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Season 4

(1977)

Cast

Episodes

Hitler's Secret Weapon poster

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January 5, 1977

NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never …

The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs poster

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January 12, 1977

If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the gi…

What Price Coal? poster

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January 19, 1977

What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by t…

The Sunspot Mystery poster

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February 2, 1977

NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover…

The Plastic Prison poster

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February 9, 1977

NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no imm…

Incident at Brown's Ferry poster

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February 23, 1977

NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a sev…

Bye Bye Blackbird poster

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March 2, 1977

NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.

The Pill for the People poster

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March 9, 1977

NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for…

The Gene Engineers poster

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March 16, 1977

NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research

The Human Animal poster

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March 23, 1977

NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human beha…

The Wolf Equation poster

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March 30, 1977

In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. Althoug…

The Dawn of the Solar Age poster

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April 20, 1977

Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a …

The Business of Extinction poster

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April 20, 1977

NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and asse…

The Red Planet poster

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April 27, 1977

NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particularly the theory th…

Tongues of Men (1) poster

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May 11, 1977

In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and why the bewildering…

Tongues of Men (2) poster

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May 18, 1977

In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped with the confusion of…

Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist poster

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June 1, 1977

NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.

Across the Silent Barrier poster

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June 22, 1977

NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing b…

The New Healers poster

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June 29, 1977

NOVA explores the delibitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzan…