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Season 4

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Released: 5th Jan, 1977

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S04 Episode 1

Hitler's Secret Weapon

NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 5 Jan 1977

S04 Episode 2

The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs

If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the giant jigsaw puzzle together, never mind discover anything about how these dinosaurs lived? NOVA explores the incredible world of the dinosaur scientist.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 12 Jan 1977

S04 Episode 3

What Price Coal?

What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by the government, industry, and the victims.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 19 Jan 1977

S04 Episode 4

The Sunspot Mystery

NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover the link between weather patterns and the 11 year sunspot mystery.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 2 Feb 1977

S04 Episode 5

The Plastic Prison

NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 9 Feb 1977

S04 Episode 6

Incident at Brown's Ferry

NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a seven-hour fire which came very close to developing into a major public disaster.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 23 Feb 1977

S04 Episode 7

Bye Bye Blackbird

NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 2 Mar 1977

S04 Episode 8

The Pill for the People

NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for the hormone progesterone.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 9 Mar 1977

S04 Episode 9

The Gene Engineers

NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research

55 mins  ·  Wed, 16 Mar 1977

S04 Episode 10

The Human Animal

NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically determined.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 23 Mar 1977

S04 Episode 11

The Wolf Equation

In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. Although the area is roamed by the Western Arctic caribou herds—a natural predator of the wolf—the caribou population has been steadily decreasing in number. NOVA examines how the Dept. of Fish and Game is handling the the problem of wolf control.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 30 Mar 1977

S04 Episode 12

The Dawn of the Solar Age

Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a source of industrial power. NOVA looks at this new industrial approach, such as the use of a huge windmill in Ohio, giant machines that may generate electricity from the heat of the tropical seas or from the motion of waves, and an orbiting solar power station able to beam microwaves to earth.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 20 Apr 1977

S04 Episode 13

The Business of Extinction

NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on vanishing wildlife.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 20 Apr 1977

S04 Episode 14

The Red Planet

NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particularly the theory that the planet could support life. Questions raised by NASA's 1976 Viking mariner missions about how the vast canyons were formed are also explored.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 27 Apr 1977

S04 Episode 15

Tongues of Men (1)

In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and why the bewildering confusion of languages came about.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 11 May 1977

S04 Episode 16

Tongues of Men (2)

In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped with the confusion of language and asks if the growing acceptance of English is the answer.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 18 May 1977

S04 Episode 17

Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist

NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 1 Jun 1977

S04 Episode 18

Across the Silent Barrier

NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitty O'Neil—a woman record-holding speed car racer; Frances Parsons, an advocate of hearing-impaired persons' rights; and workers at Silent Industries—a factory in Los Angeles founded by a deaf man.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 22 Jun 1977

S04 Episode 19

The New Healers

NOVA explores the delibitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United States.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 29 Jun 1977

S04 Episode 20

The Green Machine

It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristics. NOVA looks at the more recent discovery that the different white cell types, as determined by a variety of different molecular markers on the cell surface, open up the possibility of the prevention of disease.

55 mins  ·  Wed, 11 Jan 1978

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