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Season 9 Episodes

1. Salmon on the Run

January 10th, 198255 min

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.

2. Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy

January 17th, 198255 min

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, presenting the only view on American TV of the extraordinary medical procedures used to remove and fertilize the egg, and of the historic birth, 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, VA.

3. Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson

January 24th, 198255 min

NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning birdwatching into a mass sport.

4. The Hunt for the Legion Killer

January 31st, 198255 min

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaires' disease. NOVA traces the search for a cause and cure—a search bedeviled by false trails, accusations of incompetence and cover-up, and increasing urgency as the death toll mounted.

5. Finding a Voice

February 7th, 198255 min

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair 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."

6. The Television Explosion

February 14th, 198255 min

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. Will the new video technology let people see what they really want, rather than what the networks want?

7. Life: Patent Pending

February 28th, 198255 min

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. NOVA reveals that other countries are plowing far more resources than the US into the burgeoning industry.

8. Palace of Delights

March 7th, 198255 min

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.

9. Animal Impostors

March 14th, 198255 min

In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals, both predators and their intended victims, use remarkable forms of deception to achieve their goal: to eat, or avoid being eaten.

10. Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

March 28th, 198255 min

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.

11. The Case of the UFOs

October 12th, 198255 min

For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With vivid film and accounts from several eyewitnesses including astronauts, NOVA sifts the evidence for and against the existence of UFOs.

12. The Fragile Mountain

October 19th, 198255 min

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.

13. Here's Looking At You Kid

November 9th, 198255 min

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 percent of his body.

14. Adventures of Teenage Scientists

November 16th, 198255 min

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. With education facing a deepening financial crisis, will this year's group of well-trained young scientists be among the last of the best and the brightest?

15. The Cobalt Blues

November 23rd, 198255 min

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.

16. Goodbye Louisiana

November 30th, 198255 min

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.

17. Whale Watch

December 7th, 198255 min

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.

18. Tracking The Supertrains

December 14th, 198255 min

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.

19. The Making of a Natural History Film

January 4th, 198355 min

To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightful program about how wildlife films are made.

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Sep 28, 2004
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Sep 3, 2002
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Oct 2, 2001
Season 28

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Oct 24, 2000
Season 27

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Oct 5, 1999
Season 26

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Oct 6, 1998
Season 25

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Oct 7, 1997
Season 24

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Oct 1, 1996
Season 23

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Oct 10, 1995
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Jan 8, 1995
Season 21

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Jan 18, 1994
Season 20

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Jan 5, 1993
Season 19

Season 19

Jan 14, 1992
Season 18

Season 18

Jan 8, 1991
Season 17

Season 17

Jan 9, 1990
Season 16

Season 16

Jan 17, 1989
Season 15

Season 15

Jan 19, 1988
Season 14

Season 14

Jan 20, 1987
Season 13

Season 13

Jan 21, 1986
Season 12

Season 12

Jan 15, 1985
Season 11

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Jan 17, 1984
Season 10

Season 10

Jan 18, 1983
Season 9

Season 9

Jan 10, 1982
Season 8

Season 8

Jan 6, 1981
Season 7

Season 7

Jan 15, 1980
Season 6

Season 6

Jan 4, 1979
Season 5

Season 5

Jan 4, 1978
Season 4

Season 4

Jan 5, 1977
Season 3

Season 3

Jan 4, 1976
Season 2

Season 2

Nov 3, 1974
Season 1

Season 1

Mar 3, 1974
Specials

Specials

Jul 13, 1999