Season 9 poster

Season 9

(1982)

Cast

Episodes

Salmon on the Run poster

Salmon on the Run 0.0

January 10, 1982

NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technol…

Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy poster

Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy 0.0

January 17, 1982

NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA fol…

Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson poster

Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson 0.0

January 24, 1982

NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a…

The Hunt for the Legion Killer poster

The Hunt for the Legion Killer 0.0

January 31, 1982

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independen…

Finding a Voice poster

Finding a Voice 0.0

February 7, 1982

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick …

The Television Explosion poster

The Television Explosion 0.0

February 14, 1982

NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio…

Life: Patent Pending poster

Life: Patent Pending 0.0

February 28, 1982

NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on indus…

Palace of Delights poster

Palace of Delights 0.0

March 7, 1982

NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely colle…

Animal Impostors poster

Animal Impostors 0.0

March 14, 1982

In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many o…

Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome poster

Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome 0.0

March 28, 1982

What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes w…

The Case of the UFOs poster

The Case of the UFOs 0.0

October 12, 1982

For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified …

The Fragile Mountain poster

The Fragile Mountain 0.0

October 19, 1982

The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, a…

Here's Looking At You Kid poster

Here's Looking At You Kid 0.0

November 9, 1982

Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraor…

Adventures of Teenage Scientists poster

Adventures of Teenage Scientists 0.0

November 16, 1982

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interest…

The Cobalt Blues poster

The Cobalt Blues 0.0

November 23, 1982

An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel ind…

Goodbye Louisiana poster

Goodbye Louisiana 0.0

November 30, 1982

NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to chan…

Whale Watch poster

Whale Watch 0.0

December 7, 1982

NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and revea…

Tracking The Supertrains poster

Tracking The Supertrains 0.0

December 14, 1982

While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles p…

The Making of a Natural History Film poster

The Making of a Natural History Film 0.0

January 4, 1983

To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delight…