Episode 1
The Making Of A Natural History Film
NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scien...
Episode 2
Where Did the Colorado Go?
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing wate...
Episode 3
Whales, Dolphins, and Men
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury o...
Episode 4
The Search For Life
Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out j...
Episode 5
Last of the Cuiva
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA lo...
Episode 6
Strange Sleep
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody...
Episode 7
The Crab Nebula
In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even d...
Episode 8
Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses...
Episode 9
Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from...
Episode 10
The First Signs Of Washoe
Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Profe...
Episode 11
The Case of the Midwife Toad
When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admissi...
Episode 12
Fusion: The Energy of Promise
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved on...
Episode 13
The Mystery Of The Anasazi
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They we...