NOVA Season 24

(1996) October - April | # of Episodes : 21

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8.8

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Seasons: 52

Total Episodes: 1012

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Networks: PBS

Status: Returning Series

First Air Date: Mar 3, 1974

Recent Air Date: Sep 24, 2025

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In Production: Yes

Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-PG

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Production Companies: GBH

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Episode 1

01 October 1996 - Einstein Revealed

This two-hour program chronicles Albert Einstein's life and scientific achievements from his birth in 1879 to his death in 1955. The first hour follows Einstein in his quest to understand the nature of light. Graphics depict some of Einstein's famous thought experiments, including his eventual understanding of the interplay between the speed of light and time and his development of the special theory of relativity. The program also goes into great depth about Einstein's personal life, including his romance with and marriage to fellow student Mileva Maric and the death of his father. The second hour unfolds with Einstein preoccupied with finding a theory that accounts for gravitation and determining what orders the universe. Einstein addresses gravitation in the universe with his general theory of relativity. This is confirmed experimentally in 1919 when a solar eclipse reveals stars in positions that could best be explained by his theory: that gravity causes light to bend.

Episode 2

08 October 1996 - Lost City of Arabia

Helped by remote sensing, an expedition searches Oman's vast al-Khali desert for the lost city of Ubar.

Episode 3

15 October 1996 - Three Men and a Balloon

One of the final aeronautics challenges left in the world today does not involve the use of a plane, a rocket, or even an engine. No one has yet been able to circumnavigate the earth in a balloon. Any team attempting the feat would have to fly higher than most planes ever fly and would need a passenger capsule that could both offer protection from extreme cold and carry the proper navigation and life support equipment. Depending on the powerful jet stream to propel them, crew members would have to plot their course carefully and plan their schedule to coincide with the most advantageous winds. Even landing would be a risky venture. This program follows a team of three adventurers as they attempt to make just such a journey.

Episode 4

22 October 1996 - Secrets of Making Money

With a radically redesigned bill, the U.S. Treasury fights back against a new breed of counterfeiters.

Episode 5

12 November 1996 - Top Gun Over Moscow

Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still in the game?

Episode 6

19 November 1996 - Shark Attack

Sharks are known as the "perfect predators," but sometimes they slip up and attack the wrong prey—people.

Episode 7

24 November 1996 - Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey (1)

NOVA explores the links between our individual development and the evolution of life itself.

Episode 8

25 November 1996 - Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World (2)

This program reveals some of the billions of practically invisible organisms that live on, in, and around us.

Episode 9

26 November 1996 - Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets (3)

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Episode 10

31 December 1996 - Cracking the Ice Age

Did the crash of continents that produced the Himalayan Mountains also trigger the Ice Age?

Episode 11

14 January 1997 - Kaboom!

An in-depth and heart stopping look at the ultimate chemical reaction - the explosion. Using high speed photography and dramatic reconstruction, the film will chart the tarnished history of explosives: the terrible accidents, the scientific ingenuity and ultimately, the carnage of war and terrorism.

Episode 12

28 January 1997 - Titanic's Lost Sister

In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins, join forces in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza to put clever and sometimes bizarre pyramid construction theories to the test.

Episode 13

04 February 1997 - Secrets Of Lost Empires (1): Pyramid

Episode 14

11 February 1997 - Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge (1)

A distinctive feature of this stone site are the trilithons, which consist of two upright stones topped by a horizontal lintel stone. In this program, the NOVA team considers how to transport and raise the massive stones, as well as how to place the lintel stone on top. By comparing different strategies and adapting ramps, levers, and other tools that might have been available to the ancient builders, the team works to meet the challenge.

Episode 15

11 February 1997 - Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca (2)

Even without such technological advances as wheels, arches, draft animals, iron tools, or a system of writing, the Inca—utilizing a tradition of shared labor—achieved a number of engineering feats. The NOVA team explores both stonework and bridge building, experimenting with dragging and fitting huge stones, and working with the people of an Andean village to create a suspension bridge made only of grass ropes.

Episode 16

12 February 1997 - Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk (3)

Pharaohs who built magnificent temples to preserve their names for eternity often graced temple gates with pairs of obelisks, four-sided shafts of granite that taper gently upward until the sides meet at the top to form a pyramid shape. NOVA's team of experts attempts to build, transport, and raise a scale model obelisk using those materials available to ancient Egyptian engineers: rope, dirt, sticks, and stones.

Episode 17

12 February 1997 - Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum (4)

Citizens of Rome came to the Colosseum to behold free entertainment that usually came in the form of violent war games and bloody battles between humans and animals. This structure's most impressive feature was a massive canopy that provided shade from the hot sun. In order to investigate the possible forms the roof may have taken, NOVA's team constructs models at a smaller arena in Spain.

Episode 18

18 February 1997 - Hunt for Alien Worlds

Astronomers discover planets beyond our solar system. But is there life on them?

Episode 19

25 February 1997 - Curse of T.rex

How do paleontologists and commercial fossil hunters know where to look for rare and priceless dinosaur bones?

Episode 20

08 April 1997 - Cut to the Heart

Ever since World War II, physicians have struggled to find ways to treat heart failure, the biggest killer in the modern world.

Episode 21

15 April 1997 - Kingdom of the Seahorse

The world's leading sea horse biologist journeys to Australia and the Philippines to explore the secret lives of these extraordinary fish.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Paula S. Apsell
	Executive Producer	John Angier
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