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PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

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Season 1

• E1: The Making Of A Natural History Film (1974-03-03) — NOVA premieres on public television with 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-
• E2: Where Did the Colorado Go? (1974-03-10) — NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and A
• E3: Whales, Dolphins, and Men (1974-03-17) — NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.
• E4: The Search For Life (1974-03-24) — 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 Vik
• E5: Last of the Cuiva (1974-03-31) — 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 betwee
• E6: Strange Sleep (1974-04-07) — 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 t
• E7: The Crab Nebula (1974-04-14) — 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 th
• E8: Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation (1974-04-21) — Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, foc
• E9: Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor? (1974-04-28) — 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 dangerou
• E10: The First Signs Of Washoe (1974-05-05) — Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner—to learn more about this unu
• E11: The Case of the Midwife Toad (1974-05-12) — 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 i
• E12: Fusion: The Energy of Promise (1974-05-19) — Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the physicist. NOVA tells
• E13: The Mystery Of The Anasazi (1974-05-26) — 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 n

Season 2

• E1: Why Do Birds Sing? (1974-11-03) — NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.
• E2: How Much Do You Smell? (1974-11-10) — 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
• E3: The Hunting Of The Quark (1974-11-17) — 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-agai
• E4: The Secrets Of Sleep (1974-11-24) — 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 oth
• E5: Inside the Golden Gate (1974-12-01) — NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find out just how San Francisco Bay works: its physics, its chemistry and its biology.
• E6: The Men Who Painted Caves (1974-12-08) — 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
• E7: Red Sea Coral (1974-12-15) — 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, notorio
• E8: War From the Air (1975-01-05)
• E9: What Time is Your Body? (1975-01-12) — Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines the best and worsetimes for work, good times for sex drives and your body's most
• E10: The Rise And Fall Of DDT (1975-01-19) — Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the US has banned the insecticide, but NOVA dares to ask. Tracing the history of DDT
• E11: Take the World From Another Point of View (1975-02-02) — NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, at the pinnacle of his career—a Nobel prizewinner; and Richard Lewontin, a biologist and high
• E12: The Lysenko Affair (1975-02-09) — NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, and how it affected plant genetic research in the USSR.
• E13: The Tuaregs (1975-02-16) — 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 env
• E14: The Plutonium Connection (1975-03-09) — How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and put together a blackmail weapon of unprecedented power in the shape of a homemade
• E15: The Other Way (1975-03-16) — Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, who thinks that enough is enough; that the time has come f
• E16: The Lost World Of The Maya (1975-03-30) — For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the rain forests of Central America. Discovered and finally destroyed by the Spanish Conquistadors, it was l
• E17: Will The Fishing Have to Stop? (1975-04-06) — 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 reaso

Season 3

• E1: Predictable Disaster (1976-01-04) — 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
• E2: Joey (1976-01-11) — 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 h
• E3: Meditation and the Mind (1976-01-18) — 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 ex
• E4: The Planets (1976-01-25) — 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, quicke
• E5: A Desert Place (1976-02-01) — 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 to
• E6: A Small Imperfection (1976-02-08) — 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 an
• E7: Ninety Degrees Below (1976-02-15) — 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. N
• E8: The Race for the Double Helix (1976-03-07) — 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
• E9: The Renewable Tree (1976-03-07) — Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The paper packs, napkins, paper cups and packing used by McDonald's gobble up 315 square miles of trees every
• E10: The Williamsburgh File (1976-03-14) — NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, for a fascinating glimpse of the lifestyles of the founders of this country, complete with detailed re
• E11: The Overworked Miracle (1976-03-21) — 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 des
• E12: The Transplant Experiment (1976-04-11) — 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
• E13: The Underground Movement (1976-04-18) — 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. In
• E14: Hunters of the Seal (1976-05-02) — NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of life and what happens when Western civilization is imposed upon them.
• E15: Benjamin (1976-05-09) — 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.
• E16: The Women Rebel (1976-05-23) — 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
• E17: Death of a Disease (1976-06-06) — 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
• E18: Inside the Shark (1976-06-13) — 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 ru
• E19: The Genetic Chance (1976-06-20) — 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 define
• E20: The Case of the Bermuda Triangle (1976-06-27) — 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

Season 4

• E1: Hitler's Secret Weapon (1977-01-05) — NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.
• E2: The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs (1977-01-12) — 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 abou
• E3: What Price Coal? (1977-01-19) — 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.
• E4: The Sunspot Mystery (1977-02-02) — 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 my
• E5: The Plastic Prison (1977-02-09) — NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.
• E6: Incident at Brown's Ferry (1977-02-23) — 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
• E7: Bye Bye Blackbird (1977-03-02) — NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.
• E8: The Pill for the People (1977-03-09) — NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for the hormone progesterone.
• E9: The Gene Engineers (1977-03-16) — NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research
• E10: The Human Animal (1977-03-23) — NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically determined.
• E11: The Wolf Equation (1977-03-30) — 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 na
• E12: The Dawn of the Solar Age (1977-04-20) — 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
• E13: The Business of Extinction (1977-04-20) — NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on vanishing wildlife.
• E14: The Red Planet (1977-04-27) — 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
• E15: Tongues of Men (1) (1977-05-11) — 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.
• E16: Tongues of Men (2) (1977-05-18) — 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 th
• E17: Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist (1977-06-01) — NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.
• E18: Across the Silent Barrier (1977-06-22) — 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
• E19: The New Healers (1977-06-29) — NOVA explores the delibitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United States.

Season 5

• E1: In The Event of Catastrophe (1978-01-04) — Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.
• E2: The Green Machine (1978-01-11) — 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,
• E3: Blueprints in the Bloodstream (1978-01-18) — 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 discov
• E4: One Small Step (1978-01-25) — 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 tra
• E5: The Final Frontier (1978-02-01) — 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 colonizati
• E6: BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest (1978-02-15) — 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 t
• E7: Trial of Denton Cooley (1978-02-22) — 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
• E8: The Great Wine Revolution (1978-03-01) — 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-qua
• E9: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts (1978-03-08) — 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 techni
• E10: The Mind Machines (1978-03-22) — 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 fut
• E11: Icarus' Children (1978-03-29) — 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, una
• E12: Still Waters (1978-04-12) — 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
• E13: Battle for the Acropolis (1978-04-19) — 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,
• E14: The Road to Happiness. : The Life and Times of Henry Ford (1978-05-03) — 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 a
• E15: Laser : Light of the 21st Century (1978-05-10) — 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
• E16: Insect Alternative (1978-05-24) — 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-resista
• E17: The Desert's Edge (1978-05-31) — 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 mor
• E18: The Tsetse Trap (1978-06-07) — NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.
• E19: Memories From Eden (1978-06-14) — 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 a
• E20: A Whisper from Space (1978-06-21) — 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
• E21: Alaska: The Closing Frontier (1978-06-28) — 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. NOV

Season 6

• E1: Black Tide (1979-01-04) — 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 enti
• E2: Long Walk Of Fred Young (1979-01-11) — 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 unde
• E3: A World Of Difference (1979-01-18) — 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 protect
• E4: Cashing In On The Ocean (1979-02-01) — 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
• E5: Patterns From The Past (1979-02-08) — Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros Indians live a life patterned on that of their ancestors thousands of years ago. NOVA takes a look at the unchanging w
• E6: The Invisible Flame (1979-02-22) — 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.
• E7: The End Of The Rainbow (1979-03-01) — Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promise—and problems—of fusion as a future energy source.
• E8: The Beersheva Experiment (1979-03-08) — Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent for medical education in the 1960s, there are now too many specialists and too few pri
• E9: Einstein (1979-03-15) — 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 foot
• E10: The Keys Of Paradise (1979-03-29) — 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 manufactu
• E11: A Plague on our Children (1979-10-02) — 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 c
• E12: Life on a Silken Thread (1979-10-09) — 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 spider
• E13: Sweet Solutions (1979-10-16) — NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political history to its medical controversy.
• E14: Race for the Gold (1979-10-30) — 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 r
• E15: All Part of the Game (1979-11-06) — 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 me
• E16: India: Machinery of Hope (1979-11-20) — 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-
• E17: The Bridge that Spanned the World (1979-12-04) — 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 I
• E18: Termites to Telescopes (1979-12-11) — Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents this thoughtful and provocative commentary on the nature of civ
• E19: Blindness: Five Points of Views (1979-12-18) — 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 de

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How many seasons does NOVA have? 53 season(s) with 1029 episodes.

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