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NOVA Season 5

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5x01 In the Event of Catastrophe aired Jan 04, 1978

Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.

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5x02 The Green Machine aired Jan 11, 1978

Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth hormones, respons... read more

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5x03 Blueprints in the Bloodstream aired Jan 18, 1978

It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristics. NOVA looks at... read more

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5x04 One Small Step (1) aired Jan 25, 1978

Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through the triumph of the ... read more

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5x05 The Final Frontier (2) aired Feb 01, 1978

Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, including the possibil... read more

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5x06 BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest aired Feb 15, 1978

In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficult to capture on f... read more

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5x07 Trial of Denton Cooley aired Feb 22, 1978

In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of his patients died af... read more

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5x08 The Great Wine Revolution aired Mar 01, 1978

A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with the predicting of m... read more

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5x09 The Case of the Ancient Astronauts aired Mar 08, 1978

NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among claims examined are: t... read more

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5x10 The Mind Machines aired Mar 22, 1978

Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, only suggest that in ... read more

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5x11 Icarus' Children aired Mar 29, 1978

In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airpla... read more

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5x12 Still Waters aired Apr 12, 1978

NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, from the microscopi... read more

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5x13 Battle for the Acropolis aired Apr 19, 1978

The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble structures built i... read more

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5x14 The Road to Happiness: The Life and Times of Henry Ford aired May 03, 1978

Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Deposited in the Nation... read more

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5x15 Light of the 21st Century aired May 10, 1978

When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fact research scient... read more

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5x16 Insect Alternative aired May 24, 1978

In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pesticides have backf... read more

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5x17 The Desert's Edge aired May 31, 1978

For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands of the internatio... read more

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5x18 The Tse Tse Trap aired Jun 07, 1978

NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.

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5x19 Memories from Eden aired Jun 14, 1978

Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than about an animal and ... read more

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5x20 A Whisper from Space aired Jun 21, 1978

In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals from spa... read more

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5x21 Alaska: The Closing Frontier aired Jun 28, 1978

Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk of Alaska as off-li... read more

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