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NOVA Season 4

January. 05,1977
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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.

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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.

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NOVA Season 4 Full Episode Guide

Episode 19 - The New Healers
Episode 18 - Across the Silent Barrier
First Aired: June. 22,1977

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.

Episode 16 - Tongues of Men (2)
First Aired: May. 18,1977

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.

Episode 15 - Tongues of Men (1)
Episode 14 - The Red Planet
First Aired: April. 27,1977

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.

Episode 13 - The Business of Extinction
Episode 12 - The Dawn of the Solar Age
First Aired: April. 20,1977

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.

Episode 11 - The Wolf Equation
First Aired: March. 30,1977

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.

Episode 10 - The Human Animal
Episode 8 - The Pill for the People
Episode 6 - Incident at Brown's Ferry
First Aired: February. 23,1977

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.

Episode 4 - The Sunspot Mystery
First Aired: February. 02,1977

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.

Episode 3 - What Price Coal?
Episode 2 - The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs
First Aired: January. 12,1977

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.

Episode 1 - Hitler's Secret Weapon

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