When will be NOVA next episode air date? Is NOVA renewed or cancelled? Where to countdown NOVA air dates? Is NOVA worth watching?

NOVA brings you stories from the frontlines of science and engineering, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow, from how our ancestors lived, to whether parallel universes exist, to how technology will transform our lives.

Genres: History | Nature
Station: PBS (US)
Rating: 6.5/10 from 2 users
Status: Running
Start: 1974-03-03

NOVA Season 9 Air Dates


S09E01 - Salmon on the Run Air Date: 11 January 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the fishing industry—and the salmon itself.


S09E02 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy Air Date: 18 January 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy from the start, presenting the only view on American TV of the extraordinary medical procedures used to remove and fertilize the egg, and of the historic birth, December 28, 1981 in Norfolk, VA.


S09E03 - Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson Air Date: 25 January 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA takes an intimate look at Robert Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning bird watching into a mass sport.


S09E04 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer Air Date: 01 February 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaire's Disease. NOVA traces the search for a cause and cure—a search bedeviled by false trails, accusations of incompetence and cover-up, and increasing urgency as the death toll mounted.


S09E05 - Finding a Voice Air Date: 08 February 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheel chair and unable for 30 years to say more than "yes" or "no" and investigates some of the new technology that gives the speechless a "voice."


S09E06 - The Television Explosion Air Date: 15 February 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experiment, the array of new techniques and their potential social impact. Will the new video technology let people see what they really want, rather than what the networks want?


S09E07 - Life: Patent Pending Air Date: 01 March 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and the universities themselves. NOVA reveals that other countries are plowing far more resources than the US into the burgeoning industry.


S09E08 - Palace of Delights Air Date: 08 March 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collection of physicists and high school students.


S09E09 - Animal Imposters Air Date: 15 March 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals, both predators and their intended victims, use remarkable forms of deception to achieve their goal: to eat, or avoid being eaten.


S09E10 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome Air Date: 29 March 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

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 how to control them.


S09E11 - The Case of the UFOs Air Date: 13 October 1982 01:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of unidentified flying objects. With vivid film and accounts from several eyewitnesses including astronauts, NOVA sifts the evidence for and against the existence of UFOs.


S09E12 - The Fragile Mountain Air Date: 20 October 1982 01:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in this breathtaking documentary.


S09E13 - Here's Looking at You Kid Air Date: 10 November 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resilience in an 11-year-old boy's fight to recover from burns suffered over 73 percent of his body.


S09E14 - Adventures of Teenage Scientists Air Date: 17 November 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. With education facing a deepening financial crisis, will this year's group of well-trained young scientists be among the last of the best and the brightest?


S09E15 - The Cobalt Blues Air Date: 24 November 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which examines and questions Reagan Administration policies toward those international sources.


S09E16 - Goodbye Louisiana Air Date: 01 December 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and where last year 49 square miles of coastline disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico.


S09E17 - Whale Watch Air Date: 08 December 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known facts about the mating and feeding habits of the gentle giants.


S09E18 - Tracking the Supertrains Air Date: 15 December 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.


S09E19 - Animal Imposters Air Date: 15 March 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.


S09E20 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome Air Date: 29 March 1982 02:00 -

Sorry, but right now we don't have any sources for this episode.

Next Episode of NOVA is

Season 51 / Episode 14 and airs on 04 April 2024 01:00

Take your countdown whenever you go

Synchronize EpisoDate with your calendar and enjoy new level of comfort.


You have to be logged in to use this functionality.

LoginRegister


Looks like something went completely wrong!

But don't worry - it can happen to the best of us,
- and it just happened to you.

Please try again later or contact us.