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PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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Quick facts
First Aired
1974
Seasons
53
Episodes
1020
TMDB Rating
⭐ 7.0/10
Votes
139
Genre
Documentary
Status
Returning Series
Network
PBS
Language
EN
Seasons
S01E01
The Making Of A Natural History Film
NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood-…
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S01E02
Where Did the Colorado Go?
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and A…
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S01E03
Whales, Dolphins, and Men
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.
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S01E04
The Search For Life
Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how life started on Earth and examines the Vik…
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S01E05
Last of the Cuiva
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misunderstandings betwee…
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S01E06
Strange Sleep
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disorders, subsequently t…
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S01E07
The Crab Nebula
In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the explosion of a dying star that was bigger th…
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S01E08
Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, foc…
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S01E09
Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerou…
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S01E10
The First Signs Of Washoe
Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner—to learn more about this unu…
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S01E11
The Case of the Midwife Toad
When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the i…
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S01E12
Fusion: The Energy of Promise
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the physicist. NOVA tells…
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S01E13
The Mystery Of The Anasazi
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest for some eight or n…
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Questions about NOVA
How many seasons does NOVA have?
NOVA has 53 seasons and 1020 episodes total.
What genre is NOVA?
NOVA is a Documentary series.
What is the TMDB rating for NOVA?
NOVA has a TMDB rating of 7.0/10 based on 139 votes.
