Episode guide
NOVA: Season 3
20 episodes · premiered Jan 4, 1976
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- Episode 1: Predictable Disaster Jan 4, 1976 · 55m It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful predictions have already been made in the United States; and the NOVA crew was present and filming while a third…
- Episode 2: Joey Jan 11, 1976 · 55m NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic since birth. Joey has lived most of his life in institutions, unable to communicate with anyone until he met…
- Episode 3: Meditation and the Mind Jan 18, 1976 · 55m What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressman Richard Nolas have in common? They all practice a ritual called TM—Transcendental Meditation. NOVA examines…
- Episode 4: The Planets Jan 25, 1976 · 55m The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our place in the stars, the Solar System. Beginning in 1961 with a Russian spacecraft flying to Venus, quickening…
- Episode 5: A Desert Place Feb 1, 1976 · 55m NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence—in a pool created only minutes before—of a pair of adult spadefoot toads…
- Episode 6: A Small Imperfection Feb 8, 1976 · 55m Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congenital abnormality of the central nervous system. NOVA explores the mystery of what causes spina bifida and raises…
- Episode 7: Ninety Degrees Below Feb 15, 1976 · 55m There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freezing waters are so bitter there that a fish has been discovered to have developed its own anti-freeze. NOVA…
- Episode 8: The Race for the Double Helix Mar 7, 1976 · 55m Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of the discovery of the structure of DNA. James Watson and his ex-colleague Francis Crick exchange memories of the…
- Episode 9: The Renewable Tree Mar 7, 1976 · 55m Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The paper packs, napkins, paper cups and packing used by McDonald's gobble up 315 square miles of trees every day…
- Episode 10: The Williamsburgh File Mar 14, 1976 · 55m NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, for a fascinating glimpse of the lifestyles of the founders of this country, complete with detailed…
- Episode 11: The Overworked Miracle Mar 21, 1976 · 55m Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding their medical value. NOVA examines the problem of resistance to antibiotics in the bacteria they are designed to…
- Episode 12: The Transplant Experiment Apr 11, 1976 · 55m Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplants than any other heart surgeon. NOVA explores those extraordinary days in 1968-69 when it appeared that…
- Episode 13: The Underground Movement Apr 18, 1976 · 55m NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and worms down to the myriad of micro-organisms that make soil the most complex substrate for life on earth. Included…
- Episode 14: Hunters of the Seal May 2, 1976 · 55m NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of life and what happens when Western civilization is imposed upon them.
- Episode 15: Benjamin May 9, 1976 · 55m Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first year of life provides the backbone of this revealing NOVA about early child development.
- Episode 16: The Women Rebel May 23, 1976 · 55m Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole attitude of the male-dominated medical profession towards "women's issues" and, above all, for gaining social…
- Episode 17: Death of a Disease Jun 6, 1976 · 55m As late as 1967, smallpox struck as many as 15 million people in 43 countries and killed an estimated two or three million. Experts now believe that the disease is on the verge of…
- Episode 18: Inside the Shark Jun 13, 1976 · 55m The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really such a barbarian? NOVA looks at the lifestyle of this remarkable survivor from the days when dinosaurs ruled the…
- Episode 19: The Genetic Chance Jun 20, 1976 · 55m Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety of defects in unborn babies. NOVA focuses on the ethical question that must be considered: What defines a…
- Episode 20: The Case of the Bermuda Triangle Jun 27, 1976 · 55m Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean off of Florida, known as the Bermuda Triangle. NOVA…