NOVA - Season 21

NOVA - Season 21

Season 21

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DatesOct 5, 1993 - Apr 19, 1994
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Episodes

The NOVA Quiz
Season 21Episode 160 min

The NOVA Quiz

NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famous guests pose questions for the viewers at home. Marc Summers hosts.
Oct 5, 1993
Wanted: Butch and Sundance
Season 21Episode 260 min

Wanted: Butch and Sundance

Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They find Hollywood and legend got a few things wrong.
Oct 12, 1993
Secrets of the Psychics
Season 21Episode 360 min

Secrets of the Psychics

Magician James "The Amazing" Randi tests the claims of mind readers, fortune tellers, faith healers and others with purported paranormal powers. As a magician, "I know how people are deceived," Randi says.
Oct 19, 1993
Dying to Breathe
Season 21Episode 460 min

Dying to Breathe

NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants – a new lung. Months of waiting end in a few frenzied hours of intricate surgery.
Oct 26, 1993
Shadow of the Condor
Season 21Episode 560 min

Shadow of the Condor

NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America. Footage includes never-before-photographed nesting sites in the cliffs of the Patagonia.
Nov 2, 1993
The Real Jurassic Park
Season 21Episode 660 min

The Real Jurassic Park

With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts, NOVA investigates what it would take to recreate the dinosaur theme park in Jurassic Park. It won't be as easy as it was for Hollywood.
Nov 9, 1993
Roller Coaster!
Season 21Episode 760 min

Roller Coaster!

NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides of the future may take place entirely in the mind—with virtual reality.
Nov 16, 1993
Mysterious Crash of Flight 201
Season 21Episode 860 min

Mysterious Crash of Flight 201

US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama, Copa Airlines Flight 201. Nothing about the accident makes sense, until a key clue emerges.
Nov 30, 1993
Great Moments from NOVA
Season 21Episode 990 min

Great Moments from NOVA

Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, adventure, mystery, drama and non-stop discovery fill this 90-minute special.
Dec 7, 1993
The Best Mind Since Einstein
Season 21Episode 1060 min

The Best Mind Since Einstein

A profile of the late Richard Feynman – an atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who helped solve the mystery of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
Dec 21, 1993
Stranger in the Mirror
Season 21Episode 1160 min

Stranger in the Mirror

NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and familiar objects, made famous in Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
Dec 28, 1993
Codebreakers
Season 21Episode 1260 min

Codebreakers

NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The program probes the most celebrated of all cryptographic coups: the breaking of the World War II codes used by Japan and Germany and how code breaking helped shorten the war.
Jan 18, 1994
Dinosaurs of the Gobi
Season 21Episode 1360 min

Dinosaurs of the Gobi

Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Gobi Desert. The trip relives the exploits of the Museum's dashing explorer of the 1920s, Roy Chapman Andrews -said to be the real-life model for Indiana Jones.
Jan 25, 1994
Daredevils of the Sky
Season 21Episode 1460 min

Daredevils of the Sky

NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship. The sport, as precisely choreographed as gymnastics-except that it takes place in airplanes at 200 miles per hour-has always been on the leading edge of developments in aviation.
Feb 1, 1994
Journey to Kilimanjaro
Season 21Episode 1560 min

Journey to Kilimanjaro

NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the scorched plains. Giant forest hogs, bearded vultures, the elusive bongo and other exotic creatures live in this harsh and isolated high country.
Feb 8, 1994
Can Chimps Talk?
Season 21Episode 1660 min

Can Chimps Talk?

NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human symbols. Are they speaking their minds? Or are they just aping their trainers?
Feb 15, 1994
In Search of Human Origins, Part One
Season 21Episode 1760 min

In Search of Human Origins, Part One

In the first part of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species, reaching back more than three million years to a strange ape who walked upright. Johanson takes viewers to the site in Ethiopia where he discovered the fossil remains of this missing link nicknamed "Lucy".
Feb 28, 1994
In Search of Human Origins, Part Two
Season 21Episode 1860 min

In Search of Human Origins, Part Two

Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to popular myth, scavenging was a more lucrative living than hunting – and may have contributed to the development of human intelligence.
Mar 1, 1994
In Search of Human Origins, Part Three
Season 21Episode 1960 min

In Search of Human Origins, Part Three

At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act like us? Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at what it is that makes us human.
Mar 2, 1994
Can China Kick the Habit?
Season 21Episode 2060 min

Can China Kick the Habit?

NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world, China. Western advertising and trading practices have exacerbated the fatal romance with smoking in the world's most populous country, where lung cancer cases are beginning to strain the nation's health care system.
Apr 12, 1994
Aircraft Carrier!
Season 21Episode 2160 min

Aircraft Carrier!

NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence, where every day is a constant drill of launching and landing aircraft atop a floating city of 5,000 people. The action includes Top Gun mock combat exercises and live-ammunition patrols over Iraq.
Apr 19, 1994

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