NOVA - Season 3
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1976
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Predictable Disaster
Season 3 - Episode 1
It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful predictions have already been made in the United States; and the NOVA cre...
Joey
Season 3 - Episode 2
NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic since birth. Joey has lived most of his life in institutions, u...
Meditation and the Mind
Season 3 - Episode 3
What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressman Richard Nolas have in common? They all practice a ritual call...
The Planets
Season 3 - Episode 4
The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our place in the stars, the Solar System. Beginning in 1961 with a Ru...
A Desert Place
Season 3 - Episode 5
NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence—in a pool created only minute...
A Small Imperfection
Season 3 - Episode 6
Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congenital abnormality of the central nervous system. NOVA explores th...
Ninety Degrees Below
Season 3 - Episode 7
There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freezing waters are so bitter there that a fish has been discovered ...
The Race for the Double Helix
Season 3 - Episode 8
Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of the discovery of the structure of DNA. James Watson and his ex-co...
The Renewable Tree
Season 3 - Episode 9
Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The paper packs, napkins, paper cups and packing used by McDonald's g...
The Williamsburgh File
Season 3 - Episode 10
NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, for a fascinating glimpse of the lifestyles of the founders of...
The Overworked Miracle
Season 3 - Episode 11
Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding their medical value. NOVA examines the problem of resistance to ...
The Transplant Experiment
Season 3 - Episode 12
Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplants than any other heart surgeon. NOVA explores those extraordina...
The Underground Movement
Season 3 - Episode 13
NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and worms down to the myriad of micro-organisms that make soil the most...
Hunters of the Seal
Season 3 - Episode 14
NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of life and what happens when Western civilization is imposed upon t...
Benjamin
Season 3 - Episode 15
Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first year of life provides the backbone of this revealing NOVA about ea...
The Women Rebel
Season 3 - Episode 16
Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole attitude of the male-dominated medical profession towards "wom...
Death of a Disease
Season 3 - Episode 17
As late as 1967, smallpox struck as many as 15 million people in 43 countries and killed an estimated two or three million. Experts now beli...
Inside the Shark
Season 3 - Episode 18
The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really such a barbarian? NOVA looks at the lifestyle of this remarkable ...
The Genetic Chance
Season 3 - Episode 19
Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety of defects in unborn babies. NOVA focuses on the ethical quest...
The Case of the Bermuda Triangle
Season 3 - Episode 20
Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean off of Flori...