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Season 13

(1986)

Cast

Episodes

Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime poster

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January 21, 1986

NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers and scientists armed with specialized camera…

Goddess of the Earth poster

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January 28, 1986

Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial hypothesis that life on Earth controls th…

Horsemen of China poster

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February 4, 1986

For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions, refusing to be dominated by either the C…

Life's First Feelings poster

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February 11, 1986

NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and examines the current theory that early childh…

The Case of the Frozen Addict poster

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February 18, 1986

In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms…

Toxic Trials poster

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February 25, 1986

When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town mobilized to invest…

Skydive to the Rain Forest poster

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March 4, 1986

NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is alive with spectacular waterfalls, colored by …

Return of the Osprey poster

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March 11, 1986

NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists and bird-lovers fight to save the majestic O…

The Rise of a Wonder Drug poster

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March 18, 1986

When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never considered its possible therapeutic value. NOVA…

When Wonder Drugs Don't Work poster

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March 25, 1986

NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resistant infection increases, and studies how …

Visions of Star Wars poster

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April 22, 1986

NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The two-hour documentary contains the…

The Search for the Disappeared poster

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October 14, 1986

NOVA joins scientists in Argentina as they help locate kidnapped children and identify thousands of dead in the afterma…

The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side poster

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October 21, 1986

The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of Uranus. Scientists suspect that violent e…

High-Tech Babies poster

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November 4, 1986

Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways never before imagined. NOVA looks at the m…

Can AIDS Be Stopped? poster

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November 11, 1986

What are the prospects for halting or curing the deadliest epidemic ever to challenge modern medicine? NOVA finds cause…

Is Anybody Out There? poster

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November 18, 1986

Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to scan the skies in a systematic attempt to fin…

Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders poster

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November 25, 1986

Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habitat to migrate to another, often thousands …

Are You Swimming in a Sewer? poster

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December 2, 1986

NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, raw sewage and disease-carrying microbes ar…

Sail Wars! poster

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December 9, 1986

Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scenes to look at the engineering effort to des…

Leprosy Can Be Cured! poster

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December 16, 1986

Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still afflicts some 12 million people. NOVA looks …

How Babies Get Made poster

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January 13, 1987

NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a tiny sequence of molecules—and more clues …