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Seasons: 51
Total Episodes: 980
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Networks: PBS
Status: Returning Series
First Air Date: Mar 3, 1974
Recent Air Date: Apr 3, 2024
Run Time: m
In Production: Yes
Original Language: English
Age Rating: TV-PG
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Production Companies: GBH
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Episodes
Episode 1
17 January 1989 - Hot Enough for You?
Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which portends higher temperatures, rising sea levels and other environmental disasters.
Episode 2
24 January 1989 - The Last Journey of a Genius
NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman, most recently famous for his role as gadfly of the Presidential Commission investigating the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
Episode 3
31 January 1989 - The Strange New Science of Chaos
NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nature, from the weather to brain waves.
Episode 4
14 February 1989 - Back to Chernobyl
NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear power accident with correspondent Bill Kurtis.
Episode 5
21 February 1989 - God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs
In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology lesson. As students take notes, he explains that creationism is a valid scientific explanation for the origin on life. Once relying solely on the literal word of the Bible to make their case, creationists now argue that the scientific evidence is on their side. NOVA reports on this new twist in the long-running battle between creationism and evolution.
Episode 6
28 February 1989 - Adrift on the Gulf Stream
NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.
Episode 7
07 March 1989 - Secrets of Easter Island (1)
In this two-part series, NOVA investigates the mystery of Easter Island in the South Pacific. Who built its celebrated statues and why?
Episode 8
07 March 1989 - Legends of Easter Island (2)
In the second part of this two-part series, NOVA explores ancient legends hold the clues to the violent history of the South Pacific's Easter Island.
Episode 9
21 March 1989 - The World Is Full of Oil!
Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.
Episode 10
28 March 1989 - Confronting the Killer Gene
Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A laboratory test can tell them if in fact they will fall victim. In their shoes, would you take the test? Thousands of others face a similar choice: to know, or not know, if they will carry the genetic time bomb of Huntington's disease. NOVA looks at this incurable disease which affects 20,000 people in the US and threatens tens of thousands of others.
Episode 11
03 October 1989 - The Hidden City
Actor Judd Hirsch narrates this behind-the scenes look at what makes New York City tick. Water, power and waste are the critical systems that usually work, but sometimes break down with disastrous consequences.
Episode 12
10 October 1989 - The Controversial Dr. Koop
In this profile of the former Surgeon General, NOVA follows events as they unfold in a unique behind-the-scenes account of a man who speaks his mind on AIDS, smoking and abortion.
Episode 13
17 October 1989 - Design Wars!
Five architects compete for the approval of architecture-obsessed Chicagoans in the contest to build the city's new public library. NOVA looks at the strengths and weakness of each of the suprisingly varied entries.
Episode 14
24 October 1989 - Echoes of War
The atomic bomb might have ended World War II, but radar was the quiet miracle that won battles. NOVA tells the little-known wartime history of radar.
Episode 15
31 October 1989 - Decoding the Book of Life
Biologists around the world gear up to decode the three-billion-letter genetic message that describes how humans are made. Ethicists warn that it may not be such a good idea.
Episode 16
07 November 1989 - Hurricane!
NOVA studies hurricanes—the lurking giants waiting to destroy many coastal areas—by flying straight into one. Scientists hope that such close-up studies will supply the data to make better predictions.
Episode 17
14 November 1989 - Will Venice Survive Its Rescue?
Increasingly awash in high water, the romantic city of Venice is counting on high-tech floodgates to save it from drowning. Environmentalists worry that the gates may destroy the fragile lagoon that surrounds the city.
Episode 18
21 November 1989 - What Is Music?
East and West came into direct conflict over trade and power in the 19th century. The West won. NOVA explores how Japan was later able to master Western methods, while China was not. Part three of a four part series.
Episode 19
05 December 1989 - Yellowstone's Burning Question
The 1988 Yellowstone fire may have been one of the worst in human memory, but nature has had eons of experience with such events. NOVA accompanies scientists who are studying the suprisingly rapid recovery from the blaze.
Episode 20
12 December 1989 - The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret
NOVA re-enacts a classic case of classroom detection when English schoolboys track down a secret Soviet launch site. Docudrama.
Crew
Department | Role | Name |
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Production | Producer |
Paula S. Apsell
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Executive Producer |
John Angier
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