NOVA - Season 7
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1980
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS20 Episodes
The Elusive Illness
Season 7 - Episode 1
Aborigines in Australia, woodchucks in Pennsylvania, the Nobel Prize in Stockholm and the gay community in New York City—what could possibly...
A is for Atom, B is for Bomb
Season 7 - Episode 2
NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclaimed scientific genius and brilliant theoretician, and a man con...
Living Machines
Season 7 - Episode 3
NOVA explores the science of natural engineering and asks the basic questions: what makes a good design in nature and why did a particular p...
Portrait of a Killer
Season 7 - Episode 4
More than 40 million Americans are afflicted by cardiovascular disease. NOVA examines the new information on risk factors and possible preve...
Umealit: The Whale Hunters
Season 7 - Episode 5
Whaling is an integral part of Eskimo life, and a major source of food; even so, conservationists are seeking to restrict the hunting of bow...
The Safety Factor
Season 7 - Episode 6
Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern commercial aviation really is. NOVA looks at some of the problems...
A Mediterranean Prospect
Season 7 - Episode 7
Every year, millions of tourists converge on the Mediterranean's sunny coasts, lured by the prospect of bathing in clear, azure waters and b...
Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland
Season 7 - Episode 8
NOVA explores the amazing Jari project of the Amazon basin. Eleven years ago, 3.5 million acres of virgin jungle were bought by the reclusiv...
The Pinks and the Blues
Season 7 - Episode 9
NOVA explores the shaping and molding of the male and female personality. From infancy through childhood, the program documents the impact o...
The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian
Season 7 - Episode 10
In one of the first films ever to come out of modern China, NOVA sifts through clues that Chinese scientists have uncovered in their pursuit...
The Sea Behind the Dunes
Season 7 - Episode 11
One year in the intricate life of a coastal lagoon unfolds in an hour's time when NOVA documents the fragile tidal ecosystem which supports ...
Do We Really Need the Rockes?
Season 7 - Episode 12
Locked in the shale of the Western Rocky Mountains is more oil than in the Middle East—more than enough to solve our dependence on foreign c...
The Big IF
Season 7 - Episode 13
Is interferon—known as IF in medical shorthand—the wonder drug and cure for cancer that some doctors claim? NOVA travels to London, Stockhol...
Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond
Season 7 - Episode 14
On Wednesday, 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 is expected to arrive at Saturn for a first time ever extensive close-up investigation of the maje...
The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor
Season 7 - Episode 15
Thomas Edison is the quintessential American hero, the Wizard whose inventions revolutionized modern living. But there was always more to Ed...
The Water Crisis
Season 7 - Episode 16
Water, water everywhere...but just how useful is it? NOVA travels to the Adirondack Mountains where acid rain is killing many high elevation...
Moving Still
Season 7 - Episode 17
NOVA tells the story of still and cine photography in science—from the extraordinary work of the pioneers in the early 1800s to how the abil...
A Touch of Sensitivity
Season 7 - Episode 18
The exquisite sensitivity of touch cells in the human skin makes it possible for us to discriminate with precision the slightest changes in ...
The Red Deer of Rhum
Season 7 - Episode 19
The cuddly image of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become an integral part of the jollity of the Christmas season. NOVA takes a timely l...
It's About Time
Season 7 - Episode 20
Time—a concept which has baffled scientists and philosophers since time immemorial. Actor Dudley Moore hosts a funny, sobering and visually ...