NOVA

s09e01 Salmon on the Run 1982-01-11 02:00 ⌄

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Salmon on the Run

s09e01 · 1982-01-11 · 02:00

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.

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s09e02 Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy 1982-01-18 02:00 ⌄

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Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy

s09e02 · 1982-01-18 · 02:00

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, December 28, 1981 in Norfolk, VA.

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s09e03 Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson 1982-01-25 02:00 ⌄

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Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson

s09e03 · 1982-01-25 · 02:00

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

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s09e04 The Hunt for the Legion Killer 1982-02-01 02:00 ⌄

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The Hunt for the Legion Killer

s09e04 · 1982-02-01 · 02:00

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaire's 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.

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s09e05 Finding a Voice 1982-02-08 02:00 ⌄

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Finding a Voice

s09e05 · 1982-02-08 · 02:00

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 wheel chair 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."

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s09e06 The Television Explosion 1982-02-15 02:00 ⌄

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The Television Explosion

s09e06 · 1982-02-15 · 02:00

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?

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s09e07 Life: Patent Pending 1982-03-01 02:00 ⌄

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Life: Patent Pending

s09e07 · 1982-03-01 · 02:00

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.

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s09e08 Palace of Delights 1982-03-08 02:00 ⌄

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Palace of Delights

s09e08 · 1982-03-08 · 02:00

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.

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s09e09 Animal Imposters 1982-03-15 02:00 ⌄

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Animal Imposters

s09e09 · 1982-03-15 · 02:00

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.

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s09e19 Animal Impostors 1982-03-15 02:00 ⌄

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Animal Impostors

s09e19 · 1982-03-15 · 02:00

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s09e10 Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome 1982-03-29 02:00 ⌄

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Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

s09e10 · 1982-03-29 · 02:00

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.

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s09e20 Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome 1982-03-29 02:00 ⌄

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Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

s09e20 · 1982-03-29 · 02:00

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s09e11 The Case of the UFOs 1982-10-13 01:00 ⌄

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The Case of the UFOs

s09e11 · 1982-10-13 · 01:00

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.

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s09e12 The Fragile Mountain 1982-10-20 01:00 ⌄

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The Fragile Mountain

s09e12 · 1982-10-20 · 01:00

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.

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s09e13 Here's Looking at You Kid 1982-11-10 02:00 ⌄

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Here's Looking at You Kid

s09e13 · 1982-11-10 · 02:00

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.

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s09e14 Adventures of Teenage Scientists 1982-11-17 02:00 ⌄

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Adventures of Teenage Scientists

s09e14 · 1982-11-17 · 02:00

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?

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s09e15 The Cobalt Blues 1982-11-24 02:00 ⌄

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The Cobalt Blues

s09e15 · 1982-11-24 · 02:00

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.

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s09e16 Goodbye Louisiana 1982-12-01 02:00 ⌄

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Goodbye Louisiana

s09e16 · 1982-12-01 · 02:00

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.

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s09e17 Whale Watch 1982-12-08 02:00 ⌄

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Whale Watch

s09e17 · 1982-12-08 · 02:00

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.

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s09e18 Tracking the Supertrains 1982-12-15 02:00 ⌄

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Tracking the Supertrains

s09e18 · 1982-12-15 · 02:00

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.

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