Name: NOVA
Rating: 6.5

Wednesday
Oct 06, 1993
01:00

S21E01 - The NOVA Quiz Air Date: Oct 06, 1993 01:00 - 32 years ago

NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famous guests pose questions for the viewers at home. Marc Summers hosts.

Wednesday
Oct 13, 1993
01:00

S21E02 - Wanted: Butch and Sundance Air Date: Oct 13, 1993 01:00 - 32 years ago

Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They find Hollywood and legend got a few things wrong.

Wednesday
Oct 20, 1993
01:00

S21E03 - Secrets of the Psychics Air Date: Oct 20, 1993 01:00 - 31 years ago

Magician James "The Amazing" Randi tests the claims of mind readers, fortune tellers, faith healers and others with purported paranormal powers. As a magician, "I know how people are deceived," Randi says.

Wednesday
Oct 27, 1993
01:00

S21E04 - Dying to Breathe Air Date: Oct 27, 1993 01:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants – a new lung. Months of waiting end in a few frenzied hours of intricate surgery.

Wednesday
Nov 03, 1993
02:00

S21E05 - Shadow of the Condor Air Date: Nov 03, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America. Footage includes never-before-photographed nesting sites in the cliffs of the Patagonia.

Wednesday
Nov 10, 1993
02:00

S21E06 - The Real Jurassic Park Air Date: Nov 10, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts, NOVA investigates what it would take to recreate the dinosaur theme park in Jurassic Park. It won't be as easy as it was for Hollywood.

Wednesday
Nov 17, 1993
02:00

S21E07 - Roller Coaster! Air Date: Nov 17, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides of the future may take place entirely in the mind—with virtual reality.

Wednesday
Dec 01, 1993
02:00

S21E08 - Mysterious Crash of Flight 201 Air Date: Dec 01, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama, Copa Airlines Flight 201. Nothing about the accident makes sense, until a key clue emerges.

Wednesday
Dec 08, 1993
02:00

S21E09 - Great Moments from NOVA Air Date: Dec 08, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, adventure, mystery, drama and non-stop discovery fill this 90-minute special.

Wednesday
Dec 22, 1993
02:00

S21E10 - The Best Mind Since Einstein Air Date: Dec 22, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

A profile of the late Richard Feynman – an atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who helped solve the mystery of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.

Wednesday
Dec 29, 1993
02:00

S21E11 - Stranger in the Mirror Air Date: Dec 29, 1993 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and familiar objects, made famous in Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

Wednesday
Jan 19, 1994
02:00

S21E12 - Codebreakers Air Date: Jan 19, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The program probes the most celebrated of all cryptographic coups: the breaking of the World War II codes used by Japan and Germany and how code breaking helped shorten the war.

Wednesday
Jan 26, 1994
02:00

S21E13 - Dinosaurs of the Gobi Air Date: Jan 26, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Gobi Desert. The trip relives the exploits of the Museum's dashing explorer of the 1920s, Roy Chapman Andrews -said to be the real-life model for Indiana Jones.

Wednesday
Feb 02, 1994
02:00

S21E14 - Daredevils of the Sky Air Date: Feb 02, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship. The sport, as precisely choreographed as gymnastics-except that it takes place in airplanes at 200 miles per hour-has always been on the leading edge of developments in aviation.

Wednesday
Feb 09, 1994
02:00

S21E15 - Journey to Kilimanjaro Air Date: Feb 09, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the scorched plains. Giant forest hogs, bearded vultures, the elusive bongo and other exotic creatures live in this harsh and isolated high country.

Wednesday
Feb 16, 1994
02:00

S21E16 - Can Chimps Talk? Air Date: Feb 16, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human symbols. Are they speaking their minds? Or are they just aping their trainers?

Tuesday
Mar 01, 1994
02:00

S21E17 - In Search of Human Origins, Part One Air Date: Mar 01, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

In the first part of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species, reaching back more than three million years to a strange ape who walked upright. Johanson takes viewers to the site in Ethiopia where he discovered the fossil remains of this missing link nicknamed "Lucy".

Wednesday
Mar 02, 1994
02:00

S21E18 - In Search of Human Origins, Part Two Air Date: Mar 02, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to popular myth, scavenging was a more lucrative living than hunting – and may have contributed to the development of human intelligence.

Thursday
Mar 03, 1994
02:00

S21E19 - In Search of Human Origins, Part Three Air Date: Mar 03, 1994 02:00 - 31 years ago

At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act like us? Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at what it is that makes us human.

Wednesday
Apr 13, 1994
01:00

S21E20 - Can China Kick the Habit? Air Date: Apr 13, 1994 01:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world, China. Western advertising and trading practices have exacerbated the fatal romance with smoking in the world's most populous country, where lung cancer cases are beginning to strain the nation's health care system.

Wednesday
Apr 20, 1994
01:00

S21E21 - Aircraft Carrier! Air Date: Apr 20, 1994 01:00 - 31 years ago

NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence, where every day is a constant drill of launching and landing aircraft atop a floating city of 5,000 people. The action includes Top Gun mock combat exercises and live-ammunition patrols over Iraq.

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