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Season 20

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Released: 5th Jan, 1993

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Season 20 Episodes

S20 Episode 1

The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons

In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins (This Old House), join forces in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza to put clever and sometimes bizarre pyramid construction theories to the test.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 5 Jan 1993

S20 Episode 2

Can Bombing Win a War?

The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history of strategic bombing and asks whether bombing has now achieved preeminence in warfare.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 19 Jan 1993

S20 Episode 3

The Deadly Deception

For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of this notorious human experiment. George Strait, ABC News Medical Correspondent, hosts.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 26 Jan 1993

S20 Episode 4

Nazis and the Russian Bomb

NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of the crash program in 1949, with the explosion of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, shocked the world.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 2 Feb 1993

S20 Episode 5

In the Path of a Killer Volcano

NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines goes big time, producing the largest volcanic eruption in 80 years.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 9 Feb 1993

S20 Episode 6

Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?

Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOVA covers the record-setting trend for improving sports performance with science.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 16 Feb 1993

S20 Episode 7

Diving for Pirate Gold

These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plundering sunken ships. NOVA explores the swashbuckling seafaring pirates of old and their present-day successors.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 23 Feb 1993

S20 Episode 8

Murder, Rape and DNA

Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is putting increasing numbers of murderers and rapists behind bars.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 2 Mar 1993

S20 Episode 9

The Lost Tribe

NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippines in 1971, they were hailed as a Stone Age relic. Now, many anthropologists denounce them as fakes.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 30 Mar 1993

S20 Episode 10

The NOVA Quiz

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 5 Oct 1993

S20 Episode 11

Wanted: Butch and Sundance

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 12 Oct 1993

S20 Episode 12

Secrets of the Psychics

Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others. In the program, "Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers." This program is not to be confused with a later UK documentary Secrets of the Psychics, which was transmitted under this title as well as Secrets of the Super Psychics.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 19 Oct 1993

S20 Episode 13

Dying to Breathe

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 26 Oct 1993

S20 Episode 14

Shadow of the Condor

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 Patagonia.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 2 Nov 1993

S20 Episode 15

The Real Jurassic Park

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 9 Nov 1993

S20 Episode 16

Roller Coaster!

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 16 Nov 1993

S20 Episode 17

Mysterious Crash of Flight 201

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

55 mins  ·  Tue, 30 Nov 1993

S20 Episode 18

Great Moments from NOVA

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 7 Dec 1993

S20 Episode 19

The Best Mind Since Einstein

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

55 mins  ·  Tue, 21 Dec 1993

S20 Episode 20

Stranger in the Mirror

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 28 Dec 1993

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