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Season 6

(1979)

Cast

Episodes

Black Tide poster

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January 4, 1979

On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, went aground off the …

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January 11, 1979

As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, spoke only the Indian languages Ute and Na…

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January 18, 1979

In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13 month-old daughter, Deborah, into a "box." The box was actual…

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February 1, 1979

The bed of the northeast Pacific Ocean is covered with a "carpet" estimated to be worth a staggering ten million dollar…

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February 8, 1979

Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros Indians live a life patterned on that of their ancestors …

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February 22, 1979

Some day hydrogen may replace the gasoline that we are now using up so rapidly. NOVA looks at the potential of hydrogen…

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March 1, 1979

Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promise—and problems—of fusion as a future energ…

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March 8, 1979

Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent for medical education in …

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March 15, 1979

One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most Americans. NOVA presents an insightful por…

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March 29, 1979

Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a place where you would least expect to find t…

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October 2, 1979

Is the chemical industry a boom to modern civilization, or a major threat to our health and that of future generations?…

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October 9, 1979

Sinister, sometimes even deadly, spiders have little popular appeal; yet their silken webs are among nature's loveliest…

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October 16, 1979

NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political history to its medical controversy.

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October 30, 1979

At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted gold medals, though their country is only …

All Part of the Game poster

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November 6, 1979

Thousands of amateur athletes are hurt every year, and many professional athletes suffer injuries that may mean the end…

India: Machinery of Hope poster

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November 20, 1979

Most of India lives by the same rhythm, the same tools, as in centuries past. But there is another India—with thriving …

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December 4, 1979

The Iron Bridge across the River Severn in Telford, England is two centuries old this year. It remains a monument to th…

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December 11, 1979

Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents th…

Blindness: Five Points of Views poster

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December 18, 1979

For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA looks at five people struggling to save th…