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Nova Season 25 Episodes
Season 25 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1997 - 1998
Episode 1
Night Creatures of the Kalahari
Tue, Jan 6, 1998
Beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari lies a 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.
Episode 2
Mysterious Mummies of China
Tue, Jan 20, 1998
Perfectly preserved 3000-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.
Episode 3
Supersonic Spies
Tue, Jan 27, 1998
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.
Episode 4
Animal Hospital
Tue, Feb 3, 1998
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.
Episode 5
The Brain Eater
Tue, Feb 10, 1998
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."
Episode 6
Everest: The Death Zone
Tue, Feb 24, 1998
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.
Episode 7
Search for the Lost Cave People
Tue, Mar 31, 1998
NOVA follows a team of archaeologists into the Rio la Venta Gorge deep in 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.
Episode 8
Warnings from the Ice
Tue, Apr 21, 1998
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 calving of a Connecticut sized iceberg signals the beginning of a giant meltdown.
Episode 9
Crocodiles! With David Attenborough
Tue, Apr 28, 1998
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 we see them grow into great beasts capable of standing up to the lion.
Episode 10
The Truth About Impotence
Tue, May 12, 1998
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 and Dr. Harin Padma-Nathan.
Episode 11
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Tue, Oct 6, 1998
A technical problem so complex that it challenged the best minds of its time, a problem so important that the nation that solved it would rule the world's economy. The problem navigation by sea, how to know where you were when you sailed.
Episode 12
Chasing 'El Niño'
Tue, Oct 13, 1998
A planet-sized machine controls our weather day-to-day, and our climate season-to-season. It takes an event of staggering proportions to disrupt a machine this large and powerful. Signs now indicate that such an event is underway - El Niño
Episode 13
Terror in Space
Tue, Oct 27, 1998
Experience the harrowing and life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station through the eyes of the Russian and American astronauts who lived through them.
Episode 14
Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
Mon, Nov 3, 1997
NOVA goes behind the scenes of Hollywood's biggest blockbuster ever, "Titanic," and lifts the curtain on how James Cameron achieved his spectacular vision.
Episode 15
Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius
Tue, Nov 10, 1998
One does not have to look far beyond the shattered remnants of Pompeii to understand the risk that Vesuvius presents today. The volcano has remained dormant since 1944, but geological evidence suggests that Vesuvius is on the move again.
Episode 16
Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman
Tue, Nov 24, 1998
Conclusion. In "Return of the Iceman," archaeologist Konrad Spindler investigates the discovery of the frozen remains of a 5300-year-old man in the Alps. Studies of the man's bones reveal his age and physical condition at the time of death. Also: an examination of his garments and tools.
Episode 16
Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman
Tue, Nov 24, 1998
Conclusion. In "Return of the Iceman," archaeologist Konrad Spindler investigates the discovery of the frozen remains of a 5300-year-old man in the Alps. Studies of the man's bones reveal his age and physical condition at the time of death. Also: an examination of his garments and tools.
Episode 17
Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven
Tue, Nov 24, 1998
This is the fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high in the mountains of the Andes. Evidence has emerged of sacrifice to the mountain gods, whose existence dominated the civilization over 500 years ago.
Episode 18
Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden
Tue, Nov 24, 1998
The Siberian Ice Maiden, discovered in the Pastures of Heaven, on the high Steppes, is believed to have been a shamaness of the lost Pazyryk culture. She had been mummified and then frozen by freak climatic conditions around 2400 years ago
Episode 19
Leopards of the Night with David Attenborough
Tue, Dec 1, 1998
Night stalkers by nature, leopards are observed both by night and day, using state-of-the-art camera equipment, to reveal never before seen hunting behavior. Filmed in the Luangua Valley in Zambia.
Episode 20
The Perfect Pearl
Tue, Dec 29, 1998
NOVA travels around the world to exotic locations where rare pearls are harvested by divers, and to farms where huge numbers of pearls are grown. Will the cultured pearls ruin the value of those grown in the wild?