NOVA - Season 1
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1974
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS13 Episodes
The Making Of A Natural History Film
Season 1 - Episode 1
NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it ...
Where Did the Colorado Go?
Season 1 - Episode 2
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms...
Whales, Dolphins, and Men
Season 1 - Episode 3
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of t...
The Search For Life
Season 1 - Episode 4
Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how li...
Last of the Cuiva
Season 1 - Episode 5
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story...
Strange Sleep
Season 1 - Episode 6
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal...
The Crab Nebula
Season 1 - Episode 7
In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the expl...
Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation
Season 1 - Episode 8
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify m...
Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?
Season 1 - Episode 9
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick...
The First Signs Of Washoe
Season 1 - Episode 10
Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Tri...
The Case of the Midwife Toad
Season 1 - Episode 11
When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked ...
Fusion: The Energy of Promise
Season 1 - Episode 12
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and el...
The Mystery Of The Anasazi
Season 1 - Episode 13
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who li...