NOVA - Season 4

NOVA - Season 4

Season 4

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DatesJan. 5, 1977 - Jan. 11, 1978
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Episodes

Hitler's Secret Weapon
Season 4Episode 160 min

Hitler's Secret Weapon

NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.

Jan. 5, 1977
The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs
Season 4Episode 260 min

The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs

If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the giant jigsaw puzzle together, never mind discover anything about how these dinosaurs lived? NOVA explores the incredible world of the dinosaur scientist.

Jan. 12, 1977
What Price Coal?
Season 4Episode 360 min

What Price Coal?

What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by the government, industry, and the victims.

Jan. 19, 1977
The Sunspot Mystery
Season 4Episode 460 min

The Sunspot Mystery

NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover the link between weather patterns and the 11 year sunspot mystery.

Feb. 2, 1977
The Plastic Prison
Season 4Episode 560 min

The Plastic Prison

NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immunodeficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.

Feb. 9, 1977
Incident at Brown's Ferry
Season 4Episode 660 min

Incident at Brown's Ferry

NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a seven-hour fire which came very close to developing into a major public disaster.

Feb. 23, 1977
Bye Bye Blackbird
Season 4Episode 760 min

Bye Bye Blackbird

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

März 2, 1977
The Pill for the People
Season 4Episode 860 min

The Pill for the People

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

März 9, 1977
The Gene Engineers
Season 4Episode 960 min

The Gene Engineers

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

März 16, 1977
The Human Animal
Season 4Episode 1060 min

The Human Animal

NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically determined.

März 23, 1977
The Wolf Equation
Season 4Episode 1160 min

The Wolf Equation

In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. Although the area is roamed by the Western Arctic caribou herds—a natural predator of the wolf—the caribou population has been steadily decreasing in number. NOVA examines how the Dept. of Fish and Game is handling the the problem of wolf control.

März 30, 1977
The Dawn of the Solar Age
Season 4Episode 1260 min

The Dawn of the Solar Age

Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a source of industrial power. NOVA looks at this new industrial approach, such as the use of a huge windmill in Ohio, giant machines that may generate electricity from the heat of the tropical seas or from the motion of waves, and an orbiting solar power station able to beam microwaves to earth.

Apr. 20, 1977
The Business of Extinction
Season 4Episode 1360 min

The Business of Extinction

NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on vanishing wildlife.

Apr. 20, 1977
The Red Planet
Season 4Episode 1460 min

The Red Planet

NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particularly the theory that the planet could support life. Questions raised by NASA's 1976 Viking mariner missions about how the vast canyons were formed are also explored.

Apr. 27, 1977
Tongues of Men (1)
Season 4Episode 1560 min

Tongues of Men (1)

In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and why the bewildering confusion of languages came about.

Mai 11, 1977
Tongues of Men (2)
Season 4Episode 1660 min

Tongues of Men (2)

In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped with the confusion of language and asks if the growing acceptance of English is the answer.

Mai 18, 1977
Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist
Season 4Episode 1760 min

Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist

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

Juni 1, 1977
Across the Silent Barrier
Season 4Episode 1860 min

Across the Silent Barrier

NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitty O'Neil—a woman record-holding speed car racer; Frances Parsons, an advocate of hearing-impaired persons' rights; and workers at Silent Industries—a factory in Los Angeles founded by a deaf man.

Juni 22, 1977
The New Healers
Season 4Episode 1960 min

The New Healers

NOVA explores the debilitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United States.

Juni 29, 1977
The Green Machine
Season 4Episode 2060 min

The Green Machine

Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth hormones, responses to light and shade, photosynthesis, root mechanisms and twining responses.

Jan. 11, 1978

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