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19 Episodes 1991 - 1991
Episode 1
Tue, Jan 8, 1991
NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to learn how nature is recovering from the disaster.
Episode 2
Tue, Jan 15, 1991
An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientific world on its head. NOVA covers the cold fusion controversy.
Episode 3
Tue, Mar 26, 199160 mins
Will machines be able to beat us at our own game? The computer chess champ matches wits with the human world titleholder.
Episode 4
Tue, Feb 5, 1991
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.
Episode 5
Tue, Feb 12, 1991
Are dinosaurs still among us? NOVA looks at the contentious question of whether present-day birds are dinosaurs. Over the years, new fossil discoveries keep amending the answer.
Episode 6
Tue, Feb 19, 1991
Tyrannosaurus rex, the terrifying kind of the dinos, 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.
Episode 7
Tue, Feb 26, 1991
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.
Episode 8
Wed, Feb 27, 1991
NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the moon ahead of the Americans. Was Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" almost upstaged?
Episode 9
Thu, Feb 28, 1991
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.
Episode 10
Tue, Mar 5, 1991
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.
Episode 11
Tue, Oct 1, 1991
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 "Douglas Brackman" Rachins of NBC's LA Law hosts.
Episode 12
Tue, Oct 8, 1991
NOVA follows seven aspiring doctors through 4 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.
Episode 13
Tue, Oct 15, 1991
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.
Episode 14
Tue, Oct 22, 1991
The sarcophagus is the giant structure that contains the nuclear reactor that melted down at Chernobyl in 1986. Now, scientists and researchers are attempting to open the sarcophagus to see just how bad the damage really is. This is considered a suicide mission because the reactor is still unstable and could explode at any time.
Episode 15
Tue, Nov 5, 1991
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?
Episode 16
Tue, Nov 12, 1991
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.
Episode 17
Tue, Dec 3, 1991
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.
Episode 18
Tue, Dec 10, 1991
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.
Episode 19
Tue, Dec 17, 1991
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.