Name: NOVA
Rating: 6.5

Wednesday
Sep 07, 1988
01:00

S16E01 - Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft Air Date: Sep 07, 1988 01:00 - 37 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Sep 14, 1988
01:00

S16E02 - Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart Air Date: Sep 14, 1988 01:00 - 37 years ago

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

Wednesday
Sep 21, 1988
01:00

S16E03 - Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old Air Date: Sep 21, 1988 01:00 - 37 years ago

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

Wednesday
Sep 28, 1988
01:00

S16E04 - Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife Air Date: Sep 28, 1988 01:00 - 37 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Oct 05, 1988
01:00

S16E05 - Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel? Air Date: Oct 05, 1988 01:00 - 37 years ago

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

Wednesday
Oct 12, 1988
01:00

S16E06 - Can the Next President Win the Space Race? Air Date: Oct 12, 1988 01:00 - 37 years ago

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

Wednesday
Oct 26, 1988
01:00

S16E07 - Do Scientists Cheat? Air Date: Oct 26, 1988 01:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Nov 16, 1988
02:00

S16E08 - Who Shot President Kennedy? Air Date: Nov 16, 1988 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Nov 23, 1988
02:00

S16E09 - The Light Stuff Air Date: Nov 23, 1988 02:00 - 36 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Dec 07, 1988
02:00

S16E10 - The All-American Bear Air Date: Dec 07, 1988 02:00 - 36 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Dec 14, 1988
02:00

S16E11 - Can We Make a Better Doctor? Air Date: Dec 14, 1988 02:00 - 36 years ago

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".

Wednesday
Jan 18, 1989
02:00

S16E12 - Hot Enough for You? Air Date: Jan 18, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Jan 25, 1989
02:00

S16E13 - The Last Journey of a Genius Air Date: Jan 25, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Feb 01, 1989
02:00

S16E14 - The Strange New Science of Chaos Air Date: Feb 01, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Feb 15, 1989
02:00

S16E15 - Back to Chernobyl Air Date: Feb 15, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Feb 22, 1989
02:00

S16E16 - God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs Air Date: Feb 22, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Mar 01, 1989
02:00

S16E17 - Adrift on the Gulf Stream Air Date: Mar 01, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Mar 08, 1989
02:00

S16E18 - Secrets of Easter Island (1) Air Date: Mar 08, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Mar 08, 1989
02:00

S16E19 - Legends of Easter Island (2) Air Date: Mar 08, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Mar 22, 1989
02:00

S16E20 - The World Is Full of Oil! Air Date: Mar 22, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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

Wednesday
Mar 29, 1989
02:00

S16E21 - Confronting the Killer Gene Air Date: Mar 29, 1989 02:00 - 36 years ago

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.

Wednesday
Oct 04, 1989
01:00

S16E22 - The Hidden City Air Date: Oct 04, 1989 01:00 - 36 years ago

Wednesday
Oct 11, 1989
01:00

S16E23 - The Controversial Dr. Koop Air Date: Oct 11, 1989 01:00 - 36 years ago

Wednesday
Oct 18, 1989
01:00

S16E24 - Design Wars! Air Date: Oct 18, 1989 01:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Oct 25, 1989
01:00

S16E25 - Echoes of War Air Date: Oct 25, 1989 01:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Nov 01, 1989
02:00

S16E26 - Decoding the Book of Life Air Date: Nov 01, 1989 02:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Nov 08, 1989
02:00

S16E27 - Hurricane! Air Date: Nov 08, 1989 02:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Nov 15, 1989
02:00

S16E28 - Will Venice Survive Its Rescue? Air Date: Nov 15, 1989 02:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Nov 22, 1989
02:00

S16E29 - What Is Music? Air Date: Nov 22, 1989 02:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Dec 06, 1989
02:00

S16E30 - Yellowstone's Burning Question Air Date: Dec 06, 1989 02:00 - 35 years ago

Wednesday
Dec 13, 1989
02:00

S16E31 - The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret Air Date: Dec 13, 1989 02:00 - 35 years ago

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