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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Making of a Natural History Film

Original Air Date—3 March 1974

Season 1, Episode 2: Where Did the Colorado Go?

Original Air Date—10 March 1974

Season 1, Episode 3: Whales, Dolphins, and Men

Original Air Date—17 March 1974

Season 1, Episode 4: The Search for Life

Original Air Date—24 March 1974

Season 1, Episode 5: Last of the Cuiva

Original Air Date—31 March 1974

Season 1, Episode 6: Strange Sleep

Original Air Date—7 April 1974

Season 1, Episode 7: Crab Nebula

Original Air Date—14 April 1974

Season 1, Episode 8: Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation

Original Air Date—21 April 1974

Season 1, Episode 9: Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?

Original Air Date—28 April 1974

Season 1, Episode 10: The First Signs of Washoe

Original Air Date—5 May 1974

Season 1, Episode 11: The Case of the Midwife Toad

Original Air Date—12 May 1974

Season 1, Episode 12: Fusion: The Energy of Promise

Original Air Date—19 May 1974

Season 1, Episode 13: The Mystery of the Anasazi

Original Air Date—26 May 1974

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Why Do Birds Sing?

Original Air Date—3 November 1974

Season 2, Episode 2: How Much Do You Smell?

Original Air Date—10 November 1974

Season 2, Episode 3: The Hunting of the Quark

Original Air Date—17 November 1974

Season 2, Episode 4: The Secrets of Sleep

Original Air Date—24 November 1974

Season 2, Episode 5: Inside the Golden Gate

Original Air Date—1 December 1974

Season 2, Episode 6: The Men Who Painted Caves

Original Air Date—8 December 1974

Season 2, Episode 7: Red Sea Coral

Original Air Date—15 December 1974

Season 2, Episode 8: War from the Air

Original Air Date—5 January 1975

Season 2, Episode 9: What Time Is Your Body?

Original Air Date—12 January 1975

Season 2, Episode 10: The Rise and Fall of DDT

Original Air Date—19 January 1975

Season 2, Episode 11: Take the World from Another Point of View

Original Air Date—2 February 1975

Season 2, Episode 12: The Lysenko Affair

Original Air Date—9 February 1975

Season 2, Episode 13: The Tuaregs

Original Air Date—16 February 1975

Season 2, Episode 14: The Plutonium Connection

Original Air Date—9 March 1975

Season 2, Episode 15: The Other Way

Original Air Date—16 March 1975

Season 2, Episode 16: The Lost World of the Maya

Original Air Date—30 March 1975

Season 2, Episode 17: Will the Fishing Have to Stop?

Original Air Date—6 April 1975

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Predictable Disaster

Original Air Date—4 January 1976

Season 3, Episode 2: Joey

Original Air Date—11 January 1976

Season 3, Episode 3: Meditation and the Mind

Original Air Date—18 January 1976

Season 3, Episode 4: The Planets

Original Air Date—25 January 1976

Season 3, Episode 5: A Desert Place

Original Air Date—1 February 1976

Season 3, Episode 6: A Small Imperfection

Original Air Date—8 February 1976

Season 3, Episode 7: Ninety Degrees Below

Original Air Date—15 February 1976

Season 3, Episode 8: The Race for the Double Helix

Original Air Date—7 March 1976

Season 3, Episode 9: The Renewable Tree

Original Air Date—7 March 1976

Season 3, Episode 10: The Williamsburgh File

Original Air Date—14 March 1976

Season 3, Episode 11: The Overworked Miracle

Original Air Date—21 March 1976

Season 3, Episode 12: The Transplant Experiment

Original Air Date—11 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 13: The Underground Movement

Original Air Date—18 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 14: Hunters of the Seal

Original Air Date—2 May 1976

Season 3, Episode 15: Benjamin

Original Air Date—9 May 1976

Season 3, Episode 16: The Women Rebel

Original Air Date—23 May 1976

Season 3, Episode 17: Death of a Disease

Original Air Date—6 June 1976

Season 3, Episode 18: Inside the Shark

Original Air Date—13 June 1976

Season 3, Episode 19: The Genetic Chance

Original Air Date—20 June 1976

Season 3, Episode 20: The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

Original Air Date—27 June 1976

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Hitler's Secret Weapon

Original Air Date—5 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 2: The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs

Original Air Date—12 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 3: What Price Coal?

Original Air Date—19 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 4: The Sunspot Mystery

Original Air Date—2 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 5: The Plastic Prison

Original Air Date—9 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 6: Incident at Brown's Ferry

Original Air Date—23 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 7: Bye Bye Blackbird

Original Air Date—2 March 1977

Season 4, Episode 8: The Pill for the People

Original Air Date—9 March 1977

Season 4, Episode 9: The Gene Engineers

Original Air Date—16 March 1977

Season 4, Episode 10: The Human Animal

Original Air Date—23 March 1977

Season 4, Episode 11: The Wolf Equation

Original Air Date—30 March 1977

Season 4, Episode 12: The Dawn of the Solar Age

Original Air Date—20 April 1977

Season 4, Episode 13: The Business of Extinction

Original Air Date—20 April 1977

Season 4, Episode 14: The Red Planet

Original Air Date—27 April 1977

Season 4, Episode 15: Tongues of Men: Part 1

Original Air Date—11 May 1977

Season 4, Episode 16: Tongues of Man: Part 2

Original Air Date—18 May 1977

Season 4, Episode 17: Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist

Original Air Date—1 June 1977

Season 4, Episode 18: Across the Silent Barrier

Original Air Date—22 June 1977

Season 4, Episode 19: The New Healers

Original Air Date—29 June 1977

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: In the Event of Catastrophe

Original Air Date—4 January 1978

Season 5, Episode 2: The Green Machine

Original Air Date—11 January 1978

Season 5, Episode 3: Blueprints in the Bloodstream

Original Air Date—18 January 1978

Season 5, Episode 4: One Small Step

Original Air Date—25 January 1978

Season 5, Episode 5: The Final Frontier

Original Air Date—1 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 6: BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest

Original Air Date—15 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 7: Trial of Denton Cooley

Original Air Date—22 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 8: The Great Wine Revolution

Original Air Date—1 March 1978

Season 5, Episode 9: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts

Original Air Date—8 March 1978

Season 5, Episode 10: The Mind Machines

Original Air Date—22 March 1978

Season 5, Episode 11: Icarus' Children

Original Air Date—29 March 1978

Season 5, Episode 12: Still Waters

Original Air Date—12 April 1978

Season 5, Episode 13: Battle for the Acropolis

Original Air Date—19 April 1978

Season 5, Episode 14: Road to Happiness

Original Air Date—3 May 1978

Season 5, Episode 15: Light of the 21st Century

Original Air Date—10 May 1978

Season 5, Episode 16: The Insect Alternative

Original Air Date—24 May 1978

Season 5, Episode 17: The Desert's Edge

Original Air Date—31 May 1978

Season 5, Episode 18: The Tse Tse Trap

Original Air Date—7 June 1978

Season 5, Episode 19: Memories from Eden

Original Air Date—14 June 1978

Season 5, Episode 20: A Whisper from Space

Original Air Date—21 June 1978

Season 5, Episode 21: Alaska: The Closing Frontier

Original Air Date—28 June 1978

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Black Tide

Original Air Date—4 January 1979

Season 6, Episode 2: Long Walk of Fred Young

Original Air Date—11 January 1979

Season 6, Episode 3: A World of Difference

Original Air Date—18 January 1979

Season 6, Episode 4: Cashing in on the Ocean

Original Air Date—1 February 1979

Season 6, Episode 5: Patterns from the Past

Original Air Date—8 February 1979

Season 6, Episode 6: The Invisible Flame

Original Air Date—22 February 1979

Season 6, Episode 7: The End of the Rainbow

Original Air Date—1 March 1979

Season 6, Episode 8: The Beersheva Experiment

Original Air Date—8 March 1979

Season 6, Episode 9: Einstein

Original Air Date—15 March 1979

Season 6, Episode 10: The Keys of Paradise

Original Air Date—29 March 1979

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: A Plague on Our Children

Original Air Date—2 October 1979

Season 7, Episode 2: Life on a Silken Thread

Original Air Date—9 October 1979

Season 7, Episode 3: Sweet Solutions

Original Air Date—16 October 1979

Season 7, Episode 4: Race for the Gold

Original Air Date—30 October 1979

Season 7, Episode 5: All Part of the Game

Original Air Date—6 November 1979
Nova examines sports injuries and the science of sports medicine.

Season 7, Episode 6: India: Machinery of Hope

Original Air Date—20 November 1979

Season 7, Episode 7: The Bridge That Spanned the World

Original Air Date—4 December 1979

Season 7, Episode 8: Termites to Telescopes

Original Air Date—11 December 1979

Season 7, Episode 9: Blindness: Five Points of Views

Original Air Date—18 December 1979

Season 7, Episode 10: The Elusive Illness

Original Air Date—15 January 1980

Season 7, Episode 11: A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb

Original Air Date—22 January 1980

Season 7, Episode 12: Living Machines

Original Air Date—5 February 1980

Season 7, Episode 13: Portrait of a Killer

Original Air Date—19 February 1980

Season 7, Episode 14: Umealit: The Whale Hunters

Original Air Date—4 March 1980

Season 7, Episode 15: The Safety Factor

Original Air Date—11 March 1980

Season 7, Episode 16: A Mediterranean Prospect

Original Air Date—18 March 1980

Season 7, Episode 17: Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland

Original Air Date—25 March 1980

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: The Pinks and the Blues

Original Air Date—30 September 1980

Season 8, Episode 2: The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian

Original Air Date—7 October 1980

Season 8, Episode 3: The Sea Behind the Dunes

Original Air Date—14 October 1980

Season 8, Episode 4: Do We Really Need the Rockies?

Original Air Date—28 October 1980

Season 8, Episode 5: The Big If

Original Air Date—4 November 1980

Season 8, Episode 6: Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond

Original Air Date—11 November 1980

Season 8, Episode 7: The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor

Original Air Date—18 November 1980

Season 8, Episode 8: The Water Crisis

Original Air Date—25 November 1980

Season 8, Episode 9: Moving Still

Original Air Date—2 December 1980

Season 8, Episode 10: A Touch of Sensitivity

Original Air Date—9 December 1980

Season 8, Episode 11: The Red Deer of Rhum

Original Air Date—23 December 1980

Season 8, Episode 12: It's About Time

Original Air Date—30 December 1980

Season 8, Episode 13: The Doctors of Nigeria

Original Air Date—6 January 1981

Season 8, Episode 14: Message in the Rocks

Original Air Date—20 January 1981

Season 8, Episode 15: The Dead Sea Lives

Original Air Date—27 January 1981

Season 8, Episode 16: Anatomy of a Volcano

Original Air Date—10 February 1981

Season 8, Episode 17: The Science of Murder

Original Air Date—17 February 1981

Season 8, Episode 18: The Malady of Health Care

Original Air Date—24 February 1981

Season 8, Episode 19: Beyond the Milky Way

Original Air Date—3 March 1981

Season 8, Episode 20: The Asteroid and the Dinosaur

Original Air Date—10 March 1981

Season 8, Episode 21: Animal Olympians

Original Air Date—17 March 1981

Season 8, Episode 22: Resolution on Saturn

Original Air Date—25 August 1981

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 1: Computers, Spies & Private Lives

Original Air Date—27 September 1981

Season 9, Episode 2: Why America Burns

Original Air Date—4 October 1981

Season 9, Episode 3: The Great Violin Mystery

Original Air Date—11 October 1981

Season 9, Episode 4: Cosmic Fire

Original Air Date—18 October 1981

Season 9, Episode 5: Locusts: War Without End

Original Air Date—25 October 1981

Season 9, Episode 6: Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

Original Air Date—1 November 1981

Season 9, Episode 7: Artists in the Lab

Original Air Date—15 November 1981

Season 9, Episode 8: Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas

Original Air Date—22 November 1981

Season 9, Episode 9: City Spaces, Human Places

Original Air Date—29 November 1981

Season 9, Episode 10: Twins

Original Air Date—6 December 1981

Season 9, Episode 11: Salmon on the Run

Original Air Date—10 January 1982

Season 9, Episode 12: Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter for Judy

Original Air Date—17 January 1982

Season 9, Episode 13: A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson

Original Air Date—24 January 1982

Season 9, Episode 14: The Hunt for the Legion Killer

Original Air Date—31 January 1982

Season 9, Episode 15: Finding a Voice

Original Air Date—7 February 1982

Season 9, Episode 16: The Television Explosion

Original Air Date—14 February 1982

Season 9, Episode 17: Life: Patent Pending

Original Air Date—28 February 1982

Season 9, Episode 18: Palace of Delights

Original Air Date—7 March 1982

Season 9, Episode 19: Animal Impostors

Original Air Date—14 March 1982

Season 9, Episode 20: Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

Original Air Date—28 March 1982

Season 10


Season 10, Episode 1: The Case of the UFOs

Original Air Date—12 October 1982

Season 10, Episode 2: The Fragile Mountain

Original Air Date—19 October 1982

Season 10, Episode 3: Here's Looking at You Kid

Original Air Date—9 November 1982

Season 10, Episode 4: Adventures of Teenage Scientists

Original Air Date—16 November 1982

Season 10, Episode 5: The Cobalt Blues

Original Air Date—23 November 1982

Season 10, Episode 6: Goodbye Louisiana

Original Air Date—30 November 1982

Season 10, Episode 7: Whale Watch

Original Air Date—7 December 1982

Season 10, Episode 8: Tracking the Supertrains

Original Air Date—14 December 1982

Season 10, Episode 9: Hawaii: Crucible of Life

Original Air Date—18 January 1983

Season 10, Episode 10: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Original Air Date—25 January 1983

Season 10, Episode 11: Lassa Fever

Original Air Date—8 February 1983

Season 10, Episode 12: The Miracle of Life

Original Air Date—15 February 1983

Season 10, Episode 13: Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy

Original Air Date—1 March 1983

Season 10, Episode 14: City of Coral

Original Air Date—8 March 1983

Season 10, Episode 15: Fat Chance in a Thin World

Original Air Date—22 March 1983

Season 10, Episode 16: Sixty Minutes to Meltdown

Original Air Date—29 March 1983

Season 11


Season 11, Episode 1: Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales

Original Air Date—11 October 1983

Season 11, Episode 2: The Artificial Heart

Original Air Date—18 October 1983

Season 11, Episode 3: Talking Turtle

Original Air Date—25 October 1983

Season 11, Episode 4: Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial

Original Air Date—1 November 1983

Season 11, Episode 5: To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Original Air Date—8 November 1983

Season 11, Episode 6: A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds

Original Air Date—15 November 1983

Season 11, Episode 7: A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery

Original Air Date—22 November 1983

Season 11, Episode 8: Captives of Care

Original Air Date—29 November 1983

Season 11, Episode 9: Twenty-Five Years in Space

Original Air Date—6 December 1983

Season 11, Episode 10: Nuclear Strategy for Beginners

Original Air Date—13 December 1983

Season 11, Episode 11: The Climate Crisis

Original Air Date—20 December 1983

Season 11, Episode 12: Eyes Over China

Original Air Date—27 December 1983

Season 11, Episode 13: Alcoholism: Life Under the Influence

Original Air Date—10 January 1984

Season 11, Episode 14: The Case of ESP

Original Air Date—17 January 1984

Season 11, Episode 15: Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier

Original Air Date—31 January 1984

Season 11, Episode 16: China's Only Child

Original Air Date—14 February 1984

Season 11, Episode 17: Will I Walk Again?

Original Air Date—28 February 1984

Season 11, Episode 18: Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings

Original Air Date—6 March 1984

Season 11, Episode 19: Down on the Farm

Original Air Date—20 March 1984

Season 11, Episode 20: Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care

Original Air Date—27 March 1984

Season 11, Episode 21: The World According to Weisskopf

Original Air Date—3 April 1984

Season 12


Season 12, Episode 1: Space Bridge to Moscow

Original Air Date—2 October 1984

Season 12, Episode 2: The National Science Test I

Original Air Date—16 October 1984

Season 12, Episode 3: Fountains of Paradise

Original Air Date—23 October 1984

Season 12, Episode 4: The Mystery of Yellow Rain

Original Air Date—30 October 1984

Season 12, Episode 5: The Nomads of the Rain Forest

Original Air Date—6 November 1984

Season 12, Episode 6: Farmers of the Sea

Original Air Date—13 November 1984

Season 12, Episode 7: Frontiers of Plastic Surgery

Original Air Date—20 November 1984

Season 12, Episode 8: Space Women

Original Air Date—27 November 1984

Season 12, Episode 9: Jaws: The True Story

Original Air Date—4 December 1984

Season 12, Episode 10: Acid Rain: New Bad News

Original Air Date—11 December 1984

Season 12, Episode 11: Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life

Original Air Date—18 December 1984

Season 12, Episode 12: The Garden of Inheritance

Original Air Date—8 January 1985

Season 12, Episode 13: Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines

Original Air Date—15 January 1985

Season 12, Episode 14: Global Village

Original Air Date—22 January 1985

Season 12, Episode 15: Conquest of the Parasites

Original Air Date—29 January 1985

Season 12, Episode 16: In the Land of the Polar Bears

Original Air Date—5 February 1985

Season 12, Episode 17: AIDS: Chapter One

Original Air Date—12 February 1985

Season 12, Episode 18: The Shape of Things

Original Air Date—19 February 1985

Season 12, Episode 19: Baby Talk

Original Air Date—26 February 1985

Season 12, Episode 20: The Mathematical Mystery Tour

Original Air Date—5 March 1985

Season 12, Episode 21: Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities

Original Air Date—12 March 1985

Season 12, Episode 22: Monarch of the Mountains

Original Air Date—19 March 1985

Season 13


Season 13, Episode 1: The National Science Test II

Original Air Date—8 October 1985

Season 13, Episode 2: Seeds of Tomorrow

Original Air Date—15 October 1985

Season 13, Episode 3: What Einstein Never Knew

Original Air Date—22 October 1985

Season 13, Episode 4: The Robot Revolution?

Original Air Date—29 October 1985

Season 13, Episode 5: The Magic of Special Effects

Original Air Date—5 November 1985

Season 13, Episode 6: Child Survival: The Silent Emergency

Original Air Date—12 November 1985

Season 13, Episode 7: Tornado!

Original Air Date—19 November 1985

Season 13, Episode 8: The Genetic Gamble

Original Air Date—26 November 1985

Season 13, Episode 9: Animal Architects

Original Air Date—3 December 1985

Season 13, Episode 10: The Plane that Changed the World

Original Air Date—17 December 1985

Season 13, Episode 11: Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime

Original Air Date—21 January 1986

Season 13, Episode 12: Goddess of the Earth: Gaia

Original Air Date—28 January 1986

Season 13, Episode 13: Horsemen of China

Original Air Date—4 February 1986

Season 13, Episode 14: Life's First Feelings

Original Air Date—11 February 1986

Season 13, Episode 15: The Case of the Frozen Addict

Original Air Date—18 February 1986

Season 13, Episode 16: Toxic Trials

Original Air Date—25 February 1986

Season 13, Episode 17: Skydive to the Rain Forest

Original Air Date—4 March 1986

Season 13, Episode 18: Return of the Osprey

Original Air Date—11 March 1986

Season 13, Episode 19: The Rise of a Wonder Drug

Original Air Date—18 March 1986

Season 13, Episode 20: When Wonder Drugs Don't Work

Original Air Date—25 March 1986

Season 13, Episode 21: Visions of Star Wars

Original Air Date—22 April 1986

Season 14


Season 14, Episode 1: The Search for the Disappeared

Original Air Date—14 October 1986
Shows the exhumation and study of the frozen remains of expedition members found in arctic graves. Speculates on lead poisoning as the cause of the expedition's tragic failure. Plays the Stan Rogers tune "Northwest Passage" during the opening sequence.

Season 14, Episode 2: The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side

Original Air Date—21 October 1986

Season 14, Episode 3: High-Tech Babies

Original Air Date—4 November 1986

Season 14, Episode 4: Can AIDS Be Stopped?

Original Air Date—11 November 1986

Season 14, Episode 5: Is Anybody Out There?

Original Air Date—18 November 1986

Season 14, Episode 6: The Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders

Original Air Date—25 November 1986

Season 14, Episode 7: Are You Swimming in a Sewer?

Original Air Date—2 December 1986

Season 14, Episode 8: Sail Wars!

Original Air Date—9 December 1986

Season 14, Episode 9: Leprosy Can Be Cured!

Original Air Date—16 December 1986

Season 14, Episode 10: How Babies Get Made

Original Air Date—13 January 1987

Season 14, Episode 11: Countdown to the Invisible Universe

Original Air Date—20 January 1987

Season 14, Episode 12: Episode #14.12

Original Air Date—????

Season 14, Episode 13: Why Planes Crash

Original Air Date—3 February 1987

Season 14, Episode 14: Orangutans of the Rain Forest

Original Air Date—10 February 1987

Season 14, Episode 15: Freud Under Analysis

Original Air Date—17 February 1987

Season 14, Episode 16: The Hole in the Sky

Original Air Date—24 February 1987

Season 14, Episode 17: Confessions of a Weaponeer

Original Air Date—3 March 1987

Season 14, Episode 18: Great Moments from NOVA

Original Air Date—10 March 1987

Season 14, Episode 19: Will the World Starve?

Original Air Date—24 March 1987

Season 14, Episode 20: The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore

Original Air Date—31 March 1987

Season 14, Episode 21: Rocky Road to Jupiter

Original Air Date—7 April 1987

Season 15


Season 15, Episode 1: Death of a Star

Original Air Date—6 October 1987

Season 15, Episode 2: Spy Machines

Original Air Date—13 October 1987

Season 15, Episode 3: The Hidden Power of Plants

Original Air Date—20 October 1987

Season 15, Episode 4: Japan's American Genius

Original Air Date—27 October 1987

Season 15, Episode 5: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama

Original Air Date—3 November 1987

Season 15, Episode 6: Volcano!

Original Air Date—10 November 1987

Season 15, Episode 7: How Good Is Soviet Science?

Original Air Date—17 November 1987

Season 15, Episode 8: Ancient Treasures from the Deep

Original Air Date—1 December 1987

Season 15, Episode 9: Riddle of the Joints

Original Air Date—8 December 1987

Season 15, Episode 10: Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People

Original Air Date—15 December 1987

Season 15, Episode 11: Top Gun and Beyond

Original Air Date—19 January 1988

Season 15, Episode 12: How to Create a Junk Food

Original Air Date—26 January 1988

Season 15, Episode 13: Buried in Ice

Original Air Date—2 February 1988

Season 15, Episode 14: Why Planes Burn

Original Air Date—9 February 1988

Season 15, Episode 15: Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial

Original Air Date—23 February 1988

Season 15, Episode 16: Battles in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer - Turning the Tide

Original Air Date—1 March 1988

Season 15, Episode 17: The Mystery of the Master Builders

Original Air Date—8 March 1988

Season 15, Episode 18: Whale Rescue

Original Air Date—15 March 1988

Season 15, Episode 19: The Man Who Loved Numbers

Original Air Date—22 March 1988

Season 15, Episode 20: Race for the Superconductor

Original Air Date—29 March 1988

Season 15, Episode 21: Can You Still Get Polio?

Original Air Date—5 April 1988

Season 16


Season 16, Episode 1: Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft (1)

Original Air Date—6 September 1988

Season 16, Episode 2: Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart (2)

Original Air Date—13 September 1988

Season 16, Episode 3: Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old (3)

Original Air Date—20 September 1988

Season 16, Episode 4: Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife (4)

Original Air Date—27 September 1988

Season 16, Episode 5: Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?

Original Air Date—4 October 1988

Season 16, Episode 6: Can the Next President Win the Space Race?

Original Air Date—11 October 1988

Season 16, Episode 7: Do Scientists Cheat?

Original Air Date—25 October 1988

Season 16, Episode 8: Who Shot President Kennedy?

Original Air Date—15 November 1988

Season 16, Episode 9: The Light Stuff

Original Air Date—22 November 1988

Season 16, Episode 10: The All-American Bear

Original Air Date—6 December 1988

Season 16, Episode 11: Can We Make a Better Doctor?

Original Air Date—13 December 1988

Season 16, Episode 12: Hot Enough for You?

Original Air Date—17 January 1989

Season 16, Episode 13: The Last Journey of a Genius

Original Air Date—24 January 1989

Season 16, Episode 14: The Strange New Science of Chaos

Original Air Date—31 January 1989

Season 16, Episode 15: Back to Chernobyl

Original Air Date—14 February 1989

Season 16, Episode 16: God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs

Original Air Date—21 February 1989

Season 16, Episode 17: Adrift on the Gulf Stream

Original Air Date—28 February 1989

Season 16, Episode 18: Secrets of Easter Island: Part 1

Original Air Date—7 March 1989

Season 16, Episode 19: Legends of Easter Island: Part 2

Original Air Date—7 March 1989

Season 16, Episode 20: The World Is Full of Oil!

Original Air Date—21 March 1989

Season 16, Episode 21: Confronting the Killer Gene

Original Air Date—28 March 1989

Season 17


Season 17, Episode 1: The Hidden City

Original Air Date—3 October 1989

Season 17, Episode 2: The Controversial Dr. Koop

Original Air Date—10 October 1989

Season 17, Episode 3: Design Wars!

Original Air Date—17 October 1989

Season 17, Episode 4: Echoes of War

Original Air Date—24 October 1989

Season 17, Episode 5: Decoding the Book of Life

Original Air Date—31 October 1989

Season 17, Episode 6: Hurricane!

Original Air Date—7 November 1989

Season 17, Episode 7: Will Venice Survive Its Rescue?

Original Air Date—14 November 1989

Season 17, Episode 8: What Is Music?

Original Air Date—21 November 1989

Season 17, Episode 9: Yellowstone's Burning Question

Original Air Date—5 December 1989

Season 17, Episode 10: The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret

Original Air Date—12 December 1989

Season 17, Episode 11: Poison in the Rockies

Original Air Date—9 January 1990

Season 17, Episode 12: Race for the Top

Original Air Date—23 January 1990

Season 17, Episode 13: Disguises of War

Original Air Date—6 February 1990

Season 17, Episode 14: The Bomb's Lethal Legacy

Original Air Date—13 February 1990

Season 17, Episode 15: The Big Spill

Original Air Date—27 February 1990

Season 17, Episode 16: The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon

Original Air Date—20 March 1990

Season 17, Episode 17: The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision

Original Air Date—27 March 1990

Season 17, Episode 18: The Genius That Was China: The Threat from Japan

Original Air Date—3 April 1990

Season 17, Episode 19: The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again?

Original Air Date—10 April 1990

Season 18


Season 18, Episode 1: The KGB, the Computer and Me

Original Air Date—2 October 1990

Season 18, Episode 2: Neptune's Cold Fury

Original Air Date—9 October 1990

Season 18, Episode 3: To Boldly Go...

Original Air Date—16 October 1990

Season 18, Episode 4: Poisoned Winds of War

Original Air Date—23 October 1990

Season 18, Episode 5: The Blimp Is Back!

Original Air Date—30 October 1990

Season 18, Episode 6: Earthquake!

Original Air Date—6 November 1990

Season 18, Episode 7: Killing Machines

Original Air Date—13 November 1990

Season 18, Episode 8: Can the Elephant Be Saved?

Original Air Date—20 November 1990

Season 18, Episode 9: We Know Where You Live

Original Air Date—27 November 1990

Season 18, Episode 10: In the Land of the Llamas

Original Air Date—4 December 1990

Season 18, Episode 11: What's Killing the Children?

Original Air Date—18 December 1990

Season 18, Episode 12: Return to Mt. St. Helens

Original Air Date—8 January 1991

Season 18, Episode 13: Con-Fusion in a Jar

Original Air Date—15 January 1991

Season 18, Episode 14: The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs (1)

Original Air Date—5 February 1991

Season 18, Episode 15: Case of the Flying Dinosaur (2)

Original Air Date—12 February 1991

Season 18, Episode 16: T. Rex Exposed

Original Air Date—19 February 1991

Season 18, Episode 17: Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman

Original Air Date—26 February 1991

Season 18, Episode 18: Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon

Original Air Date—27 February 1991

Season 18, Episode 19: Russian Right Stuff: The Mission

Original Air Date—28 February 1991

Season 18, Episode 20: Swimming with Whales

Original Air Date—5 March 1991

Season 18, Episode 21: The Chip vs. the Chessmaster

Original Air Date—26 March 1991

Season 19


Season 19, Episode 1: Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape

Original Air Date—1 October 1991

Season 19, Episode 2: So You Want to Be a Doctor?

Original Air Date—8 October 1991

Season 19, Episode 3: Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Original Air Date—15 October 1991

Season 19, Episode 4: Suicide Mission to Chernobyl

Original Air Date—22 October 1991

Season 19, Episode 5: Taller Than Everest?

Original Air Date—5 November 1991

Season 19, Episode 6: Fastest Planes in the Sky

Original Air Date—12 November 1991

Season 19, Episode 7: Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife

Original Air Date—3 December 1991

Season 19, Episode 8: Skyscraper!

Original Air Date—10 December 1991

Season 19, Episode 9: The Fine Art of Faking It

Original Air Date—17 December 1991

Season 19, Episode 10: Hell Fighters of Kuwait

Original Air Date—14 January 1992

Season 19, Episode 11: Submarine!

Original Air Date—21 January 1992

Season 19, Episode 12: Saddam's War on Wildlife

Original Air Date—28 January 1992

Season 19, Episode 13: What Smells?

Original Air Date—11 February 1992

Season 19, Episode 14: Can You Believe TV Ratings?

Original Air Date—18 February 1992

Season 19, Episode 15: Making a Dishonest Buck

Original Air Date—3 March 1992

Season 19, Episode 16: Rescuing Baby Whales

Original Air Date—10 March 1992

Season 19, Episode 17: An Astronaut's View of the Earth

Original Air Date—17 March 1992

Season 19, Episode 18: Episode #19.18

Original Air Date—????

Season 19, Episode 19: Eclipse of the Century

Original Air Date—24 March 1992

Season 20


Season 20, Episode 1: Animal Olympians II

Original Air Date—25 August 1992

Season 20, Episode 2: The Genius Behind the Bomb

Original Air Date—29 September 1992

Season 20, Episode 3: Mind of a Serial Killer

Original Air Date—13 October 1992

Season 20, Episode 4: Search for the First Americans

Original Air Date—20 October 1992

Season 20, Episode 5: Rafting Through the Grand Canyon

Original Air Date—27 October 1992

Season 20, Episode 6: This Old Pyramid

Original Air Date—4 November 1992

Season 20, Episode 7: Iceman

Original Air Date—10 November 1992

Season 20, Episode 8: Private Lives of Dolphins

Original Air Date—17 November 1992

Season 20, Episode 9: Brain Transplant

Original Air Date—1 December 1992

Season 20, Episode 10: Can You Stop People from Drinking?

Original Air Date—22 December 1992

Season 20, Episode 11: Sex and the Single Rhino

Original Air Date—29 December 1992

Season 20, Episode 12: The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons

Original Air Date—12 January 1993

Season 20, Episode 13: Can Bombing Win a War?

Original Air Date—19 January 1993

Season 20, Episode 14: The Deadly Deception

Original Air Date—26 January 1993

Season 20, Episode 15: Nazis and the Russian Bomb

Original Air Date—2 February 1993

Season 20, Episode 16: In the Path of a Killer Volcano

Original Air Date—9 February 1993

Season 20, Episode 17: Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?

Original Air Date—16 February 1992
Higher Further Faster - What are the limits of human performance and can science help us push them?

Season 20, Episode 18: Diving for Pirate Gold

Original Air Date—23 February 1993

Season 20, Episode 19: Murder, Rape and DNA

Original Air Date—2 March 1993

Season 20, Episode 20: The Lost Tribe

Original Air Date—30 March 1993

Season 21


Season 21, Episode 1: The Nova Quiz

Original Air Date—5 October 1993

Season 21, Episode 2: Wanted: Butch and Sundance

Original Air Date—12 October 1993

Season 21, Episode 3: Secrets of the Psychics

Original Air Date—19 October 1993

Season 21, Episode 4: Dying to Breathe

Original Air Date—26 October 1993

Season 21, Episode 5: Shadow of the Condor

Original Air Date—2 November 1993

Season 21, Episode 6: The Real Jurassic Park

Original Air Date—9 November 1993

Season 21, Episode 7: Roller Coaster!

Original Air Date—16 November 1993

Season 21, Episode 8: Mysterious Crash of Flight 201

Original Air Date—30 November 1993

Season 21, Episode 9: Great Moments from Nova

Original Air Date—7 December 1993

Season 21, Episode 10: The Best Mind Since Einstein

Original Air Date—21 December 1993

Season 21, Episode 11: Stranger in the Mirror

Original Air Date—28 December 1993

Season 21, Episode 12: Codebreakers

Original Air Date—18 January 1994

Season 21, Episode 13: Dinosaurs of the Gobi

Original Air Date—25 January 1994

Season 21, Episode 14: Daredevils of the Sky

Original Air Date—1 February 1994

Season 21, Episode 15: Journey to Kilimanjaro

Original Air Date—8 February 1994

Season 21, Episode 16: Can Chimps Talk?

Original Air Date—15 February 1994

Season 21, Episode 17: In Search of Human Origins: Part I

Original Air Date—28 February 1994

Season 21, Episode 18: In Search of Human Origins: Part II

Original Air Date—1 March 1994

Season 21, Episode 19: In Search of Human Origins: Part III

Original Air Date—2 March 1994

Season 21, Episode 20: Can China Kick the Habit?

Original Air Date—12 April 1994

Season 21, Episode 21: Aircraft Carrier!

Original Air Date—19 April 1994

Season 22


Season 22, Episode 1: The Great Wildlife Heist

Original Air Date—11 October 1994

Season 22, Episode 2: The Secret of the Wild Child

Original Air Date—18 October 1994

Season 22, Episode 3: Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird

Original Air Date—25 October 1994

Season 22, Episode 4: What's New About Menopause

Original Air Date—1 November 1994

Season 22, Episode 5: The Tribe That Time Forgot

Original Air Date—8 November 1994

Season 22, Episode 6: Killer Quake!

Original Air Date—15 November 1994

Season 22, Episode 7: Buried in Ash

Original Air Date—29 November 1994

Season 22, Episode 8: Rescue Mission in Space

Original Air Date—6 December 1994

Season 22, Episode 9: Journey to the Sacred Sea

Original Air Date—20 December 1994

Season 22, Episode 10: In Search of the First Language

Original Air Date—27 December 1994

Season 22, Episode 11: Mammoths of the Ice Age

Original Air Date—10 January 1995

Season 22, Episode 12: Vikings in America

Original Air Date—24 January 1995

Season 22, Episode 13: Little Creatures Who Run the World

Original Air Date—31 January 1995

Season 22, Episode 14: Nazi Designers of Death

Original Air Date—7 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 15: Siamese Twins

Original Air Date—14 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 16: Mystery of the Senses: Hearing

Original Air Date—19 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 17: Mystery of the Senses: Smell

Original Air Date—20 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 18: Mystery of the Senses: Taste

Original Air Date—21 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 19: Mystery of the Senses: Touch

Original Air Date—22 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 20: Mystery of the Senses: Vision

Original Air Date—23 February 1995

Season 22, Episode 21: The Universe Within

Original Air Date—7 March 1995

Season 22, Episode 22: Making a Doctor

Original Air Date—3 May 1995

Season 22, Episode 23: Fast Cars

Original Air Date—23 May 1995

Season 23


Season 23, Episode 1: Anastasia: Dead or Alive?

Original Air Date—10 October 1995

Season 23, Episode 2: Venus Unveiled

Original Air Date—17 October 1995

Season 23, Episode 3: Hawaii Born of Fire

Original Air Date—24 October 1995

Season 23, Episode 4: The Doomsday Asteroid

Original Air Date—31 October 1995

Season 23, Episode 5: Lightning!

Original Air Date—7 November 1995

Season 23, Episode 6: Hunt for the Serial Arsonist

Original Air Date—14 November 1995

Season 23, Episode 7: Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef

Original Air Date—28 November 1995

Season 23, Episode 8: Race to Catch a Buckyball

Original Air Date—19 December 1995

Season 23, Episode 9: Can Buildings Make You Sick?

Original Air Date—26 December 1995

Season 23, Episode 10: Terror in the Mine Field

Original Air Date—9 January 1996

Season 23, Episode 11: The Day the Earth Shook

Original Air Date—16 January 1996

Season 23, Episode 12: B-29 Frozen in Time

Original Air Date—30 January 1996

Season 23, Episode 13: Plague Fighters

Original Air Date—6 February 1996

Season 23, Episode 14: War Machines of Tomorrow

Original Air Date—20 February 1996

Season 23, Episode 15: Kidnapped by UFOs? The True Story of Alien Abductions

Original Air Date—27 February 1996
Debunking the alien abduction concepts and practices for more earth bound common sense explanations in a format of critical analysis that in the end lets you decided. Are alien abduction's plausible in light of these new findings?

Season 23, Episode 16: Flood!

Original Air Date—26 March 1996

Season 23, Episode 17: Dr. Spock the Baby Doc

Original Air Date—2 April 1996

Season 23, Episode 18: Warriors of the Amazon

Original Air Date—1996

Season 23, Episode 19: Bombing of America

Original Air Date—16 April 1996

Season 24


Season 24, Episode 1: Einstein Revealed

Original Air Date—1 October 1996

Season 24, Episode 2: Lost City of Arabia

Original Air Date—8 October 1996

Season 24, Episode 3: Three Men and a Balloon

Original Air Date—15 October 1996

Season 24, Episode 4: Secrets of Making Money

Original Air Date—22 October 1996

Season 24, Episode 5: Top Gun Over Moscow

Original Air Date—12 November 1996

Season 24, Episode 6: Shark Attack

Original Air Date—19 November 1996

Season 24, Episode 7: Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey (1)

Original Air Date—24 November 1996

Season 24, Episode 8: Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World (2)

Original Air Date—25 November 1996

Season 24, Episode 9: Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets (3)

Original Air Date—26 November 1996

Season 24, Episode 10: Cracking the Ice Age

Original Air Date—31 December 1996

Season 24, Episode 11: Kaboom!

Original Air Date—14 January 1997

Season 24, Episode 12: Titanic's Lost Sister

Original Air Date—28 January 1997

Season 24, Episode 13: Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge (1)

Original Air Date—11 February 1997

Season 24, Episode 14: Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca (2)

Original Air Date—11 February 1997

"Nova" (1974): Season 27: Episode 12 -- Discover how ancient Egyptians used nautical experience, ingenuity, and unwavering faith to raise massive 500-ton granite monoliths that have stood for thousands of years in tribute to their unparalleled early civilization.

Season 24, Episode 15: Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk (3)

Original Air Date—12 February 1997

Season 24, Episode 16: Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum (4)

Original Air Date—12 February 1997

Season 24, Episode 17: Hunt for Alien Worlds

Original Air Date—18 February 1997

Season 24, Episode 18: Curse of T.rex

Original Air Date—25 February 1997

Season 24, Episode 19: Cut to the Heart

Original Air Date—8 April 1997

Season 24, Episode 20: Kingdom of the Seahorse

Original Air Date—15 April 1997

Season 25


Season 25, Episode 1: Coma

Original Air Date—7 October 1997

Season 25, Episode 2: Faster Than Sound

Original Air Date—14 October 1997

Season 25, Episode 3: Bomb Squad

Original Air Date—21 October 1997

Season 25, Episode 4: The Proof

Original Air Date—28 October 1997

Season 25, Episode 5: Wild Wolves with David Attenborough

Original Air Date—11 November 1997

Season 25, Episode 6: Super Bridge

Original Air Date—12 November 1997
The problems and challenges in building a new highway bridge, of innovative cable-stayed design, across the mighty Mississippi River at Alton, Illinois.

Season 25, Episode 7: Treasures of the Sunken City

Original Air Date—18 November 1997

Season 25, Episode 8: Avalanche!

Original Air Date—25 November 1997

Season 25, Episode 9: Danger in the Jet Stream

Original Air Date—2 December 1997

Season 25, Episode 10: Night Creatures of the Kalahari

Original Air Date—6 January 1998

Season 25, Episode 11: Mysterious Mummies of China

Original Air Date—20 January 1998

Season 25, Episode 12: Supersonic Spies

Original Air Date—27 January 1998

Season 25, Episode 13: Animal Hospital

Original Air Date—3 February 1998

Season 25, Episode 14: The Brain Eater

Original Air Date—10 February 1998

Season 25, Episode 15: Everest: The Death Zone

Original Air Date—24 February 1998

Season 25, Episode 16: Search for the Lost Cave People

Original Air Date—31 March 1998

Season 25, Episode 17: Warnings from the Ice

Original Air Date—1997
Scientists study the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Season 25, Episode 18: Crocodiles! With David Attenborough

Original Air Date—28 April 1998

Season 25, Episode 19: The Truth About Impotence

Original Air Date—12 May 1998

Season 26


Season 26, Episode 1: Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

Original Air Date—6 October 1998

Season 26, Episode 2: Chasing 'El Niño'

Original Air Date—13 October 1998

Season 26, Episode 3: Terror in Space

Original Air Date—27 October 1998

Season 26, Episode 4: Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond

Original Air Date—3 November 1997

Season 26, Episode 5: Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius

Original Air Date—10 November 1998

Season 26, Episode 6: Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven (1)

Original Air Date—24 November 1998

Season 26, Episode 7: Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden

Original Air Date—24 November 1998

Season 26, Episode 8: Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman (3)

Original Air Date—24 November 1998

Season 26, Episode 9: Leopards of the Night with David Attenborough

Original Air Date—1 December 1998

Season 26, Episode 10: The Perfect Pearl

Original Air Date—29 December 1998

Season 26, Episode 11: The Beast of Loch Ness

Original Air Date—27 April 1998
An account of Dr. Robert Rines' expedition during the Summer of 1997 to find the elusive Loch Ness Monster and his attempt to counter the scepticism surrounding his famous "Flipper" and "Gargoyle Head" photographs taken in 1972 and 1975. Meanwhile, photographic experts set out to investigate the credibility of the "Surgeon's Photograph" of April 1934, the most famous picture ever taken of the Monster.

Season 26, Episode 12: Submarines, Secrets, and Spies

Original Air Date—19 January 1999

Season 26, Episode 13: Surviving AIDS

Original Air Date—2 February 1999

Season 26, Episode 14: Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire (1)

Original Air Date—16 February 1999

Season 26, Episode 15: Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash (2)

Original Air Date—16 February 1999

Season 26, Episode 16: Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash (3)

Original Air Date—17 February 1999

Season 26, Episode 17: Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship (4)

Original Air Date—17 February 1999

Season 26, Episode 18: Battle Alert in the Gulf

Original Air Date—23 February 1999

Season 26, Episode 19: Volcanoes of the Deep

Original Air Date—30 March 1999

Season 26, Episode 20: To the Moon

Original Air Date—13 July 1999

Season 27


Season 27, Episode 1: Fall of the Leaning Tower

Original Air Date—5 October 1999

Season 27, Episode 2: Time Travel

Original Air Date—12 October 1999

Season 27, Episode 3: The Killer's Trail: The Story of Dr. Sam Sheppard

Original Air Date—19 October 1999
The real case what inspired one of the more famous TV series of all times, "The Fugitive".

Season 27, Episode 4: Island of the Spirits

Original Air Date—2 November 1999

Season 27, Episode 5: Decoding Nazi Secrets

Original Air Date—28 August 2001

Season 27, Episode 6: Voyage of Doom

Original Air Date—23 November 1999

Season 27, Episode 7: Electric Heart

Original Air Date—21 December 1999

Season 27, Episode 8: Tales from the Hive

Original Air Date—4 January 2000

Season 27, Episode 9: Lost on Everest

Original Air Date—18 January 2000

Season 27, Episode 10: Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege

Original Air Date—1 February 2000

Season 27, Episode 11: The Diamond Deception

Original Air Date—1 February 2000

"Nova" (1974): Season 27: Episode 12 -- Discover how ancient Egyptians used nautical experience, ingenuity, and unwavering faith to raise massive 500-ton granite monoliths that have stood for thousands of years in tribute to their unparalleled early civilization.

Season 27, Episode 12: Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk

Original Air Date—8 February 2000

Season 27, Episode 13: Trillion Dollar Bet

Original Air Date—8 February 2000
For over a hundred years economists had dreamed of a way of reducing risk in the stock market. Two Nobel Prize winning economists found a formula which it seemed did exactly that- only for a roiling crisis to sweep through the markets, leaving their new hedge fund almost broke

Season 27, Episode 14: Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island

Original Air Date—15 February 2000

Season 27, Episode 15: Mystery of the First Americans

Original Air Date—15 February 2000

"Nova" (1974): Season 27: Episode 16 -- Tour the crumbling public baths of Rome to learn intimate details of what life was really like for ancient Roman citizens, and in the process, discover the engineering feats that made these baths such an impressive achievement.

Season 27, Episode 16: Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath

Original Air Date—22 February 2000

Season 27, Episode 17: Lost Tribes of Israel

Original Air Date—22 February 2000

"Nova" (1974): Season 27: Episode 18 -- Travel to 12th-century China as engineers, scientists and scholars help reveal the intricate mysteries behind the revolutionary strength and elegance of the Rainbow Bridge.

Season 27, Episode 18: Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge

Original Air Date—29 February 2000

Season 27, Episode 19: What's Up with the Weather?

Original Air Date—18 April 2000

Season 27, Episode 20: Stationed in the Stars

Original Air Date—25 April 2000

Season 27, Episode 21: The Vikings

Original Air Date—9 May 2000

Season 28


Season 28, Episode 1: Lincoln's Secret Weapon

Original Air Date—24 October 2000
This is the story of an armored combat vessel that opened up an entirely new chapter in naval warfare. At a critical moment of the American Civil War in 1861, the Navy commissioned the USS Monitor to test a daring idea-that a mechanical fighting machine could inflict a crushing defeat on Confederate forces. Not long after its legendary confrontation with the ironclad Merrimack, the Monitor sank in stormy seas off Cape Hatteras. Almost a century and a half after these stirring events, NOVA's cameras follow the Navy's risky efforts to salvage the secrets of the Monitor as it lies rusting on the ocean bottom.

Season 28, Episode 2: Holocaust on Trial

Original Air Date—31 October 2000

Season 28, Episode 3: Hitler's Lost Sub

Original Air Date—14 November 2000

Season 28, Episode 4: Runaway Universe

Original Air Date—21 November 2000

Season 28, Episode 5: Garden of Eden

Original Air Date—28 November 2000

Season 28, Episode 6: Dying to Be Thin

Original Air Date—12 December 2000

Season 28, Episode 7: Japan's Secret Garden

Original Air Date—19 December 2000

Season 28, Episode 8: Sultan's Lost Treasure

Original Air Date—16 January 2001

Season 28, Episode 9: Vanished!

Original Air Date—30 January 2001

Season 28, Episode 10: Nazi Prison Escape

Original Air Date—6 February 2001

"Nova" (1974): Season 28: Episode 11 -- In an ancient Mayan arena, enemies of notorious King Yax K'uk Mo square off in a ball game that appears much like modern soccer. But in this fateful contest, winners live—and losers lose their heads.

Season 28, Episode 11: Lost King of the Maya

Original Air Date—13 February 2001

Season 28, Episode 12: Cancer Warrior

Original Air Date—27 February 2001

Season 28, Episode 13: Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor

Original Air Date—27 March 2001

Season 28, Episode 14: Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions

Original Air Date—3 April 2001

Season 28, Episode 15: Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds

Original Air Date—10 April 2001

Season 28, Episode 16: Cracking the Code of Life

Original Air Date—17 April 2001

Season 28, Episode 17: Harvest of Fear

Original Air Date—24 April 2001

Season 29


Season 29, Episode 1: Search for a Safe Cigarette

Original Air Date—2 October 2001

Season 29, Episode 2: 18 Ways to Make a Baby

Original Air Date—9 October 2001

Season 29, Episode 3: Secrets of the Mind

Original Air Date—23 October 2001
A man who can "see" without seeing; amputees who feel pain in limbs that are gone; a man who believes his parents are impostors; and an epileptic who believes he is God: a neuroscientist gives the viewer insight into these strange cases.

Season 29, Episode 4: Sex: Unknown

Original Air Date—30 October 2001

Season 29, Episode 5: Russia's Nuclear Warriors

Original Air Date—6 November 2001

Season 29, Episode 6: Bioterror

Original Air Date—11 November 2001
Three New York Times reporters studying biological weapons before, during and after 9/11, end up being the target of an actual anthrax attack.

Season 29, Episode 7: Life's Greatest Miracle

Original Air Date—20 November 2001

Season 29, Episode 8: Methuselah Tree

Original Air Date—11 December 2001

Season 29, Episode 9: Flying Casanovas

Original Air Date—25 December 2001

Season 29, Episode 10: Death Star

Original Air Date—8 January 2002

Season 29, Episode 11: Neanderthals on Trial

Original Air Date—8 January 2002

Season 29, Episode 12: Fireworks!

Original Air Date—29 January 2002

Season 29, Episode 13: Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies

Original Air Date—5 February 2002

Season 29, Episode 14: The Missing Link

Original Air Date—26 February 2002

Season 29, Episode 15: Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance

Original Air Date—26 March 2002
In late 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth for Antarctica with 27 men, determined to be the first man to cross the continent from coast to coast. His ship, the Endurance, became trapped in pack ice just short of the continent. When the ice crushed their ship to splinters, they were left stranded on the ice floes. Shackleton resolved to rescue each and every man, and turned disaster into one of the greatest survival stories of all time.

Season 29, Episode 16: Why the Towers Fell

Original Air Date—April 2002
Film on the mechanism of collapse of the World Trade Center.

Season 29, Episode 17: Fire Wars

Original Air Date—7 May 2002

Season 30


Season 30, Episode 1: Killer Disease on Campus

Original Air Date—3 September 2002

Season 30, Episode 2: Mysterious Life of Caves

Original Air Date—1 October 2002

Season 30, Episode 3: Lost Roman Treasure

Original Air Date—8 October 2002

Season 30, Episode 4: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

Original Air Date—29 October 2002
In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist-that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.

Season 30, Episode 5: Volcano's Deadly Warning

Original Air Date—12 November 2002

Season 30, Episode 6: Sinking City of Venice

Original Air Date—19 November 2002

Season 30, Episode 7: The Orchid Hunter

Original Air Date—26 November 2002

Season 30, Episode 8: Spies That Fly

Original Air Date—7 January 2003

Season 30, Episode 9: Last Flight of Bomber 31

Original Air Date—14 January 2003

Season 30, Episode 10: Ancient Creature of the Deep

Original Air Date—21 January 2003

"Nova" (1974): Season 30: Episode 11 -- NOVA goes behind the doors of Boeing's Phantom Works and Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works to record classified meetings, flies the most revolutionary planes, and examines the high-stakes battle to build the most capable and versatile fighter ever.

Season 30, Episode 11: Battle of the X-Planes

Original Air Date—4 February 2003

Season 30, Episode 12: Mountain of Ice

Original Air Date—11 February 2003

"Nova" (1974): Season 30: Episode 13 -- Set foot inside an untouched society and get a remarkably rare glimpse of a Tibetan world's dazzling sacred relics.

Season 30, Episode 13: Lost Treasures of Tibet

Original Air Date—18 February 2003

Season 30, Episode 14: Dirty Bomb

Original Air Date—25 February 2003

Season 30, Episode 15: Deep Sea Invasion

Original Air Date—1 April 2003

Season 30, Episode 16: Secret of Photo 51

Original Air Date—14 April 2003

Season 31


Season 31, Episode 1: Infinite Secrets

Original Air Date—30 September 2003

Season 31, Episode 2: Who Killed the Red Baron?

Original Air Date—7 October 2003

Season 31, Episode 3: The Elegant Universe: Einstein's Dream (1)

Original Air Date—28 October 2003

Season 31, Episode 4: The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2)

Original Air Date—28 October 2003

Season 31, Episode 5: The Elegant Universe: Welcome to the 11th Dimension (3)

Original Air Date—4 November 2003

"Nova" (1974): Season 31: Episode 6 -- Orville and Wilbur Wright were remarkable inventors who designed and built their own wings, steering devices, engines, and wind tunnel. But just how did they construct such an impressive flying machine?

Season 31, Episode 6: Wright Brothers' Flying Machine

Original Air Date—11 November 2003

Season 31, Episode 7: Magnetic Storm

Original Air Date—18 November 2003

Season 31, Episode 8: Volcano Above the Clouds

Original Air Date—25 November 2003

"Nova" (1974): Season 31: Episode 9 -- Go inside NASA's risky field trip to the red planet in this tense and dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle of the $820 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project. Beginning a year before launch, NOVA's cameras follow MER scientists and engineers.

Season 31, Episode 9: Mars Dead or Alive

Original Air Date—4 January 2004

Season 31, Episode 10: Secrets of the Crocodile Caves

Original Air Date—20 January 2004

Season 31, Episode 11: Dogs and More Dogs

Original Air Date—3 February 2004

Season 31, Episode 12: Descent Into the Ice

Original Air Date—10 February 2004

Season 31, Episode 13: Crash of Flight 111

Original Air Date—17 February 2004
Can the lessons of one air disaster help prevent another? What caused Swissair Flight 111 to plunge into waters off the coast of Nova Scotia on September 2, 1998, killing all 229 people aboard? After four years and almost $40 million, investigators revealed that the accident was caused by factors that, alarmingly, still exist on many planes today. NOVA was given unprecedented access to this intricate investigation, involving a seemingly hopeless search for evidence among two million pieces of debris scattered across the ocean floor. The recovery of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder raised hopes until both were found to have failed during the last six minutes of the flight. Despite these daunting challenges, crash detectives methodically collected, sifted, and sorted through the wreckage to reassemble a large portion of the plane in a giant hangar, building a detailed picture of Flight 111's last moments. After years of painstaking recovery, reconstruction, and testing, the investigators submitted their conclusions and recommended new safety measures. But some experts still believe that another disaster like this one could be just a matter of time.

"Nova" (1974): Season 31: Episode 14 -- Imagine handling a medical emergency at the height of the Iraq War, beset by heat, sand, and frequent enemy attacks. NOVA heads into battle with the medics, nurses, doctors, and military staff of the 10th and 21st CaSH units.

Season 31, Episode 14: Life and Death in the War Zone

Original Air Date—2 March 2004

"Nova" (1974): Season 31: Episode 15 -- In seconds, a supertwister can leave immense swaths of death and destruction. But what if technology could help us tame nature’s most violent tornadoes?

Season 31, Episode 15: Hunt for the Supertwister

Original Air Date—30 March 2004

Season 31, Episode 16: World in the Balance: The People Paradox

Original Air Date—20 April 2004

Season 31, Episode 17: World in the Balance: China Revs Up

Original Air Date—15 April 2004

Season 31, Episode 18: Battle Plan Under Fire

Original Air Date—4 May 2004

Season 32


Season 32, Episode 1: Origins: Earth Is Born

Original Air Date—28 September 2004

Season 32, Episode 2: Origins: How Life Began

Original Air Date—28 September 2004

Season 32, Episode 3: Origins: Where Are the Aliens?

Original Air Date—29 September 2004

Season 32, Episode 4: Origins: Back to the Beginning

Original Air Date—29 September 2004

Season 32, Episode 5: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Original Air Date—12 October 2004

Season 32, Episode 6: America's Stone Age Explorers

Original Air Date—21 March 2006

Season 32, Episode 7: Great Escape

Original Air Date—16 November 2004

"Nova" (1974): Season 32: Episode 8 -- Armed with high-tech equipment and ingeniously improvised devices, NOVA and archaeologist Richard Freund embark on a fascinating detective story that may rewrite Holy Land history.

Season 32, Episode 8: Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land

Original Air Date—23 November 2004

"Nova" (1974): Season 32: Episode 9 -- Take an astounding look at the red planet in this interplanetary adventure that picks up where MARS Dead or Alive left off. Mission Control and its two robotic explorers face a daunting task–find proof that liquid water once existed on Mars.

Season 32, Episode 9: Welcome to Mars

Original Air Date—4 January 2005

Season 32, Episode 10: The Boldest Hoax

Original Air Date—11 January 2005

Season 32, Episode 11: Supersonic Dream

Original Air Date—18 January 2005

Season 32, Episode 12: The Viking Deception

Original Air Date—8 February 2005

Season 32, Episode 13: Saving the National Treasures

Original Air Date—15 February 2005

Season 32, Episode 14: A Daring Flight

Original Air Date—22 February 2005
In 1909, French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot becomes the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine, Blériot's own Type XI monoplane. Nearly a century later, his grandson and namesake attempts a re-enactment of the historic flight that made his grandfather famous and catapulted France to the forefront of aviation technology.

Season 32, Episode 15: Wave That Shook the World

Original Air Date—29 March 2005

Season 33


Season 33, Episode 1: Mystery of the Megaflood

Original Air Date—20 September 2005

Season 33, Episode 2: Sinking the Supership

Original Air Date—4 October 2005
A modern team of divers sets out to learn the secrets of the super battleship Yamato, the greatest ship of the Second World War.

Season 33, Episode 3: Einstein's Big Idea

Original Air Date—11 October 2005
E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein.

Season 33, Episode 4: Volcano Under the City

Original Air Date—1 November 2005

Season 33, Episode 5: Hitler's Sunken Secret

Original Air Date—8 November 2005

Season 33, Episode 6: Newton's Dark Secrets

Original Air Date—15 November 2005
The auction of some of Newton's papers early in the 20th century uncovers the fact that he had a side other than the genius mathematician and visionary the world knew him as.

Season 33, Episode 7: Storm That Drowned a City

Original Air Date—22 November 2005

Season 33, Episode 8: The Mummy Who Would Be King

Original Air Date—3 January 2006

Season 33, Episode 9: Deadly Ascent

Original Air Date—17 January 2006

Season 33, Episode 10: The Perfect Corpse

Original Air Date—7 February 2006

Season 33, Episode 11: Jewel of the Earth

Original Air Date—14 February 2006

Season 33, Episode 12: The Ghost Particle

Original Air Date—21 February 2006
New theories explain the beginnings of creation.

Season 33, Episode 13: Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice

Original Air Date—28 February 2006

"Nova" (1974): Season 33: Episode 14 -- Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the wheel. With names like Terramax, Ghostrider, and Stanley, these vehicles are armed with cutting-edge technology.

Season 33, Episode 14: The Great Robot Race

Original Air Date—27 March 2006

Season 33, Episode 15: Voyage to the Mystery Moon

Original Air Date—4 April 2006

Season 33, Episode 16: Dimming the Sun

Original Air Date—18 April 2006

Season 34


Season 34, Episode 1: Building on Ground Zero

Original Air Date—5 September 2006

Season 34, Episode 2: Mystery of the Megavolcano

Original Air Date—26 September 2006

Season 34, Episode 3: The Deadliest Plane Crash

Original Air Date—17 October 2006

Season 34, Episode 4: Monster of the Milky Way

Original Air Date—31 October 2006

Season 34, Episode 5: Wings of Madness

Original Air Date—7 November 2006

Season 34, Episode 6: Family That Walks on All Fours

Original Air Date—14 November 2006

Season 34, Episode 7: Underwater Dream Machine

Original Air Date—26 December 2006

Season 34, Episode 8: Forgotten Genius

Original Air Date—6 February 2007

Season 34, Episode 9: The Last Great Ape

Original Air Date—13 February 2007

Season 34, Episode 10: Kings of Camouflage

Original Air Date—3 April 2007

Season 34, Episode 11: First Flower

Original Air Date—1 April 2007

Season 34, Episode 12: Saved by the Sun

Original Air Date—24 April 2007

Season 34, Episode 13: Pocahontas Revealed

Original Air Date—8 May 2007

Season 34, Episode 14: Bone Diggers

Original Air Date—10 June 2007

Season 34, Episode 15: The Great Inca Rebellion

Original Air Date—26 June 2007

Season 35


Season 35, Episode 1: Secrets of the Samurai Sword

Original Air Date—9 October 2007

Season 35, Episode 2: Ghost in Your Genes

Original Air Date—17 October 2007

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 3 -- NOVA follows 13 sedentary people through a nine-month regimen designed to prepare them for the grueling Boston Marathon.

Season 35, Episode 3: Marathon Challenge

Original Air Date—30 October 2007

Season 35, Episode 4: Sputnik Declassified

Original Air Date—6 November 2007

Season 35, Episode 5: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Original Air Date—13 November 2007
When the school board in Dover, Pennsylvania votes to require science teachers to read a statement touting Intelligent Design as a scientific alternative to Darwin's Theory of Evolution parents sue the district, leading to a trial in which the judge must decide if Intelligent Design is merely a new name for creationism, already banned in public schools as being religious in nature.

Season 35, Episode 6: Master of the Killer Ants

Original Air Date—20 November 2007

Season 35, Episode 7: Missing in MiG Alley

Original Air Date—18 December 2007

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 8 -- Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it's air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get?

Season 35, Episode 8: Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold

Original Air Date—8 January 2008

Season 35, Episode 9: Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero

Original Air Date—15 January 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 10 -- A team of architects and engineers investigate mysteries of the Parthenon. How did the ancient Greeks design and build their masterpiece so quickly with precision and perfection without modern tools and architectural aids?

Season 35, Episode 10: Secrets of the Parthenon

Original Air Date—29 January 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 11 -- Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch military astronauts on spying missions.

Season 35, Episode 11: Astrospies

Original Air Date—12 February 2008
This documentary investigates the background of a secret 1960s USAF space project named MOL (Manned Orbiting Laboratory) and its Russian counterpart ALMAZ.

Season 35, Episode 12: Ape Genius

Original Air Date—19 February 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 13 -- In The Four-Winged Dinosaur, NOVA investigates the most bizarre of these feathered dinosaurs, which has rekindled a fierce, decades-long debate over the origin of bird flight.

Season 35, Episode 13: The Four-Winged Dinosaur

Original Air Date—26 February 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 14 -- The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on monuments, pottery and books. Unlocking its meaning is one of archaeology's fiercest challenges. Until now.

Season 35, Episode 14: Cracking the Maya Code

Original Air Date—8 April 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 15 -- Tom Magliozzi, co-host of NPR's Car Talk, needs to replace his beloved 1952 MG roadster. Is new technology about to transform the way we drive? Join Tom and brother Ray as they take a light-hearted but shrewd look at America's four-wheeled future.

Season 35, Episode 15: Car of the Future

Original Air Date—22 April 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 16 -- A difficult journey that begins in loneliness and shame for thousands of Ethiopian women ends in a productive new life and hope for the future in this award-winning film.

Season 35, Episode 16: A Walk to Beautiful

Original Air Date—13 May 2008

"Nova" (1974): Season 35: Episode 17 -- At age 78, E.O. Wilson is still going through his "little savage" phase of boyhood exploration of the natural world. NOVA profiles this soft-spoken Southerner and Professor Emeritus at Harvard.

Season 35, Episode 17: Lord of the Ants

Original Air Date—20 May 2008

Season 36


Season 36, Episode 1: Arctic Dinosaurs

Original Air Date—17 October 2008

Season 36, Episode 2: Space Shuttle Disaster

Original Air Date—14 October 2008

Season 36, Episode 3: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Original Air Date—21 October 2008

Season 36, Episode 4: Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Original Air Date—28 October 2008

Season 36, Episode 5: Alien from Earth

Original Air Date—11 November 2008

Season 36, Episode 6: The Bible's Buried Secrets

Original Air Date—18 November 2008

Season 36, Episode 7: Ocean Animal Emergency

Original Air Date—25 November 2008

Season 36, Episode 8: Is There Life on Mars?

Original Air Date—30 December 2008

Season 36, Episode 9: The Big Energy Gamble

Original Air Date—20 January 2009

Season 36, Episode 10: The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

Original Air Date—27 January 2009

Season 36, Episode 11: Inside the Spy Factory

Original Air Date—3 February 2009

Season 36, Episode 12: Rats

Original Air Date—24 February 2009

Season 36, Episode 13: Extreme Ice

Original Air Date—24 March 2009

Season 36, Episode 14: Last Extinction

Original Air Date—31 March 2009

Season 36, Episode 15: Doctors' Diaries: Part One

Original Air Date—7 April 2009

Season 36, Episode 16: Doctors' Diaries: Part Two

Original Air Date—14 April 2009

Season 36, Episode 17: My Musical Brain

Original Air Date—30 June 2009

Season 37


Season 37, Episode 1: Darwin's Darkest Hour

Original Air Date—6 October 2009

Season 37, Episode 2: Hubble's Amazing Rescue

Original Air Date—13 October 2009

Season 37, Episode 3: Lizard Kings

Original Air Date—20 October 2009

Season 37, Episode 4: Becoming Human: Part 1

Original Air Date—3 November 2009

Season 37, Episode 5: Becoming Human: Part 2

Original Air Date—10 November 2009

Season 37, Episode 6: Becoming Human: Part 3

Original Air Date—17 November 2009

Season 37, Episode 7: What Are Dreams?

Original Air Date—24 November 2009

Season 37, Episode 8: Volcano Above the Clouds

Original Air Date—8 December 2009

Season 37, Episode 9: The Spy Factory

Original Air Date—15 December 2009

Season 37, Episode 10: The Last Great Ape

Original Air Date—22 December 2009

Season 37, Episode 11: What Darwin Never Knew

Original Air Date—29 December 2009

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