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S16E01 - Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft Air Date: 07 September 1988 01:00 -

Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the early days, when surgery was practiced without the benefit of anaesthesia or antiseptics and patients usually died.

S16E02 - Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart Air Date: 14 September 1988 01:00 -

Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.

S16E03 - Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old Air Date: 21 September 1988 01:00 -

From kidneys to Hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplanted ones.

S16E04 - Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife Air Date: 28 September 1988 01:00 -

Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at some of the excesses of surgery, and at how new drugs and technologies are rendering some operations obsolete.

S16E05 - Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel? Air Date: 05 October 1988 01:00 -

Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes.

S16E06 - Can the Next President Win the Space Race? Air Date: 12 October 1988 01:00 -

Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and others sprint onward and upward.

S16E07 - Do Scientists Cheat? Air Date: 26 October 1988 01:00 -

NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught?

S16E08 - Who Shot President Kennedy? Air Date: 16 November 1988 02:00 -

Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

S16E09 - The Light Stuff Air Date: 23 November 1988 02:00 -

Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals in its behind-the-scenes report of a human powered-flight across the Aegean Sea, a journey that symbolically recreated the mythical flight of Daedalus. NOVA follows the epic journey of the human-powered plane Daedalus 88 from the early prototypes to its dramatic landing in the surf after a 74-mile flight from the island of Crete to Santorini.

S16E10 - The All-American Bear Air Date: 07 December 1988 02:00 -

The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild—foraging, mating, playing and constantly preparing for its remarkable hibernation—is captured for the first time on film by NOVA.

S16E11 - Can We Make a Better Doctor? Air Date: 14 December 1988 02:00 -

NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of a doctor. In the premiere episode, we follow a handful of students as they start their first year at Harvard Medical School under a revolutionary program emphasizing early clinical contact with patients. Part one of a ten-year study. See also "So You Want to Be a Doctor?", "Making of a Doctor", and "Doctors' Diaries".

S16E12 - Hot Enough for You? Air Date: 18 January 1989 02:00 -

Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which portends higher temperatures, rising sea levels and other environmental disasters.

S16E13 - The Last Journey of a Genius Air Date: 25 January 1989 02:00 -

NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman, most recently famous for his role as gadfly of the Presidential Commission investigating the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

S16E14 - The Strange New Science of Chaos Air Date: 01 February 1989 02:00 -

NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nature, from the weather to brain waves.

S16E15 - Back to Chernobyl Air Date: 15 February 1989 02:00 -

NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear power accident with correspondent Bill Kurtis.

S16E16 - God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs Air Date: 22 February 1989 02:00 -

In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology lesson. As students take notes, he explains that creationism is a valid scientific explanation for the origin on life. Once relying solely on the literal word of the Bible to make their case, creationists now argue that the scientific evidence is on their side. NOVA reports on this new twist in the long-running battle between creationism and evolution.

S16E17 - Adrift on the Gulf Stream Air Date: 01 March 1989 02:00 -

NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.

S16E18 - Secrets of Easter Island (1) Air Date: 08 March 1989 02:00 -

A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. (Part 1 of 2)

S16E19 - Legends of Easter Island (2) Air Date: 08 March 1989 02:00 -

A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. (Part 2 of 2)

S16E20 - The World Is Full of Oil! Air Date: 22 March 1989 02:00 -

Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.

S16E21 - Confronting the Killer Gene Air Date: 29 March 1989 02:00 -

Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A laboratory test can tell them if in fact they will fall victim. In their shoes, would you take the test? Thousands of others face a similar choice: to know, or not know, if they will carry the genetic time bomb of Huntington's disease. NOVA looks at this incurable disease which affects 20,000 people in the US and threatens tens of thousands of others.

S16E22 - The Hidden City Air Date: 04 October 1989 01:00 -

S16E23 - The Controversial Dr. Koop Air Date: 11 October 1989 01:00 -

S16E24 - Design Wars! Air Date: 18 October 1989 01:00 -

S16E25 - Echoes of War Air Date: 25 October 1989 01:00 -

S16E26 - Decoding the Book of Life Air Date: 01 November 1989 02:00 -

S16E27 - Hurricane! Air Date: 08 November 1989 02:00 -

S16E28 - Will Venice Survive Its Rescue? Air Date: 15 November 1989 02:00 -

S16E29 - What Is Music? Air Date: 22 November 1989 02:00 -

S16E30 - Yellowstone's Burning Question Air Date: 06 December 1989 02:00 -

S16E31 - The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret Air Date: 13 December 1989 02:00 -

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