NOVA: Season 1
Episodes
The Making Of A Natural History Film
Mar 3, 1974 · 55 min
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 tackles such problems as filming a wood-
Where Did the Colorado Go?
Mar 10, 1974 · 55 min
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and A
Whales, Dolphins, and Men
Mar 17, 1974 · 55 min
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.
The Search For Life
Mar 24, 1974 · 55 min
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 life started on Earth and examines the Vik
Last of the Cuiva
Mar 31, 1974 · 55 min
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, revealing the misunderstandings betwee
Strange Sleep
Apr 7, 1974 · 55 min
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disorders, subsequently t
The Crab Nebula
Apr 14, 1974 · 55 min
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 explosion of a dying star that was bigger th
Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation
Apr 21, 1974 · 55 min
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, foc
Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?
Apr 28, 1974 · 55 min
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerou
The First Signs Of Washoe
May 5, 1974 · 55 min
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. Trixie Gardner—to learn more about this unu
The Case of the Midwife Toad
May 12, 1974 · 55 min
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 his experiments purporting to show the i
Fusion: The Energy of Promise
May 19, 1974 · 55 min
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the physicist. NOVA tells
The Mystery Of The Anasazi
May 26, 1974 · 55 min
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest for some eight or n