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?

NOVA Season 9 Episodes...

• s09e01 - Computers, Spies and Private Lives
• s09e02 - Why America Burns
• s09e03 - The Great Violin Mystery
• s09e04 - Cosmic Fire
• s09e05 - Locusts: War Without End
• s09e06 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
• s09e07 - Artists in the Lab
• s09e08 - Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas
• s09e09 - City Spaces, Human Places
• s09e10 - Twins
• s09e11 - Salmon on the Run
• s09e12 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
• s09e13 - A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
• s09e14 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
• s09e15 - Finding a Voice
• s09e16 - The Television Explosion
• s09e17 - Life: Patent Pending
• s09e18 - Palace of Delights
• s09e19 - Animal Impostors
• s09e20 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.