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19 Episodes 1980 - 1983
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 10, 1982
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.
Episode 2
Sun, Jan 17, 1982
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, and to the historic birth on, December 28, 1981 in Norfolk, VA.
Episode 3
Sun, Jan 24, 1982
NOVA takes an intimate look at Robert Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning birdwatching into a mass sport.
Episode 4
Sun, Jan 31, 1982
One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaire's Disease.
Episode 5
Sun, Feb 7, 1982
NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell; born with cerebral palsy, 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."
Episode 6
Sun, Feb 14, 1982
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.
Episode 7
Sun, Feb 28, 1982
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.
Episode 8
Sun, Mar 7, 1982
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.
Episode 9
Sun, Mar 14, 1982
In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how many kinds of animals, both predators and their intended victims, use remarkable forms of deception to achieve their goal: to eat, or avoid being eaten.
Episode 10
Sun, Mar 28, 1982
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.
Episode 11
Tue, Oct 12, 1982
For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of unidentified flying objects. NOVA sifts the evidence for and against the existence of UFOs.
Episode 12
Tue, Oct 19, 1982
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.
Episode 13
Tue, Nov 9, 198253 mins
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% of his body.
Episode 14
Tue, Nov 16, 1982
NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells.
Episode 15
Tue, Nov 23, 1982
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.
Episode 16
Tue, Nov 30, 1982
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.
Episode 17
Tue, Dec 7, 1982
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.
Episode 18
Tue, Dec 14, 1982
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.
Episode 19
Fri, Apr 1, 1983
To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program ever aired, a fascinating and delightful program about how wildlife films are made.