2606

|ShortSummary=A brief history of airplane crashes shows the steps the industry has made toward improving commercial airline safety.

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|EpisodeNumber=499

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EscapeBecauseAccidentsHappen Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship]

|RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|2|17}}

|ProdCode=2607

|ShortSummary=How the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the Estonia in 1994 have both contributed to international regulations at sea.

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|EpisodeNumber=500

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/BattleAlertintheGulf Battle Alert in the Gulf]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|2|23}}

|ProdCode=2608

|ShortSummary=See how US fighter pilots, strategists, ship captains, and crews contend with a hostile Iraq in the Persian Gulf.

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|EpisodeNumber=501

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/volcanoes-of-the-deep-1999 Volcanoes of the Deep]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|3|30}}

|ProdCode=2609

|ShortSummary=Off Northwester North-America's Pacific coast, two kilometers beneath the sea on top of a volcanic ridge, black smoker chimneys are spewing superheated water rich in poisonous chemicals. Here, far beyond the reach of sunlight, despite these poisons, or maybe because of them, bizarre life forms thrive. Watch as a daring exhibition explores these newly discovered wonders.

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|EpisodeNumber=502

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVA_ToTheMoon To the Moon]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|7|13}}

|ProdCode=2610

|ShortSummary=A two-hour special marking the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.

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|EpisodeNumber=503

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/FalloftheLeaningTower Fall of the Leaning Tower]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|10|5}}

|ProdCode=2611

|ShortSummary=The 10-year attempt to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which began falling 800 years ago, from finally collapsing.

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|EpisodeNumber=504

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/EverestTheDeathZone Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|10|6}}

|ProdCode=2612

|ShortSummary=In 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappear while climbing Mount Everest.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=505

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVATimeTravel Time Travel]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|10|12}}

|ProdCode=2613

|ShortSummary=A discussion of whether or not time travel is possible and the mechanisms that may allow it or prevent it.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=506

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheKillersTrail The Killer's Trail]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|10|19}}

|ProdCode=2614

|ShortSummary=A re-examination of the forensic evidence largely ignored during the 1954 murder trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard, convicted of killing his wife.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=507

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Island of the Spirits

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|11|2}}

|ProdCode=2615

|ShortSummary=Life on the wintry Japanese island of Hokkaido, home to grizzly bears, cranes, flying squirrels, white-tailed eagles and Blakistons fish owls.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=508

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DecodingNaziSecrets Decoding Nazi Secrets]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|11|9}}

|ProdCode=2616

|ShortSummary=How the British group of cryptologists known as Station X cracked the German code Enigma in 1940, helping to change the tide of World War II.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=509

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/VoyageofDoom Voyage of Doom]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|11|23}}

|ProdCode=2617

|ShortSummary=The culmination of a 20-year search for a ship lost under the command of the French explorer La Salle in the 1680s.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=510

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/ElectricHeart Electric Heart]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|12|21}}

|ProdCode=2618

|ShortSummary=The work of two medical teams, one headed by Dr. Michael DeBakey and the other by Dr. Robert Jarvik, to invent a reliable mechanical replacement for a failing heart.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=511

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Tales from the Hive

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|1|4}}

|ProdCode=2701

|ShortSummary=A year inside a beehive shows an organized social life, rival queens, colony scouts and the defeat of enemies.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=512

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Lost on Everest

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|1|18}}

|ProdCode=2702

|ShortSummary=The discovery of George Leigh Mallory, a mountain climber whose body was found in 1999, 75 years after his attempt to climb Mount Everest.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=513

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title={{anchor|SLA2000}}[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires]: Medieval Siege

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/ |title=NOVA Online | Secrets of Lost Empires |publisher=PBS |access-date=22 November 2019 }}{{sp}}(1 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|1}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Engineers design missile-launchers like those of the medieval era.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=514

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TheDiamondDeception The Diamond Deception]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|1}}

|ProdCode=2703

|ShortSummary=Breakthroughs in the production of synthetic diamonds may transform the marketing of the expensive gem.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=515

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires]: Pharaoh's Obelisk

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|8}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Engineers try to re-create the raising of a massive granite obelisk, a feat that ancient Egyptians accomplished.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=516

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/TrillionDollarBet Trillion Dollar Bet]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|8}}

|ProdCode=2704

|ShortSummary=The billion-dollar investment strategies of two Nobel Prize winners that brought short-term profit but long-term debt.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=517

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires]: Easter Island

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|15}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Archaeologists, with the help of 70 Easter Island residents, try to transport a 15-ton statue replica across one mile of undeveloped terrain.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=518

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Mystery of the First Americans

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|15}}

|ProdCode=2705

|ShortSummary=How the discovery of a 10,000-year-old Caucasoid skull in Washington has stirred debate on the settlement of the New World.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=519

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires]: Roman Bath

|RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|22}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Engineers and architects build a Roman bath, complete with hot tubs, cold plunges and underfloor heating.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=520

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/LostTribesofIsrael Lost Tribes of Israel]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|22}}

|ProdCode=2706

|ShortSummary=At the heart of Jewish tradition lies the haunting mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Ever since their defeat and banishment by the Assyrians in 722 BC., the Lost Tribes fate has inspired countless claims to Jewish ancestry by groups scattered on every continent. But now, surprisingly, new advances in genetics are dispelling myth and fantasy, and raising a curtain on the forgotten reality of the dispersal that happened so many centuries ago. This story will follow the first attempt to use the new tests to investigate a seemingly improbable African candidate for a Lost Tribe. It will dramatize a scientific quest that leads from the gene labs of London to the remote bush country of Zimbabwe and the lunar-like desert wilderness of southern Yemen.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=521

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsofLostEmpires Secrets of Lost Empires]: China Bridge

|RTitle={{sp}}(5 of 5)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|2|29}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=Two teams of engineers work from opposite sides of a river to link a re-created Chinese suspension bridge, using only historical information and a painting as a guide.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=522

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=What's Up with the Weather?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|4|18}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=From the Greenland Ice Caps — where scientists can read the history of the planet — to the equatorial Maldives Islands — which are threatened by rising sea levels — from the corridors of power in Washington to the rapidly growing industrial cities of China and India, this joint NOVA/FRONTLINE special takes viewers on an awe-inspiring journey to find out how the earth’s climate system works and what the future may hold in store.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=523

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/StationedintheStars Stationed in the Stars]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|4|25}}

|ProdCode=2707

|ShortSummary=Russian and American efforts to build the International Space Station, a unit designed to house six astronauts 220 miles above the Earth.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=524

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=The Vikings

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|5|9}}

|ProdCode=2708

|ShortSummary=This riveting two-hour special investigates a new image of the Vikings that goes far deeper than their savage stereotype as raiding marauders. Faithful replicas of their magnificent ships, life-like computer animation and fascinating recreations reveal the Vikings as canny merchants, expert shipbuilders, superb artisans, and bold colonizers of lands that lay beyond the edge of the known world.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=525

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Lincoln's Secret Weapon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|10|24}}

|ProdCode=2710

|ShortSummary=Follow a naval archeology expedition as they study the wreckage of the Monitor, the Union's first ironclad ship during the American Civil War. The story is related with the background on the engineering, history, and sinking of the ship.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=526

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/HolocaustonTrial Holocaust on Trial]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|10|31}}

|ProdCode=2711

|ShortSummary=

A case in London's High Court where scientific

examination of evidence clearly documents the horrors of Auschwitz.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=527

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/nova-hitlers-lost-sub Hitler's Lost Sub]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|11|14}}

|ProdCode=2712

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=528

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Runaway Universe

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|11|21}}

|ProdCode=2713

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=529

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Garden of Eden

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|11|28}}

|ProdCode=2714

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=530

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Dying to Be Thin

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|12|12}}

|ProdCode=2715

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=531

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Japan's Secret Garden

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|12|18}}

|ProdCode=2716

|ShortSummary=An examination how people can live in balance with nature, based on life around 2,000 years of human habitation around Japan's Lake Biwa.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=532

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SultansLostTreasure Sultan's Lost Treasure]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|1|16}}

|ProdCode=2801

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=533

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/NOVAVanished Vanished!]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|1|30}}

|ProdCode=2802

|ShortSummary=Tells the story of the search for the Avro Lancastrian airliner, Star Dust, that crashed in the Andes on its way to Santiago, Chile. BBC / WGBH co-production.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2802vanished.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Vanished! |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}} Broadcast in 2000 as BBC Horizon episode, "Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/vanished.shtml |title=BBC – Science & Nature – Horizon – Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=534

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Nazi Prison Escape

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|2|6}}

|ProdCode=2803

|ShortSummary=Edited from the Windfall Films series for Channel 4 (UK) – Escape From Colditz.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.windfallfilms.com/productions/production-details/escape-colditz.html |title=Windfall Films – Escape From Colditz |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516083545/http://www.windfallfilms.com/productions/production-details/escape-colditz.html |archive-date=16 May 2008 }}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=535

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Lost King of the Maya

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|2|13}}

|ProdCode=2804

|ShortSummary=This episode focuses on the search for the tomb of K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo', one of the first Ajaws of the Mayan city of Copán.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=536

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Cancer Warrior

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|2|27}}

|ProdCode=2805

|ShortSummary=Focuses on the cancer treatments developed by surgeon Judah Folkman.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=537

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SurvivorMD Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|3|27}}

|ProdCode=2806

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=538

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SurvivorMD Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions]

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|4|3}}

|ProdCode=2807

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=539

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SurvivorMD Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds]

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|4|10}}

|ProdCode=2808

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=540

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Cracking the Code of Life

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|4|17}}

|ProdCode=2809

|ShortSummary=A two-hour special on the race to use the new techniques of molecular biology to decode a human genome for the first time, and what that code might reveal and make possible. Hosted by Robert Krulwich.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=541

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Harvest of Fear

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|4|24}}

|ProdCode=

|ShortSummary=A coproduction with FRONTLINE.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=542

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/pbs-nova-s-29e-01-search-for-a-safe-cigarette Search for a Safe Cigarette]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|10|2}}

|ProdCode=2810

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=543

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/18WaystoMakeaBaby 18 Ways to Make a Baby]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|10|9}}

|ProdCode=2811

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=544

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/pbs-nova-s-29e-03-secrets-of-the-mind Secrets of the Mind]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|10|23}}

|ProdCode=2812

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=545

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/pbs-nova-s-29e-04-sex-unknown Sex: Unknown]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|10|30}}

|ProdCode=2813

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=546

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/RussiasNuclearWarriors Russia's Nuclear Warriors]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|6}}

|ProdCode=2814

|ShortSummary=A journalist interviews members of Russia's nuclear armed forces and gives viewers a glimpse into their home and work lives, while discussing the challenges of nuclear policy and practice.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=547

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/Bioterror Bioterror]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|13}}

|ProdCode=2815

|ShortSummary=

Released in the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, reports explore the history of germ warfare and its future. Two versions, 90 minutes 2 December 2002 and 60 minutes 13 November 2001.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=548

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Life's Greatest Miracle

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|20}}

|ProdCode=2816

|ShortSummary=A sequel to one of the most popular NOVAs of all time, "Miracle of Life," this Emmy Award-winning program tracks human development from embryo to newborn using the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=549

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Methuselah Tree

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|12|11}}

|ProdCode=2817

|ShortSummary=Reveals the life and history of bristlecone pine trees in California's White Mountains -- some of the oldest living things on earth.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=550

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/FlyingCasanovas Flying Casanovas]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|12|25}}

|ProdCode=2818

|ShortSummary=Courtship among Australia's Bowerbirds

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=551

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Death Star

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|8}}

|ProdCode=2901

|ShortSummary=Discovery and history of the study of gamma ray bursts from dying stars.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=552

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NeanderthalsonTrial Neanderthals on Trial]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|22}}

|ProdCode=2902

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=553

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Fireworks!

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|29}}

|ProdCode=2903

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=554

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/SecretsLiesAtomicSpies Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|2|5}}

|ProdCode=2904

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=555

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/NOVATheMissingLink The Missing Link]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|2|26}}

|ProdCode=2905

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=556

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|3|26}}

|ProdCode=2906

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=557

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Why the Towers Fell

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|4|30}}

|ProdCode=2907

|ShortSummary=BBC / WGBH co-production.{{#invoke:cite|news|author=Julie Salamon |date=30 April 2002 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E2D61F3EF933A05757C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 |title=Television Review; A Detective-Story Approach To the Twin Towers' Collapse |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 March 2009}} Broadcast as the Horizon episode, "The Fall of the World Trade Center".

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=558

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Fire Wars

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|5|7}}

|ProdCode= 2908

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=559

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/KillerDiseaseonCampus Killer Disease on Campus]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|3}}

|ProdCode=2909

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=560

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Mysterious Life of Caves

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|1}}

|ProdCode=2910

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=561

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Lost Roman Treasure

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|8}}

|ProdCode=2911

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=562

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|29}}

|ProdCode=2912

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=563

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/VolcanosDeadlyWarning Volcano's Deadly Warning]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|12}}

|ProdCode=2913

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=564

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/SinkingCityofVenice Sinking City of Venice]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|19}}

|ProdCode=2914

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=565

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/OrchidHunter Orchid Hunter]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|26}}

|ProdCode=2915

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=566

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Spies That Fly

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|7}}

|ProdCode=3001

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=567

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Last Flight of Bomber 31

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|14}}

|ProdCode=3002

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=568

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/AncientCreatureoftheDeep Ancient Creature of the Deep]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|21}}

|ProdCode=3003

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=569

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Battle of the X-Planes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|4}}

|ProdCode=3004

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=570

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Mountain of Ice

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|11}}

|ProdCode=3005

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=571

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Lost Treasures of Tibet

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|18}}

|ProdCode=3006

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=572

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title= [https://archive.org/details/DirtyBomb Dirty Bomb]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|2|25}}{{#invoke:cite|news|author=Ned Martel |date=25 February 2003 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE6DB1F3DF936A15751C0A9659C8B63 |title=Television Review; Terror's Dual Threats Of Bombs and Biology |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 March 2009}}

|ProdCode=3007

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=573

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Deep Sea Invasion

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|1}}

|ProdCode=3008

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=574

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Secret of Photo 51

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|15}}

|ProdCode=3009

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=575

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Infinite Secrets

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|9|30}}

|ProdCode=3010

|ShortSummary=The story of Archimedes, the history of the Archimedes Palimsest, and the use of modern imaging technology to assist in its transcription.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=576

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Who Killed the Red Baron?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|7}}

|ProdCode=3011

|ShortSummary=Edited from the Channel 4 (UK) series Secret History 22 December 2002 episode "Dogfight – The Mystery of the Red Baron."

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=577

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Elegant Universe: Einstein's Dream

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|28}}

|ProdCode=3012

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=578

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|28}}

|ProdCode=3013

|ShortSummary=

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|EpisodeNumber=579

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=The Elegant Universe: Welcome to the 11th Dimension

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 3)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|4}}

|ProdCode=3014

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=580

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Wright Brothers' Flying Machine

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|11}}

|ProdCode=3015

|ShortSummary=

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|EpisodeNumber=581

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Magnetic Storm

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|18}}

|ProdCode=3016

|ShortSummary=

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|EpisodeNumber=582

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Volcano Above the Clouds

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|25}}

|ProdCode=3017

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=583

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Mars Dead or Alive

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|1|4}}

|ProdCode=3101

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=584

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Secrets of the Crocodile Caves

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|1|20}}

|ProdCode=3102

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=585

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Dogs and More Dogs

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|2|3}}

|ProdCode=3103

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=586

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Descent into the Ice

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|2|10}}

|ProdCode=3104

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=587

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Crash of Flight 111

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|2|17}}

|ProdCode=3105

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=588

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=Life and Death in the War Zone

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/life-and-death-in-the-war-zone/|title = Life and Death in the War Zone|website = PBS|date=May 4, 2004 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|3|4}}

|ProdCode=3106

|ShortSummary=While other reporters were embedded in fighting units during the Iraq War, NOVA was covering the emergency medical response, living night and day with the doctors, nurses, and medics in a frontline Combat Support Hospital (CSH). The program captures a period of the conflict in April and May of 2003 when CSH units faced a deluge of injured Iraqi soldiers and civilians who had little support from their country's collapsed health-care system.

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=589

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Hunt for the Supertwister

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|3|30}}

|ProdCode=3107

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=590

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=World in the Balance

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|4|20}}

|ProdCode=3108

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=591

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Battle Plan Under Fire

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|5|4}}

|ProdCode=3110

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=592

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Origins: Earth is Born

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|9|28}}

|ProdCode=3111

|ShortSummary=Edited from the Channel 4 (UK) series The Day the Earth was Born episode "Creation".

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=593

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Origins: How Life Began

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|9|28}}

|ProdCode=3112

|ShortSummary=Edited from the Channel 4 (UK) series The Day the Earth was Born episode "Life".

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=594

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Origins: Where Are the Aliens?

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|9|29}}

|ProdCode=3113

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=595

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Origins: Back to the Beginning

|RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|9|29}}

|ProdCode=3114

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=596

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=[https://archive.org/details/pbs-nova-s-32e-05-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america-typhoid-mary The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|10|12}}

|ProdCode=3115

|ShortSummary= A PBS Nova Episode about Mary Mallon, who was known more commonly as Typhoid Mary

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=597

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=America's Stone Age Explorers

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|11|9}}

|ProdCode=3116

|ShortSummary=Original BBC Horizon episode, "Stone Age Columbus", first broadcast in 2002.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3116_stoneage.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – America's Stone Age Explorers |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbustrans.shtml |title=BBC – Science & Nature – Horizon – Stone Age Columbus |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=598

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Great Escape

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|11|16}}

|ProdCode=3117

|ShortSummary=Windfall Films production for Five (UK) / WGBH / The History Channel (UK) originally broadcast on Five in March 2004 as The Great Escape: Revealed.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.windfallfilms.com/productions/production-details/great-escape.html |title=Windfall Films – The Great Escape: Revealed |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907134320/http://www.windfallfilms.com/productions/production-details/great-escape.html |archive-date=7 September 2008 }}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=599

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2004|11|23}}

|ProdCode=3118

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=600

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Welcome to Mars

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|1|4}}

|ProdCode=3201

|ShortSummary=Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=601

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Boldest Hoax

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|1|11}}

|ProdCode=3202

|ShortSummary=One of the most famous hoaxes in archaeological history, the Piltdown Man. Original BBC Timewatch episode "Britain's Greatest Hoax".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3202_hoax.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – The Boldest Hoax |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=602

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Supersonic Dream

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|1|18}}

|ProdCode=3203

|ShortSummary=Original BBC Timewatch episode "Concorde: A Love Story".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3203_concorde.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Supersonic Dream |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=603

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=The Viking Deception

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|2|8}}

|ProdCode=3205

|ShortSummary=Original Channel 4 (UK) documentary Vinland: Viking Map or Million-Dollar Hoax?.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3205_vinland.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – The Viking Deception |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=604

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Saving the National Treasures

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|2|15}}

|ProdCode=3206

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=605

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=A Daring Flight

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|2|22}}

|ProdCode=3207

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=606

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Wave That Shook the World

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|3|29}}

|ProdCode=3208

|ShortSummary=Original Channel 4 (UK) Equinox episode, "The Wave That Shook The World".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3208_tsunami.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Wave That Shook the World |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.pioneertv.com/productions_2.php |title=Pioneer Productions – Recent and past productions |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617110937/http://www.pioneertv.com/productions_2.php |archive-date=17 June 2008 }}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=607

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Mystery of the Megaflood

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|9|20}}

|ProdCode=3211

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=608

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Sinking the Supership

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|10|4}}

|ProdCode=3212

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=609

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Einstein's Big Idea (E=mc²: Einstein's Big Idea)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|10|11}}

|ProdCode=3213

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=610

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Volcano Under the City

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|11|1}}

|ProdCode=3215

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=611

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Hitler's Sunken Secret

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|11|8}}

|ProdCode=3216

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=612

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Newton's Dark Secrets

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|11|15}}

|ProdCode=3217

|ShortSummary=Original BBC documentary, Newton: The Dark Heretic, first broadcast in 2003.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3217_newton.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Newton's Dark Secrets |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}{{cite press release |publisher=BBC |date=22 February 2003 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/02_february/22/newton_2060.shtml |title=Newton set 2060 as the end of the world |access-date=1 March 2009 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126011935/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/02_february/22/newton_2060.shtml |url-status=live }}

}}

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|EpisodeNumber=613

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Storm That Drowned A City

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2005|11|22}}

|ProdCode=3218

|ShortSummary=Hurricane Katrina

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=614

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Mummy Who Would Be King

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|1|3}}

|ProdCode=3301

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=615

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Deadly Ascent

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|1|17}}

|ProdCode=3303

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=616

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Perfect Corpse

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|2|7}}

|ProdCode=3304

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=617

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Jewel of the Earth

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|2|14}}

|ProdCode=3305

|ShortSummary=Re-edited from the BBC Natural World program, "The Amber Time Machine".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3305_jewel.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Jewel of the Earth |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=618

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=The Ghost Particle

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|2|21}}

|ProdCode=3306

|ShortSummary=Original BBC Horizon episode, "Project Poltergeist".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.tvdox.com/prog_PP.html |title=DOX Productions – Project Poltergeist |access-date=1 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120002043/http://www.tvdox.com/prog_PP.html |archive-date=20 November 2008 |url-status=dead }}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=619

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Arctic Passage

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|2|28}}

|ProdCode=3307

|ShortSummary=Re-narrated Channel 4 (UK) documentary, The Search for the Northwest Passage{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3307_arctic.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Arctic Passage |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www2.ric.edu/news/displayNews.php?id=news-258 |title=RIC professor's Arctic expedition subject of lecture, Nova documentary |publisher=Rhode Island College |date=8 February 2006 |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116214514/http://www2.ric.edu/news/displayNews.php?id=news-258 |archive-date=16 November 2006 }}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=620

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Great Robot Race

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|3|28}}

|ProdCode=3308

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=621

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Voyage to the Mystery Moon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|4|4}}

|ProdCode=3309

|ShortSummary=Edited from the BBC Horizon episodes, "Saturn: Lord of the Rings" and "Titan: A Place Like Home".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3309_titan.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Voyage to the Mystery Moon |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=622

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Dimming the Sun

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|4|18}}

|ProdCode=3310

|ShortSummary=Re-edited Horizon episode, "Global Dimming".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3310_sun.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Dimming the Sun |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_trans.shtml |title=BBC – Science & Nature – Horizon |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=623

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Building on Ground Zero

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|9|5}}

|ProdCode=3311

|ShortSummary=BBC / WGBH co-production.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=624

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Mystery of the Megavolcano

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|9|26}}

|ProdCode=3312

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=625

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Deadliest Plane Crash

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|10|17}}

|ProdCode=3314

|ShortSummary=An investigation into the Tenerife airport disaster.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=626

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Monster of the Milky Way

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|10|31}}

|ProdCode=3315

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=627

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Wings of Madness

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|11|7}}

|ProdCode=3316

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=628

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=The Family That Walks On All Fours

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|11|14}}

|ProdCode=3317

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=629

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Underwater Dream Machine

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2006|12|26}}

|ProdCode=3319

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=630

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Forgotten Genius

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|2|6}}

|ProdCode=3402

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=631

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=The Last Great Ape

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|2|13}}

|ProdCode=3403

|ShortSummary=Re-edited from the BBC Natural World program "Bonobo: Missing in Action".{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bonobos/credits.html |title=Nova – The Last Great Ape – Credits |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=632

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Kings of Camouflage

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|4|3}}

|ProdCode=3404

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=633

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=First Flower

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|4|17}}

|ProdCode=3405

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=634

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Saved by the Sun

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|4|24}}

|ProdCode=3406

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=635

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Pocahontas Revealed

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|5|8}}

|ProdCode=3407

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=636

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=Bone Diggers

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|6|19}}

|ProdCode=3408

|ShortSummary=

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|EpisodeNumber=637

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=The Great Inca Rebellion

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|6|26}}

|ProdCode=3409

|ShortSummary=

}}

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|Title=Secrets of the Samurai Sword

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|10|9}}

|ProdCode=3412(638)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Ghost in Your Genes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|10|16}}

|ProdCode=3413(639)

|ShortSummary=Original BBC Horizon episode broadcast in 2005.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3413_genes.html |title=Nova – Transcripts – Ghost in Your Genes |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Marathon Challenge

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|10|30}}

|ProdCode=3414(640)

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Sputnik Declassified

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|11|6}}

|ProdCode=3415(641)

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|11|13}}

|ProdCode=3416(642)

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Master of the Killer Ants

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|11|20}}

|ProdCode=3417(643)

|ShortSummary=This re-narrated version of the French documentary Jaglavak, Prince of Insects looks at the relationship the Mofu people of northern Cameroon have with insects, such as using red driver ants to combat termites.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.zed.fr/en/catalogue_detail.php?id_movie=1 |title=Jaglavak, Prince of Insects |access-date=1 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230121012/http://www.zed.fr/en/catalogue_detail.php?id_movie=1 |archive-date=30 December 2008 }}

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Missing in MiG Alley

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2007|12|18}}

|ProdCode=3418(644)

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 2)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|1|8}}

|ProdCode=3504(645)

|ShortSummary=A Windfall Films production for BBC Four broadcast in December 2007.{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/credits.html |title=Nova – Absolute Zero – Credits |website=PBS |access-date=1 March 2009}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/absolute-zero.shtml |title=BBC – BBC Four Documentaries – Absolute Zero |access-date=1 March 2009}}

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 2)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|1|15}}

|ProdCode=3505(646)

|ShortSummary=A Windfall Films production for BBC Four broadcast in December 2007.

}}

{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Secrets of the Parthenon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|1|29}}

|ProdCode=3503(647)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Astrospies

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|2|12}}

|ProdCode=3501(648)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Ape Genius

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|2|19}}

|ProdCode=3507(649)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=The Four-Winged Dinosaur

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|2|26}}

|ProdCode=3502(650)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Cracking the Maya Code

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|4|8}}

|ProdCode=3508(651)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Car of the Future

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|4|22}}

|ProdCode=3509(652)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=A Walk to Beautiful

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|5|13}}

|ProdCode=3506(653)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Lord of the Ants

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|5|20}}

|ProdCode=3510(654)

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|Title=Arctic Dinosaurs

|ShortSummary=Trek through Alaska to explore how dinosaurs once thrived in polar regions.

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|10|7}}

|ProdCode=3511(655)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Space Shuttle Disaster

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|10|14}}

|ProdCode=3512(656)

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{{#invoke:Episode list|list

|Title=Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|10|21}}

|ProdCode=3513(657)

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|Title=Hunting the Hidden Dimension

|ShortSummary=You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, even in the rhythm of the human heart. In this film, NOVA takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of maverick mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. For centuries, fractal-like irregular shapes were considered beyond the boundaries of mathematical understanding. Now, mathematicians have finally begun mapping this uncharted territory. Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical, and artistic innovation stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design. The documentary highlights a host of filmmakers, fashion designers, physicians, and researchers who are using fractal geometry to innovate and inspire.

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|10|28}}

|ProdCode=3514(658)

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|Title=Alien from Earth

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|11}}

|ProdCode=3515(659)

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|Title=The Bible's Buried Secrets

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|18}}

|ProdCode=3516(660)

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|Title=Ocean Animal Emergency

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|25}}

|ProdCode=3517(661)

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|Title=Is There Life on Mars?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|12|30}}

|ProdCode=3518(662)

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|Title=The Big Energy Gamble

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|1|20}}

|ProdCode=3519(663)

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|Title=The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|1|27}}

|ProdCode=3601(664)

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|Title=The Spy Factory

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|2|3}}

|ProdCode=3602(665)

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|Title=Rat Attack

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|2|24}}

|ProdCode=3603(666)

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|Title=Extreme Ice

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|3|24}}

|ProdCode=3604(667)

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|Title=Last Extinction

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|3|31}}

|ProdCode=3607(668)

|ShortSummary=Also titled in re-broadcasts as "Megabeasts' Sudden Death".

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|Title=Doctors' Diaries, Part One

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|4|7}}

|ProdCode=3608(669)

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|Title=Doctors' Diaries, Part Two

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|4|14}}

|ProdCode=3609(670)

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|Title=Musical Minds

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|6|30}}

|ProdCode=3610(671)

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|Title=Darwin's Darkest Hour

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|10|6}}

|ProdCode=3605–3606(672-673)

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|Title=Hubble's Amazing Rescue

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|10|13}}

|ProdCode=3611(674)

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|Title=Lizard Kings

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|10|20}}

|ProdCode=3616(675)

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|Title=Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors: First Steps

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|03}}

|ProdCode=3613(676)

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|Title=Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors: Birth of Humanity

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|10}}

|ProdCode=3614(677)

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|Title=Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors: Last Human Standing

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|17}}

|ProdCode=3615(678)

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|Title=What Are Dreams?

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|24}}

|ProdCode=3612(679)

|ShortSummary=(Co-produced by the BBC)

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|Title=What Darwin Never Knew

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|12|29}}

|ProdCode=3617(680)

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|Title=Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|1|5}}

|ProdCode=3701(681)

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|Title=Building Pharaoh's Ship

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|1|12}}

|ProdCode=3702(682)

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|Title=Riddles of the Sphinx

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|1|19}}

|ProdCode=3703(683)

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|Title=Ghosts of Machu Picchu

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|2|2}}

|ProdCode=3704(684)

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|Title=Extreme Cave Diving

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|2|9}}

|ProdCode=3705(685)

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|Title=The Pluto Files

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|3|2}}

|ProdCode=3706(686)

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|Title=Hunting the Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|4|6}}

|ProdCode=3708(687)

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|Title=Hunting the Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|4|13}}

|ProdCode=3709(688)

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|Title=Mind Over Money: How Human Psychology and Finance Interact

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|4|27}}

|ProdCode=3707(689)

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|Title=Mt. St. Helens: Back From The Dead

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|5|4}}

|ProdCode=3710(690)

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|Title=Building the Great Cathedrals

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|10|19}}

|ProdCode=3711(691)

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|Title=Emergency Mine Rescue

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|10|26}}

|ProdCode=3712(692)

|ShortSummary=This one-hour film chronicles the fate of the 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine in August 2010 and investigates the many challenges faced by both the miners and those working around the clock to bring them safely to the surface. NOVA was on-site at the San José mine in Chile by early September. Conferred special access, NOVA's film crew interviewed engineers, NASA experts, medical personnel, and key figures from the companies that provided drills and crucial rescue equipment to give a more detailed scientific account of the unfolding events. The resulting film, using footage from the scene as well as advanced animation, showcases the extraordinary feats of engineering as well as the biological and geological factors inherent in the rescue. "Emergency Mine Rescue" also examines the psychological and physiological impact of this kind of prolonged ordeal on the miners and those involved in the rescue efforts. Co-produced with Channel Four UK.

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|Title=Trapped in an Elevator

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|11|2}}

|ProdCode=3713(693)

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|Title=Dogs Decoded

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|11|9}}

|ProdCode=3714(694)

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|Title=Secrets of Stonehenge

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|11|16}}

|ProdCode=3715(695)

|ShortSummary=Stonehenge

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|Title=Quest for Solomon's Mines

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|11|23}}

|ProdCode=3716(696)

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|Title=Secrets Beneath the Ice

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2010|12|28}}

|ProdCode=3717(697)

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|Title=Deadliest Earthquakes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|1|11}}

|ProdCode=3801(698)

|ShortSummary=The 2010 Haiti earthquake and 2010 Chile earthquake.

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|Title=Making Stuff: Stronger

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/making-stuff|title = Making Stuff|website = PBS}}{{sp}}(1 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|1|19}}

|ProdCode=3802(699)

|ShortSummary=(Hosted by David Pogue)

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|Title=Making Stuff: Smaller

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|1|26}}

|ProdCode=3803(700)

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|Title=Making Stuff: Cleaner

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|2|2}}

|ProdCode=3804(701)

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|Title=Making Stuff: Smarter

|RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|2|9}}

|ProdCode=3805(702)

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|Title=[https://archive.org/details/pbs-nova-s-38e-13-the-smartest-machine-on-earth Smartest Machine on Earth]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|2|9}}

|ProdCode=3806(703)

|ShortSummary=Can IBM's Watson computer win on Jeopardy!?

{{see|List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events#IBM Challenge}}

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|Title=Crash of Flight 447

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|2|16}}

|ProdCode=3807(704)

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|Title=Venom: Nature's Killer

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|2|23}}

|ProdCode=3808(705)

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|Title=Japan's Killer Quake

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|3|30}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.aptv.org/schedule/showinfo.asp?ID=317786|title=Nova|Japan's Killer Quake|publisher=Alabama Public Television|access-date=22 March 2011}}

|ProdCode=3810(706)

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|Title=Power Surge

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|4|20}}{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.aptv.org/schedule/showinfo.asp?ID=315158|title=Nova|Power Surge|publisher=Alabama Public Television|access-date=22 March 2011}}

|ProdCode=3809(707)

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|Title=Engineering Ground Zero

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|9|07}}

|ProdCode=3811(708)

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|Title=Surviving The Tsunami

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|9|28}}

|ProdCode=3812(709)

|ShortSummary=(Produced by NHK)

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|Title=Finding Life Beyond Earth

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|10|19}}

|ProdCode=3813/3814(710-711)

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|Title=Iceman Murder Mystery

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|10|26}}

|ProdCode=3815(712)

|ShortSummary=Ötzi the Iceman

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|Title=[https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-the-fabric-of-the-cosmos-what-is-space-1/ The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?]

|RTitle={{sp}}(1 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|11|2}}

|ProdCode=3816(713)

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|Title=The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time

|RTitle={{sp}}(2 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|11|9}}

|ProdCode=3817(714)

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|Title=The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap

|RTitle={{sp}}(3 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|11|16}}

|ProdCode=3818(715)

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|Title=The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?

|RTitle={{sp}}(4 of 4)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2011|11|23}}

|ProdCode=3819(716)

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|Title=Deadliest Volcanoes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|01|04}}

|ProdCode=3901(717)

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|Title=Bombing Hitler's Dams

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|01|11}}

|ProdCode=3902(718)

|ShortSummary=A recreation of Operation Chastise and the bouncing bomb, using a Buffalo Airways DC-4 airplane (C-FIQM). Counterpart to the UK documentary Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb, Canadian documentary Dambusters Fly Again, and Ice Pilots NWT season 3 episode 2 of the "Dambusters" show.History Television, [http://www.history.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=261043 Dambusters Fly Again] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319220020/http://www.history.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=261043 |date=19 March 2012 }} (accessed 2011 August)The Telegraph (London), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8478469/The-day-the-Dam-Busters-returned...-in-Canada.html "The day the Dam Busters returned... in Canada"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203043817/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8478469/The-day-the-Dam-Busters-returned...-in-Canada.html |date=December 3, 2017 }}, Tom Chivers, 2 May 2011 (accessed 2011 August)EAA, [http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-05-05_dambusters.asp "'Ice Pilots' Help Re-Create 'Dambusters'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330063638/http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-05-05_dambusters.asp |date=30 March 2012 }}, Hal Bryan, 5 May 2011 (accessed 2011 August)Channel 4, [http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dambusters-building-the-bouncing-bomb/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 "Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429194631/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dambusters-building-the-bouncing-bomb/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 |date=April 29, 2016 }} (accessed 2011 August)PBS, WGBH, Nova, [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/bombing-hitlers-dams/ "Bombing Hitler's Dams"] . Retrieved: 12 January 2012History Television, [http://www.icepilots.com/episode3_2.php Ice Pilots NWT: Season 3, Episode 2: Dambusters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505224303/http://www.icepilots.com/episode3_2.php |date=May 5, 2017 }} (accessed 11–11–11)

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|Title=3D Spies of WWII

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|01|18}}

|ProdCode=3903(719)

|ShortSummary=Discusses the Allied aerial reconnaissance program, and how the usage of 3D imagery revealed much more information than ordinary photographs would have, mostly in relation to the V-weapons.

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|Title=Mystery of a Masterpiece

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|01|25}}

|ProdCode=3904(720)

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|Title=Ice Age Death Trap

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|02|01}}

|ProdCode=3905(721)

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|Title=Separating Twins

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|02|08}}

|ProdCode=3908(722)

|ShortSummary=This is the incredible story of Trishna and Krishna, twin girls born joined at the head. Abandoned shortly after birth at an orphanage in Bangladesh, they had little chance of survival, until they were saved and taken to Melbourne, Australia by an aid worker. After two years battling for life, the twins are ready for a series of delicate operations that will prepare them for the ultimate challenge: a marathon separation surgery that will allow them to live truly separate lives. Since the beginning, surgeons knew there was no guarantee of survival for either of the girls—but without surgery there was no hope at all. With exclusive access to this extraordinary human and medical drama, our cameras have been with Trishna and Krishna and their caregivers at each moment of their journey.

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|Title=Cracking Your Genetic Code

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|03|28}}

|ProdCode=3909(723)

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|Title=Hunting the Elements

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|04|04}}

|ProdCode=3906(724)

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|Title=Deadliest Tornadoes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|04|11}}

|ProdCode=3910(725)

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|Title=Why Ships Sink

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|04|18}}

|ProdCode=3911(726)

|ShortSummary=Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools to shopping malls to ice rinks. And the ships just keep getting bigger: The average cruise ship has doubled in size in just the last ten years. Some engineers fear that these towering behemoths are dangerously unstable, and the recent tragedy of the Costa Concordia has raised new questions about their safety. Now, NOVA brings together marine engineering and safety experts to reconstruct the events that led up to infamous cruise disasters, including the ill-fated Concordia, the Sea Diamond, and the Oceanos.

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|Title=[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-of-the-sun/ Secrets of the Sun]

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|04|25}}

|ProdCode=3907(727)

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|Title=Secrets of the Viking Sword

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-of-the-viking-sword/|title=Secrets of the Viking Sword|website=PBS|date=October 10, 2012 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|10|10}}

|ProdCode=3913(728)

|ShortSummary=A modern-day swordsmith reverse engineers the ultimate weapon of the Middle Ages—a sword both prized and feared.

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|Title=Forensics on Trial

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/forensics-on-trial/|title=Forensics on Trial|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|10|17}}

|ProdCode=3912(729)

|ShortSummary=Virtual autopsies, 3-D fingerprints, and digital crime scenes are making crime-solving into a more precise science.

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|Title=Mystery of Easter Island

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/mystery-of-easter-island/|title=Mystery of Easter Island|website=PBS|date=November 7, 2012 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|11|07}}

|ProdCode=3914(730)

|ShortSummary=A team of scientists and volunteers test a theory on how the ancient stone statues were moved, using a 15-ton replica.

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|Title=Ultimate Mars Challenge

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ultimate-mars-challenge/|title=Ultimate Mars Challenge|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|11|14}}

|ProdCode=3915(731)

|ShortSummary=In its search for life beyond Earth, NASA employs a "sky crane" maneuver to land the Curiosity rover on Mars.

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|Title=Inside the Megastorm

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/inside-the-megastorm/|title=Inside the Megastorm|website=PBS|date=November 18, 2012 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|11|18}}

|ProdCode=3916(732)

|ShortSummary=Watch as Megastorm Sandy unfolds, and explore what made it so much more devastating than other hurricanes.

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|Title=Doomsday Volcanoes

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/doomsday-volcanoes/|title=Doomsday Volcanoes|website=PBS|date=January 2, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|01|02}}

|ProdCode=4001(733)

|ShortSummary=Could the explosion of Iceland's ticking time bombs cause cold and famine worldwide?

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|Title=Decoding Neanderthals

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/decoding-neanderthals/|title=Decoding Neanderthals|website=PBS|date=January 9, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|01|09}}

|ProdCode=4002(734)

|ShortSummary=Shared DNA reveals a deep connection with our long-vanished human cousins.

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|Title=Rise of the Drones

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/rise-of-the-drones/|title=Rise of the Drones|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|01|23}}

|ProdCode=4003(735)

|ShortSummary=Meet a new breed of flying robots, from tiny swarming vehicles to giant unmanned planes.

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|Title=Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/who-killed-lindberghs-baby/|title=Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|01|30}}

|ProdCode=4004(736)

|ShortSummary=Expert investigators reexamine one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time.

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|Title=Building Pharaoh's Chariot

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/building-pharaohs-chariot/|title=Building Pharaoh's Chariot|website=PBS|date=February 6, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|02|06}}

|ProdCode=4005(737)

|ShortSummary=A team uncovers the advanced engineering behind an ancient Egyptian war machine.

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|Title=Earth From Space

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/earth-from-space/|title=Earth From Space|website=PBS|date=February 13, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|02|13}}

|ProdCode=4006(738)

|ShortSummary=Detailed satellite images reveal the web of connections that sustain life on Earth.

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|Title=Mind of a Rampage Killer

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/mind-of-a-rampage-killer/|title=Mind of a Rampage Killer|website=PBS|date=February 20, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|02|20}}

|ProdCode=4008(739)

|ShortSummary=Can science help us understand why some people commit horrific acts of mass murder?

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|Title=Meteor Strike

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/meteor-strike/|title=Meteor Strike|website=PBS|date=March 27, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|03|27}}

|ProdCode=4013(740)

|ShortSummary=A meteor burst into a fireball over Siberia. Can we spot the next deadly asteroid in time?

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|Title=Ancient Computer

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ancient-computer/|title=Ancient Computer|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|04|03}}

|ProdCode=4007(741)

|ShortSummary=A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer.

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|Title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/australias-first-4-billion-years-awakening/|title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening|website=PBS|date=April 10, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|04|10}}

|ProdCode=4009(742)

|ShortSummary=Australia's ancient landscape holds clues to Earth's early history and the beginning of life.

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|Title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/australias-first-4-billion-years-life-explodes/|title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes|website=PBS|date=April 17, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|04|17}}

|ProdCode=4010(743)

|ShortSummary=Fossils reveal how life's explosion in the ocean was recreated on dry land.

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|Title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/australias-first-4-billion-years-monsters/|title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters|website=PBS|date=April 24, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|04|24}}

|ProdCode=4011(744)

|ShortSummary=Some 250 million years ago, some of the largest, most dangerous reptiles ruled this land.

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|Title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/australias-first-4-billion-years-strange-creatures/|title=Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures|website=PBS|date=May 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|05|1}}

|ProdCode=4012(745)

|ShortSummary=After a massive extinction, diverse marsupials came to dominate this isolated continent.

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|Title=Manhunt—Boston Bombers

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|05|29}}

|ProdCode=4014(746)

|ShortSummary=Which technologies worked—and which didn't—in the race to track down the men behind the marathon attack?

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|Title=Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/oklahomas-deadliest-tornadoes/|title=Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes|website=PBS|date=May 29, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|05|29}}

|ProdCode=4015(747)

|ShortSummary=Hear harrowing stories from survivors of Moore's massive tornado and meet scientists who stalk these ferocious storms.

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|Title=Ground Zero Supertower

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|09|11}}

|ProdCode=4016(748)

|ShortSummary=Engineers race to complete 1 World Trade Center as they grapple with the final challenges.

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|Title=Megastorm Aftermath

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|10|09}}

|ProdCode=4017(749)

|ShortSummary=How can cities prepare for rising seas and raging storms?

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|Title=Making Stuff Faster

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/making-stuff-faster/|title=Making Stuff Faster|website=PBS|date=October 16, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|10|16}}

|ProdCode=4018(750)

|ShortSummary=Host David Pogue hits the road to explore the frontiers of invention and innovation.

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|Title=Making Stuff Wilder

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|10|23}}

|ProdCode=4019(751)

|ShortSummary=Host David Pogue travels the globe to explore new technologies inspired by nature.

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|Title=Making Stuff Colder

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|10|30}}

|ProdCode=4020(752)

|ShortSummary=Host David Pogue asks if cold holds the key to technology that can improve our lives.

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|Title=Making Stuff Safer

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|11|06}}

|ProdCode=4021(753)

|ShortSummary=Host David Pogue examines groundbreaking research that aims to keep us out of harm's way.

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|Title=Cold Case JFK

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/cold-case-jfk/|title=Cold Case JFK|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|11|13}}

|ProdCode=4022(754)

|ShortSummary=Can modern forensic science uncover fresh clues about the assassination of JFK?

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|Title=At the Edge of Space

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|11|20}}

|ProdCode=4023(755)

|ShortSummary=Can scientists unravel the mysterious phenomena that lurk between Earth and space?

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|Title=Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/asteroid-doomsday-or-payday/|title=Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?|website=PBS|date=November 20, 2013 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2013|11|20}}

|ProdCode=4024(756)

|ShortSummary=Will future asteroids trigger massive extinctions—or be mined for precious minerals?

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|Title=Alien Planets Revealed

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/alien-planets-revealed/|title=Alien Planets Revealed|website=PBS|date=January 8, 2014 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|01|08}}

|ProdCode=4101(757)

|ShortSummary=Are we alone—and if not, what might the inhabitants of far-flung worlds look like?

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|Title=Zeppelin Terror Attack

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/zeppelin-terror-attack/|title=Zeppelin Terror Attack|website=PBS|date=January 15, 2014 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|01|15}}

|ProdCode=4102(758)

|ShortSummary=Discover how the first civilian bombing unfolded as Germany's Zeppelins rained fiery terror on London in World War I.

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|Title=Killer Typhoon

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/killer-typhoon/|title=Killer Typhoon|website=PBS|date=January 22, 2014 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|01|22}}

|ProdCode=4106(759)

|ShortSummary=What made Haiyan so destructive, and how can we prepare for the next monster storm?

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|Title=Ghosts of Murdered Kings

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ghosts-of-murdered-kings/|title=Ghosts of Murdered Kings|website=PBS|date=January 29, 2014 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|01|29}}

|ProdCode=4103(760)

|ShortSummary=Bronze age bog bodies reveal the strange beliefs of the long-vanished peoples of Europe.

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|Title=Roman Catacomb Mystery

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/roman-catacomb-mystery/|title=Roman Catacomb Mystery|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|02|05}}

|ProdCode=4104(761)

|ShortSummary=Who or what killed hundreds of people hidden in a burial chamber nearly 2,000 years ago?

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|Title=Great Cathedral Mystery

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/great-cathedral-mystery/|title=Great Cathedral Mystery|website=PBS|date=February 12, 2014 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|02|12}}

|ProdCode=4105(762)

|ShortSummary=Master craftsmen explore how Florence's monumental dome was built nearly 600 years ago.

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|Title=Wild Predator Invasion

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/wild-predator-invasion/|title=Wild Predator Invasion|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|04|02}}

|ProdCode=4107(763)

|ShortSummary=Can we return apex predators to their natural environments without endangering humans?

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|Title=Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/inside-animal-minds-bird-genius/|title=Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius|website=PBS}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2014|04|09}}

|ProdCode=4108(764)

|ShortSummary=Birds that craft tools and pick locks are rewriting the rules of animal intelligence.

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|Title=Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses

|RTitle={{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/inside-animal-minds-dogs-super-senses/|title=Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses|website=PBS}}