Season 1
(1974)
Cast
Episodes
The Making Of A Natural History Film 0.0
March 3, 1974
NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Fil…
Where Did the Colorado Go? 0.0
March 10, 1974
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and ele…
Whales, Dolphins, and Men 0.0
March 17, 1974
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this in…
The Search For Life 0.0
March 24, 1974
Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that.…
Last of the Cuiva 0.0
March 31, 1974
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at bo…
Strange Sleep 0.0
April 7, 1974
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and comp…
The Crab Nebula 0.0
April 14, 1974
In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the…
Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation 0.0
April 21, 1974
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to…
Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor? 0.0
April 28, 1974
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either th…
The First Signs Of Washoe 0.0
May 5, 1974
Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Alle…
The Case of the Midwife Toad 0.0
May 12, 1974
When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of gui…
Fusion: The Energy of Promise 0.0
May 19, 1974
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the …
The Mystery Of The Anasazi 0.0
May 26, 1974
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the An…