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NOVA Season 9

January. 10,1982
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NOVA Season 9 Full Episode Guide

Episode 19 - The Making of a Natural History Film
Episode 18 - Tracking The Supertrains
First Aired: December. 14,1982

While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.

Episode 17 - Whale Watch
First Aired: December. 07,1982

NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known facts about the mating and feeding habits of the gentle giants.

Episode 16 - Goodbye Louisiana
First Aired: November. 30,1982

NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and where last year 49 square miles of coastline disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico.

Episode 15 - The Cobalt Blues
First Aired: November. 23,1982

An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which examines and questions Reagan Administration policies toward those international sources.

Episode 14 - Adventures of Teenage Scientists
First Aired: November. 16,1982

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. With education facing a deepening financial crisis, will this year's group of well-trained young scientists be among the last of the best and the brightest?

Episode 13 - Here's Looking At You Kid
First Aired: November. 09,1982

Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resilience in an 11-year-old boy's fight to recover from burns suffered over 73 percent of his body.

Episode 12 - The Fragile Mountain
Episode 11 - The Case of the UFOs
First Aired: October. 12,1982

For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With vivid film and accounts from several eyewitnesses including astronauts, NOVA sifts the evidence for and against the existence of UFOs.

Episode 10 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome
Episode 9 - Animal Impostors
First Aired: March. 14,1982

In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals, both predators and their intended victims, use remarkable forms of deception to achieve their goal: to eat, or avoid being eaten.

Episode 8 - Palace of Delights
Episode 7 - Life: Patent Pending
First Aired: February. 28,1982

NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and the universities themselves. NOVA reveals that other countries are plowing far more resources than the US into the burgeoning industry.

Episode 6 - The Television Explosion
First Aired: February. 14,1982

NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experiment, the array of new techniques and their potential social impact. Will the new video technology let people see what they really want, rather than what the networks want?

Episode 5 - Finding a Voice
First Aired: February. 07,1982

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair and unable for 30 years to say more than "yes" or "no" and investigates some of the new technology that gives the speechless a "voice."

Episode 4 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
First Aired: January. 31,1982

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: Legionnaires' disease. NOVA traces the search for a cause and cure—a search bedeviled by false trails, accusations of incompetence and cover-up, and increasing urgency as the death toll mounted.

Episode 3 - Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
First Aired: January. 24,1982

NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning birdwatching into a mass sport.

Episode 2 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
First Aired: January. 17,1982

NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy from the start, presenting the only view on American TV of the extraordinary medical procedures used to remove and fertilize the egg, and of the historic birth, 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, VA.

Episode 1 - Salmon on the Run
First Aired: January. 10,1982

NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the fishing industry—and the salmon itself.

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