NOVA - Season 9
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1982
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Salmon on the Run
Season 9 - Episode 1
NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the ...
Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
Season 9 - Episode 2
NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy fr...
Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
Season 9 - Episode 3
NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turn...
The Hunt for the Legion Killer
Season 9 - Episode 4
One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Ph...
Finding a Voice
Season 9 - Episode 5
What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cer...
The Television Explosion
Season 9 - Episode 6
NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experime...
Life: Patent Pending
Season 9 - Episode 7
NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and th...
Palace of Delights
Season 9 - Episode 8
NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collection of physicists a...
Animal Impostors
Season 9 - Episode 9
In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals...
Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome
Season 9 - Episode 10
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 ...
The Case of the UFOs
Season 9 - Episode 11
For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With ...
The Fragile Mountain
Season 9 - Episode 12
The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in thi...
Here's Looking At You Kid
Season 9 - Episode 13
Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resil...
Adventures of Teenage Scientists
Season 9 - Episode 14
NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworm...
The Cobalt Blues
Season 9 - Episode 15
An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which examin...
Goodbye Louisiana
Season 9 - Episode 16
NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and wh...
Whale Watch
Season 9 - Episode 17
NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known facts...
Tracking The Supertrains
Season 9 - Episode 18
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports...
The Making of a Natural History Film
Season 9 - Episode 19
To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightful program about how...