Episode guide
NOVA: Season 20
20 episodes · premiered Jan 5, 1993
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- Episode 1: The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons Jan 5, 1993 · 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 2: Can Bombing Win a War? Jan 19, 1993 · 55m The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history of strategic bombing and asks whether bombing has…
- Episode 3: The Deadly Deception Jan 26, 1993 · 55m For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of this notorious human…
- Episode 4: Nazis and the Russian Bomb Feb 2, 1993 · 55m NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of the crash program in 1949, with the explosion of…
- Episode 5: In the Path of a Killer Volcano Feb 9, 1993 · 55m NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines goes big time…
- Episode 6: Can Science Build a Champion Athlete? Feb 16, 1993 · 55m Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOVA covers the record-setting trend for improving…
- Episode 7: Diving for Pirate Gold Feb 23, 1993 · 55m These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plundering sunken ships. NOVA explores the…
- Episode 8: Murder, Rape and DNA Mar 2, 1993 · 55m Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is putting increasing numbers of murderers and…
- Episode 9: The Lost Tribe Mar 30, 1993 · 55m NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippines in 1971, they were hailed as a Stone Age…
- Episode 10: The NOVA Quiz Oct 5, 1993 · 55m NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famous guests pose questions for the viewers at home…
- Episode 11: Wanted: Butch and Sundance Oct 12, 1993 · 55m Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They find Hollywood and legend got a few things wrong.
- Episode 12: Secrets of the Psychics Oct 19, 1993 · 55m Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others. In the program, "Randi argues…
- Episode 13: Dying to Breathe Oct 26, 1993 · 55m NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants—a new lung. Months of waiting end in a few frenzied hours of…
- Episode 14: Shadow of the Condor Nov 2, 1993 · 55m NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America. Footage includes never-before-photographed…
- Episode 15: The Real Jurassic Park Nov 9, 1993 · 55m With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts , NOVA investigates what it would take to recreate the dinosaur theme park in Jurassic…
- Episode 16: Roller Coaster! Nov 16, 1993 · 55m NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides of the future may take place entirely in the…
- Episode 17: Mysterious Crash of Flight 201 Nov 30, 1993 · 55m US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama. Nothing about the accident makes sense, until a key clue emerges.
- Episode 18: Great Moments from NOVA Dec 7, 1993 · 55m Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, adventure, mystery, drama and non-stop discovery fill…
- Episode 19: The Best Mind Since Einstein Dec 21, 1993 · 55m A profile of the late Richard Feynman—atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who helped solve the mystery of the space shuttle…
- Episode 20: Stranger in the Mirror Dec 28, 1993 · 55m NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and familiar objects, made famous in Oliver Sacks' book…