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Season 9

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Released: 10th Jan, 1982

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S09 Episode 1

Salmon on the Run

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.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 10 Jan 1982

S09 Episode 2

Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy

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, 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, VA.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 17 Jan 1982

S09 Episode 3

Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson

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

55 mins  ·  Sun, 24 Jan 1982

S09 Episode 4

The Hunt for the Legion Killer

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaires' 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.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 31 Jan 1982

S09 Episode 5

Finding a Voice

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 wheelchair 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."

55 mins  ·  Sun, 7 Feb 1982

S09 Episode 6

The Television Explosion

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?

55 mins  ·  Sun, 14 Feb 1982

S09 Episode 7

Life: Patent Pending

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.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 28 Feb 1982

S09 Episode 8

Palace of Delights

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.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 7 Mar 1982

S09 Episode 9

Animal Impostors

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.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 14 Mar 1982

S09 Episode 10

Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

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.

55 mins  ·  Sun, 28 Mar 1982

S09 Episode 11

The Case of the UFOs

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 12 Oct 1982

S09 Episode 12

The Fragile Mountain

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 19 Oct 1982

S09 Episode 13

Here's Looking At You Kid

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 9 Nov 1982

S09 Episode 14

Adventures of Teenage Scientists

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?

55 mins  ·  Tue, 16 Nov 1982

S09 Episode 15

The Cobalt Blues

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 23 Nov 1982

S09 Episode 16

Goodbye Louisiana

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 30 Nov 1982

S09 Episode 17

Whale Watch

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 7 Dec 1982

S09 Episode 18

Tracking The Supertrains

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.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 14 Dec 1982

S09 Episode 19

The Making of a Natural History Film

To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightful program about how wildlife films are made.

55 mins  ·  Tue, 4 Jan 1983

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