TV Episode Summaries for
7th October 1987

DuckTales (1987) Season 1, Episode 17

Sir Gyro de Gearloose

Airs: 12:00am - 12:30am on Disney Channel

Gyro, tired of being looked upon as a "gadget man", invents a time machine and uses it to go back in time to the Middle Ages.

NOVA Season 15, Episode 1

Death of a Star

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on PBS

Why do stars explode and how is the energy generated? What is the effect of all those little “aftermath” particles floating through space? Nova: Death of a Star is a 60-minute science documentary that explores rare astronomical events in all their dimensions. The film features the 1987 explosion of a supernova - first observed by a Canadian astronomer in Chile - and discusses its impact on the universe. Witness the celestial phenomena that baffles the scientific community as you travel from South America to Japan to Cleveland. A discussion of supernova neutrinos is a special highlight of the tape.
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