NOVA
Season 10

s10e01 / The Case of the UFOs

13th Oct '82 - 1:00am
The Case of the UFOs Summary

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.

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s10e02 / The Fragile Mountain

20th Oct '82 - 1:00am
The Fragile Mountain Summary

The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in this breathtaking documentary.

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s10e03 / Here's Looking At You Kid

10th Nov '82 - 2:00am
Here's Looking At You Kid Summary

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.

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s10e04 / Adventures of Teenage Scientists

17th Nov '82 - 2:00am
Adventures of Teenage Scientists Summary

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?

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s10e05 / The Cobalt Blues

24th Nov '82 - 2:00am
The Cobalt Blues Summary

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.

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s10e06 / Goodbye Louisiana

1st Dec '82 - 2:00am
Goodbye Louisiana Summary

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.

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s10e07 / Whale Watch

8th Dec '82 - 2:00am
Whale Watch Summary

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.

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s10e08 / Tracking The Supertrains

15th Dec '82 - 2:00am
Tracking The Supertrains Summary

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.

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s10e09 / Hawaii: Crucible of Life

19th Jan '83 - 2:00am
Hawaii: Crucible of Life Summary

This land of fire and beauty is the most isolated island chain in the world. NOVA cameras uncover an extraordinary world far from the teeming tourist hotels, one filled with unique life forms, but also scarred by tragic extinction.

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s10e10 / The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

26th Jan '83 - 2:00am
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Summary

NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man of few pretensions and tremendous personal charm, who speaks with the same passion about a child's toy wagon and the frontiers of subatomic physics.

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s10e11 / Lassa Fever

9th Feb '83 - 2:00am
Lassa Fever Summary

A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in 1969, and the frustrating, seesaw battle against it. NOVA recounts how public health workers came perilously close to accidentally releasing a deadly virus in the US.

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s10e12 / The Miracle of Life

16th Feb '83 - 2:00am
The Miracle of Life Summary

From inside the human body and the miracle of developing life to an insects world seen from the point of view of the insect, cinematographer Lennart Nilsson shows us the world in new ways. Part I, "The Ultimate Journey", moves from fertilization to birth of the human child, with excursions into comparative embryology. "The Unknown World" explores fur beetles and book worms and viruses among others - you will not be able to look at a fur coat the same way again. And in "The Photographer's Secrets" the technical people who developed the instruments he used explain how the cinemagic is done - a kiss from the inside, an opera singer's vocal cords, a tractor as seen 'over the shoulder' of an emerging worm.

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s10e13 / Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy

2nd Mar '83 - 2:00am
Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy Summary

Every 58 minutes between now and the end of the century, one American will die from asbestos exposure. NOVA turns its spotlight on the tragic consequences of asbestos use and on the current controversy over who is responsible.

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s10e14 / City of Coral

9th Mar '83 - 2:00am
City of Coral Summary

NOVA takes a spellbinding voyage through one of the world's most fascinating and colorful ecosystems: a coral reef, where the line between plants and animals is blurred, "rocks" move, eat and fight, fish farm, and weak animals borrow the shields and weapons of stronger ones.

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s10e15 / Fat Chance in a Thin World

23rd Mar '83 - 2:00am
Fat Chance in a Thin World Summary

"Why can't I lose weight?" It's a question many Americans ask themselves everyday. NOVA comes up with some surprising answers about weight and dieting that could have significant impact on our daily lives.

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s10e16 / Sixty Minutes to Meltdown

30th Mar '83 - 2:00am
Sixty Minutes to Meltdown Summary

The accident at Three Mile Island made front page news all over the world and rocked the entire nuclear power industry. In this special 90-minute broadcast, NOVA presents a docudrama chronicling the minute-by-minute events leading up to the accident and examines the questions raised about safety confronting nuclear power industry today.

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