Season 21
(1994)
Cast
Episodes
Codebreakers 0.0
January 18, 1994
NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The progr…
Dinosaurs of the Gobi 0.0
January 25, 1994
Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural…
Daredevils of the Sky 0.0
February 1, 1994
NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship.…
Journey to Kilimanjaro 0.0
February 8, 1994
NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the …
Can Chimps Talk? 0.0
February 15, 1994
NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human…
In Search of Human Origins, Part One 0.0
February 28, 1994
In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human sp…
In Search of Human Origins, Part Two 0.0
March 1, 1994
Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to…
In Search of Human Origins, Part Three 0.0
March 2, 1994
At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act …
Can China Kick the Habit? 0.0
April 12, 1994
NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world-China. Western advertising and trading practices have exace…
Aircraft Carrier! 0.0
April 19, 1994
NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence-where every day…
The Great Wildlife Heist 0.0
October 11, 1994
Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's most beautiful and intelligent birds: parrots…
Secret of the Wild Child 0.0
October 18, 1994
NOVA profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy. When social worke…
Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird 0.0
October 25, 1994
NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that was hunted to extinction over a century a…
What's New About Menopause 0.0
November 1, 1994
NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and examining the medical and ethical controve…
The Tribe that Time Forgot 0.0
November 8, 1994
NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe- a tribe that dismembered and partially at…
Killer Quake! 0.0
November 15, 1994
NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to repair itself from the tragedy, seismic pres…
Buried in Ash 0.0
November 29, 1994
Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is now Nebraska in up to 10 feet of ash, prese…
Rescue Mission in Space 0.0
December 6, 1994
Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, the Hubble Space Telescope was recently re…
Journey to the Sacred Sea 0.0
December 20, 1994
NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth.…
In Search of the First Language 0.0
December 27, 1994
NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a controversial theory tha…