Episode guide
NOVA: Season 19
20 episodes · premiered Jan 14, 1992
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- Episode 1: Hell Fighters of Kuwait Jan 14, 1992 · 55m NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuwait, which has created the worst manmade pollution event in history. Fire fighting teams from Houston and…
- Episode 2: Submarine! Jan 21, 1992 · 55m NOVA takes a voyage on the newest of America's doomsday machines—the ballistic missle submarine USS Michigan. The Cold War may be won, but these submerged super arsenals continue to prowl…
- Episode 3: Saddam's War on Wildlife Jan 28, 1992 · 55m Few people give any thought to wildlife in the midst of a war. During the Gulf War, environmentalist John Walsh did his best to save animals from oil spills, bullets and other dangers.
- Episode 4: What Smells? Feb 11, 1992 · 55m The nose knows. How much is the subject of NOVA's investigation of the mysterious aromas and hidden messages picked up by our sense of smell. David Suzuki hosts.
- Episode 5: Can You Believe TV Ratings? Feb 18, 1992 · 55m Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis. NOVA finds that ratings are getting more accurate but still are far from scientific.
- Episode 6: Making a Dishonest Buck Mar 3, 1992 · 55m Criminals still make money the old-fashioned way—by counterfeiting. NOVA looks at why US currency is so easy to fake and what the government is doing about it.
- Episode 7: Rescuing Baby Whales Mar 10, 1992 · 55m NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, as the puzzling behavior becomes more common.
- Episode 8: An Astronaut's View of the Earth Mar 17, 1992 · 55m NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen Imax/Omnimax space spectacle. Astronauts operate the cameras on location aboard the Space Shuttle.
- Episode 9: Eclipse of the Century Mar 24, 1992 · 55m The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6 1/2 minutes of frenetic research that revealed new secrets about our sun.
- Episode 10: Animal Olympians II Aug 25, 1992 · 55m In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional…
- Episode 11: The Genius Behind the Bomb Sep 29, 1992 · 55m Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons. Szilard drafted and…
- Episode 12: Mind of a Serial Killer Oct 13, 1992 · 55m NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popularized in the Academy Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs. Using a detailed psychological profile, the…
- Episode 13: Search for the First Americans Oct 20, 1992 · 55m NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate across a Bering Sea land bridge at the end of the last Ice Age, as we all learned in school? Or did they arrive…
- Episode 14: Rafting Through the Grand Canyon Oct 27, 1992 · 55m NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating the spectacular first canyon voyage of the 19th-century explorer John Wesley Powell. The…
- Episode 15: This Old Pyramid Nov 4, 1992 · 55m In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional…
- Episode 16: Iceman Nov 10, 1992 · 55m Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found along with artifacts of his vanished way of life. NOVA covers the international effort to…
- Episode 17: Private Lives of Dolphins Nov 17, 1992 · 55m NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like humans and chimpanzees, dolphins have evolved a sophisticated social…
- Episode 18: Brain Transplant Dec 1, 1992 · 55m Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease that is largely unavailable in the US due to the ban on fetal tissue research. "Brain…
- Episode 19: Can You Stop People From Drinking? Dec 22, 1992 · 55m NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abuse with old and new weapons—including prohibition, hypnotism, imprisonment, surveillance…
- Episode 20: Sex and the Single Rhino Dec 29, 1992 · 55m NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ark—but today's conservationists need all the tools that biology, ecology, diplomacy and…