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20 Episodes 1977 - 1978
Episode 1
Wed, Jan 5, 1977
NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives - some never broadcast before on television.
Episode 2
Wed, Jan 12, 1977
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.
Episode 3
Wed, Jan 19, 1977
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.
Episode 4
Wed, Feb 2, 1977
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.
Episode 5
Wed, Feb 9, 1977
NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immune deficiency - a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.
Episode 6
Wed, Feb 23, 1977
NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's 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.
Episode 7
Wed, Mar 2, 1977
NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.
Episode 8
Wed, Mar 9, 1977
NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for the hormone progesterone.
Episode 9
Wed, Mar 16, 1977
NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research.
Episode 10
Wed, Mar 23, 1977
NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically determined.
Episode 11
Wed, Mar 30, 1977
In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. NOVA examines how the Dept. of Fish and Game is handling the the problem of wolf control.
Episode 12
Wed, Apr 20, 1977
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.
Episode 13
Wed, Apr 20, 1977
NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on vanishing wildlife.
Episode 14
Wed, Apr 27, 1977
NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars - particularly the theory that the planet could support life.
Episode 15
Wed, May 11, 1977
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.
Episode 16
Wed, May 18, 1977
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.
Episode 17
Wed, Jun 1, 1977
NOVA profiles Linus Pauling - the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.
Episode 18
Wed, Jun 22, 1977
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.
Episode 19
Wed, Jun 29, 1977
NOVA explores the debilitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United States.
Episode 20
Wed, Jan 11, 1978
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.