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Synopsis

PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

About This Series

NOVA is a 1974 documentary series created by an unknown creator. The series spans 53 seasons and 1029 episodes. It has earned an audience rating of 7.1 out of 10 based on 143 votes on TMDB. The series stars various actors among its cast of 0 credited actors.

Seasons & Episodes

• Season 1

  13 episodes • 1974

  1. E1 The Making Of A Natural History Film
  2. E2 Where Did the Colorado Go?
  3. E3 Whales, Dolphins, and Men
  4. E4 The Search For Life
  5. E5 Last of the Cuiva
  6. E6 Strange Sleep
  7. E7 The Crab Nebula
  8. E8 Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation
  9. E9 Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?
  10. E10 The First Signs Of Washoe
  11. E11 The Case of the Midwife Toad
  12. E12 Fusion: The Energy of Promise
  13. E13 The Mystery Of The Anasazi

• Season 2

  17 episodes • 1974

  1. E1 Why Do Birds Sing?
  2. E2 How Much Do You Smell?
  3. E3 The Hunting Of The Quark
  4. E4 The Secrets Of Sleep
  5. E5 Inside the Golden Gate
  6. E6 The Men Who Painted Caves
  7. E7 Red Sea Coral
  8. E8 War From the Air
  9. E9 What Time is Your Body?
  10. E10 The Rise And Fall Of DDT
  11. E11 Take the World From Another Point of View
  12. E12 The Lysenko Affair
  13. E13 The Tuaregs
  14. E14 The Plutonium Connection
  15. E15 The Other Way
  16. E16 The Lost World Of The Maya
  17. E17 Will The Fishing Have to Stop?

• Season 3

  20 episodes • 1976

  1. E1 Predictable Disaster
  2. E2 Joey
  3. E3 Meditation and the Mind
  4. E4 The Planets
  5. E5 A Desert Place
  6. E6 A Small Imperfection
  7. E7 Ninety Degrees Below
  8. E8 The Race for the Double Helix
  9. E9 The Renewable Tree
  10. E10 The Williamsburgh File
  11. E11 The Overworked Miracle
  12. E12 The Transplant Experiment
  13. E13 The Underground Movement
  14. E14 Hunters of the Seal
  15. E15 Benjamin
  16. E16 The Women Rebel
  17. E17 Death of a Disease
  18. E18 Inside the Shark
  19. E19 The Genetic Chance
  20. E20 The Case of the Bermuda Triangle

• Season 4

  19 episodes • 1977

  1. E1 Hitler's Secret Weapon
  2. E2 The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs
  3. E3 What Price Coal?
  4. E4 The Sunspot Mystery
  5. E5 The Plastic Prison
  6. E6 Incident at Brown's Ferry
  7. E7 Bye Bye Blackbird
  8. E8 The Pill for the People
  9. E9 The Gene Engineers
  10. E10 The Human Animal
  11. E11 The Wolf Equation
  12. E12 The Dawn of the Solar Age
  13. E13 The Business of Extinction
  14. E14 The Red Planet
  15. E15 Tongues of Men (1)
  16. E16 Tongues of Men (2)
  17. E17 Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist
  18. E18 Across the Silent Barrier
  19. E19 The New Healers

• Season 5

  21 episodes • 1978

  1. E1 In The Event of Catastrophe
  2. E2 The Green Machine
  3. E3 Blueprints in the Bloodstream
  4. E4 One Small Step
  5. E5 The Final Frontier
  6. E6 BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest
  7. E7 Trial of Denton Cooley
  8. E8 The Great Wine Revolution
  9. E9 The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
  10. E10 The Mind Machines
  11. E11 Icarus' Children
  12. E12 Still Waters
  13. E13 Battle for the Acropolis
  14. E14 The Road to Happiness. : The Life and Times of Henry Ford
  15. E15 Laser : Light of the 21st Century
  16. E16 Insect Alternative
  17. E17 The Desert's Edge
  18. E18 The Tsetse Trap
  19. E19 Memories From Eden
  20. E20 A Whisper from Space
  21. E21 Alaska: The Closing Frontier

• Season 6

  19 episodes • 1979

  1. E1 Black Tide
  2. E2 Long Walk Of Fred Young
  3. E3 A World Of Difference
  4. E4 Cashing In On The Ocean
  5. E5 Patterns From The Past
  6. E6 The Invisible Flame
  7. E7 The End Of The Rainbow
  8. E8 The Beersheva Experiment
  9. E9 Einstein
  10. E10 The Keys Of Paradise
  11. E11 A Plague on our Children
  12. E12 Life on a Silken Thread
  13. E13 Sweet Solutions
  14. E14 Race for the Gold
  15. E15 All Part of the Game
  16. E16 India: Machinery of Hope
  17. E17 The Bridge that Spanned the World
  18. E18 Termites to Telescopes
  19. E19 Blindness: Five Points of Views

• Season 7

  20 episodes • 1980

  1. E1 The Elusive Illness
  2. E2 A is for Atom, B is for Bomb
  3. E3 Living Machines
  4. E4 Portrait of a Killer
  5. E5 Umealit: The Whale Hunters
  6. E6 The Safety Factor
  7. E7 A Mediterranean Prospect
  8. E8 Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland
  9. E9 The Pinks and the Blues
  10. E10 The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian
  11. E11 The Sea Behind the Dunes
  12. E12 Do We Really Need the Rockes?
  13. E13 The Big IF
  14. E14 Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond
  15. E15 The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor
  16. E16 The Water Crisis
  17. E17 Moving Still
  18. E18 A Touch of Sensitivity
  19. E19 The Red Deer of Rhum
  20. E20 It's About Time

• Season 8

  20 episodes • 1981

  1. E1 Doctors of Nigeria
  2. E2 Message in the Rocks
  3. E3 The Dead Sea Lives
  4. E4 Anatomy of a Volcano
  5. E5 The Science of Murder
  6. E6 The Malady of Health Care
  7. E7 Beyond the Milky Way
  8. E8 The Asteroid and the Dinosaur
  9. E9 Animal Olympians
  10. E10 Resolution on Saturn
  11. E11 Computers, Spies and Private Lives
  12. E12 Why America Burns
  13. E13 The Great Violin Mystery
  14. E14 Cosmic Fire
  15. E15 Locusts: War Without End
  16. E16 Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
  17. E17 Artists in the Lab
  18. E18 Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas
  19. E19 City Spaces, Human Places
  20. E20 Twins

• Season 9

  19 episodes • 1982

  1. E1 Salmon on the Run
  2. E2 Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
  3. E3 Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
  4. E4 The Hunt for the Legion Killer
  5. E5 Finding a Voice
  6. E6 The Television Explosion
  7. E7 Life: Patent Pending
  8. E8 Palace of Delights
  9. E9 Animal Impostors
  10. E10 Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome
  11. E11 The Case of the UFOs
  12. E12 The Fragile Mountain
  13. E13 Here's Looking At You Kid
  14. E14 Adventures of Teenage Scientists
  15. E15 The Cobalt Blues
  16. E16 Goodbye Louisiana
  17. E17 Whale Watch
  18. E18 Tracking The Supertrains
  19. E19 The Making of a Natural History Film

• Season 10

  21 episodes • 1983

  1. E1 Hawaii: Crucible of Life
  2. E2 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
  3. E3 Lassa Fever
  4. E4 The Miracle of Life
  5. E5 Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy
  6. E6 City of Coral
  7. E7 Fat Chance in a Thin World
  8. E8 Sixty Minutes to Meltdown
  9. E9 Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales
  10. E10 The Artificial Heart
  11. E11 Talking Turtle
  12. E12 Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial
  13. E13 To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  14. E14 A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds
  15. E15 A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery
  16. E16 Captives of Care
  17. E17 Twenty-Five Years in Space
  18. E18 Nuclear Strategy for Beginners
  19. E19 The Climate Crisis
  20. E20 Eyes Over China
  21. E21 Alcoholism: Life Under The Influence

• Season 11

  20 episodes • 1984

  1. E1 The Case of ESP
  2. E2 Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier
  3. E3 China's Only Child
  4. E4 Will I Walk Again?
  5. E5 Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings
  6. E6 Down on the Farm
  7. E7 Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care
  8. E8 The World According to Weisskopf
  9. E9 Space Bridge to Moscow
  10. E10 The National Science Test I
  11. E11 Fountains of Paradise
  12. E12 The Mystery of Yellow Rain
  13. E13 The Nomads of the Rain Forest
  14. E14 Farmers of the Sea
  15. E15 Frontiers of Plastic Surgery
  16. E16 Space Women
  17. E17 Jaws: The True Story
  18. E18 Acid Rain: New Bad News
  19. E19 Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life
  20. E20 The Garden of Inheritance

• Season 12

  20 episodes • 1985

  1. E1 Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines
  2. E2 Global Village
  3. E3 Conquest of the Parasites
  4. E4 In the Land of the Polar Bears
  5. E5 AIDS: Chapter One
  6. E6 The Shape of Things
  7. E7 Baby Talk
  8. E8 The Mathematical Mystery Tour
  9. E9 Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities
  10. E10 Monarch of the Mountains
  11. E11 The National Science Test II
  12. E12 Seeds of Tomorrow
  13. E13 What Einstein Never Knew
  14. E14 The Robot Revolution?
  15. E15 The Magic of Special Effects
  16. E16 Child Survival: The Silent Emergency
  17. E17 Tornado!
  18. E18 The Genetic Gamble
  19. E19 Animal Architects
  20. E20 The Plane that Changed the World

• Season 13

  21 episodes • 1986

  1. E1 Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime
  2. E2 Goddess of the Earth
  3. E3 Horsemen of China
  4. E4 Life's First Feelings
  5. E5 The Case of the Frozen Addict
  6. E6 Toxic Trials
  7. E7 Skydive to the Rain Forest
  8. E8 Return of the Osprey
  9. E9 The Rise of a Wonder Drug
  10. E10 When Wonder Drugs Don't Work
  11. E11 Visions of Star Wars
  12. E12 The Search for the Disappeared
  13. E13 The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side
  14. E14 High-Tech Babies
  15. E15 Can AIDS Be Stopped?
  16. E16 Is Anybody Out There?
  17. E17 Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders
  18. E18 Are You Swimming in a Sewer?
  19. E19 Sail Wars!
  20. E20 Leprosy Can Be Cured!
  21. E21 How Babies Get Made

• Season 14

  21 episodes • 1987

  1. E1 Countdown to the Invisible Universe
  2. E2 Children of Eve
  3. E3 Why Planes Crash
  4. E4 Orangutans of the Rain Forest
  5. E5 Freud Under Analysis
  6. E6 The Hole in the Sky
  7. E7 Confessions of a Weaponeer
  8. E8 Great Moments from NOVA
  9. E9 Will the World Starve?
  10. E10 The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore
  11. E11 Rocky Road to Jupiter
  12. E12 Death of a Star
  13. E13 Spy Machines
  14. E14 Hidden Power of Plants
  15. E15 Japan's American Genius
  16. E16 A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama
  17. E17 Volcano!
  18. E18 How Good is Soviet Science?
  19. E19 Ancient Treasures from the Deep
  20. E20 Riddle of the Joints
  21. E21 Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People

• Season 15

  22 episodes • 1988

  1. E1 Top Gun and Beyond
  2. E2 How to Create a Junk Food
  3. E3 Buried in Ice
  4. E4 Why Planes Burn
  5. E5 Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial
  6. E6 Battles in the War on Cancer: Turning the Tide
  7. E7 The Mystery of the Master Builders
  8. E8 Whale Rescue
  9. E9 The Man Who Loved Numbers
  10. E10 Race for the Superconductor
  11. E11 Can You Still Get Polio?
  12. E12 Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft
  13. E13 Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart
  14. E14 Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old
  15. E15 Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife
  16. E16 Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?
  17. E17 Can the Next President Win the Space Race?
  18. E18 Do Scientists Cheat?
  19. E19 Who Shot President Kennedy?
  20. E20 The Light Stuff
  21. E21 The All-American Bear
  22. E22 Can We Make a Better Doctor?

• Season 16

  20 episodes • 1989

  1. E1 Hot Enough for You?
  2. E2 The Last Journey of a Genius
  3. E3 The Strange New Science of Chaos
  4. E4 Back to Chernobyl
  5. E5 God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs
  6. E6 Adrift on the Gulf Stream
  7. E7 Secrets of Easter Island (1)
  8. E8 Legends of Easter Island (2)
  9. E9 The World Is Full of Oil!
  10. E10 Confronting the Killer Gene
  11. E11 The Hidden City
  12. E12 The Controversial Dr. Koop
  13. E13 Design Wars!
  14. E14 Echoes of War
  15. E15 Decoding the Book of Life
  16. E16 Hurricane!
  17. E17 Will Venice Survive Its Rescue?
  18. E18 What Is Music?
  19. E19 Yellowstone's Burning Question
  20. E20 The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret

• Season 17

  20 episodes • 1990

  1. E1 Poison in the Rockies
  2. E2 Race for the Top
  3. E3 Disguises of War
  4. E4 The Bomb's Lethal Legacy
  5. E5 The Big Spill
  6. E6 The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon
  7. E7 The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision
  8. E8 The Genius that Was China: The Threat from Japan
  9. E9 The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again?
  10. E10 The KGB, The Computer and Me
  11. E11 Neptune's Cold Fury
  12. E12 To Boldly Go...
  13. E13 Poisoned Winds of War
  14. E14 The Blimp is Back!
  15. E15 Earthquake!
  16. E16 Killing Machines
  17. E17 Can the Elephant Be Saved?
  18. E18 We Know Where You Live
  19. E19 In the Land of the Llamas
  20. E20 What's Killing the Children?

• Season 18

  19 episodes • 1991

• Season 19

  20 episodes • 1992

• Season 20

  20 episodes • 1993

• Season 21

  20 episodes • 1994

• Season 22

  13 episodes • 1995

• Season 23

  19 episodes • 1995

• Season 24

  21 episodes • 1996

• Season 25

  20 episodes • 1997

• Season 26

  20 episodes • 1998

• Season 27

  21 episodes • 1999

• Season 28

  17 episodes • 2000

• Season 29

  17 episodes • 2001

• Season 30

  16 episodes • 2002

• Season 31

  18 episodes • 2003

• Season 32

  18 episodes • 2004

• Season 33

  20 episodes • 2005

• Season 34

  15 episodes • 2006

• Season 35

  17 episodes • 2007

• Season 36

  17 episodes • 2008

• Season 37

  18 episodes • 2009

• Season 38

  18 episodes • 2010

• Season 39

  19 episodes • 2011

• Season 40

  20 episodes • 2012

• Season 41

  22 episodes • 2013

• Season 42

  22 episodes • 2014

• Season 43

  22 episodes • 2015

• Season 44

  28 episodes • 2016

• Season 45

  23 episodes • 2018

• Season 46

  23 episodes • 2019

• Season 47

  16 episodes • 2020

• Season 48

  25 episodes • 2021

• Season 49

  19 episodes • 2022

• Season 50

  18 episodes • 2023

• Season 51

  18 episodes • 2024

• Season 52

  20 episodes • 2025

• Season 53

  17 episodes • 2026

• Specials

  13 episodes • 1999

  1. E1 To The Moon
  2. E2 Eclipse Over America
  3. E3 Blood Sugar Rising
  4. E4 Gene-Editing Reality Check
  5. E5 Search Engine Breakdown
  6. E6 Predicting My MS
  7. E7 Sea Change: Bounty in the Gulf of Maine
  8. E8 Sea Change: Peril in the Gulf of Maine
  9. E9 Sea Change: Survival in the Gulf of Maine
  10. E10 When Machines Prescribe
  11. E11 Beyond the Elements: Reactions
  12. E12 Beyond the Elements
  13. E13 Beyond the Elements

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